Li Yi: The away Japanese national football team can try to press high and hope that the last four games will give young people more opportunities

Live bar January 27 news The national football team will play Japan away tonight in the round of 12, and former international Li Yi believes that the national football team can try to press high at some point when looking forward to the game.

Li Yi said: "This is the first game of the new coaching staff of the national team, and it is also the first official game of the national football team in 2022. From the current situation, the Japanese team ranks second in the group with 4 wins and 2 losses and 12 points, and we are now in fifth place with 1 win, 2 draws, 3 losses and 5 points, and the gap between the two sides' points and strength is still quite obvious.

This away game is very difficult to play, but from the first game with Japan, our whole way of playing, especially the first half, is quite passive, and indeed the Japanese team is also very strong, they have a lot of players who play in Europe, the playing style is also very mature, this kind of short pass penetration. If we are still in the backcourt like the first game, I think the defense of this position may not be good. There may be very few goals conceded, or the scenes may be ugly, but 90 minutes of such a defense may not be able to hold.

So I think this game, can we raise the formation up at a certain time, or press the opponent high in the front, the Japanese team with their foot ability, if they hit our 30m area directly, it may be more difficult for us. Through the last 30 minutes of play, we can see that once we press the formation out and destroy the first and second passes of the Japanese team for the first time, I think we still have a chance, but this way of playing will be very physically draining.

Then we may need to train and race to run in, because once there is a point in the high pressing that the other party breaks, it may be in vain, so there is also a certain risk, and I think it is also very necessary to have a spirit of risk.

Then there's the thing about the naturalized players, we've seen them transfer from Brazil, some of them have come back, there are all kinds of problems. I think these naturalized players, except for Jiang Guangtai, they are all 32 or 33 years old. So now the World Cup is not very hopeful, can we consider developing our young players, giving young players more opportunities, being able to let them play, this kind of game is still different from the league.

These naturalized players have been on a break for 2 months, there are no systematic training games, these two games want them to come up with a good competitive state, I think it may not be realistic, so I think the next 4 games can give young people more opportunities, let us see the new coaching staff have new tactics and playing styles. ”

(Luke)