1-0，3-0！ The World Preliminaries are in chaos: Asia's 27th upset, 7 points can advance, and the national football team may be out with 8 points

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2024-05-25 06:19Published in Fujian

The 2026 World Cup will be expanded, from the original 32 teams to 48 teams to participate, and the Asian region has obtained 8.5 promotion places, and Asian countries are eyeing the promotion places, and even Southeast Asian teams Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have ideas about the promotion places, and the pressure on the national football team is even greater, and the top priority is to qualify for the round of 18.

The 2026 World Preliminary Round of 36 in Asia is divided into 9 groups, with four teams in each group, and the top two teams in the group will advance to the round of 18 and hit 8.5 places to qualify for the World Cup. There are a lot of dark horse teams emerging in this World Preliminary Tournament, the former third-rate teams have amazing performances, see the opportunity to advance to the round of 18, Indonesia, Malaysia, Palestine, Tajikistan and other teams have the initiative to advance to the top 18, and the top 18 will see a number of new faces.

Indonesia is ranked 134th in the world and 27th in Asia, and is the best team in Asia, but in recent years, the Indonesian team has adopted a naturalization policy, which has allowed the national team to improve rapidly, and Indonesia successfully qualified from the group in the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year. In the just-concluded U23 Asian Cup, the Indonesian team made a historic break into the semi-finals and finally finished fourth. In this World Preliminary Tournament, the Indonesian team is in Group F with Iraq, Vietnam and the Philippines.

After four rounds, the Indonesian team has 7 points, and in Group F, Iraq is the seeded team, winning all four games and accumulating 12 points to qualify for the top group and advance to the round of 18. Vietnam only won 1 win and 3 losses in four rounds, ranking 3rd with 3 points, and the Philippines ranked at the bottom with 1 point. Indonesia did not have a smooth start to the World Championships, losing 1-5 away to Iraq in the first round and drawing 1-1 away to the Philippines in the second round, with only one point after two rounds.

Indonesia bottomed out in a desperate situation, winning just one of their group games at the Asian Cup at the start of the year, a 1-0 win over Vietnam. In the 3rd and 4th rounds of the World Preliminary Tournament, the Indonesian team played Vietnam home and away 1-0 at home and 3-0 away, killing the Vietnamese team twice, thus occupying the initiative in the group qualification. The Indonesian team played at home in the last two rounds of the World Preliminary Tournament, against Iraq and the Philippines respectively, and is likely to advance to the round of 18.

Even if the Indonesian team loses in the last two rounds, the points are still 7 points, while the Vietnamese team will face Iraq and the Philippines in the last two rounds, and it is reasonable for the Vietnamese team to lose in the face of Iraq, and in the end the Vietnamese team will only accumulate 6 points, and Indonesia will still beat the Vietnamese team to advance to the round of 18.

Compared with Indonesia's bright promotion situation, the promotion situation of the national football team is not optimistic, in Group C, the Chinese team ranks second in the group with 7 points, because the seeded team South Korea in Group C locked a place in the round of 18 in advance, so the Chinese team must compete with the Thai team for the right to qualify for a group, the Thai team ranks third in the group with 4 points, only 3 points behind the Chinese team, and the group qualifying is in suspense.

On June 6, Beijing time, the 5th round of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese team will directly clash with the Thai team at home, the last round of the Chinese team will play away against the South Korean team, and the Thai team is at home against the Singapore team, the last round of China is very likely to lose South Korea, Thailand wins Singapore, so the battle between China and Thailand, the Chinese team has no good situation of qualifying for a draw, but must win to advance, if the Chinese team and the Thai team draw, then the points of the national football team are 8 points, and the final points of the Thai team will also be 8 points, compared to goal difference, The Thai team will have the advantage, and the national football team will be eliminated.

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