At present, the two national teams of the national football team and the U23 national football team are in West Asia, and the national football team will participate in the last game of the round of 12, and the U23 national football team has the last Dubai Cup qualifying match. According to the schedule, the U23 national football team took the lead in the game, will play against the Dubai Cup host UAE U23, will be on March 29, 23:00 Beijing time, 1 hour earlier than the national football team against Oman match, unexpectedly, CCTV 3 sports channels have given up live broadcasting of the game.
In order to prepare for the Hangzhou Asian Games, which opened in September this year, the Football Association decided to let the U23 national football team play abroad, not like last year's voluntary withdrawal from the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, so that the team did not have the opportunity to exercise, but also in advance with asian opponents to compete and find out the strength gap.
There are a total of 10 teams in this Dubai Cup, and the U23 national football team is more awkward to be invited to participate, except for Croatia, which is a European team, the other 8 teams have won the U23 Asian Cup final round ticket.
In the first round of matches, the Chinese team performed poorly, and finally lost 0-1 to the UAE team, after 3 days of adjustment, the Chinese team immediately ushered in an outbreak, relying on Fang Hao's big four happy performance, won the Thai team 4-2, so that fans across the country saw the hope of this team.
With this victory, the Chinese team ranked fourth in the Dubai Cup standings and entered the competition for the third and fourth place qualifying, and the opponent was still the host UAE team, so the Chinese team ushered in the opportunity for revenge.
According to statistics, the two teams have met 4 times since 2016, and the Chinese team has won 1 win and 3 losses, the only win is the 2-1 victory of the men's football team at the 2018 Asian Games. Judging from the performance of the first 2 games of the Dubai Cup, the gap between the Chinese team and the UAE team is very small, the Chinese team lost 0-1 in the first game, the UAE home whistle is more obvious, and the referee refused to award the Chinese team a penalty qualification at the last moment.
Now in three or four qualifying matches, the winner gets the third place in the Dubai Cup, and the Chinese team can also complete revenge by winning. Fang Hao, who completed the senior year against Thailand in the last game, was replaced early, and there was no problem in qualifying against the Uae, and he could continue to start and become the main scoring point of the Chinese team.
It is reported that the chairman of the Football Association, Chen Shuyuan, will supervise the battle on the spot and look forward to the good performance of the U23 national football team. After waiting for the Dubai Cup and the round of 12 to be completed, Chen Shuyuan will bring two national teams back to China, and the Football Association will start a busy new season of the Chinese Super League.