The draw results of the top 18 of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico have appeared, and this time the top 18 will compete for 8.5 qualifying places, which is the largest number of qualifying places in Asia since the expansion of the World Cup, which is equal to the probability of each team in the top 18 qualifying is 0.5, but unfortunately the qualification is not calculated in this way, such as the group where the Chinese team is located.
According to the AFC arrangement, the top 18 teams will be divided into 3 groups, with the top 2 teams in each group qualifying directly (6 places), and the 3rd and 4th places in the group stage entering the play-offs (6 teams competing for the remaining 2.5 places). In order to allocate the three groups, the Asian zone divides the top 18 teams into six brackets, and our national football team is in the fifth bracket, which is the same as Palestine and Kyrgyzstan.
Now, the draw results are in, and we have faced Japan in Pot 1, Australia in Pot 2, Saudi Arabia in Pot 3, and Indonesia in Pot 6. As for the fourth gear, the difference in strength between everyone is not too big, so the national football team can be regarded as entering its most difficult group this time.
Considering that the national football team is unlikely to surpass Australia, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, it is impossible for us to get the top three in the group stage. Our goal is to finish fourth in the group stage, which is to say that we will compete with Indonesia and Bahrain for fourth place in the group stage.
In the case that we assume that the national football team, Bahrain, and Indonesia all lose against the top three, then the national football team can only finish fourth if it gets good results in the games against Bahrain and Indonesia. Therefore, if the national football team needs to advance, the main opponent is to win 2 direct competitors, at least not to lose, once lost, it will be in a completely passive position.
So, is the national football team absolutely sure of playing against Indonesia and Bahrain? This year, Indonesia lost 4-0 to Australia and 2-0 to Iraq, and both teams have been extremely tough, using pure physical confrontation to get the opponent down. As long as the national football team is not soft, there is still some way to deal with Indonesia, but in order to compete for the World Cup, Indonesia has naturalized many players, and ideally, they can even send a set of fully naturalized squads, many of which are players from the European League.
And what about Bahrain? So far this year, Bahrain has only lost 1 game, that is, after beating the UAE 1-0 in the Asian Cup to enter the next round of the knockout round, losing 1-3 to Japan, and the game process is not completely disadvantaged, so Bahrain is not an easy opponent for the national football team.
It's not good, the national football team is going to be at the bottom of the group in this Asian Cup qualifiers, which is a great shame. The national football team should show its own spirit, after all, in the case of incomplete skills and tactics, the game attitude is the best guarantee to win.