after the disastrous defeat, the chinese national football team is busy doing "psychological massage" to regain confidence as soon as possible to face saudi arabia
2024-09-08
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after a 0-7 defeat, the chinese men's football team quickly returned to dalian from japan. there was not much time left for them to grieve, as the team would soon face another asian powerhouse, saudi arabia, in the second round on the 10th. the most important thing was to get out of the shadow of the defeat as soon as possible and strive to get points at home.
last night, the chinese national football team held their second outdoor training session after returning home at the barracuda bay stadium. the weather was cool and the atmosphere was somewhat depressing. unlike in the past, there were less than 20 reporters who came to watch the training session for such an important event. there were not many fans waiting outside the training ground. the cold reception of the chinese national football team in preparation for the match was naturally related to the team's nightmare performance in the first round.
after all, the 0-7 loss to japan in the away game also set a number of records: the biggest loss to japan; the most goals conceded in a single world cup qualifier; the biggest loss in a world cup qualifier. this is the biggest loss in the history of the chinese national football team. the previous record came from the friendly match with brazil in 2012, when the chinese national football team lost 0-8 to brazil.
as early as the first training session after returning to china on the 6th, head coach ivankovic came to the media for an interview and frankly admitted that the team needed to apologize to the fans for the 0-7 score and performance, "it made everyone sad, especially so many fans came to watch our game away from home. such a performance will make them lose confidence." the chairman of the chinese football association song kai and the vice chairman in charge of the national team xu jiren, also gave an inspirational speech to all the generals and coaches when they had lunch with the national football team yesterday, encouraging the team to unite as one and show a good mental outlook and play with blood in the first home game against saudi arabia in the round of 18.
yesterday, jiang shenglong accepted an interview as a player representative. he said that the team is trying its best to get rid of the mood of a big defeat. "such a defeat is of course frustrating, but i don't think we can get stuck in it for a long time, because the next game will be more important than this one. our main task now is to perform better in the next game." jiang shenglong admitted that the pace of the top 18 matches was indeed much faster than before. "the level of the japanese team is indeed very high. we were carried along throughout the game. they play very concisely, and they have a very good understanding of each other's quick passes. the team's counter-attacks were also done in a timely manner. i really learned a lot." he believes that after the training in the last game, "i believe the team can better adapt to this high-intensity and fast-paced confrontation, and can also do better in the game against the saudi team."
in the u20 asian cup held in march last year, the chinese men's u20 team defeated saudi arabia 2-0. the young striker baiheram, who participated in that game, said that he was not afraid of the next opponent. "first of all, you have to dare to fight against them. west asian players like to fight against you. once you are afraid or relaxed, they will think you are not good enough, so you must dare to fight against saudi arabia. from my current mentality, i feel confident that i can win this opponent."
before the training on the 6th, ivan asked the players to sit in a circle and spoke to them individually; and before the training on the 7th, it was the captain wu lei who gave a speech. restoring self-confidence is the most important thing before the china-saudi arabia match. the encouragement of the head coach and the captain is also a way to boost the morale of the players. however, left-back liu yang missed last night's training due to physical discomfort. and the central defender zhu chenjie, who also showed physical fatigue, just ran laps alone accompanied by the assistant coach. fortunately, they have no major problems and should be able to play in the match on the 10th. (xinmin evening news reporter guan yin)
