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1-2, the second friendly match between the national football team and New Zealand did not show a miracle. Compared to the first match between the two sides three days ago, the performance of the national football team is even worse, and losing is almost inevitable. During and after the match, Jankovic was heavily shelled by fans.
Throughout the game, I personally believe that Yankovic has at least 3 major defeats in the formation:
First defeat: Liu Yang continues to start left-back. On the eve of the first match, some media reported that due to Li Ang's sudden injury in pre-match training, the national football team may change to the three-centre-back tactic, and Li Shuai will temporarily replace Li Ang as the central defender. But at the beginning of the game, Jankovic was still in a four-back formation, and the left back was Liu Yang from the Taishan team.
Many years ago, including the 2019 Asian Cup, when Li Xuepeng and Li Lei were out due to injury and there was no one available for left-back, Lippi tried Liu Yang. But except for the first battle, Liu Yang's performance was lackluster. Especially in the battle with the Thai team, Liu Yang's defense can be called a big colander. Since then, Liu Yang has gradually moved away from the back line, whether in the national team or the club, and has become a back or left winger, or even a right winger.
In this warm-up match with New Zealand, Liu Yang entered the starting lineup of left-back in the first game. However, he was tackled and nearly conceded a goal in a backcourt game, becoming one of the worst players in the national football team in the game. Unexpectedly, Jankovic continued to let Liu Yang start left-back in the second game. In the 79th minute, Liu Yang's staring was not tight, which led to an easy push and goal from inside the opponent's penalty area, changing the score to 2-0. Had it not been for Barton's goal in injury time, the national team would have lost 2-0.
Liu Yang was originally a player with a strong attack and weak defense, and he was not suitable for playing guard at all. His defensive problems are the most prominent of two points: one is excessive and reckless, easy to foul the opponent to send free kicks or even penalties; The second is to be self-confident and too sticky. Once tackled by the opponent, the back line may be penetrated by the opponent. Not only this time, the above-mentioned Asian Cup and the league in recent seasons, Liu Yang's similar performance has not made fans complain.
In fact, the national football team also has two standard left-backs in the bench. With the exception of Li Shuai, who played fewer games last season and may not be in the best form, Son Guowen is currently the best left-back in China. And in terms of assist ability and game attitude, there is currently no left-back who can surpass him. But I don't know why, Sun Guowen didn't get on the first game, and the second game only replaced Deng Hanwen in the 53rd minute, and pushed Liu Yang on the offensive line. This shows that Jankovic himself has found that there is indeed a problem with the starting lineup. Of course, some people may also understand that Jankovic wants to look more at players.
The second defeat: Deng Hanwen continued to play as a right midfielder. In both games, Jankovic fielded in the 442 formation. The starting right midfielder in the first game was Liu Binbin, and Deng Hanwen came off the bench. If the first game is still an attempt and can be observed, it would be a big mistake to make this arrangement in this game.
Since his debut, Deng Hanwen has been a right-back and has never played fullback. Besides, authentic full-backs, like the left-back mentioned above, also have 2 on the bench: Xie Pengfei and Barton. In Wuhan Three Towns, the right wing combination of Deng Hanwen and Xie Pengfei last season has been very skillful and can be called the best right wing combination in the Chinese Super League. Why did the two have to be separated, and Xie Pengfei came off the bench for about 80 minutes in both games?
The point is that the aging Zhang Linpeng is a starting right-back in both games. Why can't Deng Hanwen return to the right-back he knows best and play the most handy, and let Xie Pengfei start the right midfielder, so as to play the attacking power of this pair? Could it be that Yankovic deliberately did it in order to be ingenious and not think that he was a "leftover" to fire Pedro? The actual result is that the national football team's right offensive power is lost, while the opponent's left defense is like a leisurely walk, which can be described as two losses.
You can imagine: Sun Guowen + Lin Liangming on the left, Deng Hanwen + Xie Pengfei on the right, isn't this an arrangement better?
The third defeat: risk using Wu Shaocong. In the last game, the combination of Zhu Chenjie and Wei Zhen was eye-catching. In particular, Wei Zhen's chase in the 64th minute and the accurate tackle in the box destroyed the opponent's single knife goal, which made all the fans applaud. But in this match, Jankovic replaced Wei Zhen with Wu Shaocong, who had just been transferred from the Asian Games team. As a result, the new centre-back pair made one of the main reasons for the loss.
In the 32nd minute, Eli Justt passed the defensive reckless Zhu Chenjie, Wu Shaocong was awarded a penalty when he put down the opponent when he came out to make up for the defense, and Griff's penalty was held by Yan Junling steadily, and the national football team escaped. But 10 minutes later, Zhu Chenjie scored an own goal in the scramble while defending the opponent's free-kick cross.
In football, changing the center back is a taboo, and changing the center back is a "fighter" in the taboo. Wei Zhen originally performed well, and if he wanted to examine Wu Shaocong, it was not too late to adjust the situation in the second half. But it is really incomprehensible to let Wu Shaocong appear in the first place.
In addition to these three major defeats, Jankovic's on-the-spot adaptability is also speechless.
At present, most of the attacking players in this national team are mainly on the wing. In fact, in addition to Wu Lei, others such as Lin Liangming, Wei Shihao, Chen Pu, Liu Yang, Liu Binbin, Xie Pengfei, and even Tan Long are all players who are good at breaking through on the wing. In midfield, there was not a single player who could take the ball in the middle and be responsible for the offensive organization, resulting in the starting 442 formation having to be discharged for two games.
However, even so, Wu Xi, who had previously served as a front waist under Lippi, is entirely likely to "return to his old business". In addition to the lack of people in the front waist, there are also 3 backs on the bench: Wang Shangyuan, He Chao and Zhang Jiaqi. Since Deng Hanwen can try to change to the right midfielder, why can't he let Wu Xi play the front back and change the formation to a more secure 4231 in the extremely short of personnel?
The starter can't do it, at least through lineup adjustments, to achieve the effect of changing the rhythm of the game and catching the opponent by surprise. Failing to do so shows that Jankovic is indeed capable, or at least very stubborn. The problem is, the effect is extremely poor.
In addition, Wu Lei missed a single goal several times in two games, which also reflected Jankovic's slow reaction. To say that the wing attack is sharp, the current Lin Liangming should be stronger than Wei Shihao. However, in the first game, Wu Lei and Tan Long started the two forwards, and Chen Pu replaced Tan Long in the second half, Lin Liangming replaced Wei Shihao in the 65th minute, and Xie Pengfei replaced Wu Lei in the 78th minute. Such a "fueling tactic" substitution, so that the characteristics of the players are not maximized, which is equivalent to self-abolition of martial arts.
In this game, the starting double striker was changed to the combination of Chen Pu and Wu Lei, and Wei Shihao continued to start the left winger. At the beginning of the second half, the first to move the knife was still the striker (Wei Zhen replaced Wu Shaocong somewhat special), Lin Liangming replaced Wei Shihao, and Barton replaced Chen Pu.
It looks like this is an earlier substitution than in the first game, and the strikers have changed two at once. But the actual effect is not good, the main reason is that Lin Liangming can play forward, but after he replaced Wei Shihao, there was an obvious offensive and defensive vacuum on the left side. As a right winger, Barton cannot change the weakness of the left wing no matter which position he plays after he plays.
In fact, Sun Guowen's arrival a few minutes later is most likely a manifestation of Jankovic's anxiety: the left side is tight. As for Xie Pengfei replacing Wu Xi, it was simply a random mandarin duck spectrum and a random fight. At least, without Wu Xi, Xu Xin's position can be pushed forward to change the problem of lack of attack in midfield. You can also change to the 433 formation, add a back, put Wu Xi or Xu Xin in front, and form a positive triangle position with three midfielders. One is to increase the layering of defense, and the other is to strengthen the attack in the middle. But all of this is blank in Yankovic's tactics.
Thinking back to the pre-match press conference, Jankovic made long and lavish threats to win, but the result was worse than the game. To be honest, although he only led the team to two warm-up games, Jankovic's shortcomings have been exposed. Arguably, apart from boosting morale, Jankovic has few merits, not even much better than his recommended Asian Games coach Gyurjevic. I don't know how long such a manager can do it?
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