As night falls, the Chinese team will meet the challenge of the second stage of the 40-team tournament on the stage of Suzhou Olympic Sports Center on May 30, Beijing time, with the first match against Guam. After a short break on the 24th, the national team's preparations have accelerated since the 25th, with victory in sight against Guam's weaker overall strength, but the national team is more focused on how to add leverage to the group's road to the top by increasing their goal difference.
China is currently second in the group with a goal difference of 11, behind Kuwait's 14 and ahead of the other six group opponents. However, seven of those 11 goals against have come from Guam. By comparison, with no goals scored in the Philippines and a goal difference of -1 against Syria, China's position looks precarious. In the event that a team in the group withdraws and the points rule changes, China could lose their advantage in a tie-break situation.
Nevertheless, it is difficult to predict the future rule adjustment, the only thing the national team grasps is to fight for more goals in Guam and Maldives, the two weaker opponents. 10:00 a.m. on the 25th, the national team's training was officially opened, in which the shooting training has become the focus of the coach Li Tie on the national football team to improve the accuracy of the shot and speed up the rhythm of the ball passing and receiving.
In order to improve the accuracy of the shot, the national team in training set up a smaller goal, the players must shoot the ball into the small door only 1 meter wide in order to score, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of the shot. And speed up the rhythm of passing and receiving the ball, is Li Tie coaching the national team since the consistent policy, he believes that only to improve the game rhythm and rate, the national team can be competitive in the Asian field.
According to the players, the national team's technical team also edited videos of four key players from the opposition for the players to study between training sessions.
Judging from the recent training schedule, the national soccer team is likely to adopt a 433 strong attacking formation in the match against Guam. Ackerson will be in charge of the center, Fernando and Wu Lei will be on the left and right, Zhang Xizhe will be waiting for an opportunity to intervene, while Wu Xi and Artemisia will be in charge of controlling and sweeping the perimeter.
