January 5, after the announcement of the national football team's 26-man Asian Cup list, Tonight Newspaper issued an article commenting on the composition of the list and the state of the entire national football team at the moment.
In this year's Asian Cup tournament, all participating teams are allowed to sign up for a roster that includes 26 players, from which they can select 23 to make adjustments before the start of each match. During this period, the Chinese team recruited 26 players, of which naturalized player Li Ke left the team at the beginning of the training due to disciplinary issues, and Xu Xin was substituted into the list. The players who participated in this training session were eventually shortlisted for the Asian Cup.
The AFC has temporarily adjusted the registration rules for this tournament, hoping to give teams more room to maneuver their personnel. But since the Chinese team has already finalized its training roster before this, I'm afraid it will be difficult to magnify this policy dividend. When it comes down to it, there are as many as four goalkeepers among the 26 who will be traveling to Doha, as well as some injuries.
During the previous live training, the Chinese team's participants basically got a chance to play. Attackers such as Wu Lei, Lin Liangming and Zhang Yuning broke through against local Second Division clubs, but the whole team's performance against Oman and Hong Kong, China in the warm-up matches was not satisfactory. The Chinese team will travel to the Doha venue on the 7th, having completed all their warm-up matches by then. By then, Jankovic will only be able to determine the starting lineup through the players' performances in subsequent training sessions and specific tactical needs.
