Round of 12
"Football of the Last Century"
The Chinese men's national football team lost to Japan 0-2 in the seventh round of the Qatar World Preliminary Round of 12 at the Saitama 2002 World Cup Stadium today (27th). This is an expected result, but also a reasonable result. Although the national football team has changed its coach, Li Xiaopeng also hopes to change the status quo of the national football team after taking office, hoping to let the national football team play a good game, but it has to be said that the current Chinese football is not a problem that can be solved by changing the coach. Like the first leg of the Battle of Doha, Chinese football today is still playing the "football of the last century", which is fundamentally contrary to the development trend and trend of modern football. Moreover, more importantly, because our football concept and concept are outdated, and we do not talk about football every day, and the players we have cultivated are also "players of the last century", so for the time being, we should forget about "entering the World Cup", and when Chinese football has a group of excellent players who conform to modern football playing methods, let's talk about the impact of the World Cup. This is not a matter of negativity, criticism, or dissatisfaction with the performance of the national football team.
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The essence of the Sino-Japanese war and the Doha war has not changed
Whether it is training during the Shanghai period or training with overseas players after arriving in Japan, the national football team seems to have sent a very clear message, and in the future matches with the Japanese team will no longer "swing the bus". Because the basic formation of the national football drill is 343, and the actual game may become "541" according to the development of the situation on the field. The formation of "343" is very good, not conservative at all, and it seems that the deployment of the front, middle and rear lines of the national football team is more balanced. But it is one thing to imagine, but it is quite another to be in practice.
In the first leg of the Doha clash, the national football team lost to Australia in the first round with a large score of 0-3, which caused a huge psychological gap between the team before and after the game, which directly led to the team abandoning the more aggressive "433" arrangement used in the first game, and sent a "532" formation based on solid defense in the subsequent match with Japan, with Wu Lei and Axon on the front line. However, in the actual game, the national football team can rarely have the opportunity to attack and counterattack, until 60 minutes later, through substitutions, that is, replaced by three pure attacking players such as Alain, Luo Guofu and Arthur Junmin, and changed the formation on the field to a more balanced 442, the situation on the national football field has improved, and the offensive end has only improved. Two midfielders, Yin Hongbo and Kim Kyung-do, who started earlier, were replaced.
One of the post-match statements is that because the naturalized players did not start, they were passive, and the most fundamental thing was because the coach was conservative in his guiding ideology. There may be some truth to this. But in fact, the reason why the national football team was suppressed by the other side in the backfield of the other side, basically in a passive beating, is basically due to the lack of midfield and the inability to compete with the Japanese team. Because the ball is always at the feet of the Japanese team, the national football team has always been passively chasing and defending. The national football team is obviously passive in the match against Saudi Arabia, in fact, the problem is also in the midfield. It was not until November last year, after the use of Xu Xin while retaining Wu Xi, that the situation of the national football midfield was completely improved. Xu Xin's appearance has effectively strengthened the control of the midfield, and also liberated Wu Xi, which has enabled the national football team to go on a regular basis in the second leg of the match with Oman and Australia, although it is regrettable that the match with Oman failed to score 3 points.
This time to fight against the Japanese team, in fact, the most important thing, perhaps the most important problem that needs to be solved by the coaching staff is still the midfield. Judging from the current situation, although Li Xiaopeng has just taken over, the idea of using the combination of Wu Xi and Xu Xin will probably not change.
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There are no players who fit modern football
Before the Japan-China match, Japan's Yoshida Maya and Kenhiro Fuan were absent from two absolute main centre-backs, and Japan coach Hoichi Mori used two "new" people, Itakura and Akira Taniguchi. The so-called "newcomers" mean that they have not played much for the Japanese national team, and the national football team also knows that perhaps this is a place that can be used in the offensive end. But the question is, has the national football team gained a good offensive opportunity in actual combat? This is like head coach Li Xiaopeng said after the game, "When we analyzed before the game, we felt that the two wings of the Japanese team might be areas that we could use, but there was no way to use them in the actual game." ”
Why? The fundamental lies in the fact that the Japanese team has implemented high pressure and tight front from the beginning, so that after the Chinese players take the ball, they simply cannot effectively pass the ball forward and cannot complete the transition from defense to attack. Because we simply don't adapt to this style of playing by the Japanese team. We are still accustomed to the kind of "one slow and three passes" in the Chinese Super League, and after taking the ball, we can only pass back and cross.
A very simple fact: how many teams in the Chinese Super League can now implement the full-court pressing, forward-facing pressing style of play? Even with the introduction of so many world-class big-name stars, is the overall technical and tactical playing style and technical and tactical requirements of the Chinese Super League in line with the development trend and trend of world football? When those world-class big names have just arrived in the Chinese Super League, they may still be affected by inertia, and they can still show that kind of high-pressure and tight kicking style in the initial stage. But after a little longer, he was immediately "assimilated" and began to play "health ball" and "old man ball".
Because domestic football has long been this way of playing, this kind of technical and tactical requirements, therefore, in the face of Asia's top Japanese team, the Chinese team did not adapt at the beginning, everywhere into passivity, it is perfectly normal. In this case, the Chinese team's desire to enter the World Cup is basically "self-deception" and "over-the-top". If, in the 1980s and 1990s, Chinese football had a number of outstanding players who could rank in Asian football, and the most prominent problem was that our coaches did not have a broad vision and could not lead the national football team to complete the task of impacting the World Cup, and the main contradiction was "coaches can't do it". So, twenty or thirty years later, the contradiction has been transformed into: we are now difficult to find even a top Asian player, and how to impact the World Cup?
The disconnection of excellent players is not just a matter of "youth training", but in the process of youth player training, what kind of young players need to be trained? The so-called "youth player training" is not for the current training, but the need to cultivate players who adapt to the future development trend and trend of world football, and this player needs to be able to meet the development trend, trend and playing style of world football in the next seven or eight years. This requires our current youth coaches to first need to be clear about the current trends and trends, and more importantly, to predict the future trends and trends. So, what kind of qualities and abilities do coaches in Chinese football who are engaged in youth training need now? Relying on our so-called campus football coaches, can we really change the backward status quo of Chinese football? Of course, this is already off-topic.
Back to the Battle of Japan itself. What we need now is to accept reality calmly, rather than pinning our dreams on the so-called "shortcuts", "curve overtaking" and other means and methods, such as "naturalized players" and other unrealistic operating methods, or to be down-to-earth, spend twenty or thirty years of effort, and patiently cultivate a group of young players who conform to the development trend and trend. Before China's youth teams can't enter the World Junior Championships and the World Youth Championships, don't talk about the "empty cannon" such as "entering the World Cup".