The World Cup qualifiers for the round of 36 in Asia will kick off next month, and Jankovic's Chinese men's national team has one last chance to prepare. In order to simulate the match against South Korea and Thailand, the national football team invited Uzbekistan and Vietnam to practice the lineup and inspect the players, according to the schedule, the national football team first played Vietnam, the match will be played at 19:35 Beijing time on October 10, CCTV arranged CCTV5 channel live broadcast.
In the last World Preliminary Tournament, the two teams met in the round of 12 stage, the national football team was arranged at home in the United Arab Emirates, and finally won 3-2, and then lost 1-3 away, which was the first time in the team's history to lose to Vietnam, setting a humiliating record in 62 years. Based on the fact that it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, the poor performance of the national football team directly added to the fans' New Year's Eve, which is still difficult to let go.
Now after a year and a half again, the two teams are preparing for the World Preliminary Round at the same time, this time the national football team plays at home, coach Jankovic recruited 9 people from the Asian Games roster, including Fang Hao, He Yupeng, Ye Lijiang, Ma Zhen, Xie Weijun are selected for the first time, plus only 7 players over the age of 30, including Wu Lei, Li Lei, Wang Qiuming, Wang Shangyuan, Xie Pengfei, Li Ke, Yan Junling, the overall less than half of the training lineup, compared with the previous period of the proportion has dropped a lot, reflecting Jankovic's accelerated pace of upgrading.
Like the national football team, Vietnam did not recruit the strongest team, with only six players on the friendly roster participating in the last World Preliminary Round of 12 and more than 10 players of Olympic age in the 2001 age group.
Therefore, this time the national football team ushered in a great opportunity for revenge.
According to statistics, the national football team has played Vietnam 9 times in the past, with 8 wins and 1 loss, the only loss was a 1-3 away defeat in the last round of 12, but it maintained a winning record in 3 home games, the most recent of which was in the 2012 friendly match, when the national football team relied on Gao Lin's goal and Feng Renliang's goal, and finally beat Vietnam 3-0.
Now that Vietnam is facing the challenge at home, the national football team is expected to continue to maintain the record of winning all home games and the record of winning all meetings at the friendly match level, continuing the two major records.
Last month, the national football team played Malaysia and Syria in Chengdu, with a winless record of 1 draw and 1 loss, losing face at home, and now eager to take Vietnam as an opponent, so it needs to score, and this heavy responsibility also depends on local number one striker Wu Lei.
Although Wu Lei's personal ability cannot reach the first-class level in Asia, he is still the best striker in the national football team, and he can only rely on him.
Unable to break through the goals of Malaysia and Syria, Wu Lei will surpass Liu Haiguang's all-time goal record with 31 goals and become the new all-time goalscorer of the national football team.