1BSPORTS 1B Sports June 12th News Li Lei was interviewed by CCTV’s “Football Night” program and also talked about fans’ doubts about Yang Zexiang’s performance.
Li Lei: In fact, everyone has some prejudice against Yang Zexiang. Yang Zexiang started the national team in the first game against Son Heung-min, and the second game against San Zao. In fact, he assumed a lot of the team’s defense responsibilities. Maybe he is inferior to his offense, but he completed his mission very well. You don’t stand on this field, you won’t imagine what kind of pressure he is under.
Did you see netizens’ doubts about him after the last game?
Li Lei: I haven’t read the media online recently, but I see him watching. Every time I see him watching, I will help him take a look. When we came back on the plane, we were next to each other and we also said it during the internal meeting. Yang Zexiang was very frank and said that he also doubted whether he could persist in playing against Bahrain. None of us blamed him. This is also the atmosphere of our collective and the strength of the collective to protect our collective.