Ivan: The diamond and parallel positions in midfield are both practicing at home. Maybe the ground is a little slippery

On June 17, in an interview with the Football Daily, the coach of the national football team, Ivankovic, responded to the selection of the team's formation.

Looking back at the four matches leading the national football team, the 442 diamond position, you emphasized that it can be transformed into a double waist or three waist in the process. Did the players fulfill your requirements in the actual implementation process?

Since the beginning of training, we have been instilling some ideas and concepts into the players. The general idea is 442 diamond positions. At the same time, we can also play double backs, 442 parallel positions. In fact, in training, we are practicing both types of play, but we need to adjust according to our own situation and the opponent's situation on the court.

What is the reason for the change of the national football team to 442 parallel positions in the Sino Korean War?

This is an adjustment to the opponent's situation, including that our two forwards are also in front and back positions.

At present, the Chinese Super League is mainly playing 442 parallel positions, 4231, 433, 4141 and other formations, most of which are fixed positions in the middle of the middle of the midfield, double backs or single defense, double backs, double central defenders. Will the national football team change the formation in the last 18 matches?

A coach's coaching philosophy and methods are very rich, including my previous coaching in Oman National Team. Through the transformation of Oman National Team, the international ranking of Oman National Team has been rising, even surpassing China.

In the away game against Singapore and the home game against Thailand, the national football team missed a penalty respectively. Why did the penalty become a problem for the national football team? How will penalty takers be arranged in the next 18 finals?

It's not a problem to miss penalties. Big name players such as Messi and Ronaldo have missed penalties. Baggio also missed penalties in the World Cup. They are the best players in the world. It is inevitable that players will be under great pressure to take penalty kicks on the court. Our last home penalty was missed, and the site conditions were not particularly good, a little slippery. So it's not a big deal that our players missed the penalty. Wu Lei scored two goals immediately after he missed the penalty, so anything is possible. This is part of the game. Although Fernando missed a penalty kick against Thailand, he was still our first free kick shooter in the last game against South Korea. We won't change anything. We don't need to create that tension.

In the home game against Thailand and the away game against South Korea, the way of losing the ball is almost the same. The players in the middle originally had better defensive positions, but eventually lost their positions, leading to the loss of the ball. How do you view this phenomenon?

You are right. There are some mistakes on the field. This situation should be explained to the team members through the training in the training camp, and more resurfaces should be made to avoid this situation.