Huge setback to Cristiano Ronaldo’s chance to play another FIFA World Cup as Portugal are held to draw with ‘this’ nation to qualify for the knockout round »FirstSportz

The knockout round of the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers has finally placed 12 teams facing each other in three lanes A, B and C. The draw for the Knockout Qualifier was held on November 26 in Zurich.

The 12 teams that made it to the knockout round are divided into two groups, Seeded and Unseeded. Seed pots include teams such as; Portugal, Scotland, Italy, Russia, Sweeden and Wales while on the other hand the championship team consists of teams like; Austria, North Macedonia, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic.

The draw has resulted in the knockout stage and in Road A Scotland will face Ukraine and Wales will face Austria, the winners of both matches will play against each other for direct entry. World Cup.

In the first leg B, Russia will play Poland and Sweeden will play the Czech Republic, and like the first leg A, the winner of both matches will play against each other to qualify for the Qatar World Cup.

Portugal were held to a draw to Road C in the playoffs and have some tough competition ahead of them

Everyone in the football world will be watching the matches in Path C as Italy will face North Macedonia while Portugal will face Turkey.

The Portugal National Team and the Italy National Team were very unlucky as they entered the knockout stages in the final match of the tournament with one defeat while the other team finished in turn.

Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo will most likely play the last World Cup of his football career as he is now 36 years old even though he always proves people wrong and shows that for him That age is just a number.

Ronaldo will now focus on leading his team to the 2022 Qatar World Cup as the stage and the road have been laid before him. Portugal will have to come up against Turkey and maybe at a later stage, if they get through the first round, they can meet Italy.

Although it is impossible to determine for sure, speculations will favor Ronaldo, who has won the Ballon d’Or 5 times, because a world cup without a legend like him would not be so special. Fernando Santos, Cristiano Ronaldo and the entire Portuguese National team will do everything in their power to get through Qatar.

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