In the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian Zone B, the Chinese men’s football team lost 0-3 to the Australian team in the first round. In this game, the national football team can be said to have caught the shortcomings of the lineup by the Australian team and launched a targeted attack. The national football coach Li Tie made adjustments to the shortcomings during the intermission. Although it was effective, it was not enough to change the situation of losing.
From 442 parallel stance to single defensive midfielder
In the starting lineup of this game, the National Football Team has a lineup of 442, of which 4 midfielders are in parallel positions: Wu Xinghan, Wu Xi, Zhang Xizhe and Jin Jingdao lined up. The opening stage had a good effect, especially 15 minutes before the opening. The National Football team took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent’s Australian team that has not yet fully entered the state of the game. Players such as Wu Lei frequently stepped in and created several shot opportunities. However, as the game progressed, the Australian team began to show their physical advantages after adapting to the rhythm of the game and familiarizing themselves with the playing style of the national football team.
The formation of the national football team also adjusted accordingly. Wu Lei was pulled back to the right, Jin Jingdao and Zhang Xizhe appeared in the midfield, Wu Xi became a single midfielder. This change is obviously to strengthen the defense, and at the same time hope that Wu Xi can play more of a barrier role and better protect the two central defenders. But the effect is not satisfactory, and Australia has got more opportunities instead.
The central defender’s temporary partner exposes problems
The central defender partner of the national football game is also somewhat unexpected: Yu Dabao and Jiang Guangtai, two players who have hardly partnered before. Li Tie sent this central defender combination partly for helpless reasons. Tang Miao, who was promoted to the main right back under Li Tie in the top 40 match, missed the top 12 match because of an injury in the league. In this campaign, Li Tie arranged Zhang Linpeng as the right back, replacing Tang Miao’s position. Among the remaining central defenders, even though Yu Dabao was halfway through, he was more able to win Li Tie’s trust than others.
However, the central defender combination of Yu Dabao and Jiang Guangtai has exposed problems. The first goal conceded was when the opponent used a long pass to accurately hit behind the two central defenders of the national football team. Mabir’s forward shot caused chaos in the penalty area of the national football team. Yu Dabao failed to make two tackles in a row. The Australian team had a second chance to attack and eventually conceded a goal. When the second goal was conceded, when Australia hit the ball to the front of the national football penalty area, Yu Dabao, who had already topped it, was too late to defend. Zhang Linpeng made a replacement. The position between him and Jiang Guangtai affected Yan Junling’s line of sight, and the opponent scored the second goal.
The partners of Yu Dabao and Jiang Guangtai exposed their shortcomings. Jiang Guangtai turned around and chased more slowly. Yu Dabao was born in a non-academic class and had a poor sense of position. In the face of the Australian team with strong physical strength and strong confrontation ability, Yu Dabao and Jiang Guangtai were unable to play out the strong confrontation in the Super League. When they made a mistake, they did not have any chance to make up for their mistakes.
Li Tie changed two people after halftime
In the first half, Li Tie clearly saw that Australia used the two shortcomings of the national football center back and midfielder to carry out targeted attacks. Before the end of the first half, he had arranged Yin Hongbo and other substitute players to the sidelines to warm up. After the intermission, the National Football Team, who returned to the field, immediately made two personnel adjustments: Hao Junmin and Wang Gang replaced Zhang Xizhe and Yu Dabao respectively.
Zhang Linpeng returned to the center to partner with Jiang Guangtai, and Wang Gang replaced him as the right back. Hao Junmin and Wu Xi partnered with a double defensive midfielder. When this adjustment appeared, at the beginning of the second half, the national football team began to regain control of the midfield. Although in the end Li Tie’s error correction did not change the score on the field, and the national football team eventually lost another goal, but these two error corrections still let people see Li Tie’s ability to adjust on the spot. At least the problem can be found and solved proactively, but due to factors such as strength and large score difference, the adjustment did not change the result. But this gives the national football team hope in the next top 12 matches when they face the same strength or the situation is closer. (Yang Xixi)Return to Sohu to see more
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