Fox in the Penalty Area

A few cars were parked in an open space on the side of the road, and a dozen people got off from them, and they looked around.

"It's really not easy to come to the university town to watch the game..."

"Who knew that the house would be renovated at this time..."

"Could it be...that something was checked?"

"Team Yan is hiding everything!"

Everyone followed suit.

Yan Yan waved his hand: "Climb, climb! It's just a normal decoration, don't think about it! Let's go, I'll take you to my old stronghold!"

After speaking, he opened the way ahead and led everyone from the Jincheng branch of the Dongchuan Middle School football team to a bar ahead.

"I'm here at this time, are there no seats?" Chu Yifan turned his head and looked at the bars and restaurants along the street, all of which were overcrowded without exception.

"Don't worry, Team Chu, I said hello in advance. Our face is still useful!"

While speaking, Yan Yan had already reached the door of the bar. He stretched out his hand to open the door, and saw that it was indeed quite empty inside.

Someone was busy behind the bar. Hearing the movement, he raised his head and saw that it was Yan Yan. He smiled and said, "Oh, you're here? If you don't come, you won't be able to keep your seat!"

"Thank you, boss, thank you boss." Yan Yan thanked him, stepped aside, and waved for the companions behind to come in.

"Everyone finds their own seats, and you can sit if there is any space!"

When everyone came in and saw this scene, they were very happy: "Team Yan is awesome!"

At the critical moment of the Sino-Japanese war, it is really not easy to find such a place to watch the football.

Yan Yan waved his hand, then walked to a table next to him, smiled at the person there: "Uncle, I guess you are here!"

The middle-aged uncle laughed: "Yo, rare guest rare guest! Why do you want to come back today?"

"Aren't you going to take everyone to watch the game?" Yan Yan pointed to Chu Yifan beside him.

Chu Yifan also greeted the other party: "Hello, Uncle!"

"Okay." The uncle nodded.

Then he pointed to the empty seat next to him: "Sit down."

They have known each other for a long time. Back then, they went to the Provincial Sports Center to watch the first game of Flash Star back in the Chinese Super League.

Then the uncle gestured to the boss behind the bar, and soon a dozen beers were placed on their table.

"Open up and drink. As long as the Chinese team can win Little Japan today, I'll buy your wine." The uncle said while opening the wine and handing it to Yan Yan and the others.

Yan Yan and Chu Yifan looked at each other, and then Yan Yan was a little embarrassed: "Uncle, I really didn't intend to come to rub your wine..."

"Hey, you're just assuming that the Chinese team will win?" The uncle heard the voice-over.

Yan Yan himself only reacted at this time, he quickly waved his hands: "No, no... I don't even want to win or lose."

The uncle laughed when he heard the words: "Are you particularly conflicted in your heart now?"

"what?"

"If the Chinese team wins the Japanese team, Dong Jianhai might become a hero, and the probability of getting out of class will plummet."

Yan Yan and Chu Yifan looked at each other, but didn't answer for a while.

They have also discussed this issue. After all, the hot topic among Chinese fans during this period is Dong Jianhai's handsome position.

Before the last group match, "the details of the contract signed by Dong Jianhai and the Football Association" were circulated wildly on the Internet, saying that there were clauses in it:

The two parties will decide whether to renew Dong Jianhai's contract based on his performance in the Asian Cup. If he fails to lead the team to the knockout stage, the contract will not be renewed.

Everyone knows the first half of this clause, and it's not a secret. Because the public news is that the contract between Dong Jianhai and the Football Association is for the Asian Cup.

The second half belongs to the "secret".

After all, the Football Association has not publicly stated that Dong Jianhai will be out of the Chinese team group...

But in the eyes of the majority of Chinese fans, if such a powerful Chinese team fails to qualify for the group stage, it will be a disaster. Therefore, they all believed that the presence or absence of the group stage was the key to Dong Jianhai's fate.

Therefore, when the rumor about the details of the contract between Dong Jianhai and the Football Association appeared on the Internet, it was easy for everyone to believe it, because they really hoped that this was the real content of the contract...

As a result, the Chinese team qualified for the group stage!

But even if the Chinese team qualify from the group, the fans still don't recognize this "national football pig coach".

So they don't want the Football Association to really renew Dong Jianhai's contract.

After looking at Yan Yan, Chu Yifan finally said: "We don't know what others think, uncle. But we feel that the game against the Japanese team is different from other games. No matter whether Dong Jianhai can continue to coach, we don't want The Chinese team lost to Japan."

The uncle looked at Chu Yifan differently, and gave a thumbs up: "You understand!"

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Matt Dawn noticed that Tony Clark looked at his watch several times.

He asked curiously, "Are you okay, Tony? It's still early for our afternoon training session."

Clark shook his head: "No, I'm counting the time in Doha."

"Doha?" Matt was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized, "Oh, the Asian Cup."

"Yes, the match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team, this is the key to whether we can successfully stay in the Premier League this season!"

"Exaggerating, Tony?" Matt Down said.

He is also paying attention to the Asian Cup. Obviously, the Chinese team in this Asian Cup is not in good condition, and the personnel are not neat.

The most important thing is that their head coach is limited and cannot give full play to the full strength of this Chinese team.

Now facing the stronger Japanese team, it is really difficult to win.

So the Chinese team's journey in this Asian Cup has come to an end.

This is definitely good news for Leeds City.

Leeds City's performance in the league during this period has been ups and downs, and even had a three-game losing streak.

When the league ranking was the worst, it fell to twelfth place.

Fortunately, in the 22nd round of the league yesterday, Leeds City defeated Sydenham 2-0 at home, stopped the momentum of continued decline, and the league ranking returned to tenth.

However, at this point in the league, Leeds City, which has only 33 points, is 23 points away from Manchester Athletic, who is number one in the league. It is basically impossible to defend the championship.

There are also eight points away from Tramed, the fourth place in the league. It is also very difficult to qualify for the Champions League next season.

Even if they want to fight for the Europa League qualification for the top six in the league, there is still a difference of seven points.

But in any case, there is no problem with relegation.

Clark laughed twice: "Just kidding. But I really hope that Hu can come back sooner. After all, he still needs to rest and adjust the jet lag and condition after he comes back. The sooner he can come back, the more time he will have to rest and adjust."

"So you want the Chinese team to lose to the Japanese team?"

"It's not something I wish or wish, Matt. It's that they're going to lose to Japan."

Matt Dawn fell silent after hearing the words, unable to refute.

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"Some people say that we will definitely lose to the Japanese team?"

Yao Huasheng asked his teammates such a rhetorical question.

In the locker room, there were still more than ten minutes before the start of the game.

The head coach Dong Jianhai has already explained everything he should explain, and he is not in the locker room at this time. Only the players of the Chinese team are left.

Their captain Yao Huasheng is encouraging everyone.

Wang Guangwei's gaze fell on Dui Yao's swaying right shoulder, there was still a piece protruding there, but judging by his free movement, it seemed... really it didn't matter?

It's a medical miracle...

"They put up a lot of stats and how we've each played in the last couple of games as evidence. But if I say they're fucking farting!"

When Yao Huasheng said that, he slapped his right hand vigorously, as if he wanted to drive the stinky fart away from him.

His action gave the team members a lot of confidence—it seems that Team Yao's right shoulder is really fine!

What they didn't know was that Yao Huasheng secretly asked the team doctor to give him a closed painkiller injection before the game, and asked not to speak out.

"If football games can be decided by statistics and past performances, why do we have to play? If we only look at paper strength, we should lose all three games in the World Cup. So Don’t worry about what’s there or what’s not. Our opponent is the Japanese team!”

Having said that, he paused for a while.

Why is it emphasized that the opponent is the Japanese team, because this opponent has special significance.

"In the final 23 years ago, I was eleven years old and I was the ball boy for that game."

Teammates look at their captain.

This is not news, and it can even be said that everyone knows it. During the Asian Cup in China in 2004, Yao Huasheng, who was eleven years old, appeared as a caddy in the top Asian arena.

Later, in the mouths of some marketing accounts and self-media, this past event was regarded as a "good story".

But Yao Huasheng never felt that this was a bullshit story.

"I just watched from the sidelines as Koichi Sato equalized the score with a handball. It was useless for our players to appeal around the referee. At that time, there was no video referee, so we could only suffer from being dumb. Then the mentality collapsed... After the game Some people scolded our players for their poor mental quality, and they were thrown into chaos by a controversial penalty... It seems that Chinese players should be machines without humanity and emotions, without any emotional fluctuations. We must go before the mountain collapses. It’s only good if you don’t change your face. It is true that the psychological quality of Chinese players has not been very good, but I was on the scene at the time, and I think few people can keep calm in front of such a game...”

Following Yao Huasheng's narration, everyone seemed to have returned to that night.

Although everyone present, no one has participated in that Asian Cup. Even people like Hu Lai and Luo Kai should still be in their infancy, and Xia Xiaoyu was never born at all.

But they've all heard the story of that night, that game, many times.

That Asian Cup was the host of China, but if you only look at the final, you will think that the Japanese team is the host.

In addition to the controversial handball, the on-duty referee team also favored the Japanese team many times during the game.

How partial is it?

A throw-in is offside, can you bear it?

According to the rules of football, there is no offside on a throw-in.

But in that game, when the Chinese team tried to launch an attack with a throw-in in the backcourt of the Japanese team, the referee called it offside and awarded the ball to the Japanese team...

At that time, the entire Gongti booed the sky, and the CCTV commentator wondered whether his more than 30 years of football commentary experience and understanding of football were still counted.

The Chinese team, which was originally in the lead, first let Sato Koichi equalize the score with the first goal, which affected their mentality, and then suffered consecutive misjudgments in the game, completely collapsing.

In the end, they lost to the Japanese team 1:2 and lost the Asian Cup champion at home.

Angry Chinese fans burned the Japanese flag after the game and overturned several cars parked outside the stadium. If it weren't for the deployment of a large number of police forces, the entire Japanese team would almost not be able to get out of the stadium.

In the past, when the Chinese team lost a game, the Chinese fans scolded the national football team.

But after that final, everyone scolded Little Japan.

This shows how angry everyone is towards the Japanese team.

So Yao Huasheng was right. Under the circumstances at that time, it was really difficult for the Chinese players to keep calm and play well because of their poor psychological quality.

"It was from that game, I swear. If I have the opportunity to play against the Japanese team on the court in the future, I will definitely not be polite to them. I want revenge."

No one doubted Yao Huasheng's words.

Because whether he was in the National Youth Team, the National Olympic Team or the National Team, as long as there was a game against the Japanese team, he worked very hard. He was so desperate that he got a red card and was sent off for shoveling the opponent's player in a game - at that time, the slow-motion replay, the Japanese commentator believed that Yao Huasheng was deliberately aiming at people, he was not for defense at all, But just want to shovel people.

This foul also attracted a lot of infamy for Yao Huasheng, who believed that Yao Huasheng's impulsiveness and stupidity caused the Chinese team to lose and lose. It is precisely because of football hooligans like Yao Huasheng that Chinese football has never been better.

Yao Huasheng did not explain this. It was not until five years after this incident that he was asked about it in an interview on a program, and he explained why he did it - because he had done so in 2004 Served as a ball boy on the sidelines of the Asian Cup final.

After the interview came out, everyone went to check it out, it was true!

Many people immediately understood why he did this.

Of course, after he said this, some people criticized him for just finding excuses to justify his stupid foul...

It is a pity that the Chinese team and the Japanese team have played against each other many times, but since the final in 2004, they have never met in the Asian Cup. It seems that fate doesn't want the Chinese team to take revenge, or it doesn't want the Chinese team to add new hatred to the unrevenged old hatred.

Today, after 23 years, the Chinese and Japanese teams met for the first time in the Asian Cup.

"This is my last Asian Cup." The 34-year-old Yao Huasheng continued, "It is also the last chance for revenge-although I have played against the Japanese team in other competitions before, I always believe that only Defeating the Japanese team in the Asian Cup is the real revenge. So I will do my best in this game, and I hope that all of you will do your best like me!

"I don't want the Japanese to think that they deserved the championship after winning the championship in such a way... It was their first time defending the Asian Cup. This year they proposed to defend the Asian Cup again, To become the first team in Asia to successfully defend their title twice...they have a good idea! Today we are here to tell them that what they stole from us back then must be returned! They used such a dirty trick You stepped on us to defend the title once, and now you want to step on us to defend the title? Fucking dream!!"

Yao Huasheng's face was flushed red, and his whole body was trembling slightly.

The internationals have never seen such a captain.

But they all followed the captain's breathing and became heavy.