The 2-goal defeat of the Uzbekistan Olympic team made the Chinese Olympic men's football team disillusioned, and the prospects for the Olympic preliminaries are still difficult
In an international warm-up match in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in the early morning of the 11th Beijing time, the Chinese Olympic team lost 0-2 to the Uzbekistan Olympic team, ending the series of warm-up matches before the Olympic preliminaries with a record of 6 games, 3 wins and 3 losses. The three defeats of the Chinese Olympic team occurred in the match against the two seeded teams of Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan, which is enough to prove that there is a relatively obvious gap in strength between them and the top teams of the same age in Asian football. This will also help the whole team to break the illusion and be able to deal with the upcoming Olympic preliminaries with a rational mindset.
Prior to this, the Chinese Olympic team had invited Uzbekistan, the defending champion of the U23 Asian Cup, to warm up in China last summer. As a result, at the Xianghe national team training base, the national Olympic team lost two opponents, and the scene was generally passive. In this confrontation on the evening of the 10th local time, it was still the Uzbekistan Olympic team that dominated the ball possession.
In the first half of stoppage time, the players of the Uzbekistan Olympic team took advantage of the corner kick opportunity and directly sent the ball into the goal of the Chinese Olympic team. In the second half, the opponent took advantage of a mistake by the midfielder of the Chinese Olympic team and scored the second goal to seal the victory. Although before the Uzbek Olympic team scored the first goal, its players were suspected of ramming the goalkeeper of the Chinese Olympic team, but they maintained the pressure on the Chinese team from the beginning to the end of the game. The score of 0-2 objectively reflects the situation and the obvious difference in the quality of the two teams.
It is understood that the coach of the National Olympic team, Cheng Yaodong, sent the main force to play in this game, including Tao Qianglong, and the best players on all lines are all starting, but they are still unable to contain the opponent's strong attack, and the situation is roughly the same as when the two teams met last summer.
The Chinese Olympic team finally ended the pre-Olympic preliminaries series of warm-up matches with a loss. In a total of 6 warm-up matches, the Chinese Olympic team lost 0-1 and 0-2 to the Saudi Arabian Olympic team, 2-0 to the Qatar Olympic team, 2-1 to the Malaysian Olympic team, 1-0 to the Jordan Olympic team, and 0-2 to the Uzbekistan Olympic team, scoring 5 goals and conceding 5 goals. It is worth noting that among the three opponents won by the Chinese Olympic team, only the Qatar Olympic team is the seeded team in the preliminary round of this Olympic Games, and this team still benefited from the advantage of the host to obtain the seeded status. Relatively speaking, the two seeded teams of Saudi Arabia and Ukraine are the absolute strong teams at the level of the first camp in terms of comprehensive strength in this Cup. In the process of playing against these two teams, the Chinese Olympic team will inevitably have flaws in defense and appear to be weak in attack.
From another point of view, after the Chinese team won consecutive victories in the warm-up with the relatively weak three teams, although it regained self-confidence, it was also easy to misjudge the speed of its own progress, so losing to the Uzbekistan Olympic team made it easier for the players of the Chinese team to maintain a clear understanding of their own abilities.
It is understood that the coaching staff of the National Olympic team is generally satisfied with the effect of this game and the series of warm-up matches at this stage, and also affirms the positive attitude shown by all team members in the game. Objectively speaking, participating in 6 high-intensity warm-up matches in less than three weeks, especially 4 consecutive games from the 2nd to the 10th of this month, also poses a huge test to the body of the Chinese Olympic team. The players also showed considerable fatigue in this game, which also affected the players' performance to a certain extent. Head coach Cheng Yaodong also instructed the players to adjust their physical condition as soon as possible and strive to correct their mistakes in time through training in the last 6 days before the start of the Olympic preliminaries.
After a night's rest in Dubai, the Chinese Olympic team will return to Doha on the afternoon of the 11th local time, and then devote themselves to the preparation sprint before the start of the Olympic preliminaries.
Text/Beiqing Sports Xiao Yun