In an effort to ease the tension, the CFA explained through the media that Wu Lei failed to make the national team roster for the reason:
"The Football Association and the national team coaching team has always highly recognized Wu Lei's personal skills and will quality, this time he was not called up because of the consideration that he is facing unprecedented difficulties and crisis of confidence in the Spaniards, the national team is unwilling to set training at this critical moment to affect his play."
However, this explanation seems extremely far-fetched - even the average fan knows that FIFA has special international competition days during which no league matches are played, and that players returning to their home countries to play for their national teams does not affect the prospects of their clubs.
Since the end of the 2019 Asian Cup, Wu Lei has flown straight to Spain to start his career as a foreigner, and every time he plays for the national team, he is used to playing back and forth between the two continents of Europe and Asia. Wu Lei's playing time with the Spaniards is limited.
Fewer matches in foreign countries do not affect the performance of the national soccer team
Of course, there are also claims that Wu Lei's form is difficult to guarantee due to the fact that he has played fewer games in La Liga recently.
But the so-called form theory is equally untenable - objectively speaking, as the relegation of Espanyol began in the summer of 2020, Wu Lei didn't play a lot of minutes in La Liga B - 31 appearances, 8 starts, 28 minutes per game, 2 goals, 2 assists .
That's just a rotational player's stats, but the club's performance didn't affect the confidence Li Tie's coaching staff had in him for the national team at the time.
After the end of the Western B League, Wu Lei returned home to participate in the remaining four matches of the Top 40. Suzhou against Guam, Wu Lei contributed two goals; to Sharjah, in the battle against the Philippines, Wu Lei made a penalty kick and penalty; against the Maldives, Li Tie rotated almost all of the main force, but still let Wu Lei start, Wu Lei scored a goal in the first half of the half-time card after work. The last game against Syria, Wu Lei assisted Zhang Xizhe to break the deadlock, and then made the leading penalty again, he personally punted to help the national football team finally 3-1 win ......
Club status has little to do with national team performance
Into the 12 strong stage, Wu Lei in addition to the early La Liga season had a few starts, after the league has been 18 consecutive rounds of substitutes, only in the King's Cup to get a few starting opportunities. However, Wu Lei is still the most outstanding player of the national team in the stage of the 12-team tournament.
In the 3-2 win over Vietnam, Wu Lei scored twice to help the national football team win its first victory in the 12-team tournament, and in the two 1-1 draws against Oman and Australia, it was Wu Lei who finished off the scoring.
The national football team scored a total of eight goals in the 12 strong match, Wu Lei contributed four goals - counting these four goals, mainly concentrated in the two international competition days in October and November last year, during this period Wu Lei in La Liga to get the game time is also not much.
From the Top 40 to the Top 12, Wu Lei's dedication is there for all to see.
Naturalized players haven't played in four months, so why do they make the cut?
What's more, in terms of form alone, Wu Lei is at least as good as the naturalized players on the Feb. 22 roster who are vacationing in Brazil - Ickerson, Fernando, Allan and Lo Guofu.
After playing two matches with Oman and Australia last November, the four naturalized players returned to Brazil on vacation, during which they could only rely on "conscious" practice. During the previous two matches, Luo Guofu's body fat obvious, Wu Lei although less time to play, but at least has been involved in the training of the La Liga team.
Of course, looking at international football as a whole, it's not uncommon to fall out of the national team if the club is in poor shape, but it usually happens in powerhouses like Brazil, France, England and Germany who can put together several lineups.
I'm afraid an average strength team doesn't qualify for such a choice, let alone approaching the player who has contributed the most to the team in recent years.
If Wulei was not called up on the basis of form, how did the coaching staff make the decision to put four naturalized players on the national team roster? Is this an alleged double standard? Focus on 2023, should not give up the opportunity to grind
For Wu Lei in his prime, falling out of the national team has been a very rare thing.
2019 China Cup, Cannavaro's training team did not recruit Wu Lei, that's because Wu Lei has just taken the shoulder injury of the Asian Cup to Europe needs to be adjusted, coupled with the national team itself in the investigation of newcomers, Wu Lei belongs to the "exemption" do not need to return to the country to run around.
Going back further, Lippi, Gao Hongbo and Perrin era, Wu Lei has never fallen out of the national team experience.
With the Top 12 already out of the tournament early, the approach of the management and coaching staff for the national football team's last two matches against Saudi Arabia and Oman is to give the young players more chances so that they can better prepare for the 2023 Asian Cup.
In terms of age, Wu Lei can still be the core of the team for the 2023 Home Asian Cup, and he and young players like Dai Weijun, Zhang Yuning, Gao Junyi and Zhu Chenjie represent the same need for more real-world experience to gel.
Against the backdrop of the epidemic, the national soccer team's participation in international competitions is already rare, and now wasting two games of the Top 12, which has great exercise value, is incomprehensible.
Wu Lei's strong willingness to perform for his country
Wu Lei dropped out of the list of the national football team, there are also fans on social networking sites to leave a message - "Is it that the national team lost the chance to go out, Wu Lei himself does not want to come back to play?"
According to the surging news reporter, regardless of whether the national team has a line of hope, Wu Lei's idea and determination to fight for the country has not been any change.
From the strength point of view, the national football team's chances of getting out of the line was originally minimal, which is the same as Wu Lei's choice to stay in the ocean - the individual's stay in the ocean in the change of the country's general direction of soccer is unlikely to play too much of a role, but he has been still insisting on it.
If you want to give Li Xiaopeng coaching staff to abandon the use of Wu Lei's reasons, perhaps the use of bad is a more reasonable explanation.
It is true that Wu Lei did not score in the previous two matches of the 12 strong match, but in the end it is the player's bad condition or the coaching team tactical thinking problem, that is a question worth considering.
For example, the industry knows that Wu Lei in the national team's many goals are Artemisia Jun Min direct assist, the results in Li Xiaopeng coaching debut, the coaching staff let Wu Lei and Artemisia Jun Min to play the two side defenders, to become a full distance from the furthest away from the two, which is obviously not conducive to the overall attack to build ......
So, Li Xiaopeng can't be used well, so just don't use it? What kind of logic is that?
