Although it has qualified one round ahead of schedule and has a high probability of locking up the first place in the group, on the evening of the 25th, the third game of the group stage of the national football Asian Games team was forced to draw 0-0 by Bangladesh, and the team's performance can be called below the lower limit...
This inevitably led to speculation about how far the team could go, but at the post-match press conference, coach Djurjevic said the result was acceptable.
Asian Games head coach Gyurjevic.
How much is the gold content of two victories?
The Asian Games beat India 5-1 and Myanmar 4-0 in their first two matches, but the gold content of these two matches is debatable.
In the opening match, opponents India suffered a "human journey" and did not arrive in Hangzhou until the day before the match, they did not even have time to adapt to the field training, and directly "naked" - the team's fitness collapsed in the second half, and finally lost the game by conceding four goals in a row.
Against Myanmar, the Asian Games team exposed the hidden worries of a single scoring method, and the four goals in the first half were basically caused by the cross from the left by over-age player Liu Yang, and the team failed to score in the second half when the lineup was rotated...
Against Bangladesh, the Asian Games team rotated 8 main players, and there was a big problem with the tacit cooperation of the new squad.
Captain Tan Long was replaced in the second half, but the Asian Games team still could not score.
What's even more embarrassing is that many players don't have any advantage in competing with their opponents in their individual technical abilities... In the second half, key players such as Xu Haoyang, Tan Long and Dai Weijun also rotated, but the Asian Games still failed to knock on the opponent's goal.
'We have done our part in this game, we can't always have a score like 5-0, 4-0, it's unrealistic to win all the time.
"So, this game is actually good for us, which is to give some of the other players in the team the opportunity to experience it, so that the team can also be better prepared for the future."
Gyurjevic believes that early qualification and rotation were the reasons for the final 0-0, "It can be said that our players worked hard. At the same time, I would also like to congratulate the Bangladesh team, they played very easily, without pressure and very courageously. ”
The Asian Games players thanked the fans for their support after the game.
What about the knockouts?
In fact, such a statement was also expressed by Gyurjevic in the press conference after the last game, when the contrast between 4-0 in the first half and 0-0 in the second half was obvious.
Gyuljevic believes that it is impossible to demand perfection, but 0-0 in three consecutive halves also shows that this team needs to improve significantly in the knockout stage, both in terms of form and concentration.
In order to encourage the players, the Serbian still believes, "On the whole, I still think the result is acceptable. We are still a team, I am satisfied and we have to prepare for the future now. ”
'Sometimes you can score goals and sometimes you may not score goals, and I think that's normal.
The national football Asian Games team finally qualified first in the group, but the opponent of the eighth-eighth elimination round has not yet been determined, and the opponent - Qatar or Palestine - will be determined depending on the outcome of the Palestine vs Japan on the 25th.
Previously, the coaching staff had already traveled to the scene to observe the matches between the two teams, "We have to prepare ourselves, we will not immerse ourselves in the front game forever, the front has already been played and passed. Gyurjevich said.