The second match between the national football team and Saudi Arabia will be held on March 24, due to the epidemic prevention and control reasons, the national football team, which originally had home advantage, had to fly to Sharjah to play. For the national football team, the remaining two rounds of the World Preliminary Round have no substantive significance, after all, the national football team has lost the opportunity to qualify for the 2022 World Cup. The main goal of the next two World Cups is to finish the game and not lose too ugly. However, as far as the current indications are concerned, this time the national football team is afraid to eat a humiliating defeat on the road.
Not long ago, the national football team announced the latest issue of the 23-man roster, five naturalized players Luo Guofu, Alain, Axon, Jiang Guangtai, Ferrando, only Jiang Guangtai is on the list. In addition, Wu Lei, who had the brightest performance in the previous World Preliminary Round and scored the most goals, also failed to play in the next two World Preliminary Tournaments for various reasons. The absence of Axon, Luo Guofu, Alan, Ferrando and Wu Lei cast a shadow on the prospects of the national football team with the remaining two rounds of the World Preliminary Tournament.
The roof leaked in the overnight rain, and another foreign player of the national football team also spread bad news. The Grasshoppers previously announced that Li Lei would be absent for at least four weeks because of the torn right adductor muscle in training. Earlier, Li Lei had said: "No matter where you play, the national team's game is definitely above all else. "However, in the past several calls for the national team, Li Lei was absent due to injuries, which is regrettable. After the news of Li Lei's absence from the national team again was announced, many fans also questioned Li Lei's absence several times, perhaps he really did not want to come to the muddy waters of the national football team and did not want to encounter the insults of the fans.
The absence of 6 core players also made Li Xiaopeng's platoon deployment seem stretched. According to media reports, Li Xiaopeng is likely to sacrifice the attack combination of Zhang Yuning, Dai Weijun and Liu Binbin. Although the attack combination of these three people has achieved good results in the previous warm-up matches, the actual combat still needs to be tested, so everyone is very worried about the attacking power of the national football team.
In addition, according to the "China News" revealed, many players in the national football team have not participated in the World Cup because of long-term closed training, coaching storms and away defeats to Vietnam, coupled with the comprehensive impact of the salary arrears of many teams in the Chinese Super League, the current mental state of the players is not ideal, many people are confused about the future, and morale can be described as very low. On the other hand, the Saudi men's football team has high morale, because they hope to win the national football team to win all 3 points and win the World Cup ticket in the early round. Under various unfavorable circumstances, fans are also full of pessimism about the second battle between the national football team and Saudi Arabia, and even some fans think that the national football team is likely to be kicked 6-0.