The announcement of a huge list of nearly 52 new players and 15 assistant coaches has attracted the attention of the opponents in the top 12. Recently, some Vietnamese media have looked down on the national football team's move, believing that quantity is not equal to quality, and Li Xiaopeng wants to lead the team to win the third place in the group.
The Vietnamese media "soha" reported on the big change in the national football team (above), titled "The Chinese team defeated the Vietnamese team in an unprecedented way". Next, the article reads: The Chinese team has never assembled such a large team before marching to Mei Dinh (the home of the Vietnamese team).
The unconventional way of signaling that the country was numerically superior defeated them was a bit of a joke and mockery.
The article also quoted a lot of reports from our domestic media, and pointed out that although the Chinese team has summoned such a huge force, the domestic media and fans are still worried about the quality of the national team and whether Li Xiaopeng's team will win the next 2 matches against Japan and Vietnam.
The article concludes: Quantity does not equal quality, li Xiaopeng still faces many concerns before the first two games of coaching the national team.
At present, in the standings of the round of 12, the national football team only scored 5 points in the first 6 rounds, ranking fifth in the group, behind the third-ranked Japanese team. There are only 4 rounds left in the round of 12, and if the national football team wants to surpass the Japanese team with 4 points more than itself in these 4 games, it must defeat the Japanese team on the road in the next round to narrow the score gap to 1 point.
This is a 6-point battle, once the national football team loses, the Japanese team will reach 12 points, while the national football team only has 5 points, which is basically equivalent to being eliminated in advance.
In the next 3 games (against Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Oman respectively), the national football team can not lose, it is best to win all, only in this way can it be possible to achieve the third place in the group, enter the play-off zone, and keep the hope of the first line to qualify for the Qatar World Cup.
For the prospect of the national football team, the Vietnamese media is obviously not optimistic, believing that Li Xiaopeng's ambition is to lead the team to the third place in the group, but this is still a very difficult goal.
What is the status of a naturalized striker? The new coach Li Xiaopeng hastily took command, how much of the actual ability of the national football team can be brought into play? These are all unknowns, and they are all things that the fans are worried about. Under various unfavorable factors, it is no wonder that the opponent is not optimistic about us.
However, Li Xiaopeng did have unspeakable secrets. He had just taken office, the team was too hasty, there was simply not enough time to select and prepare, and it was too difficult to form a quite effective team in such a short period of time. Forced to do so, we can only conduct a "sea selection" and recruit all 52 international footballers into the national football team to have a temporary "draft".
52 internationals, enough to form 4 sets of lineups for warm-up PK. Each lineup has 13 players, including 11 starters + 2 substitutes. In the absence of time, a knockout tournament can be held, giving each player at least 2 games to impress the coaching staff.
At the same time, the Vietnamese team has also announced the training list of 30 international footballers, which is 22 less than the national football team. When the two were compared, the media lamented that the country had defeated the Vietnamese team in an unprecedented way.