With the opening of the new World Cup qualifiers, China's Macau men's soccer team regretted to stop in the first stage, making the Asian region of the 36 strong tournament in our country only three teams: China's men's soccer team, Hong Kong men's soccer team and Chinese Taipei men's soccer team. After two rounds of group stage competition, the three teams did not realize the full victory, which only the national football team won a game, the overall situation is not optimistic.
Chinese Taipei, traditionally regarded as a fourth or fifth-rate Asian team, was grouped with Oman, Kyrgyzstan and Malaysia in the World Qualifying Tournament. Originally, given that Oman is the weakest and Kyrgyzstan is the second weakest, a win over Oman and a win over Kyrgyzstan would at least be expected to advance to the next stage of the qualifying round.
However, Chinese Taipei's performance was doubly disappointing. In the first round of the group stage, Chinese Taipei away to 0-3 defeat Oman; the second round back to the home field, facing Malaysia, finally to 0-1 defeat, two consecutive defeats make them with 0 points to become the bottom of the group, while Malaysia with two consecutive victories in the war, accumulating 6 points to lead the group standings.
The current group situation is complicated, with Malaysia leading the way and taking the initiative. However, Oman and Kyrgyzstan have the same chance to make a comeback. Between the above three teams will be born two qualification. Chinese Taipei, with its limited strength, has little hope of advancing.
Similar to Taipei's Chinese team, there is also Hong Kong, with an unfavorable grouping, with Iran and Uzbekistan. In the first round of group matches, Hong Kong, China, 0-4 away from home against Iran, the next round of home 2-2 draw with Turkmenistan, hard to get a point. Uzbekistan drew 2-2 with Iran at home, and both teams have 4 points, temporarily ahead of Turkmenistan and Hong Kong, China. If Iran and Uzbekistan complete the double at the same time, the suspense of group qualification will be revealed in advance.
At the same time, is regarded as Asia's third-rate level of national football, once again impact on the World Cup journey in the spotlight. In the first two rounds of the group stage, the national football team 1 win and 1 loss, accumulating 3 points ranked third in the group, the promotion situation is not optimistic. The next two rounds of back-to-back against Singapore, for the national football team is crucial, at least need to get 4 points, the best can get 6 points. If you win only one game, the difficulty of promotion will be greatly increased, and may even be in the fifth round of the home against Thailand, basically facing the risk of going out of the game.
In an extreme case, all three Chinese teams could be out of the tournament at the 36-team stage.
