#头条创作挑战赛#
This evening, the Chinese U23 men's football team welcomed the challenge of the UAE team in Dalian. The group where the Chinese team is located is also held in our Dalian City, which is relatively advantageous for us. Our first opponent is the strongest team in this group and the seeded team in this group, UAE. The UAE team is currently ranked eighth in Asia, the Chinese team ranks 11th in Asia, and the international rankings of the two sides are also more than a dozen places behind, there are indeed some gaps in strength, but the Chinese team has done a good job of defense in this game, several counterattacks are also played well, the whole game hit the goalpost once, and there is a missed opportunity to single knife, we do have some ah, the opportunity to grasp the ability is insufficient, but the fighting spirit shown in this game and the hard work in the defense, Indeed, it also left the UAE team helpless against our defense.
This 0-0 draw will lay a solid foundation for China to finally qualify from the group and qualify for the U23 Asian Cup in Qatar, because as we said, we are drawing the strongest UAE team in the group stage. According to the promotion rules of the U23 Asian Cup, the first place in the group of 11 groups can directly advance, and the second place in the four groups with relatively good results in each group can also advance, plus the host Qatar team, so as to make up the specific places of the 16 teams in the U23 Asian Cup.
Although they were unable to win the first match, they drew with the UAE team, and at least they were able to reach the U23 Asian Cup by relying on a better group second place to advance to the U23 Asian Cup in the final moment, even if they could not advance to the first place in the group. The U23 Asian Cup also undertakes the qualification for next year's Paris Olympic Games, due to the outstanding performance of Japan and South Korea in the finals of the past two Olympic Games, so this time the Paris Olympic Games Asian zone has 3.5 direct promotion places, which is also theoretically increasing the hope that the Chinese team can enter the Paris Olympic Games.
Only once in the history of the Olympic Games did the Chinese team successfully enter the Olympics with their own efforts, and it was in the distant 1988 Seoul Olympics. Although we also entered the Olympic Games in 2008, everyone knows very well that China was the host of that Olympic Games and directly qualified. So can you make it to the Olympics again through your own efforts? It depends on whether the Chinese team can enter the final round of the U23 Asian Cup and how it can play in the final round.
But this probability is still relatively low. Why? Because the Chinese team has lost 11 games and won 1 game in the last four editions of the U3 Asian Cup, the Chinese team has not to say that it has reached the final four and hit 3.5 places to directly advance, and the group stage is a very difficult thing for us. However, we have also seen that the performance of the Chinese youth team in recent years is still good, in last year's U21 Asian Cup, the Chinese team performed very well to rush to the quarterfinals, and in the eight-in-four game, it also forced the South Korean team to overtime, almost directly advanced to the World Youth Championship. Although our senior national team has had a bad result in recent years, it is still good for the youth team.
The UAE team, as the eighth in Asia, also suffered a heavy blow after the game, firstly, they were not able to directly defeat the Chinese team, which also cast a shadow over their qualification, and secondly, their main goalkeeper Harry was injured in this game, and there is a high probability that there is no way to play in the following games, which is also relatively good news for the Chinese team.