After two weeks of fierce battles, the Qatar U23 Asian Cup and the group stage of the Paris Olympics qualifiers have ended most of the events, and the national Olympic team has won 1 win and 2 losses, and failed to qualify in the group. At the moment when the grouping situation was released, the group of the National Olympic Games was recognized as the group of death, because there was no group with three senior national teams ranked in the top 10 in Asia. Therefore, the prospect of qualifying for the National Olympic Games is very pessimistic, and it is even believed that there is a high probability that it will be out of the bottom. But the result of 1 win and 2 losses still brings a glimmer of hope to the outside world.
At present, only Group D of the group stage of the U23 Asian Cup has not ended, but with the end of Group C, the first two rounds of Group D have been determined, so now the top 8 have all been released. They are South Korea, Qatar, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Japan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam. South Korea, Qatar and Iraq are the top players in the group, Japan, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are the second in the group, and Uzbekistan and Vietnam in Group D have one direct showdown left, so it is impossible to determine the position for the time being, but the top 8 have been determined.
The U23 Asian Cup has shown the future level of football in Asian countries to a certain extent, Japan and South Korea have shown a continuous and stable state, and the National Olympic Games are almost inevitable because they are deep in the group of death. However, the gap between the two teams of the National Olympic Games and Japan and South Korea has not been widened, on the contrary, we have gained a lot of opportunities in these two games, but the striker's personal ability is slightly worse and he can't grasp the opportunity, otherwise we can even compete with Japan and South Korea. Being able to beat the UAE Olympic Games shows that our lower limit is not too low, at least it will not fall to the fourth-tier level in Asia.
Other groups were also interesting, such as Indonesia in Group A, who were the dark horses, beating Australia Under-23s and beating their opponents to qualify, while Australia were eliminated from the competition with just two points from three games. Indonesia is arguably the most improved team in recent years, as Indonesia has begun to use naturalized players on a large scale, and the senior national team has been nicknamed the "Dutch three", which has performed well in the world preliminaries, and Indonesian football may have unknowingly surpassed the national football team. On the other side, Thailand's U23s, the original hegemony of Southeast Asian football, are now out of the bottom of the competition, which is in great contrast to Indonesia.
The U23 Asian Cup seems to be a hint of the future of Asian football, with some teams starting to rise and new powerhouses beginning to emerge. However, Chinese football is still plagued by the problem of player fault lines and lack of success, and our trough has not really arrived, and I don't know how many years it will take to recover. There are many skipping grades selected in this National Olympic Games, and there is a high probability that they can still be seen in the next event, and I hope that the next time I see them, I can improve.