On the evening of January 4, Beijing time, the Hong Kong men's football team, which was training in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, played a closed warm-up match with the Tajikistan men's football team, the first opponent of the national football Asian Cup. In the end, Hong Kong, China drew 1-1 with Tajikistan and remained unbeaten in two consecutive warm-up matches, which is conducive to advancing to the knockout round of the Asian Cup.
The Asian Cup will open next weekend, including the Chinese men's football team, Hong Kong, China men's football team, including a number of teams are still training in the United Arab Emirates to prepare for the game, on New Year's Day, the national football team and Hong Kong, China played a closed warm-up match, and finally Hong Kong, China relied on Pan Peixuan's brace to achieve a 2-1 reversal, after 39 years again defeated the national football team in the international A-level competition, ending a 16-game winless streak, the whole team celebrated.
According to the plan, before Hong Kong, China travels to Qatar to compete in the Asian Cup, there are two warm-up matches, against Tajikistan and Saudi Arabia respectively.
After negotiations between the two teams, Hong Kong, China and Tajikistan will play a closed warm-up match, the game will not be broadcast on the spot, and the two sides will not limit the number of substitutions and the number of people in the game, so it is not an international A-level event, and the game will not be counted in the FIFA ranking.
As one of the opponents of the national football team in the Asian Cup, Tajikistan invited Hong Kong, China to play a warm-up match, hoping to let more players find the feeling of the game through this warm-up match.
In the latest FIFA rankings, Tajikistan ranks 106th, Hong Kong, China ranks 150th, and the two teams have only met twice before, namely the 2003 Asian Cup Qualifying Tournament, Hong Kong, China 1 draw and 1 loss to Tajikistan.
In the 25th minute of the first half, Tajikistan scored first, and then in the 45th minute, Hong Kong, China tied the score at 1-1. In the second half, the two teams attacked and defended each other, but failed to rewrite the score, and finally drew 1-1, and Hong Kong, China continued to lose against Tajikistan in history.
According to the group, Hong Kong, China is in the same group as Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Palestine, and the team's first game will be against the United Arab Emirates at 10:30 p.m. Beijing time on January 14.