How do I make a World Cup simulator with MATLAB?

I am currently making a World Cup simulator with matlab

The list below is the groups

How should I write the code to make my simulator work?

• from each group, I want to choose 2 random teams
• the 2 randomly chosen team would qualify to the tounament, which starts from the round of 16

Can someone help me?

A={'Qatar';'Ecuador';'Senegal';'Netherlands'};
B={'England';'IR Iran';'USA';'Euro Play-off'};
C={'Argentina';'Saudi Arabia';'Mexico';'Poland'};
D={'France';'IC Play-off 1';'Denmark';'Tuinisa'};
E={'Spain';'IC Play-off 2';'Germany';'Japan'};
F={'Belgium';'Canada';'Morocco';'Coratia'};
G={'Brazil';'Serbia';'Switzerland';'Cameroon'};
H={'Portugal';'Ghana';'Uruguay';'Korea Republic'};

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

You can use the randperm function to select 2 out of 4 teams to advance in each section.

rng default

A={'Qatar';'Ecuador';'Senegal';'Netherlands'};

teamRank = randperm(4);

A_advance = A(teamRank(1:2))

A_advance = 2×1 cell array
    {'Senegal'}
    {'Qatar'  }

[Er Le]

thank you