The Chinese Football Association may have to pay a high price to qualify for the last 18 matches in the most torturous way!
In Asian football, the "interests" will always be far greater than the "fair competition" environment. No team will fight for the Chinese team for no reason.
In 2014, the reason why the Chinese team was able to beat Lebanon with a goal difference advantage to qualify for the Asian Cup was the public relations of the Thai team before the game. The price paid was that in October 2014, Thailand team was invited to Wuhan to warm up with millions of dollars of appearance fees.
In the last round of 2016, in the process of all Asia's joint efforts to lift the Chinese team into the top 12, the Philippines blocked North Korea, becoming an important battle to reverse the situation of the national football team. The price paid by the Chinese Football Association for the Philippines to block North Korea was that in June 2017, the Chinese Football Association invited the Philippines team to Guangzhou to warm up for millions of dollars.
The reason why the two Japanese coaches, Singapore and Thailand, did not work together to do away with the national football team this time is that it is time to invite the Singapore team to China to warm up when the next national football team is in the gap period of the international competition day.
But even if it is necessary to pay a generous appearance fee for the Singapore team in the warm-up match, Considering that whether or not to qualify for the top 18 will be related to the "black hats" of many people, the income of the international players (if they fail to qualify for the top 18, the salary of the league will be reduced in the near future), and the development of Chinese football in the next two years, the public relations of the Football Association to Singapore is obviously worth it!
However, looking back on the World Cup qualifier journey that has ended, we should not have fallen to the point where we finally found Singapore to help us out.
In Bangkok last November, although the whole audience was passive; However, Jankovic led the team to grab three points, allowing the Chinese team to take the initiative in qualifying.
It is precisely because of the three-point bottoming in Bangkok, what Ivankovic needs to do after taking office is that as long as he does not overturn on Singapore and lose to Thailand in a direct fight, the national football team can steadily advance to the last 18.
But the national football team overturned the car in a race that should not have overturned! After the car overturned on the road in Singapore, the public was scolding Wu Lei, Zhang Linpeng, Yan Junling and Wang Shangyuan; But in fact, Ivankovic was responsible for the man-made car accidents in Singapore.
In the case of a 2-1 lead and a relatively stable match, it was he who replaced Li Yuanyi and Xie Pengfei, who had a balanced attack and defense, and directly changed the formation to a radical 415. As a result, after only Wang Shangyuan was left in the middle of the national football team, the scene was completely out of control and was finally leveled by the opponent.
When he lost two points away from Singapore, he decided to go to Shenyang to play Thailand.
However, in the absence of Wu Lei, the top player of the national football team, Ivankovic continued to work. Wei Shihao played at the front, Fernando played at the center, Wang Shangyuan continued to play at the back, and finally let Xie Wen play at the back, while Jiang Shenglong played at the center... When Ivankovich's brain is in a mess, Sao operates one by one; Thanks to the blessing of blessed land, the Chinese team can hold the home court of Shenyang.
If we didn't lose two points away from Singapore and hold the home court of Shenyang, the national football team could advance to the next round. However, it was precisely because two points were lost in Singapore that it was not enough to just hold the home court. In the last round, we had to go away to fight for our lives.
Fortunately, when he arrived in Seoul, Ivankovich did not have any more tricks. Many core players of the South Korean team also showed a very honest attitude of "waiting to go on vacation" on the court. They were too relaxed, allowing the national football team to score a small loss, which made the Singapore goalkeeper's high reception valuable.
Since the world preliminaries, the Chinese team has indeed exposed many problems. For example, the feet of our players are too rough, and the awareness of running without the ball is common; A team whose feet are rough, who are too lazy to answer and can't answer, really can't play smooth cooperation.
In addition, the conversion speed of the Chinese team is too slow. In the Jankovic period, at least he has been emphasizing transformation in training; At least the Chinese team has the ability to capture fighters during the conversion process; Then after Ivankovic took over, who did not emphasize conversion very much, the Chinese team played two good conversions to score goals in addition to the last few minutes when they played Singapore at home; Most of the time, the Chinese team is exhausted by the other team's conversion!
Why is China's transition so slow? The core reason is that the overall pace of the CSL in recent years is too slow. Many teams have not made too many requirements for offensive and defensive conversion in training.
For the current Chinese team, The problems of rough feet, poor level and slow conversion speed of players will not be solved for a while. But at the same time, we should also see that under Ivankovic, except for the last game against South Korea, the other three games, our players did not give full play to their abilities.
The reason lies in Ivankovich's poor arrangement of troops.
There are few players in the world who can play single back. He insists on Wang Shangyuan playing single back; Wang Shangyuan tried hard, but he couldn't do it. What's the point of strange players?
Let Wei Shihao, Fernando, Xie Wenneng and other players stand in the position that they rarely played before, or even never played before. What's so strange about their poor performance?
How could the situation of the whole team be better if there were several players on the field who could not play in unfamiliar positions?
When the head coach of the Chinese team is unable to put many players in their suitable positions, this is the most urgent need to improve the current national football team.
After the last 18 matches, Ivankovic needs to report to the Football Association the preparation plan for the next stage. At this juncture, the Chinese Football Association will go to have a good look at his current understanding of domestic players and where he has reached.
If he knows almost the situation of domestic players now, we can take the previous matches as tuition fees. After all, the last 18 matches are from scratch. But if he is still vague about the position characteristics of many players, don't wait, and change quickly!
It is the most basic requirement for a professional coach to put most players in proper tactical roles.
