In the early morning of January 29, local time, the national football team switched from Japan to Vietnam and stayed at the resident hotel in Hanoi. The upcoming Sino-Vietnamese battle was supposed to be a battle of chicken ribs, with both the Chinese and Vietnamese teams actually losing hope of qualifying, but since the game was played on the first day of the Lunar New Year, neither team could afford to lose.
This stage of the World Preliminary Round of 12 played a total of two matches. Compared with the last match against Japan, this battle against Vietnam is more important for the national football team and Li Xiaopeng. In the history of Chinese football, the national football team has not lost to the Vietnamese team, not to mention that this game is still carried out on the first day of the New Year in Nongli, and the Chinese people are immersed in the festive atmosphere of celebrating the New Year festival, if the national football team has a slight mistake, it will add to the blockage of the Chinese people, and its impact can be imagined. In his first interview with the media after Li Xiaopeng took office, he talked about not dropping the chain, which actually refers to this match with the Vietnamese team.
The Vietnamese team, which has suffered seven consecutive defeats in the round of 12, is counting on the Chinese team to turn over and find a sense of victory. In the first leg of the match between the two sides, the national football team won 3:2, but the Vietnamese team was not convinced. Commenting on the upcoming second leg of the match between the two sides, Vietnam coach Park Heng-suk said: "Although the Vietnamese team I lead has lost seven consecutive games so far, the Vietnamese team will do its best to play the match with China on February 1 and will win the Chinese team at all costs. This win is something we really want and the team needs to increase its self-confidence. If you can't win a game, it will definitely frustrate the confidence of this group of players. ”
At the beginning, Li Tie led the national football team to a 3:2 victory over the Vietnamese team, and now the national football team has just undergone a change of coach, and both the Vietnamese team and Vietnamese public opinion believe that Li Xiaopeng's national football team is easier to deal with than Li Tie's national football team. Park Hengxu said, "Although the Chinese team changed the manager, most of the players were the same as in the first leg, and the new coach looked more conservative. Against Japan, the Chinese team simply could not complete a strong counterattack, until the second half of the game was halfway through the first shot, but also a free kick. If they are still so conservative in the next game, we in Vietnam will control the situation on the pitch. The Vietnamese media "News Online" recently published a column article, believing that under the leadership of Li Xiaopeng, the Chinese team not only did not show progress, but the overall performance was even worse than the period led by Li Tie.