After several rounds of Chinese Super League competition, the international break is about to begin, which is also the last training of the national football team before the World Preliminary Round. From November 16th, the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup Asian qualifiers officially begin, the national football team will play against Thailand and South Korea respectively this year, these two matches are "tough battles" for us, and each one is more difficult to play!
Don't look at the Thai team's ranking in Asia, but after paying attention to youth training and combining naturalization in recent years, the team's strength has indeed improved a lot, perhaps not much worse than the Vietnamese team that the national football team has encountered before.
For the national football team, if you want to have less pressure in the following matches, the two matches against Thailand and South Korea in November can only lose at most, and if both games are lost, it will be very difficult to advance later, and there is not much tolerance for error. If you really want to win one of the first two games, the national football team will definitely be more willing to fight the Thai team, after all, we are ahead of the Thai team in terms of strength and ranking, before the third place in Asia and the 21st in Asia, it is definitely better to play 21st in Asia, and hard work has a chance to get 3 points on them.
Although there is not a single player in the national football squad who has stayed in the ocean, there are six players who have stayed in the ocean, such as Wu Lei, Zhang Yuning, Dai Weijun, Wu Shaocong and so on. Since coach Jankovic intends to select at least 6 players from the Asian Games national football team to enter the team's lineup from the next national football training camp, coupled with Zhang Yuning's imminent return, the national football team can also use more people. In addition, because of Zhang Yuning's return, the national football team can also usher in its own regular center, which can completely replace the poor Axon and become the starting center of the national football team!