I believe that many fans have ignored that the national football team will have 2 important games to play in the near future, that is, the last two rounds of the World Preliminary Round. The national football team will face Saudi Arabia and Oman in West Asia. The reason why we fans ignore these two matches is that our national football team has decided not to qualify for the World Cup finals after the last 3-1 away loss to Vietnam, that is, the next two games are no longer meaningful for the Impact World Cup. However, this is not the main reason why fans ignore these two games, the lack of attention of fans is mainly because the national football team lost away to Vietnam, so that they can not see any hope in this team.
That match was the first time in the history of the national football team that it lost to an opponent, which was also unacceptable to many fans. Because that game was a complete defeat for the Vietnamese team in terms of mental outlook and technical tactics. The opponent played significantly more aggressively than we did, and the physical condition and pace of the game were much better than ours. And the most deadly thing is that they almost locked up our attack through the combination of two or three people in the midfield position, making our attack almost impossible to pass through the midfield. It has not been able to attack the opponent's restricted area, and it is impossible to form an effective threat. So our players started to be impatient, the defense was flawed, and finally the opponent scored 3 goals in a row, destroying the hope of winning, and finally collapsed.
In fact, not only the away game against Vietnam, in all the previous round of 12 matches, our biggest problem was the midfield, the first few games were the lack of defensive ability of the midfield, easily beaten by Australia, losing 0-3. Li Tie tried a lot of people for this, and finally Xu Xin came out in the game against Oman, he improved the defensive hardness and area of the national football midfield in the midfield, and directly solved the problem of the national football midfield defense. After the defensive problem was solved, the national football team's attack began to improve, so we successfully drew with Australia.
But the problem of defense is solved, and the problem of attack is not really solved. We can still have a chance when we meet teams like Australia and Oman whose midfield control is not a strong point, but it's hard to meet teams like Japan and Vietnam. Especially when away against Japan, the other side almost completed the blockade of the Chinese team's attack by restricting our balls, and in that game we couldn't even pass the ball out of the backcourt, we could only open our feet, and finally only 2 shots. The Vietnamese team completely borrowed from the Japanese team's playing style, and also successfully limited the Chinese team, and got a better result than the Japanese team.
Therefore, everything else is secondary, if the Chinese team wants to change the status quo and earn back face, it must strengthen its own midfield. Xu Xin actually does not have a big defensive problem in midfield, and now he needs someone who can cooperate well with him and can help the national football team offensively. And this person seems to have let the current national football coach find, he is the 28-year-old Guangzhou midfielder, Liao Lisheng.
As we all know, Liao Lisheng was once a potential rising star tapped by the famous coach Lippi. In 2014, at the age of 20, Liao Lisheng was promoted to the first team by Lippi and placed in the AFC Champions League list. He made his AFC Champions League debut in the first round of the AFC Champions League group stage against Melbourne Victory in Guangzhou Evergrande' home game, and later contributed a goal against Jeonbuk Hyundai to score his debut goal after joining Evergrande. We were pleasantly surprised to see that the Guangzhou-based youngster not only has a solid sense of defensive position but also runs actively, passes steadily, and even has the ability to shoot from a distance and a free kick, with a stability and a big picture view beyond his age. Many people believe that Liao Lisheng will be Zheng Zhi's successor.
However, after Lippi left the team, Liao Lisheng immediately fell out of favor, and he only played 2 games in the 2015 season, spending almost the entire season on the bench. In the critical period of their own growth, they always can't play the game, which is very detrimental to the growth of players. But the coach just didn't use him. In the 2019 season, Liao Lisheng tried to save himself and went on loan to Tianjin Tianhai. In Tianjin Tianhai team Liao Lisheng quickly found the feeling of playing. But unfortunately, after the end of the season, the Tianhai team was disbanded, and Liao Lisheng returned to Guangzhou to become a substitute.
However, last season, because of the departure of foreign aid, Zheng Zhi's fading out, Liao Lisheng began to shoulder heavy responsibilities in the midfield, he began to become the core of the team's midfield, played the role of the sea god needle, he was not only able to expand the defensive area through running in the midfield, but also could well connect, organize and guide the team's attack. The most powerful thing is his physical fitness, in the second stage of the Chinese Super League 22 days and 8 games, he played all the game, and none of the games showed a decline in physical fitness caused by a decline in form. It can be said that he is like a midfield perpetual motion machine, always able to burst out enough energy, he is also known as the fans as the midfield iron man.
Perhaps it is also to see Liao Lisheng's outstanding performance, the new coach of the national football team Li Xiaopeng is also happy to call Liao Lisheng into the national team. Unexpectedly, Liao Lisheng soon gave Li Xiaopeng a feedback. Just recently, the national football team played a warm-up match with the Chinese Super League team Changchun Yatai. As a result, not long after the opening, liu Yang, a national football center-back, accidentally swung himself, causing the national football team to fall behind 0-1. You must know that the current national football team can not afford to lose, some time ago lost to the team killed, if now lost to Yatai, it will definitely be pushed to the cusp of public opinion again.
At this time, Liao Lisheng stepped forward and he scored the equalizer in the last minutes before the end of the half to help the team equalize 1-1. Since then, the two sides have not knocked on each other's doors. In the end, the score ended 1-1, and the national football team avoided defeat. And Liao Lisheng's ball should make him add a lot of points to Li Xiaopeng's heart. Do you think that if the back combination of the national team is Xu Xin and Liao Lisheng, our vitality will be improved? Are you optimistic that Liao Lisheng can get a main position? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!