LIVEWorld Cup draw RECAP
The 2022 World Cup draw is finally upon us as England find out their group fate for Qatar.To get more news about
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32 teams will compete for the biggest prize in world football but there are still a few places to iron out. Wales and Scotland, for example, are yet to finish their qualifiers - due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine - while the UAE, Australia, Peru, New Zealand and Costa Rica are all battling it out for two spots.
Nonetheless, the draw will still take place in Doha with the likes of England, holders France and Brazil all eager to find out their opponents.
Euro 2020 winners Italy, however, lost their play-off to Macedonia and will not be featuring.ruguay will face Ghana at this year's World Cup in the first meeting between the two countries since Luis Suarez's controversial handball in 2010.
In the 120th minute of the World Cup quarter-final clash between Ghana and Uruguay in 2010, Suarez - then of Ajax - used his hands to stop a certain goal. The score was level at 1-1 and the goal would have all but guaranteed Ghana's place in the semi-finals.
The referee noticed Suarez's offence and sent him off, yet Asamoah Gyan failed to score the resulting penalty. Uruguay then won the shootout in Johannesburg before losing to eventual runners-up Netherlands in the last four. Spain went on to win the tournament.Gareth Southgate admits the prospect of England facing Ukraine at the 2022 World Cup is "irrelevant" in the face of the war which is raging in the Eastern European country.
"I think in this situation all of our thoughts are with Ukraine and the people of Ukraine," the England manager told BBC Sport.
"When that tie is played, how that is played out is irrelevant really, it's for the rest of us to adapt, adjust and provide them with the opportunity to play whenever they're able to."Gary Neville has offered his reaction to England’s World Cup group stage draw and spotted a “complication” for Gareth Southgate’s side.
He told Sky Sports: “We have seen those games in recent tournaments against both Scotland and Wales – each of those were very difficult games in each of the Euros. Scotland were a big challenge in the summer and Wales went on to go further than us in 2016.
“We know how much it means to the Scottish, the Welsh or the Irish to play against England and that is not us being arrogant, but it is a huge fixture – it is for England as well, but it does not seem to carry that same level of dislike.
“I am looking forward to the group but they are all difficult games from an emotional perspective more than a football perspective and that does carry some potential problems from England. They would have wanted to avoid playing a home nation because it is a complication you do not need.
“It has always been the same – we had it in Euro 1996, when Scotland should have beaten us before Gazza’s fantastic goal. The emotion and the passion that those nations and their fans bring will make it difficult as they travel particularly well and they will be brilliant games for us to watch, or even if it is Ukraine.”
