FireWire Review | A small loss allowed the national football team to enter the top 18, and everyone can forget the real problems of Chinese football

Shepherd who writes balls

2024-06-11 22:59Posted in Inner Mongolia Sports Creators

To a large extent, the 2026 World Cup qualifiers for the national football team were over when they drew with Thailand in their last game.

Because when you can't score all six points against Singapore and you can't beat Thailand at home, then your tactical intensity needs to be marked with a big question mark, so in a game that requires you, South Korea, and the other Thai and Singapore teams to play together, changing the tactical system becomes the only option.

After all, if there is no next stage of competition, Ivankovic's Chinese team career will not have much meaning.

After the starting line-up was released and the whistle blew, a clear parallel midfielder 442 appeared on the pitch:

In this 442, in addition to the defenders and midfielders, Ivankovic put Jiang Shenglong, who was a defender and played a striker temporarily in the last game, in front of the double back, and on both sides of the double midfield, Xie Wenneng and Xu Haoyang, who have a lot of defensive responsibilities in the club system, are used.

The most interesting thing is that Ivankovic put on a combination of Baihoram and Fernando when there are candidates in the forward line.

On the side of the Korean team, Kim Do-hoon's thinking is very clear.

Hwang Hee-chan burst forward, Son Heung-min and Lee Gang-in each pulled one side, and the space between the three points was interspersed and used by Lee Jae-seong, Hwang In-beom and left-back Park Sung-yu.

So in the opening stage of the game, the South Korean team began to actively ask for space between the two lines and ribs of the Chinese team's 442 system:

In the 12th minute, Li Gangren and Son Xingmin, two reverse football players, started from the two wings, so as to maximize the use of the Chinese team's peripheral space, the idea is very clear:

However, during this time, the Chinese team showed something different from the previous games:

As one of the two strikers, Baihelam continued to work so that the Chinese team would not fall completely into the upper hand in the opening stage of this away game, and this did make the South Korean team's defenders feel the real pressure.

It is with the support of such a young and capable striker that the Chinese team has become a team that can still bounce out in the case of dead defense.

In the face of such an intense underdog, as a stronger side, the South Korean team needs to maximize the offensive efficiency in order to play a little easier in the game, and this is exactly what the Korean team did not do well today.

Li Gangren needs to bear some responsibility for this issue.

In the 18th minute of the game, Li Gangren, who was playing on the right side, moved horizontally to the left half of the fan, trying to cooperate with his teammates on this side:

Lee Gang-in turned to this side, and he and Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan were three strong points to get close to each other, which was an inevitable problem caused by Kim Do-hoon's formation thinking, but the South Korean team just couldn't all move closer to the left.

According to common sense, Son Xingmin's strength is of course still outstanding in the Asian arena, but first, he is not young, and secondly, his physical condition will not be very good at the end of the season, so if he wants to use more strength in the offensive link, he needs Li Gangren's right half to play better.

Because in this way, Huang Xichan and Son Heung-min can impact the goal together, which is the most threatening style of play of the South Korean team, but it is reflected in the game, the South Korean team has more balls and people on the left, and the resulting result is that there is only Huang Hee-chan in front of the goal, and the efficiency of the cross will naturally not be too high:

So after the end of the opening stage, when the South Korean team began to exert its strength in the middle of the first half, the area of the force was in the left half of the fan, all at the feet of Son Heung-min:

The content of this kind of play is certainly threatening, but the Chinese team can easily predict it, otherwise Jiang Shenglong would not be placed in the right midfield position.

Therefore, the offensive efficiency of the South Korean team has been greatly reduced, and many attacks are equivalent to kicking the iron plate with their feet, and under such offensive efficiency, the ball conversion will not be less.

At this time, Fernando, who has better skills in front of the South Korean midfielder, can come into play:

It is on such a basic plate that the Chinese team is precisely in the 30-minute period when the physical fitness is the tightest, not only withstanding the attack of the South Korean team, but even making set-pieces and using this method to hit the frontcourt:

Even in the 43rd minute, the Chinese team played such an attack.

This kind of performance has actually greatly exceeded expectations.

So in this first half, the Chinese team did its best first. This is not to say that the Chinese players can't understand the diamond 442, how well they can play the parallel 442, after all, the South Korean team has also penetrated many times in the left rib direction, but it is correct to let the Chinese players use the defensive end first to get rid of the defensive end in a dead way compared to the offense and defense at the same time.

The dense positioning and physical confrontation required for death defense are there, Jiang Shenglong playing in the midfield will not drag down the technique because of the physique of the central defender, and on this basis, Baihelamu runs and fights shoulder-to-shoulder, and Fernando shows his characteristics in one-on-one, these two people tear apart the system of the South Korean team, which is the reason why the Chinese team can still control the ball in some periods of time away from home.

Of course, there is still a clear gap between the two in terms of strength, which is reflected in the inefficiency of the South Korean team's attack, but in the 45th minute, Li Gangren was still able to hit behind the Chinese team's defense with his teammates in the left half of the fan:

Therefore, the Chinese team's performance in this game is good, but the average strength of the players is still too different, and after the accumulation of time and consumption, there will still be problems with the exposure of the core area.

However, in the tone of the dead defense, the core area has been difficult to improve, and the only way is to cover up the problems in the core area with the vitality of the perimeter, which points to the need for Ivankovic to solve the decline in the efficiency of the perimeter defense as soon as possible and accurately in the second half of the game, so as to expose the problems in the core area as late as possible.

After all, as soon as the second half came up, the South Korean team was still able to score the left rib:

It's just that at this time, Baihoram and Fernando can still work:

However, as a 70-year-old coach, in the current tactical trend of being more keen on single strikers and three forwards, Ivankovic can play the double striker of Baihelamu and Fernando, so that the Chinese team can play a good first 60 minutes, which is not easy.

It would be too difficult to expect him to use five substitutions flexibly and accurately like Moriyasu did, so as to give the team a high level of intensity with successive and massive quick adjustments, and to pick Germany and Spain like he did with Japan.

Otherwise, his annual salary would not be this number.

So in the substitution range, the South Korean team took the lead and replaced them with their indispensable big center, in the first attack of the big center, Huang In-fan slanted into the middle, taking away Yang Zexiang's attention, and Xu Haoyang, who threw down Huang In-fan, did not cover the side, which made the diagonal pass that Li Gangren had always wanted to play a threat, which brought the goal:

As soon as this goal was scored, the Chinese team was scattered in terms of physical fitness and mentality, and at this time, Ivankovic's substitution arrived belatedly, and it was too late.

Moreover, the first substitution in the 60-minute interval brought a new double striker, the second substitution in the 70-minute interval brought a new midfielder, and the substitution of Baihelam in the 80-minute interval seemed to have used up all five substitutions, but in essence it was still the idea of three substitutions.

This idea will not make the Chinese team look new in a short period of time, especially based on the situation of underdog, such substitution adjustments will not bring the next gram.

So you can see that even if there are so many substitutions, the South Korean team can still play an advantage from the two wings at the end of the game, and the Chinese team still can't hold down Son Heung-min and Huang Hee-chan who switched to the right side, so how much is the meaning of your substitutions and adjustments?

Losing 0-1, this single result is not too bad, but looking at these games, Ivankovic's national football team is obviously not good enough.

Because, the Chinese team had a chance to turn this last match into a battle between two teams who have already qualified from the group, but two draws against Singapore and Thailand made this game so that it can only be done.

Those two games that should have been won were not won, combined with the fact that this game that could have been a big defeat was not lost, everything points to Ivankovic not knowing the real strength of the Chinese team in the Asian arena, just like he thought that the Chinese players could play his diamond-shaped midfield in a short period of time, but this is not the case.

Therefore, regardless of whether Thailand can brush up enough goal difference on Singapore's body, and whether the Chinese team can make it to the round of 18 with everyone's help, the problem of Chinese football is there.

We should not pour too many resources into the national team, because the national team itself will attract a lot of resources, including the Football Association and management, in fact, we should pour more resources into the national team to train more and better young players, how to use their own league to do this, is the most important issue.

If one Baihelam can help the Chinese team to beat South Korea away from home, then why can't we cultivate more Baihelamu, or even better Baihelamu?

Of course, fans can ponder changing coaches as soon as the national football results go down, and if the Football Association or the management is the same, that is the real sadness, and compared to this, the greater sadness is how to cultivate more and better Baihoram if we get into the round of 18 with the help of Singapore:

It's possible that you'll be left behind.

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