中 The world's fourth-largest striker is uncertain about the June A match…World Cup finals are on the verge of collapse
中 The world's fourth-largest striker is uncertain about the June A match…World Cup finals are on the verge of collapse
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Concerns have been raised that China's leading striker Wu Lei will not be able to perform his national team schedule in June due to his injury.온라인바카라
Wu Lei returned to the Chinese national team for the first time in a long time, but is reportedly unable to complete his training due to injury. If Wu Lei fails to recover from his injury, he is highly likely not to be able to join the call-up of two consecutive World Cup qualifiers against Indonesia and Bahrain next month. It is a big negative news for China, which is striving to keep its hopes of advancing to the finals until the end of the World Cup qualifiers.
Citing a report by the Beijing Youth Daily, the Chinese media Sohu said on Saturday that Wu Lei's long-term injury caused him to miss the national team training. It is not yet known whether he will be able to go to Indonesia.
According to Sohu, the recently convened Chinese national team began a training session for the first time on the 24th, but Wu Lei reportedly failed to participate in the training even after going to the training site due to a recurrence of long-held injuries.
The media said, "Urey's return was noted after the Chinese national soccer team's head coach, Branko Ivankovic, recently announced the list, but his long-term injury has recurred and he is not in good shape. The North Gyeongsang Youth Daily said, "The national team will keep an eye on Urey's situation over the next few days and decide whether he can join the national team going to Indonesia."
China is currently at the bottom of Group C (6th place) in the third Asian qualifying round for the FIFA North-China World Cup in 2025, but there are only four points difference from third-place Saudi Arabia (10 points), so it can seek to advance to the fourth qualifying round.
China, which decided that it could sufficiently compete for the fourth qualifying round because its A match opponents in June were Indonesia (4th place, 9 points) and Bahrain (5th place, 6 points), started preparing for the second consecutive game against Indonesia and Bahrain two weeks before the World Cup qualifying round.
In particular, China summoned all available resources, including star striker Wu Lei, striker Wang Wang-dong, born in 2006, and Yang Mingyang, a naturalized Swiss player, and burned their will to beat Indonesia and Bahrain to save their hopes of advancing to the World Cup finals.
In this situation, China has no choice but to lose strength due to the news of Wu Lei's injury, the main striker of the national team.
Wu Lei is a star player that China boasts of having scored 36 goals in 99 matches for the Chinese national team. In particular, he scored 42 goals in 45 matches in 2024, making him the fourth-most goals scored among global strikers after Victor Jockeres, Erling Holan, and Harry Kane.
However, he suffered a knee injury in November last year, and eventually decided to undergo surgery in January, missing the call-up of the A-match in March. At that time, Urey aimed to return to the A-match in June, but he seems to have not fully recovered from his injury.
"The Chinese national soccer team is known to be very careful about using Wu Lei," Sohu said. The team desperately needs Urey's technical ability and experience, he said. "However, the team does not want Urey to take risks when it is difficult to play a high-intensity game, so we decided to decide whether to accompany him to Indonesia after evaluating his physical condition."