The drums are beating for the World Cup qualifiers, and the representatives of Chinese soccer are ready to go. Unfortunately, China's Macao men's soccer team in the first round of competition in the regrettable stop, so that the Asian qualifying tournament of the Chinese army only three players left - China's men's soccer team, China's Hong Kong men's soccer team and Chinese Taipei men's soccer team. After two rounds of group games, the three teams have not tasted the joy of winning, which only the Chinese football team, won a game, the overall situation is worrying.
Chinese Taipei's soccer ranking has always been only in the middle and lower reaches of Asia, and this time, it looks like a great situation to be in the same group with Oman, Kyrgyzstan and Malaysia, the rivals of the World Qualification Tournament. After all, Oman as the 9th seed strength is relatively weak, Kyrgyzstan is ranked second, if you can successfully beat Oman, and then play Kyrgyzstan, at least can accumulate enough points, is expected to advance to the next round.
But it was not to be, and Chinese Taipei's performance was frustrating. In the first round of the tournament, they faced Oman with a score of 0-3, which made the prospect of victory a distant one. Back at home, facing Malaysia, the team lost by a narrow margin of 0-1, two consecutive defeats have left them at the bottom of the group with 0 points, while Malaysia is leading the table with two consecutive wins.
The group stage is getting more complicated. Malaysia occupies the top spot and is expected to qualify directly. But Oman and Kyrgyzstan are not far behind and have a chance to overtake them. The competition between these three teams will determine the two qualification places. Chinese Taipei, with its limited strength, has little hope of advancing.
Hong Kong, China, in the same situation, faced strong opponents in Iran and Uzbekistan, and a 0-4 defeat away to Iran in the first round made hopes of qualification slim. However, a 2-2 draw with Turkmenistan at home in the second round resulted in a hard-fought point. Meanwhile, Uzbekistan drew with Iran at home and both teams are ahead of Hong Kong, China with 4 points. According to the schedule, once Iran and Uzbekistan can both kill their opponents, the suspense of group advancement will be revealed in advance.
As Asia's third-rate level of national football, in the impact of the World Cup on the road to the attention. In the first two rounds of group matches, the national football team won one and lost one, accumulating 3 points to rank third in the group, the situation of promotion is not optimistic. Next, they will be back to back against Singapore, at least to get 4 points, the best can get 6 points. If they win only one game, the road to promotion will be full of challenges. Until the fifth round of home games against Thailand, if another loss, the national football team's exit will basically become a foregone conclusion.
In such an extreme scenario, the exit of all three Chinese teams at the 36-team stage does not seem impossible.
