Sources say that on December 19th, the Chinese national soccer team started their training at the UAE in Abu Dhabi, but unfortunately, due to family reasons, midfielder Li Ke left the team. In this situation, the national team urgently recalled Xu Xin, who is currently playing in the seaport. According to Football Daily's analysis, Li Ke's departure did bring some confusion to the national team's rhythm, but overall, it didn't affect the overall strength of the national team too much.
The national football team will spend six days on rehabilitative training, fitness and technical and tactical training as planned. Starting from the 25th, the national football team will enter a phase combining matches and training. Among them, on the 25th, the national football team will be the first to play a friendly match with a local club. And on the 29th, the national football team will have a match against Oman. The team will then fly from the UAE to Doha, Qatar on January 7, 2024 and await the arrival of the first match of the Asian Cup on the 13th.
In the preliminary list of the national team, the national football team has five back players, namely Li Ke, Wang Shangyuan, Wu Xi, Wang Qiuming and Gao Tianyi. In the 36-team tournament, Jankovic mainly used Li Ke, Wang Shangyuan and Wu Xi, of which Wang Shangyuan was regarded as a purely defensive back, while Li Ke also mainly played a defensive role, and Wu Xi took more responsibility in organizing the attack. Due to the limited manpower in the back position, the previously injured Wang Qiuming also returned to the national team, theoretically the back configuration is relatively abundant.
Li Ke's departure caused a disruption in the rhythm of the national soccer team, but Xu Xin is one of the regular players of the national team, who participated in the national team training in March, June and September. He is very familiar with Jankovic's tactics and has no problems with understanding with his teammates. Soccer Daily's analysis suggests that the overall strength of the national team has not been affected too much, except that Jankovic does need to put some thought into combining the back positions.
