0-1！ Asia's most mysterious team has an upset, overturning the West Asian powerhouse, and winning in the next round will qualify!

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2024-06-07 00:06Published in Henan

After more than two months of waiting, the round of 36 in the Asian region of the World Preliminary Championships started again, and in a game in Group B, there was a big upset, North Korea, known as the "most mysterious team in Asia", defeated the West Asian powerhouse Syria 1-0, and firmly held the initiative of promotion in their own hands!

In Asian football, the North Korean team has always been a very mysterious existence, a few years ago due to the impact of the epidemic, North Korean football directly cut off all communication with the outside world, and their tactical style of play is a mystery to all Asian teams. In this World Cup qualifiers, the North Korean team finally unveiled their mystery and returned to the public's field of vision. In the group draw, North Korea was placed in Group B, which included Japan, Syria and Myanmar.

In the first round of the group stage, North Korea was awarded a penalty in the 37th minute by their opponents, and finally lost to their opponents with a score of 0-1. Next up was against Myanmar, the weakest team in the group, who beat their opponents 6-1, swept away the haze of previous defeats, and continued to retain their hopes of qualifying. In the third round against the top seeds of the group, Japan, North Korea failed to pull off a miracle, as they were beaten 1-0 by a goal in just two minutes of the opening game, and temporarily dropped to third place in the group.

The fourth round at home to Japan was supposed to be a great opportunity for North Korea to chase points, as they had not lost at home for 11 consecutive years. But no one expected that before the game was about to start, the North Korean side refused to allow the Japanese team to enter the country on the grounds of safety reasons, and the trouble was that they had not prepared a third-party neutral stadium in advance, and a series of amateur operations by the North Korean side forced the game to be canceled. FIFA ruled that Japan won 3-0, and North Korea could only continue to hover in third place in the group.

Due to the double defeat of the Japanese team, the fifth round of the match with the Syrian team has become an out-and-out battle of life and death for the North Korean team, and they can only continue to retain their hope of qualifying by defeating their opponents, even if they draw with the Syrian team, they will be eliminated in the first round. Since the game was not broadcast and no reporters were on the scene to cover it, the process of the game was not known to the outside world. According to the official report of the AFC, the North Korean team scored the only goal of the game in injury time, defeated the Syrian team 1-0, and regained the initiative to qualify!

In the final round, North Korea will face Myanmar, the weakest team in the group, while Syria will travel to face Asia's top-ranked Japan. The Syrian team can only confirm the promotion by defeating the Japanese team, but the two teams have only won 1 draw and 7 losses in the last 8 meetings, and it is tantamount to a fool's dream to beat the Japanese team away from home. Therefore, as long as the North Korean team can beat the Myanmar team, it will be able to qualify smoothly and enter the round of 18!

The North Korean team, which is working behind closed doors, is also expected to become the big dark horse of this World Preliminary Tournament and enter the World Cup again!

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