On the evening of January 27, Beijing time, the Chinese men's football team will visit the Saitama 2002 World Cup Stadium in Japan to challenge the 7th round of the World Preliminary Round of 12 in Qatar. Although the huge gap between the strength of the Chinese and Japanese teams is obvious, since there is no theoretical hope of losing the qualification, the Chinese team will not give up the effort and confidence to win points on the opponent. In order to play this game well, the Chinese team has been "fully armed" in terms of technical tactics and spirit. At the game mobilization meeting, Li Xiaopeng, the main leader of the Chinese Football Association to lead the team, encouraged the whole team in a "moving and affectionate" way at the game mobilization meeting, no matter what the final result is, they must hope to play a game that does not leave regrets for themselves and does not add to the fans.
According to the schedule plan, the "second match" between the Chinese and Japanese teams in this year's Round of 12 will be kicked off at 7 p.m. local time on January 27 and 6 p.m. Beijing time at the Saitama 2002 World Cup Stadium. Although the Chinese team has just undergone a coach change before this, and has not been able to play any official international warm-up match since the end of the 6th round of the Round of 12. But as of now, the team still has theoretical hopes of qualifying in the World Preliminary Round in Qatar. Therefore, in order to make this small chance of emergence, the Chinese team is still ready to go all out to play this round of matches.
The Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned that on January 24, the morning of the second day after the team arrived in Tokyo, the Chinese team held a pre-match mobilization meeting for the Chinese and Japanese competitions at the station hotel. Except for the naturalized players Alain and Luo Guofu, who were "late" due to flight problems, all other members of the Chinese team delegation participated in the mobilization meeting.
Although before that, the relevant leaders of the General Administration of Sport and the Chinese Football Association had made special trips to Shanghai to visit and encourage the team. But As a new coach, Li Xiaopeng played more of a listener role at that time. At this mobilization meeting, Li Xiaopeng made a passionate mobilization of the whole team for the first time as a manager, and used "3 worthy" to motivate the whole team to play a good game on the evening of the 27th. He said: "We must strive to achieve satisfactory results, worthy of the hard work of the General Administration of Sports and the Football Association support team, worthy of each of us who have worked hard for football for many years, and worthy of the support of our families." ”
As the "supreme leader" of the Chinese team delegation, Chen Shuyuan, chairman of the Chinese Football Association, once again made a short and sincere message to the whole team. The general meaning of his speech is: I hope that under the leadership of the new coach Li Xiaopeng, the whole team will show the spirit of the Chinese men's national football team in the next game, unite as one, and build a veritable national team that can fight well and has a good style, while strictly abiding by various epidemic prevention regulations.
Also encouraging the whole team was the new leader Qi Jun. Due to the recent severe situation of international epidemic prevention and control, and the team's staff in the Tokyo station hotel in Japan also infected with the new crown virus, Qi Jun specially introduced the specific epidemic prevention requirements of various epidemic prevention measures, hotels, training grounds and competition venues to the whole team during the period in Japan. Remind the team members not to relax their vigilance against the epidemic while preparing for the game with all their might.
Of course, the biggest challenge of the Chinese team in this round of competition comes from the competition itself. Although many Japanese players, including Maya Yoshida, Kenhiro Fuan, Seiji Muroya, Kaoru Mitsuma, Hirohide Furuhashi, and Koo Tani, missed the game due to injury, the Japanese team still has a huge "overseas corps" to help, and the team is the best in Asia in terms of individual technical ability and overall collaboration ability.
Since the start of the Asian Cup qualifiers on June 23, 1975, the Chinese team has encountered 28 official international matches with the Japanese team, with a result of 8 wins, 7 draws and 13 losses, which shows that the Chinese team is obviously at a disadvantage in the confrontation between the two sides. What is even more lamentable is that since winning 2-0 against Japan in the 4th Danas Cup Invitational Tournament in March 1998, the Chinese team has not won this opponent for nearly 24 years. The most recent meeting between the two sides was in the second round of the Round of 12 on September 7 last year, when the Chinese team, which was fully shrunken, lost 0-1 to the opponent. At present, the world rankings of the Chinese and Japanese teams are 74th (8th in Asia) and 26th (2nd in Asia). A series of data objectively reflects the huge gap in the strength level of the two teams.
So how does the Chinese team seek the possibility of away points through the rational use of technology and tactics? Judging from the previous team's training in Shanghai and the preparation for the away game in the past two days, the Chinese team has done a lot of preparations. It is understood that although the new Spanish assistant coach Pepp did not meet with the team in Tokyo until January 23, he had already conducted a more detailed technical analysis of the Chinese and Japanese teams in Barcelona through online means. The coaching team also combined the results of the brainstorming of the team members to determine the technical and tactical ideas to resist the Japanese team. All indications show that the Chinese team will most likely adopt the "three center-back" tactics in the game on the 27th. On the offensive side, the main push is the 3-4-3 formation, and the formation is adjusted to 5-4-1 when the attack is turned to defense. This style of play is also determined for the characteristics of the Japanese team's delicate foot technology, fast attack and defense conversion rate, and flexible playing style. To be sure, no matter what kind of lineup the Chinese team launches, it will strive to maintain the compactness of the formation, and will never blindly give up the attack and shrink the defense.
As for the main candidates corresponding to each position, although the coaching team will not be disclosed in the team until the 26th after the pre-match venue adaptation training, and even on the morning of the game, Li Xiaopeng himself has the answer to the approximate candidates or the vast majority of candidates. Not surprisingly, the vast majority or even all of the national football players who appear in the starting lineup of the Chinese and Japanese matches are the players who are competent in the first six rounds of the round of 12. The first choice for the goalkeeper position is still Yan Junling. Jiang Guangtai and Zhang Linpeng in the back line will take up the two main candidates if there is no accident, and the left center-back candidate will be between Zheng Zheng and Zhu Chenjie. The first choice for left-backs should be Wang Shenchao, one of the most consistent players in the first 6 rounds. As for the right wing-back, Deng Hanwen and Ji Xiang are likely to be competent. It should be noted that the possibility of Zhang Linpeng's displacement to the right also exists.
In midfield, captain Wu Xi is most likely to join Forces Xu Xin as a double back. With 3 starters in the frontcourt, it would not be surprising if Zhang Yuning played the "arrow" of the front. The remaining two candidates, 1 is most likely Wu Lei, and the other starter will be produced between Wei Shihao, Liu Binbin, and naturalized player Alain.
It is understood that in addition to outdoor training, the coaching team also uses the time after training to organize the whole team to watch the opponent's game video, combined with actual combat cases to accurately capture the advantages and "loopholes" of the opponent at both ends of the attack and defense. Since the strength of the Japanese team's attack is no secret, the coaching staff of the national football team has reminded the players more than once to run at all costs in the game, and the offensive players, especially the attacking players on the wing, must actively defend themselves.
Predict the starting lineup of the Chinese team: goalkeeper: Yan Junling; defenders: Wang Shenchao, Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Guangtai, Zhang Linpeng, Deng Hanwen; midfielders: Wei Shihao (Liu Binbin), Xu Xin, Wu Xi, Wu Lei; Forwards: Zhang Yuning.
Text/Beiqing Sports Xiao Zhao