As night falls, at 1 a.m. Beijing time on June 8, 2022 Qatar
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In the second round of the Asian qualifiers, a crucial battle for the fate of promotion kicked off at the Sharjah Stadium in the United Arab Emirates. China's men's national soccer team led by Li Tie will challenge the Philippines. Facing the situation of Syria locking the top two in the group in advance, our team must get all three points in the three remaining matches if they want to advance to the 12-team tournament. The key to our destiny is now in our hands, and the Philippines is the obstacle we must overcome.
Looking back to May 30, our national team thrashed Guam 7-0 at the Gusau Olympic Sports Center, offering an opening for coach Li Tie's first appearance with the team in his nearly 17-month tenure. However, on May 31, the Chinese
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The Association announced that the remaining matches of the 40-team tournament will be moved to the United Arab Emirates, the original "right place, right time, right person" instantly turned into nothing.
In-depth reporting reveals that Syria
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and the Olympic organizing committee played a key role in this incident, creating great trouble for our men's football team in the remaining matches of the 40-team tournament, especially the match with the Philippines. But fortunately, the national football team has maintained a good mentality, and Coach Li Tie even said, "All arrangements are the best arrangements! The only way to move forward is to be united! See a sentence especially touched: 'where you are, where the home field'! Thank you for the support of all the fans and friends!"
June 3 at 9:00 am, the national football team of 29 people from Gusu departed for Shanghai, and then took a chartered flight to Dubai, after more than ten hours of long-distance travel, at 1:00 a.m. Beijing time on June 4 arrived in Sharjah resident hotels, from the game against the Philippines only 96 hours left. The reason why the team numbered 29 is because the Chinese
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The Association has temporarily drafted Ji Xiang, Liu Binbin and Tan Long into the team as a precautionary measure and the whole team had a final training session at the Gusu Taihu Football Sports Center before the team's departure.
Before this round of matches, the situation in Group A is tense: Syria has won all six matches and has locked the top two in the group in advance, just one step away from determining the top spot in the group. Our team is in the second place with 10 points from 5 matches. According to the rules, the four (or five, if 2022) teams with the best results in the eight groups are the best.
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The host nation Qatar will either finish top of their group or the next best of the four, with the next best team with the fifth best record also qualifying for the third round.) The second best team in their group will still have hopes of advancing. The Philippines are third with seven points from five matches. Because of the withdrawal of North Korea from Group H, the results of the eight second-placed teams will not be taken into account when comparing results against the bottom team in the group. Currently, our team is ranked seventh in this list, but there is still hope that it can jump into the top half of the list.
Due to FIFA's closure of the search portal for match records of national team A-level competitions, there is a lack of an official account of the match records between our team and the Philippines. But what is certain is that our team previously held an overwhelming advantage over the Philippines. According to the data provided by the People's Daily Online, our team has played against the Philippines 12 times before.
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11 wins, 1 draw and 56 goals scored and only 1 conceded. However, in October 2019, the first round of the current World Qualifying 40 match between the two sides, our team shot 35 times but exchanged a 0-0 draw with the Philippines, when Yang Xu, Wu Lei and Artemis Jun Min all lost several scoring chances.
From the big win over Guam, the Tiejia Army can only be considered to be getting better in terms of attacking sets, and the first half of the game wasn't really smooth. Because there is no real sense of high center in this unit, so you can see that Li Tie does not want to let this unit to play the kind of simple rugged style of the long pass and hang playing style. Facing the Philippine team whose strength is obviously one step higher than that of the Guam team, tactically, our team must need to be more efficient, not to mention that the latter three matches are also about the
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"Competition" with the second-place team in the other division.
The current Philippine team is full of naturalized players who were born abroad but chose to represent the Philippine national team because one of their fathers or mothers is Filipino. Veteran midfielders like Reichelt, who has played the most games for the national team in this unit, was born in West Berlin, Germany, and 36-year-old forward Guirado was born in Malaga, Spain. Eleven of this unit played in that 0-0 draw against our team in 2019, including captain Schrock. But goalkeeper Etheridge, who has just completed the big event of his life by getting married, did not make it to this roster.
The Philippine team, which had been preparing for the match in Doha, Qatar, was supposed to charter a flight to the country on May 31 local time, but with the outbreaks in Syria and the Maldives, they were also told to stay in the area. The AFC then announced the change of venue for the tournament, and the Philippine team is scheduled to play on June 3 against the
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Arriving in Sharjah a few hours earlier, they of course flew much less distance than our team.
Against China, Spanish-born defense stalwart Silva will be suspended for accumulating yellow cards, and under normal circumstances, De Murga will assume the heavy responsibility of "commanding" the defense. Because head coach Scott Cooper has been in the Philippine national team for many years, and also serves as the coach of the ADT (a team of young players who have a way out to play in the Philippine domestic league, and this time, four players were promoted to the national team) Salon team, so he is already well versed in the team's tuning and style of play.
Before the resumption of the 40-team tournament, Scott Cooper shouted that he would lead the team to strive for three consecutive victories, and captain Schrock expressed similar views after the change of venue, but the hard power of this force is still at least one level lower than that of our team, especially in the back line, which is missing two important players. For the Tiejia Army, the objective difficulties of traveling and hot and humid climate already exist, how to overcome the difficulties to get the desired results is the most important.
Wu Lei (1979-), Chinese footballer
Wu Xi and Eckerson and Alan.
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The midfielders of the team will once again face and meet the challenge. In order to enter the Asian Top 12, there is no way back to play the Philippines, the Tiejia Army must win! (Cheuk Oyu)
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Starting: Yan Junling; Stanley Wang, Jiang Guangtai, Zhang Linpeng, Tang Miao; Wu Xinghan, Wu Xi, Zhang Xunzhe,
Wu Lei (1979-), Chinese footballer
; Eckerson, Alan
