Marcello Lippi blamed the influx of foreign strikers to Chinese football for the lack of attacking options as the national football team prepare for the crucial World Cup qualifiers against Uzbekistan and Qatar.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy team is progressing in two aspects: mentally and organisationally,\u201d the Italian World Cup winner told Titan Sports, as reported by Reuters.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201dWe play to win, no matter if we\u2019re at home or away. But we have one serious problem and it\u2019s very, very serious: I have no forward, I have no centre-forward at all.<\/p>\n \u201dI have to move players from other positions to be a centre-forward. The reason is simple too: clubs can play three foreign players and they like buying forwards.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have good choices in other positions but it is a big problem with the forwards.\u201d<\/p>\n China are bottom of their qualifying group with just one victory in eight games. Lippi\u2019s side must win both their remaining matches to stand any chance of making it to Russia 2018, starting with the clash against third-placed Uzbekistan on Thursday.<\/p>\n Despite the dismal performance of China at the qualification, the high-profile coach will reportedly keep his job until the end of 2019 AFC Asian Cup<\/a> even if his men fail to qualify for Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marcello Lippi blamed the influx of foreign strikers to Chinese football for the lack of attacking options as the national football team prepare for the crucial World Cup qualifiers against Uzbekistan and Qatar. \u201cMy team is progressing in two aspects: mentally and organisationally,\u201d the Italian World Cup winner told Titan Sports, as reported by Reuters. \u201dWe play to win, no matter if we\u2019re at home or away. But we have one serious problem and it\u2019s very, very serious: I have no forward, I have no centre-forward at all. \u201dI have to move players from other positions to be a centre-forward. The reason is simple too: clubs can play three foreign … Continue reading “Marcello Lippi blames the flow of foreign strikers for short of Chinese strikers”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[154,797,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}