The 2024 U23 Men's Asian Cup is about to kick off in Qatar, and the Chinese Olympic team was unfortunately divided into the group of death, with the same team as Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. Judging from the strength of the teams in this group, the Chinese Olympic team is undoubtedly the weakest, the Japanese Olympic team is the seeded team, and the South Korean Olympic team is a frequent participant in the Olympic Games. Only by going all out can the National Olympic Games have a chance to grab points.
The coach of the South Korean U23 team is Hwang Sunhong, a famous player in South Korean football, last month, South Korea's Olympic team participated in the West Asian Youth Championship, defeated Thailand's Olympic team, Saudi Arabia U21, and Australia's Olympic team drew with the Australian Olympic team, and finally won the West Asian Youth Championship on penalties. But in April, South Korea's U23s played a warm-up match against Saudi Arabia, which ended in a 0-1 defeat.
In contrast, the Chinese Olympic team has played against the Saudi Arabian team twice, with the scores of 0-1 and 0-2, which shows that in fact, the strength of the national Olympic team is not too far behind the South Korean Olympic team, and the South Korean team has no reason to despise our national Olympic team. It can be seen from the many warm-up matches since the National Olympic Games that after Cheng Yaodong's adjustment, the combat power of the National Olympic team is being formed, and the state adjustment is getting better and better, and it has successively defeated the Qatar National Olympic Games, Jordan National Olympic Games and Malaysia National Olympic Games.
In the group stage of the U23 Asian Cup, the national Olympic team has played against Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates, while only the top three teams in the U23 Asian Cup will directly qualify for the Paris Olympics, and the fourth place will play in the play-offs against African teams. In other words, the national Olympic team must reach the semi-finals to have a chance to compete for a ticket to the Paris Olympics.
In the group where the Chinese Olympic Games are located, the Japanese Olympic team is the seeded team, undoubtedly the strongest team, the Japanese team has never paid attention to youth events, only hurriedly formed a team before the game, and some of the teams are competing for the U23 Asian Cup, in this group, the main target of the Japanese team is the South Korean team, because in the final of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Japanese Olympic team lost to the South Korean Olympic team and was the runner-up, which will take revenge on the South Korean team.
So in the first game against Japan against the National Olympic team, Japan did not put the National Olympic Games in its eyes, but don't forget that in the 2017 U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, the National Olympic team defeated the Japanese Olympic Games 2-1, so the National Olympic team does not have to be arrogant, take out the attitude of the year's game, barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, maybe it can really snatch points from the Japanese Olympic Games, even if you can't grab points, you must avoid a big loss.
In fact, the South Korean team is not as strong as it seems, the National Olympic Games do not have to be weak before the game, do not have to be cowardly before the fight, on the football field, not only the competition of skills and tactics, but also the contest of tenacious spirit, the National Olympic Games must grit their teeth, play the determination to dare to fight, and do not want to snatch points from South Korea.
For the last opponent in the group stage, the UAE National Olympic Games, the Chinese National Olympic Games has the best chance to fight and win. The UAE Olympic team suffered three consecutive defeats in the West Asian Youth Championship. In the recent warm-up matches, the UAE team lost to Thailand, Egypt and drew with Indonesia.
The National Olympic group game should do its best to fight the United Arab Emirates, the first game of the Japanese Olympic Games hopes to use the opening game, the Japanese Olympic Games have not fully entered the game state, upset to grab 1 point, against the South Korean Olympic Games and fight for another point, so that the three group games get 5 points, then the Chinese Olympic Games will get the right to qualify from the group.