The U23 Asian Cup and Paris Olympic Games qualifiers are in full swing. At the end of the first round of the group stage, the Chinese Olympic team finished at the bottom of Group B. Because of this, the second round of the showdown with the South Korean Olympic team will be a life-and-death battle for the Chinese Olympic team. Starting on the evening of April 19, Beijing time, CCTV5 will broadcast live at that time!
A total of 16 teams participated in this year's U23 Asian Cup. The grouping situation is not friendly to the Chinese Olympic team. We're caught in the Death Gang. The opponents in the same group are the Japanese Olympic team, the South Korean Olympic team and the United Arab Emirates Olympic team. According to the rules, the top two teams in the group advance. The top three finishers from this tournament will receive direct tickets to the Paris Olympics. The fourth-place finisher will compete with the Guinean Olympic team for the final Olympic ticket. The Chinese Olympic team, which is in the group of death, unfortunately lost to the Japanese Olympic team in the first round of the group stage. It's a pity that one more person can't win the opponent! Because of this, the remaining two group games are decisive battles for the Chinese Olympic team!
The showdown with the South Korean Olympic team is a life-and-death battle in the absolute sense. If the Chinese Olympic team loses again, the South Korean Olympic team will accumulate 6 points for two consecutive wins, and in another game, the Asian hegemon Japan Olympic team is expected to win the UAE Olympic team, then Japan and South Korea will join hands to qualify, even if the two teams draw, the Japanese team's points have come to 4 points, the national football team will play against the United Arab Emirates in the last round, even if it wins, the points are only 3 points, and it is still out, if Japan loses and the UAE wins, then Japan and the UAE have 3 points, and the national football team must win the last round to have a theoretical possibility of qualifying, and this probability is very small。 All, if China loses to South Korea, it will be basically out, so in this game, we will definitely go all out and give it a go!
Of course, in the showdown with the South Korean Olympic team, it is more important for us to maintain self-confidence! Choi Kang-hee, the South Korean head coach of the Shandong Taishan team, said in an interview with the media not long ago that the biggest gap between the Chinese players and the South Korean players is not their strength, but their self-confidence in the game! It can be seen from the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year that the South Korean men's football team has repeatedly staged stunners and draws in stoppage time. The same was true of South Korea's Olympic team's last win over the United Arab Emirates. Therefore, the matchup with the South Korean men's football team is more important to stay focused and believe that we can win the opponent.
If we can defeat the South Korean Olympic team, we will face off against the UAE Olympic team in the final round. Let's win the opponent again, and the six points in the two rounds will definitely advance to the knockout round. In this way, we are getting closer and closer to the Paris Olympics! The Chinese Olympic team has only participated in two Olympic Games in its history. One was in Seoul, South Korea in 1988, and the other was the Beijing Olympics in 2008. If the Chinese Olympic team can enter the Olympic Games under such a sluggish situation as Chinese football, I believe that Chinese football will usher in a full-scale outbreak in the future! The fate is in their own hands! I look forward to the better performance of the players of the national Olympic team in the next games!