In this World Preliminary Tournament, the national football team only won 1 of the 10 games, the three giants of Japan, Saudi Arabia and Australia only scored 2 points in the six games, and the two "fish belly" in oman and Vietnam in the four games were actually at a disadvantage. In fact, Chinese fans have nothing to be pessimistic about, and the way Italy, which has won the World Cup four times, is also quite nested.
In the penultimate round of the group stage, Italy hosted direct rival Switzerland, and the Blueshirts had mastered the initiative to beat the opponent to advance, but the result was a 1-1 draw, and Jonginho conceded the winning penalty. In the first match of the play-offs, Italy lost 0:1 to the European "fish belly" out.
The European Cup winner, out in this way, is not a nest?
The next time the national football team enters the round of 12, I don't know what time it will be. However, Italy may "come back to life" to participate in the 2022 World Cup, although there is little hope, it is not impossible.
In the history of the European Cup and the World Cup, there has also been a precedent. 1992 European Championship, Denmark has been out of the qualifiers, but the 1992 European Championship has been less than 10 days before the start, due to the suspension of the former Yugoslavia that entered the main tournament, Denmark was able to participate in the supplement, hastily assembled Denmark, which had no time to prepare, actually reached the final and won the championship all the way, staging the miracle of the football "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tale".
In the European play-offs of this World Preliminary Tournament, Poland was able to qualify thanks to the suspension of its opponents. The semi-final was originally against Russia, with the strength of Poland, may not be able to win the battle, because Russia was banned, Poland won without a fight, in the final to wait for Sweden, and finally defeated Sweden to enter Qatar.
Russia is disqualified from the play-offs, while Iran, which has already qualified for the World Cup, is likely to be disqualified.
Iran's 2-0 home win over Lebanon in the final round of the World Preliminary Round of 12 in Asia banned 2,000 female fans who had purchased tickets to the tournament after being warned by FIFA in 2019 for banning women. This repeat offense also made the iranian football association executives a little worried about FIFA's punishment, an official said on a personal social media: "I am very worried that Iran's move will be punished by FIFA and AFC." "Once Iran is penalized, the highest penalty is to be expelled from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, although they finished first in the group in the round of twelve, locking up a World Cup regular place.
If Iran's qualification for the main tournament is cancelled, who will it be given? Normally, teams with higher scores in the Round of 12 should be given, such as Australia, who have higher points in Group B, or Australia vs. the UAE, the winner of the two-legged play-off (the loser and the fifth Inugo of South America play the intercontinental play-off). But Italian media outlet Sport Mediaset said FIFA would not think so, but would choose a team with a higher FIFA ranking.
Looking at world football, the world's top team that is out of the World Preliminary Tournament play-off is only Italy. Italy's current FIFA ranking remains 6th in the world.
Sport Mediaset says that's also a slim possibility. Italian media Sky Sports and football-italia also followed up.