I believe that many fans are in despair after watching a game of the national football team last night, because the national football team lost 0-2 to the Japanese team, and this defeat marks that the national football team basically missed the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Of course, in fact, the loss is expected by many fans, but many people are disappointed not by the result of losing 2 goals, but by the shocking process. The whole game of the national football team is almost compressed in its own half, the ball is very rare even half, it can be said that the scene presented in the whole game is that our defense cannot be defended, and the attack cannot be kicked out at all, which is a complete defeat in a complete sense.
Looking at the process of this defeat, it can be said that this scene is not as good as the first leg of the two sides, although it is also suppressed, but the meaning is different. In the first leg, the national football team chose 5 defenders to swing the bus, although losing, but at least in terms of defense can be stable, the Japanese team can not enter the box from the front, and the wing is only the opportunity that Junya Ito wants. And this time the 4 defenders, the defense of the few people appeared weak, but also did not learn the lesson of the first game, did not restrict Ito Jun, and finally led to the defense door opened widely, frequently beaten behind, and finally lost two goals.
It can be said that Li Xiaopeng did not learn the lesson of Li Tie's first leg defeat, and even repeated the previous mistakes. It can be seen from the arrangement of Li Xiaopeng's midfield position that Wang Shenchao, who is not strong enough, plays the back, let Arthur Junmin play the side, let Wu Xi play the front waist, and let Wu Lei play the full-back. The purpose is actually very obvious, that is, to fight for control of the midfield and then launch a counterattack. This mistake is actually a lack of understanding of oneself and one's opponents. Thinking that a skilled player can achieve control, a mistake Cannavaro made at the 2019 China Cup, when he sent a combination of Arthur Junmin, Zhang Xizhe and Wu Xi, and was defeated 0-1 by the Thai team walking the monkeys. At the same time, Li Tie also made such a mistake, the first game against Australia, using Wu Xi and Zhang Xizhe, tried to organize the attack through the midfield, and the result was a 0-3 fiasco. That is to say, all coaches who have confidence in the national football midfield have learned a lesson.
Therefore, Li Xiaopeng's arrangement for this match is actually a repeat of the same mistakes. The only way for the national football team at present is to stabilize the defense and fight back, which is why the national football team can draw 1-1 with Oman and Australia, and the double backs of Xu Xin and Wu Xi can stabilize the defense and destroy the opponent's attack while also playing a counterattack. That is to say, only when the defense is stable, can we pursue control, and the so-called control that is not based on defense is self-weakening.
So how can you quickly increase the intensity of your defense so that the opponent can't organize and pass the ball freely? Quite simply, it's tougher to kick, to dare to get on the body, to dare to fight. Especially against the Japanese team, we must use our physical advantages. In the past, Japanese fans and the media always said that Chinese football is kung fu football, saying that we played football very roughly. The opponent's statement is actually a sign that their physical confrontation is not as good as ours, and this is the only weapon we can make them afraid. Of course, playing more fiercely does not mean that you have to deliberately hurt your opponent, but you have to kick harder and more imposingly, so that your opponent is afraid and cannot pass the ball calmly.
However, in this game, we put away our sharpest and most frightening weapons of our opponents, and our players have become little sheep. Basically, they avoid the opponent's kick and dare not get on the body, even if the opponent is much thinner and thinner than us. Even when we are attacking, we are always destroyed by the opponent's body to destroy the rhythm of the pass, and our own advantage has become the opponent's advantage. Of course, some fans will say that people are fast-paced, and we can't reach the opponent if we want to get physically. In fact, this is not right, when we take the ball, it is obvious that the other party uses the body against us, they are close to us, they are close to the body, how can it be called not touching the opponent? The opponents are actually sent to the door, and we just don't use the body. If each of our players uses their bodies to take down position and space before receiving the ball, how can we not pass the ball?
So this is also the reason why the Japanese team thinks that the national football team is good to play, because a tiger without teeth is not even as good as a small flower cat, because you can't even do a disgusting opponent. But in fact, in this game, only one of us knows how to play against Japan, and he is Wei Shihao, who came on as a substitute. When his teammates have calmly accepted the oppression and humiliation of their opponents, he always feels that he can win and score goals. Like his long-range free-kick direct shot, and his unyielding strength when facing rival Liverpool star Takumi Minamino, this is what other teams lack.
And why Wei Shihao knows how to play like this, one is that he is such a style, and the other is that Wei Shihao has represented the national youth team twice to defeat the Japanese team. The first time was at the 2014 U19 Asian Youth Championship, the first game of the national football group stage against Japan, Wei Shihao scored twice in that match, helping the national youth win 2-1. The second time was the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, Wei Shihao represented the national youth with a pass and a shot, once again to help the national youth win 2-1. In these two games, the national youth do not occupy the advantage on the field, and the possession is the opponent's, but our players are fierce enough and confident enough to make the opponent's indiscriminate bombardment ineffective, and let the other party taste the bitter fruit of being defeated by the counterattack.
But there is only one Wei Shihao in the national football team, and obviously cannot change the outcome of the game. And this defeat, in addition to the gap between the two sides, the main reason is that our players took the initiative to become small flower cats, took the initiative to put away their strongest weapons, took the initiative to become what the opponent wanted, and the Japanese team will definitely not sympathize with a weak person who takes the initiative to lose. The only value of this game in the end is to provide Valuable Experience for Li Xiaopeng's guidance, but this experience Cannavaro got, Li Tie got it, and it is certain that there will be people in the future. And after getting it? Most of them have not had the opportunity to convert experience into value, which is an important reason why Chinese football has not been able to develop. Constantly repeating internal friction makes us weaker. What do you think? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!