RUSH UPDATE: On the evening of Sept. 1, China's national soccer team stepped onto Japanese soil, and under the Tokyo night sky, they will kick off their training at 6:30 p.m. A group of fervent journalists, whose heartbeats rise and fall with Ivan's tactical layouts, have come up with ideas on how to awaken Wu Lei's goal-scoring potential.
According to Liu reporter revealed that he has mapped out the "golden route" of Wu Lei's goals: looking for breakthroughs in the confrontation, which originated from his analysis of the depth of Wu Lei's 28-goal performance in the Chinese Super League this season.
Reporter Liu took the Singapore tournament as a lesson, detailing how to use Zhang Yuning's pivot and Fernando's hold to attract the opposing team's defense in the 36-team tournament, thus creating a good scoring opportunity for Wu Lei. The core of the tactic is to build an offensive system around Wu Lei, the midfield and strikers need to work together to create gaps, so that Wu Lei's advantage of running without the ball can be played.
This tactical blueprint must be kept a closely guarded secret to ensure that the Japanese team, especially Mori Baoichi, is unaware of it.
This season, Wu Lei scored 28 goals in 24 games, his strength should not be underestimated. The national soccer team should use this as an axis to create scoring space for Wu Lei. I firmly believe that this is a simpler challenge than beating the opposition.
Theoretically, such space exists. Playing at home, the strength of the national soccer team should not be underestimated. The Japanese team may start a siege in the 30-meter zone of the national football team, just as in the 12 strong match three years ago. However, in this high-pressure offense, the national football team will have the opportunity to find a chance to counterattack.
But all of this presupposes that the Japanese team is lightly beaten and that the opposing midfielders, especially the defenders, are not capable of making enough runs. However, according to reports, these conditions do not seem to hold true.
After Japan's recent home loss in the first round of the 12-team tournament, Morimoto vowed not to repeat the same mistake. Despite the absence of Kenyo Tomoyasu and Yohki Ito due to injuries, the Japanese backline still has a wealth of experience in the form of mid-career players such as Yuta Nakayama and Hiroki Jinta, as well as two rookies and Yu Nagatomo.
Japanese media predicted that Wang Yue Kaihui - a 23-year-old mixed-race defender with a height of 1.92 meters and a 100-meter sprint speed of 35 kilometers per hour - is expected to compete in the 100-meter sprint world championships, two seconds faster than Wu Lei.
With such a strong backline, plus midfield barriers such as Endo Hang, Mamorita Hidemasa, and Tanaka Wall, the area of attack delineated by reporter Liu for Wu Lei is especially crucial.
Surprisingly, Ivan also seems to be looking for this "space".
Wang Xing well-known media reports that the national football team has added a new secret counterattack tactics in training - "the backfield up big foot, the front field to catch the wrong". That is, under heavy siege, the defenders seize the opportunity to big foot long pass, looking for Wu Lei and other forwards. This is undoubtedly a gamble, even if the opponent makes a mistake, it is possible to one against a hundred.
With the tactics of "facing the goal + forward space", coupled with the "defender's big foot", "catching (opponent) mistakes", as well as set-pieces and other strategies, the national football team to beat the Japanese team on the road, perhaps Not unattainable.
