In the top 12 of the Asian World Preliminaries that ended early on the 17th, Beijing time, the national football team drew 1:1 with the Australian team.

A draw can be regarded as keeping the national football's hope of qualifying in the world preliminaries, and it has kept the national football's chances for several more fights in the next matches.

　　The more important significance is to preserve the spirit of the national football players, even the spirit of Chinese football, this is by no means to increase the value of this draw.

Wu Lei scored the equalizer goal.

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　　The opponents of the game Australia ranked 34th in the world, third in Asia, the national football ranked 75th, and 9th in Asia.

In the first round, the national football team had defeated their opponents 0:3.

　　It is an objective fact that the national football is not as strong as its opponents.

　　And because of Australia's last home draw with Saudi Arabia, the opponents of this campaign are in desperate need to win.

In this context, the national football team achieved a draw, which can be said to have a certain amount of gold.

The national football starting lineup.

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　　In this game, the national football coach Li Tie fine-tuned the starting lineup. Exxon replaced Zhang Yuning as the single forward, Luo Guofu and Alan continued to start, respectively serving as left midfielder and midfielder, and Wu Lei as right midfielder.

　　In midfield, Xu Xin continued to start with the team captain Wu Xi.

From left to right on the defense line are Wang Shenchao, Jiang Guangtai, Zhu Chenjie and Zhang Linpeng.

The goalkeeper is still Yan Junling.

　　After 5 rounds of trial and error and adjustments, the national football team has formed the strongest lineup.

After the 1:1 draw with Australia, the national football team succeeded in "renewing their lives".

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　　Judging from the opening stage, the national football team really played more orderly, calmly, and dared to make moves and physical confrontations than when they played against Australia in the first round.

　　This is also in line with Li Tie's small goal set before the game-to play better than the first round.

　　In the 3rd minute of the opening, the national football team played a subtly coordinated. Exon picked the ball and passed it to Alan. The latter broke into the penalty area and was saved by Australian goalkeeper Ryan.

　　It is worth mentioning that in the first 30 minutes, goalkeeper Ryan can be regarded as the player with the highest presence in the opponent's lineup. In addition to saving Alan's short-term shot, he also attacked three times to defuse the Chinese team's more threatening attack.

　　However, in the following time, the Australian team gradually recovered the rhythm and initiative on the field. Under the continuous possession of the ball in the front field, in the 37th minute, Duke received the pass and defeated the teenager Zhu Chenjie with a header. The national football team 0: 1 lags behind Australia.

　　To make matters worse, Jiang Guangtai was injured in the defense before halftime and was replaced by full-back Wang Gang. Zhang Linpeng returned to the central defender position.

　　After changing sides, the lagging national football team still did not give up. In the 68th minute, the Australian team had a handball in the penalty area. The referee gave a penalty after watching VAR. Wu Lei resisted the pressure and made a penalty. The national football team made a 1:1 Australia!

　　In the 79th minute, the national football team made a substitution adjustment, Alan and Luo Guofu were replaced by Wu Xinghan and Button.

In the 88th minute, Zhang Yuning replaced Wu Lei, and the score remained until the end of the game.

　　After this campaign, the national football team had 6 matches, 1 win, 2 draws, 3 losses and 5 points, which was 6 points away from the third Australian team in the group. With 4 rounds left, the national football team was considered a success.

　　What’s more valuable is that after 5 rounds of trial and error and adjustments in the first half of the game, whether it’s platoon formation, technical and tactical choices, or player status, the national football team has made visible progress. These improvements are also for the future. The game brought more possibilities.

　　It is a little regrettable that the "growth cost" of the 5 rounds is really too huge, so that the national football team has no room for error in the next game.

The last match was a 1:1 tie with Oman, putting the national football team into an extremely severe qualifying situation.

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　　In January of the following year, the national football team will play away against the Japanese team, which is currently ranked second in the group, and they are currently one point ahead of Australia, which is third in the group.

　　Under the fierce competition for qualifying places, the Japanese team also urgently needs points when facing the national football team. Coupled with the blessing of the opponent's home court advantage, the difficulty of this game is even higher, but if you want to continue to "remain", the national football team must at least Draw with opponents and have to beat Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Oman in subsequent matches.

　　It may seem difficult, but it is not without opportunities.

　　At present, Vietnam has lost all 6 games and will face Australia in the next round. Not surprisingly, it was out before the national football match.

　　The Saudi team, ranked first in the group, has scored 16 points. It is only a matter of time before they qualify. They will play against Oman in the next game. As long as they do not lose, they can basically establish a qualifying advantage and help the national football team to hold Oman.

In the penultimate round against the national football team, Saudi Arabia has a high probability of qualifying early.

　　As for the opponents of the Oman team in the final round, there are certain uncertainties now.

　　All in all, the next away game against the Japanese team is still a destiny game. Not losing this game is the premise of these assumptions.

　　I hope that by then the national football team can continue to continue the hope.

(Author Bian Liqun)