Surging News reporter Song Chengliang
March 26 is a very important day for Chinese football.
In the morning, Chen Xuyuan, the former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, was sentenced to life in the first instance - he bowed 90 degrees and apologized to the fans, "I have no face to face the fans, and I apologize publicly to the fans across the country, sincerely say sorry to the fans, and hope to be forgiven by the fans." ”
The national football team finally achieved a long-awaited victory.
In the evening, the national football team sat at the home stadium of Tianjin and played Singapore again in the round of 36 of the Asian region of the World Preliminary Tournament - in the case of Wu Lei's first goal, the national football fullback Liu Yang made an outrageous mistake in "thinking about life" and was equalized by the opponent within one minute.
Fortunately, in the second half, the national football team won a penalty opportunity, and Wu Lei scored twice and assisted Wei Shihao to score, and finally the national football team defeated the opponent 4-1.
Wu Lei scored 4 goals in two games.
Ivankovic's change
According to the battle data provided by the official website of the Chinese Football Association before the game, the national football team has met Singapore 17 times in history, with a record of 11 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, scoring 34 goals and conceding 10 goals.
In addition to the 2-2 in the last meeting, the national football team was forced to draw by Singapore on August 16, 2006 - the Asian Cup qualifiers, and the national football team was held to a 0-0 draw by Singapore away.
It is worth mentioning that the home match against Singapore in that Asian Cup qualifiers, as it was today, was held in Tianjin, when the national football team won 1-0.
In the face of Liu Yang's mistake, Wang Dalei was speechless.
Compared with the last game with Singapore, Ivankovic made three adjustments to the lineup in this game - the most notable of which is that the main goalkeeper has been replaced by Yan Junling to Wang Dalei, Gao Zhunyi replaced captain Zhang Linpeng to play right back, and Gao Tianyi replaced Wang Shangyuan to play back.
The formation of the national football team is still a diamond 4-4-2 - goalkeeper Wang Dalei, four defenders Gao Zhunyi, Jiang Guangtai, Zhu Chenjie, Liu Yang, midfielders Gao Tianyi and Xie Pengfei stand in front and back, Li Yuanyi and Fernando are separated from each other, and the double striker is Wu Lei's partner Zhang Yuning.
According to statistics, this is Wang Dalei's second start for the national football team in the A-level competition in the past five years.
So far, Wang Dalei has played a total of 30 games for the national football team, conceded 24 goals, and completed 11 clean sheets. The last time Wang Dalei represented the national football team in the World Preliminary Tournament was back on November 17, 2015, when the national football team drew 0-0 with Hong Kong, China.
Since starting the 1-0 friendly win over Tajikistan on 11 June 2019, he has only started for the national team in the warm-up match against Oman on 29 December 2019.
China's lead in the first half lasted less than a minute.
In addition, the first captain Zhang Linpeng's record of 24 consecutive starts for the national football team also came to an end.
The last time Zhang Linpeng entered the national football team, but did not start the game, was the 2021 World Preliminary Championship 5-0 Maldives match.
Wu Lei replaced Zhang Linpeng as captain of the national football team - before this game, he played 97 games for the national football team, scored 35 goals and provided 9 assists.
Wu Lei has started as the captain of the national football team in two friendly matches in 2023, and today is his third start as captain.
National football coach Ivankovic.
still rely on Wu Lei
In a pre-match interview, head coach Ivankovic spoke about the consideration of changing his starting line-up.
"We made a corresponding personnel change for the performance of the first game, and I believe this change will help us, and we are optimistic about the new squad. ”
For the game, the Croatian admits that the team is fully prepared with plenty of training time, "The players have been instilled with technique and tactics to make them feel relaxed mentally. ”
Wu Lei clashed with the opposing player.
Indeed, the national football team showed a different momentum at the beginning, but then there was a picture that surprised everyone......
The national football team broke the deadlock in the 21st minute, Zhang Yuning took the ball in the midfield and sent a straight stopper, and Wu Lei calmly picked up the shot with a single chance.
However, Singapore equalised just seven seconds after kick-off – a long ball from the centre circle was met by Liu Yang's eyes and a cross from Stewart, who was headed home by an unmarked Ramlee.
In the second half of the game, the national football team accelerated the pace of attack - in the 65th minute, the national football team took a set-piece, Jacob Mahler pulled down Gao Zhunyi, and the referee awarded a penalty.
Fernando converted the penalty and scored his first international goal at home.
In the 85th minute, Wu Lei took the ball in the half and drove straight in, scored with accurate pushing, and scored two goals in two consecutive games.
Subsequently, Wu Lei assisted Wei Shihao to score - in the end, the national football team won the opponent 4-1 at home.
According to the schedule, the next world preliminary match of the national football team is to face the Thai team at home on the evening of June 6, which will be a real life-and-death battle for the national football team.
However, due to Wu Lei's yellow card in this game, he will accumulate two yellow suspensions and miss the competition with the Thai team.
Senior editor of this issue: Zhou Yuhua