One amazing thing: Li Xiaopeng has never played against a Japanese team in both his player and coaching era.
And this game on the eve of the Spring Festival became a milestone for his career.
Sino-Japanese Battle II
The national football team only has a little theoretical possibility of qualifying, Li Xiaopeng's starting lineup is not too much of a surprise, the biggest difference is that Shandong's Zheng Zheng entered the starting lineup, Zhang Linpeng and Jiang Guangtai, Zhu Chenjie partnered with central defenders.
The midfielder started Arthur Junmin and Xu Xin, the former and last two Shandong backs, plus captain Wu Xi, of course, if Wu Lei fell into the midfield when he returned to defense, the single striker was Zhang Yuning.
The official gives the 532 starter
Japan is at home, and Moriho will put three forwards in a conservative manner, starting today with Takumi Minamino, Isamu Ohto and Junya Ito.
Three midfielders Hang Endo and Bi Tanaka are expected, and today they are partnered by Hidemasa Morita. In the back line, the two "old men" Nagatomo Yuto and Hiroki Sakai still occupy both sides, the central defender partner can not play because Maya Yoshida and Kenyo Fuan can not play, starting is Itakura Huang and Taniguchi Shogo.
Li Xiaopeng's coaching debut met Japan, which he had never met before, perhaps a commemorative battle.
Maybe it was a commemorative Battle
In the opening scene, Li Xiaopeng gave us an unexpected adjustment: he actually let Wang Shen over the top to the midfield, and Xu Xin formed a double back, so that Wu Xi turned the front top into a front waist.
The whole formation is more like 4231, and Arthur Junmin also has two signals in front of the left wing, which has two signals: one is a four-line system compared to 532, 4231; the other is that Wu Xi and Arthur Junmin both go forward, releasing the meaning of an away battle to attack.
The formation is innovative
This is the center of gravity that Li Xiaopeng wants to take against Japan: to fight the body and play more aggressively.
But Mori hoichi was also quite unexpected today: Japan pressed high at the beginning, pressed the formation very high and shot at the first opportunity, Tanaka Bi and Hideaki Morita pressed forward to form two front waists, and five people in the front court threw themselves into the attack.
It seems to be equally imposing at home.
But the biggest trouble is junya Ito, he is too fast, almost all of the Japanese team's attacks, eventually fell to him to form a breakthrough.
In the 11th minute, he quickly crossed from the bottom, Wang Shenchao shoveled to intercept the cross, but the open arm touched the ball, and the referee gave the penalty, and there was nothing to say.
There's nothing more to say about this handball
Da Qiang Yong also scored an easy shot, and the national football team fell behind 0-1.
The situation in the game is like this, you retreat from the enemy to advance, the right side of Ito Jun is also too sharp, the opposite Zheng Zheng completely belongs to Bai Zhi, this side of the Arthur Junmin will have to frequently withdraw from the defense, the entire formation behind the need for Xu Xin to make up, and Wu Xi will lose the meaning of the original attack.
Jun Ito was also too fast
This is a whole body that moves the whole body.
Moriho said he was not familiar with the national football team, but he must be very familiar with Zheng Zheng, when he saw Zheng Zheng playing left-back, the direction of Japan's assist was here.
After the Japanese team took the lead, the game was almost meaningless, and the national football team was completely unable to touch the skin.
Their football is really more than a light-year ahead of us.
Is this reflected in ball possession, foot technique, high pressing or running coordination?
The gap is too big
All of them, but at a higher level, in the thinking of playing football, almost every Japanese player has a unified thinking of "attacking and defending, defending and attacking", which is the most modern trend in international football now.
In other words, it's the most advanced football, and our players, just keeping up with it, are already struggling to break it.
A typical example is that when a Japanese player is rounding up the defense, three people consciously press the ball carrier's exit route in all directions, "rushing" you to a dead end.
Without the ability to control the ball, without accurate passing, it is impossible to play so passively. Too many details determine the gap between the two sides of the game.
Can there be any accidents?
Although only one goal was conceded in the first half, the 10-0 shot, 76% to 24% possession was really miserable. I think I can almost play in the second half.
The second half was unsurprisingly completely unchanged.
The national football team replaced Wei Shihao and Alain, but Wu Lei pulled Alan to play as a center, perhaps it is also the collective wisdom of the coaching team.
Wu Lei has been running in the air
Not only was he still unable to get the ball, Zheng Zheng was still blown up, and even the name of "China's head team" was smashed in Ito Junya's 61-minute header.
The gap is so large, this comparison is meaningless, let's talk about something off-topic.
Japan has a large number of players in Europe, and they are accustomed to high-paced games all year round, and this gap is not something that those of us who live in the Warm Water of the Chinese Super League all year round can imagine.
A large number of details can illustrate this, so what we should pay more attention to is Guo Tianyu's stay in the ocean.
Talking too much is tears
It's not going to change anything, but hopefully it's a good start.
The rest is not to say, it is all tears. The first one of the New Year's Day, against Vietnam.