Asian Cup 2011 [R]

i think he should stay if china want to stand a chance for the qualifier is not like da zhu who just keep doing crappy thing

 

can we please stop the idiocy of "Qatar paying off" the referees, Kuwaiti players, Gao Hongbo, or whoever else you want to claim they paid?!?

 

To be fair, today's China totally deserved playoffs but China we've seen three days ago vs Qatar didn't. Kuwait game was a bit of luck too, so the overall result is fair IMO.

 

Overall 4 points was ok I expected a tie with Qatar and a loss against Uze. So it wasn't too much of a disappointment. The way it ended was better than when it started. We have a lot of holes to plug in the back. Coaching staff will have to figure out what they learned from this tourney now.

 

ok, this is the last match i would watch in this Asian Cup

 

I would vote for leave if I thought Wei Di was capable of hiring a top coach. China isn't going to make a prestige hiring at this stage. Gao is competent as a motivator and team leader, but he proved himself to be completely lacking at team selection/man management.

The devil you know is better than the one you don't. Domestically, you can't do much better than Gao and it seems like the players enjoy playing for him...

 

I also think the coach should stay. I think he has a better understanding of his 23 compared to what the continent has to offer at the moment than anyone else. The first round of WCQ will probably be similar to this group so hopefully it will be a good experience for him and his players.

 

Seb, you truely are an eternal optimist, me on the other hand I've been supporting China quite heavily in the last few years but I think I'll go back to being an occasional viewer, supporting China is just too depressing, especially considering that I also support England as well.

 

Positives:
-we just played the best 45 minutes of the tournament, the way the 1st half was played we were lucky to be tied, then to go down after 45 seconds, I could easily see how the Uzbeks would run away with it, but we actually pressured and played really offensive football for the first time this tournament

-Deng and Hao's free kicks were great

-Rong Hao and Yu Hai were easily our 2 best players over the course of the tournament, a really strong effort, Hao was the man of the match tonight and really showed how good he can be

-again, it can't be stated enough how nice it was to see us play attacking football in the 2nd half instead of just letting the game being taken to us as we did in the first 2 games (and 1st half tonight)

Negatives:
-once again we failed to go through

-defense is way too leaky, just stating the words Zhao Peng is enough to explain the previous 2 matches, but what is the explanation for tonight's lapses?!?

-we scored 2 goals from corners and 2 goals from set pieces, nothing came from open play

-we've found out that Gao is kind of clueless when it comes to using his players

 

hows Hao Junmin and Uchida being doing there?

 

If sensible means using your newfound fame to do everything you can to get your name in the media, say a lot of stupid shit, and have off the wall ideas, than yes, Wei Di is very sensible.

 

Hao wasnt even in AC2000. You wish Milu didnt do jack, at that time we had a good set of players who werent interested in playing well for the national team, they didnt even care to play for the shirt. What Milu did was get a group of guys who didnt get along and motivated them enough to do well when it counts.

Fan/Hao combo was in wcq 1998 as well and that didnt go great.

Yes we were awesome in 1966, in 1964 Asian cup was won by Israel and second was India, I'm talking about Asian Cup coaches that were mentioned during the game, not overall national team coaches.

 

reckon the Asian Cup has been good for him personally? Getting match fit etc...

in your opinion will it have a positive effect in terms of getting more time again at Schalke?