Yesterday (11th), after the Chinese Football Association reported and officially approved by the AFC, the final round of the first group of the World’s 40 preliminaries with the Syrian team will be played on June 15 at 21 pm local time in the UAE. Kick-off at 1 o’clock on the 16th, Beijing time, one hour later to 22:00 local time (2 a.m. on the 16th Beijing time). Although it was only delayed for an hour, it was “very learned” and “worthy to say”. To a certain extent, Chinese football is also slowly beginning to “learn more.”
① Guoqing was once “calculated” due to time difference
After winning the Maldives team, the national football team is in a relatively favorable position in the second place of the eight groups, ranking first with 10 points and a goal difference. Although the Lebanese team also has 10 points, it has a small goal difference. The second best place among the other groups is only 9 points. Therefore, it can be said that the national football team has fully grasped the initiative. If the Syrian team can be defeated in the final round, the score will reach 13 points. There is no need to consider the situation of the other teams to lock in the qualification for the top 12. In other words, as long as the Chinese team can achieve the “four wins” oath issued before the game, they can advance to the top 12 and take another step toward the set goal.
However, for the national football team, under the current situation, it is not wrong to consider everything well. Originally, when the top 40 match was scheduled to be held in Suzhou, various parties thought of one thing in their considerations and plans. That is, due to the time difference, the Chinese team and the Syrian team had the last round of matches, such as China and West Asia. With a five-hour time difference, it is difficult to arrange the kick-off at one time for the final round of matches because of the wide geographical area in Asia. Therefore, if a game is played in the country, a possible situation is that the game of the Chinese team has ended, but the game of the countries of West Asia has not yet ended. This means that the teams playing in West Asia can fully calculate the result before the final round starts, and then proceed to the game. The advantage of “playing the game while watching the result” is actually very obvious.
In fact, China’s Guozihao teams have encountered similar situations before. For example, the most typical is the U19 National Youth Team in the 2001 age group. When they went to Myanmar to participate in the U20 Asian Youth Championship qualifiers in 2019, the Chinese team lost to South Korea in the last round, and the game was still played in the afternoon. After the game, although the final rounds of the several groups in West Asia were also held on the same day, because the matches of those groups were all played in the evening in West Asia, after calculating the results, they all adopted “tie”. “Strategy. As a result, the Chinese National Youth Team was squeezed out of the five best-performing second places. The Chinese National Youth Team ranked sixth in the second place and suffered the first miss of the Asian Youth Championship in more than 20 years. Case.
The National Youth Team’s failure to get tickets for the finals of the Asian Youth Championship is indeed the reason for the lack of strength of the National Youth Team. “Outline” also provides convenient conditions.
②Increase insurance coefficient after one hour delay
It is precisely because of this that this time, although the national football team moved from Suzhou to the UAE, it still has been considering this “jet lag” issue. Therefore, after weighing, the Chinese football team cooperated as the organizer of the first group. In order to increase the “insurance” coefficient and prevent errors in the actual process, it was proposed to postpone the kick-off time of the game against Syria by one hour.
Under normal circumstances, the game between the Chinese team and the Syrian team kicked off at 21:00 local time. At the same time, the fourth group of the Saudi team and the Uzbek team kicked off at 21:00 local time. Saudi Arabia and The UAE still has an hour’s time difference, that is, after the Chinese team and the Syrian team have played, the Uzbek team and the Saudi team have half a game to play. But this match between Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia is also critical, and the result of this match may also have an impact on the overall qualifying situation. Therefore, postponing the kick-off time of the Chinese team and the Syrian team by one hour, that is, the battle of Saudi Arabia almost ended at the same time, which greatly reduced the chance of the opponent “calculating” us.
After the Chinese team and Syria kick-off at 22 o’clock in the evening local time in the UAE, only the second group of Australia and Jordan, Chinese Taipei and Kuwait kick-off time was later than the Chinese team. The game also kicked-off at 22:00 local time in Kuwait, but because Kuwait and the UAE have a time difference of one hour, one hour after the end of the national football game, the situation in the second group is completely clear, but there is nothing to say about the overall situation. influence.
It can be said that the National Football Team made this one-hour postponement decision, which seems “excessive”, but it is actually quite a topic. Of course, if the national football team has enough hard power to win the Syrian team, there is no need to consider this. But no matter what, if you think more about various situations and be more thorough, there will always be no mistake.
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