CCTV5 live broadcast the battle for the top spot in the group, the national football team ranked 6th in Asia, and won to advance to the top 16 of the Asian Cup.
*TV broadcast!In order to compete for the top spot in the group, the national football team faced the sixth place in Asia and won the match to enter the round of 16 of the Asian Cup. According to the latest reports, a new batch of national football teams will gather in Shanghai on the 17th to prepare for the Qatar Asian Cup, and after a short training session, the team will leave for the United Arab Emirates on the 18th to participate in winter training. It is understood that the Football Association has planned 4 pre-match training sessions in advance for this UAE training camp, with the aim of allowing the players to enter the Asian Championship to be held in January as soon as possible. The two warm-up teams that have been confirmed will be Oman and India, while the other two are likely to be from Europe, which is great news for national football!
In the group of this Asian Football Championship, the Chinese team will play against Tajikistan, Lebanon and Qatar. In the past matches between the two sides, the Chinese football team has a record of 8-6 draws and 6 defeats against Qatar (the last game was in a warm-up match in 2018, when we lost 0-1 to Qatar);The match record against Tajikistan is 4-1 and 1 (the last time in a warm-up match in the 2019 season, China won 1-0);The head-to-head record with Lebanon is 4-1-1 (last time in the 2009 World Cup qualifiers, China won 1-0). As a result, in all the games in the group, only Qatar was the exception, and the rest of the teams were not defeated. Therefore, for Chinese football, the most crucial battle is the final showdown between them and Qatar, and their victory will directly affect who can stand out in the quarterfinals!
Qatar is now the sixth-strongest team in Asia, and although it is far from the top five teams in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Iran and Saudi Arabia, it is not on the same level. It was a crucial match for the national football team and they had a good chance of beating them. If they win this game, then they qualify for the round of sixteen!