On November 1, Beijing time, bad news came at 12 noon today. According to the latest reports of a number of well-known domestic journalists, China has determined that the matches with Oman and Australia in the round of 12 of the two World Cup qualifiers cannot be carried out in Suzhou, and it is expected that Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates will be officially announced today.
The Chinese team has two World Cup qualifiers in the round of 12 this month to play, namely to November 11 against Oman, and November 16 against Australia, these two games, the Chinese team is hoping to be placed on the home field in Suzhou, because with the current domestic conditions, it is possible to gradually open the stadium, these two games, if placed in Suzhou, can have nearly 30,000 people to enter the game. Now that the home stadium is gone, the Chinese team has completely lost the bottom card of the line.
However, there has been a new wave of turmoil in the domestic epidemic recently, including the official closure of Shanghai Disneyland yesterday, and a large-scale circulation is being carried out, so that it is unlikely that the country will give the national football team the green light to hold these two games. From the current situation, today is the 1st, only 10 days from the start of the game, and the least time for our entry from abroad is also 14 days of quarantine, so oman and Australia can no longer come to China for the game.
So now the biggest suspense is to see whether Sharjah in the UAE is arranged in Doha, Qatar, from the previous situation, the UAE Sharjah may be more suitable, here more flexible and convenient. However, this place for Oman may be more like the actual home field, because from the geographical point of view, Oman and the United Arab Emirates directly border, from Oman to Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, only less than two hours by car, they can drive here the day before the game day for adaptive training, and the two countries border, the climate is almost the same, for Oman this is simply the home of the sky.
So this is bad news for the Chinese team, for Li Tie, Wu Lei and others, for Chen Shuyuan and others, which means that China is going to become the home of Omani team next, then in the competition for the 3rd place in the group, Oman is now better than the Japanese team and the Chinese team, if Oman can defeat China next in this stadium, then they will further oppress the Japanese team with some slight gaps in points.