In the sixth round, the national soccer team once again faced Australia, and the two sides played to a 1-1 draw. Most interestingly, three naturalized players, Ackerson, Allan and Lo Kok Fu, made their debut, the last two being replaced by Wu Xinghan and Barton in the 80th minute. Australia took the lead in the 37th minute and the national team equalized in the 69th minute. There are many reasons for going from 0-3 to 1-1 in the first leg, such as Li Tie's ever-improving tactical play. But one fact that is indisputable is the role of the three non-blooded naturalized players.
In addition to the factor of relatively weak opponents, Li Tie's six games under his team, the last three of which were arguably a good game, had the most to do with the reuse of naturalized players.
Having said that, I just want to say one thing: Personally, I think the main reason why Li Tie doesn't reuse naturalized players should be influenced by Chen Xuyuan (Note: Especially non-blood naturalized players, the same as above and below). Chen Xuyuan's main reason for opposing the reuse of naturalized players should be that these players are not naturalized. After the game, the credit record is on someone else. To put it bluntly, both Li Tie and Chen Xuyuan (and probably others within the FA) are extremely selfish, putting their own good and bad intentions above the interests of the national team and even Chinese soccer as a whole.
In addition, the above two media for Li Tie "exculpate" reason is not tenable, mainly for two reasons:
First of all, it was reported in the media at the time that Cannavaro (October 2021) had said that Lok Guofu was not qualified, and that if he didn't lose weight, not even a Central League One team would want him; and that if it wasn't at the club's request, he wouldn't have signed him. Realistically, Lok Guofu was not in the best physical condition or playing shape at the time.
But judging from the above matches, his ability to hold the ball and break through on the side is unmatched by local players. Including Alan, if they were reused earlier and allowed to constantly cooperate with their teammates in the game, the results of the first six rounds of the game should have been better. More specifically, if the fourth round can be tied with Saudi Arabia, the fifth round is not Li Tie substitution error, the probability of taking Oman is also very high. After the sixth round, the national soccer team might get 8 points instead of 5 points from 6 matches with 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.
If the national soccer team scores 8 points, it means that Saudi Arabia (the first place in the group) goes from 16 points to 14 points, Japan continues to rank second with 12 points; Australia ranks third with 11 points; Oman's 7 points become 6 points, and its ranking drops from fourth to fifth; and the national soccer team goes from fifth to fourth. In this situation, it is difficult to predict the outcome of the next matches. Although it may not end up in the Qatar World Cup, it will never lose 1-3 to Vietnam on the first day of the year and 0-2 to Oman in the final round.
Secondly, Li Xiaopeng led the national soccer team to an away loss to Vietnam. In fact, everyone knows what the reason was - except for a few who pretended to be deaf, dumb and crazy. The simplest truth is that although Alan and Luo Guofu had made their debuts (Ackerson did not play in the seventh round and its subsequent matches), they were in extremely poor shape due to two to three months of no systematic training and matches, as well as the long travel from Brazil to Japan and Vietnam. In addition, the early exit of the national football team was very obvious at that time, and the morale of the whole team was very low. If I had to say the third reason, it would be Li Xiaopeng's tactical and personnel errors.
Ignoring these objective reasons, we insist on sophistry and must think that naturalized players start and have worse games than when Li Tie led the team. I don't even think the story is over yet. Don't worry about drawing conclusions. God knows what kind of mentality this is? You wouldn't say or admit that if people were doing well; the team's performance wasn't satisfactory. Instead, it emphasizes that naturalized players lead to "bear-like" after their debut. If they don't have an ulterior motive, what else can they explain?
(first six rounds) or not to reuse naturalized players, the fact is that the performance of the national football team and the results are very different, and may even have a considerable impact on the final situation of the group. Not to recognize this is not objective, is disrespectful to the naturalized players, or to the majority of decent fans. We have to take this as a "washout" for Li Tie. We really don't understand the intentions of some people.
Li Tie's coaching level is really high, so when he led Huaxia Happiness to succeed in the Super League, the "eight consecutive victories" would not be the result of spending money to buy. Some media people even said that the club spent a lot of money to buy the success of leading the team to the Super League twice. Without further ado, the results of the two Australian matches are clear, so is there a need to spend more money?
