The full text is 2335 words, and the reading time is expected to be 4 minutes.
At 23:00 Beijing time tonight, the Chinese men's national football team will face Saudi Arabia, the opponent in the 9th round of the Asian Round of 12 of the Qatar World Cup Qualifiers, at the "home" of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Although it has been out of the game early, but aside from the outcome of the victory and defeat, the national football team needs to use a bottom-rebound game to save the face of Chinese football, and compared to the score, the majority of fans pay more attention to the fighting spirit and style of the national football players on the field.
In the last round of 12 window, the Chinese men's football team, which had undergone a coach change, successively played with Japan and Vietnam, but lost to their opponents 0-2 and 1-3 respectively, completely missing the Qatar World Cup finals. In particular, the 1-3 loss to Vietnam was difficult for the fans to accept both in terms of process and result. Subsequently, the Chinese men's football team has always been in the whirlpool of public opinion, and the recent "Feng Gong War" that has been making a lot of noise also reflects the urgent desire of all walks of life to hope that Chinese football will come out of the trough as soon as possible. In such an atmosphere of public opinion, the two World Preliminary Tournaments between the national football team and Saudi Arabia and Oman are no longer routine, and Li Xiaopeng's team must play out the content and spell out the spirit.
Before the national football team played, the little brothers of the U23 national football team first gave the big brother a "sample", they first drew 1-1 with the UAE powerhouse Wahda team in a friendly match on March 20, local time, and then, this team played the first game of the "Dubai Cup" invitational tournament, although 0-1 lost to the UAE U23 men's football team, but the boys were full of hard work and tenacious style, which was recognized by the domestic media and fans. The official social media of the Chinese football team also released a micro-documentary of the U23 national football match, through the lens, people remembered coach Jankovic's passionate sentence in the locker room, "The battle mode is ah, there are injuries to change!" ", but also saw the determination of the players to fight for every goal and fight to the end. This time it is Big Brother's turn to play, and the outside world's attention to the players' play style has gone beyond winning and losing.
Li Xiaopeng
Head coach of the Chinese men's national football team
This game will be a hanging, the opponent wants to win, of course, we also want to win, this game will definitely use tough, dare to fight the players to play, at least show that this team is strong, with the quality of will. Although the opportunity to qualify for the World Cup was lost, all the players must fight for the face of Chinese football, which is also the most emphasized by the national team recently.
Image source: FIFA official social platform
"Fighting for the face of Chinese football", this is the definition of the national football team and Saudi Arabia by the national football coach Li Xiaopeng. However, in terms of platooning, due to the suspension of captain Wu Xi and the absence of Li Lei due to injury, the big roster of the national football team tonight's game did not have any suspense, and the remaining 23 players who accompanied the team's western expedition were able to participate in all. It should be pointed out that in the absence of four naturalized players, only one naturalized player is left in the national football team, Jiang Guangtai, and in addition to the absence of Wu Lei, the Chinese team will use a lineup composed of all Chinese Super League players for the first time in this round of twelve. Facing the Saudi team, which is known for its individual skills and ground coordination, the Chinese team strives to build on its strengths and avoid its weaknesses, and to maneuver with its opponents through simple and practical playing styles.
After 8 rounds of the Round of 12, the Chinese men's football team, which has 1 win, 2 draws and 5 losses, is temporarily ranked fifth in the group, only two points ahead of vietnam at the bottom of the group, and only two points ahead of the opponent in terms of goal difference. From the perspective of the national football team, early exit does not mean that there is no goal in the last two games, and the two games cannot collapse and finally avoid being overtaken by the Vietnamese team, which is the bottom line that the national football team has fully defended. Looking back at the last battle between China and Saudi Arabia, although the national team lost 2-3, with the help of the four naturalized players, the team played well in the second half of the attack, and even saw the hope of equalizing at one point. This time to fight Saudi Arabia, the national football team to overcome the difficulties of the front line personnel are stretched, in how to break the Saudi team's goal to use more brains.
In football, the balance between attack and defense is very important, not that we have less forwards means giving up attack, but I also value attack and defense.
Image source: The official social platform of the Chinese football team
Unlike the situation of the Chinese men's football team, the Saudi team is regaining the confidence of the former Asian football hegemon through the round of 12, and in the first 8 games, the Saudi team has won 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and the points have reached 19 points. Since the Japanese men's football team beat Australia 2-0 in this round of matches, the points reached 21 points, while the Australian team's points stayed at 15 points, which means that the Saudi team has qualified from the group in advance before the match with china and advanced to the Qatar World Cup. However, considering the battle for the top spot in the group with Japan, the Saudi team will definitely go all out in the match against the national football team.
Renard
Head coach of the Saudi men's national football team
We focus only on ourselves. Whether we can win the match with the Chinese team still depends on our desire and determination.
In the forward-looking report on the match on the official website of the AFC, it was specifically mentioned that captain Faraj will return in this game.
In order to play this game well, the Saudi team can be described as elite, captain Faraj, who missed the two rounds of matches in January, the main center-back Madhu, the main center Sheikhri, and shahrani and Al Dasari, who missed the first leg of the national football team due to injury, all returned this time. Despite the absence of center Brekan, who had performed well in the previous Round of 12 and scored three goals, the return of Sheikhri gave Lennar a reassurance in the platoon.
Against China, Brikan will be absent and we will prepare him for the next round of 12 against Australia. Since the World Cup qualifiers, I have followed about 30 players, and now they are quite experienced after a lot of international competitions.
Image source: Saudi Football Association
The re-emergence of Saudi football is enviable, and the reason why Saudi football has emerged in recent years is actually due to the fact that they have gradually stepped out of a path suitable for the development of domestic football in the process of continuous exploration, such as doing a good job in the domestic league, opening up the number of foreign aid registrations per team, launching a seven-foreign aid policy, driving the competitive atmosphere of the league by introducing high-level foreign aid, and promoting the improvement of the level of local players. At the same time, Saudi Arabia abandoned the previously failed plan to stay abroad, but made great efforts to do a good job in youth training, and launched the "Project Team Buds 2022" (2022 World Cup team budding training) plan, continue to train and select outstanding young players, Najib and Brikan are the outstanding representatives of this complete youth training system. Perhaps the re-emergence of Saudi football will have some inspiration for the future development path of Chinese football.
It's good for Saudi football at the moment, we feel the support of the Saudi leadership and the fans, we have ambitions, so we have a responsibility to get the Saudi team into the World Cup and repay their huge support.
Image source: Saudi Football Association official social platform
The race will start at 19:00 local time in Sharjah, UAE, when the temperature is 28 degrees, the wind is less than level 3, and the weather is dry and hot.
China Men's Soccer Team VS Saudi Arabia Men's Soccer Team
Tee time: March 24 (Thursday) 23:00 Beijing time
Venue: Sharjah Stadium, UAE
Live broadcasting agency: Tianjin Radio and Television Sports Channel
(Set-top box 106 set-top box 425)