Africa’s teams will be hoping for a favourable World Cup draw on Friday at the Kremlin in Moscow as they go into the hat to be split into eight groups of four teams each.



Egypt, Senegal and Tunisia are in Pot 3 for the draw, while Morocco and Nigeria are in Pot 4. FIFA’s general principle is to ensure that no group has more than one team from the same qualification zone drawn in it, but with Europe’s 14 teams in the draw, there will be some groups with more than one European team.



African sides have been placed in the same group as the defending champions on five occasions — in 1974, 1978, 1990, 1998 and 2002 — while countries that have been grouped with an African side the most at the World Cup are Argentina, Brazil, and Germany.

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