This week's international match day, many World Cup qualifiers in Europe, america and Asia are worth watching. However, from a patriotic point of view, the top 12 match between China and Saudi Arabia that whistled at 23:00 Beijing time on March 24, Chinese fans will definitely watch with mixed feelings, and CCTV5 also began to broadcast the game live from 22:55.
Although the outcome of the Sino-Saudi war has no significance for the national football team, it is of great significance to Saudi Arabia, once Japan cannot win away to Australia and Saudi Arabia loses to China, Saudi Arabia may fall to the third place in the group in this round of 12. Japan especially hopes that the national football team can beat or force a draw with Saudi Arabia, so that even if Japan loses to Australia, as long as it defeats Vietnam at home in the last round, it will qualify for the World Cup directly with 21 points. In the last round of Saudi Arabia (19 or 20 points) and Australia (18 points), only one team can reach 21 points. Therefore, from another point of view, the Chinese team does not lose to Saudi Arabia, which is a big help to the East Asian Japanese team.
Of course, Chinese fans will definitely want to see a "different national football team" from the away game against Vietnam. But after all, football is the winner's game, the national football team has missed the World Cup 3 rounds in advance, and it is of course a little difficult to rekindle the enthusiasm of Chinese fans for Chinese football through a game without pressure. Even if the national football team is lucky enough to beat Saudi Arabia, fans will ask: What did you do earlier?
Therefore, from the perspective of world fans, it is still the life-and-death battle between Portugal and Turkey at 3:45 a.m. Beijing time on March 25, which has attracted the attention of fans around the world who like C Ronaldo. In this match, Porto defender Pepe was unable to participate in the battle due to the new crown infection, Manchester City iron guard Ruben Díaz was also absent due to injury, and today there was bad news, Portugal's second goalkeeper Anthony López was absent from injury. Of those three, Pepe's absence had the biggest impact on Portugal's defence.
Although Cristiano Ronaldo also made the strongest voice on social media today, saying that he would focus on the 2022 World Cup and try to get Portugal to where it should be. But Turkey is really not a weak team, they won the third place in the 2002 World Cup, the 2008 Euro 2008 group stage, Portugal beat Turkey 2-0, but in the warm-up match in June 2012, Portugal lost 1-3 to Turkey, and in both games Cristiano Ronaldo did not score, so Ronaldo is very right to train hard to shoot now. Only after Portugal passes turkey will it have a chance to compete with the winners of Italy and North Macedonia for a Ticket to the World Cup.
Portugal-Turkey War, CCTV5 began to broadcast live from 3:35 a.m. on March 25, I believe that Chinese fans will also stay up late to view, with practical actions, pay attention to the fate of C Luo. In fact, from the end of the national football match to the start of the C Ronaldo game, there is only an interval of more than two hours in between, I don't know which game The Chinese fans are more concerned about the outcome of which game, welcome to the comment area to discuss.