There is only one day left before the national football team ushers in the final match of the group stage of the Asian Cup, and the opponent Qatar team has won all three points in the first two rounds and locked a qualifying place in advance. Qatar coach Tin Marquez said they will rotate their squad in the final round. But is this good news for the national football team?
At the beginning of December 2023, the Qatar Football Association officially announced that Spanish coach Tintin Marquez was appointed as the coach of the national team. After only taking over the team for a month and a half, he has to play the Asian Cup at home, and the pressure can be imagined.
Judging by the line-up in the first two games of the group stage, Tinting Marquez is interested in getting his players a chance to play. The rotation players who did not appear in the first two group games will also seize this match against the national football team to show Tinting Marks their quality.
The rotation players will not let up, and Tinting Marquez's coaching staff has not reduced its study of the Chinese team because the team qualified early. According to reports, Tinting Marquez and other members of the coaching staff were divided into two groups, with Marquez himself watching the footage of the first two games of the Chinese team in the group stage to analyze the characteristics of the Chinese team, while several of his aides focused on the potential opponents of the Qatar team in the quarterfinals.
In addition, considering the close relationship between the Qatar Football Association and the Lebanese Football Federation, there is a view that the Qatar team may go all out to prevent the Chinese team from getting three points to help the Lebanese team.
All in all, the rotation of the coach of the Qatar team, let's just listen to it, the national football team still has to go all out to win and strive to qualify as the second in the group.
However, judging from the attacking power of the national football team in the first two rounds of the group stage, it is not easy to get three points on the Qatar team. Wei Shihao, who has some breakthrough ability and can create a threat, missed the first two games due to injury, and Jankovic revealed at the time that his injury was not serious. The latest news says that Wei Shihao has returned to the camp of the whole team to practice. However, it is impossible to put the prospect of qualifying for the national football team at the feet of a player who has just recovered from injury and whose competitive state is unknown.
At the pre-match press conference, Jankovic and Wang Shangyuan attended together. Jankovic expressed his respect for the Qatar team, who have won all six points from their first two games, and said that the team is excited at the moment, but also expressed his attitude towards the opponent's rotation: "Qatar have qualified, of course they can rotate against us according to their situation to achieve their own balance, and we just need to do our best." Each team has its own weaknesses, and while there will be adjustments to the personnel, there will not be much change in tactical thinking. ”
Judging from the current points of each group, even if the national football team loses to Qatar, it is expected to qualify for the third place in the group with the best results of the 4 results, and it may even happen that the national football team, Lebanon, and Tajikistan will accumulate two points, and the national football team will still advance as the second in the group after comparing the goal difference, goals, and fair play points of the three teams in turn.
According to past experience, the national football team should not think that there is a way out behind it, and it is true to fight for the initiative and the support of the fans in the game with the Qatar team.