In the 2022 Asian Qualifier Round of 12, the Chinese men's football team only achieved a record of 1 win, 3 draws, 6 losses and 6 points, ranking fifth in the group, and only surpassed the Vietnamese team in points.
Head coach Li Xiaopeng was ordered to take over the national team and played four games. In his first match against the team, the national football team lost 2-0 to Japan, missing the World Cup in Qatar three rounds earlier. Li Xiaopeng led the team to only achieve a record of 1 draw and 3 losses, especially the unprecedented loss to the Vietnamese team, which was intolerable. But no one blamed Li Xiaopeng. Because the national football team has rotted to the end, the gods and immortals can't move the national football when they come. It is difficult to describe the wounded hearts of the majority of fans in any word.
As for Li Xiaopeng, the ability is there. It would have been unrealistic for him to lead the rotten national football team to create miracles. Coupled with his tireless apologies, no one can bear to criticize him again. At this point, Li Xiaopeng is smarter than Li Tie.
For the current situation of the national football team, Li Xiaopeng mentioned two problems in an interview with "Football Night".
In fact, Li Xiaopeng has said a lot, and the central meaning is that the strength of the national football team is not good, and it is impossible to enter the World Cup.
Li Xiaopeng was very frank. He said: "The strength of the national football team in all aspects is not enough, whether it is a player or a team, the hard power in all aspects is not enough. How the hard power of the national team comes from, I think many people know better than me. There is no need to expand on this. If we always want to win the lottery once, the future may be worse. "It's probably the unanimous view of a lot of people. National football is not good in all aspects, and cooking is the original sin. Without that ability, it's hard to win.
However, there is more worrying than lack of strength, that is, the players have no desire to win at all. Li Xiaopeng said: "The players have tried their best, but there is one more terrible thing, that is, the numbness to defeat. Because everyone also recognizes that our strength really can't play others. This is a point even more terrifying than losing. ”
Li Xiaopeng really got to the point. When a player doesn't have confidence, it's impossible to play to the fullest. Li Xiaopeng said that the players have done their best, it is absolutely against their hearts, and they do not want to put the players on the cusp of the storm. Then there's the numbness to defeat. The players no longer care about losing, they don't care about losing, and they don't care about face. If you lose, you lose, and there is no shame anyway. How else is this game played?
If the players don't care about winning or losing, how can they do their best to go to the game and then find a way to win the game?
Li Xiaopeng's later words confirm this. "In the beginning, the players didn't think so, but after playing a few changes, the players couldn't keep up with the rhythm of others and were led along. This is the gap in hard power. It's okay for our rhythm to be disrupted once or twice, but after multiple conversions, something is definitely going to go wrong. ”
You can see it from the course of the game. Take the match between the national football team and the Saudi team as an example. In the first half of the game, the Saudi team had 73% of the ball, the ball was almost at the feet of the Saudi team, and the Chinese players only had to follow and run. The Number of Shots on goal saudi arabia has been 8 times, and the Chinese team has not been one. Although the Saudi team only shot once, it scored. The national football players could not even grab the ball, and their confidence was naturally damaged.
In the 76th minute of the second half, Dabao came on as a substitute. Yu Dabao only played for two minutes, watching his teammate Dai Weijun break through with the ball in front, and did not pick up, let alone insert to create opportunities, and watched Dai Weijun lose the ball. Why is he like this? Because in Dabao's subconscious, the national football team cannot win the Saudi team. If you can't win, why run more? Anyway, running more is useless work.
In the whole game, saudi arabia's possession rate reached 74%, and the national football team only had 26%. The Number of Shots on Goal saudi arabia has 18, and the national football team has only 2. There are 149 attacks on saudi arabia and only 71 for the national team. Why is there such a big gap? On the one hand, the basic skills of the national football players are not solid, they cannot protect the ball well, and they will be snatched by the opponent at any time. Then there is the fact that the players are not aggressive, it does not matter whether they win or lose, they cannot qualify anyway, so why work hard. And in the hearts of the players, the Saudi team is very strong, and it is not shameful for the national football team to lose to them. If that's the case, why grab the ball?
This is the most difficult place for national football to accept. Anyway, effort will not succeed, so why work hard. Everyone is Buddhist, lose and lose.
The lack of national football strength is not particularly terrible. Ability is not enough, find ways to improve in the future. Lack of ability can also be solved by running more and actively defending. There is no shortage of examples in world football where the weak win against the strong.
If there is no faith, if you lose to numbness, if you have no shame, then there is no salvation at all. The national football team has reached the point of no shame!