Recently, the Thai football team officially released a poster of the round of 36 match against China on the 16th of this month, which will only evoke painful memories for Chinese fans.
In the long-term impression of Chinese fans, Southeast Asian football has always been the ATM of the national football team, even if we face Japan and South Korea in East Asia and Saudi Arabia and Iran in West Asia, we can still find face when facing Southeast Asian teams, but this situation has changed significantly in recent years.
In the past 10 years, Chinese football has lost 2 games very representatively, one is 1-5 to Thailand in 2013, and the other is 1-3 to Vietnam in the 2022 World Preliminary Tournament, because the opponents in these two games are from Southeast Asia, which is the area where Chinese fans look the least stressed, and the score is extremely ugly.
The poster of the Thai team consists of 2 games, one is a picture of Thailand beating the Chinese team 5-1 in 2013, and the other is a picture of Thailand beating the Chinese team 1-0 in 2019. Especially in that 1-5 game, although the whole process was full of conspiracy theories, such as Chinese players dissatisfied with Camacho and other speculations, but it is indeed embarrassing to lose to such an opponent with such a score on their home turf.
In this qualifier, the 2 matches between the Chinese team and the Thai team are very critical, because South Korea and Singapore in this group, one is too strong and the other is too weak, the confrontation between China and these two teams is actually basically similar to the confrontation between Thailand and these 2 teams, so the confrontation between China and Thailand will directly determine the prospect of qualifying for the round of 36, although the fans are sarcastic and dissatisfied with the Chinese team, but when it is really time to play, the fans will definitely go all out to support, I also hope that the national football team can play a really good game.
It is worth mentioning that Chinese football has now become the object of surpassing by Southeast Asian countries, in the previous AFC Champions League group stage, Wuhan Three Towns was defeated by Hanoi FC, and Hanoi FC also won the first victory in the history of the AFC Champions League. After the match, the Vietnam Football Association awarded Hanoi FC a prize of VND 300 million. And the Vietnamese fans even said: "It's okay to lose to anyone, but winning China is as happy as the Spring Festival." ”
In the past, Fan Zhiyi, a famous national football player, once issued a prediction, after the national football team lost to Thailand, and then lost to Vietnam and Myanmar, and finally did not have to lose, I thought that Fan Zhiyi's words were just angry words, but I didn't expect that the national football team is indeed difficult to suppress Southeast Asian teams now, and the next world preliminary match with Thailand, the national football team is also pessimistic.