Fan Zhiyi and Huang Jianxiang hit the nail on the head, and Yang Shuai made an unexpected decision
Fan Zhiyi and Huang Jianxiang hit the nail on the head, and Yang Shuai made an unexpected decision
On January 18, Beijing time, the second round of the Asian Cup group stage continued, so the second round of Group A has all ended, the national football team is temporarily second in the group with 2 points in Group A, and Qatar is currently the first in the group with 2 wins and 6 points, and it is also advanced to the next round of the Asian Cup. Therefore, if the national football team wants to advance to the round of 16, it must strive to draw with Qatar or defeat the opponent in the third game, otherwise if it wants to advance, it needs to look at the faces of others.
After playing the first two group games, many fans on social media and many online platforms called this year's national football team "the worst in history". Because the national football team has participated in so many Asian Cups, we have never had an embarrassing record of not scoring in the first two games of the group stage. So the team led by Jankovic can be said to have refreshed the lower limit. If we briefly review these two games, especially the second game, it is not difficult to find that Wu Lei, who started steadily in every game of the national football team, wasted many shooting opportunities in these two games, and his performance can be called the "number one parallel import", and many fans also began to criticize on social media.
Facing Lebanon, who are ranked more than 100 in the world, the goal set by the national football team before the game is to win the opponent. In the 64th minute of the second half of the game, Wu Lei missed a great opportunity to open the goal. The national football player played a high-quality cross to the opponent's goal on the right side, and after the goalkeeper saved the ball, Wu Lei was unguarded 2 meters in front of the goal, and his supplementary shot was only touched with his right foot. As a result, the ball bounced off the left foot of the Lebanese player, who drove the ball directly into the ball, and this attack was also a great scoring opportunity for the national team.
Soon after that, Wu Lei was replaced by Coach Jankovic, and his performance was not as good as expected. If you look back at the first round of the group stage against Tajikistan, Wu Lei also failed to take advantage of at least two shooting opportunities, one of which was even kicked into the air.
Let's take a look at Fan Zhiyi's comments on Wu Lei, he thinks Wu Lei is a player with a very high ball IQ and a very flexible brain. Wu Lei was still playing overseas before, and he needs to work hard. But because of his age, he didn't perform well in La Liga. Now Wu Lei has also returned to China to play, so when he leaves the high-level league, it is difficult to maintain the competitive level, and the decline is inevitable.
Secondly, Fan Zhiyi believes that the national football team should win the game against Lebanon, and the last time it should be drawn. If you want to win this game, you must dare to use your body, but we will find in the game that our defenders just like to destroy the ball out of bounds, and do not like to use the body to protect the ball and let the Chinese team get offensive opportunities. Secondly, the national football team did not seize the opportunity in terms of corner kicks and free kicks, and the national football team also had problems with receiving and passing on the field.
So in this game, we played with the opponent five or five, and even in terms of the quality of shots, Lebanon has to do better, because the opponent has at least two shots on the goal frame, and Yan Junling also saved three high-quality shots, so the national football team is lucky to be able to draw in this game.
Football commentator Huang Jianxiang talked about the national football team's match against Lebanon on social media, saying that if the national football team does not work hard to keep the bottom line and continue to slide, we will soon become a well-deserved team in the third pot in Asia. Japan, South Korea and Iran are among the best Asian teams and we have no chance of winning against them. Even we can be beaten against teams at the bottom of Asia and against teams in Pot 4. So is it because our players are not as good as the fourth pot team, or is the quality of our league not as good as other clubs? or what's the reason?
After the game, Jankovic unexpectedly gave the team a day off. You may also want to give the players a better rest and unload the burden of stress. What's more, the average age of the 26 players in the current national football team is close to 30 years old, which is also the second oldest team among all the participating teams in the Asian Cup. To the disappointment of fans, compared with the Asian Cup four years ago, the Chinese team at least won the opponent that should have won. We can also reverse Thailand, reverse Kyrgyzstan, and even beat the Philippines 3-0, but now? Not only did we not win the game that should have been won, but the coach of the national football team did not boldly use newcomers in the game, and even relied on some old players, and let 35-year-old Wu Xi, including 36-year-old Tan Long, go to play as substitutes.