After 24 years of trials and tribulations, the record of the Chinese national team in the Top 12 tournament performance again saddening, two rounds of the game was granular, suffered a double kill. In
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On the journey of the qualifying round, the national football team has once again arrived at the "terminal". After 7 rounds of matches, 1 win, 2 draws and 4 losses, accumulating 5 points and a net loss of 6 goals, the national football team's exit situation is only a trace of theoretical possibilities, in layman's terms: the destiny of the game has been irreversible.
Looking back to last year when Li Tie stepped down, Li Xiaopeng took over a challenging mess. Facing the same group of powerful Saudi Arabia, the national football team is unable to shake its position, can only look to the second and third group of Japan and Australia. New coach Li Xiaopeng stated in the pre-match conference: for the Chinese team, there is still a last glimmer of hope, and the game against Japan will be centered on preserving this line of hope to develop tactics.
In the match between the national soccer team and Japan, Australia, who started the match first, swept Vietnam with a score of 4-0, taking all three points and collecting four clean sheets, while the Chinese team failed to fight for a shred of dignity and eventually lost to Japan 0-2.
As a result, the national soccer team has only accumulated five points after seven rounds, and there is a difference of 10 points with the second-ranked Japan. With three rounds of the tournament remaining, the Chinese team has no chance of hitting the top two in Group B, which means it has lost its chance to directly qualify for the 2022 Qatar
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What's even more cruel is that the fight for third place in the group is only theoretically possible, as the Chinese soccer team is currently nine points behind third-place Australia. This means that in the last three rounds of matches, China will not only have to win all their matches to get 9 points, but will also have to hope that Australia will lose all their remaining three matches and make up for the 15 goal difference between the two teams, and will have to rely on Oman, who are in fourth place in the group, to have no more than 14 points in the final standings, with 7 points. Such a "miracle" is obviously difficult to happen. In fact, the fate of the national soccer team has long been out of their own hands, as soon as the first day of the New Year will be "confirmed" out of the game, you say this is not frustrating? (Cheuk Ouyou)
The final three rounds of the World Qualifier 12 matchup between the national soccer team and Australia are scheduled as follows:
Round 8: Feb. 1, Vietnam vs. China; Oman vs. Australia
Round 9: March 24, China vs. Saudi Arabia; Australia vs. Japan
Round 10: March 29, Oman vs. China; Saudi Arabia vs. Australia
