After losing three consecutive games in the round of 18, the international ranking of the national football team has suffered three consecutive drops, and it is now approaching the 100th place in the world. If they lose to Indonesia in the next round, it is not surprising that the international ranking of the national football team will fall below the top 100. The competition is not only about winning or losing, but also about international rankings, which is the main dilemma that the national football team is currently facing.
In the first round of the round of 18, the national football team was ranked 87th in the international ranking before facing Japan, and the national football team lost 0-7. This fiasco led to a drop in the technical score and ranking of the national football team. In the second round, the national football team lost 1-2 to the Saudi Arabian team at home, and the technical score and ranking hit a new low. At this moment, the international ranking of the national football team fell to 91st in the world.
And that's not all! This time, the national football team lost 1-3 to Australia on the road, which caused the national football team's technical score to drop by 6.17 points, and the ranking also fell three places, from 91st to 94th in the world.
Seeing the downward trend of the national football team's ranking, some fans left a message and sighed: "It hasn't broken 100 yet, there is still space." Indeed, if the national football team continues to lose like this, it is not a "dream" to brush the international ranking to a new low and fall out of the top 100. Fortunately, the opponents in the first three games were ranked much higher than the national football team, so the technical points of the national football team were not so badly deducted, but the next opponents were different.
The Indonesian team is currently ranked 129th in the international rankings and 22nd in Asia. Judging from this ranking, the national football team is more than 30 places higher than them, and even according to the Asian ranking, there is a gap of about 10 places. However, in the face of such a low-ranking opponent, once the national football team loses to them at home in the fourth round, the technical score of the national football team will fall sharply, and the ranking may not just fall by 3 places.
Australia were originally ranked 25th in the world, and if they win, we could all cause the national football team to drop three places in the national football rankings. Just imagine, if the Indonesian team wins against us, the ranking of the national football team will at least double, and it will really break 100. This may set the lowest new ranking in the history of the national football team. The national football players are going to work hard, even if they don't win, they have to keep the bottom line of the international ranking not breaking 100.
Under the leadership of Ivankovic, the national football team's ranking has dropped again and again, with every game played. Hopefully, when we play Indonesia again in five days' time, we can stop falling and beat them and we will be back in the top 90. This is the only hope for the national football team from the outside world at present!
Whether it is Saudi Arabia or Australia, it seems that we have a chance to win or score points, but we play worse than our opponents, and this is the real problem that the national football team needs to solve - first do a good job of defense, reduce low-level mistakes, and then talk about scoring goals and scoring points.