After the end of the round of 18 in the Asian zone of the World Preliminary Championship in October, the national football team can breathe a sigh of relief for a while, after all, they saved face at home and defeated Indonesia, which has 13 naturalized players, 2-1. However, the national football team is still ranked 1st from the bottom in Group C, with 1 win and 3 losses in 4 games, scoring 4 goals and conceding 13 goals, it is difficult to erase the goal difference gap, and the national football team must strive to win more if it wants to enter the top 4.
Because the national football team won, coach Ivankovic survived the class crisis, however, in an interview with CCTV's "Football Night", Ivan made a lot of nonsense, angrily calling Chinese reporters should not call him out of class, which is a sign of disrespect.
In the World Preliminary Tournament in September, the national football team was reversed 2-1 by 10-man Saudi Arabia, and a reporter asked Ivan about the dismissal, to which Ivan responded strongly, "This makes me feel disrespected, I am facing challenges when I come to China, Chinese football has not achieved good results for many years, and other sports are winning championships." I've led the team to three Nations League titles, and I've led the team to the Asian Cup."
Ivankovic also took out the dismal results of the national football team in the Asian Cup (led by Jankovic) to prove that he led the team to improve the attack of the Chinese team, "The national football team did not score a single goal in the Asian Cup, and I introduced 15 players to form a new team, these players played for the national team for the first time, and they have never participated in such a high-level competition."
There are also controversial substitutions, in the round of 18 of this World Preliminaries, Ivankovic was slow in substitutions, the national football team lost 1-2 to Saudi Arabia, and the outside world blamed him on his head, and in the game between the national football team and Indonesia, Xie Wenneng cramped many times and signaled that the coaching staff was going to change, but Ivan was indifferent for a long time and was criticized.
Ivan believes that the outside world does not know the real situation on the pitch at all, "We have to decide according to the situation on the field, I know that Jiang Guangtai must be replaced at half-time, and many players have unpredictable problems. For example, in the match between the national football team and Indonesia, we made substitutions for 75 minutes, and six players expressed their willingness to make substitutions, and they had muscle injuries and physical exhaustion, but no one knew the real situation."
Ivan responded very sharply to the outside world's questions, and many fans criticized him one after another, and his face was gone. First of all, the Chinese reporter asked Ivan about his dismissal, because the national football team was reversed in the lead, and the result was unacceptable, if Ivan had made an early substitution to stand on the defense, Saudi Arabia might not have been able to complete the stunner in the 90th minute. Secondly, Ivan showed off that he led the national football team to score 4 goals in 4 games in the round of 18, and Jankovic led the team to 0 goals in 3 games in the Asian Cup, but Jankovic was the focus of the emphasis on defense, 3 Asian Cup group stage 2 draws and 1 loss, although he did not win but also did not suffer a historical defeat, and the national football team lost 0-7 to Japan, which was a great humiliation for the Chinese team. Thirdly, Ivan basically does not make substitutions according to the situation on the field, but changes in a fixed period of time in the second half, and the coach is very stubborn, and a really good coach is to find a way to deal with the situation on the field and understand the characteristics of each player under him.
You can say anything if you lead the team to win, but the Football Association has set the goal of finishing in the top four of the group. Now the national football team is still at the bottom of the group, two games in November, after playing Bahrain against Japan, and the match with Bahrain is very crucial, Ivankovic since he is so confident in himself, then lead the team to take points.