What to watch: change formation or rotation? Goal: 3 points or 1 point? What does the referee say?
The second opponent of the Chinese team in the group stage is the Lebanese team, in the opening match of this Asian team, Lebanon met the host Qatar, and finally lost 0-3. Despite this, the Chinese team must not be taken lightly in this game. In the first game, the Lebanese team showed that the competitive state and physical fitness were not lost to the Chinese team, and the national football team must go all out in this competition.
At present, the Lebanese team is at the bottom of the group with 0 points, while the Chinese team is temporarily ranked second in the group with 1 point from the first draw with Tajikistan. If the Chinese team can't defeat the opponent in this game, then the qualifying situation can be described as precarious. On the contrary, if the Chinese team can get the three points as they wish, then the Chinese team with four points will be in a much more ideal situation to qualify.
In the first round of the group stage, Jankovic's lineup encountered a relatively big controversy, and whether Jankovic continued to insist on continuing the lineup against Tajikistan in the first round of the game against Lebanon, or changed the formation to boldly use Zhang Yuning, Lin Liangming, Xu Xin and others is also a highlight of the game.
In addition, due to injuries before the start of the game, Wu Xi and Wei Shihao both missed the first game of the national football team. According to reports, Wu Xi has returned to the joint training lineup, and it is also worth looking forward to whether he can play in the key battle of the national football team.
In terms of head-to-head confrontation between the two sides, the Chinese team has faced Lebanon 5 times before, with an unbeaten record of 4 wins and 1 draw, and the Chinese team has never conceded a goal against Lebanon in the last 4 games, it is worth noting that this contest is the first contest between the two sides at the level of the Asian Cup. In addition, after the 0-0 draw with Tajikistan in the first round, the Chinese team has not scored in two consecutive Asian Cup games, and if the opponent cannot break through the opponent's goal in the face of Lebanon, the national football team will encounter three consecutive Asian Cup games without scoring for the first time in history.
At the same time, the referee of this game is also one of the X factors. In the first round of the game, Zhu Chenjie once scored a header, but was invalidated by the referee of West Asia, which caused an uproar. Moreover, in the game of the South Korean team, the scale of the blow penalty by Chinese referee Ma Ning also caused strong dissatisfaction among South Korean players and the media. The referee of the national football team against Lebanon is South Korean Gao Hengjin, who has blown three times in the world preliminaries, and the Chinese team has suffered three embarrassing defeats.