More than a week has passed since the second match of the China-Japan Round of 12 on January 27, but in the summary of the Japanese Football Association, the technical committee chairman Yasuharu Antimachi's remarks about the Chinese team are worth reflecting on the Chinese team.
In the past two round-of-12 matches, Japan defeated China and Saudi Arabia by two 2-0s, respectively, and continued to rank second in the group, narrowing to just one point with Saudi Arabia at the top of the table, 3 points ahead of third-place Australia. Japan has now locked up the qualification, but whether it is direct access to Qatar or the need to play the play-offs in the end, it also depends on the results of the last two rounds, especially against Australia in March, which is crucial.
Summing up the two matches against Nakasa, Yasuji Antimachi gave Daisuke Sugawara, a "newcomer" who only joined the national team coaching staff in January, a high evaluation.
As mentioned earlier, because the Japanese national team and the national Olympic team have problems in the attack and defense of set-pieces, the Football Association recruited Daisuke Sugawara as a special coach for set-pieces. It is said that he is a coach, but in fact, it can only be regarded as technical analysis, because his main task is to edit and analyze the collection of set-pieces in the opponent's game and provide information to the national team. In addition, Sugahara will be responsible for the analysis of set-pieces for the full range of Teams of Japan.
Yasuji Antimachi said that because the coach of the Chinese team was changed from Li Tie to Li Xiaopeng, this affected the judgment of the Japanese team to some extent, because there was not much information about Li Xiaopeng's coaching. However, li Xiaopeng led the Wuhan team to compete in the Chinese Super League, but it is easy to get. All the information that the Japanese Football Association can rely on is the video of the game that Li Xiaopeng has coached in Wuhan in the past two years.
It was with these video materials that Daisuke Sugahara discovered the mystery. Yasuharu Takaharu said that the second goal scored by the Japanese team against the Chinese team was the credit of Daisuke Sugawara.
Let's review that goal. In the 61st minute of the match, a long pass from the Japanese team found Maeda Daran in the penalty area, and he stopped the ball and was released from the sideline by Zhu Chenjie. Then left-back Yuta Nakayama, who had just come on as a substitute for Nagatomo Yudo, threw the ball out of bounds on the left side, Takumi Minamino knocked him back, Yuta Nakayama made a fake move and swung away from Takeshi after a left-footed cross, and Jun Ito nodded the ball and broke the goal.
Yasuharu Takaharu revealed that Sugawara found through the video of the past two years of matches that Li Xiaopeng's team would not keep an eye on the throwers when defending the opponent's out-of-bounds ball. That is to say, at that time, whether it was Yuta Nakayama or Nagatomo Yuto or anyone else, after throwing the ball out of bounds, there was a chance to go deep into the heart of the penalty area, or to cross after breaking through...
At that time, the position of the game was the picture above, it should be said that in the attack of an out-of-bounds ball, the Japanese team was partly Takushi Minamino, Yuta Nakayama and Hidemasa Morita, and played against the right-backs of the Chinese team Zhang Linpeng and Wu Lei. So after Nanye knocked back to Zhongshan, Zhang Linpeng not only wanted to block Zhongshan's cross, but also knew that he had a Shoutian Hideyoshi by his side who could insert into the forbidden area, and he was difficult to ride the tiger.
Personally, I think that Xu Xin, who was in the forbidden area at that time, actually had no one to keep an eye on, because there were Jiang Guangtai, Zhu Chenjie and Zheng Zheng in the forbidden area, and there were Wu Xi and Wang Shenchao at the top of the arc, so Xu Xin could go out again to cover the position of Shoutian Yingzheng, so that Zhang Linpeng would not be embarrassed, and he also had the opportunity to rush out to block Zhongshan's cross, at least so that the opponent could not pass so comfortably.
"The ball outside the line is also a set-piece, which is the Japanese team's long-lost set-piece with the goal, because the analysis of the opponent, so the tactics are effectively used. It is because of this effort that both offense and defense can break through, thanks to Sugahara's help, which greatly enhances the strength of the team. Yasuharu Anti-Machi explained.