On January 16, the Chinese men's football team, which was training in Shanghai, played a warm-up match in the team, assistant coaches Li Jinyu and Chen Yang each led a team to play, and finally the two teams shook hands 1-1, and Wang Ziming and Zhu Chenjie scored one goal each. According to the arrangement, the national football team will carry out the second warm-up match on the 20th, when the Taishan team and the international team of the harbor will participate in it, and after the game, Li Xiaopeng will determine the list to go to Japan, and the competition within the team is very fierce.
The national football warm-up match adjusted the status of the players, and half of the international footballers did not have the opportunity to go to Japan
A total of 52 players were recruited for this national football Shanghai training, 5 naturalized players and Wu Lei and Li Lei, who played in Europe, could not participate in the Shanghai training, under normal circumstances, Wu Lei and Li Lei would go directly to Japan to meet with the national football team, only Jiang Guangtai was sure to go to Japan, Luo Guofu, Alan, Axon and Fernando still had variables. 45 players participated in the training camp in Shanghai, and the coaching staff divided them into two teams according to the players' situation and played two warm-up matches within the team.
Considering that the national football team is now unable to carry out external warm-up matches, and the Chinese Super League A team has also entered the holiday, this time Li Xiaopeng recruited 52 players to investigate more players and facilitate the warm-up matches within the team. Judging from the training lineup, the two national football assistant coaches Li Jinyu and Chen Yang each led a team, li Jinyu led the team mainly veterans and Mesozoic players, Wang Dalei, Jin Jingdao, Wang Shenchao, Zheng Zheng, Ji Xiang, He Xi, Shi Ke, Yu Dabao, Chi Zhongguo, Gao Tianyi, Wang Ziming, Liu Dianzuo, Wei Shihao, Zhang Linpeng, Jiang Shenglong, Xie Pengfei, Wu Xi, Zhao Hongluo, Wang Shangyuan, and Wang Zhifeng.
The team led by Chen Yang is dominated by young players, but there are also veterans such as Arthur Junmin, namely Liu Yang, Tan Long, Wang Tong, Yan Junling, Li Shenglong, Xu Xin, Wei Zhen, Liu Binbin, Arthur Junmin, Zhang Yuning, Zhu Chenjie, Yan Dinghao, Wu Shaocong, Hou Sen, Peng Xinli, Han Jiaqi, Dai Weijun, Liu Ruovan, Li Shuai, and Deng Hanwen. Guo Tianyu was temporarily absent from leave, and Yang Liyu, Li Ang, Zhang Xizhe and Yin Hongbo were injured. In the warm-up match on the 16th, most of the international players of Taishan and Harbor did not play, Wang Ziming of Li Jinyu's team scored a goal, Zhu Chenjie of Chen Yang's team equalized, and the coaching staff also gave more players a chance, but the game time of this warm-up game was not long, and the total number of minutes in the first and second half was only 50 minutes.
Under normal circumstances, the second warm-up match on the 20th, all players participating in the Shanghai training camp have the conditions to play, and the coaching team will also simulate the technical and tactical play of the Japanese team, make more targeted personnel arrangements, and the main lineup of the national football team will also emerge. It is reported that the national football team has 22 local players from Shanghai to Japan this time, which means that half of the international players who participate in the Shanghai training camp will not be able to go to Japan, and the competition in the team is very fierce. Taishan team 10 people selected for this national football training, namely Wang Dalei, Shi Ke, Zheng Zheng, Wang Tong, Xu Xin, Jin Jingdao, Liu Binbin, Liu Yang, Guo Tianyu and Ji Xiang, they want to enter the final list of the World Preliminary Round of 12, they also have to perform well in the team training and competition.
The AFC Champions League will draw on the 17th, and the Taishan team's group stage opponents will be released
On January 17, the group draw ceremony for the 2022 AFC Champions League season will be held, and the Chinese Super League champions Shandong Taishan are a seeded team, and the 3 group opponents will be determined. According to official sources, the group stage of the new season of the AFC Champions League is from April 15 to May 1, using a centralized competition mode, and the specific competition location will not be able to apply until the end of the group draw.
A total of 4 teams in the Chinese Super League have qualified for the AFC Champions League, with Taishan, Shanghai Harbour and Guangzhou directly entering the main tournament, and Changchuan Yatai also needs to play in the qualifiers. From the perspective of gears, Taishan and Harbor are first-seeded teams, and Guangzhou is a second-seeded team. In the second bracket, Tarzan's potential opponents are Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan), Jeonnam Tenryu (South Korea), Chiang Rai United (Thailand), and Yokohama Mariners (Japan), of which Chiang Rai United is relatively weak.
The strength of the third team is generally not strong, namely Union City (Philippines), Wong Eng Ka Lai (Vietnam), Johor DT (Malaysia), Lion City Mariners (Singapore), Jai Chi (Hong Kong, China), the fourth team only Melbourne City in Australia has been determined, the remaining 4 teams still need to be determined through the qualification round. The 20 teams in the East Asian Division were divided into 5 groups, each of which ranked first and 3 teams with better results to qualify second, and the competition was fierce.
For the Taishan team, whether to arrange the main force to play in the AFC Champions League, there is no clear answer, depending on the arrangement of the Chinese Super League schedule. The news shows that the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League starts in April at the earliest, and may start in June at the latest. If the tournament starts in June, Taishan and other Chinese Super League teams can also arrange for the main players to play in the AFC Champions League group stage, and if the group qualifies, the AFC Champions League East Asian Knockout Tournament will be held from August 18 to 25, when it will face the problem of adjusting the schedule. Affected by the World Cup, the 2022 AFC Champions League season is held on New Year's Eve, and the final is scheduled in 2023, which also has a great impact on the participating teams.