At 3:45 a.m. Beijing time on March 25, the European World Preliminary Tournament play-offs will soon start in full swing, and CCTV5 channel will broadcast live the focus battle between the Portuguese men's football team and the Turkish men's football team. Single-game knockout system, so that both teams can not afford to lose, Portugal team strength is dominant, Turkey team is not easy to mess with, win the ball can send C Ronaldo out of the early game, the first time in his career did not qualify for the World Cup.
In the previous group stage, Turkey relied on the counterattack at the last minute to qualify for the play-off as the second in the group, and once again participated in the Play-off stage in the European Zone after 15 years, ushering in the opportunity to return to the World Cup.
In the history of the Turkish men's football team, it has participated in the World Cup finals twice, respectively, in 1954 and 2002, the second time to participate in the same group as the Chinese men's football team, the Turkish team defeated the Chinese team 3-0, and finally pushed the South Korean team to rank third, creating the best result in the history of the team in the World Cup.
After the 2022 World Cup, Turkey has been absent from the World Cup like the Chinese team, and now the Chinese team has missed the 2022 World Cup in advance, and the Turkish team still has a chance.
Now that turkey has drawn the death group, it will first play against the Portuguese team led by C Ronaldo, and the pass will be against the winner between Italy and North Macedonia. Before the match, turkey announced the new world preliminary list, And Char khanoglu, Seyunju and De Miral were all selected, with the goal of returning to the World Cup after 20 years.
According to statistics, Turkey has been at a disadvantage against Portugal in the past, losing all 5 official matches, and the last time the two teams met was in a friendly match in 2012, when Turkey defeated Portugal 3-1. Now the two teams have changed drastically, and portugal's real strength has not reached the european first-class level, giving Turkey hope to win the game.
In this game, which team loses is equivalent to missing the World Cup in advance, turkey has a certain ability to win, not to mention that Portugal once lost to Serbia at home.
Before the match, Portugal striker Jota was present at the press conference and talked about Turkey, believing that this team is not easy to play, contrary to what you think, they are second in the group, after the Netherlands, and won over the Netherlands.
Knocking Portugal out, Turkey is halfway through the battle, followed by a chance to qualify for the World Cup for the third time in the team's history against the winner between Italy and North Macedonia.