There are three places left in the World Cup, but the draw for the group stage has been settled. In the Asian region, the fourth-ranked Australian team has not yet locked a seat, but even if they qualify for the World Cup, this draw also makes them feel desperate, so the three opponents in the same group are far higher than themselves in the World Cup rankings, even if they can participate this time, it is also a walk, and the bottom of the group cannot escape.
This time, Australia was in the same group as the defending champions france, with Denmark and Tunisia. In terms of strength, the Kangaroo Legion's encounter with France can basically be said to be college students playing school students, and avoiding fiasco is their only thought. And the Danish team ranked 11th in the world, the last European Championship was in the top four, the strength is far above Australia, even Tunisia's FIFA ranking is also 36th, 4 places higher than Australia, ask this group, how should Australia get points?
Therefore, after seeing this draw, Australia is afraid that it does not even have the heart to play the play-offs. Even if you can enter the World Cup, meet these three opponents, let alone expect to qualify, that is, whether you can take a point, or even kick a ball, you have to play a huge question mark. What's more, with Australia's declining lineup, it may be difficult to play in the World Cup, not to mention that Peru is difficult to play, that is, the UAE team, which is the third in group A, I am afraid that Australia will have to drink a pot.
Today, australia's situation is no different from that of the national football team, except that Australia has a higher starting point and the outside world expects them a little higher. But if you compare it with your own ten or even twenty years ago, Australia may not fall as fast as the national football team. Since cahill, Cowell, Bresciano and other golden generation retirement, Australia in the intercontinental arena is also no contribution, originally after joining the AFC, Australia can be stable in every world preliminary tournament, and now can only be reduced to playing play-offs, which also shows the fault of their youth training.
Judging from the final points, Australia is only 1 point ahead of Oman behind them, which means that it is quite thrilling to keep a group third, not to mention the gap with Saudi Arabia and Japan. In the last few rounds, first the away 2-2 draw was forced by Oman, which put them in a desperate situation, and then returned to the home court was 0-2 by the Japanese team, the scene and various statistics are in the downwind, on the contrary, their opponents can beat South Korea at home, which shows that the UAE is not idle, and on the whole, Australia may not even pass the UAE level.
It can be said that in addition to the three teams in Japan, South Korea and Iran in the Asian region are relatively stable, teams like Saudi Arabia, Australia, Qatar and other teams are actually very nervous, they say that they are not strong, they say that they are not weak, in fact, as long as the national football team can recognize the reality, down-to-earth development of youth training, in four or eight years, there is a full opportunity to compete with them, not to mention that the next year's participation will be expanded to 8.5, it can be said that the future of the national football team is still there, and even said to be relatively bright.