The Most Important Games for New Zealand are those games in the upcoming week whose outcome most changes the team's qualifing probabilities. The Importance Factor provides a relative importance between games. New Zealand fans can use this table to identify the most interesting games in the upcoming week of play.
| Game | Importance Factor (0‑∼100) |
Game Winner |
New Zealand Resultant Probabilities | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifing Group Finish | Elimination | |||||
| 1* Knockout Round Participant |
2* Knockout Round Participant |
3** Possible Knockout Round Participant |
4 | |||
| New Zealand (0‑0) vs Iran (0‑0) |
83 | New Zealand Wins | 9% | 25% | 46% | 20% |
| Current Probabilities | 1% | 6% | 19% | 74% | ||
| Iran Wins | <1% | 2% | 14% | 84% | ||
| Belgium (0‑0) vs Egypt (0‑0) |
5 | Belgium Wins | 1% | 6% | 21% | 72% |
| Current Probabilities | 1% | 6% | 19% | 74% | ||
| Egypt Wins | 2% | 5% | 17% | 77% | ||