At 0:00 Beijing time on March 30, the national football team will challenge Oman on the road, which is the last game of the round of 12 and the honor battle related to the face of the national football team. Previously, there have been media outbreaks that the national football team's guarantee goal in this game is not to lose to Oman and avoid the embarrassment of being at the bottom of the group stage. In the last World Cup match, the national football team and Oman finally shook hands 1-1. However, there are three factors that make the national football team hope to win oman away this evening.
First of all, although the national football team has not been able to enter the World Cup for more than 20 years, in the last game of the World Preliminary Round over the years, the national football team has played very well. Relevant data show that in the last game of the past World Preliminary Round, the national football team won 4 consecutive wins. The last of the four World Cups was a 7–0 victory over Hong Kong in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, a 1–0 win over Australia in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in South Africa, a 3–1 win over Jordan in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Brazil, and a 2–1 win over Qatar in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Russia. Therefore, according to the past tradition, the national football team is very promising to win the Omani team.
Secondly, this game is a battle of honor for the national football team. This is a game that the national football team cannot lose and cannot afford to lose, once it loses to Oman, the national football team will once again be criticized by the domestic media and fans, which is very unfavorable for chinese football, which has fallen into the bottom. Therefore, before the start of this game, Li Xiaopeng's coaching staff has warned players not to relax. In the last game with Saudi Arabia, although the national football team was firmly suppressed by Saudi Arabia in the whole game, it finally drew with Saudi Arabia with Zhu Chenjie's penalty, which gave the national football team great confidence. In addition, from the last game, it can also be seen that the national football team has taken on a new look, except for a few players such as Yu Dabao.
Finally, Oman's strength is not very strong, Oman is currently ranked 4th in Group B and has lost the opportunity to qualify from the group. In FIFA's international rankings, Oman and China are ranked in the 70th place, while in asia, the national football team ranks ninth and Oman ranks tenth. In the history of the national football team, it has played against Oman a total of 6 times, and the national football team has achieved a record of 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, slightly better than Oman. In addition, not long ago, when the Oman coach talked about the national football team, he also gave a high evaluation to the tenacity of the national football team in the last draw with Saudi Arabia.
The above three factors may allow the national football team to close a victory on the road. However, the national football team still can't relax, after all, we are fighting away, and Alain, Luo Guofu, Axon, Ferrando, Li Lei, Wu Lei several core players have not participated, and Saudi Arabia will have 7 naturalized players this time. So, the night's game is likely to be a match-to-match match.