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the national football team makes final preparations before the game.

the chinese national football team will play against japan in the first round of 18 tonight. cctv-5 has no plans to broadcast live

at 18:35 beijing time on the 5th, the chinese national football team will face japan in their first away game in the world cup round of 36, but as of the early morning of the 5th, this game was not on the program list of cctv-5. the program preview shows that at the same time, cctv-5 will first broadcast the paralympic table tennis video at 18:35, and then broadcast the paralympic football 5th and 6th place final between china and morocco at 19:00.

at the same time, cctv 5+ and the olympic channel did not broadcast the world cup qualifiers live. of course, given that cctv had previously made temporary changes to its broadcast plans, it is still unknown whether this game will be broadcast live on cctv.

the referee information for this match shows that qatari referee jasim will serve as the referee, and all members of the referee team are from qatar. public information shows that jasim has previously refereed the chinese national football team's games, and the chinese national football team lost all of them. in the 2019 asian cup, jasim refereed the last match of the chinese team's group stage against south korea. soon after the game started, he whistled for a foul in the penalty area and awarded south korea a penalty kick. he also gave four chinese national football players, zhang linpeng, zhang chengdong, zhao xuri, and gao lin, each a yellow card during the game. the chinese national football team lost 0-2 in this game.

then in the quarter-finals, china played against iran, and jasim was the referee again. in the end, china lost 0-3. last november, in the second round of the group stage of the world cup qualifiers against south korea in shenzhen, just 10 minutes into the game, hwang hee-chan broke into the chinese team's penalty area and was suspected of kicking someone, but jasim, the referee, judged that zhu chenjie had committed a foul first and awarded a penalty to south korea, which son heung-min scored. in the end, south korea defeated china 3-0 away.

head coach ivankovic and captain wu lei attended the pre-match press conference, which means that wu lei is likely to start the game. with his outstanding performance of 8 goals in august, wu lei topped the 2024 world football scorer list of the international federation of football history and statistics (iffhs) with 35 goals. of the 35 goals wu lei has scored in 2024, 28 were in the league, 3 in the fa cup, and 4 in national team competitions.

ivankovic also posted a photo of the pre-match press conference against japan on social media in the evening, and wrote to encourage himself and the chinese national football team, "pre-match press conference of japan vs. china, the road to 2026."