From the evening of March 24 to the early morning of March 25, Beijing time, the Asian and European World Preliminary Tournament ended the competition of many matches, producing 2 teams that advanced to the World Cup overnight, and 4 teams did not qualify for the World Cup, including italy, which won the European Championship last year, and broke out of the big cold. In addition, the national football team relied on penalties to kill the Cold War and draw saudi Arabia to avoid being double-killed at home and away.
The World Cup round of 32 confirmed 17 seats
The 2022 World Cup is still 32 participating teams, and now there are 2 teams that have confirmed the promotion, namely Japan and Saudi Arabia. After Japan defeated Australia, they joined hands with Saudi Arabia to lock in the top two of the group in the early round and get the remaining 2 direct seats, and Australia will participate in the play-off stage.
Since then, the World Cup has identified 17 teams, namely the host Qatar, Germany, Denmark, France, Belgium, Croatia, Spain, Serbia, England, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Iran, South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Argentina.
Overnight confirmed 4 teams out
The European Play-offs are a single-game knockout system, so whichever team loses means an early exit. In the four matches that ended in the early morning of this morning, Portugal eliminated Turkey 3-1, North Macedonia eliminated Italy 1-0, Wales eliminated Austria 2-1, and Sweden eliminated the Czech Republic 1-0.
Portugal advanced to the group finals and Italy was upset
As the winners of the last 2 European Championships, Portugal and Italy have performed differently. Portugal's home team relied on the joint goals of Otavio, Jota and Nunes to eliminate Turkey 3-1, and in the second half, Ilmaz kicked a penalty as a turning point in the game, and Portugal's promotion was thrilling.
Italy is the new European Championship champion, and now drawn to the world's 67th-ranked North Macedonia team in the play-off stage, the result of the World Cup 4 champions broke out of the big cold, 0-1 scored out of the game, early missed the World Cup.
The national football team broke out in a desperate situation, drawing 1-1 with saudi Arabia
After the national football team lost to Vietnam last month, it officially announced that it would not qualify for the World Cup in advance, and the remaining two round of 12 matches became a battle of honor. In the ninth round against Saudi Arabia, the national football team was fully at a disadvantage, relying on Zhu Chenjie's penalty in the second half to break the goal, and finally drew 1-1 with the opponent, avoiding the home and away games from being killed by the Saudi team, and basically locking the fifth place in the group, avoiding being reduced to the bottom by the Vietnamese team.