Affected by the intensive schedule of the Dragon Super League before the warm-up game, the competitive state of the players during this training camp of the Dragon Country team was generally not very good, especially when they went to West Asia and played in an unfamiliar environment, coupled with the impact of time difference, the Dragon Country team's performance in these two warm-up games was very bad.

In the first leg against Qatar, the Dragon Country team, where Shen Feng and Zheng Zhi were absent, did not show the fighting spirit in the previous World Cup at all, and many players who performed well in the World Cup were sleepwalking in this game.

Wu Lei, who had excelled in the previous Dragon Super League and was also quick to adapt to the rhythm of the game there after moving to Europe, only managed one shot on goal in this game and did not hit the woodwork - his performance can be seen as a microcosm of the performance of the Dragon Country team in this game.

If it weren't for the fact that the players of the Qatar team were too young, inexperienced, and their shooting skills were also a little honed, and the starting goalkeeper of the Dragon team in this game, Yan Junling, performed well, the score of this game was definitely more than 1:0 - the Dragon Country team was away from home.

Lippi gave a harsh criticism of the performance of the Dragon Country team in this game after the game, and now it has only been two months since the end of the World Cup, and he did not expect that the state of the players of the Dragon Country team would become like this!

But fortunately, there are still four months before the Asian Cup early next year, and after the end of the Dragon Super League season, the Dragon Country team still has more than a month to let the players recover and adjust, in order to show their best form in the Asian Cup!

Lippi's contract renewal with the Dragon Football Association has entered a critical stage of negotiations, and the biggest point of controversy between the two sides is in the Asian Cup early next year!

Of course, the Dragon Football Association hopes that a World Cup champion coach like Lippi can lead the Dragon Team to achieve a historic breakthrough in this Asian Cup and win the first Asian Cup championship in the team's history - and it is also the first important continental championship trophy in the team's history!

When Lippi took over the Dragon Nation team, one of the reasons why he signed a contract until the end of the Asian Cup was to make the Asian Cup early next year his focus.

The World Cup in the middle was really just an unexpected situation.

When Lippi took over the Dragons, the Dragons only got one point in the first four rounds of the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 12, and the promotion situation was bleak.

After Lippi took over, although he quickly helped the Dragon Country team to achieve a rare victory in the big battle with the South Korean team, which boosted the confidence of the whole team and even the entire Dragon Country football, but then lost to Iran away, and only got 5 points in the first seven rounds of the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 12, ranking at the bottom of the group.

At that time, with only three rounds left in the qualifiers, the Dragons only had a theoretical chance of qualifying.

However, it was in that situation that Lippi simply gave it a go and boldly used newcomers, so as to dig and promote Shen Feng, and then with the help of Shen Feng, the Dragon Country team won three consecutive victories in the remaining three rounds of qualifiers, counterattacking all the way, and finally won the third place in the group and won the qualification to participate in the play-offs.

Then they defeated Australia and Honduras in two rounds of play-offs to reach the World Cup finals for the second time in history!

This result, which no one expected before, largely consolidated Lippi's position in the Dragon Country team, but due to some other reasons, the contract renewal work between the Lippi team and the Dragon Country Football Association has not progressed for a long time.

The result has dragged on until now.

At present, Lippi is still quite stable in the position of the leader of the Dragon Team, even if it is next year's Asian Cup, he failed to lead the Dragon Team to the final championship, but as long as he can reach the final, or even just advance to the semi-finals, in the next World Cup cycle, Lippi will be the best choice to serve as the head coach of the Dragon Team.

One of the reasons why the Dragon Football Association has not compromised on the contract renewal negotiations with the Lippi team is that the Lippi team has put forward some conditions that exceed the expectations of the Dragon Football Association due to its outstanding results in leading the team, which is a bit pampered and arrogant, which makes it difficult for the Dragon Football Association to accept emotionally.

However, just like the change of status in the relationship with Shen Feng, the Dragon Football Association is now in a disadvantageous position in the contract renewal negotiations with Lippi's team, because they have indeed achieved unexpected and impeccable team leadership results!

In football circles, consequential determinism is dominant.

Especially at a time when the country's most @ senior @ guide is paying extra attention to football, the leadership of the Dragon Football Association can not afford to be in case the contract renewal negotiations with Lippi's team collapse, resulting in Lippi's resignation, which will then lead to a sharp decline in the performance of the Dragon team!

Although such an outcome, the probability of occurrence is not very large.

However, the experience of Dragon Country Football not long ago is not far from the past, and it is still palpitating!

The requirements of the Lippi team are nothing more than the annual salary and the right to speak, in terms of annual salary, in fact, the current salary of the Lippi team is not paid in full by the Dragon Football Association, most of it is funded by Evergrande Group, if the contract is renewed, this model will continue.

As for the right to speak, as long as Lippi can maintain his current results in leading the team, and help the Dragon Team win the championship in the Asian Cup early next year, the Dragon Football Association will not have less credit at all, and there is not much need for them to fight for this.

And there are also powerful people like Shen Feng and Zheng Zhi who can report directly to the country's most @ high collar @ leader, if the development of the Dragon Country Team goes back due to the unfavorable work of the Dragon Football Association, the Dragon Football Association will definitely take the lead.

The Dragon Football Association also knows that even if it is the end of the Asian Cup early next year, regardless of the record of the Dragon Team, the renewal of the contract with Lippi will also be completed.

However, these disputes will not affect the Dragon Team's preparation for the Asian Cup, because the Lippi team has the bottom in their hearts and can now be said to be firmly seated in the Diaoyutai.

Although the Dragon U23 national youth team led by Lippi's assistant did not achieve the expected results in the just-concluded Asian Games, and the Dragon team's warm-up trip to West Asia did not achieve ideal results, but at least until the end of the Asian Cup early next year, Lippi's position in the Dragon Country team is still unshakable!