As the Spring Festival of 2022 approaches, our Chinese football has once again embarked on a journey to impact the World Cup. The national football team will challenge the current second-placed Japanese team on the 27th of this month. Previously, the national football team had only achieved 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses in the first six rounds of performance, and now has 5 points, ranking second from the bottom of the group, and there is only a theoretical possibility to enter the World Cup. However, there is a glimmer of hope that we cannot give up, if we can stage a miracle victory over Japan in this game, then the suspense of the national football team entering the World Cup will continue.
However, it is not easy to beat the Japanese team. Because first of all, our overall strength is relatively different from the Japanese team, the other side's International players in Europe can form 3 teams, and we only have Wu Lei to play in Europe, and we can't play yet. So we will definitely have a big gap with the other side in terms of personal ability, game rhythm and tactical execution understanding. The second is the historical record, in the past 20 years, we have faced Japan with 5 draws and 6 losses, and we have not tasted victory.
The third is from the first leg of the match between our two sides, when the national football team was demoralized because of the first 0-3 defeat to Australia, and faced a lot of public pressure. So in this game, the attitude of counter-attacking and sticking to the points was adopted. So it also allows us to see the worst scene of the national football team playing the Japanese team in the past 20 years, and the whole field is suppressed and almost breathless. However, the final result was only a small loss of 0-1, and although the Japanese team occupied the dominant position, there were not many absolute opportunities created, especially the mid-way attack they were better at, and almost did not exert their power. Instead, it was the wonderful performance of a winger who allowed them to seize the opportunity and complete the national football team. And the player who changed the game was their no. 14 winger, Junya Ito.
At that time, the Japanese team's attack was not a threat, and winger Jun Ito also took the ball and forced the national football left guard Wang Shenchao, successfully completing the cross, and the big forced Yong in the middle of the road also grabbed the point to break the goal. The reason why Ito Jun can also succeed is not only his own speed and fast pace of breakthrough change, but also related to the weak ability of the national football team in the left defender position. Although we all think that Wang Shenchao in this position has performed well, Wang Shenchao did not play in this position in the league, but on the right side. Although Wang Shenchao can make himself have a stable performance through his own experience, but in the face of high-level competitions, opponents with higher ability are not used to making him a breakthrough in defense.
Even before the second meeting between the two sides, Ito Jun was very confident in himself, he said bluntly: "I have always had the feeling that I can score goals, my duty is to be directly involved in scoring goals, I hope to help the team through goals or assists." It can be seen that he is very confident in the defense of the national football team on the left side, at least he feels that Wang Shenchao cannot defend himself.
In fact, we don't know the problem of the left-back position, but we just don't know how to solve it. Since the main force li Xuepeng on the left back was seriously injured, there has been a talent gap in this position. Even the Guangzhou team, which has always tapped talents, could not catch a big fish in the transfer market to fill the gap caused by Li Xuepeng's injury. Even they have been trying to supplement the talent in this position by transforming players for several years in a row. The national team's employment in this position is also stretched, and it is completely impossible to find any player who can run, break and pass like Li Xuepeng. Fortunately, Li Lei of Beijing Guoan rose later, but Li Lei was relative to Li Xuepeng, he could only run, the other two were so-so, but the ability to run up and down was strong, at least it could make our defense more stable. But unfortunately, with the increase of age in the past two years, Li Lei has been injured too much, and the game of the round of 12 has just caught up with his injury, and he has not played for 1 minute.
Therefore, in the end, this position is really unavailable, and only the experienced Wang Shenchao can be used to play this position. But that is Li Tie's choice, and now that Li Tie has left class, will the new coach Li Xiaopeng have his own ideas for this position? Or successfully find someone who can play in this position. At present, Li Xiaopeng is likely to have made his own choice, and he will basically use a new person in this position. And this newcomer is Liu Yang, the main left-back of the Chinese Super League champion Shandong Taishan.
In fact, this is not the first time Liu Yang has entered the national football team. As early as 3 years ago, at the Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates, when Li Xuepeng was injured and could not enter the national team, the then national football coach chose Liu Yang, who was still very young at the time, left-back. And Liu Yang immediately became the main force of the national team after entering the national team, and he started all 5 games of the Asian Cup of the national football team. It can be seen how much Lippi trusted this young general at that time. Although Liu Yang's performance at that time was not very outstanding, he had the body, young and able to run, at least in defense to help the national football team stand firm.
This season, Liu Yang has become the absolute main left-back of Shandong Taishan, and he has played for the team in a total of 25 games, starting 16 of them, scoring 2 goals and 3 assists, which is quite a good statistic. And with the increase of age, Liu Yang has matured a lot in terms of defense and attack. And after winning the championship with Shandong Taishan, it also helped his confidence a lot. The most important thing is that Li Xiaopeng was the coach of Shandong Taishan Team, he knows Liu Yang very well, and he also knows how to use Liu Yang better. So it is very likely that Li Xiaopeng will use Liu Yang to play left-back.
So can Liu Yang, who is younger, stronger and more able to run, be able to withstand the attack of Junya Idong? Do you have confidence in Liu Yang? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!