With the national team back home from West Asia, the players are in full swing at the closed training camp in Suzhou. This period of isolation will not end until July 1, which is the day of the draw for the Top 12 tournament, when the national team's journey for the World Cup officially kicks off. Facing coach Li Tie, one of the major challenges he faces is the injuries that the national players may suffer in the upcoming intensive league matches.
The groupings for the Top 12 have been finalized, and the impact on the Chinese Super League will be minimized if the tournament system is implemented. However, the latest news from the AFC suggests that the home-and-away system will be used due to sponsors' objections. Compared with the tournament system, the home and away system is longer in time span, the AFC plans to start from September 2 and last until March 29 of the following year, which is more than half a year long. The impact on the Chinese Super League is self-evident. At present, the professional league preparatory team is tensely adjusting the schedule, although in September, October and November due to epidemic prevention can not be arranged for the Super League tournament, but also for the national team to make time for early training, but the time available for the game is very little time left. According to the 22 rounds of matches, this year's league schedule is historically dense.
In the 22-round completion scenario, the remaining nine rounds of the first phase of the Chinese Super League and the postponed fifth round of league matches between Beijing Guoan and Guangzhou need to be completed before the national team's training in August. If you start from July 15, first complete the two postponed matches, then from July 18 to start the sixth round of matches, to the middle of August (12) to complete nine rounds of the league, then in less than a month, you have to complete nine rounds of matches, on average, less than three days to play a league game, which in the history of the Chinese Super League has never been seen before. This is unprecedented in the history of the Chinese Super League. This is a great test for the physical condition of the players, the depth of the team's lineup, and the referee's enforcement level.
What's more, it is a severe test for the national players' physical condition. The national team has been preparing for the 40-team tournament in Shanghai since May 15, then arrived in Suzhou for the tournament on May 19 and departed for Sharjah, UAE on June 3. After three matches, the national team ended the 21-hour journey at 23:00 on June 17 and returned to the Suzhou Resident Hotel to begin isolation training. on July 1, the national players were released from centralized isolation and began seven days of home isolation observation, and returned to their clubs after completing the observation, with only 10 days left before the league restarts in the 6th round. If Guangzhou and Beijing Guoan's bye match is played on the 15th, then when the international players of these two teams return to the team, there is only one week left before the start of the league, which means that the international players must be put into the league with almost no rest time.
Non-international players are given a vacation during the national team's 40-team tournament, but the internationals only have quarantine time. After playing 9 matches in less than a month, their fatigue is unimaginable. Moreover, apart from the injured players, all the other international players will be participating in the league, so how to ensure that the international players will not be injured? This is something that even the FA chairman cannot coordinate - no one has the right to ask the international players in the team not to participate in the league, otherwise, the non-scheduling of league matches in September, October and November due to the absence of the international players will become a laughing stock.
Chen Xuyuan in an interview has talked about the national team before the 40 strong match of the early training, said it has two reasons: "First, Li Tie took over the national football team, although there are 6 to 7 training, but the personnel is not complete, a lot of tactics have not been implemented in the training. This time, the personnel is complete, Li Tie hopes to play Guam and the Maldives before the lineup, grinding; Second, the national football has been focused on playing a month of the league, if you focus on playing the national football game, the mood will be very depressing. Therefore, the national football team early training, can let the players first go home to recuperate for a few days, and then come back." To 12 before the tournament, these two reasons, the problem of integration is no longer a problem, Li Tie coach may enlist the "newcomers" into the team; and 12 before the early training, the national footballers really rest time, can only be suspended in the league to the August 17th national football team formally began training in a few days.
Early training, will be compressed to the limit of the schedule, certainly can give the national football team to win more time to integrate, but once the key players injured, the consequences are unimaginable. Can only hope that the national players in 6 to 14 rounds of intensive schedule to maintain health. 40 before the game, the national team has players due to injury to withdraw, the national team also emergency draft Liu Binbin and other three players to add to the team; 40 during the game of tomorrow's serious injuries to make a regret, the national team can not afford to lose any personnel, especially those irreplaceable players.
