U-23 Asian Preliminary: Australia 14-0 Northern Mariana Islands, the national football team needs to compete for goal victory

The U-23 Asian Cup qualifiers officially started this afternoon. 44 teams were divided into 11 groups and fierce competition was launched in 11 countries. The Chinese U-23 men's football team coached by Antonio is in the same group as East Timor, Northern Mariana Islands, and Australia. Each group has the first place and the second in the 4 best-scoring group. A total of 15 teams plus the host Saudi Arabia will advance to the main stage held from January 7 to 25 next year. The

Group D match was held in Xi'an. As the host of Group D, the Chinese men's football team has a home advantage. All three games will be held at the Xi'an International Football Center. The rest of the matches in the same group were placed in the Xi'an Sports Training Center because of the lack of fans' desire to watch. China's opponents East Timor and Northern Mariana Islands have poor strength in the first two games and are difficult to pose a threat, but they still need to do their best to win more goals. Only in the end of the game, Australia will take the initiative and strive to win the first place in the group group for three consecutive victories. If the final game is tied or a small loss, the goal difference in the first two games will be required, so the whistle in the first two rounds will not sound, and the game will not stop, and the goal will not be stopped.

At 3:30 pm, Australia took the lead in fighting against the Northern Mariana Islands. Australia previously 2-1 Croatia, 0-0 UAE and 0-0 Qatar in the warm-up match in March, and then faced South Korea in June, with a 0-0 draw in the first match and won 2-0 in the second game. There are no public data on the warm-up matches of the Northern Mariana Islands this year.

Australia scored 7 goals in the first half and scored 7 goals in the second half. Blair played four-game in the 6th, 21th, 53th and 55th minutes. Reese scored twice in the 10th and 13th minutes. Alajic scored twice in the 17th and 44th minutes. Dukuli, Bochinovsky and Rollins scored one goal in the 36th, 60th and 66th minutes respectively. Australia scored another three goals in the 75th and 77th minutes and stoppage time. The Northern Mariana Islands only did not concede the goal in the 22-25th minute and 77-90th minute period. After the game, Australia defeated the Northern Mariana Islands 14-0 and got a good start.

The currently ongoing games include South Korea VS China and Macau (2-0 in the half), Iraq VS Pakistan, Yemen VS Singapore, Malaysia VS Lebanon. The competitions that will be started later include Kuwait VS Myanmar, Uzbekistan VS Sri Lanka, China VS East Timor, etc.

The first rounds of each group will be held from today to tomorrow morning, and the UAE's face against Guam at 1:30 am is the last game of the first round. The second round of the match started on the afternoon of September 6. The first game was Timor-Leste facing Australia, and the last game was Hong Kong, China, facing the UAE. The third round of the match was held on the afternoon of September 9, starting from Timor-Leste against the Northern Mariana Islands to the end of the UAE’s fight against Iran.

In the previous five official competitions, Japan (2024, 2016), Saudi Arabia (2022), South Korea (2020), and Uzbekistan (2018) won the championships separately, and are also the favorite teams to win the championship in this event.