Kuko
In the final round of Group B of the U23 Asian Cup on the evening of April 22, after 90 minutes of competition, the national Olympic team finally defeated the UAE team 2-1 with two goals from Xie Wenneng and Liu Zhurun. After the game, the fans and the media breathed a sigh of relief: they finally won the game.
Due to the fact that both sides were out of the first two rounds with 2 games and 2 losses before the game, the National Olympic team was nicknamed "Battle of Honor" by fans in this game. If they lose again, the team will not be expected to be drowned in saliva. In particular, head coach Cheng Yaodong can be said to be sitting on the crater.
But as soon as the game began, the national Olympic team, which was determined to win, was very quick to get into the groove. In the first ten minutes, the two sides fought back and forth very fiercely, attacking and defending each other. In the 20th minute, Baihelam made a corner kick that caused chaos in the opponent's penalty area. 7 minutes later, it was Baihelam who cut into the penalty area on the right side, and the opponent cleared the bottom line. After the tactical corner kick of the National Olympic team, the opponent cleared not far away, and Xie Wen in the middle was able to follow up and break the deadlock, and the National Olympic team made a good start of 1-0. In the first half of stoppage time, the UAE defender made a mistake in passing the ball and was tackled, and Liu Zhurun hit the goal in the middle to score another goal.
After the break, the UAE made three changes at the same time, aiming to speed up the attack and get results quickly. In the 47th minute, the UAE midfielder made a long pass, Ruan Qilong misjudged the landing point, and Faqi grabbed a goal after stopping the ball on his chest. After that, the two sides continued to deploy their troops and could not break through each other's goals again, and the score remained 2-1 until the end.
Throughout the game, people have two feelings about this national Olympic team:
First, the mental outlook is good, and the competition experience and technical and tactical ability are slightly lacking
In the first game against Japan, they conceded a goal in the 8th minute, but after the opponent was sent off in the 17th minute and then the formation shrunk and started a defensive counterattack, the national Olympic team did not seize the favorable opportunity to equalize in time, but missed many good opportunities to score, including missing from close range, missing a single knife and so on. The manager's on-the-spot command was debatable, and there were no substitutions until the end of the first half. After that, although Cheng Yaodong, who woke up like a dream, sent a number of attackers to try to save the defeat, he had no choice but to break the goal and finally lost 0-1.
In the second game against the South Korean team, the national Olympic team fell into another kind of "unexpected": in the 25th minute, the national Olympic team missed at least 4 chances to score, but they all missed the goal one by one. On the other hand, the South Korean team, a seemingly not very good chance, but in the second shot, Lee Yongjun scored from a small angle. Since then, the national Olympic team has continued to waste opportunities for famous species. The South Korean team immediately launched a quick counterattack after the national Olympic team just missed a single chance to score, and it was Lee Yongjun who got rid of the defense in the penalty area and scored a burst shot, and the score of 2-0 was fixed.
In these two games, including this battle with the United Arab Emirates, the game state and mental outlook of the national Olympic players are indeed worthy of praise. Although he has been eliminated, he has always maintained a high fighting spirit, at least fighting hard above his opponent, and his desire to win the opponent is very strong. It should be said that 2-1 is a reasonable score and a basic embodiment of the battle of wits and courage between the two sides.
In particular, Bai Helam, who played 90 minutes in all three games, and the frontcourt players such as Xie Wenneng and Liu Zhurun, exerted very great defensive pressure on the opponent; the wringing of the hands of the double backs Jia Feifei and Duan Dezhi in the midfield also limited the opponent's offensive organization to the greatest extent, so that the UAE team, which had relatively better individual ability and skills and tactics, did not give full play to its due tactical characteristics.
It is very regrettable that the Japanese team did not win while the iron was hot in the first game, and even if the battle is drawn, the subsequent qualification situation may be rewritten. The South Korean team is also out of form, or very slow to get into the game. If it weren't for the six or seven missed chances in the whole game, the national Olympic team might have at least scored a goal. And if even one goal is scored in the first 25 minutes, at least the final outcome of the game is difficult to predict.
On the one hand, the players' lack of experience in the tournament and their ability to seize opportunities in front of goal needs to be improved. But on the other hand, it is a manifestation of the lack of technical and tactical ability of the whole team.
Second, if the coach is changed early, the National Olympic Games may qualify
There's been so much talk in the media and fans these days about this topic that there's no need to repeat it here. But one thing is certain: Cheng Yaodong does not have the ability to control this team.
According to the above analysis, if the situation on the field can be accurately judged in the first game and the lineup and tactics can be adjusted in time, the possibility of the National Olympic team drawing or even defeating the Japanese team is not impossible. From the 17th minute to the end of the last half, for a full 28 minutes (excluding injury time), Cheng Yaodong did not adjust the weak offensive line, giving the Japanese midfield a chance to adjust.
As for the battle with the South Korean team, it is also the word "afraid". Under the burden of gains and losses, a game that was almost the most wasted scoring opportunities in the history of the Sino-Korean team was caught up by this national Olympic team. The speech at the post-match press conference confirmed the guiding ideology of Cheng Yaodong's game from one side: because the opponent was too strong, the team just played according to the plan formulated before the game. To put it bluntly, this is called carving a boat for a sword, and the ability to read and understand the competition is extremely poor.
If, after the first game, the national Olympic team changes coaches and assistant coach Patrick replaces Cheng Yaodong, the national Olympic team may defeat the South Korean team, at least not lose. Further back, if after the U20 Asian Cup in March last year, U20 national youth coach Antonio replaced Cheng Yaodong to lead the team, and the technical and tactical ability of the national Olympic Games is very likely to have a qualitative improvement. At least, in the face of the relatively weak Japanese and South Korean teams this time, the National Olympic Games will not lose so badly.
Patrick, assistant coach of the National Olympic team
Former U20 national youth coach Antonio
And when he returned home from two consecutive years of overseas training in early June last year, the National Olympic Games played nearly 10 warm-up games, but the result was still more losses and fewer wins, but Cheng Yaodong was still handsome. After repeatedly missing the opportunity to change the coach, the goals of the Sino-Japanese battle and the China-South Korea battle are the inevitable result of planting melons and getting melons, planting beans and getting beans.
As the coach of the National Olympic Games two years ago (in fact, he has led the team in 2019), Cheng Yaodong has not taught in the first team for about 10 years before that. It is indeed incredible that a local coach who has never had a successful coaching experience in a professional team has become the head coach of the national Olympic team and has gone through all kinds of "hardships".
Perhaps, compared with the past national team N times with Japan and South Korea in the war of trembling, walking on thin ice, and even often 0 shots on target in the whole game, we will conclude that this national Olympic team has made a huge progress. But because of this, we should feel all the more sorry. In saying this, I don't want to completely deny Cheng Yaodong, but to say that we could have done better.
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