At 23:00 Beijing time on March 24, the national football team will face Saudi Arabia in Sharjah, UAE, in the 9th round of the Round of 12. Due to the lack of 4 naturalized players in the front court, coupled with the collective absence of 2 major foreign internationals Wu Lei and Li Lei, the national football team is likely to send 5 defenders and 3 central defenders to face the powerful Saudi Arabia, and the front court uses young players such as Zhang Yuning and Dai Weijun to carry the flag.
Li Lei did not return to the team due to injury, and Wu Xi was suspended for 2 yellows when facing Saudi Arabia, so the 23-man list of the national football team and Saudi Arabia has actually been released in advance, and all players brought to Sharjah will enter the list except Wu Xi. During the training period from Haikou, the national football team was practicing 3 center-backs and 5 defenders, as well as the defensive counterattack tactics of the long pass, and it was understandable for the national football team to lower its posture in the face of the powerful Saudi team.
If there is no accident, the national football team facing Saudi Arabia will be the fourth time in the round of 12 to sacrifice the formation of 5 defenders, and the 3 central defenders will be led by the veteran Zhang Linpeng, and Zhang Linpeng is very likely to replace Wu Xi as the captain of the national football team in this game. Zhang Linpeng's 2 partners will be Zhu Chenjie and naturalized international Jiang Guangtai, and once Jiang Guangtai's physical condition does not meet the starting standards, Zheng Zheng may also be in the starting lineup.
The goalkeeper position will continue to be guarded by Yan Junling, 2 full-backs, the left-back position is competed by Wang Shenchao and Liu Yang, Wang Shenchao has always been the first choice for this position before, after Zhang Linpeng became the center-back, his teammate Gao Zhunyi in Guangzhou is very likely to appear in the starting right-back position.
Due to the main defensive formation, and from the pre-match situation, the national football team is likely to send a combination of double backs, due to Wu Xi's suspension, the current national football team is only Left in the back position only Xu Xin, Jin Jingdao, Liao Lisheng, the double back position is 3 to choose 2, from the pre-game analysis, Taishan two teammates are more likely to partner.
In the frontcourt attack group, as the current head card, Zhang Yuning will not let go of the center, and it will be Liu Binbin and Dai Weijun who will be played for it, and Dai Weijun will be quickly reused after being selected for the national football team. Zhang Yuning, born in 1997, and Dai Weijun, born in 1999, will be dominated by young players in the case of losing a naturalized striker and Wu Lei is not diligent.
Of course, at the pre-match press conference, coach Li Xiaopeng stressed that players who can fight and dare to fight will be reused, so the starting lineup also shows to a certain extent the attitude of some international footballers in training.
The national football team vs Saudi Arabia is expected to start
Goalkeeper: Yan Junling;
Defenders: Wang Shenchao (Liu Yang), Jiang Guangtai (Zheng Zheng), Zhang Linpeng, Zhu Chenjie, Gao Zhuanyi;
Midfielders: Liu Binbin, Xu Xin, Jin Jingdao, Dai Weijun;
Forward: Zhang Yuning