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Reporter talks about the U23 national football team qualifying situation: Chinese team should play as much as possible to win the goal difference

9:52pm, 3 September 2025Football

September 3 The U23 Asian Cup qualifiers are about to begin, and reporter Song Chengliang wrote an article about the qualifying situation of the Chinese team.

reporter said: The Chinese team is in the same group as East Timor, Northern Mariana and Australia. According to the qualifying rules, the first place in the 11 groups in the qualifying round, the four best-scoring second places, and the host Saudi Arabia team will form 16 participating teams in the final stage.

From the perspective of qualifying, it is naturally best to win three consecutive victories to lock in the first place in the group, but if we can draw Australia on two weak teams, the second in the group with 7 points is basically one of the four teams with the best results; even if we can only score 6 points, the Chinese team should try to get more goal difference in the two weak teams of Timor-Leste and Northern Mariana, which will also be conducive to competing for the second in the four teams with the best results.

Australia was 14-0 in the first round of the group, saying that East Timor is stronger than Saipan. No matter what, try to play against weak teams and get more goals. In this way, even if the second in the group with 6 points has a chance, there will be no more 7 points in theory.

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