accidentally! accidentally! accidentally! Say important things three times! In the passive situation of the whole field, the Chinese men's football team scored with Zhu Chenjie's penalty, and in the ninth round of the World Preliminary Round of 12 Asian Round of 12 in the early morning Beijing time, it was 1-1 to draw the Saudi team that had won the Qatar World Cup ticket two rounds earlier. After the game, Zhu Chenjie, a 21-year-old national football center-back who scored a penalty, admitted that the whole team will watch the matches of teams such as Saudi Arabia that have won World Cup tickets from time to time to find gaps. Indeed, the unexpected draw only protected the face that the national football team urgently needed to protect, but the distance between it and The first-class teams in Asia is getting farther and farther. In other words, the road for national football to catch up with Asia's first-class teams in the future is long, and the road to discovery will be extremely difficult.
Before the match with Saudi Arabia, both head coach Li Xiaopeng and the players mentioned "fighting for the face". Indeed, the loss to the Vietnamese team has made the national football team the target of public criticism, and if you want to make up for it, you can only "face protection" success if you have a positive performance in the two world preliminary matches with Saudi Arabia and Oman. As a result, head coach Li Xiaopeng changed the formation and starting lineup of the previous two games against Japan and Vietnam, and used a more secure 541 formation to seek a chance to kill the opponent between attack and defense balance.
It is undeniable that in the first half until the last moment before conceding the ball, the defense of the national football team was active, or desperate. Whether it is the young Zhu Chenjie, or the veterans Zhang Linpeng, Yan Junling and Zheng Zheng, they all do their best to protect the face of the team. Relative to the defense, the attack of the national football team does not seem to be the focus, which can be seen from the comparison of the data in the first half - the national football team "zero shots" in the first half. Under the embarrassing data, if there is no Saudi team in the last moment of the first half using corner tactics to score, Li Xiaopeng's tactics can be said to be successful, the defense of the national football team is successful, and the strategy of the first half is successful. Unfortunately, the Saudi team's goal did not see the expected "accident".
I believe that fans who have watched the first half of the game can calmly accept the result of the national football team's loss to Saudi Arabia in this game, because the two teams are no longer on the same level at the technical and tactical level. However, Yan Junling "accidentally" saved the opponent's two consecutive shots; Zhu Chenjie used his body to block the opponent's close-range shot... After these "accidents", the national football team gave the fans watching the game late at night a big "surprise" - high-precision wing cross, the small player Kim Kyung-do who was wrapped up in the middle of the road rubbed the header and hit the hands of the Saudi defenders, the referee decisively blew the penalty, and Zhu Chenjie, who was less than 22 years old, accidentally equalized the score. Football is so magical, in a goal ratio of only "2-17" and the whole game passive, the national football team unexpectedly drew 1-1 with Saudi Arabia.
The tenacious and indomitable spirit of the national football team was exchanged for the favor of the goddess of luck, and unexpectedly won a draw. However, behind the draw, we can see the spirit and style of the national football team, and it is difficult to fill the gap in technology and tactics. When Zhang Linpeng, Wu Lei and others are old, can Young people such as Zhu Chenjie and Dai Weijun come up and represent the national football team to launch an attack towards the first-class in Asia in the next four-year cycle? If you have to describe it as a percentage, it may only be a pitiful one percent, but can this one percent be able to counterattack? unknown! But one thing is certain, that is, if you fight and fight, maybe it is still possible.
Nowadays, in order to reorganize Chinese football, especially men's football, from the level of the General Administration of Sports to the Chinese Football Association are carrying out some plans, and whether these plans can be put into practical action requires all football people to work hard, and more importantly, all people who pay attention to football need to act together to narrow the gap with the first-class teams in Asia. Here I just want to appeal to move forward in the right direction, in order to exchange for progress, in order to awaken everyone to regain their love for football.
Let us look forward to the day when Chinese football, especially men's football, will regain its mighty style! Remember, complaining can't solve the problem, only to work hard!
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