For many years, the national football team has played major international competitions, and whoever it is in a group is a "group of death". In the 2024 Asian Cup, I was in a group with Qatar, Tajikistan, and Lebanon, and I thought it was a "sign", but I didn't win a game and didn't score a goal, creating the worst record in the history of the Asian Cup national football team. Now, the results of the draw for the round of 18 are out, and the test is even more severe, Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, how many points do we plan to get? Fighting doesn't have to be hard.
According to the rules, the top 18 matches in the Asian region of the World Preliminary Tournament are divided into 3 groups, and 6 teams in each group play home and away. The top two teams from the three groups qualify directly for the World Cup. The fifth and sixth teams in each group will be eliminated, and the third and fourth teams will advance to the next stage, and the re-draw will be divided into two groups to compete for the last 2.5 World Cup tickets. The national football team needs to win the Bahrain team in the fourth pot and the Indonesian team in the sixth pot, and it is best to kill them twice, so that they can also play the next stage with the fourth place in the group.
The Japanese team, Australia, and Saudi Arabia are in the first, second, and third pots respectively, and they compete for the top two, and they must fight in the dark. In this way, there will be a slight advantage when "calculating small points" with the Bahrain team and the Indonesian team. In the last round of 12, the national football team was in the same group as Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia, and the record against them was 2 draws and 4 losses, with 2 points.
This lottery is really stinky! In the same group, the Bahrain and Indonesian teams think that they are lucky to be in the same group as the national football team and will go all out to fight for the fourth. Looking at the grouping situation again, if the national football team draws to Group A and replaces Kyrgyzstan in the fifth pot, the opponents in the same group are Iran, Qatar, Uzbekistan, the United Arab Emirates, and North Korea, and the qualifying situation will be even more unfavorable! Because Iraq, Qatar, and Ukraine can't kick, the United Arab Emirates and North Korea are not easy to mess with, and they smell of death.
The best draw was Group B, but fate arranged it this way, and the national football team could only accept the challenge. Group C is clear in terms of strength and weakness, the national football team wants to be among the top four in the group, it must have a strategy, even if the team loses to the top three, it cannot lose confidence. Since fans across the country are tolerant of the fact that the top 18 matches are watched as the World Cup, the national team will play the content and spell out the spirit, and it will be fine!
Ivan said that for the current Chinese team, it doesn't matter which team is in the same group, the most important thing is self-confidence. That's right. What Ivan expects most from fans is that he makes good use of naturalized players and is willing to promote new internationals. Yang Zexiang, Xu Haoyang, Bai Helamu, Wang Zhenao, Xie Wenneng and others in the last two rounds of the round of 36 were impressive. Since the old fritters can't win, in addition to Wu Lei, Wang Dalei and other main forces in the top 18, it is better to fight the youth storm!
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