After the second internal teaching game, the national football team initially finalized the list of coaching team + players who went to Japan, and some players who were not selected will leave the big troops one after another, which marks the official departure of the national team from the stage of inspecting players to the stage of targeted preparation for Japan!
Use variety show ideas to engage in PK to maintain balance
Successive Chinese national team coaches, after taking office, will say that the door of the national team is open to everyone and will give players a fair chance to compete; but in fact, whether it is Lippi or Li Tie's national team, who is the main force, who is the substitute, who is the sparring partner, once a few training sessions have passed, the players have a number in mind. Setting the main squad early has led to very subtle changes in the mentality of many players, and there are not good situations such as insufficient enthusiasm of players and lack of competitiveness within the national team.
After Li Xiaopeng took over the national football team, he faced a major test as soon as he came up (playing Japan and losing is acceptable to everyone, mainly playing Vietnam on the first day of the New Year), and at this stage, he certainly cannot give up the old players. But this time so many new people were recruited, and there was an unprecedentedly large coaching team during the Training Camp in Shanghai, which shows that Li Xiaopeng has also begun to consider the future.
How should the future be balanced with the present? How can the national team continue to maintain internal competitiveness? This time, the "big national team" idea of the Chinese men's football team is like a combined version of the women's volleyball team + men's basketball red and blue team in previous years; that is, like the women's volleyball team, more players and coaches are recruited, and Lang Ping (Li Xiaopeng) is in charge of all the coaching team members, and the player's life and death power is also like the men's basketball red and blue team, using the draft to maintain the balance of the two team lineups and strengthen competition. When the outside world calls the two teams "Chen Yang Team" and "Li Jinyu Team", and then think of the so-called teams in many entertainment programs are also distributed by mentors through the draft, so many fans also ridicule this game is sent to Hunan Satellite TV to broadcast live!
Considering that at this stage of the Chinese team, it is difficult to make an international warm-up match, this internal PK allows the national team to recruit talents, give more players the opportunity to perform, let different players follow different coaches to adapt to different playing styles, and how effective the operation of different positions is, it will take time to test.
In the list of national football players broken by Xiao Zhao, a famous media personality in Beijing Youth Daily, of the 23 players who participated in the domestic training, 12 were from the Li Jinyu team and 11 players were from the Chen Yang team. In the coaching team that went to Japan, in addition to head coach Li Xiaopeng, foreign chief assistant coach Peipu, and Zheng Zhi and Gao Yao, two assistant coaches responsible for special training, The Chen Yang team (Chen Yang + physical coach Owen) and the Li Jinyu team (Wang Liang + goalkeeper coach Li Leilei) also had two people each; looking at this list, among the players who did not follow Li Tie to the top 12 matches, there were veterans such as Zheng Zheng, Tan Long, and Ji Xiang; there were also U23 players such as Liu Yang and Deng Hanwen, as well as U23 players such as Wu Shaocong and Dai Weijun. It can be said that the first period of national football training during the Li Xiaopeng period maintained a balance in all aspects.
Simulating the actual battle of the national football team, the players of Chen Yang's team compete for the main force and have a position advantage
Considering that the league will be played on January 4, and the players need to start from the physical reserve when they come to the national team, the teaching game on the 16th will play for 50 minutes, and this teaching game will play for 90 minutes, which can be interpreted as a careful arrangement for players who are going to Japan to gradually adjust their competitive status. Of course, as early as the interview with Li Xiaopeng broadcast by CCTV on the 11th, Li Xiaopeng mentioned the warm-up match on the 20th, one team to simulate Japan's formation and playing style, the other team is to deal with Japan's main lineup; therefore, this teaching game is also regarded as a highly simulated battle away to Japan!
Although the starting players sent by The Li Jinyu team and the Chen Yang team are different in the two matches, from all the public information, the starting arrangement of the Two Games of the Li Jinyu Team is 433 formation, and the Chen Yang team is 532 or 541. Considering that from the beginning of the Round of 40 to the round of 12, the Japanese team has always been a 4-back system, and they have changed the formation from the original 4231 to 433 from the 4th round to the 433 from the 4th round, and the possibility of them playing the Chinese team to line up 5 defenders is very small. On the other hand, compared with Japan, the Chinese team is absolutely inferior in strength, and when Li Tie led the team to play Japan in the first round, the first half was a 532 iron barrel array. Obviously, the Li Jinyu team, which debuted in the 433 formation, simulated the Japanese team...
Of course, because the starting players of the Chen Yang team (especially the back line) are relatively young, and the main lineup of the Li Tie period itself was scattered to different positions of the two teams when grouping, it is difficult for all parties to directly equate the Chen Yang team with the main configuration of the national football team.
In Li Xiaopeng's coaching staff, foreign assistant coach Pep was Li Xiaopeng's assistant in charge of tactical design in the 2019 season in Luneng; Sports Weekly also broke out that the tactical design of the two round of 12 matches against Japan and Vietnam was mainly responsible for him.
Pep plans to fly from Spain to Japan on the 22nd, the Chinese team plans to depart on the 23rd, and players such as Wu Lei and Jiang Guangtai are likely to arrive in Japan on the 23rd. Considering that entering Japan during a special period will face extremely cumbersome procedures, it is difficult to go to the stadium to train on the same day, and the national football team only has three training classes left in Japan! The national football team has sufficient preparation time, it is impossible to save all the work to the end; therefore, the preparation of the national team against Japan is obviously the responsibility of the Chinese coach in the early stage; the last three training sessions, Pep then strengthens the background of targeted deployment, so the basic formation and tactical play adopted by the Chen Yang team responsible for simulating the national football team in the teaching game is likely to be the tactical framework of the Japanese team. Therefore, these players who have been practicing with Chen Yang will have a position advantage over the players who have been simulating the Japanese team under Li Jinyu, in the competition of the main lineup.
Axon released the national football pigeons, and three Brazilian naturalized to join into a double-edged sword
After breaking the list of 23+6 players in the national football team, Xiao Zhao, a well-known media person in Beijing Youth Daily, broke out: "The number of team delegations to visit Japan is limited, so the total number of international footballers who actually arrive at the away game is likely to be only 25." This means that once some of the Players and Naturalized Players in Europe confirm that they can participate in the team, up to 4 of the 23 players participating in the Shanghai training camp may remain in China"!
The 29 players are divided according to position, including 3 goalkeepers, 11 defenders, 7 midfielders, 8 offensive players; from common sense analysis, from 29 to 25, the defensive line should be reduced by at least two, the offensive line should be reduced by at least one, and the other place depends on how the head coach makes trade-offs in three lines. In the process of reducing 29 to 25, the three naturalizations that are still in Brazil have attracted much attention from the outside world and are also possible variables! Among them, Ma Dexing, a well-known media person in the "Sports Weekly", confirmed that Alain had a high probability of going to Japan; the "Football" newspaper confirmed that the small motorcycle was applying for a visa to fly to Japan, and if there was no accident, the three Brazilian naturalized players would take off together...
When Fernando, Alain, and Lo Arequeur were all on the 23+6 list, it also made Axon, who was not on the list, look particularly eye-catching! However, when Axon said goodbye, he vowed that "he is a Chinese, as long as the national team is called, he will definitely come back." It was a scene in itself, and there was no need for him not to go to Japan. And the three people who looked forward to the Japanese report, Fernando left China on August 8 last year, the past five months, no one knows what he is doing; and Alain and Luo Guofu have not trained systematically for more than two months, and the game... When Luo Guofu posted a photo of himself resuming training a few days ago, there were already signs of happiness; even if these three people arrived in Japan, what is the competitive state and what physical state, everyone has no bottom!
If these naturalized physical conditions are still good, there is no doubt that it will increase the possibility of the Chinese team being upset in japan, and it will also help to win the "life and death battle" with Vietnam on the first day of the New Year. And the return of the three Brazilian naturalizations will naturally increase the expectations of the outside world; but if these three players who have long lacked systematic training and competition are not in an ideal physical state, without them, public opinion will let them run far and wide, it is better not to invite criticism of Li Xiaopeng; with a bad performance, the outside world will not blame these naturalizations, and it will be criticized why Li Xiaopeng is in such a poor state and in the context of the use, the expected return of the three Brazilian naturalizations will become a double-edged sword for Li Xiaopeng to prepare for the 12th round!