The second round of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup continues to be in progress, yesterday (15) the Chinese team at home to face Australia, which has a number of professional players traveling to Europe, the Chinese team took a defensive position in the opening match, but it was still difficult to withstand the visitors' smooth attack, in the case of the opposing team has three players to open the scoring, Australia scored seven goals in the game, while the Chinese team in the first half of the 0:2 down on the header of Chen Yiwei into the net to recover a goal, but unfortunately no further goals were scored in the final 1:7 defeat against the Kangaroo Army, bitterly swallowed three losses. The Chinese team, on the other hand, recovered from a 0:2 deficit in the first half with a header by Chen Yiwei, but unfortunately could not score again after that, and suffered three consecutive defeats to the Kangaroo Army in the final 1:7.
The Australian starting lineup for this match is no slouch at all, with a lineup of players in the
England Premier Soccer League
Brighton
's midfielder Aaron Mooy and goalkeeper Mathew Ryan (Maty Ryan) both started on the pitch, with Aaron Mooy just joining
Brighton
Starting five of the eight games, goalie Mathew Ryan started all eight games and finished tied for the current league-leading record of three cleanups, the number of games played and the amount of time it took to see both men as major combatants on the team.
The Chinese team faced a field that included two
England Premier Soccer League
The Chinese team, including players from the rival Australian team, lined up in a 4-5-1 formation to face the opponent's 4-4-2, with the main purpose of consolidating the defense in the midfield and then looking for opportunities to play defensive counter-attacks. In the first half, facing the opponent's midfielder Aaron Mooy as the team's attacking pivot, the Chinese team, although all the players retreated to their own half of the field, but failed to effectively pressurize the passing launching point, resulting in the opponent's passes and conversions of the side too easy, coupled with the opponent's professional players to pass the ball footwork is quite accurate, together with the strikers to see the needle in the run without the ball, so that the goal happened one after another, the momentum is unstoppable.
After the halftime break, the Chinese team in the second half of the obvious improvement in the first half of the lack of success to hold the front nearly 30 minutes without conceding a goal, but in the face of the entire high-intensity confrontation, the loss of stamina has become the biggest problem, including the first start with a good performance of Tsai Li-Jing, facing the Jordanian performance of the midfielder Wen Zhi-Hao have appeared to have cramps, in the case of the overall decline in stamina, Australia and were in the 73rd, 84th, 88th minutes each scored a goal to make the score 7:1, the score was not the same. Under the overall physical decline, Australia scored a goal each in the 73rd, 84th and 88th minutes to make the score 7:1.
Although the team was unable to defend its home turf, the starting lineup showed that the head coach wanted to give young players a chance to learn from the experience of facing so many professional players on the same field. Cai Li-Jing, who is currently playing for York 9 Football Club in Canada, was given the opportunity to start in his first national team game. Currently 21 years old and of mixed Taiwanese and Western descent, Cai Li-Jing also showed his ability to break through with the ball, and his dribbling skills were quite impressive.
Chelsea
The Crystal Palace youth system's donut brother, Shen Zigui, was also a standout in the second half, at just 18 years of age currently playing for Norwegian Premier League club Stabaek, both of whom are quite good and watchable youngsters in terms of their footwork.
