In the round of 12 that began in September, the national football team was divided into Group B with Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Vietnam. After the restart of the Chinese Super League, only four internationals did not participate in the club's matches, namely Wu Lei, who returned to Spain, the injured Tomorrow, Wuhan goalkeeper Dong Chunyu and Guoan defender Li Ke. Guoan's Li Lei and Yu Dabao, as well as Guangzhou's Liu Dianzuo, Zhang Linpeng and Jiang Guangtai, have played two matches, and yan Junling, Wang Shenchao, Zhang Xizhe, Zhang Yuning, Tan Long, Wei Shihao, Tang Miao, Jin Jingdao, Wu Xinghan, Zheng Zheng, Wang Dalei and so on have played the full match in the sixth round.
Judging from the statistics, the dependence of the club teams on the international football players is still relatively prominent. As far as the laws of sports are concerned, the vast majority of international footballers can get stable playing time in the league, which is very beneficial to the national football team to maintain the overall competitive state. However, the unprecedented intensity of the schedule and the scorching sunshine will somehow increase the chance of players, especially internationals, being injured. Therefore, the Chinese Football Association, the coaching staff of the national football team and various clubs are actually caught in a dilemma.
The wonderful performance in the last four games of the Round of 40 has made the outside world have a lot of expectations for this national team, and even our opponents have re-examined this opponent. For example, the Japanese team in the same group, their football circles believe that the Chinese men's football team has made great improvements and may become their own "roadblocks". Recently, former Japanese legend Junsuke Nakamura analyzed on social media that China's naturalized players are first-class in Asia, but their players are second-rate, and Japan's overall strength is still higher than them, and it is fully capable of defeating them.
Junsuke Nakamura was a highly technical player when he played, and his words still have some meaning; however, perhaps China and Japan have not played each other for too long, so he does not know that the gap between us and Japanese football is much bigger than he thought. You know, Japan's world ranking is currently the first in Asia, winning all 8 games in the top 40 matches, scoring 46 goals and conceding only 2 goals. The team has a number of European five major league team main players such as Endo Hang, Fuan Kenyang, Takumi Minamino, Ōki Yuki, Kamada Daichi, and supernova like Kubo Kenei, the team's age structure is very reasonable, their paper strength can be described as the best in Asia, and the Chinese men's football team is indeed difficult to match.
20 years ago, although the Chinese men's football team against Japan, South Korea and Iran "won less and lost more", but the gap is not large, but also to reach the final four of the Asian Cup and the World Cup; but since the South Korea-Japan World Cup, the level of Chinese men's football has declined tremendously, not only by South Korea, Japan and Iran, but also completely surpassed by Qatar, Uzbekistan, and even in Syria, Iraq, but also repeatedly defeated. So our level should be third-rate, and that fact doesn't change with the introduction of a few naturalized players.
In fact, we should learn Japanese football, set a goal for ourselves very early, have a plan for our own football, and be able to develop according to these goals for ten or twenty years. Including their childhood to adulthood, they have really established a youth training mechanism and a bridge for growth, which are what we lack, and there is no successor in Chinese football.