Beijing time on November 17th, let's continue to pay attention to Chinese soccer and Chinese sports. 16th at 20:30, the 2026 Asian World Preliminary League second stage of 36 Group C ushered in the focus of the game, the national soccer team away to face Thailand. After a 90-minute battle, with goals from Wu Lei and Wang Shangyuan, the national soccer team surprisingly beat their opponents and got off to a good start.
The surprising reason was the poor performance of the national soccer team in the warm-up match before the match, coupled with the previous 1-5 loss to the opponent, and the recent rapid momentum of the Thai team, so the national soccer team to beat the opponent has become a luxury hope. Famous media personality Ma Dexing believes that the team's goal in the first two rounds is 1 point, and this game can beat the rival national soccer team overshoots the task.
In the 29th minute, Wei Shihao stabilized the team's morale by assisting Wu Lei with a long-distance attack to equalize the score. Meanwhile, he missed a chance three times. As the main striker, Wu Lei scored the key goal to equalize the score and was also involved in the goal to reverse the score. After the match, he was named the most valuable player of the match. 32-year-old Wu Lei scored a total of 32 goals on behalf of the national soccer team, breaking a 32-year goal-scoring record. He became the second most scored player in the history of the national soccer team. His goal is obviously to play in the 2026 World Cup.
But this game also happened an interesting scene. 83rd minute Thailand rough foul referee did not say, also coincided with Thailand chasing momentum, Taishan goalkeeper Wang Dalei grab mirror, he in order to prevent the opponent to play continuous attack soccer, so deliberately outside the stadium and players to disrupt Thailand, after Wang Dalei, also succeeded in attracting the referee's attention, the referee ran to give him a yellow card, he also applauded sarcastically and helplessly smiled, Wang Dalei as expected to be successful, the trend of Thailand has disappeared.
After the match, soccer published a popular commentary in which the media argued that the national soccer team may be normal, but there is value in international players showing a mentality of not giving up when the going gets tough. Objectively speaking, the level of the national soccer team will certainly decline, but in terms of overall strength, it is still slightly better than Thailand. Expecting the current national soccer technique and tactics to be perfect and easy to handle is obviously unrealistic. In the difficult situation, the international players did not give up; secondly, play some characteristics, such as Wei Shihao's breakthrough; thirdly, the overall mentality is stable.
Needless to say, this win over Thailand is a great start and the next game against South Korea is key. South Korea beat Singapore 5-0 at home with their star players in good form. Song Kai, the president of the Football Association, will also travel to Shenzhen to watch the match. Expect good luck from all the soldiers of the national soccer team!
