In the past decade, many of our fans believe that the biggest shortcoming of the national football team is the weakness of the front. Because the league has long since lost the soil for the growth of local centers, in this key position, the club will all choose foreign aid, but also the kind of personal ability, one person can solve many problems, so that it can easily solve the team's offensive problems, so there is no need to work hard to cultivate local centers, time-consuming and laborious to risk the risk of performance impact. The league does not cultivate local centers, and the national team is naturally unavailable.
However, in recent years, our national football team has not been reduced to the Asian 3rd class level because of the inability of the front, and even once let us see the hope of returning to the Asian first-class, the main reason is that although we lack local centers, the existence of a player has made this talent feel less than the feeling of disconnection. This player is Gao Lin, a center who currently plays for the Chinese Super League local tycoon Shenzhen team.
As we all know, Gao Lin first played as a center forward, and he also scored in the 2005 World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, and he was selected for the national team in 2005, when he was 19 years old, and represented the national team in the East Asian Final Four. It can be said that Gao Lin was the proud son of heaven at that time. However, then Gao Lin began to gradually enter the first team, and then transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande, and he could not play in the center forward position. Gradually he became a full-back. Although Gao Lin no longer plays as a center forward, he still shines at full-back. Because he has a strong ability to hold the ball, can break through and pass the ball, his presence allows the foreign aid in the center position of Guangzhou Evergrande to score comfortably. So over the years, the foreign aid in Evergrande's forward position has changed wave after wave, but Gao Lin has not changed for many years, and almost all foreign aides like him.
However, playing full-back always means that he is farther away from the goal than in the center position, and there are fewer opportunities to shoot, so gradually Gao Lin's ability to score points has become worse. Because he was away from the goal for a long time, his shots were all vigorously pumped, so we often saw Gao Lin's shots in front of the goal become anti-aircraft guns. So the fans gave him the nickname "Gao Airplane".
However, although he can't be expected to score too much, Gao Lin has height, body, and can also hold the ball, organize and pass the ball in front of the field, and can help his teammates who are inserted in the back to create opportunities. Therefore, Gao Lin has also been the main center of the national football team, which is also the best result that has been finally obtained by many players who have tried. However, with the passage of time, Gao Lin was also thirty-five or sixteen, and by the end of his career, he really needed a successor. The Guangzhou team has also carefully prepared a very suitable successor for him, that is, Yang Liyu, a local striker in 97.
Before joining Evergrande, Yang Liyu also played in the center position, especially in Hiddink's national Olympic team, and played a lot of color in the position of center forward. However, he has appeared more at the full-back position at Evergrande, and under Cannavaro's guidance, he has played more and more brilliantly in that position. In the 2019 season, Yang Liyu reached a small peak in his career, scoring 6 goals and 12 assists in one season, once suppressing the Oscar of foreign aid midfielder, the biggest player in the Chinese Super League. It can be said that Yang Liyu at that time was in the sky. However, according to media reports, Yang Liyu was returned because he was not active in the training of the national team, and he was also punished by Guangzhou Evergrande Club. Coupled with the subsequent injury, Yang Liyu soon fell into the trough. In the 2020 season, he only had 4 assists, did not score a goal, and gradually became a substitute.
With the departure of foreign aid and naturalized players this season, Yang Liyu has regained his chances, and he has taken on a heavy responsibility in the absence of a center forward in the team. Although Yang Liyu wasted some opportunities in the championship competition, he did create many opportunities and successfully threatened the opponent. The most important thing is that he also has a very beautiful world wave, and this world wave proves that he is not only Gao Lin's successor, he can also score goals himself.
It was the 53rd minute of the championship group Guangzhou team against Changchun Yatai, Yatai defenders in the penalty area front of the clearance mistake, directly kicked to Yang Liyu, Yang Liyu reacted quickly, in the arc top area to the right of a collar, dodged the gap and directly bent the bow to take the arrow to shoot long-range, the ball drew a beautiful arc directly into the goal dead corner, the score became 2-0. At that time, the ball amazed many people, the speed, the arc, the power was simply perfect. It can be seen that Yang Liyu has found the feeling of a former killer.
Now Yang Liyu can not only play the role of Gao Lin in the team, but also has a great improvement in shooting, it can be said that he has completed the sublimation. And in the recent big list of the national football team, Yang Liyu also returned after two years. Of course, what can make Yang Liyu return is not the 5 goals he scored in 20 games this season, but his perfect world wave against Yatai, which let us see his change.
Are you optimistic that Yang Liyu can compete for a position in the national team? What do you think Yang Liyu can improve now? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!