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Fans across the country are very concerned about Gao Zheng's return to participate in the national team competition.

For this reason, there are many more people in Anshan where this competition is held, and many hotel rooms in the city are actually tense. You must know that this is not the National Day Golden Week.

These people came from all over the country just to watch Gao Zheng play football.

The poor performance of the Chinese team in the previous games made them pin their hopes on Gao Zheng. They hope that Gao Zheng can bring immediate changes to the Chinese team after his return.

But to the disappointment of these people, Gao Zheng, who was very popular, did not appear in the starting lineup of the Chinese team against Kuwait.

He sat on the bench!

"...I think the head coach Pei Lan may have considered that Gao Zheng just came back from Madrid. He was exhausted all the way, and his physical condition might not be at his best, so he let Gao Zheng sit on the bench..." The commentator Liu Hong guessed . He wasn't exactly surprised when he got the starting roster, but he was disappointed.

He could understand Gao Zheng's hard work coming back from the long-distance flight, but he still hoped that Gao Zheng could be in the starting lineup.

Not only the commentator Liu Hong was disappointed, but also the fans who watched the TV broadcast across the country and those who rushed to Anshan for the game were also disappointed.

The TV broadcasts frequently focused on Gao Zheng who was sitting on the bench. He was wrapped in a padded jacket and sat on the bench with his teammates. His expression was as usual, and nothing unusual could be seen at all.

The broadcast camera was aimed at coach Perrin again.

The French coach looked serious and focused on the game on the pitch.

In this game, Perrin adjusted the lineup of the Chinese team, playing 343 instead of Gao Zheng on the front line, and chose another high center forward Yang Xu to form a front line combination with Gao Lin and Wu Lei.

I have to say that after the previous three warm-up matches, the Chinese team performed well in the first half of this game. We created a lot of opportunities against the weak Kuwait.

But it has been gaining momentum.

In the 35th minute, the Chinese team also won a penalty kick, but Gao Lin, who wore the captain's armband in this game, took the penalty kick but was saved by Kuwaiti goalkeeper Arkadi.

After the penalty kick, the Chinese fans in the stands couldn't sit still anymore, and they began to shout: "Change to Gao Zheng!"

But amid such calls,

Perrin remained unmoved, with a calm expression.

Liu Hong joked: "Calls for Gao Zheng to be replaced rang out on the stadium, but Pei Lan was unmoved. Of course, this is a very assertive head coach who will not change his mind easily. For example, he has not Recruiting Zheng Zhi seems to be because Zheng Zhi is too old... But at present, there is no one in the domestic midfield who can beat Zheng Zhi..."

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In fact, it’s fine if you just miss a penalty kick. With so many opportunities, the Chinese team can still score.

As a result, at the end of the first half, Kuwait got a corner kick, and they used this corner kick to score with a header, which in turn broke the goal of the Chinese team!

"Oh! The Chinese team missed someone in defense!" Liu Hong yelled regretfully. "The Chinese team conceded the ball towards the end of the first half! It's really bad..."

The boos and shouts of "change Gao Zheng" from the stands grew louder.

The TV broadcast cut the camera to Gao Zheng when the Kuwaiti players were celebrating, and found that after the Chinese team lost the ball, he and his teammates hugged their heads regretfully.

As for Perrin, this time his complexion finally became uneasy.

He seemed to realize that if Gao Zheng was not replaced, things might get out of hand.

So during the intermission, Gao Zheng did not stay on the court like other substitute players, and was warmed up by the assistant coach, but followed the starting players back to the locker room.

Reporters and spectators at the scene noticed this and became excited.

"Gao Zheng is about to play!" The news quickly spread throughout the Anshan Olympic Sports Center.

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In the locker room, after criticizing the players' performance, Perrin made substitution adjustments. He replaced Yang Xu with Gao Zheng.

When Gao Zheng knew that he was about to be replaced, his expression was calm and composed.

It's just that in Perrin's eyes, Gao Zheng's calmness and composure seemed to reflect a certain kind of confidence, which made Perrin think a little too much—would he have been thinking about seeing me make a fool of himself?

But Perrin quickly drove this idea out of his mind, this kind of thinking is too naive.

Judging from his contact with Gao Zheng in the past few days, Gao Zheng is still a very easy person to get in touch with.

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Because the substitution was made during the intermission, Yang Xu didn't play at all after the start of the second half, and Gao Zheng had already replaced him on the court.

The fourth official held up a sign on the sidelines and told the fans and the TV broadcast: The Chinese team made a substitution, No. 9 Gao Zheng came on, and No. 27 Yang Xu left.

The fans at the scene who saw this scene gave out huge cheers, and they finally saw the scene they had been looking forward to for a long time.

In fact, this kind of cheering was an injury to Yang Xu who was replaced, but no one cared about his thoughts at this time, even the CCTV commentator. When Liu Hong said: "Gao Zheng is on the field!" It's different, the voice is an octave higher, and it's refreshing.

Yang Xu probably doesn't have any ideas, even if he did, no one cares...

There's no way, who told him to replace him was Gao Zheng.

Although Gao Zheng is very young, in terms of his achievements in football, everyone in this national team combined is inferior to him. The reason why the Chinese team is able to prepare for the Asian Cup now is entirely because of Gao Zheng, otherwise it is hard to say whether the Chinese team can enter the Asian Cup finals.

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The change of Gao Zheng's playing was very immediate. In the 53rd minute, Wu Xi made a cross after breaking through the right side of the penalty area. Gao Zheng leaned his body on the Kuwaiti central defender in the penalty area, and then turned around and volleyed. The football slipped between the legs of Kuwaiti goalkeeper Arkadi and into the goal!

"Gao Zheng! The goal is scored! Beautiful! He equalized the score for the Chinese team! It can be seen that Gao Zheng's physical condition is very good, and there is no sign of fatigue from the journey. The shot just now was completed by leaning on Kuwaiti defender Ali Yes, in a physical confrontation with the opponent's defender, he is not at a disadvantage!"

The Olympic Sports Center in Anshan finally broke out the biggest wave of cheers in this game.

Some fans pointed at Pei Lan who was also celebrating the goal and shouted: "Let Gao Zheng start as early as possible, wouldn't it be over!"

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After scoring the goal, Gao Zheng smiled and hugged his teammates with high fives, celebrating the goal. He was not very excited personally, but his teammates were very excited.

His goal blew the clarion call for the Chinese team to counterattack.

Mainly, he let the Chinese team have a clear direction when attacking in the frontcourt, knowing who to pass the football to-if you don't know who to pass the football to, then pass it to Gao Zheng, that's right!

In the 64th minute, it was Gao Zheng who received a cross from teammate Feng Xiaoting in the penalty area and shot. Kuwaiti goalkeeper Arkadi lost his hand during the save and gave Yu Hanchao, who had just come off the bench, a supplementary shot. Opportunity, Yu Hanchao volleyed sideways, and the football flew into the Kuwait goal again.

2:1, the Chinese team overtook the score!

Although it wasn't Gao Zheng's goal this time, no one would think that the goal had nothing to do with Gao Zheng.

However, just as the Chinese team was about to go all out and win by a big score at home, Ren Xing received his second yellow card in the game for dragging the Kuwaiti players during a defense and was sent off with a red card.

The Chinese team, with one less player, suddenly became passive, while Kuwait's morale was high and they planned to equalize the score.

The fans of the Chinese team watching during this period were terrified—even though it was a warm-up match or a friendly match, no one wanted to see a defeat.

Fortunately, this time the Chinese team withstood Kuwait's violent offensive and gradually regained the initiative after the 85th minute.

In the 90th minute, Gao Zheng sent a long pass after retracing, helping Wu Lei hit a quick counterattack.

After Wu Lei received the ball, he quickly rushed into Kuwait's penalty area, passed a defender, and then shot the football into Kuwait's goal, completely killing the game.

In the end, the Chinese team reversed Kuwait with a score of 3:1 at home. This is also the second victory that Perrin has won after coaching the Chinese team. He has won two of five games. It is no wonder that the media has been so concerned about Perrin during this period of time. Doubts are loud...