preface
In the 2022 Qatar World Cup Qualifiers in the Asian Zone Round of 12, the Chinese team rarely lost 1:3 away to Vietnam.
Believing this result, the vast majority of fans did not expect it before the game.
The Vietnamese team lost all 7 games before this battle, and the Chinese team played the role of "sending points boys".
In this game, the left-back of the national football team, Wang Shenchao, became the object of condemnation by many fans, and his performance at both ends of the game was disastrous.
So, through the analysis of this article, let's see what happened to Wang Shenchao in the left-back position? And some technical and tactical details that extend from this.
How should Wang Shenchao be used?
Wang Shenchao played at his club Shanghai Harbor as a right-back or right-wing-back. In addition to this, he also has occasional cameos in other positions.
He is a right-footed player and uses his left foot very infrequently, but on the right he highlights the offensive and defensive balance of a defender, who is defensively solid and can often deliver assists to the team, which is his performance at the club.
When he came to the national team, Li Tie took a different path and arranged Wang Shenchao on the left side.
Because on the left, a reverse footballer, he has a shot angle in the back that a left-footed player does not have.
This was one of Li Tie's original intentions in placing him at left-back.
During the Li Tie period, Wang Shenchao also said in an interview with the media, "The Chinese team's technical and tactical play is more on the right side, because the right-footed players on the right side can greatly press the attack, while the amplitude of my attack is relatively small, mainly staying in the rear for defense." ”
Pros and cons
At left-back, there are excellent reverse-foot full-backs such as Cancelo and Spinazzola.
To play well at left-back, right-footed players have to develop a very good back-footed ability, and their left-footed crosses allow them to have a lot of variations in this position.
It can be done either in the lower bottom cross at the high position or in the relatively backward position.
And Wang Shenchao is in this position, the coach should not require him to complete the bottom cross like the traditional left-back position, because his left foot ability is very average, not enough to complete the cross, and the quality of the cross is extremely limited.
So when we watched Wang Shenchao play Vietnam, he rarely had a left foot cross, and even if there was an opportunity to cross, he still poured the ball down to his right foot to complete the return pass.
Wang Shenchao can't say that he is useless on the left side, he twice sent assists for Wu Lei in the first leg against Vietnam, and at this time, he sent an assist in a relatively backward position to complete the internal cut cross.
Such diagonal passes are also the passing lines that reverse full-backs prefer.
But it was not difficult for us to find out in the second leg against Vietnam that Wang Shenchao had given up the style of full-back that suited him in the backcourt and opted for the traditional full-back style of playing with a large pressure.
This failed to create too many opportunities for the team's overall attack.
epilogue
Wang Shenchao is an excellent player, but the coach has serious deviations and mistakes in his use.
He should not press up sharply, but instead complete the duties of combing the ball and intercepting the first starting point of the opponent's counterattack from defense to attack.
Wang Shenchao can also deliver a large oblique transfer ball and an assist after the inward cut when necessary, just as he sent two assists for Wu Lei.