Let's talk about the Asian U23 Championship (Asian Olympics) for the first time today: Japan U23 vs National Football U23!
Xiaojiu admits that Japanese football has indeed reached the height of Asia's unique level, which is quite scary to watch.
However, Japan's U23 national youth team is different, and their actual combat effectiveness may be far below the fame.
For example, they have three problems today.
The first problem is that the preparation time is too short.
For example, they just decided on the captain yesterday.
Why the captain of the Japanese team is a dark-skinned player, let's not talk about this.
In short, the No. 7 players are still playing in the league, the No. 9 has only begun to assemble, the 13th has the first full training camp, and the 15th has confirmed the captain...... The preparation time for the Japanese team is very short.
And we arrived in Doha on March 21st, and the preparation time was as long as a month, and all aspects of the work were done very meticulously, and even what to do if it rained tonight had a plan, which can narrow the gap between the strength of the two sides.
The second problem for the Japanese team is that they are too short.
This time, the average height of our national youth team is 183.9, while the Japanese team is only 180, and the gap is still relatively large.
The header of our national youth team is very powerful, such as last year's Asian U20, our first game of the group stage was also against Japan, and we broke their goal with a header at that time.
Now the height gap is still very large, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for the Japanese team to defend against it.
The third problem of the Japanese team: poor tactical coordination.
Basically, all football powers, they focus on the personal development of young players in the youth training stage, and rarely practice tactics, let alone cup tactics such as swinging buses or something.
So looking at the individual ability is good, and the future development is also better, but when the 11 people are combined, the cooperation is not so good.
In this regard, our youth echelon is very strong, and the younger the children, the stronger.
You can search for it, our football players can beat famous teams such as River Plate, Benfica, and Lyon with a big score, and there are many reports on the Internet.
As for the Japanese team, not to mention, a few days ago, our U14 national junior team went to Japan for training, and they all beat their opponents in various ways.
Last year's Asian U20, we were in a group with Japan and Saudi Arabia, which is scary enough, right?
But in the end, it beat Saudi Arabia and qualified as the second in the group. When they met South Korea in the quarterfinals, they also drew in regular time, but unfortunately lost in extra time, otherwise they might have been able to go further.
Although our U23 is not as dominant as the U20, because others have started to practice tactics at this age.
But the age of the people from this year's Japanese team is still relatively young, with an average of only 21 years old, and they haven't practiced tactics for a long time. Did our U20 only lose one last year (or was it overtaken because of a mistake), will the U23 be even worse?
All things considered, what do you think about whether our U23s can satisfy the fans?
Well, for today's other competitions, Xiaojiu will still send you text analysis in the evening. If there is anything unclear, you can ask me, "Watch the ball and see clearly", we will see you soon!
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