Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, June 11 (reporter Wang Haoming) with Yang Xu’s goal in the first half, the Chinese men’s football team defeated Tajikistan at 1:0 on the 11th and won two consecutive warm-up matches.
Compared with the match that defeated the Philippine team in the first two goals, the coach Lippi made a substantial rotation to the starting lineup. Only 10 minutes after the opening, Wang Gang’s right Road spread across the country, and Yang Xu Middle Road pushed and shot the net, leading the country. Yang Xu was injured in a fight after scoring and was replaced by Zhang yoning in the 30th minute. Since then, the Chinese team still had the opportunity to expand the score, but both Wang Gang and Li Ke failed to hit the target.
In the second half, the Tajikistan team stepped up the attack and gave the Chinese team the space to fight back. However, the shots of Zhang yoning, Xie Pengfei and Zhan Junmin all failed, and the score was finally fixed at 1:0.
Lippi said after the game: “We still have a lot of work to do. We were positive and aggressive in the first game, but tonight we are not as good as before in spirit.”
When talking about whether there will be more naturalized players joining the national football team in the future, Lippi said: “The news about naturalized players is better to ask the Football Association, I hope there will be better players joining the team, we need better strikers.”