The dust has settled on the round of 12, but the competition between teams for the World Cup continues. As a representative team for Brexit and entry into Asia, Australia is now looking forward to reaching the final round of the World Cup again, suppressing Asian powerhouses such as the national football team and the United Arab Emirates, and becoming the biggest profiteer under the AFC.
In fact, the performance of Australia in this world preliminary tournament has shown a lot of decline, they failed to beat Saudi Arabia and Japan, two teams that are biased towards the pass control play, only won the third place in the group, and only one point higher than the Oman team behind them, which is also very rare in previous games. Obviously, the overall strength of the Australian team has actually declined greatly, but the Asian team itself is not contentious, even the declining kangaroo army can not play to win, just like the national football team, so the seat in this play-off is still stolen by the opponent.
Next, Australia will play a one-legged knockout match against the UAE team, and the winning side will play a two-legged round-robin match with Peru. In history, Australia has reached the World Cup five times, including three consecutive promotions after joining the AFC, taking away the already valuable places in the Asian region. Fortunately, the Peruvian team is now expected to sanction them, after all, the strength of the South American team is much higher than that of Australia, and the Peruvian team has reached the 22nd place in the world ranking, which is comparable to Japan.
Of course, in Australia's current state, defeating the UAE is not a problem. In history, the two teams have met a total of 6 times, Australia remained unbeaten between 2011 and 2017, especially in the Asian qualifiers, Australia has never lost to the United Arab Emirates, but often beat the opponent with a score of 1-0, 2-0, which can be said to occupy a considerable advantage. Australia is currently ranked 42nd in the world and the United Arab Emirates is ranked 68th, which can be said to be a huge disparity in strength between the two teams.
It can be said that Australia's crossing the UAE level is very easy, but facing Peru, the possibility of the Kangaroo Army is very large. The two teams had their only meeting in the 2018 World Cup group stage, when Peru beat Australia 2-0, and Australia was at a complete disadvantage and very passive. What's more, Australia's strength has declined considerably, their probability of winning is quite slim, and it is basically wishful thinking to achieve the 6th World Cup.
For the national football team and many Asian teams, it is also very much hoped that the Kangaroo Army can lose, after all, this promotion quota does not belong to them in the first place, it should be an Asian team. Therefore, in the play-off stage, the Peruvian team eliminated Australia, which is the result of the happiness of the Asian teams, and it can be regarded as a comfort for the national football team.