Friday, December 6, 2013

World Cup Football 2014 - The Draw - Part 3

Time to look at how the Relative Opponent Strength Rating goes when you drop it into the 8 groups.

Group A (BRA, CRO, MEX, CMR)
Brazil is green and so it is making it out of the group stage. Cameroon is red and they aren't. Both Croatia and Mexico are in the middle group and that is where the main battle for the 2nd spot will come from. All up, a pretty straight forward group.

Group B (ESP, NED, CHI, AUS)
Spain and Netherlands are green. Australia is red. End of story.

Group C (COL, GRE, CIV, JPN)
This group is similar to A - one team is green (Columbia) and one team is red (Japan). As such, Greece and Cote d'Ivoire will be fighting it out for the 2nd spot.

Group D (URU, CRC, ENG, ITA)
Costa Rica is red - the others (Uruguay, England and Italy) are in the blue group. This will be a tough group to qualify from for all teams.

Group E (SUI, ECU, FRA, HON)
Another A? Switzerland is green, Honduras is red, France and Ecuador are fighting out for the 2nd spot.

Group F (ARG, BIH, IRN, NGA)
This group has two red teams (Iran and Nigeria). As such, the other two will qualify ... Argentina (green) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (blue).

Group G (GER, POR, CHA, USA)
Another Group like D (tough!). Ghana is red - the others (Germany, Portugal and USA) are in the blue group.

Group H (BEL, AGL, RUS, KOR)
A again. Korea is red, Belgium is green, Russia and Algeria are blue and fighting for the 2nd spot.

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