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 (0‑0‑1) vs Egypt (0‑0‑1) |
114 | New Zealand Wins | 15% | 46% | 35% | 4% |
| Current Probabilities | 3% | 10% | 21% | 67% | ||
| Egypt Wins | <1% | 2% | 12% | 86% | ||
| Belgium (0‑0‑1) vs Iran (0‑0‑1) |
16 | Belgium Wins | 3% | 11% | 25% | 61% |
| Current Probabilities | 3% | 10% | 21% | 67% | ||
| Iran Wins | 2% | 5% | 20% | 73% | ||