In a focus battle in the 8th round of Group B of the Round of 12, which ended on the evening of February 1, Beijing time, the Chinese men's football team lost 1-3 away to the Vietnamese men's football team, and after losing to the opponent for the first time in the history of the team, it failed to qualify for the World Cup in two rounds and five consecutive times.
After the game, Li Xiaopeng apologized to the Chinese fans again at a press conference. The local manager regretted: "The problems that have arisen in the game, first of all, I apologize to all the fans, but also to the players. Such a result is also difficult for me personally to accept. There was a problem with the design of the game, and the players played very hard. The pre-match motivation was excessive, the players wanted the game too much, and the players finished the half in a very tense situation. ”
In this game, Li Xiaopeng obviously underestimated the strength of the Vietnamese men's football team playing at home, he sent a "4-3-3" strong attack formation, Alan and Luo Guofu, two naturalized forwards who have not participated in the game for a long time, joined forces to partner with Wu Lei. However, the effect of the 3-person cooperation in actual combat is not good, and Alain and Luo Guofu are still worthy of recognition despite their hard work, but their status is quite sluggish. He was replaced by Wei Shihao and Zhang Yuning at half-time, and it can be said that Li Xiaopeng also completely denied his starting staff.
In addition, Li Xiaopeng also has quite a few problems in his defensive arrangement. In the last match against the Japanese men's football team, Jun Ito also scored with an easy header, and the national football defenders collectively watched. However, in this campaign, Li Xiaopeng still did not pay attention to the problem of the defensive end of the national football team, and once again let the Vietnamese players concoct the goal. In addition, wang Shenchao, Zhang Linpeng and other veterans of the national football backline, this game is still frequent mistakes, Li Xiaopeng once again trusted these veterans the result or failed.
How to improve the team's backline, continue to trust the veterans in the future or boldly promote new people, these are all problems that Li Xiaopeng must seriously solve before the last 2 games of the 12 rounds.