Why the National Can’t Hope on a Nations League Ticket

Dream was and go for her Nationalwhich for yet another match paid for its mistakes, suffered the third consecutive defeat in the Denmark 3-1 qualifiers and stayed out of the Mundial.

Indeed, now the Greece does not have mathematics qualifying hopes not even for the barrage through the qualifiers, while not even hoping for any ticket For the playoffs through the Nations League.

Recall that directly to World Cup they go first of 12 groupswhile the 12 seconds form, along with 4 groups resulting from the last Nations Leaguea pool of 16 groups, hunting for the last 4 tickets.

Why Greece can’t get tickets via Nations League

The process of selecting the groups claiming the four extra tickets For the final phase does not include as many as terminate In the first two positions of their group in the qualifiers. They have already secured the maximum, so they are excluded from the further process.

By the rest, that is, the groups that did not occupy the two first places In their qualifiers, they are selected four. The selection is based on the following hierarchy:

1. The winners of the 14 Nations League groups (prioritized by category: A, B, C, D).

2. The Nations League First Class teams that did not come first in their group, based on the ranking order.

3. Non -winning teams of the second class, also based on their classification.

OR Greece It is part of the last category, as it did not conquer its group in the second division, but had the highest harvest among the others. Nevertheless, in the overall ranking of runner -up teams is 27th In the row, behind:

14 Nations League winners, in particular:

Category A: Spain, Germany, Portugal, France

Category B: England, Norway, Wales, Czech Republic

Category C: Romania, Sweden, Northern Macedonia, Northern Ireland

Category D: Moldova, like Marino

The 12 -class teams that were not first in their groups: Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Croatia, Scotland, Serbia, Hungary, Belgium, Poland, Israel, Switzerland, Bosnia

Of these 26 teams preceding Greece, few have already lost qualifying through the qualifiers. Two of them, the Moldova and As a marinothey are already out of claims through the groups, but they are securing the play-offs because of their leaders in the Nations League Division D. Therefore, they have already occupied two of the four tickets.

In order for Greece to hope, it would have at least 23 of the remaining 24 teams that is on her in the ranking to end first or second to the qualifiers. But this is impossible in practice. The reason is that there are at least two Qualifying groups involving three teams all over Greece in the ranking.

Specifically:

9th Group: Italy, Norway, Israel

10th Group: Belgium, Wales, Northern Macedonia

This means that at least two of these six groups will be out of biteso the Greece cannot enter the four -legged four.

In other words, even with the most favorable scenarios, the National Greece has no chance of participating in play-offs for qualifying for the World Cup. The road through Nations League It is essentially closed.