After the national football team played the 9th round of the round of 12, the U23 national football team is about to participate in the second match of the Dubai Cup, which will play against the Southeast Asian giants Thailand, the game kick-off time is 8 o'clock tonight, and the CCTV5 channel arranges a live broadcast, so fans do not need to stay up late to watch the whole process.
In this Year's Dubai Cup, the Chinese team is one of the invited teams, and there are 9 other teams, including the host UAE team, Japan team, Saudi Arabia team, Qatar team, Iraq team, Thai team, Vietnam team, Uzbekistan team and Croatia team.
Croatia is a European team, the Chinese team is the only one of the other 9 Asian teams that did not participate in the final round of the U23 Asian Cup, and it is also related to last year's voluntary withdrawal from the qualifier stage, the Football Association based on the impact of the epidemic, decided not to let the U23 national football team participate.
In order to prepare for the Hangzhou Asian Games, which opened in September this year, the U23 national football team needed to train troops, and the Football Association decided to follow the national football team to the United Arab Emirates. The first Dubai Cup that ended on March 23, the U23 national football team against the host Uae team, the final 0-1 defeat to the opponent, the spirit of the game and the attitude of hard work did not have any problems, but also let the fans look forward to the second game against Thailand.
Originally the opponent of the second game of the U23 national football team is the Vietnamese team, according to the Vietnamese media reports, the Chinese Football Association deliberately does not want the two teams to fight, and finally the organizing committee changed the situation, the Chinese team opponent became the Thai team, and the Vietnamese team opponent was replaced by the Croatian team.
The overall strength comparison, Vietnam and Thailand are similar, there is no difference for the Chinese team, the goal of the Chinese team is still to win, the bottom score is 1-0. China lost 0-1 in the first round, and did not qualify for the championship in advance, and now it is necessary to avoid finally falling into the bottom two rankings, as long as the win will certainly not fall to the bottom, because Thailand also lost the first game.
Judging from the performance of the first game against the UAE team, the Chinese team has a certain strength, not as weak as the fans' impression, including Wu Shaocong, Han Jiaqi, Chen Guokeng, Tao Qianglong, He Yupeng, Jiang Shenglong, etc. are the core players of the future national team.
The game will start at 8 o'clock tonight, and for domestic fans, there is no need to stay up as late as the game of the national football team against Saudi Arabia. If the U23 national football team can defeat the Thai team, the side can also avenge the 2013 home defeat of the Thai youth team.