At 18:00 Beijing time on January 27, the 7th round of the World Preliminary Round of 12 in Asia, the national football team played against the Japanese team away, and CCTV5 confirmed the live broadcast of this key game. The first leg of the two teams played 0-1, the national football team lost, but the Japanese team is not in the best state, the offensive end wasted a lot of opportunities, a group of foreign players did not play 1 + 1 greater than 2 effect, but gave people the feeling of leaderless, like the current stage of the Barça system, the midfield is full of control, but there is no super shooter pressing.
In the first 6 rounds of matches, the japanese team's offensive firepower seems to be inferior to that of the national football team, with only 5 goals, and the national football team has 7 goals. Therefore, the national football team still has a first chance against the sluggish Japanese team. Before the game, Li Xiaopeng and Wu Xi attended the press conference, and Li Xiaopeng emphasized the attitude of striving to win, saying that he would ask the team according to the criteria for promotion, and confirmed that the naturalized players were in good shape. Wu Xi expressed his hope to let go of his baggage and play a wonderful game with ease.
Ma Dexing, a well-known journalist, analyzed the lineup of the national football team and believed that the starting lineup of the national football team VS Japan will change to 343 and restart the 3 center-back system, which will be very flexible in the game, both offensive and defensive. The new starting line-up will be led by Wu Lei and Zhang Yuning, with ace naturalized international Alan replaced and Luo Guofu suspended for accumulating yellow cards.
Not surprisingly, Zhang Yuning was in the center forward position, Wu Lei and Liu Binbin (or Wei Shihao) served as forwards on both sides, Wu Xi and Xu Xin partnered in the double back, Zhang Linpeng and Wang Shenchao were ambushed on both sides; 3 center-backs were composed of Zheng Zheng, Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Guangtai, goalkeeper Yan Junling, originally Wang Dalei's voice was very high, but he was absent from the joint training in the past few days, and his body was unwell. This set of starting 11 people is a relatively balanced configuration of the national football team at this stage, and Li Xiaopeng's tactical strategy is still based on defense, playing a defensive counterattack in front of the powerful Japanese team.
According to this strategy, if the national football team is difficult to get the ball on the offensive end, the forwards on both sides will put a lot of energy into the defense, and the national football formation will actually become 541. Wu Lei and Liu Binbin (or Wei Shihao) were withdrawn to the side midfield position, and Zhang Linpeng and Wang Shenchao were withdrawn from the side midfield to the full-back, and the defensive thickness was obviously enough. Ma Dexing believes that the key to this battle of the national football team is the midfield, and whether it can take advantage of the confrontation in the midfield will determine the trend of the game.
For the Japanese team, Ma Dexing predicted that they would continue to adopt the 433 formation, Moriho would fine-tune in midfield, and the position of the three midfielders would adopt an "inverted triangle", as in the first leg, Endo Hang played a single back, and Tanaka Bi and Hideshi Morida were in the center forward position. Not surprisingly, the Japanese team continued to control the rhythm of the game, the power point is still the ribs on both sides of the front court, and in the first leg, they completed the side breakthrough through the cooperation of the ribs, so as to achieve the combination of variants to break through the national football defense line to score the winning goal. Therefore, Li Xiaopeng's 3-centre-back system will guard against this and hope that the national football team will play in its proper state in the game.