The national football team missed the "United States, Canada and Mexico", and Chinese football woke up for the Nth time

Reporter Chen Yong reports lost 0-1 away to Indonesia, and the national football team completely missed the 2026 World Cup, in other words, the national football team can actually directly start the preparation for the 2030 World Cup qualifiers, especially in July, the national football team will participate in the East Asian Cup.

Such a result is not frustrating or angry, after all, the road to the top 18 of the national football team is thrilling and even a bit lucky. Including the previous 9 matches in the round of 18, it is enough to prove that the national football team lacks absolute strength to win the top four in the group.

But this result is somewhat unwilling and sad, because it has been 24 years since we last qualified for the World Cup, and even if the World Cup has been expanded to 48 teams, we still can't seem to touch its door......

In this game, the starting lineup of the national football team is consistent with the previous prediction: goalkeeper Wang Dalei, defenders Hu Hetao, Zhu Chenjie, Han Pengfei and Yang Zexiang, midfielders Wang Shangyuan, Xu Haoyang, Cao Yongjing and Serginho, forwards are Zhang Yuning and Wang Yudong, and Wei Shihao has become the "super substitute" of this game.

In the first 25 minutes, except for one or two long passes to counterattack, the ball was taken by Zhang Yuning to Wang Yudong, forming a more substantial offense, and the rest of the time was basically in a passive defensive situation, which is completely inconsistent with the pre-game imagination of the national football team's "all-or-nothing".

As the game progressed, the national football team still did not have too many threatening attacks, and the opportunity for corner kicks was not grasped, but fortunately, the overall defensive system of the national football team was maintained well.

Serginho only had 17 touches of the ball in the first half, with a pass success rate of 90%, because there were big problems in the overall offensive system of the national football team, and Serginho actually did not play his due role.

In the 43rd minute of the game, the national football team was awarded a penalty. The penalty was slightly controversial, mainly because the opposing player did not control the ball during physical contact, which did not actually constitute a scoring opportunity, but because Yang Zexiang did commit a foul, the referee still watched the video under the prompt of VAR and awarded a penalty, and the Indonesian team also took a 1-0 lead in the first half with this penalty.

At the beginning of the second half, Liu Chengyu and Jiang Guangtai came off the bench to replace Xu Haoyang and Han Pengfei, and then Wei Shihao also came off the bench, and finally Wang Ziming also put on the battlefield, and Ivan played all the offensive cards in his hand.

The national football team once played more actively, grasped the initiative of the game more, and also created some threats, but except for Wang Yudong's long-range shot from outside the penalty area shortly after the opening of the second half, which caused the opponent's goalkeeper to get out of his hands, it failed to form a real chance to score. As the game progressed dullly, the enthusiasm and fighting spirit gradually wore off, and the national football team finally had to finish the game.

0-1 defeat to Indonesia, the national football team lost the qualification to further compete for the 2026 World Cup ticket, although there is still one last game in the round of 18, the national football team at home against Bahrain, but this game is only a farewell match of the national football team for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.

In this case, the national football team actually started the preparation for the 2030 World Cup qualifiers in advance, especially the East Asian Cup in July, in the context of the national football team losing the qualification for the play-offs, this East Asian Cup is likely to take the preparation for the 2030 World Cup as the general direction, and more young players will be selected to participate, such as Liao Jintao, Tao Qianglong, Xiang Yuwang, Liu Haofan, Xu Bin, Kuai Jiwen and other players who have been hotly discussed before.

Of course, the probability of leading the team to the East Asian Cup will not be Ivankovic, if the national football team can change the coach as soon as possible, the new coach can lead the team to participate in the East Asian Cup, otherwise the national football team can only find an acting head coach to lead the team to participate in the East Asian Cup. This 2026 World Cup qualifiers, a preliminary summary: Ivankovic has a lot of problems at the level of technical and tactical system setting, especially the formation of 442 diamond-shaped positions, which is difficult to adapt to according to the current lineup of the national football team, especially the two wing-forwards, the adduction defense becomes 4312, then there is a problem with the attack of the national football team, if it is not adducted, the midfield defense of the national football team is very empty.

But more importantly, the current lineup of the national football team does have a lot of problems at the level of ability and experience, of course, there are indeed great difficulties in the use of relevant personnel, the current lineup is actually based on fighting spirit, cohesion and other levels and finalized, as for Ivankovic's technical tactics and personnel use, in fact, it does not provide a bonus for the originally weak national football team.

The only thing that is a little gratifying is that the pace of rejuvenation of the national football team is still relatively successful, in the central defender position, the combination of Zhu Chenjie and Jiang Shenglong is stable and outstanding, in the frontcourt, Xie Wenneng, Wang Yudong and other young players have gradually come to the fore, and the age structure of 19 to 25 years old can naturally play a more important role in the 2030 World Cup qualifiers. But in fullbacks, midfielders and other positions, the national football team not only has difficulties in this game, but also has problems in the entire round of 36 and round of 18.

But one of the problems that we must recognize is that in terms of the strength of the national football team alone, the overall strength of the national football team in the 2030 World Cup qualifiers is unlikely to rebound substantially, unless the means of naturalization are adopted, but in fact, the target players for naturalization are also very limited. Chinese football is freezing today, not a day's cold, and the bottoming out of Chinese football is not a day's work. Entering the World Cup is beautiful, but for today's Chinese football, it is just a dream. On the night of Jakarta on June 5, Chinese football ushered in the Nth time of waking up.