In another 2 months, the World Preliminary Championship Asian Round of 36 will be restarted, and the national football team has confirmed that the next home stadium will be placed in Shenyang Olympic Sports Center to face Thailand, a competitor who has qualified. In addition, Singapore in the same group returned to host the seeded South Korea, and the results of the two matches in the next round of the group stage will directly affect the ranking situation.
As a team in the fourth pot, Singapore has been at the Asian fish belly level for a long time, and has never participated in the World Cup finals.
In November last year, Singapore first lost 0-5 away to South Korea, and then lost 1-3 to Thailand at home, and in March this year, Singapore also did not taste victory against the national football team back-to-back, 2-2 draw at home, 1-4 defeat away, 1 draw and 3 losses in the first 4 rounds, and only got 1 point on the national football team.
It is worth mentioning that Singapore's home draw with the national football team allowed the team to avoid two rounds of early exit, but there are only two rounds of the group stage left, still 6 points behind the second-ranked national football team, and it is already on the verge of going out, and it is difficult to create a miracle.
Despite this, Singapore still did not give up early, and tried to upset points against South Korea in the next round of home games to keep their hopes of qualifying.
According to Japanese media "Yahoo Sports", Singapore's Japanese coach Tsutomu Ogura gave an interview, saying that against the strong South Korea, the team went all out to get points, "The coach has high requirements for the players, and I believe they will want to reach a higher level." If the players think that South Korea is too strong, then the result has already been decided, so I won't let them think so. ”
Since South Korea's strength is stronger than the national football team, if Singapore can upset this Asia's first-class powerhouse at home, it will be enough to surprise Singaporean fans.
According to the points situation, South Korea is firmly in the first place in the group with 10 points in 4 rounds, and only needs to get 1 point to qualify, so they will not do their best against Singapore away, and a draw is brewing.
For the national football team, if South Korea does not win Singapore away, there is a glimmer of hope to compete for the top spot in the group, because the next round of home victory over Thailand, 5 rounds of 10 points to lock the second qualifier in the group, the last round of away challenge South Korea, the national football team wins the points of 13 points, will definitely surpass South Korea to rise to the first place in the group, but it is extremely difficult to achieve, the current national football team is the top priority is to ensure that the top 18 first.