At 2 o’clock in the morning on September 3, Beijing time, the Chinese team in a red jersey will “visit” the Doha Caliphate International Stadium to challenge the Australian team and kick off the prelude to the sprint stage of the World Preliminaries. Although the road to the Qatar World Cup is bumpy and the opponents of the same group are generally strong, since entering the top 12 battlefield, every member of the Chinese team will not stop chasing their dreams. “There can be a few strokes in life, when not to fight at this time”, this has become the consensus of the whole team.
At 1 a.m. on September 1, Beijing time, the Chinese team, as always, appeared in the Qatar University Training Ground No. 6 venue. This is also the team’s last training on this field before playing against the Australian team in the first round of the top 12. Although the two injured Guo Tianyu and Wang Qiuming were still jogging on the sidelines accompanied by the team doctor, the naturalized forward Alan, who was absent from the previous night due to physical fatigue, has returned to the line. “For us now, the best news is that there is nothing wrong with the team’s body.” A team insider revealed.
According to the FIFA and AFC competition rules for the top 12 matches, the Chinese team can make the final adjustment to the list of 23 players at the latest 6 hours before the match. Head coach Li Tie therefore needs to complete the first “subtraction operation” of this expedition. To eliminate Guo Tianyu and Wang Qiuming who are likely to miss the first game, Li Tie also needs to temporarily “cross out” several people in the positions of goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, and forward.
Judging from the process of advancing to the top 40 with a complete victory in the second half of the game and Li Tie’s leadership style for more than one and a half years after taking over the National Football Team, the probability that the National Football Team will continue to use the top 40 main team during the top 12 matches is very high. In other words, the team is likely to continue the 442 play, and adjust the formation flexibly according to the situation on the court. With Tang Miao, the main right back in the second half of the top 40, missing due to injury, the most uncertain factor for the Chinese team in the first round of the top 12 is the selection of the full back. However, since Li Lei, who is good at left foot, has recovered, and Wang Shenchao and Gao Junyi can both left and right, Wang Gang, who missed the second half of the top 40 game, has also returned to the team with “full blood”, so Li Tie must have a card to play. .
As for the middle and front court candidates, Li Tie’s choices are relatively rich. Even if Jin Jingdao, who is injured in the league, is not up to the full game, technical midfielder Yin Hongbo can take his place as the main force.
Although in terms of strength, the Chinese team can hardly grasp the advantage in the process of fighting against any opponent in the same group, but looking back at the last 12 finals, although the Chinese team did not qualify, it has never appeared “defeated like a mountain.” “The decadence. In several losing games, the gap with the opponent’s score was at most 2 goals. In the current Chinese team, 13 players participated in the last 12 finals. Most of these 13 people are expected to be among the first round of this year’s top 12 game lineup. The experience of the last tournament is an unrepeatable asset for each of them. As Wu Lei and Zhang Xizhe said, “Since we have experienced it, there is nothing to be nervous about. We are here to fight for the top 12. Outgoing…”
The Australian team is uncomfortable in the first match
During training in Shanghai, Li Tie once told the reporter from Beiqing-Beijing Toutiao that he would spend a lot of time to talk with the internationals after training every day. In Doha, Li Tie didn’t even spare the preparation time before the start of training, chatting with the players alone. It can be said that while instilling technical and tactical concepts into his disciples, Li Tie also paid special attention to the “ideological armed” work of the whole team.
He said: “Maybe we are inferior to our opponents in terms of strength, but there are many examples of weak victory in international football. What do we do in the top 12 matches? It is to prove that we can win if we have to fight for it.” The important reliance on being strong is the super cohesion and combat effectiveness that the team as a whole bursts out. It is understood that during Doha, most of the team members stayed in their rooms after training, and Li Tie, who said he had brought tea for half a year, was very keen to call his disciples into the room to drink tea and talk. Li Tie firmly believes that a united and confident team can compete well, and no matter what the result is, it will devote itself to the process of winning without complaint or regret. Therefore, he always takes the trouble to instill the concept of “self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-improvement” into the players.
Judging from the information released by the Australian Football Association, the Australian team going to Doha to participate in the top 12 matches is dominated by European players. Relevant data shows that the Chinese and Australian teams have faced a total of 13 games in history, and the Chinese team has achieved 5 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses. The last official match between the two sides was in the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup in Brisbane, Australia, on January 22, 2015. At that time, the Chinese team lost 0-2. The only two World Cup qualifiers between the two sides took place in the South African World Cup qualifiers. The Chinese team achieved 1 win and 1 undefeated record. In the world‘s top 20 preliminaries, the Chinese team drew 0-0 at home and beat their opponents 1-0 at away. In the East Asian Cup competition in South Korea in 2013, the Chinese team also defeated their opponents 4 to 3. From a comprehensive historical record, the two teams have won each other, and the Chinese team is not always at a disadvantage in most of the matches against their opponents. It’s no wonder that some international players said bluntly, “We never slam the Australian team.”
It is understood that according to the results of the communication, the Chinese team will be dressed in red, red pants, and red socks to play in the Australian team. The “good start” is exactly the result that the national football delegation is eagerly looking forward to.
There is top guarantee behind the national football impact trip
At 6:30 pm on August 31st, local time, 90 minutes before the start of the national football training, the team coach and management team members have arrived at the training ground to arrange training equipment and divide areas for the team. At the same time, members of the Chinese Football Association’s National Football Guarantee Working Group and the media reporters accompanying the team also arrived at the scene. Using the time before the national football training, members of the working group including Chen Xuyuan, the chairman of the Chinese Football Association, played a 7-on-7 match on the field.
Affected by the epidemic, members of the Chinese team and the front working group of the Chinese Football Association had to face long-term closed work and life. In the special family of the national football delegation, playing football is an effective way for each of them to release pressure and adjust their spirits. The Chinese Football Association Chairman Chen Xuyuan participated in it not only to satisfy his personal interests, but also to pass positive energy to the national football generals who are fully preparing for the World Cup preliminaries and relieve pressure in this way.
In fact, from the time the team was concentrated in Shanghai on August 18th to September 1st, local time, which is one day before the first match of the top 12 match, Chen Xuyuan did not cheer for the team apart from cheering for the team at the Shanghai team resident hotel. Hold a mobilization meeting. As an insider said, “At this time, the team does not need to be mobilized. Everyone cherishes this hard-won competitive opportunity in the top 12, and everyone does not want to regret it.”
During the discussion with media representatives on August 22, the Chinese team leader Zhang He said: “The last time was the first time I participated in the top 12 match with the team. When I walked into the Azadi Stadium (the Iranian team is located in Tehran’s home court), we were all dumbfounded. At that time, because we were unfamiliar, we encountered a lot of difficulties. This time the top 12 is different, we have experienced it, and the Football Association has given the national team too much support and guarantee .”
In order to avoid disturbing the work and life of the Chinese team generals, the Chinese Football Association deliberately arranged the members of the working group on other independent floors of the resident hotel. Although all members of the delegation dine on the first floor of the hotel, the working group and the team’s dining place are separated, and the types of meals are also different. The 2 team chefs specially hired by the delegation provide Chinese food service to the team around the clock. A member of the working group of the Chinese Football Association said: “In order to do a good job in guaranteeing the top 12 national football matches, we can say that we have used the strength of feeding. We can do everything we can think of. So don’t ask the team about the World Cup. No idea, it’s all obvious things.”
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