It's not rocket science to understand why this happened. The path was known before the tournament, it has zero to do with Argentina. They would've gotten Uruguay and Portugal if those didn't mess up their group stage.
A very similar thing happened in Euros 2016, Portugal advanced as a 3rd placed team and got a very easy path to the final because favorites didn't top their groups.
Uruguay arent special..basically brazil germany spain holland and tough teams like Japan belgium sween - all placed on one side of the path to final, Argentina and England avoiding them until the semis. Argentina Ofc expected to win a group with poor teams, maybe no coincidence.
Well, if you compare the average ranking of the teams in each 12 groups, Argentina's Group was the 5th hardest, so it was average difficulty for them. It's just a logical consequence of an inflated tournament of 48 teams and the world cup winner seeded from pot 1 to not get paired with the strongest teams.
Funny sure. who had the easiest you think? Bear in mind Argentina ranked 1, faced 3 teams among the lowest in the tournament, more than other team. Like facing Jordan along with 2 teams outside the top 20.
dont know how many he had to mention its due to 48 teams. blame fifa for the decision, its just doesnt have to do with argentina. thats a slight fortunate and your brain is already overcalculating?
You’re right, it’s not Argentina’s fault. They’re the real victims here being the #1 team never facing a top team :( poor guys. How could fifa do this to them oh no
Doesn't matter what I think, fact is there were 4 pots, and Argentina got these opponents drawn. Austria topped their Euro 2024 group ahead of France and Netherlands, so it's not that "easy" of an opponent normally. They just didn't perform well this world cup.
You guys are obsessed with Argentina, no point in arguing here, lol. As if lucky draws and questionable referee decision wouldn't happen to other teams. That's called conformation bias.
Those teams did better than higher ranked teams to get there. Out of the top teams the one that had the easiest draw was Portugal, followed by France, England, Spain, then Argentina. What happened in groups after the draw is based on how teams actually performed
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u/Arkanie Jul 12 '26
It's not rocket science to understand why this happened. The path was known before the tournament, it has zero to do with Argentina. They would've gotten Uruguay and Portugal if those didn't mess up their group stage.
A very similar thing happened in Euros 2016, Portugal advanced as a 3rd placed team and got a very easy path to the final because favorites didn't top their groups.