China's national soccer team was placed in Group C in the recent World Cup qualifying draw, alongside South Korea, Thailand, and the winner of the match between Guam and Singapore.
This group is very difficult to play, but it's also our chance to break through Chinese soccer history. Looking back at the past record, the national soccer team has only won 2 out of 29 matches against South Korea, with a win rate of only 6.9%. So can we break that record this time? There is definitely a chance. The South Korean media is so contemptuous of us right now that they think it's easy to beat China. In fact, there's a good chance they'll fail unexpectedly, and the national soccer team has already received another piece of good news before they take on South Korea, with their warm-up opponents basically confirmed.
The national soccer team may play two consecutive matches in Malaysia from August to September. The new round of the World Qualifiers will officially begin in November. The first two opponents of the national soccer team are Thailand and South Korea. The next step is to pinch the softballs. They may have to play two consecutive games against the winners of Singapore and Guam. So in this case, whether the first two games can be played will largely determine the outcome of the national soccer preliminaries, as long as you can score in South Korea, or even win South Korea, the qualification is basically stable, and two games will be enough.
So the national soccer team is now starting to arrange the warm-up opponents in advance, one has been determined, it is Malaysia, the other opponent is not sure, why not? Because now two opponents were contacted but the two opponents have withdrawn, the national soccer coach Yang Kovic was not picky about the choice of warm up opponents, before we chose two particularly weak opponents, Myanmar and Palestine, and ended up beating them, now Yang Kovic doesn't need a strong team but the soccer association contacted two very strong opponents, the soccer association contacted the Canadian and Panamanian Soccer Associations, but they opted out and it was very difficult for them to come to China in September, so they couldn't join China in the warm-up matches.
What should I do then? We can only go to Malaysia to play two matches. While avoiding fatigue, the national soccer team has arguably found a relatively weak warm-up opponent. Moreover, Malaysia and Thailand may not be too different in terms of strength. We just played two consecutive matches through this team to simulate the first match against Thailand.
The national soccer team's first game of this World Qualifying Group stage is against Thailand, and it's a home game, so as long as you take Thailand down first, that's all that matters. You've really called both Canada and Panama up, and even though the exercise value isn't very high, these two teams are strong. Now they don't want to come to China, which happens to be good news. We get to play two warm-up matches against Malaysia, and morale will be boosted after playing them and getting back-to-back wins. We will be able to cope with a better mentality when preparing for the World Qualifiers.
