Reporter Chen Yong reported that on the afternoon of March 9, the national football team and Yatai, who were training in Haikou, played a warm-up match, and the two sides drew 1-1. In this regard, the national football team entered the warm-up stage before the departure from Sharjah. According to the plan, the national football team will fly to the United Arab Emirates with the U23 national team on the 17th, and on the 24th, the match between the national football team and Saudi Arabia will be played in Sharjah, and 5 days later, the team will also play oman away, which is also the last two games of the round of 12.
Preparations have been upgraded
On March 3, the national football team officially assembled in Haikou, so far it has been training for a week, and this week, the training has been divided into two small stages.
The first small stage is from the 3rd to the 6th, of which only 20 players report on the 3rd, and theoretically 33 should report. The 20 people who reported were mainly relatively young players or newly selected internationals. Of the remaining 13, three were confirmed to be absent: Wu Shaocong and Jiang Shenglong were to follow the U23 national team to prepare for the Dubai Cup; Deng Hanwen was unable to participate in the training camp for some reason.
On the 7th, with the return of Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng, the national football team finally gathered 30 people, and several of these players who were slightly reported were standing players of the previous top 12 matches, they were non-stop all year round, plus some players still needed to stay at home, or had some personal circumstances, so they were 3 to 4 days later than the normal registration time.
These newly returned players need to make physical and state adjustments, fortunately, their "vacation" is only more than 10 days, before that, they have been training with the national football team in Suzhou, and it is relatively easy to adjust.
After two days of joint training, starting from the 9th, the national football team entered the warm-up stage, according to the plan, on the 12th and 15th, the national football team will also have two warm-up matches, of which the 15th is against the U23 national team. On the 16th, the team rested for a day, and on the 17th, they went to Dubai with the U23 national team, and then transferred to Sharjah to prepare for the last two matches of the round of 12, while the U23 national team stayed in Dubai for the Dubai Cup.
During his time in Sharjah, the national football team has nearly a week to prepare for the game, at which time, the training intensity will be adjusted to allow the players to better enter the game.
The final list is to be determined
The national football team list totaled 39 people, including 6 players overseas, namely Axon, Fernando, Alan, Luo Guofu, Jiang Guangtai and Li Lei; there were 33 players in China, Deng Hanwen has determined that he will not report, Wu Shaocong and Jiang Shenglong reinforced the U23 national team, therefore, the current players trained in China are 30 people, so before the 17th departure, the national football team must streamline personnel.
At present, among the 6 players overseas, Li Lei is sure that he will go to Sharjah to meet the national football team, at present, he is gradually playing in the Swiss grasshopper, which is good news for the national football team, a good state of Li Lei, obviously needed by the national football team; Jiang Guangtai participated in the previous Sino-Japanese battle and the Sino-Vietnamese battle, and he will most likely go to Sharjah to compete.
As for Alain, Luo Guofu, Fernando and Axon, whether they compete depends on their physical condition, the national football team commissioned the Brazilian foreign physical fitness coach to test the physical function of naturalized players, and the test results will become an important basis for whether to recruit them.
As for the 30 players in China, they are comprehensively evaluated according to their injury situation, physical function, mental outlook, warm-up performance, etc., and then streamlined.
Considering that the national football team will play two consecutive games in West Asia, the list of players is expected to be close to the previous number of japan and Vietnam, no less than 25 people, but also no more than 30 people.
As for the principle of employment of national football coach Li Xiaopeng in these two games, there are two criteria: one is to ensure that the scrappy international players play; the other is to give some young players a chance, but the ability and experience of the players are also to be considered.
The bottom line is "no crash"
It is worth noting that the inspirational slogan on the side of the national football training ground has now become "a thousand hammers and a hundred exercises!" Lay the groundwork! Can fight a good battle! Excellent style. ”
Thousands of hammers and solid foundations are the reasons for the greater intensity of recent national football training, and the coaching team hopes to let the players find a better state through fast-paced and high-intensity training; and the excellent style is also one of the requirements for the national football team.
As we all know, after losing to Vietnam on February 1, the national football team has undergone great pressure, and the requirements of all parties for the national football team have changed from the previous good results to a lower "no collapse".
In fact, the remaining two games are really not easy to play, especially against Saudi Arabia on the 24th, although Saudi Arabia is currently ranked first in the group, but if it cannot defeat the national football team to qualify early, the last game with Australia will become a life-and-death battle, once lost, it may not be possible to qualify for the World Cup. If the national football team can withstand this game, the subsequent match with Oman, even if it is an away game, will be relatively easy.
The technical ability of the players is there, objectively speaking, in the case of mental outlook, the national football team against most teams in Asia may not be able to win, but it will not collapse easily. The collapse, on more levels, is actually a psychological reason, such as objective factors, that is, the psychological fatigue caused by many international football players all year round; of course, subjective factors, that is, the player's personal quality, professionalism, fighting style and so on.
To show your fighting spirit with a good attitude is the requirement of all walks of life for the last two round of 12 matches of the national football team, if there is any progress, then the two games should not be congested.