The World Preliminary Round of 12 in Asia has ended, the national enough to win 1 win, 3 draws and 6 losses to bid farewell to this year's top 12 competition, 6 points ranked second to last in Group B, Li Xiaopeng led the team to publicly expose a very confusing problem, he stressed that the international football players do not know why they can not play once they arrive at the national football team. This doubt seems to be a problem, in fact, it is the answer, Li Xiaopeng saw the old international footballers are afraid of their hands and feet, but there is no way to achieve the old international footballers one size fits all. It is believed that after the end of the World Preliminary Tournament, the national football team will face this problem head-on, all young internationals will be used, and the old internationals will all give up and prepare for the future.
U23 national football team also recently trained in West Asia to participate in the competition, they participated in the Dubai Cup, although in the end only won the 4th place in the tournament, and twice lost to the UAE U23, successively 0-1 and 0-3 lost to the UAE U23, but the middle 4-2 defeated the Thailand U23, so that the U23 national football team saw some hope of becoming stronger, but also let the national football team see more reserve strength.
On April 2, Beijing time, from the well-known media person Ma Dexing reported that the U23 national football team is still training in West Asia, this time finding a weak team to train, and strive to enhance the self-confidence of young players while maintaining competitive status. Ma Dexing revealed that the U23 national football team because of the delay in staying in West Asia, so the trend chose to continue to warm up the training, run into the existing squad system, local time yesterday afternoon, U23 countries enough to defeat the UAE's second division team Liwa FC 3-0, young players once again showed a positive side, offensive and defensive ends played the right level.
In this campaign, the U23 national football team entered the state very quickly, the opening only 38 seconds to complete the goal, Evergrande youngster Cai Mingmin struck a blow to dominate the enemy; in the 13th minute of the game, Liu Zhurun assisted Huang Jiahui to score, the U23 national football team quickly led 2-0; then Liwa FC won the penalty, U23 national football goalkeeper Huang Zihao saved the point successfully; in the 74th minute of the game, Zhang Jiansheng made a penalty, Cai Mingmin scored a penalty to complete the second degree, and the young players of the Chinese men's football team easily led 3-0 and kept the score until the end of the game.
The starting 11 players are Huang Zihao, Zhang Jiansheng, Wang Xianjun, Chen Xiao, Ye Lijiang, Abdul Meat Suli, Huang Jiahui, Cai Mingmin, Sun Qinhan, Liu Zhurun, and Mo Xuchen; Qi Yuxi, Chen Guokang, Xu Haofeng, Tao Qianglong, and Wen surnamed Xiaojun 5 people came off the bench.
According to the lineup of the game, the U23 national football team has not yet gathered the strongest team, and it is more about the run-in tactics and lineup framework, and the team is still waiting for the return of the champion team, when the mode of impacting the gold medal of the Asian Games will be opened. Coach Jankovic has not covered up any preparation strategy in the near future, on the one hand, he is consistent with the national football team led by Li Xiaopeng, insisting on playing football based on defense, and attaching importance to the hard work of the players; on the other hand, he firmly aims to impact the gold medal of the Asian Games and does not hide ambitions, after all, the Chinese men's football team is the host of this Asian Games. Since the Asian Games only started in September, Jankovic had enough time to run into the team, and the champion team of this group of players was led by Guo Tianyu, Liu Ruovan, Zhu Chenjie and others, who led the national youth to win the Panda Cup championship in 2018, and this time there were outstanding players such as Dai Weijun to join, which is worth being optimistic.