Who will win the 2022 World Cup?

2022 World Cup

An outrageous and uneducated take.

My early 2022 World Cup predictions.

The Netherlands.  It would be too easy to say the French who have superstars at every single position.  This is exactly why I think they’ll be losing to the Dutch in the finals of the 2022 World Cup.  But why the Netherlands?  After failing to qualify for the 2016 Euro Championships AND the 2018 World Cup, they are the underdogs.  And since I’ve got nothing to lose but everything to gain with this prediction, I’m going orange.

Jokes aside, I really do believe the Netherlands will perform in 2022.  If you look at their squad full of young talent who play with such maturity, maybe you’ll see the potential that I do.  De Ligt and Van Dijk (and Stefan De Vrij) – I don’t see how anyone will get through that back line.  Plus, with the likes of Frenkie De Jong, Donny van de Beek, and Gini Wijnaldum in the squad, the midfield looks to be solid.  But where will the goals come from?  Well up front the selection of Depay, Bergwijn, Kluivert, and Promes looks…….promising. All in all, I like the squad.  No they’re not as star studded as France or Brazil, but I’ve got a feeling.  

How about third place?  Unfortunately, the world cup’s not “coming home”, but I think England will do enough to win the consolation in 2022.  They’ve got a great young squad that has the potential to do great things at the next World Cup.  We know what we’ll get with the likes of Harry Kane, Sterling, Dele Alli, Stones, Henderson, and Maguire.  But it’s the youngsters that will make England that much more dangerous in a few years.  Sancho, Foden, TAA, Hudson-Odoi, Rashford, and Declan Rice are all excellent players, and they’ll be that much better by the time 2022 rolls around.  England have been slowly improving over the years, and I’d look out for them the next time around.

At the end of the day, it’s truly hard for me not to pick France, but that would be no fun.  On paper I’m a huge fan of their odds, but the World Cup seemingly never goes to plan.  So I’ll save this post, and hopefully in three years The Netherlands will have qualified, and hopefully I look like a genius rather than an idiot!