Chapter 174: Top 20 Tournament Group

In the other game, Chelsea and Schalke 04 drew a goalless draw.

In this way, Atletico Madrid has 12 points, Chelsea has 5 points, Schalke 04 has 4 points, Rosenborg has 1 point, the situation is very clear, Atletico Madrid is seven points ahead of second-place Chelsea, qualified two rounds in advance, and still locked the top spot in the group two rounds in advance.

This is very good news for Xavier, at least he can send some substitutes in the last two rounds of the game to give the main players a good rest.

Returning to the league, Atletico are still in very good shape, winning in the league without giving anyone else the slightest chance.

The first place in the league has always been occupied by Atletico Madrid, which also makes Real Madrid and Barcelona behind them very unhappy, but they have no way to catch up with Atletico Madrid.

While the competition in Europe was in full swing, the Asian side began the tense draw ceremony for the top 20.

Feng Wei, chairman of the Football Association, and Zhu Bo, head coach of the national football team, were all present to participate in the draw ceremony.

The Asian qualifiers for this World Cup start in October, and the specific competition schedule is divided into three steps.

The first stage is the qualifying round, and a total of 43 teams from Asia have signed up for the World Cup qualifiers, so according to the ranking of the last World Cup, the top five teams are Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Australia, which has only been a member of the AFC for two years.

The remaining 43 teams, the sixth to twenty-fourth places are divided into a group, the twenty-fifth to forty-third places are divided into a group, the two groups of teams through the draw, two by two to catch each other after two rounds of knockout rounds of home and away, the winning nineteen teams advance.

Of the nineteen teams that qualified, the bottom eight teams played the knockout rounds again, and the four teams that won the tournament combined with the top 11 teams for a total of fifteen teams.

Fifteen teams in the qualifying round, plus five seeded teams, make up the round of 20.

This is the second stage of the competition.

Twenty teams will be drawn in South Africa, where the 20 teams will be divided into five groups, each of which will play two rounds of home and away matches against the teams in the group, with the top two teams in the group advancing to the next stage of the competition.

The last stage, also commonly known as the top 10 match, is divided into two groups, the top two directly qualify for the South Africa World Cup finals, the third place in the two groups will play the home and away play-offs, the winner will play the play-offs with the champion of Oceania, and the final winner will enter the South Africa World Cup main match.

It can be said that the competition in Asia is very complicated.

The Chinese team is listed as a team in Pot 2.

The draw officially began, Zhu Bo was still a little nervous, if he couldn't recruit Jin Feng, Zhu Bo would have to consider which opponents he would be easier to deal with.

Five groups are drawn according to different stalls.

Australia was the first to be drawn, and Australia was placed in the first group.

Australia has always been seen as a European team, and their quality is seen as one of the best teams in Asia.

The teams in Pot 1 were Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Then came the teams in Pot 2.

Zhu Bo began to get nervous, because Huaxia was in the second pot.

A person came on stage, began to touch the ball, and after touching a random ball, opened it to look at it, and then unfolded it for everyone to see.

"Huaxia." The host at the scene shouted.

The second team of the first group was born, and that was the Huaxia team.

Zhu Bo shook his head, I don't know if this team is good or bad, Huaxia has not played against the Australian team, it can be said that Australia is a mysterious division.

After the second pot team is drawn, it is the third pot team.

The teams in Pot 3 are all West Asian teams, and none of them are easy to deal with.

If you have to choose one of the teams that Jubo doesn't want to meet, Jubo will definitely choose Iraq.

The Iraqi team has a tenacious style and very good strength, if it were not for the existence of Jinfeng in the semifinals of the Asian Cup, Zhu Bo absolutely believes that the Chinese team will be eliminated by Iraq, so Zhu Bo is reluctant to meet Iraq.

But what you are most afraid of, what will come.

The third team in the first group was drawn to Iraq, and Zhu Bo was expressionless, this sign is really not a good sign.

Feng Wei doesn't have much impression of these teams, and he feels that any kind of team can tolerate it.

The teams in Pot 4 are Qatar, Syria, Singapore, Thailand and Turkmenistan.

In Zhu Bo's view, as long as it is not Qatar and Syria, the other three teams will be sure to win the game.

I don't know if it's because Feng Wei's coming to power brought bad luck to Chinese football, this time it was actually Qatar that was drawn.

Zhu Bo feels like he's going to faint, this luck is too bad, right? To say that it was not a good sign at the beginning, now it can be clearly said that this is a very bad sign.

In the end, the top 20 groups were all over, and Australia, China, Iraq and Qatar were placed in Group 1.

As soon as this group came out, everyone knew that this first group would be the most terrifying group of death.

Australia is regarded as a European-like team, the Chinese team won the new Asian Cup, Iraq won the third place in this Asian Cup, and Qatar won the Asian Games.

Such a gorgeous grouping situation also makes this group the most confusing.

After the grouping ended, Huaxia fans also felt that this grouping was not a very good grouping situation for the Huaxia team.

In particular, Qatar and Iraq have ruined China's dream of entering the World Cup three times.

When Zhu Bo was interviewed, he bluntly said that this grouping is not a good thing for the Huaxia team, and anyone may enter the top 10 and must be dealt with carefully.

Of course, this is Zhu Bo's helpless move, if he can recruit Jin Feng, he Zhu Bo will not say such modest words, the situation is pressing.

On the contrary, Feng Wei was very positive and enthusiastic.

Feng Wei, who is rarely interviewed, thanked the media for their concern about Chinese football, and then said that he was quite satisfied with the grouping situation of the top 20 tournaments, and also said that the Chinese team was drawn to the upper draw.

It's not that Feng Wei is blindly confident, but he really doesn't understand football, and he doesn't know much about these teams, so he can only rely on the performance of the Asian Cup to estimate the strength of everyone in the game.

Feng Wei felt that Qatar did not qualify for the group, Australia did not enter the semi-finals, and the Iraqi team was the defeated opponent of the Chinese team.