If you only talk about the score, the 1-1 draw with the World Cup team Saudi Arabia, the face of the national football team and even Chinese football is saved. And in the game, including Zhu Chenjie, Gao Zhunyi, Zhang Yuning, Xu Xin and a number of under-30 players, as well as Dai Weijun, Gao Tianyi's substitute appearance, the replacement can also be regarded as in progress. However, even Li Xiaopeng admitted that there is a fluke component in the national football team's draw with Saudi Arabia, and for rational fans, the future hope of the national football team is there, but it is not very big.
The draw is only a superficial phenomenon, and being hanged by saudi arabia is the real thing
The backdrop to the match is that Saudi Arabia has already been lying down to qualify for the World Cup in the face of Japan's defeat of Australia. In other words, the Saudi team, which originally came to Sharjah with all the elites, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief before the game, and did not need to fight with the national football team, and it would also appear in Qatar at the end of the year.
The national football team has been out of the game 2 rounds in advance, and the last 2 rounds of matches with Saudi Arabia and Oman have no pressure on them and can be lightly loaded. The past performance of the national team proves that only in the stress-free game can the team play at a normal level. The performance of the national football team after the past world preliminary round also proves that the national football team will only play games without pressure.
The Saudi team has no intention of fighting, and the national football team has no pressure to play, and the opponent of the Sino-Saudi war is the national football team that can play 100% of the level and play a discounted Saudi team. However, in addition to the 1-1 score, the other data can only be described as "shocking": the possession rate is 26.2% vs 73.8%, the shooting ratio is 2-18, if it is not the final draw, this game will be called "hanging" by fans and media.
The game process data is still lagging behind across the board
Even coach Li Xiaopeng admitted after the game that the draw was a rather fluke for the national football team, "The difference between our strength and the Saudi team is obvious, and we are lucky to get 1 point." In terms of fighting spirit, every player deserves praise. But football is played after all, and when we have the ball, we are still not very confident. ”
Another criterion for judging is that the match involving the national football team is to see the result; in the case of the result has nothing to do with life and death, the most important thing to see is the scene. And this "friendly match" with Saudi Arabia, the scene should be greater than the result, but because of the 1-1 draw, the sound has become completely different, because this game, can the previous bad performance of the national football team be completely forgotten?
Of course, the national football team against Saudi Arabia is not useless, at least in the absence of naturalization and Wu Lei, Li Xiaopeng used young players, and this is the future of Chinese football, to be precise, the national football team.
Without Wu Lei and naturalization, the Mesozoic + young players bring hope
Jiang Guangtai did not start unexpectedly because his body did not meet the standards of appearance, and even Li Xiaopeng did not give the opportunity to appear on the bench. Therefore, the competition with Saudi Arabia, back to the beginning of 2019, the national football team has no naturalized players, coupled with the absence of Wu Lei, so that more players have the opportunity to appear.
Among the starting 11 people, only Arthur Junmin (35 years old), Yan Junling (31 years old), Zhang Linpeng (33 years old), Zheng Zheng (33 years old) 4 veterans, the remaining 7 players are under 30 years old, of which the equalizer Zhu Chenjie is 22 years old, Liu Yang and Gao Zhunyi are 27 years old, Liu Binbin and Liao Life are all 29 years old, Xu Xin is 28 years old, Zhang Yuning is 25 years old, these players can at least survive the next World Preliminary Round, and they are also the national football players of next year's Asian Cup.
Putting aside the technical and tactical level, as well as the gap between the players' personal technical ability and the Saudi team, at least in the spirit of hard work, these marginal players of the original national football team have come up with the bloodiness expected by the outside world. The multiple flights of the high-precision wing blocked the gun hole, so that the Saudi team shot many times without success, and in the final technical statistics, although the Saudi team shot as high as 18 times, only 3 hit the target.
The 4 players who came off the bench, in addition to Yu Dabao is a veteran, Jin Jingdao is 30 years old, Gao Tianyi and Dai Weijun are only 24 years old and 23 years old respectively, which belongs to the Mesozoic generation and young players in the scope of Chinese football. Compared with the "old-fashioned autumn" of the national football team's lineup throughout the World Preliminary Round, the average age of this game has finally dropped (28.9 years old), and finally it is no longer the average age at the beginning of 3 words.
From the beginning of the hopeless qualification, the outside world is looking forward to the renewal of the national football team and let more young players appear. But young players get the opportunity to play in the match against Saudi Arabia, and Li Xiaopeng also admitted after the game that the players are not very confident when they have the ball, and it is quite risky to directly use young players in such a big competition as the 12th round.
To put it bluntly, the strength of young players has not reached the height of other teams in the round of 12 players of the same age, otherwise they would have "taken over" long ago, and there is no need to take this risk in the round of 12. The game is not lost, it is the young players who bring hope, and once they lose, all the pots still have to be carried by young players.
Is there any hope for the national football team, and what bets are there to save the team?
The "friendly match" between the national football team and Saudi Arabia, because of a draw, more media people gave affirmation. But it is still that sentence, from the result can be sure, but the process, in addition to the fighting spirit, is really a bit unbearable.
Just before the match of the national football team, the U-23 national football team played in the Dubai Cup, and in the match with the host Uae, the two full-backs who have become the main force of the Chinese Super League team played, and after the game, they became the object of criticism by fans. This group of players born in 1999 is the biggest beneficiary of the U-23 policy of the Chinese Football Association, because the policy has long been "forced" by each team to get the opportunity to appear, but after several years of training, when it comes to the international arena, the performance cannot be described as "cowering", but it is "taking care of one or the other".
The phenomenon of unreasonable use of technology and defensive mistakes occurs frequently, which is only the U-23 national team of the United Arab Emirates that has been encountered and the United Arab Emirates, which is half a pound and two pounds in Chinese football, and at the same age, several asian first-class teams in Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Shay have long left China and the United Arab Emirates out of sight. Therefore, it also proves that allowing young players to force them to get the opportunity to play will not accumulate so-called experience, and only natural progress is the correct mode for player growth.
Li Xiaopeng said after the game that in addition to the young players selected for the national football team, there are also a number of outstanding young players in Chinese football, most likely all concentrated in the U-23 national football team on the Dubai Cup trip, plus a few young players such as Guo Tianyu who stayed in the ocean. Li Xiaopeng also stressed that due to the influence of the general environment, young players lack the training of international competitions, but next year's Asian Cup is far away, as the host, there are not many international competitions that the national football team can use to train young players.
The last round of the round of the 12 rounds and Oman, the Dubai Cup, the remaining East Asian Cup this year, the Hangzhou Asian Games, the game is these, want to in addition to these games, invite foreign teams to warm up, this year is unlikely, next year's local Asian Cup, expect the league to have young players turn out, it is basically impossible.
The naturalization project is already a mess, except for a Jiang Guangtai, there is nothing left, and the project of staying in the west is immediately followed, but looking at the situation of the top brand Wu Lei in the Spaniards, it is unlikely that Li Lei and Guo Tianyu can quickly gain a foothold in the European team. In particular, Guo Tianyu's contract expires in June, and 3 months can make him make rapid progress? It's not likely to think about it!
For the national football team, the draw with Saudi Arabia is a gratifying thing, but looking at the process aside from the results, there is not much hope, if the fighting spirit can make up for the gap in technology, technology and tactics, then the Chinese Football Association's 6 million wins per game should also stimulate players to win. Unfortunately, the Football Association prepared 60 million winning prizes, and the national football team only got 1/10 of them in 9 rounds of 12 matches.
Therefore, the spirit of empty talk and hard work is just to cover the ears and steal the bell, victory is played by kicking, by real force, the so-called fighting spirit, occasionally one or two games can work, if you want to rely on this illusory willpower to support the national football team and even the future of Chinese football a cycle of progress, it is absolutely a fool's dream.
Young players are gratifying to be in power, but whether they can really carry the banner can only take one step at a time, after all, any prediction has left a blank and black word, and the future can be turned over to "settle old accounts".
in Zakumi