A few days ago, Shandong Taishan has left for Japan to prepare for the second leg of the AFC Champions League knockout match with Kawasaki Frontale. The Taishan team first traveled from Jinan to Beijing, and then transferred from Beijing to Japan, in order to adapt to the competition environment as soon as possible, the Taishan team set off relatively early. In the squad of the Taishan team, Xie Wenneng entered the squad, Fernando retired injured in the first leg but also entered the squad, indicating that his injury is no longer serious, and Cui Kangxi only brought Wang Dalei and Han Rongze two goalkeepers. At the same time, Liu Guobao and Peng Xiao, two U21 players, are also among them.
Just before the start of the second leg of the AFC Champions League knockout round, the AFC officially announced the best player of the first leg, Shandong Taishan's naturalized international Fernando with 8With a high score of 6 points, he was elected the best player in the first leg of the knockout round. In addition to Fernando, the top five ratings are Ulsan Hyundai's Joo Min Gyu, Riyadh Crescent's Hamadan, Riyadh Victory's Brozovic and Kawasaki Frontale's Marsinho. All of these players were very good, with Chou Min Gyu scoring twice in the game, but Fernando not only scored a goal off the bench, but he also performed very well in every aspect of his appearance.
Fernando's ability to beat Cristiano Ronaldo, Brozovic, Mitrovic and other superstars who have scored goals and performed well shows his ability. Although he may not be able to last the whole game physically, his form is getting better and better, and his breakthrough and pace are slowly developing towards his best. Fernando may have been the biggest player for the Tarzan team to turn the game around in the second leg, and his breakthrough has a very big advantage against the Japanese team who are not too fast. Fortunately, the injury he suffered in the first leg was a hard injury and did not affect him too much, and it was no problem to play in the second round or even start.
What is puzzling is that such a best player in the AFC Champions League could not be selected for the national football team. During the Li Tie period, Fernando did not play for well-known reasons, and Fernando did not play during the Li Xiaopeng period because of various problems, and when Jankovic took office, Fernando was not selected for the national football team, and he did not participate in the Asian Cup. Looking at such a scarce type of national football explosion, it was wasted like this, and I really want to sigh that the national football team is confused. I don't know if the future coach of the national football team can give Fernan one more chance to put on the national football jersey again.
Fernando's shortcomings are also obvious, and they are one of the reasons why he has never had the opportunity to play for the national team. Mental willpower is slightly poor, defensive ability is relatively poor, easy to get injured and physical fitness is insufficient. But for the current national football team, if you don't score a goal in the 3 group games of the Asian Cup, you just have the ability to score, so what do you ask for so much? Now that Fernando has been elected the best player in the AFC Champions League, it shows that letting him rush off the bench is a way to give full play to his ability, and I hope the coach of the national football team can also see this.