Sharp comment: The gap between the national football team and the Japanese team has not really been shown

The Chinese team faced the Japanese team and had no choice.

In last night's World Preliminary Round of 12, the Chinese team lost 0-2 away to Japan. world cup? It's long gone.

More people want to see the future of the Chinese team from this game, after all, the Japanese team is the asian benchmark and the best reference. After reading it, to be honest, the future is very clear, and the future has long come.

The score was friendly and only lost 2. But the process is brutal.

The Chinese team only hit the goal twice, quite reluctantly.

The Chinese team only carried the ball into the Japanese team's penalty area once, and there was almost no threat to the Japanese team's defensive end.

The hottest fan comment was that the Chinese team's tactic was to freeze the Japanese goalkeeper to death first.

But what is even more cruel than the scene is that this is not the true level of the Japanese team. Those who watched the game should be able to feel that the Japanese team did not play with the Chinese team with all their strength, and after leading by 1 goal, the Japanese team played very casually and smoothly, as if it had won the game and just wanted to waste time.

The Japanese team will only look like a vicious wolf when the Chinese team has the ball. But whenever the Chinese players take the ball, several Japanese players around them must pounce on it and grab it again, and soon they can grab the ball again. When the Japanese team attacked, it was obviously as easy as the river cruise.

It's hard to imagine what a well-groomed and desperate Japanese team could make for China, even though they didn't have to do their best.

Note: This is a Chinese team with a very high average age, and almost all positions are facing the dilemma of weak follow-up. This is a Japanese team with a number of young players in charge, Hisagi Ishiyo is not yet 21 years old, Tanaka Bi is only 23 years old, and many European players are still in line behind. Even if this Japanese team is rated as the most mediocre team in 20 years by the Japanese media, it is enough to shake off the Chinese team in several gears.

Since the final of the 2004 Asian Cup, the Chinese men's football team has waited for about 17 years until the final 12 meets in this year's finals, and then regains the opportunity to play against the first-line lineup of the Japanese national team.

In fact, in the 2004 Asian Cup, the Japanese team did not send the strongest players, including Hidetoshi Nakata, Shinji Ono and several other stars. The 2000 Asian Cup in Lebanon, such as Hidetoshi Nakata, also did not participate. The Chinese team really met the strongest Japanese team in the official competition, or the 1996 Asian Cup.

The reality of no resistance in the two matches of the twelve finals seems to tell the Chinese team that it is difficult to meet once, and it should be difficult to meet again in the future.

In the next few years, the 89 generation of Chinese players will retire from the national team, while the new generation of successors will decline significantly in ability. Several naturalized players have also long passed their peak, and they cannot be counted on for too long across the epidemic and half the world. The gap between the national teams of China and Japan will grow over time.

Perhaps it should be admitted now that the men's football teams of China and Japan are no longer in the same time and space dimension, and the Chinese men's football team is not worthy of the Japanese team to play seriously.

The reasons behind this are complex and cumulative. In the 1980s, Chinese football was ahead of Japanese football, but in order to improve the senior level, Japanese football formulated long-term planning and resolute implementation, and many years later, Japan's J League system, youth training system, campus football system, and foreign system were very mature, and together they built the big tree of Japanese football. In contrast, in Chinese football, professional leagues have not been respected for a long time, the youth training system is very incomplete, campus football is only a pseudo-concept, and staying in the West is far-fetched, and now there is almost no football market to speak of.

These contrary differences determine that the upper limit of the Chinese team is far lower than the lower limit of the Japanese team.

The Chinese team is not without some freshness. For example, Aberdeen, Dai Weijun wore a national football uniform for the first time, which is of great historical significance. Dai Weijun's performance on the field is one of the few highlights of the Chinese team. But that's it. The national team seems to have found a meaning of existence again, nothing more.