EA Sports predicts Argentina to win the World Cup 2022
EA Sports, the company that creates the FIFA video game, has run a simulation of the 2022 World Cup in FIFA 2023. And accordingly, Lionel Messi's Argentina will meet Neymar's Brazil in the final match in Qatar. As a result, Argentina won 1-0 to win the World Cup for the first time since 1986.
EA Sports has made predictions at the 2010 World Cups, 2014, 2018 and all gave accurate results, when Spain, Germany and France respectively reached the top of the world.
According to EA Sports, Argentina will in turn defeat Denmark 2-1 in the round of 16, the Netherlands 1-0 in the quarterfinals, France 1-0 in the semi-finals before playing Brazil. Meanwhile, Neymar and his teammates defeated Korea 3-0, Germany 3-0 and then won Portugal 5-4 on penalties in the semi-finals. In the third place match, France will beat Portugal 4-2.
Some other championship candidates such as England, Belgium, and Spain were eliminated from the 1/8 round, when they lost 1-3 to the Netherlands, 1-2 and Croatia 1-2, respectively.
EA Sports also predicts Argentina will dominate the individual titles. Specifically, Messi scored eight goals in seven matches and received the double title of Top Scorer and Best Player of the 2022 World Cup, while Emiliano Martinez was voted the best goalkeeper of the tournament. Messi received the Best Player award at the 2014 World Cup, where Argentina lost 0-1 to Germany in extra time in the final.
Behind Messi in the list of World Cup's top scorers in 2022 are Memphis Depay, Kylian Mbappe (6 goals) and Christian Pulisic, Richarlison, Vinicius (5). Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo and the 2022 Golden Ball Karim Benzema are predicted to score three goals.
Previously, the supercomputer BCA Research predicted that Argentina would win the 2022 World Cup, when they beat Portugal on penalties in the final.
According to Joachim Klemen, Argentina will in turn beat Spain in the semi-finals and England in the final to take the throne in Qatar at the end of the year. Klemen is a British analyst working for Liberum Capital with over 20 years of experience. He resonated in the football world because he correctly predicted that Germany would win the 2014 World Cup and France would take the throne in 2018.
Argentina won the World Cup twice in 1978 and 1986.
