Reporter Chen Yong reports On the evening of March 6, the official Weibo of the Chinese national team confirmed that the national team had recruited Shandong Taishan midfielder Li Yuanyi. In fact, late at night on March 5, local time, Li Yuanyi, who rushed to the aid of the national football team, had already arrived at the Dubai residence of the national football team. In this national football training camp, Li Yuan did not appear in the list of 32 people at the beginning, which also aroused heated discussions from all walks of life, but the "correction ability" of the national team this time is still very good, only two days later, Li Yuanyi and the national football team.

After the release of the national football list, Li Yuanyi's absence sparked a general heated discussion, in the national team's 6 top 18 matches, Li Yuanyi started all the first 5 games, playing 76 minutes, 93 minutes, full-time, 61 minutes and 45 minutes, and came off the bench in the 63rd minute of the 6th round against Japan. Such a player, who can almost be called the absolute main force of the national team, is not included in the list, and all parties naturally do not understand it.

Of course, from another point of view, Lee Won-il's position in the last two national football games has indeed wavered, with the game against Bahrain being substituted at half-time and returning to the bench against Japan. In terms of the lineup of the national football team against Japan, the midfield combination is Wang Shangyuan, Xie Wenneng, Xu Haoyang and Cao Yongjing, and Xie Wenneng made a cameo appearance in the left midfielder position.

The national football roster for March was released after the first round of the Chinese Super League, and in the second round of the Chinese Super League, Li Yuanyi performed very well. In fact, he started the whole game in the first round, but at that time, the Taishan team played one less person in more than 20 minutes, so Li Yuanyi did not play specially. In the second round of the league, Li Yuanyi played the whole game again, and this time his performance was extremely good: in the 12th minute of the game, Li Yuanyi handed over to Cressan for the first time after a steal in the front court, who pushed the goal, and Li Yuanyi completed the assist; In the 86th minute of the game, Li Yuanyi took the ball in the middle and distributed it to Kazaishvili, who assisted Maderuga to score with an inverted triangle pass. In this game, Li Yuanyi also had many steals.

At present, Li Yuanyi ranks first in the Taishan team in the number of passes, fifth in the Chinese Super League in crosses, and also the first in the Taishan team, and 6 steals in the forefront of the Chinese Super League. In the current Taishan team, Li Yuanyi can also be said to be the hub of the Taishan team's midfield, with a defensive back, more in the midfield, to provide support for the front field outside the trident and Xie Wenneng, which is also the reason why he ranks first in the number of passes.

With Li Yuanyi's previous position in the national football team, as well as his stable performance in the league, especially Li Yuanyi's consistent conscientious attitude, if he misses the national football team, it is really incomprehensible. After the start of the training camp in Dubai, the national football team and Ivankovic were obviously aware of this problem, and finally made the decision to supplement the call-up.

Li Yuanyi's return to the national team is undoubtedly very important for the midfield reinforcement of the national team, and he is a rare all-rounder in the midfield of the national football team.

Ivankovic's 442 diamond-shaped midfield position is naturally not much of a problem at the offensive level, but at the defensive level, the single back is very weak, so the positioning of the two full-backs is very important. In the previous game, although Li Yuanyi played more of the left midfielder position, when defending, he was able to quickly settle in the middle to cooperate with Wang Shangyuan to defend. At present, among the midfielders of the national football team, Xu Haoyang's characteristics are similar to Li Yuanyi, and he is a player who can take care of both the side and the middle, but his position is mainly on the right side. As for players such as Xie Wenneng, Lin Liangming, and Wei Shihao, most of them are from the wing, or are more inclined to the role of attackers.

More importantly, the national football team is obviously relatively weak in the back position, Jiang Shenglong previously played as the back midfielder, but eventually returned to the center back position, and then the back position is basically Wang Shangyuan's main play, and Wang Haijian will come off the bench. But in the recent game, Wang Shangyuan did not play in the first round of the Chinese Super League due to injury, and only played 45 minutes as a substitute in the second round of the Chinese Super League. As for Wang Haijian, his position in Shanghai Shenhua is very awkward, Shanghai Shenhua has played a total of 16 minutes (not counting stoppage time) in 7 games this year, including 0 minutes in the league, and Wednesday's AFC Champions League is only the 89th minute substitute.

As a result, the position of the back is indeed facing great challenges, and at this time, Li Yuanyi, who has rich experience and balanced attack and defense, is naturally very important to the selection of the national football team's lineup, whether it is starting or being on the bench. With the return of Li Yuanyi, in terms of the number of people who can be called, the current national football squad is the strongest squad that Ivan can use. Everything depends on the run-in before the war and the on-the-spot performance.