Reporter Chen Yong reported that at 18:00 Beijing time on January 27, the Chinese team will usher in the second leg of the round of 12 matches with the Japanese team at the Saitama Stadium in Japan, which is the first official match after Li Xiaopeng coached the national team. For this Sino-Japanese battle, which can be called the "most difficult debut" of all the national football coaches, how should Li Xiaopeng and his national team face it?
Looking back at the previous managers of the national football team, most of the official firefighters who took office rather than halfway took over at the beginning of the preparation cycle of the big game, and the team had enough warm-up games and training time to run in. Even if Li Tie, who took the position halfway, although he has not been able to have a formal competition to train the team due to the epidemic, he did not usher in the official competition until a year and a half later, and during this period, the warm-up competition was mainly based. And his predecessor Lippi, although the first game after taking office was the top 12, but at that time Lippi led the team against Qatar, compared to the Japanese team, the difficulty is not the same.
And now the national football coach Li Xiaopeng, only less than half a month of preparation time, if you remove the time for the international footballers not to return to the team, plus rest time, the normal preparation will be about 7 to 10 days. Coupled with the double fatigue of the physical and psychological fatigue brought about by the international football team's year-round work, including the problem of the competitive status of the international football team caused by the low quality of the domestic league, the problems that the predecessor also encountered, for Li Xiaopeng, who has taken office as a new official, the difficulty of this "debut show" can be imagined. Of course, as the manager, Li Xiaopeng needs to bear its weight. If under the interference of many DeBuffs, the national football team can still deliver a good performance, which will become more favorable for Li Xiaopeng's coaching path.
More crucially, the outcome of this match is likely to be directly related to the mentality of the players in the "no mistake" Sino-Vietnamese war on the first day of the Chinese New Year. If the game suffers a rout, it is doubly difficult to get out of the shadows in time with the current physical and mental state of the players; on the contrary, if the results of this game or the course of the game play a bright spot, it is bound to be an immediate shot of strength, and the gap between continuing to work hard and reinvigorating the momentum needs no need to be repeated.
For this Sino-Japanese battle, the expectations of the outside world may not be optimistic, and even most people think that losing is a high probability, but for the process of the game, all parties still have expectations.
In the first leg of the Sino-Japanese battle, although the Chinese team played a tenacious fighting spirit, but the overall very passive, 0-1 loss of this result is generally acceptable, but the whole passive process does not seem to be satisfactory. In this case, for the second round of the Sino-Japanese battle, all parties still hope that the national team can play some good performances, including the players also said in an interview that they hope to play a fighting spirit on the one hand, and on the other hand, they can also play a good process.
It must be said that if you want to play a good process, you must face greater defensive pressure, and the first round of the Sino-Japanese battle is an example: when the national team shrank half- and the Japanese team did not have much to do, but when the national team saw the opportunity to prepare for a counterattack, it was precisely this counterattack that caused the national team to lose the goal.
Although Li Xiaopeng said before the game that the team's tactics will still be formulated around the hope of retaining the qualification, this is by no means equivalent to the life-and-death fight with the bayonets in the whole field, considering the gap in strength between the two sides, if you do not seek to counterattack based on defense, the result may be difficult to bear. In this case, even if the national team gets the opportunity to counterattack, it also needs to pay special attention to the success rate of the midfield pass, and cannot relax the protection of the weak side of the defense, so as not to be counter-counterattacked by the opponent - if the ball is lost first, the national football team may be forced into a desperate situation.
Of course, blindly shrinking the defense line is not the best choice. For the national football team in this game, most of the attack may not be to score goals, but to alleviate the pressure of defense and make the opponent's formation retreat as much as possible. It sounds uncomfortable, but it's a reality we have to face.
We can imagine several limited offensive methods of the national football team in this field: first of all, the inspiration of individual players to complete the sneak attack, but such an opportunity can be unattainable, requiring the forward players to pay close attention to and seize the offensive opportunities; secondly, to seize the changes in the opponent's rhythm and use the joints of the opponent's physical limit to press in a timely manner, of course, this also puts forward higher requirements for the physical fitness of the national football team; the third is to use the opponent's defensive errors to create set-piece opportunities as much as possible. The absence of The two main centre-backs, Maya Yoshida and Kenhiro Fuan, has left a glimmer of life for the national football team.
As Li Xiaopeng said at the pre-match press conference yesterday, except for Luo Guofu's accumulated yellow card suspension in this game, other overseas players have the appearance status. At present, the 23-man list of this game has been announced, and the 3 players in the list who have changed their membership, Jiang Guangtai will undoubtedly lock in the main force of the center-back, and the real focus is still Alan and Dai Weijun.
Alain will definitely get a chance, but considering his overall form and not participating in the team's training, the starting may not be suitable, he is more suitable for the substitute to play the sharp knife. As for Dai Weijun, his national team journey has only just begun, and theoretically, the possibility of him getting a start is not too great, but it is not excluded that he has shown unusually good form in training, as well as extraordinary confidence and courage.
At the technical and tactical level, the national football team has a high probability of choosing between the two formations of 541 and 451, the former is in the defensive line to firmly fence, the latter is to hope that the midfield to give the defense line more protection, not too passive, but the latter is actually still a certain risk, so in terms of the starting formation, the national football team is still stable, the choice of three center-backs or five-back formations is a high probability, and then after half-time to see if there is room for adjustment.
For Li Xiaopeng, it is not very easy to train effective counterattack tactics in such a short period of time, but Zhang Yuning's fulcrum role is still very obvious, Wu Lei and Wei Shihao also have relatively good speed and good personal ability, and the national football team may still rely on individual breakthroughs or the cooperation of a small number of people to seek opportunities for sneak attacks.