[ad_1]
Austria closes Monday night Zürich a feasible batch for that World Cup qualification Caught. the FROM B-Team gets it in the Group F. with former European champion Denmark (1992), Scotland, Israel, the Faroe Islands and the Republic of Moldova what to do. The European qualification for the World Cup Qatar, which will be played from November 21 to December 18, 2022, begins on March 24 and ends on November 16, 2021. Only the ten group winners have their ticket to the final.
Comment: “The victory of the group must be the claim”
The runners-up and the two best group winners of the League of NationsThose who do not finish first or second in their qualifying groups will continue to play for the remaining three tickets to the World Cup in the play-off from March 24 to 29, 2022. A total of 13 of the 32 participants of the World Cup World in Qatar come from Europe. Austria was the last time in 1998 France in a world championship. The exact schedule for qualifying will not be known until Tuesday.
1. Denmark
2. Austria
3. Scotland
4. Israel
5. Faroe Islands
6. Moldova
ÖFB team leader Candid fuck, who wanted a group of six without his German home, watched the draw at home in front of the TV due to the crown crisis. “It’s a very interesting and balanced group,” was the 54-year-old’s first reaction at the ORF-Interview. “Denmark is undoubtedly the easy favorite. Don’t forget that they also won (1-0 in the Nations League on October 14) in England. But everything is possible in the group,” Foda stressed.
Quiz Maker – Powered by Riddle
Dragovic: “Denmark is on par with Belgium”
“Overall it’s a balanced group,” ÖFB defense chief Alexander Dragovic said of the draw. “We already know our rivals with Israel, I find Denmark very uncomfortable. They have shown how good they are in the last matches, for me they are a top team on a par with Belgium. Scotland qualified for the European Championship and also No will easy against the Faroe Islands on artificial turf. We could have done worse, but in our group everyone can win against anyone. “
“This is a group I’d like to take on. Not because it’s easy, but because we’ve drawn teams that we know and are on an equal footing with. We definitely have a chance. A home game would be great at first.” was the first reaction of the team captain Julian Baumgartlinger.
Group A: Portugal, Serbia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan
Group B: Spain, Sweden, Greece, Georgia, Kosovo
Group C: Italy, Switzerland, Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Lithuania
Group D: France, Ukraine, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan
Group E: Belgium, Wales, Czech Republic, Belarus, Estonia
Group G: Holland, Turkey, Norway, Montenegro, Latvia, Gibraltar
Group H: Croatia, Slovakia, Russia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta
Group I: England, Poland, Hungary, Albania, Andorra, San Marino
Group J: Germany, Romania, Iceland, North Macedonia, Armenia, Liechtenstein
However, Foda said that “it will not be an easy task” to achieve the desired first or second place. Since the Faroe Islands have their League of Nations group (with malt, Latvia Y Andorra) have won undefeated with twelve points, and the Scots behind Czech Republic and before Israel They finished runner-up in the group and, like the current 12th FIFA world rankings, Denmark and Austria are also in the Euro Cup, “no team in this group should be underestimated,” said the ÖFB team boss.
Foda said of the Danes: “They are among the best in the world, as they have shown time and again in recent years with their performances. Like all Scandinavian teams, it is a very compact team that is always very, very good, especially on defense. They have a lot of athleticism in their game, they play fast, dynamically forward, and especially with (Yussuf) Poulsen (from RB Leipzig) they have quality up front, and with (Christian) Eriksen (from Inter Milan) the creator absolute game is a very compact, mature and experienced team, also with (Pierre-Emile) Höjbjerg, who plays for England (at Tottenham) in midfield (…), to name just a few, but anyway when we are playing at the highest level, we have the opportunity to score a point or two against such a team. “
The last friendly match with Denmark was on October 16, 2018 away from home Herning 0: 2 lost. ÖFB star David Alaba And Co. also encounters three old qualifying acquaintances: Israel was already an opponent of Austria in the European Championship qualifiers, the Republic of Moldova before that in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers and the Euro Cup qualifiers. 2016. And in the World Cup -Cali for 2014 there were the last comparisons with the Faroe Islands. Scotland, on the other hand, was last in 1996 and 1997 in the World Cup qualifiers, Denmark in 1991 in the European Championship qualifiers and an Austrian competitor of the group.
“Israel has a lot of quality, especially in the offensive area,” says Foda, recalling Austria’s 2-4 defeat on March 24, 2019 in Haifa. Especially They were Zahaviwho is it now for PSV Eindhoven theater plays, Hoffenheim-Legionary Munas Dabbur and exWAC-Striker Shon weissmanwho has been with Real Valladolid He’s under contract, the German emphasized. “Defensively they are certainly vulnerable,” Foda said, however. The last duel so far Austria won 3-1 last year in Vienna, at that time still with Andreas Herzog as head of the Israeli team. Who in Upper Austria Willibald Ruttensteiner as a team leader in Israel, he’s not sure yet.
Our clear goal is to finish first or second.
ÖFB-Teamchef Franco Fuck
“I am always optimistic and I always want to win every game,” Foda said once again. We have the quality and we look positively to the future, and we have all the options in this group. Of course we still have a back door open through the Nations League, but we will do our best to finish first or second in this group. . “
