Sports Warm Winter Creation Season 2024 is here, the beginning of the same yuan, Vientiane is renewed, 2023 has become a thing of the past, and I believe that the same is true of chaotic Chinese football.
On New Year's Day, the Chinese team, which is preparing for the Asian Cup in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will usher in the first international A-level friendly match in 2024, against the Hong Kong team.
For the Hong Kong team, fans are no strangers, and there will even be some different emotions.
For example, the former "5-19";There is also the former national football coach Frenchman Perrin, who was "dismissed" because he played 0-0 with his opponent twice in the 2018 World Preliminary Tournament, and so on.
Hong Kong are currently ranked 150th in the world and 28th in Asia, and the head coach is Norway's Jon Andersen, who took charge in November 2021.
The strength of the Hong Kong team must not be measured by the ranking of the team. In the quarterfinals of the men's football team at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, Hong Kong defeated Iran 1-0 to reach the quarterfinals, and lost to Japan 0-4 in the semifinals, failing to reach the final, but still creating new history.
At that time, it was Anderson who led the U23 Hong Kong team to the Asian Games, and in the list of the Hong Kong team that was about to compete in the Qatar Asian Cup, Ann Yongjia, Pan Peixuan, Yu Zaiyan, Hu Jinming, Li Yikai and goalkeeper Xie Jiarong and other 6 people participated in the Hangzhou Asian Games.
In addition, An Yongjia, Ru Zinan, and Lawres are still playing in Guangxi Pingguo Hayi, Meizhou Hakka, and Dalian Renren Football Club in China, and they are very familiar with the technical and tactical characteristics of the Chinese Super League players.
The national football team has played Hong Kong and China 26 times, with 18 wins, 7 draws and 1 loss, and the only loss was in the World Preliminary Tournament on May 19, 1985, with a score of 1-2, which was 39 years ago.
It is reported that the head coach of the national football team, Jankovic, plans to arrange Wu Shaocong, who is the latest to return to the team, to play the starter, on the one hand, because he has just returned from the Turkish league and needs to run in tactics with his teammates, on the other hand, Zhang Linpeng and Zhu Chenjie, the two main defenders of the two main defenders after the warm-up match against the Oman team, their muscles are tight, they are unwell, they need to relax and rest, and the defense is obviously lacking.
Yang Shuai said in an interview with **, "The first warm-up game (against the UAE second division team) was when all the players played half of the game, and in this game (against Oman), some players have already played the whole game. The next game against Hong Kong, China, is planned to be the same as this game against Oman, with some players playing the whole game and others having to make adjustments. By the time of the final race on January 5, the plan was the same. ”
Since the interval between the two games is only more than 60 hours, the international players are in a period of physical fatigue after a large amount of exercise, playing the game in Oman, Wang Dalei, Liu Yang, Jiang Shenglong, Zhu Chenjie, Wang Shangyuan, Liu Binbin and others played a full 90 minutes;Zhang Linpeng and Dai Weijun played 70 minutes, Wei Shihao played 60 minutes, and Wu Lei and Tan Long played 45 minutesThe substitutes are Xu Xin, Xie Pengfei, Wang Qiuming, Zhang Yuning, Lin Liangming 5 people.
In the battle between China and Argentina, the players who did not play included Jiang Guangtai, Wu Shaocong, Yan Junling, Wu Xi, Chen Pu, Gao Tianyi, Li Lei, Liu Dianzuo, Xu Haofeng, Jian Tao and other 10 people, including 3 goalkeepers.
Jankovic is no stranger to the Hong Kong team, and in July 2022, as the head coach of the national football selection team, he led the U23 national football team to the East Asian Cup. Among the 26 people currently training in Abu Dhabi, there are 7 international players who directly clash with the Hong Kong team, they are Jiang Guangtai, Zhu Chenjie, Wu Shaocong, Jiang Shenglong, Xu Haofeng, Dai Weijun, Tan Long, and in the end, the national football team defeated the Hong Kong team 1-0 with Tan Long's only goal in the 67th minute of the second half, and Jankovic won the recognition of the senior management of the Football Association, and also laid the groundwork for the final appointment of the national football coach.
For Jankovic, the 2024 debut of the national football team is, to some extent, a warm-up match that can only be won, not drawn, let alone defeated. After all, in the past 2023, Jankovic led the national football team to make his debut 0-0 New Zealand and started with a draw, but the last game of 2023 was a 0-2 Oman loss, which failed to end perfectly, leaving some regrets.
For the national football team, it is a good sign to be able to defeat the Hong Kong, China team and achieve a good start. Otherwise, Perrin is a lesson from the past.
It is expected that the national football team vs the Hong Kong team will start 11 people: goalkeeper Yan Junling, guard line: Li Lei, Wu Shaocong, Jiang Guangtai, Xu Haofeng, midfielders are Wu Xi, Xu Xin, Xie Pengfei, and forwards are Wei Shihao, Tan Long, and Wu Lei.