CCTV5+ live broadcast! U22 national football team plays against the Northern Mariana Islands. Can the offense and defense change the lineup?

At 19:35 on September 6, in the second round of Group D of the 2026 AFC U23 Asian Cup Qualifier Group Squad, the Chinese U22 team will continue to be at the Xi'an International Football Center and play against the Northern Mariana Islands. CCTV's latest program list shows that compared with the first round of Timor-Leste, it was broadcast live on CCTV Sports Channel (CCTV5), and this game was scheduled to be broadcast live on CCTV Sports Event Channel (CCTV5+). In the first round, the Chinese U22 team narrowly defeated East Timor 2-1, and Australia defeated the Northern Mariana Islands 14-0. Therefore, the Chinese U22 team must strive to win more goals in the Northern Mariana Islands in this round. In this way, you can have certain psychological advantages when playing against the Australian team in the last round.

According to the competition rules, the first group of 11 groups participating in the qualifiers and the second group of 4 best-achieving will be qualified to advance to the final stage of the 2026 Saudi Arabia U23 Asian Cup.

From the first round, since the Chinese U22 team scored 1 goal by Timor-Leste and only 1 goal difference, it was only tied for 4th among the second in the 11 groups, and the qualifying situation is not optimistic. This requires the boys to concentrate and play the next two games.

In the case of many problems on both ends of the offense and defense in the first round, how the head coach of the Chinese U22 team Antonio arranged the troops, changed the lineup, improved offensive efficiency and defensive quality became the main highlight of this game. In addition, as a professional football stadium, Xi'an International Football Center has suffered from continuous rainfall and other factors, and the quality of the lawn was worrying in the first game. This time it is released again, it is worth paying attention to whether the lawn can improve.