0-2 to 2-1! The National Olympic Games rebounded 2 consecutive wins, and the U23 Asian Cup focused on anti-counterattack, impacting the top 3 into the Olympic Games

2024 is a year of historical significance for Chinese football, starting from the New Year, the national football team suffered a fiasco in the Asian Cup, followed by the second wave of anti-counterfeiting in Chinese football, the verdict of the corruption case, and the former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, Chen Xuyuan, was sentenced to life imprisonment, which shocked the Chinese football world, and with the sentencing of many senior officials of the Football Association, it indicates that Chinese football ushered in a period of bottoming out and clearing stubborn diseases. In 2024, there will be two important competitions in Chinese football, the country has the task of the world preliminaries, and the national Olympic team will impact the Paris Olympics.

The 2024 U23 Asian Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympic Games qualifiers will be held in Qatar on the 16th of this month, and the Chinese Olympic team was divided into the group of death, and the opponents in the same group were Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.

In order to prepare for the U23 Asian Cup, the Chinese Olympic team chose to play a warm-up match in West Asia to practice skills and tactics and improve their condition. The National Olympic team has a total of 6 warm-up games, which are against Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Malaysia, Jordan, and Uzbekistan. In the four warm-up matches that have been played, the Chinese Olympic team suffered two consecutive defeats against Saudi Arabia, but then showed good form against the host Qatar, defeating the Qatar Olympic team with a score of 2-0 and keeping a clean sheet against the opponent.

In the early morning of April 5th, the National Olympic Games faced the fourth warm-up opponent Malaysia, although there was no live broadcast signal back to China, but fans are still very concerned about the performance of the National Olympic team, according to the report of the football legend Ma Dexing, in the first half of the National Olympic Games against Malaysia, the National Olympic Games led 1-0, and the two teams scored one goal each in the second half, and finally the National Olympic Team defeated Malaysia 2-1 and won two consecutive victories. Next, the National Olympic Games will also play against Jordan and Uzbekistan respectively.

According to the schedule, the national Olympic team will face Japan in the first round of the U23 Asian Cup, the game time is 21 o'clock in the evening of April 16, the Japanese national Olympic team is the seeded team in this group, and the second round of the national Olympic team will face South Korea, the game time will be 21 o'clock in the evening of April 19, and the opponent of the last round of the national Olympic team is the United Arab Emirates. The top three finishers in the U23 Asian Cup will qualify for the Paris Olympics, while the fourth place will play in the play-offs against Guinea in Africa.

For the Chinese Olympic team, it is to participate in the U23 Asian Cup as the fourth team, at this time, the national Olympic team must correct its mentality, and face the three opponents in the group, the strength is stronger than the national Olympic team, so in the game, only to play a classic defensive counterattack, do a good job of defense, in order to have the opportunity to upset and create opportunities, and strive to achieve satisfactory results.

Many players in this year's Olympic team benefited from the U23 policy of the Football Association many years ago, participated in the Chinese Super League, gained game experience, Tao Qianglong won the Chinese Super League championship with Wuhan Three Towns, Liu Zhurun made 40 appearances at Shanghai Port and scored 8 goals, and Eiffelding stayed in the European League. Jian Tao has grown into a main player in Chengdu Rongcheng and has rich game experience.

The most potential player in this year's National Olympic Team is Xie Wenneng from Shandong Taishan, Xie Wenneng participated in the AFC Champions League with Shandong Taishan this year, got many opportunities to play, and played as a wonder soldier of the team, with outstanding breakthrough ability in the frontcourt, and was selected for the national team. The National Olympic team will focus on defensive counterattack tactics in the U23 Asian Cup, and the frontcourt needs players with outstanding assault ability, Xie Wenneng will be able to become a sharp knife in the counterattack of the National Olympic Games, and Cheng Yaodong will reuse Xie Wenneng, which will receive miraculous results, and the Asian Cup will hit the top three, pointing to the Paris Olympics.