Late in the evening of September 16, the Chinese team arrived in Sharjah and completed their first internal teaching match since their arrival. Afterwards, the team had two consecutive days of rest and recuperation. During this time, the Chinese national soccer team's forward working group and the coaching staff held a "preparation seminar" on the 18th of local time, aiming to beat Vietnam in the 3rd round of the 12-team tournament, which became the common goal of the whole team. In order to achieve this goal, the coaching staff decided to take a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, to increase the intensity of training, and on the other hand, to strengthen off-field psychological communication with the players to boost morale.
The coaching staff chose to rest the team again because the internal teaching match on the night of the 16th had caused a large depletion of the team's physical fitness. Although the game lasted only about 35 minutes, the team's physical reserves were not good, and the data showed that the players' physical fitness dropped by more than 30%. In this case, the coaching staff believes that the team needs to be "relaxed" in order to ensure the intensity and quality of the subsequent training.
During the preparation in Sharjah, the coaching staff not only combined scientific data to refine the team's technical and tactical training, but also used the training gap to strengthen the exchange of ideas with the players. Recently, the domestic football world about the Guangzhou team facing the parent company's economic crisis, operational difficulties and other rumors, which also has a certain impact on the national football team. At present, including four naturalized players, a total of eight players from the Guangzhou team to play overseas, some of them are the absolute main force of the national team. Whether they can be unaffected by the rumors and focus on their preparation is crucial for the national team. From this point of view, the national football team's ideological construction work has added another subject.
As there are less than three weeks left before the October 7 China-Vietnam match, the forward working group and the coaching team held a "Preparation Seminar" on the 18th. On the one hand, they summarized the problems exposed in the team's preparation and collected ideas for the next preparation work. On the other hand, considering the team's current situation in the 12-team tournament and the difficulties faced by Chinese soccer, the delegation generally agreed that the importance of the 3rd round of China-Vietnam matches is even more important than the first two rounds of matches.
There is also a clearer understanding within the national football team about Vietnam. Despite Vietnam's obvious progress in recent years, the Chinese team has kept a clean sweep in the previous nine official matches. Currently, China's international ranking is also significantly higher than that of their opponents. If the Chinese team can't get all three points in this game, the task of impacting the Top 12 will be seriously affected, and the team's possibility of getting out of the line will become extremely low. From this point of view, the Chinese team facing this team, has reached the point of "can not afford to lose". Therefore, during the meeting, the delegation formed a highly consistent understanding of this goal.
From a technical point of view, the Chinese team can't just rely on grandiose words to beat Vietnam, but need to go all out to fight their opponents.
It is reported that the kickoff for the China-Vietnam match could be scheduled around 9 p.m. local time on Oct. 7, similar to the kickoff time for the national football team's last few matches in the Top 40 tournament here. However, unlike the previous two rounds of matches, the Sharjah Club Stadium, which hosted the China-Vietnam match, does not have air-conditioning. The Chinese team will still have to contend with the "heat". Compared with their opponents Australia and Japan in the previous two rounds, the Vietnamese team from Southeast Asia seems to be more adapted to the hot and humid climate conditions. The Vietnamese team has shown its physical strength in the first two rounds of the tournament. Therefore, the Chinese team needs to further strengthen their physical reserves while designing their tactics and techniques.
