Argentina will be a seeded team at the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

The draw for the 2022 Qatar World Cup will take place on Friday and all eight seeded teams have been announced. Argentina played their last match of the World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday against Ecuador in a 1-1 draw. They finished the qualifiers second, with 39 points, 11 wins, six draws and zero defeats.

Lionel Scaloni’s team scored 27 goals and allowed eight, with Lionel Messi and Lautaro Martinez each scoring seven goals. The following teams will be in Pot A and cannot be in the same group:

Qatar
Brazil
Belgium
France
Argentina
England
Spain
Portugal

All eight of those teams will be seeded. They will be grouped with one of the following teams from Pot 2:

Denmark
Netherlands
Germany
Switzerland
Croatia
Uruguay
Mexico *
United States*

*Will be confirmed on Wednesday night.

And from Pot 3:

Senegal
Iran
Japan
Morroco
Serbia
Poland
South Korea
Canada

From Pot 4:
Tunisia
Cameroon
Ecuador
Saudi Arabia
Ghana
Peru vs. Australia or UAE
New Zealand vs. Solomon Islands or Costa Rica
Scotland vs. Ukraine or Wales

Mundo Albiceleste will be hosting a live discussion on Youtube, Friday, following the draw.

Julián Alvarez commented on scoring for the Argentina national team.

Alvarez started his first match for the Argentina national team and scored. A pass from Nicolas Tagliafico found Alvarez as he scored the first goal of the match. Following the 1-1 draw against Ecuador, Alvarez spoke to the media. Here is what he had to say:

“Scoring a goal wearing this shirt was a dream that I have had since I was a kid. It’s something unique.

“I am very happy for the group. They’re doing a very good job. We have to continue on this path, we are all very excited.”

Rodrigo De Paul spoke on the Argentina national team, being undefeated, Italy and the World Cup qualifiers.

De Paul has been one of the integral parts of this Argentina national team. He started the 1-1 draw against Ecuador and played the entire match. Speaking to TyC after the draw, here is what he had to say:

“We have a very important match which is a final against Italy and we have to win to give the people some joy. It will be a double test because it’s a final and now they say that we need to play against European teams.

“Internally, we know that we are ready to compete. We’ll give another example that this national team is prepared for everything.”

In regards to Argentina being undefeated in 31 matches:

“No one imagined this. We drew the record that Argentina had and we continue to write beatiful football pages for our country. Hopefully we can continue like this.”

Regarding the support he gets:

“My team mates make me feel important and the coaching staff make me feel like they count on me a lot but I know that it’s an evaluation every day wearing the Argentina national team shirt and hopefully I can continue to wear it.”

About the penalty decision:

“I didn’t see the play, from what they told me, it wasn’t. We can be wrong. It’s difficult to be wrong with the help of VAR. I find the play on Alexis (Mac Allister) a bit strange. At the very least, they should have told him (the referee) to go see it (VAR) and to make a decision.”

Argentina national team coach Lionel Scaloni will start Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez and Nicolas Gonzalez in the World Cup qualifier.

Lionel Scaloni has made a few changes from the 3-0 win vs. Venezuela in the last World Cup qualifying match. Geronimo Rulli starts in place of Franco Armani with Gonzalo Montiel starting for Nahuel Molina.

Lucas Martínez Quarta for Germán Pezzella and Álvarez for Joaquin Correa. Here is the starting eleven:

Rulli; Montiel, Martínez Quarta, Otamendi, Tagliafico; De Paul, Paredes, Mac Allister; Messi, Álvarez, Nicolás González.