There are two rounds left in the round of 36 of the Asian round of the World Preliminary Championships, which will be played in the next week, and our national football team will first sit at home to Thailand (8pm on June 6th) and then travel to South Korea (7pm on June 11th), at least for now. Due to the 3-point lead over Thailand behind them, the national football team only needs to win the score of 1-0 to lock in the qualification one round in advance, but the situation is also dangerous, and the national football team may be forced to the edge of the cliff at any time.
The national football team's home game against Thailand will be played at the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center, in addition to Wu Lei and Li Yuanyi's suspension, there are also many players who are absent due to injuries, which directly affects the arrangement of coach Ivankovic.
Either way, the only goal for the national team is to beat Thailand at home and get the crucial three points. According to statistics, the national football team and Thailand have played 29 times in the past, with 20 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses, and the last time they met was in the World Preliminary Tournament in November last year, when the national football team reversed 2-1 away.
If you win, the national football team will have 10 points, and there will only be one round left to get rid of Thailand by 6 points, and you can advance to the round of 18 stage, which is the best result, but you must also be mentally prepared not to win against Thailand, and the gap between the two sides is still 3 points; Once lost, the points of the national football team were tied by Thailand, and they all accumulated 7 points, which seemed to return to the same running line, but in fact, the possibility of the national football team being out of the game was greater than that of Thailand.
According to the schedule, the national football team will challenge South Korea away in the last round, and Thailand will return to the home stadium to face Singapore, South Korea is the seeded team, and Singapore is the weakest team in the group, so Thailand's chances of qualifying are obviously greater than the national football team.
Of course, South Korea also has the possibility of releasing water at home, that is, to get 3 points or 1 point for the national football team, in order to ensure qualification, the national football team had better win all three points against South Korea, and the points will reach 10 points, and then look forward to Singapore blocking Thailand, or finally the two sides compare the goal difference or goal difference, and finally the national football team will prevail over Thailand to qualify.
Due to Singapore's limited strength, it is unlikely that it will block Thailand away, and it will even lose by a large score, so it is not conducive to the national football team, and in extreme cases, the final goal difference or the number of goals will not be as good as Thailand's, and it will eventually be overtaken from the group.
In order to avoid these accidents, the national football team had better defeat Thailand at home, so that Thailand could end its illusions in advance and join South Korea to advance to the round of 18.
Due to the expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams, the number of places in the Asian zone has increased from 4.5 to 8.5, which is certainly good news for the national football team, because 18 teams compete for 8.5 places, which means that at least nearly half of the teams can qualify, depending on whether they can grasp it.