China moved to Wellington on the 24th local time, and after a 0-0 draw with the New Zealand national team in Auckland, the two sides will play their second warm-up match of the international day on the 26th at 11:00 a.m. Beijing time.
Before the match, head coach Jankovic said that he expects the national football team to perform on the offensive end of the field in this match, while the national football team will still expect good results.
Yankovic, head coach of the national team.
This windowpane pierced the goal
Starting at the 35-minute mark of the first half, both sides were largely acclimatized to the intensity of the game and were more proactive throughout the second half:
Wu Lei's long-distance counterattack failed to score, and his high left foot in the air in the penalty area was blocked by the opponent's goalkeeper; then, Wu Lei's breakthrough led to a red card for the captain of the opponent's center back. Unfortunately, the attack of the national football team, which had the numerical advantage, still only blossomed. Both sides finally handed in a blank sheet. After the match, Jankovic also regretted his team's lack of ability to seize opportunities.
Lin Liangming's header was deflected and the national soccer team missed a great chance.
"I would say the goals will come. Like I said after the last game, my biggest fear was not being able to create chances, but now that I'm creating chances, I think the goals will come. We need to be more efficient at scoring in the box and scoring goals."
In the pre-match press conference, Jankovic concluded:Â "The goals were scored either by positional play, organized attacking scores, counter-attacks, or insertions into 45-degree corners and ribs. We got the chance to score through various offensive organizations, which shows that our offense is quite rich and deserves recognition."
Of course, he also made it clear that "we will definitely train as hard as we can to improve our efficiency in front of the goal. I am still confident of improving my goal-scoring efficiency. Now it's a matter of being clinical in front of the goal. I just need to pierce the windowpane and the goals will come naturally."
The national soccer team takes its latest family photo.
The whole team is very motivated and excited.
The two warm-up matches were less than 72 hours apart, which is a test of the Chinese players' fitness.
"The personnel rotation is definite because for the Chinese league, we are now in the fourth week of winter training and the league will start in three weeks. We will make some personnel adjustments and rotations according to the players' physical condition and the progress of winter training."
Jankovic revealed that there will be some rotation in the starting lineup. "I want the team to be refilled with fresh blood through rotation and achieve the same tactics and discipline. My habit is to create a system. Every player is important in that system. You can expect some new faces in the starting lineup."
Apart from the general form of individual players, the vast majority of starters and substitutes showed good form, and the hard work ethic in particular added to Kovic's satisfaction.
Wu Lei isn't afraid to spar with his opponents.
"If we analyze the first game, we still have some regrets about the result, but the pace of the game and the effort still showed something promising. As I said before, we have matched the pace of the game and the physical intensity of the confrontation accordingly."
"Tomorrow, I hope we can take it a step further and do a better and further job in terms of speed and intensity and improve to some extent on the problems we found in the first game."
The whole team is motivated and excited to play the next game," he said.
Yankovic still sticks to his usual me-centered rhetoric. "The national football team must insist on being me-centered, so the tactical level will not make too many adjustments according to the opponent, and will still play its own style of soccer."
For the outcome of the match, he expects his team to be better than the first game. "For the Chinese team now, everyone always wants to win, but if they want to win, they need to score first. For a long time, the Chinese team has not been scoring goals."
