The national football team went out
What kind of appearance?
At 18:00 Beijing time on January 27, the Chinese men's football team will challenge the Japanese team away. What will the new national football team look like?
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The non-main reason for the formation is in the midfield
Whether it is training during the Shanghai period or training with overseas players after arriving in Japan, the national football team seems to have sent a very clear message, and in the future matches with the Japanese team will no longer "swing the bus". Because the basic formation of the national football drill is 343, and the actual game may become "541" according to the development of the situation on the field. The formation of "343" is very good, not conservative at all, and it seems that the deployment of the front, middle and rear lines of the national football team is more balanced. But it is one thing to imagine, but it is quite another to be in practice.
In the first leg of the Doha clash, the national football team lost to Australia in the first round with a large score of 0-3, which caused a huge psychological gap between the team before and after the game, which directly led to the team abandoning the more aggressive "433" arrangement used in the first game, and sent a "532" formation based on solid defense in the subsequent match with Japan, with Wu Lei and Axon on the front line. However, in the actual game, the national football team can rarely have the opportunity to attack and counterattack, until 60 minutes later, through substitutions, that is, replaced by three pure attacking players such as Alain, Luo Guofu and Arthur Junmin, and changed the formation on the field to a more balanced 442, the situation on the national football field has improved, and the offensive end has only improved. Two midfielders, Yin Hongbo and Kim Kyung-do, who started earlier, were replaced.
One of the post-match statements is that because the naturalized players did not start, they were passive, and the most fundamental thing was because the coach was conservative in his guiding ideology. There may be some truth to this. But in fact, the reason why the national football team was suppressed by the other side in the backfield of the other side, basically in a passive beating, is basically due to the lack of midfield and the inability to compete with the Japanese team. Because the ball is always at the feet of the Japanese team, the national football team has always been passively chasing and defending. The national football team is obviously passive in the match against Saudi Arabia, in fact, the problem is also in the midfield. It was not until November last year, after the use of Xu Xin while retaining Wu Xi, that the situation of the national football midfield was completely improved. Xu Xin's appearance has effectively strengthened the control of the midfield, and also liberated Wu Xi, which has enabled the national football team to go on a regular basis in the second leg of the match with Oman and Australia, although it is regrettable that the match with Oman failed to score 3 points.
This time to fight against the Japanese team, in fact, the most important thing, perhaps the most important problem that needs to be solved by the coaching staff is still the midfield. Judging from the current situation, although Li Xiaopeng has just taken over, the idea of using the combination of Wu Xi and Xu Xin will probably not change.
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Three-back is shaped two wings are more deadly
Judging from the training situation in the late stage of the national football team's Shanghai training camp and after arriving in Japan, the national football team is likely to play in the "343" formation, which is envisaged to be a three-center-back, and the players on both sides of the wing can go up and down. But the real problem now is that over the years, Chinese players seem to have rarely succeeded in implementing the three-centre-back tactical system, whether at club or national team level. Especially in the Lippi era, the national team has repeatedly adopted a three-back tactic, and the only success is the final round of the 2018 Fifactian World Cup qualifiers in Russia against Qatar in the final round of the round of 12. But the situation at that time was that the Qatari team had no hope of qualifying early, and to some extent, it was "no desire and no demand" to fight the Chinese team again. But today's opponent, Japan, urgently needs to get 3 points from the Chinese team to ensure the possibility of second place in the group and direct qualification.
From another point of view, under the command of Mori Baoichi, the Japanese team adopted a relatively stable "4231" in the first two rounds of the round of 12, and then changed it to "433", but the positions of the three midfielders may be fine-tuned according to the opponent's situation. If there is no accident, when the Japanese team fights again, I am afraid that it will continue to use the 433 formation, and the three midfielders will adopt the "inverted triangle" position, that is, arrange for the new captain Endo Airlines to be a "single defensive midfielder", Tanaka Bi and Hidemasa Morita in front of the organization and tandem, and then rotate according to the actual situation and process of the game.
But more importantly, Japan's Jun Ito has also returned from injury, and his assault on the right side and the left are the assault of left-back Nagatomo Yuto, which will put a lot of pressure on the wing defenders on both sides of the Chinese team. The national football team adopted a 343 formation, and the players on both sides of the wing position, Wang Shenchao (left) or Zhang Linpeng (Ji Xiang or Deng Hanwen), originally hoped that these two would use attack to suppress each other, but could it work? It's hard to say. Once the opponent countered with an attack, the players on the two wings had to retreat, and the two wingers in front of them, Wu Lei, Liu Binbin (or Wei Shihao), had to retreat accordingly and assist in the defense, and the entire formation became "541". It's like in the first leg of the game, when the national football team also arranged Axon and Wu Lei's double forwards, but because it was almost impossible to get the ball in the front, it was difficult to show offensive power. In the same way, if in tomorrow's Japan-China battle, although the national football team is a 343 formation, if the forward players can't get the ball, or even be directly suppressed by the other side, it is still possible to fall into a passive beating situation, after all, the overall strength of the Japanese team is needless to say.
So, can the 343 formation or tactical arrangement of the national football team work in the game? As Li Xiaopeng said, "It is to see the players play on the spot." Therefore, "343" or "541" is actually not important.
For now, Zhang Yuning should be the first choice for the center forward position; the two sides will still be Wu Lei, Liu Binbin (or Wei Shihao). Although Alain's current situation can play, after all, he has not participated in an official game for two months, and if he is directly arranged to start, I am afraid it will be too risky. In contrast, it may be more reasonable to come off the bench in the second half. And is Zhang Linpeng arranged in the center-back position, with Jiang Guangtai and Zhu Chen as the third center-back, or pulled to the right wing position? There is still a need for the coaching staff to weigh again. If Zhang Linpeng is placed in the center-back position, Ji Xiang or Deng Hanwen will take the right wing position.
So, what was the battle between Japan and China? Again, the key is whether the midfielder can take advantage of the confrontation with the other side. Of course, everyone hopes that the national football team can give a satisfactory answer.