El Tiempo Lo Cura Todo: The Camacho Era - The 2012 National Team Thread

Jordan scores 1-2 China

 

Liu Jian on for injured Qin Sheng

 

3-1 china

 

Yu da bao scores from a confusion in Jordan box.

 

Yu Hai on for Yu hanchao for mopup time

 

3-1 FT China

Bittersweet victory I guess. Off to bed for me. night all

 

Clearly shows that China is one of the better teams in Asia. Once again Team China gets results when it doesn't matter...

 

Decent victory, kinda dull first-half despite the high tempo, second-half China actually started to look good especially Chen Tao's pass for Hao's second goal.

 

Why couldn't they play like this in the other qualifying matches lol

 

B/c those matches actually means something! They seriously need a sports psychologist or something to get the players over this hump. I don't know if they can beat Korea/Japan but they sure have the talent to qualify against Iraq/Jordan if they just play at the level they did today. But as we all know, when it really matters, Chinese players just all under perform. To me, its totally a problem in their head, need to get that fixed before they can do anything!

 

camacho just came in for those matches. i think he understand the squad more now as shown in this match.

but uh gao lin...he was killing me. he's only good when theres a fast winger who can feed him crosses like feng renliang or yu hai. i woulda had yu daobao or yangxu start over him last night.

 

Judging from how the game panned out, we may as well have played another MF like Yu Hai instead of a Gao Lin. He pretty much looked a bit lost out there because no one could feed him the ball.

I also did note that positioning needs to be something that the coaching staff will have to look at. Too many unnecessary offside calls (and we were undoubtedly miles offside). Could also be a culmination of match fitness though; lazy-looking offsides from players who had gone forward.

 

http://sports.sina.com.cn/g/video/2014CFT/guozushiyusai/

 

So is there no China matches until the game against Spain?

 

pretty much...
it sucks hao didnt get his hat trick last night. should've scored 2 other times man.
cfb why arent you on fifa anymore! lol. wanna play a china vs china

 

haven't got a gold membership at the moment, I should have it by the end of May 'cos that's when uni finishes haha

 

Given how well the Uzbeks have played against us in the recent meetings, I guess that would be a fair ranking, but Cape Verde Islands? wtF? Above even Egypt and Cameroon :S