On September 9, at the same moment that China's 2001-age U22 national Olympic team was wrestling India for the Olympic qualifiers in Dalian, Jankovic's China
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They played against the visiting Malaysian team in Chengdu. The Chinese team thought that they could easily take down their opponents, but unexpectedly they were given a "kick in the pants" by their opponents! If Malaysia's goal hadn't been ruled offside in the opening moments, China would have been 0-2 down once
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What will be the scenario? Can it be a draw? No one can give a definite statement. But, at least judging from Jankovic's recent attempts, it's safe to say it ended in failure.
Failure 1: Formation switching has no effect!
Previously, both in the Lippi era and further back in the Perrin era, the
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All of them emphasize the mastery of at least two basic technical and tactical playing styles, which will facilitate the team to adjust to the situation on the field in the actual battle. Therefore, we can often see then
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It is possible to constantly switch playing styles depending on the situation on the field. This is especially true in the Lippi era because with the previous coaching of the
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as the base for the
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That's what happened during the tenure, so it changed a bit more.
Now Yankovic takes over in China
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After that, the idea is also to hope that the Chinese team can master at least two kinds of technical and tactical playing style. Although Yankovic has never openly talked about the issue of tactics, but in the actual game has always been so required by the players. Take the match against Malaysia as an example, China's initial formation is 442, in addition to goalkeeper Yan Junling, Li Shuai, Gao Junyi, Jiang Guangtai and Zhang Linpeng are defenders; Lin Liangming, Wu Xi, Li Ke and Deng Hanwen are midfielders, and Ekerson and
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Instead, he plays as a striker. But in the real world.
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More often than not, they play as three defenders, i.e. Gao Junyi, Jiang Guangtai and Zhang Linpeng play as center backs; Li Shuai is more forward, with Deng Hanwen on the right as the two wingbacks; Wu Xi and Li Ke are defensive midfielders, with Wu Xi being more of an attacking organizer; and Ackerson is more forward,
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In defense, both wingbacks need to be withdrawn and drop relatively deep. In defense, the wingbacks on both sides of the ball need to recover and drop relatively deep.
These are in fact two different technical and tactical styles of play, which are constantly adapted and changed according to the situation on the field. However, when a wing is pressed very far forward, how to deal with the gap left behind? Review the whole process of the Chinese team conceded a goal, the Malaysian team back into the No. 10 Halim was able to easily from the right rib to receive the ball, the foot shot, precisely is the use of the Chinese team side players forward to assist a large open area left behind, and then pushed the far corner of the Chinese team's goal, breaking.
In fact, in the subsequent game, the opponents in the counterattack process, repeatedly appeared to use the Chinese team on both sides of the wingbacks up to assist the gap left by the implementation of counterattack and complete the shot on goal shots. This is a reflection of the lack of tactical literacy of the Chinese team in the formation switch, how the other players on the field position, how to fill the position. Of course, there is another important reason, which is the habit of playing in the
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Kick the "health ball". Let's not expand on that for now. In the second half, with Gao Zhunyi and Jiang Guangtai replacing the two center backs, after replacing Stanley Wong, the
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Another switch of the entire formation to four backs, while an extra man is used on the front line and put into the offense. This tactical adjustment is also much more obvious.
Frankly, Yankovic's overall technical and tactical demands on the team when he previously coached the 99-age group were different from the demands he now places on the team.
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The requirements have not changed much fundamentally. However, in comparison, the 99 age group teams have performed relatively better. This is not only because the players of the 99 age group team are young and obedient, but also because the 99 age group team, as a U series age group team, has a longer training time every year. This means that Jankovic can have relatively sufficient time to conduct technical and tactical drills and bonding with the team, and can even keep calling stops and giving further explanations to the players during the training. After this, a few warm-up matches will be arranged to test the training effect.
nowadays
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The situation is different. Although each time there are about 10 days of training time, but relatively limited training sessions dedicated to technical and tactical exercises, like this time in Chengdu before playing Malaysia, the team in the first three days need to recover the body, adjusting the state, and then spaced out arrangements for two practices a day. After the transition to tactical training, it is a targeted technical and tactical content drills against the opponent. After two sessions, it was time for the tournament. This is completely different from the past with the 99 age group team. And the international players are less technically and tactically literate, so it is reflected from the actual game.
Therefore, it is not really a surprise that the Chinese team played such a lousy game against the Malaysian team, and even to some extent, the Chinese
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After the epidemic, still not out of the "comfort zone". Yankovic's warm-up schedule from June is stronger and better than one another, but because the Chinese players in the
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It's been three or four years since we've been playing "healthy soccer" in the league, and we haven't even noticed that the outside world is developing so rapidly. The 1-1 draw against Malaysia was normal.
Failure 2: Not playing league play
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In the case of the China-Malaysia match, one of Jankovic's "failures" as a manager was to bring in players who hadn't played in the league for a while, or who hadn't performed well.
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in, or even into, the starting lineup, which seems destined for this edition of the
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The set will be much less effective.
China at the time
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The announcement of the latest training roster came amidst speculation that the recently eliminated from the AFC Champions League by the Thai Premier League's
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The leaders have challenged the selection of as many as eight players, as the harbour players are in such poor form that they are unlikely to be able to play as well as they should. Not only that, but some players who have been in the league for a short period of time, or even haven't played for a while, have also been selected for this edition.
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, is even more of a non-starter for the outside world: this team
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What exactly are the selection criteria for the
In the match against Malaysia, five harbour players entered the starting lineup, but frankly speaking, the performance of these players can only be described as average, like Jiang Guangtai was even replaced. And Gao Junyi had previously, for various reasons, been in the
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He has not played in four or five consecutive rounds of league matches, but in this match, he was directly in the starting lineup. This has to give rise to a lot of thoughts that players who have not played in the league can be
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The debut of the
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(used in a comparison)
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What is the significance of the And, it is easy for outsiders to raise such a question:
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Doesn't the coaching staff go down to the division and scout the league on a daily basis? Is there no knowledge of whether or not players are playing in the league and how they are performing?
Of course, Yankovic must have his own considerations and choices, in line with the principle of "use familiar and not new", choose their own familiar players, players who have been called up before, after all!
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Having been together for a short period of time, they will only be able to briefly knit together and then play in a short period of time. If the WC had not started in November this year, but later, Jankovic might have called more new players into the squad for scouting. But now, there are only two months and three international warm-up matches to go before the World Cup.
In fact, there is an even more important situation in the whole process, which is that there is a big problem with players running on the field today.
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The league's "life ball" has made players accustomed to stand and kick, waiting to kick, players lack of initiative, no initiative to run, receiving consciousness, which makes the
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It is difficult to form effective cooperation in the game. Although the players are still brave on the field, like Li Shuai also had to let the ambulance drive into the field directly because of the injury (after the game, Li Shuai was examined in the hospital and initially judged to be a slight concussion. However, due to the intense head collision, the teeth appeared obviously loose, confirmed by the hospital need to pull out seven teeth, will not be involved in the warm-up match with the Syrian team on the 12th). , but, again, this is just an individual player. A current terrible situation is: players are afraid of taking responsibility, and naturally try to run as little as possible, because more running means more opportunities for the ball to come to their feet, and the more opportunities to get the ball, the greater the likelihood of mistakes. A mistake, the outside world will be infinitely amplified, so that they are pushed into the limelight. And, especially afraid of taking the blame, afraid of mistakes, so after taking the ball, more often choose to pass back, cross pass, so at least can reduce the chance of mistakes. But this is contrary to the nature of the game of soccer. In the current atmosphere and environment, the international players are enduring and afraid of more and more. Plus
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Because of the relatively low level, the habit of "health ball" developed in the international arena, even in the face of such opponents as Malaysia, we will be the original form.
In that sense, it's not just Yankovic who is having a hard time solving this problem, but previously such world-class names as Lippi were unable to do anything about it. It's no longer a problem of soccer within the soccer field itself.
Bold assumptions: a complete push back of personnel?
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Because we have to take into account the Olympic Qualifying Tournament and the Asian Games, so at this stage can only continue to focus on the old players, and even will have long been assimilated into the several naturalized also continue to call into the lineup. However, from the June Dalian training to the Chengdu training.
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I'm afraid to say that the performance can only be described as increasingly disappointing. As this game at home even Malaysia team failed to take, which makes the outside world further intensified the original worry: the future of the World Cup in November on the road against Thailand, the Chinese team really have a chance to take the opponent? It should be known that the Malaysian team in Southeast Asia, although known as one of the "Four Tigers", but the actual standard is far below the Thai team, Vietnam, and may not even be able to be compared with the Indonesian team!
Because of a draw, there was a lot of interest in
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All the worry, the negativity might thus be further amplified, which would have a negative impact on the
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In fact, it can only further intensify the pressure. In fact, this can already be seen from Yankovic's expression after the match and his speech in the post-match conference, Yankovic himself is actually quite dissatisfied. But as a head coach, I'm afraid I still need to come up with a solution. On the one hand, we'll be welcoming a stronger Syrian team in three days' time, so will we be able to mobilize the desire of the existing staff? This is obviously the concern of the outside world.
On the other hand, etc.
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Yankovic will no longer be subject to any restrictions in terms of personnel recruitment when the next training session takes place. So will Jankovic then have the guts to take on the existing Chinese
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A "big revolution" to clean out all the so-called experienced veterans and select younger players with more impact and desire to join the team? In the current Chinese
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When the whole team is in the doldrums, it is much more important to have the desire and drive than the so-called "rich experience in international matches", because what everyone wants to see is the kind of spirit that dares to take responsibility and move forward. In this regard, the current
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The veteran players in the game showed more of that "old-fashioned" look, China
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There needs to be a complete bloodletting and revolution!
Perhaps such demands and calls will be even stronger after the future battle between China and Syria.
