5-1！ 1-0！ The Thai team has killed the national football team three times, and the first game of the World Preliminary Tournament may be an upset, and Jankovic is afraid of being out of class
Soon after, the round of 36 of the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers in Asia will officially start, and the Chinese men's football team will once again embark on the journey towards the goal of returning to the World Cup. Due to the expansion of the next World Cup, the number of Asian participants has directly doubled, reaching an unprecedented 8.5, and many fans are excited that this may be the best opportunity for the Chinese men's football team to return to the World Cup!
However, if the national football team wants to break through smoothly, the first thing to do is to take the first step, that is, to successfully break through from the round of 36 and enter the final round of 18. In this group draw, the Chinese team was divided into Group C, which included South Korea, Thailand and Singapore. Considering that the South Korean team is too strong, the Chinese men's football team is simply unable to compete, so our direct competitors for qualification are actually Thailand and Singapore.
In the first match of the round of 36, the Chinese team will usher in a battle of life and death, and our opponent is the biggest opponent of the qualifiers, the Thai team. Moreover, in this game, the national football team is still fighting away, which also greatly increases the difficulty of the Chinese team to score points. In a friendly match in 2013, the Chinese men's football team at home lost to the Thai team with a score of 1-5, and the then national football coach Camacho also stepped down after this humiliating defeat. After the game, former international player Fan Zhiyi's sentence "I don't want my face is gone" has become a famous scene in Chinese football.
Since then, the national football team has experienced several changes of coaches, and in 2019, under the command of interim head coach Cannavaro, the Chinese team fighting at home lost to the Thai team with a score of 0-1. And this game is also the most recent meeting between the two sides, I don't know if I am afraid of embarrassment, in the next 4 years, the Chinese men's football team has never played the Thai team again. According to statistics, in the past 7 meetings between the two sides, the two teams have won 3 games and drawn 1, so it can be said that the Chinese men's football team has not taken any advantage in this small team in Southeast Asia!
For the match with the Chinese team, the Thai team is also full of confidence. Thailand coach Polkin said in an interview: "Our coaching staff has done a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese team, they are a strong team, and this game will definitely be extremely tough. But we are confident that if we play according to plan, with the support of more than 50,000 fans in the stadium, I am confident that we will be able to win! Thailand's number one star Song Krasin also said: "China is a strong team, both in terms of international rankings and football history, but in the end the result is still dominated by us, we will try to win the game, those fans who did not buy tickets, they will definitely regret it!" ”
Once the national football team loses away from home and loses to the Thai team, the prospect of the Chinese men's football team qualifying will also be cast a thick shadow. If the Chinese team is eliminated in the round of 36, the position of Serbian coach Jankovic will be shaken, and the day he will leave class is probably not far away!