The national football team ended its closed training and faced the Thai team in the world preliminaries

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2024-06-05 14:09Posted on the official account of Beijing China News Network

　　Shenyang, June 5 (Reporter Bian Liqun) ended three consecutive days of closed training, and the national football training ground was opened to the media again on the evening of the 4th, which was also the last regular training before the team's life-and-death battle.

　　On the evening of the 5th, the national football team and the Thai team will step on the field before the game at the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium. The time is getting closer and closer to the focus of this world preliminaries.

　　Liu Yang, an international player, revealed that during the three-day closed training, the coaching staff increased the total amount and intensity of training a lot, and the training content was mainly based on formation drills and confrontations, so as to simulate and fit the rhythm of the game.

  National football coach Ivankovic. Photo by reporter Yu Haiyang

Finally, prepare for battle

　　The national football team previously gathered in Shenyang on May 27, and started the first field training of this training camp on the evening of the same day. As most of the internationals were at the stage when they had just finished their league assignments, training was generally focused on recovery.

　　After two days of adjustment, the national football team began to enter the normal rhythm of preparation, and conducted field training every evening, mainly focusing on technical and tactical drills and confrontation training. In addition, there are indoor physical training and technical and tactical theory classes every day.

　　Due to the importance of this competition, the national football team conducted a fully closed training between the 1st and 3rd, and honed its skills and tactics according to the characteristics of the Thai team.

　　Talking about the three-day closed training camp, midfielder Gao Tianyi said: "Whether it is offensive or defensive, everyone has to form a whole, and the Thai team has better feet, we need to compress the midfield space as much as possible and not give them too many opportunities." ”

  Stretching before training for the national football team. Photo by reporter Bian Liqun

Who will fill the gaps?

　　For the national football team, the test of this key battle is not only the menacing Thai team and the grim qualifying situation, but also the injury will also bring great challenges.

　　Zhang Yuning, Fernando, Alain, Li Shuai and other players have all suffered injuries, and the call-up Gao Zhunyi was hospitalized for appendicitis surgery and will miss the game. As a result, the already unstable right-back position has added more uncertainties.

　　Judging from last night's training, the national football team has returned to a relatively neat situation, and Zhang Yuning and other players participated in the joint training with the ball. However, Li Shuai's injury situation is not very optimistic, and he has withdrawn from the training camp and returned to the club.

　　Due to the suspension of the leading striker Wu Lei, the forward position of the Sino-Thai battle is likely to be played by Alain. As for the vacancy left by the suspension of midfielder Li Yuanyi, the options are relatively abundant, and players such as Xu Haoyang, Gao Tianyi, and Cheng Jin can fill the vacancy.

　　Gao Zhunyi's right-back position, most likely to be filled by Wang Zhenao or Yang Zexiang, both of them are in good form in the league this season, but both lack of experience in international competitions, no matter who plays, will face a tough debut, for them is not a small test.

  The national football team is in training. Photo by reporter Bian Liqun

There is no way back

　　The players of the Thai team have repeatedly expressed in interviews that they want to defeat the Chinese team away and regain the initiative to qualify. Previously, they had held a strong South Korean side to a draw.

　　For this fateful key battle, the Chinese team knows that they can only win, and there is no way out. However, Gao Tianyi also said: "You still need to be patient in the game, and the game has 90 minutes. ”

　　It is worth mentioning that, judging from the scale of the media who came to cover the training, this is a battle that has not been seen in the previous World Preliminaries, which is enough to reflect the importance and attention of this game. On the 5th, there will be more media reporters interviewed at the pre-match press conference and on-field training.

　　Regarding the pressure, Liu Yang said frankly that in the previous away game with the Thai team, the team played its own characteristics and won, so everyone should not have too much baggage at the psychological level, "As long as we play well, we can achieve the desired results." (ENDS)

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