Beijing time on January 27, today, the World Preliminary Round Asian Group B ushered in a focus battle, the Chinese men's football team away to challenge the Japanese team, this is a contest between the second and fifth group, from the strength point of view, the Japanese team obviously has the advantage. In this game, the national football team is not only inferior to the opponent in terms of strength, but also under great pressure in spirit, if this game is lost, the Chinese team will not be in the top two, and even say goodbye directly to the World Cup. The Chinese men's football team has not won against the Japanese team for 34 years, and in the face of this old opponent, the national football team once again disappointed the fans.
In the opening 8 minutes, the Japanese team showed its offensive characteristics, and Da Qiang Yong also turned around in the penalty area to hit the goal, fortunately, Jiang Guangtai reacted quickly to save the block, and Da Qiang Yong also failed to succeed in this attack. But the japanese team that played the momentum was getting more and more confident, the game went to the 12th minute, Ito Jun also crossed from the right side to cause Wang Shenchao handball, the referee gave the Japanese team a penalty after looking back at the VCR, Andaku Also personally came to the penalty, this time, he firmly seized the opportunity, shot hard, and at the end of the first half, the Japanese team led the Chinese team 1-0.
At the beginning of the second half, the Japanese team did not give the Chinese men's football team any chance after the opening, and also formed a crushing advantage over the Chinese team on the offensive end. In the 55th minute of the game, Ito Jun also slipped on the right bottom corner of the cross, Jiang Guangtai made another contribution at this time, he rushed to the front of the big forced Yongya, the latter grabbed the point to fly, the Chinese men's football team once again escaped the disaster. However, at this time, the situation on the field was turbulent, and in the 56th minute, the national football team chose to change, Alan, Wei Shihao, Arthur Junmin and Zhang Yuning, and in the 59th minute, the Japanese team also changed, Maeda Dairan, Yutai Nakayama, Yuto Nagatomo, and Yong Daisuke.
In the 60th minute of the match, Jun Ito also grabbed the point to score, and the Japanese team scored another goal to make it 2-0. Wei Shihao had a threatening shot on goal in the second half of the second half, but unfortunately did not shoot. In the 63rd minute of the game, Wu Xi's cross was blocked, the national football team won the first corner opportunity in this game, but also did not score, the national football team made the last substitution in the 88th minute of the game, Deng Hanwen and Liu Yang came on to replace Zhang Linpeng and Wu Lei. The national football team used up all 5 substitutions in this game, but this substitution did not achieve too good results.
The Japanese team firmly controlled the rhythm of the attack on the field, and the game time was slowly exhausted, and when the game was in the 93rd minute, the referee blew the end whistle, and in the end, the Chinese men's team lost 0-2 to the Japanese team. Li Xiaopeng lost the first game of the New Year's coaching of the national football team, it can be said that although the Chinese men's football team still has several games to play, it has been eliminated in advance, and the Chinese men's football team will miss the World Cup once again. The full-court data is as follows, the national football team is in front: the possession rate is 37%-63%, the shot is 2-16, the shot is 0-6, the corner is 1-11, and the pass is 355-579.
In this way, the latest standings of Group B in the Round of 12: the national football team is second to the bottom of the 5 points in the 7 rounds, and the remaining three rounds are 9 points from the top three. There are still 3 rounds of competition left in the round of 12, and the national football team theoretically loses the possibility of ranking in the top two of the final group. Due to Australia's previous victory over Vietnam, Australia led the national football team to 9 points, and the last 3 rounds had to chase 9 points, it can be said that the national football team basically lost the possibility of finally ranking third in the group and participating in the World Preliminary Tournament play-offs. In summary, the national football team basically missed the 2022 Qatar World Cup in advance. Wu Lei's performance in this game was very sluggish, and his performance in the World Series was once again disappointing. He played 87 minutes, touched the ball 26 times, had a 53% pass success rate and scored the lowest score of 5.9 points.