Wasn't the strategy to smash the Palestine goal from the air, utilizing China's usual height advantage when playing against fellow Asians? This led to ugly and boring football.
i wouldve expected china to do that,our defence is very tough on the ground but theyre not too good in the air
LOL yea the commentators always say we have better fitness and aerial power compared to the semi-pro teams in Asia... Its like yea you can run faster and head the ball better so keep at it.... coach what do we do when they are better in the air and can run faster and longer.... errrr i dont know just kick the ball forward!!! When will we ever see a change... weaker oppositions should be the perfect place to test out new tactics...
Yeah but the British can still pass, maybe not in a classy manner, but the ball still gets there. The Chinese can't even get the ball to its destination. Totally agree. We play headball not football.
But this time one of the headers was due more to Dong's attacking ability than simple size advantage. A much needed new dimension. Sun Jihai had something nice to say about Dong after the match, comparing him with Henri. http://sports.sina.com.cn/g/2006-02-24/00182065757.shtml 22日深夜，孙继海在伦敦打来电话，详细地向记者询问了国家队的情况，当听说董方卓的场上表现之后，孙继海笑起来。“我和他一起训练过几次，知道他的情况，他的身体条件，不会比亨利差。只要他回到曼联，而且以后正常发展，成为国际巨星，不会有太大的问题。那时，他就是中国足球第一人。” 孙继海在英超中曾经多次对阵亨利，他说他从来就不怕速度型或者力量型的前锋，但对于速度和力量融于一体的前锋，防守起来就相当艰难。“我和亨利对抗，就像一辆小轿车和一辆高速行驶的大卡车在对撞一样，太难了。董方卓的力量和速度，也许比亨利还要好，现在他欠缺的就是经验和场上的意识，只要这些上去了，谁也挡不住小董。”
(Zhu said,) "Although he didn't score a goal he produced a handful of chances. A good striker needs to be not only a goal scorer but also a cannonball provider." Sounds more like his excuse to start Li Yi again than a praise for Dong. I hope he is not thinking about benching Dong next game.
Uh-oh, you're sounding uncharacteristically optimistic today CFF............. Yeah I agree, a win is a win.
not really, i am still not happy about only 2-0 vs Palestine On the road vs Iraq is a different story, 2-0 would be acceptable
Our jersey is too plain.... we need a dragon or the great wall on it.... and white is such a depressing color it needs to be red!!
I've only seen him a couple of times when he was in 2nd division. But I was impressed. He has a style quite similar to Shunsuke Nakamura. Not big physically but very technical. I remember saying to myself "he should be given a chance in the NT...". When I saw on Sina that he was included in the initial NT camp I was ecstatic. But I don't know why he wasn't eventually selected to the NT squad for the AC Qualifiers.
pssssttt, this has been talked about for years. They need to put their words into action and bring in more technical players and coaches IMMEDIATELY!! 技术含量不够,进攻套路少,手段单一,这都是需要引起重视的问题。 Yang Yimin hits it dead on. If we lose to Iraq next game then I'm gonna call for Zhu's head.
Dong's run (why is Li Weifeng way ahead of other players, including the "striker" Li Yi? Must be an easy day at the office for Datou. ), http://sports.sina.com.cn/n/bn/2006-02-23/03112063427.shtml
I would definitely take a 2-0 win. Firing Zhu now would be just the sort of destructive act that the CFA can't make, it's suicidal. I'm not sure if it was you, Forza, but other people on here have been calling for Zhu's head for months, its totally overreacting. Zhu is a good coach, he put out an offensive lineup, the result was 2-0 (with a missed pk). I totally agree with Yang Yimin's comments, but the problem isn't the coaching staff, it's the players. If you want technically skilled players, you must train them better, you must train them to think to play attacking soccer. We just don't have the talent up front. Dong shows promise, but one striker is never enough. Li Yi's problems are well documented, Dayu tends to shrink and hide when it comes to MNT games, Chen Tao and Gao Lin still need to be brought along. Who else do we have to play up front? I've never really seen Shi Jun play, but I don't believe him to be any kind of solution. So even the best coach (and Zhu is one of the best Chinese coaches around), is going to struggle to get much from his players. Beyond that, changing coaches now makes no sense. The top coaches all have jobs right now with the European leagues still going on and the WC06 coming up. If CFA even wanted to change coaches, it would be idiotic to do it now. Wait until the summer, the European leagues will have more firings once their season is over, there will be contracts that run up and firings after the WC, that's the time to get a good coach, if you do it now, it's just going to be another Haan.