World Preliminary Tournament Thailand VS National Football Team: The first game is a battle of life and death, whether the national football team is sure

At 20:30 on November 16, Beijing time, the first round of Group C of the second phase of the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers in Asia: Thailand VS China. For the national football team, the first game is a battle of life and death!

In the 2026 World Cup, the scale of the main competition has been expanded from the previous 32 teams to 48, and the number of places in the main competition in Asia has also increased from 4.5 to 8.5, nearly doubled, so can the hope of the national football team return to the World Cup be realized?

But for the Chinese men's national football team, which is actually old and old, it is better to take one step at a time, and what needs to be ensured at present is to break through from the second stage first.

For example, in Group D of the Asian group stage of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, the national football team failed to qualify in the end, and even did not enter the top 8 in the final stage. This time, the national football team cannot make such a low-level mistake again, and first ensure that it can enter the final stage of the round of 18.

In Group C, South Korea, China, Thailand, and Singapore, the four teams, according to the competition system, the final group leader and group second in the 9 groups advanced to the third stage of the round of 18. Normally, South Korea and China should qualify, but today's national football team, South Korea will definitely not win, and Thailand may not have a chance of winning.

The schedule of the national football team is to play Thailand away in the first round, South Korea at home in the second round, Singapore back-to-back in the third and fourth rounds, Thailand at home in the fifth round, and South Korea away in the final round.

Theoretically, the national football team has 0 points in two games against South Korea and 6 points in two games against Singapore, assuming that South Korea wins all, then the national football team can get 4 points in two games against Thailand to ensure promotion. If you lose, you may be at the bottom of the group after the second round (at most you can fight with Singapore on goal difference), then even if you play Singapore in the 3rd and 4th rounds to get 6 points, the 5th round will also face Thailand's dead knock at home, and it is likely to be out of the game in advance, because it is impossible to get points in the last round away from South Korea.

Thailand is currently ranked 112th in the world by FIFA, with a total team value of 9.63 million euros. The national football team is currently ranked 79th in the world by FIFA, and the total value of the team is 11.8 million euros, which is not much higher than Thailand.

The 21-year-old Thai international currently plays for Ao Hawari in the Biliga and said in an interview before the game that the current Thai team is the strongest in history and is confident of beating all opponents.

The Thai squad has a number of players playing for Pathum United in their league, while Shanghai Port, which has a number of international players, were eliminated by Pathum United in the previous AFC Champions League qualifiers.

For Thailand, the most memorable game for fans should be a friendly match in 2013, Camacho's national football team lost 1:5 at home to Thailand. Secondly, the 2019 China Cup, which is also an invitational tournament, lost 0:1 to Thailand.

In official matches, the national football team only lost to Thailand twice. In the 1984 Olympic qualifiers, he lost 0:1 to Thailand, and in the 1990 Asian Games, he lost to Thailand 0:1 in the quarterfinals. Except for these two official matches, the national football team basically won all of them against Thailand. So this time, as long as the national football team plays normally, it is impossible to lose to Thailand.