In the first game of Li Xiaopeng's coaching, the national team lost 2-0 to the Japanese team and almost lost the possibility of promotion. At the same time, the national football team also continued the curse of not being able to defeat the Japanese team for 24 years.
The last time the national football team defeated Japan was the 1998 Danas Cup, when the national football team won 2-0 away to Japan, and Li Bing scored twice. After that, the national football team has never won against Japan 12 times in the World Preliminary Round, The Asian Cup and the East Asian Cup, and has only achieved 5 draws and 7 losses.
What makes Li Xiaopeng feel even more embarrassed is that the national football team only has 2 shots in this campaign, namely Wei Shihao's free kick and Wu Xi's burst from the line of the penalty area, which is the lowest number of shots in a single game in the round of 12 matches.
Not only that, the national football team in this campaign 0 shots on target, 0 shots are blocked, 0 offside, in the goal of the good opportunity, missed the goal of the good opportunity, the goal in the penalty area, successful cross and other data, the national football team is also 0.
Why 0 shots in the opponent's penalty area? The answer is very simple, the national football team is difficult to touch the ball in the opponent's penalty area, and there is only 1 time in the whole game. At the same time, the national football team only had 5 horizontal passes in this campaign, but none of them succeeded, only 6 of the 17 breakthroughs were successful, while the Japanese team had 20 breakthroughs and 16 successes.
Comparing the statistics of the two teams, the national football team only dominated the number of yellow cards (1 to 0), the number of saves (4 against 0), the scramble for headers (27 to 19), interceptions (19 to 17) and the clearance (28 to 5). However, these data are all defensive data without exception.