National football team prepares for Japan, summarizes first match loss, confidence unaffected
Wu Lei (1979-), Chinese footballer
After going down 0-3 to Australia in the first match of the 12-team tournament, the
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The time for adjustments seems especially tight.
11 p.m. BST on the 7th.
Li Tie (1977-), footballer
The team led by will face Japan in the second match at the same stadium.
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Leader Zhang He revealed in an interview that the team summarized after the first game and studied the Japanese team in depth.
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Players' confidence unaffected
"The team worked internally on two levels of wrap-up after the first game of the Big 12. On the first level, we hired
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Guidance headed by the coaching team has been more than a year, affected by the epidemic, during this period did not play intercontinental warm-up events, especially within Asia, the world ranking higher than our opponents, there is no opportunity to play. For our team, the process of the first competition is worth summarizing."
"On the second level, the players are also expected to move on from the loss as quickly as possible and transfer all their energy, preparation guidelines, and instructions from the coaching staff to the second game."
Compared to past training sessions where players were interviewed, after the Australia game
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By specifically having the leader come out and speak, it has somehow sent a signal that the team will put up a fight.
"It is unprecedented in the history of our national team to compete abroad in such a way, and we are very aware of the significance of our competition. Expect to really care about
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The ball and those who follow the national team can support us. All members of our delegation need to be away from their families for a long time, we will not be vain here and will fight to the best of our ability."
Zhang He revealed that
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Many of the players on the team have previous experience of playing in the last 12 matches, so despite the loss in the first match, the players in the locker room did not hang their heads or sigh as much as they might have expected.
"There was some communication between the players about the technical and tactical aspects of the game, and I think they will take the loss of this game quickly and move on to the preparation for the next game."
Kenyo Tomiyasu, who just moved to Arsenal from Serie A, will return to the Japanese team.
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Japanese tactics have been analyzed in detail
Japan's first game 0-1 defeat at home to Oman, the team played this game after the personnel also appeared a little change - stand-in Liverpool attacker Takumi Minamino withdrew from the competition with China due to injury, and then the Japan Football Association announced that the replacement recruitment of mixed-blood strikers Ado into the team.
Born in Japan in 1995 to a Nigerian father, Ado plays for Toulouse in Ligue 2 as a striker. He made his national team debut in Japan's World Cup match against Kyrgyzstan in June this year, scoring a hat-trick in six minutes.
Along with two players who could not make it to Japan's first match against Oman due to their travels - Arsenal center back Kenyo Tomoyasu and midfielder Hidemasa Morita - have arrived in Doha to join the team, and both will unsurprisingly be in the starting lineup against China.
"Our technical analysis team has been keeping an eye on the Japanese team since the beginning of the preparation for the 40-team tournament. after the draw for the 12-team tournament, we have done a detailed analysis and research on all the technical and tactical playing styles of the Japanese team, and the characteristics of the travelling European players."
Zhang He revealed that after playing Australia, we will be based on the process of this competition, the situation of their own personnel, to generalize the analysis and judgment.
"The coaching staff will be very quick to put in the preparation for the game against Japan in the context of the past. Preparation meetings within the team, meetings between the coaching staff, it's all routine."
Ji Zhongguo may start to strengthen midfield defense
Regarding the summary of the first game and the preparation for the second game, Zhang He said, "After returning to the hotel, about the summary of the work, but also divided into several levels. The coaching team watched the video of the Sino-Australian battle that night, and the next day looked for individual players in the starting formation, analyzed and studied them in conjunction with the video, and looked for irrationalities in the personnel arrangement, technical and tactical application, and actively reviewed themselves."
There is a widespread perception that
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The coaching staff's two arrangements for the first game are questionable.
First of all, Yu Dabao playing starting center back, this problem in fact, Li Tie himself has realized the error - half time to change the center back, which in itself is a very clear signal of modification of the fault.
Against Japan, it is still more likely that the insurance policy will be to partner Zhang Linpeng and Jiang Guangtai in the center backs, and then look for a wing back to come into the starting lineup.
Next.
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The double midfield personnel combination made the team's defense look stretched.
Wu Xi and Zhang Xizhe two combinations in the 40 strong match against the Philippines competition on the exposure of offensive and defensive difficult to take care of the problem, the second half Li Tie let Jin Jingdao inside the composition of the three midfield to stabilize the situation, and ultimately scored two goals to win this key competition.
From the Top 40 to the Top 12, Li Tie adheres to the thinking of winning the game without changing the formation, but Australia soon gave the national football team a lesson with the fast attack and defense conversion.
Against the Japanese team with strong passing and controlling ability, the outside world thought that the national football team should put more effort in defense - but in a short period of time, want to change the four-back formation to three center backs is not practical, China's players do not have the ability to switch formations so quickly, Li Tie himself can be experienced in the use of the tactics of the three center backs system, is also a question mark.
Regarding Li Tie, I'm afraid the more pragmatic approach is still to optimize the combination of personnel in front of the field, such as changing the formation from 4-4-2 to 4-3-3.
In fact, against Australia in the second half of the competition, Li Tie has replicated against the Philippines in the competition Jin Jingdao within the middle of the approach, but the strength of Australia is far better than the Philippines, plus has been 0-2 behind, such a change in formation does not have much effect.
An incidental detail is that before the training in the early hours of the morning of the 5th, Li Tie in accordance with the routine of the whole team together for a unanimous lecture. After the full admonition, Li Tie and leave Chi Zhongguo, 1 to 1 communication, but the two communication moment is not long, as long as 1 minute or so.
As the only intercepting midfielder in the national football team, it would not be a surprise if Ji Zhongguo enters the starting lineup, and he has had a great deal of experience in world competitions during the Lippi era.
