At 23:00 Beijing time on March 24, the 9th round of Group B of the Round of Twelve, the national football team played against Saudi Arabia. In this game, there is no impact on the qualification situation of both sides, Saudi Arabia has advanced to the Qatar World Cup, and the national football team is also completely out after losing to Japan. However, the head coach of the national football team stressed at the pre-match press conference that this game should "fight for face" for the fans, and it can be seen that the national football team does not want to lose.
At present, the starting list of both sides has been released. National football starters: 1- Yan Junling, 2- Zheng Zheng, 3- Gao Zhunyi, 5- Zhang Linpeng, 8- Arthur Junmin, 9-Zhang Yuning, 13-Xu Xin, 15-Liao Lisheng, 19-Liu Yang, 20-Zhu Chenjie, 21-Liu Binbin.
The failure of the 4 Brazilian naturalized Axon, Alain, Luo Guofu and Fernando to participate, as well as the failure of Wu Lei, made the national football head coach Li Xiaopeng have to choose a "newcomer" to start the game. The list of starters of the national football team has changed greatly compared to the last 1-3 loss to Vietnam.
Combined with the starting list of the last game lost to Vietnam, the two were compared and found that the national football team had 7 player changes in this game. Li Xiaopeng even put naturalized players Dai Weijun and Jiang Guangtai on the bench, a choice that surprised many fans, so that the national football team's game was the starting battle of the all-China class. In the previous 8 rounds of the national football team, the national football team did not choose the starting of the all-Chinese class.
Secondly, Li Xiaopeng's starting lineup reused players from the "Shandong Taishan System", and there were as many as 6 players of the "Shandong Taishan System" in the starting list. The 5-3-2 formation is also li Xiaopeng's usual lineup during his time in charge of Shandong Taishan, and it can also be seen that the national football team will not blindly choose defense in this game, but will seize the opportunity of "flying with both wings" to impact saudi arabia's backline.
On the bench, Li Xiaopeng also hides a number of "backhands", among which Jiang Guangtai, Gao Tianyi, Dai Weijun, Tan Long, Jin Jingdao and other players have the ability to change the trend of the game by coming off the bench. If after half-time, the national football team is in a passive situation, Li Xiaopeng will definitely make personnel adjustments in the first time in the midfield.
Briefly evaluate Li Xiaopeng's starting list: this is a very risky decision!
Jiang Guangtai put it on the bench and Dai Weijun put it on the bench, which undoubtedly removed the two players who were the most stable players in the offensive end and the back line of the national football team in the previous two games. Especially Jiang Guangtai, in the previous twelve-strong competition, Li Tie did not dare to abandon Jiang Guangtai, because he was the "dinghai god needle" of the national football backline, but Li Xiaopeng chose to abandon Jiang Guangtai, which was indeed a "hidden danger" for the national football team's backline.
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