1-1，3-1！ The World Preliminary Tournament is chaotic, Asia's 17th upset, or 8 points to advance, the national football team is winless = out

Chat about the ball in the middle of the mountain

2024-05-21 06:43Published in Fujian

The 2026 World Cup will be expanded to 48 teams to participate, so the Asian region has increased from the original 4.5 to 8.5 promotion places, in addition to Japan, South Korea, Iran, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the six first-class teams in Asian football, the rest of the teams have the opportunity to compete for the promotion places, and the pressure on the national football team is greater.

The Asian zone of the World Preliminary Championship is the earliest 2026 World Cup qualifier, and in the round of 36, it is divided into 9 groups with 4 teams in each group, and the top two teams in the group advance to the round of 18. In the four rounds of the World Preliminary Tournament, 9 teams have advanced in advance, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Uzbekistan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Australia have all advanced in advance. The remaining nine places in the round of 18 will be determined in the two rounds of the World Preliminary Tournament in June.

The Chinese men's football team has been placed in Group C as Pot 2, with seeded South Korea, Thailand in Pot 3 and Singapore in Pot 4. In this group, the South Korean team is a first-class strong team, occupying a promotion place, originally the Chinese are the favorite team to advance, but with the rise of the Thai team, the Chinese team's promotion has changed dramatically, becoming confusing and full of suspense.

In the first four rounds of Group C, the Chinese team defeated Thailand in the first game, lost to South Korea in the second round, and in back-to-back matches with Singapore, the national football team was upset, 2-2, 4-0 failed to achieve the plan to take all six points from the Singapore team. On the other hand, although the Thai team was reversed by the Chinese men's football team 1-2 in the first round, the Thai team then defeated the Singapore team 3-1 and won the first victory of this World Preliminary Tournament, and then drew 1-1 with the South Korean team away from home and got a life-saving point.

In the standings after four rounds of Group C, the South Korean team ranked first in the group with 10 points with 3 wins and 1 draw, the Chinese men's football team ranked second in the group with 7 points with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, the Thai team ranked third in the group with 4 points, and the Singapore team ranked out of the group with 1 point. In Group C, South Korea advanced early, Singapore exited early, and the other promotion spot in the group will be contested by the Chinese men's football team and Thailand.

On June 6, Beijing time, in the 5th round of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese team will sit at home to face the Thai team, which is a game that the Chinese men's football team must win. In the past encounters, the Chinese team has lost to the Thai team twice at home, including the 1-5 defeat to the Thai team in the Camacho era, which caused national public opinion at that time.

The necessary condition for China to qualify is to win all three points at home, in which case, the Chinese team will reach 10 points, six points ahead of Thailand, so as to qualify from the group one round earlier and advance to the round of 18. The Thai team is only 3 points behind the Chinese team, and sees the hope of overtaking the Chinese team to advance to the counterattack, so the Thai team will do its best to fight the Chinese team away from home, at least to grab points from the Chinese team.

Wu Lei, the top scorer of the Chinese men's football team in the World Preliminaries, will be suspended because of the accumulation of yellow cards, the Thai team has made rapid progress in recent years, in the Qatar Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, the Thai team has drawn the Saudi Arabian team and the Oman team, and gained strong self-confidence, the Thai team's goal is to grab a point in the national football team, so that the last round of China will challenge the South Korean team away, and the Thai team will face the Singapore team at home, the final points of the Thai team will be 8 points, and the national football team will lose to the South Korean team away is a high probability thing, and the final points will also be 8 points, the Thai team will have more goal difference than the national football team, and the Chinese team will be eliminated by virtue of goal difference.

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