5 wins, 5 draws! The national football team beat Bahrain and Indonesia, and scored 14 points in the world preliminaries = entered the top 4, goal: to play 18 games

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2024-06-27 17:28

The draw for the top 18 of the 2026 World Preliminary Championship in Asia has been released, and the national football team has been drawn into the group of death, and has been in the same group with Japan, Australia, and Saudi Arabia for two consecutive World Preliminaries, in addition to Bahrain and Indonesia. The latest world ranking of the Chinese men's football team is 88th, and it can only be drawn as the fifth pot, and it is difficult for the Chinese men's football team to win in the face of any opponent in the round of 18, so participating in the round of 18 is our own World Cup for Chinese football.

The results of the three groups in the round of 18 are:

Group A: Iran, Qatar, Uzbekistan, UAE, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea

Group B: Republic of Korea, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Palestine, Kuwait

Group C: Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, China, Indonesia

In the 2018 World Preliminary Tournament, Japan and Saudi Arabia finished in the top two places in the group, and Australia ranked third and finally qualified for the World Cup in Russia through the play-offs. In the round of 12 of the 2022 World Preliminary Championships, Japan and Saudi Arabia once again qualified directly as the top two, and Australia qualified for the World Cup through the play-offs in third place.

In the last World Preliminary Tournament, the national football team faced Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia, three first-class Asian teams, and was defeated by Japan 0-1 and 0-2 home and away. Facing Australia, the national football team drew 0-3 away and drew 1-1 at home. Against Saudi Arabia, 2-3 away and 1-1 draw at home, the national football team was able to snatch 2 points from Saudi Arabia and Australia under the limited level, which is a good result.

In fact, the results of the group are quite good for the national football team, our level should not whimsically compete for the top two in the group and advance directly, but to strive for the top four places, and then enter the fourth stage, and then compete for 2.5 promotion places is the most realistic. Among the teams in the fourth pot, the national football team was lucky and drew the weakest Bahrain, while in the sixth pot team, Indonesia is the belly of Southeast Asia, and the national football team still has a historical advantage against these two teams.

Bahrain is ranked 81st in the world and 12th in Asia, very close to the national football team's ranking. Bahrain has never reached the World Cup finals in history, the national football team has an advantage against Bahrain, in the past 7 meetings in Group A matches, the national football team has achieved 3 wins and 4 draws to remain undefeated, and the last 5 meetings, the national football team has 1 win and 4 draws. On September 10, 2018, in the warm-up match, the national football team drew 0-0 with Bahrain away.

Indonesia is ranked 134th in the world and China's last time against Indonesia was in an Asian Cup qualifier on 15 November 2013, when they defeated Indonesia. In history, the Chinese team and Indonesia have a total of 13 meeting records, the national football team has won 9 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, and in the last 5 meetings, the national football team has won 4 wins and 1 draw against Indonesia.

Judging from the past head-to-head records, the national football team has an advantage against Bahrain and Indonesia, in the round of 18, the top two teams in the three groups directly qualify for the 2026 World Cup, the 3rd and 4th places in the group will enter the fourth stage of the competition, a total of 6 teams in the 3 groups will advance, these 6 teams will be divided into 2 groups, 3 teams in each group, the top team in the group will advance to the 2026 World Cup, the two teams in the second place in the group will play the play-offs, and the winner will go to the intercontinental play-offs to compete for a promotion spot.

For the national football team, the primary goal in the round of 18 is to complete the double kill against Bahrain and Indonesia, so as to ensure that the fourth group enters the fourth stage, and it is best to compete for a promotion place, and if you can't get the qualification to play the play-offs, and then go to the intercontinental play-offs, so that the national football team will have 10 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 games A total of 18 high-level games can be played, which is a huge wealth for Chinese football that is at the lowest point in history. It can allow more young Chinese players to experience the intensity of Asia's first-class competitions, so as to improve our football level.

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