At 10 a.m. local time on January 9 (3 p.m. Beijing time), the Chinese men's football team went to the No. 3 training ground of Qatar University for the third outdoor training session after arriving there. After a 2 to 3-day adjustment period, the Chinese team resumed "two exercises a day" on the 9th. Among them, the morning training is mainly based on "5 to 5" group confrontation. Head coach Jankovic made this arrangement to help the players strengthen their awareness of offensive and defensive transitions and improve their conversion speed. Scoring points in the first game of the group stage of the Asian Cup, and even winning, is the goal pursued by the national football team.
After the national football team arrived in Doha, Qatar, the venue of the Asian Cup on January 7 local time, they conducted outdoor training on the evening of the 7th and the morning of the 8th local time. Considering that it was difficult to train and warm up in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in the early stage, head coach Jankovic did not arrange high-intensity training during these two training sessions.
However, as the start of the group stage of the Asian Cup is approaching, the Chinese team has to train according to the rhythm of the game from the 9th local time. According to the plan, the team will participate in two practice sessions that day. The first training session was an outdoor training session in the morning, with a training duration of 90 minutes. In the afternoon, the whole team will have a physical training session in the indoor gym, which will last about 45 minutes.
During the morning training session, the Chinese team will focus on "5-on-5" small-scale group confrontation training. The purpose of the training is to help the players strengthen the awareness of offensive and defensive transitions and change speed. In today's international football, there is only fast and unbreakable. In the context of an obvious gap between technical ability and strong teams, the Chinese team can only properly fill the gap and gain more space for maneuvering with opponents only by striving to improve the offensive and defensive speed and improve the hardness of confrontation on all lines.
It is understood that at present, except for the first captain Wu Xi who is temporarily unable to participate in confrontation training due to a slight leg strain, most of the other players can practice with the team normally. The Chinese team's training in recent days is likely to be carried out in a closed environment, and the team is expected to conduct technical and tactical drills related to the finalization of the main squad of the Asian Cup group stage on the 11th and 12th, that is, formation training.
The Chinese team will face the Asian Cup "Xinding" Tajikistan team on January 13 local time. It's a veritable encounter. If the Chinese team, which aims to be among the top 8, wants to break through the group, it should try to score points in the first game of the group stage, or even win. And the whole team is going all out towards that goal.
Wen Beiqing Sports Xiao Yun.