Live Broadcast, January 17th, Asian Cup Group A second round, Lebanon vs. National Football Team. Before the game, Huang Jianxiang gave his own views on the current situation of the national football team.
Huang Jianxiang first summarized the position of the Asian teams:
Until now, all the teams have appeared in the Qatar Asian Cup, and we can roughly summarize the situation of Asian football.
Japan, South Korea and Iran are super first-class countries. Australia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Uzbekistan are generally in the second group. They are evenly matched with each other and win or lose. Facing three super first-class teams, they win less and lose more. The scene is Passive, but still able to withstand for a while, and even have a chance to be upset. But in the end, the strength comparison is at a disadvantage.
Southeast Asian and South Asian teams, as well as West Asian teams such as Lebanon and Palestine, are still the weakest. Although some have naturalized a large number of mixed-race or multi-ethnic players (such as Indonesia and Lebanon), some have poor technical and tactical styles. The pursuit has been fruitful (such as Vietnam), but due to the inherent deficiencies of the players' physical conditions and the quality constraints of their home leagues, they cannot yet pose a substantial threat to the second group, let alone have a chance in front of a super first-class team. If this type of team is classified as the fourth tier, then the most embarrassing ones at present are those teams between the second group and the fourth tier, which might as well be called the third tier, including but not limited to: Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Syria, etc.
Then there are views on each gear:
Due to the overall progress and improvement of Asian football, the first is the progress and improvement of both ends, that is, the competitiveness of super first-class teams in the world arena, the height of the so-called upper limit, and the most backward fourth-tier teams. That is the lower limit level. What can be seen is that the level of Asian football is rising rapidly in the first round of the Asian Cup. Even the teams that lost in the first round showed many bright spots in terms of offensive organization and personal technical ability. In the words of fans That is, they all played well. The most prominent gap lies in individual abilities and overall organization, especially the defensive organization level. In this situation where both the upper and lower limits are rapidly increasing, it will inevitably squeeze the middle zone fiercely, especially the third-tier teams that are most likely to be caught up by the fourth gear. The gap between the two quickly narrows, and starts in the competition. There are winners and losers for each other, and they are entangled.
finally made an analysis and opinion on the situation of the national football team:
In which bracket should the Chinese team be placed? According to the FIFA rankings, it seems that we can still be regarded as the second group in Asia, but it is already very reluctant, because in the past few years, it has been impossible for us to threaten three super-class teams in the game and face any third-tier team. There is no chance of winning, and they were even defeated by the fourth-tier team. If we don't work hard to hold on to the bottom line and continue to decline, we will become the well-deserved third tier in Asia. So, is it that the personal abilities of our players are really inferior to those of the fourth-tier teams? Or is the quality of our league not as good as the club competitions in those countries? Or some other reason? Tonight, the National Football Team vs. Lebanon, many things will become clearer.
