1-0!0-0!The night of joy and sorrow of the fans, the first team to qualify for the Asian Cup was born, and the national football team is still hard to win
The second round of the group stage of the Asian Cup has begun, and on the first match day, the first team to qualify for this Asian Cup was also born. The host Qatar team won two consecutive wins to secure the top spot in the group one round ahead of schedule and get a ticket to the round of 16. While Qatari fans are celebrating wildly, Chinese fans are still sad, and the Chinese men's football team, which everyone has high hopes for, is still difficult to win, and the prospect of qualifying from the group has also been cast a thick shadow!
At the moment of the Asian Cup draw ceremony, many fans thought that the Chinese men's football team had drawn the lottery, and we avoided Japan, South Korea, Iran, Australia and Saudi Arabia, which are traditional Asian powerhouses, and were placed in Group A of the host Qatar team, which also included Lebanon and Tajikistan. If you just look at the world rankings, it seems that these two teams outside the top 100 seem to be difficult to compete with the national football team, so many fans predict that the Chinese team should easily advance, and the real test will not come until the knockout round.
However, the world ranking does not really represent the strength of a team. In the first round, Tajikistan, ranked 106th, taught the Chinese team a lesson, they suppressed the Chinese team for most of the game, and the number of shots on goal was 20 to 10. Fortunately, the Tajikistan team's strikers were a little poor in shooting, and the Chinese team was lucky to draw 0-0 with the opponent and get the first point in this Asian Cup.
Facing the Lebanese team in the second round, the Chinese team improved a lot on the field, and we became the leading side in terms of possession and shots. But the problem of the Chinese team, like the Tajikistan team, although they created chances to score, our strikers were unable to really convert them into goals. In the end, the Chinese team drew 0-0 with the opponent again, and only got 2 points in the two rounds.
The host Qatar team played more stable. In the opening game against Lebanon, they beat their opponents 3-0 cleanly, easily got off to a good start, and firmly held the initiative of qualifying in their own hands. Facing the Tajikistan team in the second round, the Qatar team encountered some twists and turns, but it was also a thrill, with Afif's goal, they defeated the Tajikistan team 1-0, successfully won two consecutive victories, locked the top spot in Group A one round in advance, and became the first team to advance to the round of 16 in this Asian Cup!
In the last round of the group stage, the national football team, which has its back to the water, will meet the Qatar team that qualified in advance. Considering that the opponent has advanced in advance, it is inevitable that there will be slackness in the game, so the probability of the national football team scoring points from the Qatar team is still quite large. I hope that in this game, the Chinese team can break the goal drought and prove itself again with a victory!