Welcome to your World Cup Winter
A reluctant but thorough preview of one of the strangest tournaments ever.
Buckle up and get ready for this year’s edition of a tournament we’ve been raised to love.
A (GROUP A)
While it looks like a walk in the park for the Dutch, each side’s unique style could make every match a tough adjustment. Ecuador’s athletic defenders make them dangerous from set pieces, Qatar will receive the home crowd bump, and AFCON champions Senegal may not have star Sadio Mané but their speedy attackers will cause headaches.
Qatar
The hosts appear in their first ever World Cup ever and while it would be shocking if they make it out of the group, they won’t be embarrassed like many think. In the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup they topped their group, knocked out El Salvador in the quarterfinals before falling 1-0 to the US in the semi-final. In 2019 they captured