CRI听力:China to Face Hong Kong in World Cup Qualifier

Qualifying for the 2018 World Cup will resume on Thursday, with the men's team from the mainland taking on Hong Kong.

The mainland side comes into the match-up on the heels of a 6-0 thumping of Bhutan to kick off their qualifying campaign.

Hong Kong is also undefeated, beating both Bhutan and the Maldives.

In other action, Singapore and Syria will go head-to-head.

Singapore Head coach Bernd Stange says he believes his side is the clear underdogs given their world rankings.

"And now we have the third away game in a row and it's Syria. If you are looking as an indicator, they are 117 and Singapore is 155. That's a huge gap in all sports. I would say the winner is clear but we are playing football and you never know what happens in our sport."

Singapore has four points from their opening two matches while Syria have three points from their first match.

Japan will take on Cambodia.

South Korea will face Laos.

And it's Asian champions Australia taking on Bangladesh.

In Europe, Iceland will face the Netherlands in Amsterdam tomorrow in the latest round of qualification matches for Euro 2016.

Icelandic mid-fielder Gylfi Sigurdsson says his squad believes his squad has a good chance against the Netherlands, even though they're 12 places behind them in the world.

"Yes I think we do. We beat them in the first game so of course we have a chance. It's going to be hard. We know that we're playing away from home so it's going to be tough for us. If you look at their squad they have really good players but so far in this competition we have been playing really well so we want to continue that form and hopefully we can get a point or three points tomorrow night."

With six of their ten qualification games already played, Iceland is leading Group A with 15 points.

The Netherlands is sitting in third with 10 points.

Iceland currently is ranked 24th in the world, while the Netherlands is listed as 12th.