In order to prepare for the upcoming Asian Cup, the national football team conducted a warm-up match with Oman in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the game was not broadcast live, and the game was closed and not open to the public, and the result was not unexpected, the national football team lost Oman 0-2 again, the two sides fought 0-0 in the first half, and Oman scored two goals in a row by Allawi and Ghassani in the second half, Ivankovic, who is familiar with Chinese football, won the game again, it is worth noting that in the last round of the top 12 last year, the national football team lost 0-2 to Oman, and it was Allawi who scored the first goal for Oman, after losing to Oman, the national football team's record in the 2023 A-level competition came to 4 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses。
Purely from the perspective of friendly matches, winning or losing is not meaningful, but this game is not without gold content, Oman is a potential competitor of the national football world preliminaries, compared with Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Iran, China has a certain gap, so Oman and the United Arab Emirates These teams, is the object of the national football team's full breakthrough, from the current point of view, Oman is not only higher than China in the world ranking, the content of the game is also better than China, the strength is stronger than China, it is beyond doubt, if you add Qatar, Uzbekistan and Iraq, even if they break through from the first stage of the world preliminaries, the pressure in the subsequent games may still be not low.
In addition, Oman is also very comparative, the Asian Cup national football team and Qatar, Tajikistan and Lebanon are in the same group, Qatar's strength is stronger than Oman, and Tajikistan's level is not much lower than Oman, Lebanon is a slightly weaker team because of the change of coach and other problems, but there is not much gap, in short, the national football team is not sure to win, the goal of the national football team, the lowest is to qualify from the group, but let Oman win easily again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to score points in Qatar and Tajikistan.
Jankovic has been adjusting the lineup in the warm-up game before, inspecting the players, and has been trying for a year, this time not only retaining Wu Xi, but also recruiting Xu Xin and Xu Haofeng into the team, as well as Chen Pu who has been unable to find the positioning, in fact, Jankovic has gradually carved his ideas into the national football team, before losing to South Korea, China played well on the field, but in terms of employing people, Jankovic has a little bit of a small problem, and he has to trust if he plays poorly, and it is not that there is no better choice, I originally thought that I could see the results in Oman, but the mistake was repeated, and the same as last year, it can only be said that the national football team is still standing still in place for the time being。