[Sports Road News]The 2022 Qatar World Cup qualifying European play-offs broke out on the evening of Thursday (24th), with 8 teams competing for 4 places in the play-off finals. Portugal, led by (C Lang), will face Turkey at home, striving to reach the finals held next week, and strive to compete for a ticket to the World Cup finals at that time.
Portugal itself has the opportunity to directly qualify for the final week in Group A outside the 2022 World Cup. However, in the last qualifying match in November last year, the team was defeated by Serbia in 90 minutes at home and lost the final week seat. You can go round and round through two rounds of the World Cup to compete for a ticket to the World Cup Finals week.
Portugal, which is in Group C of the World Cup, will face Turkey at home on Thursday. If they win, they will play once morest the winners of Italy or North Macedonia at home next Tuesday (29th), and a win will be able to enter Qatar in late November this year. The opening World Cup final week. However, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner C Lang wants to play in the World Cup finals for the fifth time in his career. First of all, he must lead Portugal, which is lacking in the squad, to defeat Turkey in the “final” following one game.
Portugal’s mainstay Rubin Dias, who plays for Manchester City in the Premier League, is absent this year. Unfortunately, another main draw, Gian Bibi, also missed the game due to the diagnosis of new pneumonia, making the former European Cup of Nations champion team rely on the 38-year-old team. The 2-year-old stalwart Hexidie guarded the defensive line. The Portuguese army has two other main players in this battle, including Manchester City’s left gate Zuojans Road, and midfielder Liana Du Xinjies to be suspended for accumulating yellow cards, and their strength is greatly reduced.
At the moment of the war, C Lang, who has 184 international hats, is as high as ever. He wrote on his personal social networking website platform: “Representing my country is always a very special moment for me. Hold high the name of Portugal. , bring joy and pride to all Portuguese and show our young people that nothing is impossible!”
The current European Cup champion Italy, also in Group C, faces the possibility of missing the final week for two consecutive World Cups. The Blues, who missed the World Cup in Russia four years ago, must first defeat North Macedonia, which has performed impressively in recent years. Fight for the play-off final. Italian coach Vinciini said before the game: “Our goal is to win the World Cup. To achieve our goal, we must first win the two games in front of us. We hope to play in the final week and win the championship.”
In the rest of the World Cup, due to Russia being suspended by FIFA and UEFA, Poland, which originally faced them, has entered the play-off final; Poland will face the winners of Sweden and the Czech Republic next Tuesday. As for Ukraine in Group A, because the country is being affected by the war, the match originally scheduled to be a guest to Scotland tonight has been rescheduled to be held in June this year. However, another match in this group, Wales will still play at home tonight once morest Austria, winning In the play-off final in June this year, they will fight once morest the winners of Scotland or Ukraine for a ticket to the World Cup finals week.
The 2022 Qatar World Cup final week is scheduled to be held from November 21 to December 18 this year. The group draw for the final week will be held on April 1. At that time, the winners of the intercontinental play-off and the European play-off group A will still be held. undecided.
Source: Comprehensive foreign media
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