1-2! The most populous country in the world lost again and bid farewell to the Asian Cup two rounds early. It was worse than the national football team.

The Asian Cup qualifiers continued. India, the seed team in Group C, faced the challenge of Singapore. What all the fans did not expect was that the Indian team, which was fighting at home, overturned again. With a 1-goal lead, their opponents pulled back two goals in a row and lost the game 1-2. They bid farewell to next year's Asian Cup two rounds in advance!

Many fans ridicule on the Internet that China has a population of 1.3 billion, but it cannot find 11 people who can play football well. Now this problem also plagues India, which ranks first in the world in terms of total population. After being eliminated early in the World Cup preliminaries, the Indian team's most important task this year is to play well in the Asian Cup qualifiers and strive to enter next year's Asian Cup main draw. However, the performance of the Indian team in the first three rounds surprised everyone. They were tied by Bangladesh and Singapore one after another, and then lost an upset to Hong Kong, China. The qualifying situation also took a turn for the worse.

In this round's home game against Singapore, the Indian team must win in order to retain the hope of advancement, and they once saw the hope of victory. In the 14th minute, Indian forward Changote made a wonderful kick, and the ball went straight into the dead center of the goal and into the net, 1-0! The Indian team successfully broke the deadlock and took the lead! In the subsequent games, the Indian team created some opportunities, but was unable to score the second goal. On the football field, wasting opportunities will be punished. Before halftime, Singaporean team's naturalized player Song Yirong scored a goal, bringing the two teams back to the same starting line.

After changing sides and fighting again, the Indian team, which was forced to the edge of the cliff, pressed hard and launched a tidal wave of attacks. However, too many troops were invested in the offensive end, which also exposed more gaps in their defense. In the 58th minute, Song Yirong took advantage of the counterattack opportunity and scored another goal. While scoring twice, he also reversed the score to 2-1! And this score was maintained until the end. In the end, the Indian team, which was weak in attack, had to swallow the bitter pill of defeat. It was still difficult to win in this Asian preliminaries.

After 4 rounds of games, the Hong Kong team of China and the Singapore team have a score of 8 points. The former temporarily takes the lead due to its advantage in scoring more goals, while the Bangladesh and India teams rank third and fourth with 2 points. Since the Singapore team will have a head-to-head dialogue with the Hong Kong team in China, it means that one of the two teams will definitely have more than 8 points. Even if the Indian team wins the next two games, it is impossible to achieve a lead in points, so they have actually bid farewell to next year's Asian Cup two rounds in advance!

The sluggish performance of the Indian team may be able to give the Chinese men's football players some comfort. They have also used their own results to prove that in the football world, there is absolutely no relationship between performance and population!