Remember that in the warm-up match against Syria on September 12, national football coach Jankovic released this starting lineup:
Goalkeeper: Yan Junling
Defenders: Wang Shenchao, Jiang Guangtai, Zhang Linpeng, Li Lei
Midfielders: Li Ke, Xu Xin, Sun Guowen, Xie Pengfei
Forwards: Axon, Wu Lei.
The average age of this squad is as high as 31+, and it is completely unenergetic on the field, and in the end, the national football team also lost 0-1 at home to the Syrian team, and the outside world also had great doubts about Jankovic's formation after the game!
Perhaps with such an experience, Jankovic began to "ache and think", so he decided to give up the original 1/4 of the players in the lineup when the national football team re-trained in October, and will select players from the Asian Games national football team to fill this vacancy, that is to say, Jankovic will bring about 6 young players into the 24-man squad of the national football team in October, so that the average age of the national football team can finally drop significantly, and it can also inject "new blood" into the team.
At that time, in the World Preliminary Round, the national football team should also be old with new, and then add a few naturalized players! In the last warm-up game, Jankovic brought three naturalized players in the squad, Axon, Li Ke and Jiang Guangtai, and if Dai Weijun returns, it will be a configuration of four naturalized, and these four naturalized players are also likely to start together in the following matches. In short, it is good that Jankovic can take the initiative to change when facing problems, but changing the formation does not mean that the national football team will definitely be able to win in the game, from the past six warm-up games, Jankovic has not shown his outstanding ability and excellent ability to lead the team, not far from the World Preliminary Round, and to play the 21st ranked Thailand team in Asia, this is a game that we cannot lose, which is a very test of Jankovic's coaching ability, if you still can't continue to lead the team to win, I'm afraid his head coach seat is really going to hang in the balance.