The duel between the strong is the details, and the confrontation between the weak teams is often a war of words, which is the case between the national football team and Vietnam. The two teams regard each other as the weakest opponents in the group, the Vietnamese team is the object of the national football team to regain its dignity and avoid adding to the fans' holidays; the national football team is the only hope for the Vietnamese team to score points in the round of 12. Therefore, this chicken rib battle that has nothing to do with the life and death of the group is quite important in the eyes of the fans of the two teams and the two countries.
The national football vs Vietnam match is crucial
Rookies peck at each other, and the war of words goes first
20 years ago, or even 10 years ago, Vietnamese football could not raise its head in front of Chinese football, the national football team could crush Vietnam, and the last meeting between the two teams before the round of 12 was in 2012, and the national football team won 3-0 without bloodshed. But since the rise of Vietnamese football by relying on the 95 golden generation, especially the 2018 U-23 Asian Cup to get the runner-up, not only its extreme "expansion" began to see no one (the main object is Chinese football), even Chinese fans began to doubt that Vietnamese football will one day surpass Chinese football in the future.
The Vietnamese media began to endlessly mock the figure of Chinese players, and the "white chopping chicken" statement was pushed to the peak by the Vietnamese media. After the Vietnamese team reached the final stage of the Asian region of the World Preliminary Round for the first time, the Vietnamese media frequently began to conduct group deductions, hoping that the Vietnamese team could draw the Chinese team. When the two teams were really in the same group, the Vietnamese media instantly "climaxed", seeing the national football team as the only object that could be stepped on by Vietnam.
The Vietnamese media have not commented on Chinese football
The Attitude of the Chinese media before and after the group draw of the Top 12 is also very entangled, hoping to draw the Vietnamese team to see the progress of the opponent over the years, and worrying that the Vietnamese team will be defeated by the opponent and will not be able to end. When the two teams are really in the same group, Chinese fans are "reasoning" for the national football team, if you want to qualify, you must kill Vietnam and Oman twice, otherwise you don't expect to qualify.
But at this point in the round of 12, the role played by Vietnam and the national football team has become obvious, and the Vietnamese team is even weaker than thailand, another Southeast Asian team in the previous edition. The national football team's qualification will always exist in the fantasies of fans, and the predictions of the media, as soon as the real knife and gun appear, the emperor of the national football team will be torn off.
Previously, the national football team won 3-2 against Vietnam
However, when the second round of the Sino-Vietnamese clash was approaching, the war of words was already in full swing. The Vietnamese media even paid little attention to the team's match with Australia in the last round (both before and after the game), after all, it was a match that the Vietnamese team had to lose, and it had long focused on the national football team. However, the Chinese media seems to have "hardened" Japan, and as a result, it was once again beaten to the sober of the Asian brother.
The year passes, the opponent mocks, the national football team must win in order not to add to the blockage
Compared with the frequent difficulties of the Vietnamese media, although it is in the same group as the national football team, the Japanese media is quite low-key. Even when the Chinese football industry naturalized several foreign aides before, the Japanese media was even more worried about how the Japanese team should deal with these naturalized players in the future if the Japanese team and the national football team really met in the official game. However, at present, the concerns of the Japanese media are superfluous, do not want the Japanese team's European international to "shoot", and the naturalization road of Chinese football is "chaotic".
Moreover, in the reports of the Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese media paid more attention to the Japanese team itself, and even at the pre-match and post-match press conference, for the national football coach, whether it was the former Li Tie or the current Li Xiaopeng, they were all concerned about the game itself, and even let Li Xiaopeng "find out" the weaknesses of the Japanese team. Putting aside the national factor, the Japanese media and even Japanese fans are more objective and rational in terms of media reports, and are not as "noisy" as the Vietnamese media.
The national football team taught the opponent a lesson in the match against Japan
Of course, Vietnam regards the national football team as the only object that can score points, and Chinese fans also regard Vietnam as a target that the national football team can win or even double. Therefore, pay special attention to the remarks of the other coach, players, and media, if the Japanese team coach or player says that he must defeat the Chinese team, it is not worth the Chinese media to write a special book, but the same words from the Vietnamese coach Park Hengxu and from the Vietnamese international Liang Chun's long mouth have been "tasted".
To put it bluntly, after Vietnamese football found its position by relying on the 95 golden generation, it did not let the media recognize its own strength, and the 7-7 defeats in the top 12 matches are the embodiment of the true level of Vietnamese football. However, in these 7 losses, only the national football team killed Vietnam in stoppage time, so that the Vietnamese team was still dissatisfied, so before the second round of competition, the Vietnamese side began to hype the topic of defeating the national football team.
Vietnam's "95 Golden Generation" reached the round of 12, but also reached the upper limit
After the new coach of the national football team Li Xiaopeng took office, the most said sentence is "do not add blockage to the fans, try to retain the suspense", which the suspense can not be retained, the first day of the New Year is basically the day of the national football team, even if it can win Vietnam away. But there is still a glimmer of hope for the fans to add to the blockage, and even if the Vietnamese team is finally out, it can also be explained to the fans and the media, which is also the bottom line of Chinese football - it is not important to get out of the game, just beat Vietnam.
Can't lose and can't afford to lose, it's about the face of Chinese football
In order to achieve "no blockage", all the technical and tactical choices are left to Li Xiaopeng, in the "vegetable field" of the Meiting Stadium, whether the national football team uses the iron barrel array to get a victory, or in the case that it is only a matter of time before the exit, use the attack to harvest the double harvest of the process and results. Especially if Vietnam faces the national football team at home, or is it one of the few opportunities for the opponent to break the egg (the same is true for the match with Oman in the 9th round), how should Li Xiaopeng guard against the opponent's full fight?
National football does not resist pressure, the past few decades have been proven, often not by the opponent to defeat, but by their own "scared to death", Lippi, Li Tie have failed to solve the national football mentality problem, Li Xiaopeng can?
Enter the top 12 draw as a four-gear team, even if it is out, the national football team must end all the matches with the 4th place to be worthy of its own division. Even without Li Xiaopeng's "no blockage" remarks, the national football team won Vietnam to win the anti-Oman, which is also the responsibility and obligation of the team.
In the national football competition during the New Year, "not adding blockage" is the first priority
The gap between the strength of the first three and the last three teams in Group B is obvious, and the national football team has not dared to claim to be the first class in Asia in recent years, but has always adhered to the bottom line of the second-rate. The rise of the Vietnamese team in recent years has joined hands with Thailand in Southeast Asia to launch an impact on the second-rate in Asia, coupled with the Vietnamese team, and even the noisy reports created by the Vietnamese media before the game, have also forced the national football team to win on the road, or even win over Vietnam.
Of the 5 opponents in the same group, the national football team has the most dominant record against the Vietnamese team, and after the first round of Wu Lei completed the kill, the Chinese and Vietnamese national football teams won 8 games and 8 wins. If it is really impossible to win Vietnam on the road, then whether the national football team is the second-rate or third-rate in Asia, there is no clear definition of the reference, the record of the warm-up match does not count, and the real knife and gun showdown in the round of 12 must be a reference.
Putting aside all off-field factors, purely in terms of football, the national football team cannot lose, nor can it afford to lose, even if it is a draw, it will trigger public opinion after the game.
in Zakumi