The worst group of the national football team in the round of 18! Group of Death: Iran + Asian Cup champion and runner-up, up to 4 points in 10 rounds

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2024-06-17 09:31Published in Fujian

The 2026 World Cup Qualifiers Asian Zone Round of 36 is over, and the Chinese men's football team advanced to the round of 18 at the last moment, and fans can't help but start predicting the group prospects of the round of 18. On June 27, Beijing time, the group draw for the round of 18 will be held in Kuala Lumpur, when the national football team will have 5 opponents, but the national football team is in the fifth pot and may be divided into the group of death, and the possibility of qualifying will be greatly reduced.

The 2026 World Cup Asian Round of 18 will be divided into 3 groups, each group of 6 teams, using a home-and-away double round-robin system, and the top two teams in the group will directly qualify for the 2026 World Cup. The third and fourth teams in each group will enter the fourth stage of the qualifiers, and the 6 teams will be divided into 2 groups, each group of 3 teams, also in a home-and-away double round-robin format, the top two teams in the group will directly qualify for the World Cup, and the two teams in the second group will play the play-offs, and the winner will play the intercontinental play-offs to compete for a World Cup ticket.

Before the draw for the round of 18, the AFC will divide 6 brackets according to the latest world rankings, and predict the brackets for the round of 18 as follows:

Seeded teams: Japan, Iran, South Korea

Pot 2 teams: Australia, Qatar, Iraq

Pot 3 teams: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan

Pot 4 teams: Jordan, Oman, Bahrain

Pot 5 teams: China, Palestine, Kyrgyzstan

Pot 6 teams: North Korea, Kuwait, Indonesia

For the national football team, the best draw result is against the weakest team in each bracket, that is, with South Korea, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait in the same group, in this group, the national football team also has the opportunity to compete for the top two direct promotion. In this group, in addition to the super strength of the South Korean team, in the face of Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, the national football team has the opportunity to fight for points at home, while Bahrain and Kuwait, the two West Asian teams, the national football team aims to kill the opponent home and away and get 12 points.

The worst-case draw for the national football team is to be in a group with Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Indonesia. Among the seeded teams, Iran is the team with the strongest physical condition, ranking in the top two in Asia for a long time, and the national football team faces Iran, and the possibility of grabbing points is very small. In the second tier of teams, Qatar, which has won the Asian Cup for two consecutive years, has become a first-class team in Asia.

Among the teams in the third pot, the Saudi team is the strongest, and the Saudi Arabian team fell from the second to the third pot because of an unexpected home loss in the final round of the group of 36, compared to the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan, the overall strength of the Saudi team is higher. In Pot 4, Jordan is the runner-up of the new Asian Cup, while Oman and Bahrain are much weaker than Jordan. In the sixth pot of the team, the Indonesian team was originally a fish belly team, but in recent years, the Indonesian team has adopted a naturalization policy, and its strength has been rapidly improved.

The Indonesian team has naturalized many Dutch players and has become the third team of the Netherlands, so among the teams in the sixth pot, Indonesia is the strongest, and the national football team may not necessarily win the opponent. In this group, the national football team can only use the advantage of the home field to see if it can grab 3 points, and strive to get a point away, and the rest of the opponents, the national football team may not be able to grab points, and the final national football team is estimated to only get 4 points at most, which is very likely to fall to the bottom.

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