How do you know who's going to win the 2022 Fifa World Cup? Is the question you are probably thinking right now...then you are going to want to know who Social Beer Garden thinks is going to win.
Well the short answer is that we spend a huge amount of time watching Sports over here in our Bar in Houston TX. We watch EPL (English premier league), La Liga, Liga MX, MLS, Champions league and all the other cool games and leagues.
Long story short we get paid to watch Sports while you drink beer and y'all drink a ton of beer over here!!
And when its late at night we often fire up our XBOX and Fifa 22/23 on our Humongous 20ft Outdoor LED TV. So yeah we know something about Soccer (Football) :)
So lets see what we came up with.....
According to FIFA https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/men - Who on October 19th were COMPLETELY INCORRECT.....LAUGHABLE is another word for it.
Brazil - Cant defend / Neymar sucks
Belgium - Debruyne man crush here
Argentina - Is Messi retired?
France - Solid all round plus best strikers
England - Cant score in a brothel. Southgate sucks soo much.
Italy - Sleepers
Spain - Over rated
Netherlands - Under rated beasts.
Portugal - All their Man U players are out of form and Jota out
Denmark - Huh?
Germany - Laughable ranking, always bring their A game to competitions
Croatia - Modric cant hold them up any more can he?
Mexico - Cant even keep 11 players on the pitch
16. USA - Need a new coach badly (We love Eric Wynalda for the USMNT)
Beyond this nobody matters.
So what's going to happen in the group stages?
Group A - Netherlands top then probably Senegal
Group B - England top easily even though they cant score then USMNT (USA) but only just over Wales.
Group C - Argentina win their group easily then Mexico can keep all 11 players on the pitch they might sneak second.
Group D - France in first gear with Max points then Denmark
Group E - Germany edge Spain
Group F - Belgium easily over Croatia
Group G - Brazil with Max points then Serbia just over Cameron.
Group H - Uruguay then Portugal who wont have the power of previous tournaments
Round of 16
Netherlands (W) vs USMNT (USA) - 3 - 0 This wont be close :(
Argentina (W) vs Denmark - Close low scoring game expected
Germany (W) vs Croatia - 1 - 0 Germany
Brazil (W) vs Portugal - 2 - 0 Brazil
England (W) vs Senegal - Mane will score but England will edge out 2-1
France (W) vs Mexico - Just a walk in the Park for Karim Benzema
Belgium (W) vs Spain - This could go to penalties
Uruguay vs Serbia (W) - Gonna be a sending off in this game
Quarterfinals
Netherlands (W) vs Argentina - Netherlands with their defense 1-0 Argentina crash out
Germany (W) vs Brazil - Germany are going to stifle that Brazil attack 2-1.
England vs France (W) - Benzema and Mbappe are going to destroy England 0-2
Belgium (W) vs Serbia - Easy time for Belgium 2-0
Semifinals
Netherlands (W) vs Germany - Slightly better overall team 1-0
France (W) vs Belgium - Just cant see Debruyne taking out France alone
Final
France (W) vs Netherlands - France's firepower is too big and their defense is too strong. We think France will win this years world cup in Qatar.
Top scorers
Benzema (Fra)
Mbappe (Fra)
Depay (Net) Jesus (Bra)
Lukaku (Bel)
Kane (Eng)
So there you have it Social Beer Gardens best 2022 Fifa world cup teams are
1) France
2) Netherlands
3) Belgium
4) Germany
5) Brazil
6) Argentina
7) Italy
8) England
9) Spain
10) Portugal
11) USMNT (USA)
12) Mexico