Chapter 80: Cheers and applause

Under the common expectation of nearly 100 million Dragon Country fans, the referee who enforced the match between the Dragon Country and the Qatar team finally blew the whistle for the end of the game.

The score of this game was finally fixed at 1:4!

Home team in front, away team in the back!

The Dragons won a three-goal win away from home!

At the end of this game, the record of the Dragon Country team in Group A of the top 12 of the World Cup qualifiers in Asia has risen to 4 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses, accumulating 14 points, scoring 14 goals, conceding 10 goals, and goal difference of 4!

Such a record is ten months ago, when Lippi took over the Dragon Country team, no one could have imagined!

At the same time, the other two games in Group A also ended one after another, with Iran and Syria finally drawing 2:2, and South Korea and Uzbekistan and Uzbekistan finally drew 0:0 after a fierce battle.

At this point, the matches in Group A of the top 12 of the Asian region of the World Cup qualifiers are all over.

In ten rounds of matches, the Iranian team has achieved an unbeaten record of 6 wins and 4 draws, accumulating 22 points, scoring 10 goals, conceding 2 goals, and scoring 8 goals, ranking first in the group.

South Korea won 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, accumulated 15 points, scored 11 goals, conceded 10 goals, and had a goal difference of 1, ranking second in the group, and joined hands with Iran to advance and get a ticket to the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.

In the first four rounds, the Longguo team only achieved a record of 1 draw and 3 losses, and finally chased the record to 4 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses, accumulated 14 points, scored 14 goals, conceded 10 goals, and scored 4 goals, jumped to third place in the group ranking, and qualified for the play-offs.

Uzbekistan won 4 wins, 1 draw, 5 losses, accumulated 13 points, scored 6 goals, conceded 10 goals, goal difference -4, and finally ranked fourth in the group.

Syria won 3, drew 3 and lost 4, accumulated 12 points, scored 9 goals, conceded 7 goals, goal difference 2, and finished fifth in the group.

Qatar team 2 wins, 1 draw, 7 losses, total 7 points, scored 8 goals, conceded 17 goals, goal difference -9, bottom of the group.

The Dragons qualified for the play-offs and will face Group B third-placed in a two-legged battle against the winner of the CONCACACAF region to qualify for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.

Before the Group A match, two of the three matches in the final round of Group B have been completed, namely Australia's 2-1 victory over Thailand and Iraq's 1-0 victory over the United Arab Emirates, leaving only the last match between Saudi Arabia and Japan, which has not yet been played.

At present, the promotion situation of Group B is more complicated than A, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Japan, the three strong teams, before the final round of the group stage, still failed to decide, who can directly qualify, who has to play in the play-offs, until the final round of matches are over, there can be a result.

Prior to the final round of matches, Japan had a slight advantage, with 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in the first nine games, accumulating 20 points, 4 points ahead of Saudi Arabia and Australia, and already securing a direct ticket to the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.

Saudi Arabia won 5 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses in the first nine rounds, accumulating 16 points; Australia won 4, drew 4 and lost 1 in the first nine rounds, also accumulating 16 points, but with 6 goal difference in hand, Australia only had 4 goal difference.

Australia's 2-1 win over Thailand in the final round saw the number of points set at 19 and the goal difference rose to five.

Now, it's up to Saudi Arabia and Japan to get the result of that match, and if Saudi Arabia can win, then they will join Japan in qualifying, while Australia have the same number of points as Saudi Arabia, but they have lost to Saudi Arabia on goal difference and can only finish third in the group and play in the play-offs.

If Saudi Arabia can't beat Japan, whether it's a draw or a loss, they will give up their direct ticket to the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia to Australia, who will play in the play-offs.

Therefore, the play-off opponent of the Dragons will choose between Australia and Saudi Arabia.

The most recent meeting between the Dragons and these two teams took place at the Asian Cup in Australia in early 2015, when they were in a group with Saudi Arabia, beating them by a narrow goal in the group stage before losing 2-0 to eventual champions Australia in the quarter-finals.

From this result, the opponent that the Dragons are more reluctant to meet in the play-offs should be the Australian team!

However, the Dragon Country team, which has won all three games and scored a total of 11 goals, is now full of morale and is not afraid of any opponent!

However, at this time, the Dragon Country team has no time to consider the opponent of the play-offs.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the players on the field of the Dragon Country team, too late to celebrate the victory of this game, ran to the sidelines for the first time and asked their teammates about the results of the other two games.

When it was learned that the other two games had ended in draws, the Dragons had jumped to third in the group standings and qualified for the play-offs, and the door to the 2018 World Cup in Russia had not yet been closed to them, and the exhausted players collapsed on the pitch weakly, allowing tears of joy to well-end their eyes.

He Wei and Xu Yang roared hoarsely in the commentary seat, "Win!" We won! ”

"A miracle really happened! After only one point in the first four rounds, we grabbed 13 points in the next six rounds, fought back from the bottom of the group all the way to the third place in the group, qualified for the play-offs, and still had the hope of participating in the World Cup in Russia! ”

"This is something that no one could have imagined a few months ago!"

"Now, it's happening right in front of our eyes!"

"At this moment, we should thank Lippi, he deserves to be the World Cup winning coach, his arrival has made the Dragon team change like two teams!"

"We should be even more grateful to the boys of the Dragon Nation team! It is them, in the face of doubts, never give up, with their own efforts, their own sweat, to fight until now, spell out such a result! ”

"The most important thing we should be thankful for is the fans who have never left us! It is you, no matter what kind of trough and what difficulties Dragon Country football has experienced, you have firmly supported the Dragon Country team with your enthusiasm and are determined to move forward! ”

"The victory in this game is the best gift that the Dragon Team has given to the fans!"

"Now, I can stand in the position of a fan and proudly declare to the world that Dragon Country Football, after many detours, has now embarked on the right path forward, and in the future, Dragon Country Football will definitely be able to stand in the world football forest and let the world cheer for it!"