The team is currently training in Suzhou and continues to prepare for the game play-off with Korea Repubilc women team, which is still uncertain.
Xinhua News Agency, Canberra, May 21, from approaching the Olympics to reassembling the Chinese women’s football team, it will continue to improve
Xinhua News Agency reporter Yue Dongxing Bai Xu
on February this year, the Chinese women’s football team played one of the most exciting matches against the world’s top ten teams in Sydney in recent years, and drew the first Australian team in Asia from 1 to 1. Although the girls only promoted to the Olympic preliminary play-off with the second result of the group, according to the state at that time and the cohesion inspired by the whole team under adversity, the team led by Jia Xiuquan was completely likely to advance to the Tokyo Olympic Games.
However, after the schedule was constantly adjusted due to the impact of the epidemic, the Chinese women’s football team and the coaching staff regretted that they could not reach a peak in the state, and they had to make a new plan when they fought for the Olympic Games. The team is currently training in Suzhou and continues to prepare for the game play-off with Korea Repubilc women team, which is still uncertain.
In this training, head coach Jia Xiuquan said frankly that after playing the group stage of the Asian qualifier of the Olympic Games in Australia at that time, he hoped to continue to finish the two rounds of the play-off, but in the end he did not meet his wish, now I think it is not a good thing. “The first is that we have recovered the home court, and the second is Wang Frost’s return. We are now a neat team.” He said.
It can also be seen from the manager’s words that in February, after the difficulty of isolating “nearly ten days of immobile ball” and the training of three group matches, the Chinese women’s football team still maintains strong confidence at this stage, fighting for the old rival to Korea Repubilc women team. However, in the training for tactics in this period, with the return of the main force, the personnel are neat. I believe the whole team will continue to improve in two aspects.
The main players returning to the team running
The main players such as Wang Frost and Yao Wei who missed the group stage due to the epidemic were selected again in this training. Among them, Wang Frost has always been considered as the core player in the front court. Although Yao Wei participated in the World Cup for the first time in 2019, he played stably in the back waist position without stage fright, gradually become the main force in the national team midfield candidates.
Their return is undoubtedly good news for the coaching staff, which will enrich the inpre-market combinations and tactical choices of Chinese women’s football.
In the group stage in February, veteran Ma Jun and club teammate Yao Lingwei cooperated to become the new offensive and defensive hub of the team’s midfield. When playing against Australia, Yao Lingwei, as a newcomer to the national team, had an outstanding performance. In the face of the opponent’s forced robbery, he turned around several times to get rid of the ball and played the ball reasonably, which became a key for the Chinese team to fight back efficiently. However, Ma Jun did not hesitate to run and decisively put forward, as well as assisting Tang Glade to enter the wonderful goal of almost “killing” Australia, which was also a stunning miniature of the whole team in that game.
After Wang Frost, Yao Wei and other main forces return, what kind of reconfiguration and tactical selection reserve will China team have on the inpre-market and even the front line? I believe that in this and future training, it will be an aspect that the coaching staff will consider in the running-in of the lineup.
Better combination of tactics and physical fitness
Jia Xiuquan has been coaching the team for two years this month. During this period, although the playing method of defensive counterattack was questioned by the outside world as to whether it was suitable for the team, the leader of the local coach proved by action that his idea was not a defensive counterattack in the traditional sense.
“Where to defend, where to oppress, how to oppress good opportunities, in fact, we have our own system,” Jia Xiuquan told reporters during the World Cup in France last year. His tactical thought was also fully reflected in the match of draw Australia.
In Sydney at that time, although it was an away battle, the Chinese team strictly carried out the coach deployment with the spirit of “running Undead”. On the basis of stable defense, the team was forced to compete in high positions, partial oppression and competition for the second penalty kick, the counterattack is concise and smooth, not only does the whole game not fall down, but also creates more absolute opportunities than the Australian women’s football team with the Premier League Trident, which is Kerr, Fude and lasso, he played one of the most exciting games against the world’s top teams in recent years.
Over the past two years, in order to make the girls compete with European and American teams with obvious physical advantages, the coaching team has been helping the teams improve their physical quality and physical fitness, and emphasizes the need to combine the ball, such reserves are also needed by the team’s current tactical system.
In this episode of training, in addition to strengthening skills and tactics, giving players physical reserves to play league matches is also one of the goals of the coaching team. In the competition, if we want to have a stable and continuous performance in 90 minutes, how to combine physical distribution with technical and tactical performance more reasonably and optimistically will also be the key to improvement.