3-1，1-1！ The 17th World Preliminary Tournament in Asia is miraculously qualified, and the national football team is in an extreme situation: or 10 points out

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2024-06-05 07:12Published in Fujian

For the first time, the 2026 World Cup will be expanded to 48 teams, and for the first time, three countries will co-host the 2026 World Cup, with the United States, Canada and Mexico co-hosting. The number of qualifying places in Asian football has increased from 4.5 to 8.5, the largest increase on five continents. Among the Asian teams, in addition to Japan, South Korea, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Iran, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have become the favorites to advance, and the Chinese team is facing greater competition.

The 2026 World Cup Asian Qualifiers are divided into three stages, and the second stage of the round of 36 is divided into 9 groups, each group has 4 teams, and adopts a home-and-away double round-robin format, with the top two groups advancing to the round of 18. Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Tajikistan, Jordan and other teams have the opportunity to enter the round of 18 and become potential opponents of the Chinese men's football team in the round of 18.

The Chinese men's football team is ranked 88th in the world and has been placed in Group C as a Pot 2 team, along with South Korea, Thailand and Singapore. In this group, South Korea, as the seeded team, is one notch higher. After four rounds, South Korea has an unbeaten record of 3 wins and 1 draw, ranking first in the group with 10 points, China ranks second in the group with 7 points, Thailand ranks third in the group with 4 points, and Singapore ranks at the bottom of the group with 1 point.

In Group C, the Chinese team is one of the favorites to qualify, but in the first four rounds of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese team lost to the South Korean team and defeated the Thai team, but in the home-and-away back-to-back two-legged matches against Singapore, the national football team only achieved 1 win and 1 draw, losing 2 points in the plan, which made the Chinese men's football team's promotion situation abruptly changed, and the originally bright qualifying situation became confusing and full of uncertainty.

Thailand is ranked 101st in the world and 17th in Asia, and in recent years, the Thai team's football level has improved rapidly, and in the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, the Thai team qualified from the group, and only lost to Uzbekistan with a score of 1-2 in the knockout round. In the U23 Asian Cup, Thailand also had a wonderful performance against Iraq. In the World Preliminary Round, Thailand were defeated by China by a goal in the first round, but then Thailand beat Singapore and drew 1-1 away from home to a strong South Korean team to grab a crucial point.

At 20 o'clock in the evening of June 6, Beijing time, in the 5th round of the World Preliminary Asian Round of 36, the Chinese team will sit at home to face the Thai team, which is a key battle related to the qualification of Group C.

Although the Chinese team occupies the advantage of the home field and has the initiative to qualify from the group. But there may also be an extreme situation, that is, the Chinese team lost to the Thai team at home in the 5th round, so that after 5 rounds, the two teams will have 7 points, and in the final round, the national football team will challenge the South Korean team away, and the Thai team will face the Singapore team at home. Even if the national football team defeats the South Korean team away, the final points of the national football team will be 10 points, and after the Thai team defeats the Singapore team with a big score at home, the points will also reach 10 points.

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