The Chinese men's football team, which is preparing for the Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates, ended the last warm-up match of the 2023 international A-level tournament in the early hours of this morning, and finally the Chinese team lost 0:2 to the Oman team ranked lower than us. On the whole, the loss of this game will have three adverse effects for the Chinese team.
First of all, the first is the confidence bruise we mentioned earlier, although the Chinese men's football team will have a warm-up match before the Asian Cup, but the level is very close like this, and the opponent of the warm-up match with great gold content is gone, and our opponent in the next warm-up match is the Hong Kong team, China, even if we can win this team. I'm afraid it won't do much for our confidence to pick up. Counting the results of one draw and one loss against Oman in the previous World Preliminary Round, and facing the Oman team ranked one place lower than us in Asia, we play like this, which will indeed make our Asian Cup prospects not optimistic.
The second is that through this game, including the warm-up matches of the previous matches against Thailand, Malaysia, and Uzbekistan, the strength positioning of the Chinese team is basically clear. First of all, we are ninth in Asia, but we are facing about ten, that is, these teams with similar rankings, such as Thailand, for example, the current Oman team, all of them are at a disadvantage in the game, even if we won the Thai team at the beginning, we have no advantage on the field. It's more about taking advantage of the opponent's mistakes and using the physicality to beat the opponent, and against the West Asian teams, who may not be as physically disadvantaged as the Southeast Asian teams in front of us, it is even difficult for us to score goals in the sports battle.
Therefore, the Chinese men's football team's Asian Cup this time can be said to be the weakest in the previous Asian Cup, firstly, we are currently ranked ninth in Asia, and the Chinese team has never had such a low ranking before going to the Asian Cup, and secondly, when facing even a team with the same grade ranking strength, we have to be in a passive situation. This Asian Cup may be the worst Asian Cup competition.
The third is head coach Jankovic. Previously, because of injuries like Zhang Yuning, Dai Weijun just joined the team, and they were not able to integrate well into the game, these two players who had high hopes were all on the field, but the Chinese team was not able to score, at least from the level of coaches, Jankovic no longer has any hole cards to show, and his level is here. Scoring goals will be the biggest and biggest problem for the Chinese team in the Asian Cup, our opponents in the group stage of the Asian Cup are not very strong to be honest, but the problem is that there is no such absolute underdog, Lebanon and Tajikistan, who are ranked lower than us, are at least stronger than the Malaysian team we have met before. We can't even break down the door for Malaysia, so can we expect to score against these two teams?
For the Chinese men's football team, the Asian Cup may be a very difficult journey, and at this time, the Beijing Youth Network exposed that the Chinese Football Association has set the goal of the Chinese men's football Asian Cup this time or the goal of the quarterfinals. Referring to the past results, this goal is reasonable, because the Chinese men's football team has participated in more than a dozen Asian Cups, and only three times have not reached the quarterfinals, and all three of these three times were led by local head coaches, that is to say, when foreign coaches led the team, the Chinese team has never achieved worse results than the quarterfinals. This also reflects the Football Association's goal for Jankovic. If he can't lead the worst Chinese men's football team to the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup, Jankovic is likely to leave the class immediately after the Asian Cup at the earliest.