At 8 p.m. on March 26, Beijing time, the national football team's home match against Singapore will start the world preliminaries, and the game is highly anticipated, with more than 50,000 fans expected to watch the game on site, while CCTV5 will continue to broadcast live. Before the game, the goal of the coaches of both teams was to go all out to win, and if the national football team finally lost to Singapore, the biggest winner would be Thailand, and the situation in the standings would be completely chaotic.
Singapore, ranked 156th in the world, has long been a team in Asian football and has never advanced to the qualifiers of the top 10 and round of 12.
This time in the round of 36, after Singapore eliminated Guam, it was in the same group as South Korea, the national football team, and Thailand as the fourth pot, and also wanted to compete for the qualification to advance to the round of 18.
After losing to South Korea and Thailand in the first two rounds, Singapore is at the bottom with 0 points, and when it comes to the third round at home against the national football team, the whole team hopes to win, and the new coach Tsutomu Ogura openly said that the team's only goal is to win. In the end, when Singapore was down 0-2 at home, they scored two goals in the second half and drew the national football team with a score of 2-2.
Now, after 5 days, the two teams meet again, and Singapore plays away, even so, the team is still eager to overturn the national football team to get three points.
At the pre-match press conference, Singapore coach Tsutomu Ogura and player Lamli attended, on the question of the comparison of the strength of the two teams, Tsutomu Ogura said: "Very modest, I can't say who is better, the Chinese team plays Chinese football, we play our own football." ”
In addition, when Singapore defender Ryan Stewart accepted, he stressed that the team should strive for three points away against China to make up for the regret of only one point at home.
For Singapore, it takes a miracle to win away from home, because all 5 away games in history have been lost, only 3 goals have been scored and 15 goals have been conceded, the last away challenge to the national football team has to be traced back to the 2013 friendly match, when the 1-6 defeat, this game is also located in Tianjin, Singapore has not won the national football team for 41 consecutive years in all competitions, how to talk about all three points away?
Since football matches often cause upsets, the national football team cannot be taken lightly, even if the home team has a winning record against Singapore in the past.
If the national football team really loses, then Singapore will give Thailand the best assist, because if Thailand loses to South Korea at home without scoring a point, then Thailand, the national football team, and Singapore will have 4 points, and the standings will be completely chaotic.