The author has learned from the AFC that the schedule of the Chinese U22 national football team in the fifth U23 Asian Cup qualifier for the seventh group match has been fine-tuned. The Brunei team in the same group has officially announced their retirement, which also means China The difficulty for the U22 national football team to compete for the right to qualify for the team will further increase.
In the U23 Asian Cup qualifier group draw in July this year, the Chinese team, as the second-tier team, was in the seventh group with the seeded teams Australia, Indonesia and Brunei. However, due to the relatively serious epidemic in Southeast Asia, domestic leagues like Brunei have also been suspended. Moreover, the head coach of the Brunei national team and U22 national football team, Malaysian Raja Gobar has also returned to Malaysia last month, which makes it difficult for the Brunei U22 national football team to organize again. In this case, the Brunei team voluntarily withdrew from the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers.
In this way, there are only three teams left in the group where the Chinese team is. According to the rules, the first place of the 11 teams participating in the qualifiers of this year will get tickets to the final stage. In addition, the second place of the four best teams will also get the right to qualify, plus the host Uzbek team. 16 teams will participate in the finals in Uzbekistan in June next year. This means that the Chinese team must strive to get the first place in the group before they can qualify for the final stage; once they can only be ranked second in the group, the competition time of each group in Asia will be different, which is very likely. Being “calculated” by other teams and unable to qualify.
Originally, the match of the Chinese team’s group was arranged in Indonesia, but because of the epidemic, the AFC has arranged the entire group’s match to Tajikistan. Tajikistan was originally going to host the second group of competitions, and the second group of competitions is scheduled for the first round on October 25th, and the second and third rounds will be held on October 28th and 31st. Because the Tajik Football Association only prepared one stadium, Dushanbe’s Republic Central Stadium, the match of the Chinese team’s group was staggered and scheduled for the first round on October 27, with the Indonesian team playing against the Australian team; October The second round will be played on the 30th, with the Chinese team playing against the Indonesian team, and the final round will be held on November 2nd, when the Australian team will face the Chinese team.
After the Brunei team withdrew, the two opponents facing the Chinese team were not easy to deal with. However, according to the latest schedule of the seventh group drawn up by the AFC, the schedule will be relatively favorable for the Chinese team, because in the final round of the Chinese team and the Australian team, in a total of 11 groups, 9 groups The matches of the game have ended on October 31, and the China-Australia battle is scheduled to take place on November 2. This means that if the Chinese team can strive to win the Indonesian team and score as many goals as possible, the game against the Australian team can be “calculated” based on the overall situation.
The schedule of the seventh group is as follows:
October 27th 1700 Indonesia vs Australia
October 30th 1700 China vs Indonesia
November 2nd 1700 Australia vs China
[Note:ThetimedifferencebetweenTajikistanandtheChineseteamis3hoursandthekick-offtimeis20o’clockBeijingtime】
A few days ago, the Chinese Football Association has issued a U22 national football training notice. On October 5th, after the end of the third stage of the Chinese League, the Chinese U22 national football team will start training at the Xianghe base.
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