When Japan beat Germany 4-1, the 1-1 score between the national football team and Malaysia was even more dazzling.
During the surrender process, the fans of Chengdu Phoenix Mountain Football Stadium gave a lot of applause to the Malaysian players, but the national football team received only embarrassed boos and shouts of "money back".
"The fans have always given us the greatest support, and I will bear the boos of the fans." Although Jankovic took on a lot of responsibility after the game, it was really time for the Serb and his team to be pressed for time and heavy tasks.
Jankovic is still scouting the players, but the time for the World Qualifiers is getting closer...
When the national football team left the field, the players were greeted only by boos.
Against the weak brigade, why not take risks?
Although the national football team and the men's basketball team are not the same, Jankovic and Jordjevic, the two Serbian coaches, are similar at times.
For example, in the Chinese men's basketball World Cup match against South Sudan, Giordević clearly arranged some safe tactics, such as the player's risky long-distance forward ball is much less, replaced by some steady advance.
According to Jankovic, he was not satisfied with the performance of the national football team in the first half of this game, which was reflected in: "We had tactical problems in the first half, we used insufficient space, lost some second-point balls, gave Malaysia the opportunity to easily counterattack, improved their confidence, sometimes we were tired of defending 80 to 90 meters, which was a tactical problem." ”
"So I asked for a little more patience on the offensive end, and when we developed offensively, I asked the back to assist the defense to increase stability."
Coach Jankovic.
As Jankovic said after the game, the national football team did limit the opponent's attack in the second half, but the corresponding team itself lacked opportunities, except for Xu Xin's far corner shot in the box and Wu Lei's header rebounding shot was saved by the opposing goalkeeper, the national football team actually lacked a threatening attack.
Jankovic also admitted, "The goal is not as fast as expected, you need to find space in the attack, and after replacing Xie Pengfei to create some opportunities, but our offensive pace is a little slower, it is I who ask to stabilize and slowly advance first, and maintain the balance between attack and defense after advancing, and we must pay attention to the opponent will counterattack." ”
The score of the national football team is very dazzling.
The national football manager's statement was not inappropriate, in order to keep the team's back line in a relatively safe situation, he chose to sacrifice the attack.
But it's not the best option – after all, it's the home game of the national team, our opponent Malaysia is ranked 136th in the world, far below the 80th place of the national team, and in some specific circumstances in the second half, the national team should need to risk attacking to win rather than safely hold on to the draw.
Of course, Jankovic's tactics can also be understood, after all, the significance of this match is to benchmark the away match between Thailand in the round of 36 in November, and from the perspective of qualification, the national football team only needs to retreat from home to be in an advantageous position in the battle for second place in the group.
But even if they can get one point away from home, if the national football team wants to successfully qualify for the round of 18, it needs to beat Thailand at home on matchday 5, so this match has only been rehearsed for the minimum draw for the national team.
As for the victory, Jankovic needs to come up with more methods.
Yan Junling (left) and Zhang Linpeng communicate.
The main team of the World Preliminary Round needs to be determined as soon as possible
The current training list of the national football team has changed very little compared with June, and the outside world believes that Jankovic has basically determined the main team of the national football team, but he is not willing to admit it.
At the post-match press conference, he still insisted on what he said in an interview on the first day of training, "Our selection system is open, and I can't say who will play in November now, especially during the training camp. In the case of a draw in this match, some points can easily turn into shirking responsibility. ”
Of course, for the national football team, there are not many variables now, and the players that Jankovic can add are nothing more than some of the Asian Games team's age.
The real ability to impact the main lineup in the Asian Games team is nothing more than Zhu Chenjie, the main central defender of the last World Preliminary Round, and Jiang Shenglong, who showed the potential of "guarding with a knife" in Shenhua this season, and other players can only impact the rotation lineup.
Wu Lei broke through in the game.
Even so, there are still certain variables in the national football team, first of all, the system problem.
From the second game against Palestine in June to this match against Malaysia, Jankovic's system was 3-4-3, but as he said after the game, in fact, the national football team performed a little bad in the first half of this game, so whether the 3-4-3 system is the team of the national football team in the November World Preliminary Round still needs to be questioned, after all, the system of the vast majority of teams in the Chinese Super League today is dominated by four defenders.
Even with a system dominated by three central defenders, Jankovic's tactics were very different in the first and second halves of this game.
In the first half, it was 3-4-3, Lin Liangming, Axon and Wu Lei attacked, and in the second half, Xie Pengfei replaced Lin Liangming, who scored the goal, and the formation became 3-4-1-2, and Xie Pengfei played the front to organize the attack.
What fans expect, can the national football team do it?
Jankovic recognized Xie Pengfei's performance after the game, but Lin Liangming has scored in the last two training matches, presumably Jankovic can't give up easily, and the experience and ability of Wu Lei and Axon are also irreplaceable.
In terms of midfield player selection, Wu Xi and Li Ke returned in this issue, the former missed the June warm-up match of the national football team due to injury, but the experience and ability of the national football captain are undoubted, and it is not a big problem to lock the main position in the midfield, but there are still great variables in his partner.
Li Ke's international game is obviously a bit difficult, so Jankovic needs to find a suitable partner for Wu Xi - Xu Xin and Wang Shangyuan both came off the bench in the second half, and it can be seen that Yankovic is still scouting the players, but there is not much time left for him.