In January 2022, the Chinese Super League is about to end the season's competition, and the training of the national football team will soon begin, preparing for the 7th and 8th round of the round of the round of 12 at the end of the month, according to the schedule, the national football team will play Japan and Vietnam consecutively away in the month and early February. Against Japan, Li Xiaopeng led the team with almost no hope of winning, the strength of the disparity; the Vietnamese team has also become a fierce opponent of the national football team, the first leg was once scored by the Vietnamese team with 10 minutes to score 2 goals, the score became 2-2, and finally with Wu Lei's kill to get the first victory of this year's top 12 matches, again, Li Xiaopeng also has no absolute chance of winning.
In the second leg of the showdown, the national football team may have the absence of naturalized players, Axon, Alain, Luo Guofu have not played the game recently to maintain their status, and at the same time affected by the epidemic, resulting in an increase in the difficulty of returning to the team, when the overall strength of the national football team will inevitably plummet. The run-in of the national football squad system will also lag behind the Vietnamese team, recently, although the Vietnamese team lost the defending title in the Southeast Asian Championship, but the team's competitive status has been maintained, once won 4 consecutive games without 3 wins and 1 draw, but in the semi-finals of the Southeast Asian Championship two legs with a total score of 0-2 by Thailand.
Beijing time last night, the Southeast Asian Championship ended the final competition, the world's No. 115 Thai team soared all the way, won the Southeast Asian Championship in a row, met 6 opponents, won the championship trophy with a perfect posture, and was crowned the champion of the Southeast Asian Championship in one fell swoop. This time the championship is different from the previous five wins, Thailand has completed 6 games with considerable gold content, starting from the first round of the group stage to defeating East Timor 2-0, until the final score 6-2 to defeat Indonesia, 8 consecutive matches unbeaten, eliminating 6 opponents, 8 games successively 2-0 East Timor, 4-0 Myanmar, 2-1 Philippines, 2-0 Singapore, 2-0 Vietnam, 0-0 Vietnam, 4-0 Indonesia, 2-2 Indonesia.
The reason why the gold content is high is because the defending champion Vietnam was eliminated 2-0 in the semi-finals, and Vietnam is the only Southeast Asian team to reach the round of 12 in this World Preliminary Tournament, and the world ranking is also the highest among Southeast Asian teams, reaching the 98th in the world. Indonesia and Vietnam, like the Vietnamese team, in recent years, the progress is rapid, once in this World Preliminary Round 2-2 draw with Thailand, this time Thailand in the first leg of the final although 4-0 defeated Indonesia, the second leg again played a 2-2 score, and finally defeated Indonesia with a total score of 6-2 to win the championship, enough to prove that the competition situation in Southeast Asia began to become stuck, the overall progress speed is very fast, and the teams present a healthy competition.
Judging from the performance in recent years, at least 3 teams in Southeast Asia can become the fierce enemies of our national football team, including Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, their overall cooperation is actually better than the national football team, and there is a high degree of fit at the coaching level, the Vietnamese team and Indonesia have used the Korean coach, Vietnam has created history all the way under the leadership of Park Hengxu, reaching the top 12 matches, although the top 12 matches have lost 6 consecutive games, but they have played their own characteristics; Indonesia has reached the final of the Southeast Asian Championship under the leadership of Shen Tailong. According to this development trend, the next away game of the national football team against Vietnam will also be a tough game.