After a long quarantine period, the Chinese national football team has finally begun to regroup recently to prepare for the last two matches of the World Preliminary Round of 12. According to the well-known football journalist Ma Dexing, the national football team's plan for the next period of time has been finalized, the team will arrange at least two warm-ups during the Training Camp in Haikou, and postpone the date of going to the United Arab Emirates to prepare for the game.
According to Ma Dexing, the national football team will start formal training from March 4, because some international footballers have not yet returned to the team. On the other hand, at least two warm-up matches will be arranged during the training period, including a teaching match with the U23 national football team, and other warm-up opponents may be produced in Chinese Super League teams such as Changchun Yatai. On March 17, the national football team will charter a flight to the United Arab Emirates to prepare for the match against Saudi Arabia.
Since the end of the match against Vietnam in February, the national footballers have not trained for more than twenty days, let alone played. In such a situation, how to use the training camp from Haikou to help the players recover their game status before the official match against Saudi Arabia has become the top priority of the coaching staff; and it is obviously the best choice to arrange as many warm-ups as possible.
According to the plan, after the national football team travels to the United Arab Emirates on March 17, there is still about a week to prepare for the Saudi Arabia, but according to past experience, it is difficult for the national football team to contact suitable warm-up opponents in the United Arab Emirates, so the warm-up match can only be held during the training camp in Haikou. The U23 national football team has decided to fly with the national football team to the United Arab Emirates to prepare for the Dubai Cup, and it is also concentrated in Haikou, which is undoubtedly a natural warm-up object.
In addition, as a popular place for pre-season preparation, many Chinese Super League and Chinese League A teams have chosen to train in Haikou, which also gives the national football team the opportunity to play with these teams and better accumulate status for the upcoming top 12 matches. From the official training on March 4 to the 17th to the United Arab Emirates, there are about 12 days in between, and the national football team has time to arrange more warm-ups.
Judging from this arrangement, li Xiaopeng, the coach of the national football team, still has more ideas. When the national football team was training in Shanghai in January, because the professional league teams were on vacation at that time, the national football team could not find any decent warm-up object, which also led to a great reduction in the overall state of the national football team against Japan and Vietnam. This time, using more convenient warm-up conditions, the national football team is expected to adjust the state of the players to the best state in a short period of time, laying a relatively good foundation for facing Saudi Arabia and Oman and successfully ending the journey of the top 12.