Haikou, Hainan, has also welcomed two national teams: the Chinese men's soccer team, which is about to enter the final two rounds of the Round of 12, and the U23 men's soccer team, which is about to compete in the Dubai Cup. The check-in deadline for the Chinese men's soccer team is until 6 p.m., and the U23 men's soccer team is one hour earlier. The reason for this arrangement is also to consider that the players of the Chinese men's football team have only recently ended the last quarantine, and the whole is still relatively tired, so no training was arranged yesterday. Moreover, due to the impact of the epidemic, some players have asked the team for leave, and only 20 people arrived in Haikou yesterday. It is expected that on March 6, all 33 domestic players participating in this training session will be able to get together.
The training of the Chinese men's football team in Haikou is expected to last for two weeks, during which three warm-up matches will be played on the 9th, 12th and 15th, against Changchun Yatai and the U23 men's football team (playing two games), which will also be the first time in the past 10 years that the Chinese men's football team and the U23 men's football team will conduct internal warm-up matches. The last time the two sides met was in 2009, when Gao Hongbo's Chinese men's team beat Liu Chunming's U23 men's team 1-0, and Arthur Junmin scored the only goal of the game. Li Xiaopeng chose to play with the U23 men's football team coached by Jankovic this time, on the one hand, the two sides of this training camp ate and lived together in the same training, and then they had to go out together to west Asia, it was more convenient to meet the warm-up game, and more importantly, both sides needed to adjust the state through the warm-up game before the western expedition and finalize the candidates for the western expedition. At the same time, Li Xiaopeng also intends to take this opportunity to investigate the players in the U23 men's football team and prepare for the next blood exchange.
Although the last two round of 12 matches are only a "battle of honor" for the Chinese men's football team, under the pressure of public opinion that all parties have dropped to the freezing point, Li Xiaopeng will never allow the team to lose consecutively again. Therefore, the coaching team has given the players a preventive shot, so that the international footballers are fully prepared, and this training will be mainly based on large-scale exercise training, even on the day of the warm-up match, training will be arranged. In addition, Li Xiaopeng is also interested in using more young players in the last two games, in addition to Zhu Chenjie and Dai Weijun, who have already won the opportunity to play, other players are also expected to usher in their debut in the World Preliminary Round.
According to the requirements of the previous Chinese men's football team's new training notice, five naturalized players such as Jiang Guangtai, Axon, Fernando, Alain and Luo Guofu, as well as Li Lei, who plays for the Swiss grasshopper, will go to the United Arab Emirates on March 17 to meet the team. However, according to the latest news, considering that Li Lei is in a critical period of his career in Foreign Countries, the men's football coaching staff is likely to allow him to postpone reporting to the team for a few days.
The main reason why the coaching team made this decision is because Li Lei has just made a breakthrough in Grasshopper: in the early morning of this morning Beijing time, Grasshopper lost 1:2 to Lugano, Li Lei started for the first time and played the whole game. In the game, the grasshoppers also had an advantage to some extent, with the team holding 55% of the ball and leading 12-10 on goal. However, they were scored twice in the first and second halves by rivalSellar, and although Sené pulled a goal back in the 77th minute, they still lost 1-2. After the game, the data showed that Li Lei had 1 shot on goal, 1 key pass, and the pass accuracy rate was 80%, in addition, there was 1 clearance, 2 interceptions, 1 steal, and 1 block shot. After the game, the local media gave him a rating of 6.8 points, ranking in the upper middle of the team. According to the schedule, the grasshoppers will face Basel at home on the 20th local time, and with Li Lei's current state, it is entirely possible to continue to compete for the main force of the team. Therefore, the men's coaching staff decided to let him play this game before leaving for West Asia.
In fact, there have always been different voices from the outside world for this recruitment of Li Lei. Many people believe that Li Lei has been plagued by injuries and illnesses since joining grasshoppers, and has only played 3 times for the team so far, and only made his first start until the early hours of this morning, and has not yet fully established himself in the team. In this case, letting him run between the national team and the club is likely to have an impact on his state, not to mention, with his current physical condition, whether he can withstand continuous high-intensity competition will also be a question mark. In addition, the Chinese men's football team also has Wang Shenchao, Zheng Zheng, Liu Yang and other people available in the left-back position, even if Li Lei is not recruited, it will not have much impact on the Chinese men's football team. What's more, in the last two games, facing opponents such as Saudi Arabia and Oman, Li Xiaopeng, who urgently needs to stabilize the situation, will Li Lei, who is strong in attack and weak, be the first choice for left-back? When the time comes, there will be no games to play when recalled, is it not a white toss?