In 2023, the national soccer team will mainly prepare for the Asian Cup and the World Qualifiers, the former will be held in Qatar and may open in January 2024, for the national soccer team, the Asian Cup is a chance to redeem itself, on the one hand, due to the poor performance of the last stage of the World Qualifiers, which led to a direct drop in the ranking of the national soccer team, falling out of the top ten in Asia and ranked 11th, so the Asian Cup is a rebound for the national soccer team opportunity, but also the first appearance of the future new coach in the official game, double blessing, will give it all.
On the other hand, the national soccer team should also plan for the future and lay a foundation of confidence for the world qualifiers. If you can do well in the Asian Cup and regain your form naturally, then you can also play in the World Qualifiers again. Of course, performance in the Asian Cup depends not only on your own strengths, but also on the team signings. After all, the tournament system of competition still requires a certain amount of luck. Currently, the outside world is also concerned about the level of the grouping of the Asian Cup. Whether the national soccer team can enter the first level also becomes the key to the difficulty of group promotion. After all, the strength of the opponents is different.
Asian Cup six groups, means to enter the top six in Asia, at present, the 11th in Asia, so if you want to enter the first, you need to cross the gap of five, that is, more than the sixth Qatar, the national soccer points gap of 83.56 points, although the upcoming international match day in March against New Zealand, and even two consecutive victories, it is difficult to make up for the points gap, the Asian Cup draw may be held in the summer of this year, so the reference rankings are FIFA's report card released in April, apparently there is no time to catch up with Qatar.
Even though 12 teams made it into the first and second tiers according to the 12-team grading rules, they were still ranked 11th. It is not difficult to see that the national soccer team definitely missed the first tier, but the second tier is also relatively stable, because it is 22.29 points ahead of the 13th Bahrain, and although the latter has two warm-up matches, it can't overtake the national soccer team, so the national soccer team can be stable in the top 12, i.e., the second tier.
In addition to the Asian Cup, if the national soccer team wants to enter the first in the world qualifying round, it needs to enter the frontier, although the world qualifying round draw reference to the world ranking in July, the national soccer team chasing time seems to increase, but four warm-up matches is difficult to make up for the 22.29 points with Oman, need to make a miracle to enter the first in the next five months, and if it continues to play the second game, it will be even more difficult to enter the top 18 in Asia than in the past.
