In a match in the Round of 12 of the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian zone that ended tonight, the Chinese team lost 0:2 away to Japan, basically confirming that it did not qualify for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Tomorrow, the national football team will rush to Vietnam to prepare for the eighth round of the match against Vietnam, which is scheduled to kick off at 8 pm Beijing time on February 1.
This is the first official game of the national football team in 2022, and it is also the first official game since Li Xiaopeng became the head coach of the national football team. In terms of the starting lineup, although the specific players are similar to the pre-match analysis, Li Xiaopeng did not put up a 5-guard formation, but used 4231, which is more surprising to mention Wang Shenchao's position in front of the midfield. In the 11th minute, Jun ito also crossed, Wang Shenchao raised his arm to touch the ball, the referee awarded a penalty, and Daisuke Yong also took the penalty. Throughout the first half, the national football team did not have a single shot on goal. Yi Bian fought again, the national football team took the lead in making adjustments, Wei Shihao and Alain came off the bench, replacing Arthur Junmin and Zhang Yuning. In the 61st minute, Yuta Nakayama crossed from the left, the national football team defended and missed, junya Ito scored with a header from the middle of the road, rewriting the score to 2:0. Since then, the national football team has continued to change, and the young dai Weijun has also staged the debut of the national football team, but the fate of the national football team losing is still difficult to avoid, and the embarrassing thing is that in the whole game, the national football team only touched the ball once in the opponent's penalty area, and there were only 2 shots on goal.
After 7 rounds of the war, the national football team only accumulated 5 points, 10 points less than the second-ranked Japanese team, which means that with only 3 rounds of matches left, the national football team has no possibility of ranking in the top two of Group B, and it has lost the opportunity to directly advance to the final round of the 2022 Qatar World Cup. What's more cruel is that even if the competition for the third place in the group is only a pure theoretical possibility, because the current national football team is 9 points behind the third place Australian team, which means that in the last three rounds, the national football team not only wins all 9 points, but also hopes that the Australian team will lose the remaining three games, and also make up for the current 15 goal difference between the two teams, and also hope that Oman's final points can not reach 14 points. Such a miracle obviously will not happen.
At the post-match press conference, Li Xiaopeng commented on the match: "I am very sorry for losing to the Japanese team, I am fully responsible for the loss of the game, and all the players today did their best. As for how to adjust the mental outlook of the players next, Li Xiaopeng said, "We will go all out every game of the national team and prepare with 200% effort. Because we haven't had a warm-up game for a long time, we're going to spend 20 to 30 minutes getting used to the pace of the game, and the first half wasn't particularly good. The final stage was already 0-2 and our chances of equalising were slim. Subsequently, when asked by a Japanese reporter where the weaknesses of the Japanese team were, Li Xiaopeng replied: "We think that the two wings of the Japanese team are the areas where we create opportunities, but the high pressure of the opponent makes us difficult and does not take advantage of the Japanese team's side." ”
Wu Xi, the captain of the national football team, said in an interview: "The opponent is very strong, basically controlled the game, just started not to adapt, the second half through the adjustment has improved, but also threatened the opponent's goal, or need to adjust and recover well, the New Year, I hope to dedicate to the fans with victory." ”