At exactly 18:00 GMT on January 27, 2022 Qatar
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The seventh round of Group B of the Asian qualifying round of 12 is about to take place. At the Saitama 2002 Stadium, our
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Away to Japan
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. This matchup is not only
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The first official match in 2022 will also mark Li Xiaopeng's debut as head coach of the men's national team. However, despite
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Strength is not bad, but the final score of 0-2 against Japan, Li Xiaopeng's first game suffered an embarrassing situation of "open the door black".
Looking back at the first round of the 12-team tournament, then-former
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Li Tie, the commander-in-chief, is in Japan
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In front of the "iron bucket formation" to strengthen the deployment of the back line, but ultimately lost by 0-1. This time, Li Xiaopeng seems to have learned the lessons of Li Tie, will be adjusted to the formation of 4 defenders + two strikers, the starting lineup of veteran Artemisia partner Zhang Xizhe as the core of the attack, showing Li Xiaopeng does not intend to be conservative intentions. Xu Xin's partnership with Wu Xi is also seen as the current
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The strongest midfield combination. However, strength ultimately determined the outcome of the game. Despite
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Quick adjustments were made technically and tactically, but the field remained tough. Throughout the first half, the
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No chance of offense. After the first 10 minutes of warming up, Japan
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It was quickly discovered that
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They attacked Artemisia Junmin and Zheng Zheng's side of the field, which was weak in the combination of side and center. A mistake by Stanley Wong led to a penalty kick, which was converted by Isao Osako to break the deadlock. After the goal, the Japanese team got more and more courageous, with more than 70% of possession in the first half, while our team had zero shots on goal and zero corner kicks, making no progress at all. In the second half, Li Xiaopeng made substitutions, Alan and Wei Shihao came on the field, replacing Artemisia and Zhang Yuning. But soon after, the Japanese team took advantage of our team's defender's mistakes, Ito Junya direct header, extending the score to 2-0. Li Xiaopeng replaced veteran Zheng Zheng with Dai Weijun, but the overall effect of the substitution is not obvious. In the whole game, the Japanese team's number of shots on goal is as high as 17 times, while our team's number of shots on goal is only 2 times, the gap is obvious. In the first round of the 12-team tournament in September last year, our country
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Possession of the ball was only 30%, with a total of 3 shots and no shots on goal, and only 1 corner kick. In the end, not only did they lose the game, but they were also very passive. With Li Xiaopeng's coaching
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Compared to the two sides, also did not see a significant improvement, the gap between the two sides of the strength is obviously not a few months of training can make up for. In fact, Li Xiaopeng was appointed to take over the
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when there wasn't much time to prepare. December 3 last year, half a month after the sixth round of the 12-team tournament against Australia, the Chinese
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Collaborative intention of Li Tie resigned as head coach of the request, and immediately announced Li Xiaopeng official succession. At that time, the People's Daily commented, "six rounds of 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, Li Tie left his successor's results with the
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The horizontal positioning is basically equivalent." Li Xiaopeng took office after the first phase of training will be announced a 52-player list, the coaching staff is also known as luxury. After nearly ten days of training in Shanghai, the team finalized a 27-player travel list, compared with the last list, seven new international players, including Zheng Zheng, Deng Hanwen, Liu Yang, Dai Weijun, Tan Long, Fernando, Ji Xiang. Among them, Dai Weijun was selected for the first time
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.. However, Fernando has returned to Brazil from Holland due to a family matter and will be confirmed to miss both rounds of the 12-team tournament. From a general point of view, Li Xiaopeng lacks novelty in his use of personnel and tactics, but facing the powerful Japanese team, Li Xiaopeng, who is on the verge of losing his job, is obviously powerless. The next game against Vietnam will be his biggest test.
