May 31, the Chinese Football Association of a paper announcement as a gust of wind, will just in Suzhou in the end of the game with Guam's national football team once again involved in the vortex of the bag to organize the vortex, they are about to embark on the journey to Dubai.
Facing the loss of home field advantage, the last three matches of the Top 40 will undoubtedly add difficulties to the national football team's road to promotion. Just in the early morning of June 1, the Syrian team also made it clear that it would not adjust the game time, which indicates that the next schedule will be more compact, the national football players have extremely limited time for physical adjustment. The CFA then held a press conference.
Jet lag and high temperatures test national soccer team
Originally, the national football team is to "wait for labor" attitude to meet the last four games of the 40 strong match - since May 14, the team will start training in Shanghai, and on the 19th formally stationed in Suzhou red zone.
Opponents Maldives and Syria are only expected to depart from Dubai for China on May 30, while the Philippines, which is training in Doha, departs on June 1st. Compared to other teams, the national soccer team has plenty of time to prepare for these four matches.
However, everything has changed in a short period of time - the national football team will take a chartered flight to Dubai on the 2nd at the earliest, and at this time the Maldives, the Philippines and Syria, three teams have been in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar for a few days of training, the national football team from the "to wait for labor" role suddenly changed to the "long-distance" party. The role of the national football team has suddenly changed from a "wait and see" to a "long-distance travel" party.
West Asia in June is in the heat of the day, Dubai daytime temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius, nighttime lows of 30 degrees Celsius, the national football team's three matches will be played in extremely hot weather conditions.
In contrast to the air-conditioned stadiums in Doha, the stadiums in Dubai are completely devoid of such cooling devices - now that the country is in the midst of spring and summer, the players will have to go through an acclimatization process when they travel to Dubai.
At the same time, the national football team also needs to overcome the time difference. Dubai and Beijing have a four-hour time difference, the national football team arrived in Dubai almost no time to adapt, the AFC requires that all group matches must be completed before June 15, which means that the national football team arrived in Dubai immediately after the battle.
At present, the specific schedule is being communicated by the CFA and the AFC, the more reasonable program is June 7, 11 and 15, respectively, three games.
But now about the specific arrangements of the schedule, has long been not initially in China for the tournament system as basically by their own say, to Dubai for the game, everything must comply with the overall arrangements of the AFC.
It was against this backdrop that the Syrian team issued a sternly worded statement that it would not reschedule the game for the Chinese team, who were the side likely to profit.
The international players thanked the crowd after the game.
Head coaches need to overcome mental hurdles
Compared to objective circumstances like jet lag and high temperatures, the biggest destabilizing factor for the Chinese team is probably the psychology of the team from top to bottom.
After all, since the beginning of the year, the entire team's preparations have been centered around playing conference games at home. From the CFA to head coach Li Tie and all the players, all of them are confident about playing at home.
In their first match against Guam, the Chinese team also showed enough momentum and fighting spirit to beat their opponents by a big score of 7-0 in the cheering of nearly 30,000 fans in the stadium.
Now, the team suddenly learned that the home qualification is no longer, from top to bottom there is also a big psychological gap. 31 evening briefing, there are media to the CFA media relations department director Dai Xiaowei asked how to help the players to overcome the psychological problems, Dai Xiaowei said at the time: "Although the game suddenly changed, but I believe that the players will be holding the determination to win the game! , with the determination to play a good form."
Fortunately, some important players in the national team, such as Wu Lei, Zhang Linpeng, Wu Xi, Artemis Jun Min and others have had the experience of traveling to West Asia and Southeast Asia to play in the last World Qualifier, some of the naturalized players have also had the experience of playing in West Asia in the Asian Champions League, the player level is still relatively experienced to overcome such a disadvantage on the road.
But the coaching level is completely different - Li Tie has led teams domestically before, and apart from the 2019 East Asian Cup, he hasn't had any experience of leading a team to play abroad.
The pressure of the Top 40 and the East Asian Cup are very different concepts, losing the home qualification to go on the road to play the tournament system of the game, which will also completely disrupt Li Tie's preparation rhythm.
The role of the head coach can sometimes even be decisive in a big game like this, and now it's up to Li Tie to lead his team over the odds.
The national soccer team is about to leave for West Asia.
Difficulty of getting out of the lineup increases again
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) had previously succeeded in securing the hosting rights for the remaining matches of the 40-team tournament in the tournament system, and it looked like the Chinese team had been given a home advantage, but in reality, this so-called home advantage was what the Chinese team was supposed to get.
The first phase of the 40-team tournament games, the Chinese team because of the seeding, in terms of scheduling experienced away home and away, only one game with Guam at home, with the Philippines, Syria, two home group exit rivals, all of which are on the road.
Originally, the second stage of the game, the Chinese team should have three home games, which is the team's normal condition should be guaranteed.
Now, due to unexpected circumstances, China has lost three home qualifications, which will undoubtedly make it infinitely more difficult for the Chinese team to advance. Despite the addition of naturalized players, the Chinese team has not had a qualitative improvement in strength during the year, and to guarantee entry into the Top 12, the bottom line for the Chinese team's four matches in the second phase is to get 10 points, preferably all 12 points.
If by virtue of the advantage of the home field's timing and location, the Chinese team has a high probability of finally accomplishing the goal - the fans' support for the Chinese team has already been shown in the match with Guam, and all the guarantees of playing at home ensure that the Chinese team's preparations for each and every day of the game will be carried out in an orderly manner.
Li Tie said in his pre-game conference with Guam that the protection team, this time, was the best he had experienced.
