In the early morning of November 7, the national football team will depart for Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, the national football team with 4 games and 3 points has no way back, and the outside world is generally bearish for the national football team. Judging from the historical hand-to-hand records, Oman can be said to be a national football lucky star. In the 2002 Top 10, The Chinese team defeated Oman 1-0 to qualify for the World Cup finals.
The match against Oman directly determined the trend of the entire round of 12 of the national football team, winning Oman, everything was suddenly enlightened, losing Oman, everything was in vain. Everyone knows what the game means, including Oman. At this time, in the hearts of Omanis, it must be like this, "I have already helped you enter the World Cup once, and this time you Chinese team will help us." ”
The national football team and Oman have met 6 times in history, and the Chinese team has a slight upper hand with 4 wins and 2 losses. But the last two encounters have been won by Oman, indicating that Oman has made progress and that China has clearly regressed.
The first match between the two sides was at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, when China beat Oman 6-1 with goals from Li Jinyu, Yao Xia, Li Weifeng and Yang Chen. In the second round of the 2001 Korea-Japan World Cup Asian Qualifier Top 10, the Chinese team won Oman 2-0 with the goals of Qi Hong and Fan Zhiyi, and the Chinese team directly locked the place in the final round of the World Cup in South Korea and Japan with Yu Genwei's goal 1-0.
After seven years of these three victories, the two sides met for the fourth time, the Chinese team lost 3-1 to Oman in the warm-up match in 2008, and the Chinese team lost 0-1 to Oman in the 2013 warm-up match five years later. Sailing against the current, if you do not advance, you will retreat, one after the other, and the national football team seems to be no longer the opponent of the Omani team.
The most recent meeting between the two sides was a warm-up match before the 2015 Asian Cup, when China defeated Oman 4-1 with goals from Arthur Junmin, Yu Hai, Wu Lei and Yang Xu. However, the national football team coached by Perrin was strong, and won all three games in the group stage of the Asian Cup to advance to the quarterfinals. Now this national football team obviously does not have the strength at that time.
Oman's advantages over the national football team lie in the following points: First, psychological advantages, on the one hand, after two victories over the Chinese team, Oman has established psychological advantages. On the other hand, the poor performance of the Chinese team in the first four games made oman see hope, and the Vietnamese team in this group was able to score two goals in the national football team, almost reversed, giving Oman confidence and reference, and the stronger Oman team is more likely to win the Chinese team. The second is home field advantage. Although this match is the home of the Chinese team, the venue is indeed Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, the AFC itself is controlled by the West Asians, against the East Asian team, as the West Asian Oman in Sharjah is more like his home stadium. The third is the advantage of the head coach. Oman's head coach is Ivankovic, who was the head coach of Shandong Luneng, led Shandong Luneng to win the 2010 Chinese Super League championship, and then coached Asian teams such as the Iranian national team, Persepolis and Jeddah Nationals, and is very familiar with Chinese football and can develop targeted tactics.
At present, Oman have 6 points in Group B and are very strong to compete for the third place play-off qualification, and 12 points with China and Vietnam are what they must score. Now the feng shui turns, 20 years ago, the Chinese team stepped on the Oman team once, is it necessary to pay back the debt this time?