Golden Greenery

The story background of today's game should be familiar to the Chinese team. Destiny is not in their own hands. If there was no such bridge in the past, fans would feel that something was missing.

Before the game, the Chinese team was ranked second among the eight groups, and was only ranked sixth. It was a promotion spot, which meant that the Chinese team not only had to win, but also prayed that at least two competitors would miss.

Asia is a vast territory, spanning ten time zones from east to west, so it was not intentional by the AFC that the final rounds of the eight groups of the top 40 were scheduled to be held on the same day, but not at the same time.

Before the St. Suzaku game started, Australia's 5:1 match against Jordan in Group B had just ended. Jordan settled on 16 points. As long as the Chinese team with 14 points could win, they only had to hope for another unlucky guy.

The premise of everything is to "win", otherwise the Chinese team itself will be the unlucky ghost that others look forward to.

The fans of St. Zhuque loved Zhuo Yang to death. The game started with the hot magma boiling, but no one in the stands really paid attention to the game between the two sides. All 65,000 people looked at Zhuo Yang singing and dancing in the coaching bench. , the big screen at the scene also kept showing his close-up.

In fact, Zhuo Yang is not qualified to sit on the coaching bench today because he is not on the reported list, but no one cares about this at this moment. However, Yang Chen, the very careful team leader, did not ignore it. He reminded the Football Association officials to immediately Go to the AFC officials to report it to avoid criticism of this small oversight after the game.

The passionate emotions of the fans did not disturb Zhuo Yang, who watched the game on the field intently.

The German Sforza and the Dutch Rijkaard naturally have different tactical concepts, but since Zage took office for more than a year, he has not made any significant changes to the Chinese team's tactical system in the past few years, and it still continues. Introduced Jieshuai's tactical thinking of using offense instead of defense.

The most important reason is that the current stage of the Chinese team is only a transitional period, which is closely related to Zhuo Yang's overall long-term plan for the national team. Zha Ge now only needs to be a good caretaker.

Domestic fans and media do not pay much attention to the current national team, not just because of Zhuo Yang's absence, because everyone knows that with the strength of this group of personnel, their potential has been fully explored and their strength has been reached. No further improvement is possible.

After the 2014 World Cup, the Chinese team's quarterfinal record attracted the attention of many people, and not just domestically. Chinese players have become popular and are taken to Europe in groups.

Only when the tide recedes did we know who was not wearing pants. After just one season, most of them were brought back to their original shape. They were either reduced to dead substitutes who could not play, were loaned out by their clubs to live in low-level lives, or returned to China to continue to show off their talents. .

The waves are raging, and only the four "Three Zhangs and One Yan" who were originally valued by Zhuo Yang have become the real overseas players.

But it's not easy either.

Zhang Chendong is Rayo Vallecano's defensive panacea in La Liga, a bit like Real Madrid's Nacho, and his team status is similar, very much a substitute. In last year's final match against Real Madrid 10:2 against Rayo Vallecano, Zhang Chendong came on as a substitute in the second half and was beaten by Bale.

Zhang Xizhe is basically in the same situation in Serie A Sassuolo. In the 14-15 season, he was the substitute of veteran Matteo Bridge. This season, he became the backup of Karim Lalibi.

The iron man Zhang Linpeng is also pretty much the same. He is also a rotation substitute for the defense in Huocun in the Bundesliga. Goalkeeper Yan Junlin is slightly better at Madiburg, but he also has to compete with the younger Bernd Leno, and the two basically share the starting opportunity.

In any case, San Zhang and Yi Yan are already the pinnacle of Chinese overseas players. Although they can barely reach the second rate in Europe, they are enough to become the skyscraper of domestic players.

The same is true for Wu Lei, who did not study abroad. He is currently the best forward in China, or even the only outstanding forward. However, in the Chinese Super League in 2014 and 2015, he ranked 9th and 7th in the final scorer list respectively. He was completely suppressed by the foreign forwards, and the number of goals scored was far behind Elkeson and Aloisio.

All five of them are no longer young and are now at the peak of their respective careers. Therefore, their current achievements or situation intuitively reflect the strength dilemma of the national football team.

This batch can no longer be counted on. Today's national team is in a transitional period, and they are only transitional players during this period, so the requirements for them cannot be too high, because that is unrealistic.

Not only the national team, but even the current domestic league competition system is also in a transition period. In Zhuoyang's long-term plan, the reform of domestic youth training and competition systems is comprehensive and continuous.

Zhuo Yang brought a real football craze after returning to the national team in 2008. We have to wait until this group of children grow up.

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At the end of the first half, the score was still 0:0.

Wu Lei missed two relatively good opportunities. He didn't dare to look at Zhuo Yang when he came down.

The Qataris' ambition to compete was dampened by Zhuo Yang's appearance and the heated atmosphere. They had already qualified early and had no desire or reason to win today. Basically, after 20 minutes, the Qataris completely retreated.

But in this way, the Chinese team is actually more difficult to beat. The Chinese team cannot smash the turtle shell and has to be wary of the opponent's sneak attack.

The 35-year-old Brazilian midfielder Rodrigo Tabata is a naturalized player from the Brazilian powerhouse Santos. Tabata is not very good, but he was very strong when he played in the J-League in his early years. The Japanese media translated his name "Tabata" into "Tabata", which is very interesting.

Because they are not very familiar with it, many Chinese media now use this title.

The door to victory for the Chinese team was opened by Tabata.

In the 57th minute, Tabata dribbled the ball in the midfield and tried to aim at the gap. It's okay if you don't aim at this thing, but after taking aim for a long time, it was passed directly to Zhang Xizhe, giving the Chinese team an excellent counterattack in vain.

Wu Lei got the ball in the penalty area and passed it across the goal line near the baseline;

Li Xuepeng's shot from behind was blocked by the goalkeeper;

Yu Dabao's shot again hit the crossbar and bounced off;

Zhao Mingjian on the outside hit the ball in the chest after stopping the ball;

Huang Bowen half-turned and volleyed;

The football finally goes straight into the net.

The process of scoring goals can be called twists and turns, or it can be said that it is more laborious than eating shit.

After 1:0, both sides mobilized their troops. Qatar coach Carreño even replaced three planning players, Muntari, Luis Seyara, and Bodiaf, to strengthen the attack, but there was basically no change in the scene.

In order to fulfill his goal-scoring promise to the captain, Wu Lei suffered from cramps in the 85th minute. In fact, his reputation as the "King of Cramps" in international football is much greater than himself.

In the five games played by the Chinese team in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Wu Lei suffered cramps five times and never failed in every game.

However, whenever Wu Lei gets cramps, he and the Chinese team will not be too unlucky.

Finally, in the 88th minute, with a standard cooperation with Hao Junmin's diagonal pass, Wu Lei fell to the ground in the penalty area and scored a goal, locking the score at 2:0. He finally completed half of his promise. At least I can meet people after the game.

Fifteen minutes before the end of the St. Suzaku game, the match between the Philippines and North Korea ended first at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila.

An Australian naturalized forward named Elan Ramsey scored a goal on the 90th +2 of the game, giving the Philippines a 3:2 buzzer-beater. North Korea became another unlucky commodity.

At this point, the Chinese team ranks fourth among the eight groups with 17 points, becoming the 12th best player in the Asian top 12 of the 2018 Russia World Cup qualifiers.

When Zhuo Yang was reborn and woke up, the Chinese team's luck also woke up.