2024-01-12 03:37:00
On January 13, the Chinese men’s football team will face Qatar’s first Asian Cup opponent, Tajikistan, at the Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium. This will be the former’s 13th time competing in the Asian Cup, while the latter will enter the Asian Cup for the first time. race.
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In a football competition, a “good start” is crucial for both sides.
On January 13, the Chinese men’s football team will face Qatar’s first Asian Cup opponent, Tajikistan, at the Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium. This will be the former’s 13th time competing in the Asian Cup, while the latter will enter the Asian Cup for the first time. race.
It was head coach Petar Schegelt who led the Tajikistan team to a historical breakthrough. He also raised the team’s world ranking to 106th, which is tied for the best in history. Schegelt has coached not only European clubs, but also Asian clubs and national teams, and has rich experience.
One of Schegelt’s transformations of the team is to rejuvenate it – the average age of the team has dropped from more than 29 years old when he first took over to less than 25 years old now, and 10 of the players are U23 Asians who will be held in April this year. Cup-age players who are full of vigor and physical fitness have become the distinctive characteristics of this team. Schegelt did this because he believed that young people meant more possibilities, that his technical and tactical ideas might be presented in more ways in the team, and that he might change some things.
In addition, the Tajikistan team has nine overseas players who play in five-nation leagues and have more diverse playing styles; the backline players play in Uzbekistan, Iran, and Tajikistan leagues, and their tough style of play poses a test to the national football team’s forward line. At the same time, the Tajikistan team’s counterattack was sharp, which is something the national football team must be particularly careful regarding.
This is the first time for the Tajikistan team to participate in the Asian Cup. Shegert believes that although the team is unlikely to qualify for the group stage, it will definitely strive for it. He said that the Chinese team has an experience advantage and has a greater probability of winning. Although both teams had played a warm-up match with Hong Kong, China, the Chinese team lost and the Tajikistan team won, but he believed that the Chinese team had the opportunity to make corrections in the Asian Cup competition, while the Tajikistan team We will do our best to perform and give the Chinese team enough respect.
As Schegelt said, the Chinese team has indeed rich experience in participating in the Asian Cup, but the current average age of the team is over 29 years old, which will inevitably cause concerns regarding physical fitness. Perhaps because of this concern, Chinese team coach Jankovic made the team practice very hard during training in Abu Dhabi.
The Chinese team had 2 wins and 2 losses in the previous four warm-up matches. The overall performance was mediocre, especially the 1:2 loss to the Hong Kong team of China, which once questioned the effectiveness of Jankovic’s training. However, Jankovic said that the team’s current physical reserves have met the requirements for the Asian Cup competition. “Our training intensity was a little higher at the beginning, and our bodies were a little heavier in the warm-up matches. But I arranged this for a purpose. We need to inject ‘fuel’ for the severe tests we face in the Asian Cup and World Cup preliminaries. Therefore, I have put the results of these warm-up matches more or less on the back burner. In the first ten days of preparation, our load has been very heavy. But now our condition is getting better and better, and our legs are getting lighter and lighter.”
Jankovic said: “When we arrive in Doha, no matter what you did in the warm-up match, we will start from scratch. The (Asia Cup) competition is regarding to start, and the focus is on the match once morest Tajikistan. Our previous The experience of the World Cup preliminaries (reversal and defeat of Thailand in an away game) shows that we have great potential and strong ability. In the competition mode, we are a very sharp, strong and united team. This is how the Chinese team competes in the Asian Cup. Starting point. During the preparation process, all players proved that they are qualified to stand here and they all performed very well. All players will be ready for the game. As a coach, I have already expressed my feelings for the Tajikistan team You must understand that the starting 11 for the match once morest Tajikistan has been determined, and we also know how we want to play this game.”
National football player Wu Lei shouted out the team’s goal for this Asian Cup – “I hope to go further than the last one (stopping in the quarterfinals).”
If it gets a “good start”, it will mean that the Chinese team is one step closer to achieving its goal.
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