The Asian Cup will start next weekend, and the Chinese men's national football team led by Jankovic has finished training in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In the last warm-up game, the national football team was full of firepower, relying on Zhang Yuning's hat trick, as well as Li Lei, Wei Shihao, and Wu Lei's joint goals, and finally defeated the UAE second-tier club Gulf United 6-2.
In the past two games, the national football team lost 0-2 to the Oman men's football team and 1-2 to the Hong Kong, China men's football team.
In order to enhance self-confidence, the national football coaching staff invited the UAE club to conduct a closed warm-up game, coach Jankovic made a large adjustment to the starters, Wu Lei, Jiang Guangtai, Zhang Linpeng, Wang Shangyuan and many main players sat on the bench, Li Lei, Xu Haofeng, Xu Xin, Xie Pengfei, Chen Pu, Gao Tianyi, Lin Liangming, Wang Qiuming all started the game.
According to the information of CCTV's "Football Night" program, in the game where the national football team defeated the opponent 6-2, Zhang Yuning scored a hat trick, Li Lei, Wei Shihao, and Wu Lei scored a goal each, and emphasized that Xie Pengfei, who was wearing the No. 10 jersey of the national football team, staged a hat trick performance, and assisted Zhang Yuning, Wei Shihao, and Wu Lei to score goals respectively.
Regarding Xie Pengfei's excellent foot skills and good passing ability, he was well known to fans early on, such as in the World Preliminary Tournament in November last year, when the national football team reversed Thailand 2-1 away, Xie Pengfei picked up a pass in front of the goal and assisted Wang Shangyuan to score the goal.
With the good performance of the warm-up game, Xie Pengfei hopes to compete with Liu Binbin for the main position of right midfielder, because Liu Binbin has not been in good shape in the recent warm-up games and has almost no contribution, coach Jankovic should be in his eyes, maybe Xie Pengfei is the most suitable person to start.
According to the schedule, the first match of the Asian Cup of the national football team will be played at 22:30 on January 13, against Tajikistan, followed by Lebanon and Qatar.
Judging from the 4 warm-up games, there is not much suspense about the strongest starting eleven of the national football team participating in the Asian Cup, coach Jankovic will be adjusted at that time, and it is also a very few positions, such as the goalkeeper or Yan Junling, and the guard line is Zhang Linpeng, Jiang Guangtai, Jiang Shenglong, Liu Yang, due to the injury of captain Wu Xi, the most likely candidate to replace will be Xu Xin, partner Wei Shihao, Wang Shangyuan, Xie Pengfei, Zhang Yuning has the hope of beating Tan Long, and Wu Lei partners with double strikers.