Guo Tianyu Zheng Zhi was out, Li Xiaopeng circled the list of international players, and the Japanese men's football team was happy early
On January 20, Beijing time, there is still a week to go before the national football team against the Japanese men's football team. Coach Li Xiaopeng has confirmed that the team will leave Shanghai on a charter flight on January 23 for the away saitama match venue in Japan. On the 20th, Li Xiaopeng will circle the list of "25+4" in the World Preliminary Round, due to the epidemic and other factors, Li Xiaopeng recruited 52 international footballers to carry out training, in fact, only 44 international players participated, and 4 naturalized players who were far away in Brazil did not return to training.
In the first training match, Li Xiaopeng let assistant coaches Li Jinyu and Chen Yang lead the team to conduct an internal teaching match, and the two teams were divided into "lineup" and "sparring lineup", and played a total of 50 minutes in the first and second halves, with a score of 1-1. Li Xiaopeng believes that this internal teaching competition has seen the momentum of the national football players, and also exceeded the expectations of the coaching staff, everyone is still unsatisfied, and the young players of the international football team have shown their status to prove that they are competitive in the World Preliminary Round.
On the 20th, there will be the last internal game, this game will take the standard time of the World Preliminary Round, and through the help of the Shanghai Football Association, Invited Xu Qiangqiang, an active referee of the Chinese Super League, as the referee, Li Xiaopeng still let assistant coaches Li Jinyu and Chen Yang lead the two teams to play, and he will watch the performance of each player on the sidelines. Different from the previous first training match, the second game did not imitate the Japanese team's thinking according to the "lineup" and "sparring lineup", but fair competition, giving all international players the opportunity to fully show their strength and energy.
Because there are many fans rumors that Zheng Zhi will enter the list of players who will enter the World Preliminary Tournament, but in fact, this news is not accurate, the 41-year-old Zheng Zhi did not participate in two confrontation matches, but helped Li Xiaopeng to carry out special training as an assistant coach and observe the selection, so he could not participate in the World Preliminary Tournament as a player, but would follow Li Xiaopeng in the coaching staff to continue to serve as an assistant coach. In addition, there is a training player Guo Tianyu, because of the family leave, he has not returned to the team to participate, so he will most likely not be able to follow the team to the World Preliminary Tournament.
In addition, there are 5 naturalized players who have been in contact with Li Xiao's assistant coaching team, the bad news is that they cannot all arrive in Japan to meet the national football team, the good news is that Alain and Luo Guofu have expressed their love for China and will go to Japan to meet with the national team. Local player Wu Lei will also travel to Japan on time to join the team to compete. Alain also replied to questions from netizens on social media, saying that he would arrive in Japan to participate in the World Preliminary Tournament.
I think that the national football team with Luo Guofu + Alan + Jiang Guangtai is still competitive in the group. The list of 25 people circled by Li Xiaopeng is the best performing player in the training game, so compared with the national football team led by Li Tie, it is more prominent in the strength of local players.
Therefore, I predict the starting line: Zhang Yuning, the front line; the midfielders: Axon, Fernando, Alain, Xu Xin, Wu Xi; the back line: Zhang Linpeng, Jiang Guangtai, Zheng Zheng, Wang Shenchao; the goalkeeper: Wang Dalei. And Wu Lei, Wei Shihao, will also be reused, to succeed the absent naturalized players. Dai Weijun, a 23-year-old midfielder, if he can solve the transfer problem, following the national football team can bring good help to Li Xiaopeng.