In the battle between the national football team and Saudi Arabia, if Li Tie has the biggest defeat, it is undoubtedly Chi Zhongguo. As the only full-time defensive player in the Chinese midfield, Chi Zhongguo once again exposed his shortcomings of being too sticky, sending two low-level mistakes in a row at the beginning, directly leading to the loss of the first goal. It was this missed goal that destroyed all the tactics carefully arranged by Li Tie before the game.
In the 4th round of the round of 12, the national football team challenged Saudi Arabia away. Perhaps too jealous of the home team's attacking power, so Li Tie was very cautious when arranging the start in this game, and sacrificed the 532 defensive formation at the beginning. After the game, looking back at Li Tie's platoon arrangement, it can be seen that he sacrificed 532 to defend first, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack in the second half. Fighting away, the strength is not as good as the opponent, Li Tie's arrangement seems to be reasonable. From the first 10 minutes of the game, the national football team was also eye-catching, and the defense was quite stable. But what he did not expect was that his pre-match carefully arranged tactics were subsequently destroyed by Chi Zhongguo.
In the 13th minute, the Chinese team controlled the ball at the back, the other side pressed the high position to steal, Chi Zhongguo quickly broke the ball, but he did not seem to be in a hurry to play the ball, facing the other side's multi-person bag clip continuous dribbling, the result was cut off by the other side, fortunately, Jin Jingdao preemptively destroyed the opponent's pass, otherwise the opponent would play a very threatening counterattack. As a single back of the national football team, Chi Zhongguo should have played more concisely, but he did not expect that he chose too much dribbling in the face of the opponent's high-pressure pressing, which was really unwise. Unfortunately, he did not learn the lesson of this time.
Just two minutes later, the Saudi team fired a free kick on the right side, Kim Kyung-do cut off the ball and gave the ball to the feet of Chi Zhongguo. Chi Zhongguo took the ball with his back to the other side and tried to control the ball again under the bag of the other 3 people, but there was a low-level mistake again, and he was cut off by the opponent's superior, and then immediately launched a counterattack. Although Kim Kyung-do once judged the right way, he mistakenly sent a oolong assist to help the opposing player Najib into the world wave. The national football team just lost the first goal in this way. Conceding a goal shortly after the opening resulted in a score lag, which meant that Li Tie's plan to hold on the counterattack was completely disrupted.
In fact, Chi Zhongguo had exposed his problem of being too sticky when Lippi was coaching before. In the Italian's vision, the back player must send the ball to the front court at the first time, because the national football midfield is already weak, the technology is worse than others, if it is compared with the other side, it is really unwise. However, due to the habit of passing control play in Guoan, Chi Zhongguo also brought his own habits in the club to the national football team, resulting in Lippi coaching in the second period of always difficult to play the desired oppressive attack. Because Zheng Zhi faded abroad, Chi Zhongguo never met the tactical requirements, so Lippi threw up his hands in anger after losing to Syria.
Unfortunately, among the players in the current national football team who can play defensive backs, Chi Zhongguo is already the most capable. Therefore, if Li Tie wants to improve his midfield defense in the future, he only has 2 options, either to replace Chi Zhongguo with Xu Xin (or wait for Li Ke to return to the team), or to play pass control instead. However, if the national football team uses pass control and opponent kicks, it is tantamount to self-defeating, and it is even more difficult to win.