On the evening of November 17, Beijing time, the match between China and Australia in the Qatar World Cup Asian Top 12 began as scheduled.
Before this game, the Chinese team won 1, drew 1 and lost 3, the schedule was more than half, ranking fifth in the group, and Australia had 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, 6 points ahead of the Chinese team, ranking second in the group.
According to the statistics of the German transfer, the average age of the Chinese team reached 29.8 years old, higher than Australia's 28.1 years old, the total value of the players, the Chinese team 18.175 million euros, and Australia has a significant gap, Australia's total player value has reached 32 million euros, most of the players are playing in the European league.
Looking at the Chinese team, only Wu Lei is a single seedling who stays in the ocean, and his playing time in Espanyol is also quite limited.
In the first leg of the two teams, the Chinese team once occupied the initiative in the opening stage, using the high position to force Australia to create some trouble, but after 15 minutes, Australia pulled back the situation and quickly scored. In the end, Australia easily defeated the Chinese team 3-0 and ushered in a good start.
In the 17th minute of the first half, the Chinese team got the opportunity, the long pass from the back caused the Australian goalkeeper to abandon the goal, the header outside the box was released, and Wu Lei shot at the first time, regrettably deflected.
In the 37th minute, the national football team backline had a loophole, using a simple side cross, Duke, who played in Japan's second division, scored a header to give Australia a 1-0 lead.
In the second half, Australia had an overwhelming advantage. In the 67th minute, the referee blew a halt to the match and VAR intervened.
It turned out that xu Xin had previously taken a free kick, and when Axon was fighting for the top in the penalty area, Australia's defender handballed. The Chinese team won the penalty and Wu Lei scored.
In the end, The Chinese team drew 1-1 at home with Australia, and both teams shot 9 times on goal, shooting 4-5, and the Chinese team played the best 90 minutes since the beginning of the game.
After this round of matches, the Chinese team won 1, drew 2 and lost 3, still continuing the hope of the World Cup.
After the game, Wu Lei said in an interview that the outside world does not know how hard our team has been in the past few months, many things are only known to us, many things cannot be seen by the outside world, and everyone is holding their breath... It's really not easy, we don't have a back road anymore, completely let go!
Australian coach Alexander-Arnold was asked about the changes in the starting lineup of the Chinese team and said: "No (surprised), we have been paying attention to every game of the Chinese team, their lineup is indifferent to us, we know the opponent very well!
Such a contemptuous attitude is indeed uncomfortable.
Li Tie said at a press conference that before the game, he told the players that they must work hard to create difficulties for Australia and must do better than the first game.
Li Tie said: "This is a particularly difficult game, the opponent's strength is far above us. I'm proud of the players, we did see the gap through these two games and to be honest, it was very lucky to get 1 point in those two games. ”