In the late afternoon of September 7, the Chinese men's soccer team officially unveiled its 23-man squad to face the Japanese men's soccer team in the Round of 12 tournament. Compared with the first round of the big list to face Australia, coach Li Tie made two changes, sending Xu Xin and Zhu Chenjie to the battlefield, replaced by Wei Shihao and Yu Dabao. At the same time, Liu Binbin, Li Lei, Wang Shangyuan, Dong Chunyu, Wang Qiuming, Barton, Guo Tianyu and other seven players, following the first round failed to debut, continue to have nothing to do with this tournament.
In this 23-man list of international players, Wei Shihao's absence has undoubtedly become the focus. After all, the first round of the battle with Australia, Wei Shihao substitution on the field performance is not bad, and in the national youth period against the Japanese national youth, his performance is also quite bright.
Before the match, Li Tie had twice talked to Wei Shihao individually, seemingly intending to give him a heavy responsibility in the China-Japan showdown. However, to our surprise, Wei Shihao unexpectedly failed to be selected.
For this situation, many well-known domestic journalists and commentators have expressed their own opinions. Well-known commentator Huang Jianxiang expressed doubts about Li Tie's decision: "The old man asked me, Wei Shihao performed quite well in the last game, why didn't he bring him on the field today? I said it might be to use more naturalized players. The old gentleman nodded and didn't pursue the question further. To be honest, I really don't know how to explain this other than to comfort him with this reason."
For Wei Shihao's selection, Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Blush analyzed that Wei Shihao is not injured, recent training status is also good, but the face of the Japanese team, the Chinese men's football team is not possible to risk the opponents to start the attack, the main defense has become the consensus of the whole team. From Xu Xin, Zhu Chenjie was selected into the 23-man list can be seen, the team does not need Wei Shihao such pure offensive players.
Celebrity Dong Lu believes that Wei Shihao may not yet be in match condition: "If he is not even in the 23-man list, it means that his physical condition and mental state do not have the conditions to participate in the match, and there can be no other reasons. After all, he has come a long way, if you are sure that he can bring help to the game, how can you not let him into the 23-man list?"
It is a fact that Wei Shihao will not be able to play against Japan. We still expect Li Tie to make full use of tonight's 23-man squad to build a strong team to score against Japan and change the bad situation of "opening black" in the first round.
