Especially in the current semi-finals, there is no secret to the tactics of each team, and the level and state of the players are also on the bright side, and the only thing that can be compared next is physical reserves and will quality.

In this regard, the Dragon Nation team does not have much of an advantage.

First, because the main lineup of this Dragon Country team is older as a whole, especially on the defensive end, with an average age of more than 30, and the oldest Zheng Zhi is already over 38 years old.

In terms of will quality, after nearly two years of tempering, as well as a series of victories and achievements, this Dragon Country team has a significant improvement compared with the previous days, but there is still a long way to go before it is truly built into an iron army that "cannot be defeated, defeated, run and never give up"!

Fortunately, there is now a veteran Zheng Zhi in the team who has gone through ups and downs and has a bit of a return to the basics, and there is a young and hard-working Shen Feng in front of him to take the lead in the charge, and the team's willpower and cohesion are still guaranteed to a certain extent.

However, in order to better prepare for the remaining two games, the coaching staff of the Dragon Football Association and the Dragon Country team still tried their best to do everything.

In the previous quarter-final against South Korea, in order to protect the players from the influence of external public opinion, the coaching staff controlled the communication of the players, and judging from the results of that quarter-final, the effect was good.

However, such a method can not be used again, and if it is used too much, the effect will definitely be greatly reduced.

Moreover, the opponent of the Dragon Country team in the semifinals, the United Arab Emirates team, the overall strength is far inferior to the Dragon Country team, and it is far inferior to the South Korean team in front.

The Dragon Football Association, in order to allow the Dragon Team to travel lightly, did not publicly set any performance goals for the Dragon Team before the start of this Asian Cup. ”

However, within the Dragon Country team, there is a minimum standard for their record in this Asian Cup - reaching the semi-finals!

Of course, the ultimate goal must be to go straight to the championship!

Now, the Dragon Country team has successfully reached the semi-finals, judging from the comparison with the strength of the semi-final opponents, the probability of advancing to the finals is very high, and the minimum goal has been achieved.

At this moment, in the eyes of the players of the Dragon Country team, there is no opponent in the semi-finals at all, and there is only one goal, which is the championship trophy!

The players have a lot of spirit, and that's a good thing.

However, how to transform this high-spirited spirit into the motivation of the game, as well as the good performance and performance in the game, requires careful planning by the coaching staff led by Lippi.

Domestic public opinion is unanimously optimistic about this semi-final with the UAE team, believing that the Dragon Country team will definitely be able to win easily.

The football atmosphere in these people's countries has reached a new peak, just like during last year's World Cup, everyone must talk about the Asian Cup!

Such an atmosphere of public opinion is a mixed mix of pros and cons for the Dragon Country team.

Fans' expectations are too high and too good, which often puts extra pressure on the players.

However, this is a happy worry for the group of veteran players represented by Zheng Zhi who have experienced the trough of Dragon Country football.

Moreover, whether or not you can withstand such pressure is also one of the criteria to test whether a player is excellent!

The three-day preparation time passed in a flash, and the time soon came to January 29, 2019, as the sun set in the west, the semi-finals between the Dragons and the United Arab Emirates team were about to officially start.

In the other semi-final that ended the day before, the two Asian giants, Iran and Japan, fought for 90 minutes, and fought for 30 minutes of extra time, but they were still evenly matched, and the game was dragged into a brutal penalty shootout.

In the end, the Japanese team, which was still calm and spicy, had a slightly better overall psychological quality, and finally defeated the Iranian team with a score of 5:4 in the penalty shootout and once again reached the final of the Asian Cup.

One ticket for this Asian Cup final has already been attributed, and the winner of the other ticket will be between the two belligerents of the upcoming match, the Dragons and the United Arab Emirates.

In this game, the Dragon Country team used a strategy beyond everyone's imagination - the starting list has changed dramatically!

In this game, the Dragon Country team still discharged a 4-4-2 balanced offensive and defensive formation, and the top ones were still Shen Feng and Wu Lei.

The attacking combination of Shen Feng and Wu Lei contributed 15 goals together in the previous five games, accounting for three-fifths of the total goals of the Dragon Country team.

Among them, three of Shen Feng's five assists were given to Wu Lei; Of Shen Feng's nine goals, three were also direct assists from Wu Lei.

The two of them have formed a full tacit understanding, and they are the most efficient attacking combination among all the 24 participating teams in this Asian Cup.

In the midfield, Lippi sent Zhang Xizhe, Fan Xiaodong, Maitijiang and He Chao this time, among these four people, only Zhang Xizhe was the only one who had started in the previous games, Fan Xiaodong, Maitijiang and He Chao, in the first five games, did not even get the opportunity to come off the bench.

On the back line, Lippi sent a combination of Zhang Linpeng, Shi Ke, Deng Hanwen and Liu Yiming, Liu Yiming also played for the Dragon Country team for the first time in this Asian Cup, and he was the starter as soon as he came up!

The goalkeeper is still Yan Junling.

The starting list of the Dragon Country team in this game has changed very much from the main lineup in the previous game against the South Korean team, and the old players in the 85 and 87 age groups who were firmly in the main position in this Dragon Country team were all sitting on the bench in this game, and some were not even selected for the 18-man squad.

In the lineup of the Dragon Country team, the eldest Fan Xiaodong, who was born in March 87, is now about to turn 32 years old.

Among the remaining ten people, only one Zhang Linpeng and Fan Xiaodong are both post-80s, and the other nine are all post-90s, among which Deng Hanwen, Liu Yiming, and He Chao are all 95 years old, and Shen Feng is 97 years old.

The average age of this lineup of the Dragon Country team is only twenty-six years old! It's more than four years younger than the previous main lineup!

This lineup will be the main lineup of the Dragon Country team in the next World Cup cycle!

Lippi made the first collective appearance of this lineup in this important, but relatively speaking, relatively sure game, which is worth pondering.

The discharge of this lineup does not mean that the renewal of the Dragon Country team has been completed, but it also reveals an obvious signal - the younger trend of the Dragon Country team has been irreversible.