On February 3, the whole team of the national football team returned, they took the China Eastern Airlines MU7156, returned from a charter flight, took off at 2 a.m., arrived in Shanghai in the morning, and as in the previous competition in West Asia, they all rushed from Shanghai to the base in Suzhou for 14+7 isolation. The 21-day quarantine means that the whole team of the national football team has no chance to celebrate the Spring Festival with the family, and the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month will certainly not be able to reunite with the family.
The national football team returned home on the morning of the 3rd, and Alain and Luo Guofu directly bid farewell to the team from the locker room, rushed to the airport, and flew to Brazil. Jiang Guangtai went to England, Wu Lei went to Barcelona, Spain, and returned to the club, and the other players all went through a good rest on the second day of the Chinese New Year before returning home.
It is worth mentioning that the national football team returned, the whole process was low-key, no one spoke, unlike the last time after playing in West Asia, Yu Dabao and others also recorded life videos many times, Wu Xi and others also reported safety on social media, this time because of the poor record of the national football team, the outside world's criticism of them reached a higher level, so the whole team low-key travel, the same on social media.
In this period of training and competition, the national football team followed the "big national team" plan of Lang Ping in 2013 when he coached the Chinese women's volleyball team, recruited a lot of players, with the intention of better examining suitable players, and can also carry out targeted matches to simulate The Japanese team and the Vietnamese team. But unfortunately, after Li Xiaopeng took office, the first two games, the national football team all lost, away to the powerful Japanese team 0-2, the whole game 0 shots on target, only 2 shots on goal is very embarrassing. Against the Vietnamese team, which is not as ranked and strong as itself, the national football team swallowed a historic defeat of 1-3, which can be called a humiliating battle.
Under such circumstances, coach Li Xiaopeng apologized after the game, saying that the result of the 1-3 defeat to Vietnam was unacceptable. Because of the loss to the Vietnamese team, the Chinese team even has no hope of theoretically qualifying for the World Cup, and it is completely missed the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Compared with the last 12-strong match, the Chinese team will continue the suspense to the end, during which it has also experienced a change of coach, there is no naturalized player's help, this year's top 12 competition, the national football team played a mess, the performance is very bad, especially the two games of Japan and 1-3 defeat to Vietnam, we see the gap and the lower limit.
In this case, it can be understood why there are no players to speak out after the return of the national football team, unlike the last time, after successive fiascos, the national football players acted in a low-key manner, and they had to continue to prepare after isolation, because the last 2 games of the round of 12 were played in March, which was already a battle of honor for the national football team.