I think it's better when a couple of strong teams miss the tournament due to the high level of competition than when the tournament turns into a huge number of meaningless games (due to a large difference in the teams' classes) and interesting games can only be expected in the 1/4 finals. Even in the current tournament, the group stage will not be very interesting, and in the next one everything will be much worse.
Again, I need to disagree with you. We are already having meaningless games. Even top ranked teams from AFC and CAF are unable to compete against teams from CONMEBOL and UEFA. I will give you one example. Remember the Russia vs Saudi Arabia match during last world cup? (inaugural match). Russia destroyed Saudi Arabia with a 5-0 margin. Now Russia is not a top ranking team from the UEFA. And yet the match was completely one sided, despite the fact that Saudi Arabia is one of the strongest AFC teams.
Then I do not understand why you write that you do not agree with me? You repeat what I write: too many pointless games. And taking into account the change in the format of the World Cup, there will be much more of them. My opinion is that the old format is better, and it would be even better to switch to a new format where there are no weak teams at all in the final part. And I do not agree with the fact that, for example, African teams are weak - there have often been good teams from this region in history that have performed well at the World Cups - Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, etc.
Well what happens is that we are used to seeing high-caliber games, in Europe all the games are exciting for me, just like in Conmebol, which for me is the most difficult tie in the world due to the enormous effort that is experienced both the teams and the players, of course I know that the Europeans will say that the most difficult is UEFA, but it is not the same to play in European stadiums, than to leave a relatively high country like Bolivia where the height takes away your breathing and it demands a lot of your lungs and after 2 days go to Venezuela in Maracaibo where the temperature is always very high, above 38°C, those are the things that make it more difficult and the only trip, even if it is by plane, exhausts .
I dont think Asian teams can do something on this world cup they just dont have that quality. Maybe they can advance the group somehow but thats the max i see from them. I still dont see how players will survive the hot weather in Qatar on world cup
Yes, the temperature is obviously going to be a problem for certain players from certain countries. But the players will have to adapt.
Personally, I don't think any team from Asia is going to be doing very well. By doing very well I mean reaching the semi-finals of the world cup at least. But I do have hopes that they will perform more effectively than before. Korea holds the most promise for me. But realistically I don't think they will even reach the semi-finals. I see the leading contenders for this world cup as Croatia, France, England, Brazil, Argentina, and probably Germany. I am really looking forward to seeing a really stellar performance from Argentina this time.
I agree about Asian teams because I am watching few countries closely for years and now feeling Asians are at bottom if we bring things by regions with Africans are also having much better quality from them and here we are not having any quality team just usual Japan and Korea are doing some better performance for decades and all others facing problems recently we have Australia which is also good but still need some good time for having better results.
Here about favorite team nothing is predictable because we have four months left in this event and now after few weeks European new soccer season is going to start which is also going to have big impact on this world cup because any injury or other trouble can bring down any team as if any good player is going to have things like this here before world cup.
The team that I hope a lot is from Japan, I don't know but since Japan had those legendary players I really liked their way of playing, I don't know if they remember Nakata, and from that spectacular World Cup that was in France 98, in fact they had such star players at the time that they made the iconic Nike commercial.