At 18:00 Beijing time on January 27, the 7th round of Group B of the Round of 12 matches, the Japanese team sat at the Saitama 2002 World Cup Stadium to face the Chinese team.
This contest will be the debut of the new national football coach Li Xiaopeng after taking office, but in the case of Luo Guofu's suspension, Li Xiaopeng only has 2 naturalized available, and it is difficult to lead the national football team to break the embarrassing record of 24 years of no win.
The national football team currently hangs in the balance, can Li Xiaopeng's debut continue the life of the team?
Watch point 1: Li Xiaopeng made his debut
After the first 6 rounds of the round of 12, due to the public opinion caused by the field, Li Tie chose to resign, and Li Xiaopeng, the best manager of the two-time Chinese Super League, took over his post. However, when Li Xiaopeng took office, the league was still in progress, and it was not officially formed until the middle of January this year, but less than half a month after leading the team to train, Li Xiaopeng ushered in his debut as a national football coach.
Compared with Li Tie, who has trained many times and made his debut in the top 40 competition, Li Xiaopeng is facing a situation that is not only a short training period, but also the opponent is the strongest Japanese team in Asia. In addition to Li Xiaopeng, Dai Weijun can also usher in his debut in the national football team if he gets the opportunity to play.
Watch point two: the national football team has not won in 24 years
In the first round of matches, after the national football team lost 0-1 to Japan in the middle of the position, it has not won 12 consecutive games against this opponent, with a record of 5 draws and 7 losses. In the 80s and 90s of the last century, the national football team still had the advantage of facing the Japanese team, but after entering the new millennium, the national football team faced the Japanese team for most of the time without any ability to fight back. Even if the East Asian Cup Japan team plays in the second team or even the third team, the national football team has no way to take the opponent. Since the 2017 East Asian Cup, the national football team has lost to its opponents for three consecutive times.
The last time the national football team defeated the Japanese team, it goes back to the 1998 Danas Cup (the predecessor of the East Asian Cup), and Li Xiaopeng's debut can really lead the national football team to break the embarrassment of 24 years of unwinnable opponents?
Before the game, jiang Guangtai, a naturalized center-back of the national football team, expressed his hope for a clean sheet against Japan.
Highlight 3: Many of the main players of the Japanese team are absent
In the first round of the match, the two main players of the Japanese team, Hiroki Sakai and Takumi Minamino, did not have the opportunity to play against the national football team due to injury. With the deepening of the round of 12, as well as the deepening of the Europa League season, the Japanese team with a large number of players in Europe is also plagued by injuries, Furuhashi Andehashi and Yoshida Are also not called up because of injuries, the core of the defense, Fuan Kenyang, has withdrawn, will the Japanese team give the national football team a chance in the absence of multiple main players? But even so, the Japanese team's 23-man roster still has 16 players playing in the European League, and in the national football team, only Wu Lei has been reduced to a marginal role in La Liga.
Watch point four: 5 Naturalization only 2 generals remain, the national football team still relies on Wu Lei?
Axon was not included in the final list, Fernan returned to Brazil halfway, while Luo Guofu was suspended for 2 yellows, and only naturalized internationals who could play in Japan were Alain and Jiang Guangtai. Alain has not trained systematically since November last year, and although Jiang Guangtai participated with the team in the second stage of the Chinese Super League last season, he did not follow the national football team to participate in the Shanghai training camp.
In the case that only 1 Alain can play in the attacking end of the naturalized international team, all the offensive pressure of the national football team needs to be borne by Wu Lei, Zhang Yuning, as one of the few central forward candidates in the national football team, will help Wu Lei share the pressure?
Watch point five: there is no hope of qualifying, can you act as a spoiler?
Six points behind Australia, and australia's home game against Vietnam in this round is very certain, and the national football team is only theoretically possible to win the third place in the group. However, at present, Australia and Japan are competing for the second place in the group, and as long as the national football team drags the Japanese team into the water, Australia may return to the second place in the group. Of course, if the national football team really wants to continue the suspense as Li Xiaopeng said, then taking points from the Japanese team is the bottom line.
Watch point six: lose the ≈ out, get points to continue hope
From the beginning of his tenure, Li Xiaopeng did not emphasize that the team should have the confidence of "beating the Japanese team" like his predecessor Li Tie, but hoped that the team would not add to the fans during the Spring Festival and could continue the suspense of out/promotion. However, when facing the Japanese team away, once the national football team is double-killed by the opponent, it is possible to get out of the game early even if it wins against the Vietnamese team. Only by taking points from the Japanese team and even defeating the opponent can the national football team avoid losing even the theoretical hope after the next 2 rounds.
Watch point seven: Fight against Japan, Li Xiaopeng also uses 5 defenders?
According to previous media reports, during the nearly 10 days of training in Shanghai, the national football team focused on the formation of 3 center-backs and 5 defenders. In the first round against the Japanese team in Doha, Li Tie sacrificed a 5-guard formation, and as a result, the first half was completely suppressed by the Japanese team for half-court attack and defense drills. In the case of a huge gap in strength, if Li Xiaopeng continues Li Tie's technical and tactical playing style when facing the Japanese team, and there is no naturalized player in the front court to form a group battle, can the scene be improved? And in the first round of the match with the Japanese team, in the second half of the national football team sent a number of naturalized players, the situation on the field was instantly reversed, but Li Xiaopeng currently has only 2 naturalized players in his hands.
Watch point eight: The Japanese team sits in The blessed land, and the national football team is even more difficult to break
The Japan Football Association has placed the saitama 2002 World Cup stadium, which is one of the home stadiums of Japan's J-League powerhouse Urawa Red Diamonds and one of the home stadiums of the Japanese national team. According to the statistics of japanese media, the Japanese team has achieved a record of 21 wins, 3 draws and only 1 loss in 25 matches in Saitama, with a winning rate of 84%. Before the game, Japan international Hiroki Sakai said that sitting in a blessed place to face the Chinese team, they had great confidence to score 3 points.
Watch point nine: the new national football coach debut win rate is extremely high, Li Xiaopeng continues the legend?
After 2000, the national football team has been the coach of the country, and the winning rate in his debut is quite high, Li Xiaopeng's predecessor Li Tie, officially led the team to the top 40 in the 7-0 victory over Guam. Lippi's debut was in the last Round of 12, where he drew 0-0 at home to Qatar; Gao Hongbo, who coached the national football team twice, made his debut to draw 1-1 with powerful Germany and defeated maldives 4-0 in the World Preliminary Round. The controversial Perrin and Camacho led the team's debuts to victory.
In addition to Cannavaro, who led the team as a temporary worker, the new national football coach was defeated in his last debut, or Yin Tiesheng in 2008, who lost 1-3 to Oman in the warm-up match. But compared with his predecessors, Li Xiaopeng is facing the Japanese team, the strength is above the national football team, And it is quite difficult for Li Xiaopeng to make a start to the show.
Watch point ten: nemesis referee main outpost, the national football team more fierce?
The referee of the law enforcement national football team and the Japanese team is Jassim from Qatar. In the 2019 Asian Cup, Jassem lawned two national football matches, losing 0-2 to South Korea and 0-3 to Iran. In addition, in the 2020 U23 Asian Cup, Jassem enforced the 97-year-old national Olympic and Uzbek matches, and the Chinese team eventually lost 0-2. Jassim previously enforced the Chinese national team, the Chinese team all lost, and the law enforcement of the AFC Champions League, the Chinese Super League team is also less than the loss, this time facing Japan, can the national football team avoid bad luck?
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