Into November, the Chinese men's football team will start the beginning of the Asian World Cup qualifying tournament, and in January next year, the flame of the Asian Cup will also be ignited. Such a tournament schedule for the Chinese men's football team, but the hidden mystery. September, the Chinese team will also have two international warm-up competition, one of which is against Malaysia. This will not only allow young players to accumulate valuable experience, but also in the actual battle to preview the upcoming preliminaries and the Asian Cup.
Currently, our men's soccer team is ranked 79th in the world and 11th in Asia, and will battle with the third and fourth place in the preliminaries. This challenge may seem daunting, but the odds are stacked against it. At the same time, the Asian Cup grouping, Qatar, Lebanon and Tajikistan, three teams in the same group, which also makes the preliminaries become a preview of the Asian Cup, for the national team's preparations for the benefit of the September warm-up matches is to simulate the upcoming preliminaries.
In the warm-up matches in September, the Chinese team has already confirmed a battle with Malaysia, while the other opponent is likely to come from a European or African powerhouse. The Chinese men's soccer team is eager to improve its combat power through these warm-up matches, and Jankovic's strict training and high-intensity confrontation is exactly what the national team needs. In the current squad, Wu Lei, Ekerson and Lin Liangming form the attacking trio, while in midfield Yankovic is actively looking for new players due to Wu Xi's injury. Mid-generation players such as Hu Jinghang, Yan Dinghao and Duan Liuyu are expected to stand out, while young players such as Yang Liyu and Wei Shihao work well with Ackerson, injecting new vitality into the team.
The national football team will practice Yankovic's tactical system in depth in the warm-up matches in September and will look to be at their best when they face the third- and fourth-ranked teams in Asia in the first phase of the World Qualification Tournament in November, with Tajikistan and Lebanon appearing as the third team in the Asian Cup at the beginning of 2024. We still have high hopes of victory if we give it our all. And the warm-up matches in September are meant to better prepare us for these challenges.
With the increase in the number of World Cup places in Asia, the Chinese men's soccer team's dream of hitting the World Cup has become more and more urgent. The Football Association is also actively updating its lineup, aiming to play with a relatively young starting lineup in the upcoming World Cup and Asian Cup. Through the warm-up matches in September, the team is expected to simulate the World Qualifying Tournament, and we are confident that we will achieve good results in the upcoming matches.
