The Chinese Super League schedule is tight, Zhang Yuning, Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng have suffered injuries one after another
3 “overaged internationals” were injured and the national football expedition plan encountered difficulties
On the morning of July 8, the international striker Zhang Yuning, who played for Beijing Guoan Club, left the Meizhou Division of the Chinese Super League and returned to Beijing to prepare for further diagnosis and treatment of the injured shoulder. Before Zhang Yuning retired from injury, the news that Wu Xi of Shanghai Shenhua team and Zhang Linpeng of Shanghai Haigang team were injured also came out from the Dalian division one after another. As a result, 3 of the 5 “overaged internationals” who are among the 5 candidates for the Chinese team’s East Asian Cup lineup have been injured, and they are likely to miss the opportunity to accompany the team to the East. From the perspective of the team preparing for the Asian Cup next year, such a result is undoubtedly regrettable.
What are the causes of frequent injuries?
Playing at full capacity or even overloading
Affected by objective factors such as the epidemic, the 2022 Chinese Super League will start late, and the first 10 rounds of competition will be tight. As the pillars of each club, several “overaged internationals”, together with most of the young players in the mixed national football team, maintained full attendance or close to full attendance during the league. Under the influence of weather and venue factors, their injuries did not actually occur. accidental.
On the evening of July 7, news that Wu Xi, Zhang Linpeng, and Zhang Yuning were injured came one after another. Behind every piece of bad news is that several international main players have recently played in full or even overloaded league games. The data shows that in the 9 rounds of the Chinese Super League that have been played, Zhang Yuning has made 9 consecutive starts, with an average playing time of 88 minutes, and handed over excellent data of 6 goals and 1 assist. His national team teammate Wu Xi had also made 8 consecutive appearances before he missed the ninth round due to injury. Except for the halftime substitute appearance in the third round against the Wuhan Three-Town Team, the remaining 7 rounds appeared as a starter.
Zhang Linpeng also played the first 8 rounds as a starter when the Haigang team temporarily missed one round. Although Jiang Guangtai missed 2 rounds due to injury before, he appeared as a starter in the remaining 6 games and basically played all games. Another “overaged international” Tan Long also played in 9 consecutive rounds and 8 of them started, with an average playing time of 72 minutes per game.
Why continue high-density competition?
Young players embarrassed
Among the above-mentioned five overage internationals, Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng are both 33 years old and are veritable veterans, but they are also the absolute pillars of the two Shanghai teams. Among them, Wu Xi injured his bones after being hit by the opponent’s foreign aid during the eighth round of the “Away Battle” Wuhan Three-Town Team. The X-ray film after the game also gave a clear account of the seriousness of his injury. Zhang Linpeng injured the medial collateral ligament of his left knee during training on the afternoon of the 6th.
Although Zhang Yuning is relatively young, when the Guoan team’s offensive line foreign aid is temporarily insufficient, and younger players are embarrassed, Zhang Yuning has a heavier task of sieging the city and pulling out the village. Zhang Yuning, who has always been tenacious, never showed the slightest slack or war weariness, but it was precisely because of the continuous high-intensity and high-intensity competition that caused the recurrence of old injuries. In addition to them, Shenzhen Football U23 player Dai Weijun, who has been the main force in the top 12, has also suffered fatigue injuries in the league. Zhu Chenjie, a U23-age player who is the backbone of the national football team and Shenhua’s defense, also maintains full attendance in the league. But if you continue to overload the game, no one can guarantee that it will not have accidental injuries. After all, before that, Zhu Chenjie had been absent from training and games for a long time due to injuries.
Why not send a young team to the game?
Need old players to do a good job in passing
After the news of 3 international players being injured one after another, some fans could not help but wonder, since the Chinese team has missed the World Cup in Qatar and the Hangzhou Asian Games has been postponed, why can’t a relatively pure young team go to the East Asia Cup to exercise. Fan?
In fact, this mixed national football team with players of the 1999 age group as the main team is also, in a sense, the prototype of the future national football team. Under the background that the replacement of personnel has become the need of the times, in addition to the general training, this mixed national football team also needs to prepare for next year’s Asian Cup through this East Asian Cup. However, the renewal of the team’s blood cannot be accomplished overnight. Objectively, the age structure of the personnel needs to be optimized, and some experienced old players need to do a good job in passing and guiding young players to grow. This is also the reason why the team management and the coaching staff plan to recruit 5 “overaged players”. In addition, from the end of the top 12 at the end of March this year to the start of the Qatar World Cup, the Chinese team will not arrange training sessions during the international competition day cycle, let alone international warm-ups. In this case, the East Asian Cup is the only high-quality training opportunity for the Chinese team this year. From this point of view, it is not unreasonable to recruit some “overaged players” to participate.
It is reported that the reason why the mixed national football coaching staff included these five “overaged international footballers” in the Eastern Expedition players’ alternate lineup covers both technical and spiritual aspects. That is to say, these players are not only players with outstanding technical ability in the back, middle and frontcourts, but also a benchmark for their spiritual style, and they can set a positive example for young players.
According to the rules of the East Asia Cup competition, each team can register 26 players. According to the practice of team formation of national brands at all levels, the coaching staff of the Chinese team will first delineate a list of 40 to 50 candidates before finalizing the final candidates. Even if some “overaged internationals” are injured, the coaching staff will recruit players based on their appearance rate and performance in the league. In the opinion of head coach Jankovic, no matter how the personnel are composed, spelling is necessary first.
Text/Reporter Xiao Xun