On January 27, Li Xiaopeng will usher in his first official match in charge of the Chinese national team. Facing the Japanese team, which is sprinting towards the group qualification of the round of 12, the Chinese team playing away is bound to encounter a bitter battle. At the pre-match press release on the 26th, Li Xiaopeng's words made people feel that he had "won", but he did not win the Japanese team's head coach Mori Hoichi...
For the Chinese team, there is only a faint hope of qualifying at present. Li Xiaopeng's appointment is largely regarded by the outside world as "a dead horse as a living horse doctor." However, this does not mean that the Chinese team has no desire for anything in the next round of 12. The team first strives to continue to retain the spark of hope, as long as there is a dawn, it must strive for the group qualification. Secondly, at this stage, the national football team mainly has to play these two games with Japan and Vietnam. Playing Japan can no longer lose both the scene and the result as they did in the first leg. Against Vietnam on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the Chinese team must strive to win and refuse to block the Chinese fans on the first day of the Year of the Tiger.
However, it is not easy for the national football team to play a good game under the "Nian Gen'er". The pressure on Li Xiaopeng appeared after the team had just arrived in Japan. First, Luo Guofu shelled the national football team in Weibo for its poor work because of the cancellation of flights. Subsequently, Fernando quit the national football team halfway and returned to Brazil on the grounds of his family's good health. The problem of naturalized players, which was a headache during Li Tie's coaching period, continued to Li Xiaopeng.com.
When the pre-match news of the Sino-Japanese war was released, the Japanese media obviously did a lot of homework. When the Japanese reporter asked Li Xiaopeng, "At present, many Chinese Super League clubs are in financial crisis, and many naturalized players have terminated their contracts with the team, whether this will affect the performance of the Chinese team", Li Xiaopeng's answer is both a small shock to the Japanese reporter and a high emotional intelligence.
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Just now this gentleman just saw the bad side, not the good side. This time, the naturalized players came to the team from afar, and they could see their love for Chinese football to help Chinese football.
——Li Xiaopeng, head coach of the Chinese men's national football team
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Soon after the end of this conference, Li Xiaopeng received praise from the outside world. The last time the Chinese coach's press conference came into focus was Li Tie's 32-minute press conference against Australia. At that press conference, Li Tie said that he had said goodbye to Alain, saying that "Alain can't stand it anymore." That "spit conference" made Li Tie completely become the target of everyone, and also became his last press conference in the position of national football coach. Nowadays, comparing Li Xiaopeng with Li Tie's press conference, it is clear at a glance which is higher and which is lower. At least in the face of the media and even the public, Li Xiaopeng has already won Li Tie.
Of course, Li Xiaopeng's attitude toward naturalized players is not limited to the "verbal effort" at the press conference. When Alain and Luo Guofu met with the national football team, Li Xiaopeng first told Alain that he needed him too much, and he had a bottom in his heart when he came. Then he lovingly hugged Luo Guofu, who was still complaining about the national football team a day ago, causing an uproar. For the naturalized players, Li Xiaopeng gave full respect. Only by smoothing out the relationship with naturalized players can we talk about technical and tactical issues in a down-to-earth manner.
As for the technical and tactical issues against the Japanese team, Li Xiaopeng must first ensure that he is not "hit" by the opponent, but at the same time, he cannot shrink the defense like in the first leg of the match. At present, the national football team will adopt a three-centre-back system, and two wing-backs can attack and defend. After all, Japan's team has been in an unstable state since the start of the round of 12, and coach Mori Hoshiichi is also controversial in Japan. Secondly, the two main central defenders of the Japanese team, Maya Yoshida and Kenyo Fuan, will miss the Sino-Japanese battle due to injury, and the Chinese team will have no reason to just defend and not attack like the first Sino-Japanese war. At the same time, the new coach of the national football team, Li Xiaopeng, is also very mysterious for the Japanese team. What kind of lineup and tactics he will use to face the Japanese team is still a mystery.
I know that he once coached in Wuhan, only know such a message, as for how he, as the head coach of the national team, how to lead the team to play, we are not very clear.
——Japanese men's national team head coach Hoshiichi Mori
For Li Xiaopeng, the high emotional intelligence speech at the press conference, the good relationship with naturalized players and the mystery in the eyes of opponents are just foreshadowing. What can really make him establish his prestige is, in the final analysis, the performance of the national football team. If he can lead the team to play an excellent process at the 2002 Saitama World Cup football stadium in Japan, and even achieve satisfactory results, Li Xiaopeng can really start the first shot.