World Cup 2018: What you have to think about Friday's draw

World Cup 2018: What you have to think about Friday's draw 

World Cup 2018: What you have to think about Friday's draw 

Truly, after about three years of qualifying, including 871 recreations around the world, any semblance of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar - also a huge number of football fans far and wide - will hold their breath on Friday. 

Lineker, Maradona and Cafu shape a sparkling cast 

World Cup 2018: What you have to think about Friday's draw 

The draw will happen at 3pm GMT (10:00 ET, 18:00 nearby) in any case, in the event that you are in a rush, tune in about 30 minutes after the fact. That is the point at which the real draw should begin.

Previous England striker Gary Lineker and Russian football journalist Maria Komandnaya will have the draw and they'll be helped by whizzes from each of the eight countries that have won the World Cup.

It is a sparkling cast: Diego Maradona (Argentina), Cafu (Brazil), Fabio Cannavaro (Italy), Carles Puyol (Spain), Gordon Banks (England), Laurent Blanc (France), Diego Forlan (Uruguay) and Miroslav Klose (Germany, trophy conveyor).

The draw colleague from the host nation is 91-year-old previous Spartak Moscow striker Russia Nikita Simonyan.

The configuration, the groups

The 32 nations are isolated into four pots of eight.

Dissimilar to a long time past, just FIFA's reality rankings figures out which nation goes into which pot and, for this draw, the game's reality overseeing body has construct the seedings with respect to October's reality rankings.

In this way, for instance, the seven best positioned groups that qualified, in addition to Russia, are in pot 1 and the following most elevated positioned eight are in pot 2 et cetera, finishing with the least positioned eight in pot four.

Pot 1: Russia, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, Belgium, Poland, France

Pot 2: Spain, Switzerland, England, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Croatia, Peru

Pot 3: Iceland, Costa Rica, Sweden, Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Iran, Denmark

Pot 4: Nigeria, Australia, Japan, Morocco, Panama, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Serbia

As host Russia was set in pot 1, a lift for them since Stanislav Cherchesov's men - in light of those October rankings - are the most minimal positioned group in the competition at No. 65, two places behind Saudi Arabia.

Among others in the tip top level are guarding champions Germany, record five-time victors Brazil, European champions Portugal and 2014 World Cup sprinters up Argentina.

The final product will be eight gatherings of four groups. There is one final proviso - no gathering is permitted to include more than one group from a similar confederation, aside from individuals from European football's administering body UEFA, which, with 14 groups, gave the most astounding number of qualifiers.

DIEGO'S STILL HANDY World Cup 2018 draw: Gary Lineker has Twitter in hysterics as he jokes Diego Maradona has 'dependably been great with his hands' 

Previous England striker is snappy on the attract to help Maradona to remember his notorious 'Hand of god' correspond after the Argentina unequaled incredible sunk England in 1986 with questionable objective

Maradona hailed his dubious first objective in the 2-1 World Cup quarter-last thrashing against Lineker and Co in 1986 as from "the hand of God".

Be that as it may, replays plainly indicated Maradona palming the ball into the net as he jumped with Three Lions manager Peter Shilton.

What's more, for all the performance brightness of Maradona's second objective in Mexico City that day, England have always remembered the treachery of his opener.

Moderator Lineker, for one, was not going to miss the opportunity to help Maradona to remember that today.