In less than 10 days, the Chinese men's football team will face Saudi Arabia in the Asian qualifiers of the Round of 12.
In the first match with the opponent, the Chinese men's team lost the opponent by a score of 2:3.
In the second competition, the Chinese men's football team has lost the qualification to qualify for the 2022 Qatar World Cup, after unloading the burden of qualifying for the World Cup, can the Chinese men's football team score points on Saudi Arabia?
That's a big attraction for this game.
In addition, in the pre-match report of Beijing Youth Daily, it was also said that the Chinese team did not recruit 4 naturalized players overseas and Wu Lei, a striker who stayed in China to stay in Espanyol. That is to say, in the last two round of 12 matches, the Chinese men's football team has only one naturalized player to play, that is, Jiang Guangtai.
For this matter, I think the Chinese Football Association's decision on the former is correct, and for the latter, I think this decision is not appropriate.
Because in any case, Espanyol striker Wu Lei has played a crucial role in the journey of the Chinese men's football team in this 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Whether in the Round of 40 or in the Round of 12, Wu Lei has repeatedly scored key goals at key time points.
Wu Lei also finished second in the qualifying list, scoring a total of 12 goals, 4 of which were penalties. From the perspective of goal efficiency, Wu Lei is already at the forefront.
That is to say, without Wu Lei, there is no qualification for the round of 12 in Chinese football, although Wu Lei's performance at this stage is not satisfactory, and there is not much playing time in Espanyol, but we must do a good job of respecting a player.
Since Wu Lei has played so many games, the last two games, although meaningless, must symbolically let Wu Lei participate and play a leading role.
As for the naturalized players, their physical fitness problem is the biggest challenge at present, and their ability is beyond doubt, but it is necessary to have a certain physical fitness as the basis for the head coach to be able to use it with confidence.
In the absence of systematic targeted training, multiple naturalized players are clearly under-standard. It is also reasonable that the Chinese Football Association does not intend to recruit these 4 naturalizations.
It is believed that this expedition, the Chinese men's football team can play its own style in the last two intercontinental competitions of the top 12 matches, and also hope that Li Xiaopeng will send more young players to play to pave the way for the future development of Chinese football.