Next week, the World Preliminary Round is set to reach rounds 9 and 10. Today, the opponents of the national football team, Saudi Arabia and Oman, have not yet completed the assembly, but the national football team will have been training for more than half a month. Just in the late night of March 17, Beijing time, the national football team sent troops to the United Arab Emirates, carrying yu Wei, who won two consecutive victories in the warm-up match, a total of 108 good men stepped on a luxury charter flight.
In addition to the Chinese men's football team will play against Saudi Arabia and Oman, the team of the National Olympic U23 will also compete in the Dubai Cup, which will compete with the sworn enemies Thailand and the United Arab Emirates for two legs, which is a humiliating battle for Chinese football. Of course, for the vast majority of fans, it is more concerned about the performance of the Chinese men's football team in the World Preliminary Round. Saudi Arabia is currently ranked first in the group, with 19 points in the first eight rounds, just one step away from qualifying. The national football team played the role of judge of whether Saudi Arabia could appear in this battle, which had a significant impact on the situation of Group B.
This time, the Chinese men's football team and the Chinese Olympic Team plus coaching team have a total of 108 people, which is of special significance in Chinese history. Obviously, this is the decision of the President of the Football Association, Chen Shuyuan, after repeated deliberations. He hopes that the players can be like the 108 liangshan good men in the Water Margin, and win glory for the country in the World Preliminary Round. It has to be said that the officials of the Football Association have a very deep foundation in playing word games and playing number games, and every sentence and every number contains a very beautiful meaning. Now, it depends on whether the national football players can fulfill Chairman Chen's wish.
In fact, in history, the results of the national football team against Saudi Arabia are not in the inferior position. In history, the two teams have played each other 16 times, and the Chinese team has won six victories and lost eight games, and the rest of the matches have been drawn between the two sides. Especially before the 21st century, when Chinese football was still in a relatively brilliant stage, in the World Preliminary Tournament, it once won the Saudi team 4-2, 3-0. Of course, considering that the strength of the national football team has fallen sharply and the public opinion environment is extremely bad, the task of Li Xiaopeng's coach this time is to play a spirit and achieve the goal of a small defeat to Saudi Arabia.
After all, this time to the United Arab Emirates, the naturalized players of the national football team all refused to participate, Wu Lei was not recalled, and the captain Wu Xi will be suspended because of the accumulation of yellow cards, and young players such as Wei Shihao and Yang Liyu cannot come because of injuries, which makes the strength of the national football team suffer a heavy blow. Therefore, considering that Saudi Arabia has had a feat of beating Japan in the past perfect performance, this time the national football team even lost by a score of 0-2. It can also be regarded as a defeat.
Of course, for Australia, which is currently ranked third in the group, the goal of losing 2-0 in the national football team is extremely unfavorable to them. Originally, Australia had been counting on the national football team to be able to block Saudi Arabia in the ninth round, because once the Saudi team completed the victory over China, then Australia would be determined to miss the top two in the group and would have to participate in the brutal play-offs. As long as the national football team drags Saudi Arabia and Australia can defeat Japan, then the initiative to qualify will fall back into the hands of Australians.
However, with the early disarming of the national football team, it is clear that the national football team does not want to assist Australia to achieve the top two results in the group, which will also make their hope of directly qualifying completely disappointed. It will be the first time since leaving the EUROPEAN Union and entering Asia that Australia has missed the World Cup, which will also become a great shame for them.