In Group A of the Top 40, Syria locked up the top spot in the group and the ticket to the Round of 12 early on with an impressive seven-game winning streak. So, in the final round against our team, the Syrian team will present what kind of style? It is reported that the team's internal goal is clear, and strive to beat our team in the "decisive battle", to meet the challenge of the 12th round of the tournament in the best condition.
Judging from the Syrian media reports and related news, the team is eager to beat our team no matter what. In March this year, the Syrian team organized an overseas training session in between international match days, however, the team lost to Bahrain and Iran by a large margin, which triggered the dissatisfaction of fans. Syrian media and fans even openly demanded the team's manager Maroul to be dismissed, and the president of the Football Association, Ghayeb, was also blamed for this. According to the foreign media, this incident even caused the attention of the Syrian Ministry of Sports, the Minister of Sports Muwara also personally intervened.
Muwara said that the Syrian Football Association would need to pay Marour $500,000 in compensation if he is fired. However, Maroor's current monthly salary is only $30,000, and the FA is too cash-strapped to pay the compensation. In addition, warm-up matches are different from official competitions. For this reason, the SFA has also made a solemn promise that the team will win the remaining three Top 40 matches.
From this, it is easy to understand that the Syrian Football Federation has been trying to push for a change of venue for the Group A matches. In other words, the claim that "the Syrian team is letting our team down" is pure nonsense.
It is worth mentioning that Ghayeb, the president of the Syrian Football Federation, said in a media interview on June 11 that the team has already begun preparing for the 12-team tournament, and that if they can beat our team, this will give the whole team a good start in preparing for the 12-team tournament.
It was reported that after the Syrian team's victory against Guam on June 7, local time, Marual took a day off the following day. Starting on the 9th, the team officially prepared for the match against our team. Currently, the team is ready to play except for striker Madik Madkian, who was injured in the match against Guam and is unavailable. In recent days, the Syrian team has also specialized in analyzing video footage of some of our team's previous matches.
In an interview with the media, Maroul said, "I am happy that Syria has advanced to the next stage of the World Qualification Tournament. But our goal will be to beat our team! Our team has changed a lot compared to the past and they have five naturalized players. This is a tough challenge for us because our team is full of stars."
Marul said, "Our team is a very strong team now. Against them, we will try our best to keep the ball under our feet and then make full use of the slower speed of our backline players to create attacking opportunities. Our 2 center backs seem to be a bit annoyed. We can't give our players too much space with the ball or they can capitalize well."
Maroul also mentioned Wu Lei. He said, "They have a professional player (Wu Lei) who plays for the Spaniards, who is very threatening and is more used to playing as a 'second striker' behind the naturalized strikers. So we need to split him and the midfielders behind him in the game. This is something that will determine the future of this competition."
Obviously, the Syrian team has already had an in-depth understanding of our team's technical and tactical characteristics and players' ability characteristics, and has formulated corresponding tactics. Our team needs to be prepared for a tough battle.
