At 18:00 Beijing time on January 27, the 7th round of the World Preliminary Round of 12 in Asia ushered in a focus battle, and the Chinese men's football team played against the Japanese men's football team away. In the end, the national football team lost 0-2, was double-killed by the Japanese team, did not have the opportunity to pass the World Cup in advance, and was on the verge of being out, this loss, let the national football team win 11 consecutive games and 24 consecutive years without winning to the Japanese team, Li Xiaopeng debut suffered a black opening, and set 2 consecutive shame records.
The national football team only participated in the World Cup in 2002, and has been absent for 4 consecutive times since then, and now it is once again in the final stage of the qualifiers, and the national football team is eager to return to the World Cup. At present, in the 6 rounds of group stage, the national football team has won 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, ranking fifth in the group with 5 points, 6 points away from the qualifying area, and only 4 rounds of qualifying are in a grim situation.
This round of national football away to Asia's second-ranked Japanese team, the national football team has not won in the past 24 consecutive years, this time led by Li Xiaopeng, in the starting lineup of 532 formation, Wu Lei and Zhang Yuning formed a double forward, Arthur Junmin, Xu Xin, Wu Xi sat in the midfield.
On September 7 last year, the national football team lost to the Japanese team 0-1, and the whole field fell into passivity, this time to the home of the Japanese team, the national football team was once again suppressed. In the 12th minute of the opening game, Wang Shenchao was fouled for handball, the Japanese team qualified for the penalty, and Daisuke Yong also took the penalty shot, giving the Japanese team a 1-0 lead.
After that, the game was completed into the Japanese team's possession time, leading 1-0 at the end of the half, and the national football team shot 0-9 behind, with only 29% of the possession.
In the 56th minute of the second half, Alain and Wei Shihao came off the bench. In the 60th minute, Yuta Nakayama, who had just come on as a substitute, sent a cross, Junya Ito nodded the ball and broke the goal, Zheng Zheng and Zhu Chenjie in front of the goal defended and leaked, watching the opponent's header break the goal, and the Japanese team extended the score 2-0. In the end, the national football team was powerless to return to the sky, and lost with a 0-2 score, and was double-killed by the Japanese team in two rounds, and the points stayed at 5 points.
This loss left the national football team behind the top two 10 points of the group, and there was no chance to pass the World Cup in the early three rounds, and the only hope was that only the group was third. As the star of the national football team, Wu Lei started to play 88 minutes, did not complete a shot, and was invisible in the whole field, continuing the recent downturn.
A little earlier in the game, Australia defeated Vietnam at home, the points reached 14 points, throwing off the national football team by 9 points, only 3 rounds of the case, the national football team is basically out, the fastest next round did not qualify for the World Cup.