🏆 Round of 32 bracket: projections and who has the easier side? 🌍

🏆 Round of 32 bracket: projections and who has the easier side? 🌍 The group stage has come to an end overnight in Italy with yet another Messi masterpiece and Portugal’s draw (CR7 once again anonymous): now the paths to the final are set. Let’s take a look at the bracket and the teams that will have more or less easy opponents, at least on paper. 🏆 The bracket On the left side of the bracket, the following matches will be played: Germany-Paraguay (June 29, 10:30 PM) France-Sweden (June 30, 11:00 PM) South Africa-Canada (June 28, 9:00 PM) Netherlands-Morocco (June 30, 3:00 AM) Portugal-Croatia (July 3, 1:00 AM) Spain-Austria (July 2, 9:00 PM) USA-Bosnia (July 2, 2:00 AM) Belgium-Senegal  (July 1, 10:00 PM) On the right side, meanwhile, there are “only” 3 heavyweights: Argentina, England and Brazil: Brazil-Japan (June 29, 7:00 PM) Ivory Coast-Norway (June 30, 7:00 PM) Mexico-Ecuador (July 1, 3:00 AM) England-DR Congo (July 1, 6:00 PM) Argentina-Cape Verde (July 4, 12:00 AM) Australia-Egypt (July 3, 8:00 PM) Switzerland-Algeria (July 3, 5:00 AM) Colombia-Ghana  (July 4, 3:30 AM) 🎇 An “easy” side of the bracket, BIG matches on the other RIGHT SIDE The teams that will have a “softer” path to reach the final are definitely those on the right side of the bracket, where Argentina, England and Brazil are placed.  The first big match on this side could be Brazil-England in the quarter-finals . Argentina , meanwhile, could have a simpler road up to the quarter-finals , where they may face Colombia or Switzerland . To see the first “clash of titans,” we may have to wait until the semi-finals , possibly against Brazil or England . LEFT SIDE The other side of the bracket will give us some huge matchups right away:  Portugal-Croatia in the round of 32 is already an incredible tie, made even more intriguing by the fact that Spain will (probably) be waiting for one of the two in the round of 16.  Another of the most interesting round-of-32 matches is definitely Netherlands-Morocco : the winners (at least officially) of the Africa Cup and semi-finalists at the last World Cup against a historic national team like the Oranje . 🎭 The unluckiest in the draw and the luckiest The most unlucky teams, considering their group-stage performances, are definitely the Netherlands, Morocco, Japan and Austria. Despite finishing 1st in their group, the Oranje will face a powerhouse like Morocco in the round of 32. Meanwhile, Japan, Austria and Morocco will come up against heavyweights like Brazil, Spain and the Netherlands (respectively) after finishing 2nd in their groups. The same goes for Portugal and Croatia , who will face each other in the round of 32. The luckiest teams , on the other hand, are without doubt Australia, Bosnia, Egypt, Canada, South Africa, Ghana and Ecuador. For Australia and Egypt , it was enough to finish 2nd in their group to face each other in the round of 32 (even if they will then most likely meet Argentina). The same applies to Canada and South Africa . Then there are the teams that got more manageable matchups despite finishing 3rd : Ecuador will face Mexico, Bosnia will take on the USA, and Ghana will play against Colombia. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.