World Cup 2022 Qualifying Draw

[JackFish]

Really hope we're allowed to travel again by the time we play Belarus, gutted I missed out on Finland and Bulgaria this time around.

 

[JBT95]

Yes they are Wales' Belarus and Estonia though (no pot 6 for Wales as 5 team group).

England arguably got the best side in Pot 2 in Poland and a tough one in Hungary (play-off winners for the Euros don't forget).

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your first line, but I think you're pointing out that England's Pot 4 team was Albania and their Pot 5 team was Andorra? If so, I was aware of that, but compare the relative strength of our teams from those pots to theirs in their World Cup Qualifying history:

Pot 4: Belarus - Played 58, 13 wins (Win percentage of 22.41%)
Estonia - Played 76, 16 wins (Win percentage of 21.05%)

Pot 5: Albania - Played 104, 18 wins (Win percentage of 17.31%)
Andorra - Played 52, 2 wins (Win percentage of 3.85%)

So our team from Pot 5 has a better record than their team from Pot 4! Although to be fair, I've just checked and Estonia have only won 2 of their last 16 games (Finland and Gibralter). Still way better than Andorra though.

I appreciate Poland were one of the better teams in Pot 2, but Hungary will pose them no problems. We've played them 4 times this century and won 3 of them.

Czech Republic beat England 14 months ago. Hungary beat us 18 months ago.

Tough draw for England. They'd beat whoever they got in pot 4-6 but it's 2 and 3 they only care about and they wouldn't have wanted Poland and Hungary.

 

[Cooperman]

Never mind England. I can tell you now what will happen - 100% win record in the qualifying stage and then home after first knock out game in Qatar.