At 23:00 Beijing time on March 24, after a period of rest, the Chinese men's football team once again embarked on the journey of the round of 12, this time they will face saudi Arabia, the penultimate opponent of this world preliminary tournament. In the last meeting between the two teams, the Chinese team finally lost 2-3. The match is crucial for both teams, and if Saudi Arabia can successfully beat China, it will lock a ticket to the World Cup. The Chinese men's football team is fighting for its own honor.
After the 1-3 fiasco against Vietnam, the various negative news of the Chinese men's football team began to be exposed continuously, whether it was Wu Xi's sea cucumber incident, or the feng gong dispute between Feng Xiaoting and Gong Hanlin later, which caused a wave of public opinion in The country, so this game is crucial for the Chinese men's football team, wanting to save their still shabby face, and regaining the confidence of fans in the national football team, all tied to this big battle. If the national football team still can't get a victory, or can't show the fighting spirit and game appearance in the game, I'm afraid the next few days will be even more difficult.
In order to be able to get a victory in the second battle with Saudi Arabia, the coaching staff of the national football team is also constantly deliberating and discussing the lineup, and it is not difficult to find from the official announcement of the 23-man roster that the overall personnel changes are still very large, first of all, the absence of Wu Lei and Luo Guofu, the two cores, which is actually somewhat surprising. Wu Lei, as the most stable and outstanding forward player of the Chinese team at present, his absence is bound to make the Chinese team in trouble in attack, lack of Wu Lei's running position and attract defense, how the Chinese team to instigate the attack of the two sides, will become a big problem. However, Wu Lei's failure to be recruited is actually excusable, after all, he has been sitting on the cold bench in La Liga for a long time, his personal state cannot be guaranteed, and there is not much running-in between him and the national team, and there may be no way to play his due level in the game.
Luo Guofu's lack of selection is related to the various conflicts between him and the national football team and the Football Association recently, he has indeed shown a very good performance in the previous few games, and the defensive end is very desperate, repeatedly defusing the opponent's very threatening passes and shots. However, he has repeatedly confronted the Football Association and the national football team on social media, constantly intensifying the problems between the two sides, so that with a certain negative emotion, it will inevitably affect the preparation of the entire team. And Luo Guofu now obviously still has a certain emotion, whether he can play at the previous level in the game, is to draw a question mark.
In terms of other players, it can be clearly seen that Li Xiaopeng's team is ready to give young people more opportunities to practice, and there are at least 7 new faces in the big list this time, they are all very young athletes, and this competition is undoubtedly the best stage to test their overall strength. In the face of Saudi Arabia, a strong asian rival this time, if the national football team wants to get the final victory, it needs to do two things.
Increase the rate of ball turnover and avoid direct physical confrontation. As a team from West Asia, one of the biggest characteristics of Saudi Arabia is its strong physical confrontation ability, and the last game of the Chinese team has already suffered a big loss in this regard, and it is difficult for two or three people to block the impact of Saudi Arabia. Therefore, this time to face Saudi Arabia again, what the Chinese team has to do is to strengthen the conversion rate of the ball, to maneuver and control the ball with the opponent, and to avoid direct physical confrontation. Second, it is necessary to strengthen the rear line and invest more troops. The first two defeats, China's two side defense is simply a disaster, there is no active scramble, so this game the national football team must strengthen the defense of the two sides, can not give the opponent an easy opportunity to enter the box.
In short, I still hope that the national football team can play all the technical and tactical in this game, show the spirit of hard work, even if the game is finally lost, but as long as the process is exciting enough, it will not waste the support and companionship of the fans.