The most atypical and very discussed "Qatar2022" starts today, with the game Qatar against Ecuador. For the 1st time of football history it will be played in Winter.

In Group A we also have Senegal and Netherlands.

Qatar is ranked 50th in FIFA rankings and are the Asian Champions. All the players comes from Qatar Stars League and from the best team Al Sadd. The team have very experienced players with an av. age 27 years old.

Coached by the Spanish Felix Sanchez have been preparing for this historic appointment for years now, facing tests of all kinds in order to raise the level. They have win their last 4 friendly games beating Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Albania in that order. Last September they had got a 2-2 draw against Chile.

Coach Sanchez will probably play with 5 defenders, trying to defend and then use fast players to counter attack like Afif or Ali. The only doubt is mid captain Al Heidos.

Ecuador in other hand qualified from CONMEBOL finishing after only big names Brasil,Argentina and Uruguay.

Currently 44th on FIFA rankings they can count on some really good players with european experience since from 26 players, only 4 plays in domestic leagues.

Hincapié from Bayer Leverkusen, Estupinan and Caicedo from Brighton, Gruezo from Augsburg and others will take advantage of the WC to further show their talents. In last 7 friendlies, Ecuador didn't conceded any goals but also scored only 2.

This in my opinion should be a very closed game as both teams will try to defend. Ecuador have more quality but offensively they are far away from big teams.

Probable lineups:

QATAR (5-3-2): Al-Sheeb; Miguel, Al-Wari, Salman, Hassan, Ahmed; Hatem, Boudiaf, Al-Heidos; Alì, Afif.

ECUADOR (4-3-3): Domínguez; Preciado, Torres, Hincapié, Estupiñán; Gruezo, Caicedo, Cifuentes; Plata, Valencia, Ibarra.

GL!

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最非典型且备受争议的“卡塔尔2022”将于今日拉开帷幕，届时卡塔尔将对阵厄瓜多尔。这将是足球史上第一次在冬季举行。

A组还有塞内加尔和荷兰。

卡塔尔在国际足联排名第50位，是亚洲冠军。所有球员都来自卡塔尔明星联赛，来自最好的球队阿尔萨德。这支球队有经验丰富的球员，平均年龄27岁。

由西班牙人菲利克斯·桑切斯执教的球队多年来一直在为这一历史性的任命做准备，为了提高水平，他们面临着各种各样的考验。他们在最近的4场友谊赛中击败了危地马拉、洪都拉斯、巴拿马和阿尔巴尼亚。去年9月，他们2-2战平智利。

桑切斯教练可能会使用5名后卫，尝试防守，然后使用快速球员来反击，像阿夫或阿里。唯一的怀疑是中队长阿尔·海多斯。

另一方面，厄瓜多尔的资格仅次于巴西、阿根廷和乌拉圭。

目前他们在国际足联排名第44位，可以依靠一些有欧洲经验的优秀球员，因为26名球员中只有4人在国内联赛踢球。

来自勒沃库森的Hincapié，来自布莱顿的埃斯图皮南和凯塞多，来自奥格斯堡的格鲁佐等人将利用世界杯的机会进一步展示他们的才华。在最近的7场友谊赛中，厄瓜多尔没有丢球，但也只进了2球。

在我看来，这应该是一场势均力敌的比赛，因为两支球队都试图防守。厄瓜多尔有更多的质量，但在进攻上他们离强队还很远。

可能的阵容:

卡塔尔(5-3-2):Al-Sheeb;米格尔、阿尔瓦里、萨勒曼、哈桑、艾哈迈德;Hatem, Boudiaf, Al-Heidos;阿里,Afif。

厄瓜多尔(4-3-3):Domínguez;普雷西亚多，托雷斯，Hincapié， Estupiñán;格鲁伊佐、凯塞多、西富恩特斯;普拉塔，瓦伦西亚，伊巴拉。

GL !