In the U23 Asian Cup, the Chinese men's football team ended the group stage journey with 1 win and 2 losses, bid farewell to the stage in advance, and directly missed the qualification for this year's Olympic Games. In the final game of the group stage, the Chinese team defeated the United Arab Emirates 2-1 with the goals of Xie Wenneng and Liu Zhurun and won the battle of honor.
It is worth mentioning that UAE coach Broly still had different views and opinions in his post-match interview. He first thought that the game was very exciting, and he expected that the Chinese team would focus on defense, counterattack and speed, and we tried not to let the Chinese team play a counterattack! However, because of our own mistakes, we conceded the first goal, and then conceded the second goal before half-time. We had chances and created chances in the second half, we should have scored two goals but we got one. I feel that the score of this draw is more reasonable. Chinese fans have a different opinion, believing that the UAE did not play very well, and at least one penalty was escaped in this game.
Cheng Yaodong, the head coach of the Chinese men's football team U23, still thanked the team, thinking that the players played their own level, and thanked everyone for their hard work in the past few years. We see hope in this tournament.
Director Cheng commented on the game, everyone was not affected because of the loss of the first 2 games, everyone withstood the pressure, actively adjusted, and also showed tenacious fighting spirit, created scoring opportunities, and tenaciously won the game.
In fact, after losing 0-2 to South Korea in the second game of the group stage, Director Cheng thought that everyone's mental outlook was good, although they lost the game, but from the mental level, I felt that everyone won. Such comments have also attracted many fans to complain, which is simply a spiritual victory. The team needs more of an actual win to get the three points in hand.
The author believes that the overall strength of the Chinese team does not have the ability to qualify, but in the process we saw some subtle opportunities, including facing the Japanese team for a long time with one less player, our offense was not effective, and the head coach's employment and substitution are inseparable. Such a good opportunity was wasted, no goal was scored, and the final defeat was 0-1.
At the end of the U23 Asian Cup journey, Cheng Gui generally believes that the reason why he did not qualify this time is because Japan and South Korea are too strong. Although we have caught up with the Asian level through hard work in the past few years, we are still a little short of the highest level. Chinese football still has to fight for it and compete with Asian teams.
According to football legend Ma Dexing, Cheng Yaodong still encouraged the players: I think everyone still has to make persistent efforts, and players below U23 still have a long way to go. Although everyone has generally fulfilled the requirements of the Football Association and the coaching team in this competition, their vision and vision cannot stay at the present, and they must catch up with the strongest teams in Asia.
It can be seen that Director Cheng has a clear mind, and his speech after the game is quite heartfelt, and he also has plans, and continues to encourage the boys.