The latest news from our men's soccer team comes in the midst of intense closed training. Since October 30th, the team gathered in Shanghai to start training, for the November World Preliminary 12 to do the final sprint. It is reported that the national football team in order to achieve the purpose of team bonding and player investigation, plans to start a warm-up competition with the Super League team Shenzhen and Zhejiang team in the Central A. The news reveals that the two warm-up matches will be held in Shanghai. Sources revealed that the two warm-up matches are scheduled to be staged on November 3, coach Li Tie will arrange for most of the international players to participate, in order to finalize the list of the next World Qualification Tournament.
In the first four rounds of the World Qualifier 12, the national soccer team only won one game and lost the remaining three, placing fifth in the group with three points. Saudi Arabia is in the lead with 12 points, followed by Australia with 9 points, Oman and Japan with 6 points, and Vietnam at the bottom with 0 points. For our men's soccer team, the consecutive matches against Oman and Australia in November are crucial, and the only way to maintain the hope of qualifying is to get the desired points; if they suffer consecutive defeats, the national soccer team is afraid of saying goodbye to the World Qualification Tournament in advance.
After completing the task of West Asia tournament, the whole team of the national football team had a closed isolation training in Suzhou. The team was not released from isolation until October 27th and arrived in Shanghai on the 28th. The coaching team gave all the international players two days' vacation to reunite with their families in order to relieve the pressure brought by the prolonged closed training.
On October 30th, the entire national football team arrived in Shanghai and immediately put themselves into the first training session, with all 31 players participating and the team in good condition. The original plan was to play Oman and Australia in Suzhou, but due to special circumstances, this plan had to be adjusted. The national football team may transfer to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates for the match, the specific arrangement has not yet been determined.
Coach Li Tie will streamline the lineup if the national football team travels to Dubai, UAE again. It is reported that on November 3, the national football team will play two warm-up matches against Shenzhen of the Chinese Super League and Zhejiang of the Chinese First League. Both matches will be played in the afternoon, Li Tie will arrange different lineups to play. After the warm-up match, Li Tie will select about 25 players according to the team's condition to Sharjah, which means that there will be 5 to 6 players to end this period of national football training in advance.
From the performance of the previous 4 rounds of the World Cup, Wang Dalei, Dong Chunyu, Liu Dianzuo, Wang Qiuming, Barton, Xu Xin, Li Lei, Guo Tianyu and Wang Shangyuan did not get a chance to play. Among them, Wang Dalei, Dong Chunyu and Liu Dianzuo are goalkeepers, failed to play in the reasonable, Yan Junling's starting goalkeeper position is solid. Barton and Guo Tianyu are strikers and newcomers to the national team, making it more difficult to play. Wu Lei, Zhang Yuning, and naturalized players Eckerson, Alan and Luo Guofu are the team's main options. Li Lei, who missed the first few games due to injury, is now back from injury and remains a good candidate for Li Tie's left back position. Xu Xin, Wang Qiuming and Wang Shangyuan are midfielders, the national football team has a rich reserve of personnel in the same position, if other players do not have new injuries, it will be more difficult for the three to play.
Overall, the national football team at this stage of the lineup is still mainly stable, Li Tie will not significantly adjust the lineup. Wu Lei will meet with the national football team after the end of the La Liga League on November 6, and the difficulty of facing the consecutive matches of Oman and Australia will be greatly increased. Whether Li Tie can withstand the test, we will wait and see.
