Tunisia arrive at their sixth World Cup with low expectations after squeezing through African qualifying, and they will hope their status as Group D underdogs helps lift the pressure to pull off a surprise.
They won only two games of five in this year’s Africa Cup of Nations, one of which was against lowly Mauritania, while qualification for the World Cup was not much more impressive: they managed to edge out Mali over two legs thanks to a single Malian own goal, and look on paper like the weakest of the five African teams in Qatar (Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco and African champions Senegal make up the quintet).
