Before Cheng Yaodong led the national Olympic team to the U23 Asian Cup, a reporter from the Football Daily interviewed him, and Cheng Yaodong's answer was decent, praising the three opponents in the same group. After careful analysis, you can see through his thoughts from Cheng Yaodong's answer, the national Olympic team has no desire to qualify from the group.
Under normal circumstances, the head coach studies the opponent, and if he is weaker than himself, he will also praise the opponent, but because they are sure of winning, they will not carefully observe the opponent's situation, and they will not use too many words to praise the opponent. For opponents of equal strength, the head coach is very careful to observe, and when he answers questions, he will involve the opponent's fast players, and he will be more specific.
For teams that are too different in strength and are not sure of winning, the head coach will describe the opponent's advantages in terms of the whole and talk a lot. When Cheng Yaodong described the Korean team and the Japanese team in the same group, his description was more specific, so it can be seen that he did not have the confidence to beat the Korean team and the Japanese team. Judging from the fact that the Football Association did not replace Cheng Yaodong, the Football Association is not optimistic about the National Olympic team, so they left Cheng Yaodong in order to let the media and fans pay attention to Cheng Yaodong and reduce their pressure after the National Olympic team lost.
It can be said that from the beginning of the formation of the national Olympic team, from the Football Association to the domestic coach, no one thinks that this national Olympic team can create miracles. As for the players, they don't believe they can do miracles, so it's not hard to understand that players who don't want to win are listless.