When the Asian Games men's soccer team played a game that made everyone angry to "eye-opening", I'm afraid that many Chinese fans in Bangladesh to play the final stage of the game has been "reversed". When Dong Lu teased the Asian Games men's soccer team to Bangladesh kicked Mexico, perhaps Fan Zhiyi in front of the TV directly patted his thighs; ten years ago, trolling or missed Bangladesh!
The Asian Games men's soccer team played Bangladesh with basically no advantage, both in terms of scenarios and various statistics. Although Djurdjevic said in the post-match press conference that the draw against Bangladesh was an acceptable result, it was a night of shame for Chinese soccer.
A few days ago, those voices cheering for the Asian Games, calling for the Asian Games to replace the national soccer team, and calling for Kovic to recruit more Asian Games players were silenced. Many players of the Asian Games have told the outside world with their actions why their level can't make it into the national soccer team, why their level can't replace those veterans who are in their thirties and their form is going downhill!
However, as we spout off about the exceptional level of these players, we can't help but wonder - if these players had the help of overage players, and if they were put in the right system, would they really not be able to beat the Bengals' 19-year-old starting lineup?
If India can win against Bangladesh and if Myanmar can draw against Bangladesh, how did the first two Asian Games men's football teams beat India and Myanmar?
In fact, India's game and Myanmar's first half is enough to show that the Asian Games men's football team is not without the ability to abuse vegetables. However, from the second half of Myanmar, the abusive vegetables bureau one and a half did not break through the opponent's goal, directly related to the Asian Games men's football team adopted unrealistic tactical arrangements. They gave up the two wings, gave up high, gave up the height advantage, changed the route of passing and control, emphasized a lot of ground cooperation. But in terms of real-world results, pointing to these players to play passing is like Zhang Fei embroidering.
When our players habitually stop and look at the field for three passes, four equal five stops, and six drops, they want to pass, but the passes aren't there, there's no one to catch them, and they can't run! A lot of players simply don't know what they're supposed to do in this system. The whole midfield is useless. In fact, these players are playing pseudo-pass control on the pitch under the banner of pass control to deceive themselves. The Asian Games men's soccer team used the wrong tactical arrangement to force themselves to create "embarrassment"!
Now that we have learned from Myanmar's second half, we have to play passing and control in the Bangladesh game, which actually has a lot to do with Chinese soccer's obsession with passing and control over the past few years. Even many foreign coaches leading their teams can't escape this influence.
But behind a bunch of roughnecks playing pass rush, there's another factor that can't be ignored - cognitive bias!
Twenty or thirty years ago, Chinese soccer really let the opponent in the Asian level feel afraid of the header, the outside world to the Chinese men's football team nicknamed "head team". But because the nickname "head team" is not very nice, in order to get rid of the "simple and rough" impression, in the first few years, we not only ignored the training of the center forward at the youth training level, and even in the training of the center back, also reduced the requirements for the top of the header; our youth training began to emphasize the foot and pass control route. Over time, all our players claimed to be technical! Even if some of them stop the ball for 3 meters at the national brand, they can still fall over while stopping the ball.
However, Ai Junmin is one of the most recent players in Chinese soccer to showcase his technical ability against strong Asian opponents. After Ai Junmin's gradual decline in form, the country's top technical players, Wu Xi, Zhang Xunzhe, and Yin Hongbo, simply could not play in the Top 12. Li Tie realized the problem through consecutive painful lessons and led his team to compromise in two Top 12 matches in Oman and Australia.
However, Li Tie, who is gradually finding some clues in coaching at the national level, is not only winning quickly because of the off-field storm, but also because he became a rank-and-file offender last November and will soon be put on public trial. However, Li Tie's successors, Li Xiaopeng, Jankovic and many U-series national coaches have not learned Li Tie's technical and tactical lessons.
When Li Xiaopeng took over, the prolonged closure and immense pressure had already caused these players to resist the national team. He also wanted to adopt an anachronistic approach to possession away from Vietnam. With 60% possession, the national team was used by the Vietnamese to counterattack.
Not long ago, Jankovic led his team to play two warm-up matches in Chengdu and crushed the opponents in terms of ball possession, but what's the point of creating possession that doesn't pose a substantial threat?
Yang Chen, also a local coach, is a big advocate of passing and control, but the national junior team also flunked in the Asian Junior Championships! Even the women's soccer coach, Shui Qingxia, has repeatedly revealed his respect for the passing and control philosophy in interviews!
On the other hand, Antonio, who has never instilled a passing philosophy in his players, has led the team just about as well as any other head coach in the country.
Today, Djurdjevic is making just the same mistakes that Li Tie, Li Xiaopeng, Jankovic, Yang Chen and Shui Qingxia made.
It's just that a potential last eight opponent who can't even win a team against Bangladesh is still the number one South Korea for the men's soccer team in the Asian Games. Even if we advance in the Round of 16 to 8, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape giving the nation another hard time on National Day!
