For Chinese football, the most important thing recently is naturally the appointment of the new coach of the national football team, Ivankovic. And the situation faced by this new coach is that time is tight and the task is heavy. The most important task of the competition is the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, where the Chinese team is in the same group as South Korea, Thailand and Singapore. For Ivankovic, taking office at this time, although the time is relatively tight, the opponent of the national football team, the Singapore team, should be a more ideal opponent. This game will also be the debut of the national football team in the Year of the Dragon, with three major highlights, and Ivankovic is also expected to usher in a good start to coaching the national football team. The important match will be played in Singapore at 7pm on March 21 and will also be broadcast live on CCTV.
I have to say that today's Chinese football is indeed a bit like mud that can't hold up the wall. Compared with the positioning of Asia's quasi-first-class teams more than 20 years ago, the current national football team should be a third- or fourth-rate team in Asia. In the recently concluded Qatar Asian Cup, under the leadership of head coach Jankovic, the national football team did not score a goal and did not win a game, and finally ended the game with the worst result since the national football team participated in the Asian Cup. Although the results of the Asian Cup are very poor, the national football team still has a more important game waiting for it, that is, the World Cup qualifiers. There are three major highlights of this away game against Singapore.
This match against Singapore is the debut of the new head coach of the national football team, Ivankovic. For Ivankovic, his goal is undoubtedly to win, to get off to a good start. In fact, the national football team does have a chance to win. In terms of world rankings, the Singapore team is ranked 157th in the world, which can be called a fish belly team in the absolute sense. Therefore, if in the face of such an opponent, the national football team cannot win all three points, it is indeed unreasonable.
Fans who have watched the Qatar Asian Cup should be very congested about the attack of the national football team. In the three group games, the host Qatar needless to say, it is true that the national football team does not have the strength to defeat the opponent, and the Qatar team finally won the Asian Cup. However, in the face of two other teams ranked more than 30 places lower than themselves in the world, Tajikistan and Lebanon, the national football team still did not score a goal. Without scoring a goal in three games, this kind of attack is really speechless. And in this world preliminary match with the Singapore team, who can score for the national football team is indeed a major attraction. Is it Wu Lei or Zhang Yuning?
For the Singapore team, the national football team is no stranger to them. In the previous 49 years, the national football team and the Singapore team played a total of 8 matches. The national football team occupies an absolute advantage, with 7 wins and 1 draw to remain unbeaten. Therefore, in this away game, whether the national football team can continue its previous unbeaten record is indeed a major attraction. However, the current Singapore team is different from years ago, they have just changed the head coach, and the appointment of a new coach may make the Singapore team more combative.