From best to worst: who can help Portugal in the playoff – World Cup 2022
This Friday, Portugal will discover the path it will have to take to secure the ticket to Qatar, which it let fly after losing to Serbia 2-1. The playoff for Mundial’2022 consists of three pairings with semi-finals and finals, with 12 teams divided by the three paths. Portugal is one of the seeds, along with Italy, Scotland, Russia, Sweden and Wales, therefore playing their first game at home. In pot 2 will be Turkey, Poland, Macedonia, Ukraine, Austria and the Czech Republic, the team’s possible opponents in the playoff semi-finals.
Record it was looking at all the teams that are present at this stage of the competition and, through 34 statistical indicators of the qualifying games, a sophisticated ranking of difficulty. For each indicator analyzed, a score from 1 to 12 points was attributed, depending on the value compared to the other teams. Through this analysis it is possible to know which opponents Portugal should try to avoid. It should be noted that, for equality purposes, games against the last classified in the groups that had six participants (groups F, G, H, I and J) were removed.
Out of curiosity, the team from the corners is, according to the classification obtained in the ‘Ranking Record‘, the second best set, totaling 315 points.