Qatar 2022 World Cup Qualifiers – Italy at risk of play-offs? All the criteria to win 1st place in the group

The calendar

Italy-Switzerland – 12 November (7th day);

Northern Ireland-Italy -15 November (8th day);

Switzerland-Bulgaria – November 15 (8th day);

A draw in Rome may not be enough

You have to simply try to win the head-to-head to put an end to this dispute, but what would happen in the event of a situation of equal points? Should it end in a draw at the Olimpico, Switzerland always has time to reach our same overall goal difference with the last day. L’Italy will be away againstnorthern Ireland, Switzerland at home against Bulgaria. If the two national teams finish on equal points, the goal difference would determine the ‘winner’. But what if even then we were tied? Here are the criteria …

All criteria

– overall goal difference in the group

-number of goals scored

-points in direct matches

– goal difference in direct matches

-More goals in direct matches

-gol scored away from home

– fair play classification (-1 for yellow cards, -3 for red card for double yellow card, -4 for direct red card, -5 for yellow card plus direct red card)

-draw

To avoid the 2nd place as it was in 2017

As mentioned, only the first classified goes to Qatar. In case of 2nd place it would be necessary to face the playoffs at that point. Just as it happened to us in that disastrous 2017, when theItaly from Ventura finished second in her group and was then eliminated from the Sweden in the play-offs. With the result of watching the 2018 World Cup from home …

Participating in these playoffs will be 12 teams: the ten Nationals that finished the group in 2nd place, plus the two best of the Nations League groups that did not finish in the top two of the groups of these qualifiers. These 12 teams will form three groups of four, where they will compete in single elimination matches (semi-finals and final in March 2022) to determine the last 3 European qualifiers at the next World Cup in Qatar.