5-0，1-1！ Asia's No. 3 upset: Thailand was sent 1 point in the World Preliminaries, and the national football team was eliminated with 8 points

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2024-06-04 06:40Published in Fujian

The 2026 World Cup will be co-hosted by three countries for the first time, the United States, Canada, and Mexico have become witnesses to the creation of World Cup history, and in 2026, FIFA will carry out reforms, expand to 48 teams, and increase the number of qualifying places in Asia from 4.5 to 8.5, which is a huge opportunity for the Chinese men's football team, and Chinese football has the opportunity to qualify for the World Cup finals again since the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan.

The World Cup Qualifiers Asian Round of 36 is divided into 9 groups, the top two in each group advance to the round of 18, the Chinese team ranks 12th in Asia, and is divided into Group C as a team in the second pot, the teams in the same group also have South Korea, Thailand and Singapore, the Chinese team has good luck, in this group, only the South Korean team is outstanding, the Thai team and the Singapore team are the fish belly teams in Southeast Asia, and the goal of the national football team is to enter the top 18 to impact the World Cup finals.

The Chinese men's football team performed average in the first four rounds of the world preliminaries, conceding a goal in the first round of away against the Thai team, but fortunately, Wu Lei broke out in time to equalize, Wang Shangyuan scored a killer goal, and the national football team reversed and got off to a good start. But in the second round, the national football team lost 0-3 at home to the archrival South Korean team. In the third round of away against the weakest team in the group, Singapore, Ivan ushered in his debut as coach of the national football team, and the Chinese team was upset and equalized by the Singapore team with a 2-goal lead, and finally only scored 1 point, laying a hidden danger for the group to qualify.

The Thai team in the same group is the main rival of the Chinese men's football team, although the Thai team was reversed by the Chinese team 1-2 at home in the first round, but in the second round, the Thai team adjusted in time and defeated the Singapore team 3-1 away. In the third round, the Thai team drew 1-1 with the South Korean team, which had just experienced a heavy defeat in the Asian Cup, and grabbed a key point, so that the promotion situation of Group C changed abruptly, and the national football team was pitted by the South Korean team, which made the 5th round of the Sino-Thai battle, the Chinese team must win to ensure that it can advance to the round of 18.

South Korea is currently ranked 23rd in the world and 3rd in Asia, behind Japan and Iran. In the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, the South Korean team reached the top 4, but in the semifinals, the South Korean team was upset by the Jordan team 2-0 and failed to advance to the final. In the third round of the round of 36 of the World Preliminaries, the South Korean team drew 1-1 with the Thai team at home, which benefited the Thai team, but made the national football team lose the opportunity to qualify after a draw in the Sino-Thai battle.

In the 5th round of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese team will sit at home to face the Thai team, because the Chinese team is only 3 points ahead of the Thai team, which makes the national football team must go all out to win the Thai team at home to ensure that the group qualification. If the Chinese team upsets the home team and draws with the Thai team, then after 5 rounds, the national football team will have 8 points, while the Thai team will have 5 points, and the national football team will challenge the South Korean team away in the final round, and the Thai team will face the Singapore team at home.

There will be a variety of possibilities in the final round, the national football team will be unbeaten against South Korea will get the right to qualify from the group, and Thailand will be eliminated. But if the Chinese team loses to the South Korean team away, the points of the national football team will still be 8 points, and the Thai team only needs to defeat the Singapore team by 2-0 or more than 2 goals at home, then the Thai team will tie the national football team, and the goal difference will also beat the national football team, so as to advance to the round of 18, and the national football team will be upset.

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