Round of 12
Normal training
There are still two days to go before the battle between China and Saudi Arabia, the Chinese men's national football team UAE local time yesterday (22nd) evening still went to the Khalid Bin Mohammed Stadium in the training base of Sharjah Club according to the regular time, and all players attended the training normally.
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Dai Weijun adjusted on the sidelines alone
As with the previous training, the national football team still left the hotel at 18:00 last night and went to the training ground to start training. The training began at 18:30 and lasted for an hour and a half. Perhaps due to the approaching of the game, the national football team has also completely transferred into the role. On the one hand, the mood of the players tends to be relatively calm; on the other hand, what should have been prepared and can be prepared before has basically been prepared. Therefore, the whole training can also be said to be step-by-step, and it is impossible to "practice flowers". At the end of the regular preparations, the routine 15 minutes open to the media arrived, and after the reporters left, the team arranged tactical drills, also practiced detachment confrontation, and finally practiced free kicks.
However, it should be pointed out that Dai Weijun, who had high hopes by the coaching team and may appear in the battle of China and Saudi Arabia as a starter, arrived at the training ground yesterday, and has not participated in training with the team, but has been alone on the sidelines, including leg pressing, pulling and so on. When he saw the reporter, Dai Weijun was still smiling and asking what was going on? The answer is: I feel that my body is a little tired and not in a particularly good state, so I adjust to the day.
It should be said that Dai Weijun is not injured, and the situation is not very serious, and the coaching team also let him adjust individually from the perspective of protection. From the perspective of observation, under normal circumstances, Dai Weijun can return to the team today (23rd) to participate in training.
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The Chinese team gave up stepping on the field tonight
According to the arrangement, today (23rd) will be the last training class before the battle of China and Saudi Arabia. Since the Saudi team as an away team, there is only one step on the field training before the game, so the Saudi team proposed to carry out an hour of adaptation training from 18:30 to 19:30, and the Chinese team as the "home team" of course needs to meet the needs of the other side. In this way, if the Chinese team also wants to arrange training in the Sharjah Stadium, it must be arranged after 19:30, and the training time proposed by the AFC is that the Chinese team will start at 20:00 in the evening.
Considering that the training time started too late and would completely disrupt the daily training rhythm of the national football team after arriving in Sharjah, after weighing it, the national team coaching team decided to abandon the stepping training session on this evening (23rd) and still go to the Khalid Stadium in the training base of the Sharjah club that has been used in recent days for the final training before the game. Although for the national football team, this may be a loss, after all, the Chinese team is actually a "away team", but fortunately on March 20, it has already conducted a training session on this venue, and the home matches of the previous top 40 and top 12 matches are also carried out in this venue, so the situation on the court is basically familiar.
Because this is the last practice before the game, and according to the official regulations of the AFC, it must be open to the media for the first 15 minutes, many Saudi journalists followed the Saudi national team to the United Arab Emirates, so it will definitely need to watch the last practice of the Chinese team before the game, so the national team will also postpone the start of training by half an hour, that is, the start of 19:00 that night, this time point is also the kick-off time of the Battle of China and Saudi Arabia, so that saudi journalists after watching the first 15 minutes of open training of the Saudi national team, Those who are willing to go to the Chinese team training venue to watch the Chinese team training can also have time to transfer.
Because the national football team gave up the opportunity to train on the main field, accordingly, the time of the pre-match press conference of the Chinese team was also adjusted, and the original arrangement was adjusted from 19:15 to 19:45 local time to 16:45 to 17:15 (20:45 to 21:15 Beijing time). Saudi coach Renard's pre-match press conference was still scheduled from 17:45 to 18:15 (21:45 to 22:15 Beijing time). In this way, both sides can connect normally.
It is understood that according to the custom of the Chinese team, the general pre-match press conference is attended by the head coach and the captain. Due to the suspension of Wu Xi's accumulated yellow cards, it will be Li Xiaopeng and Zhang Linpeng who will attend tonight's pre-match press conference, which means that if there is no accident, Zhang Linpeng will replace Wu Xi and participate in the Battle of Zhongsha as the captain.