The Chinese men's U23 Olympic team, which is preparing for the U23 Asian Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympics preliminaries in Doha, Qatar, ushered in the third warm-up match of this westward trip, and the opponent is the Qatar Olympic team. In the previous two games against the Asian rival Saudi Arabia, the Chinese Olympic team lost 0-1 and 0-2 respectively. Although they lost to the Saudi Arabian team twice, the coaching staff of the Chinese Olympic team did not care about the results of the warm-up matches, on the contrary, they were quite satisfied with the content of the game presented by the team in the two games and the tactical execution of the players on the field.
Facing the Asian champion Qatar Olympic team in this game, the outside world agreed before the game that the Chinese team was more auspicious, but the final result of the game was unexpected. The Chinese Olympic team defeated the powerful Qatar team 2-0 with a goal scored by Liang Shaowen and Baihelamu in the first and second halves. It won the first victory of the westbound warm-up game, and also broke the goal drought of the westbound warm-up match.
As analyzed by the media, a victory in one game does not say much, but it is a confidence boost for the Chinese Olympic team players who are about to participate in the Olympic preliminaries, which will help the team not be afraid of strong opponents and play their best.
It is the 2001/2002 age group that will challenge the task of competing in the Olympic qualifiers. The growth environment of this group of players coincides with the era of anti-gambling and anti-crime and the era of Jinyuan football, and the football ecological environment in which these children live is not ideal. Therefore, it is still very surprising that Cheng Yaodong qualified for the U23 Asian Cup this time.
Since there are not many players of the right age to choose from in the 2001/2002 age group, the most significant feature of the national Olympic team led by Cheng Yaodong is that there are a lot of "skipping students", with a total of 11 people, accounting for more than 40%, and the youngest even extends to the 05 age group. On the one hand, this shows that the results of youth training in the lower age group are remarkable, and on the other hand, it also reflects the current situation of insufficient talent reserves in the 01/02 age group.
According to reporter Ma Dexing, the Chinese Olympic team is currently in the stage of physical reserves, and the main way to let the players gradually find the feeling of the game through the way of competition training. The final stage then moves on to technical and tactical drills. However, because the Chinese team is in the group of death in the Olympic preliminaries, it will be in the same group as Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. The pressure is understandable.
At that time, the Chinese team will play counter-defensive and counterattack tactics, due to the difficulty of scoring goals in sports battles, Cheng Yaodong has also focused on strengthening set-piece tactics in the near future. In the match with the Qatar team, Cheng Yaodong finally tried his hand and showed the killer feature of set-pieces. A corner kick opened the scoring against Qatar and a penalty sealed the win. Cheng Yaodong's carefully crafted 4231 defensive counterattack tactics have begun to show their edge!