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As the first group match is approaching, everyone pays more and more attention to the game itself, and no one cares about other gossip.

The Chinese team's opponent in the first round of the group stage is Saudi Arabia.

This is the old opponent of Chinese football, and it can also be said to be the sufferer of Chinese football. Of course, there are quite a few sufferers for Chinese football in Asia, and Saudi Arabia is just one of them, not the worst sufferer...

Just in this Asian Cup qualifier, the Chinese team was in a group with Saudi Arabia.

In the first game, the Chinese team lost 1:2 to Saudi Arabia in an away game. At that time, the head coach of the Chinese team was the Spaniard Camacho, and Gao Zheng had not yet been selected for the national team.

Later, when the two teams met again, Gao Zheng was already a member of the Chinese team. The Chinese team faced Saudi Arabia at home. That game was related to whether the Chinese team could successfully qualify for the Asian Cup.

In this game, Saudi Arabia caused some troubles for Gao Zheng, and Gao Zheng was very strict in defense, so for a while, Gao Zheng could only pass the football to his teammates after attracting the Saudi Arabian defenders, but his teammates Not very neatly, wasting the opportunities he created.

In the end, Gao Zheng solved the problem with a shot himself.

This scene is very similar to the Chinese team's warm-up match against Palestine.

This confrontation experience also made everyone a little worried about the prospects of the Chinese team.

At that time, Saudi Arabia had basically qualified for the qualifying round ahead of schedule, so it was not going all out yet.

But this time in the Asian Cup group stage, Saudi Arabia has absolutely no reason to release water. Although they lost 0:4 to South Korea in the previous internal warm-up match, who knows if they deliberately released smoke bombs on the Chinese team?

You should know that China hired the media to record the whole match in that warm-up match. Saudi Arabia did not deliberately avoid the Chinese media. Is there any conspiracy?

If the Chinese team thinks that Saudi Arabia is a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch, it may be in bad luck.

In fact, if the Chinese team does not have Gao Zheng, even if they can get into this Asian Cup by chance, they will not be favored at all. In this group, they can even be said to be the weakest team. After all, in the history of the Asian Cup, The Chinese team has never won against three other opponents in this group - against Uzbekistan twice, both in the group stage, and the result was a 0:3 defeat.

A 2:2 draw against Saudi Arabia in the Asian Cup four times, the Chinese team had one draw and three losses; there was also a confrontation against North Korea and the Chinese team, and the result was a 1:2 defeat.

Even with Gao Zheng, the situation might not be much better. From a rational point of view, Gao Zheng is like a huge torch burning in the dark night, no matter from which angle he can be seen.

As the opponents of the Chinese team, they will definitely study Gao Zheng carefully and make targeted tactical arrangements. Everyone knows that as long as Gao Zheng is restrained, the Chinese team is no threat, so why not do it?

In fact, before the first round of the group stage, Saudi Arabia's head coach Cosmin Olaroyu told the Saudi Arabian local media "Middle East News" that if he wanted to beat the Chinese team, he only needed to freeze Zheng Zhi and Gao Zheng. Two people are enough, and the Saudi Arabian players who are playing against the two of them should try to compress the space for the two of them to prevent them from playing too easily.

As long as the Chinese team's offense can be contained, in Olaroyu's view, there is no suspense in defeating the Chinese team, because the Chinese team's defense is really not very good. After all, they have a "Chinese team's nemesis" Hazaz. He has blown up China's defenses before, whether he was against the Guangzhou team or against the Chinese team.

However, at the press conference before the game, Olaroyu said something else: "...we have to face the strong Chinese team in the first game. The Chinese team is very strong and well organized. The coach is also very good. We will try our best to solve some problems that occurred in the warm-up match, and meet the Chinese team in the best condition... We will work hard to win the right to qualify for the group..."

Listening to this, how low the posture is, and the Chinese team is bragging, it makes people doubt whether the previous interview is true.

But maybe when he only faces the domestic media, what he said has a little credibility.

Because of the same, what Peilan, the head coach of the Chinese team, said at the press conference was completely different from what he said to the domestic media. He did not emphasize the first place in the group, but boasted about Saudi Arabia.

Both sides are desperately bragging about their opponents, and when talking about their teams, they both say that they will go all out.

Both head coaches are giving each other bad milk and hoping it works...

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When Gao Zheng walked out of the channel wearing the red jersey of the Chinese team and walked into the stadium with his teammates, they were warmly welcomed by the Chinese fans present.

He looked up and looked around. The Brisbane Stadium, which can accommodate 50,000 fans, is still quite empty. It is completely incomparable with Atletico Madrid's home atmosphere.

However, if you have watched another match between North Korea and Uzbekistan in the same group, you will feel that the atmosphere of the Chinese team's match is already very enthusiastic.

The shouts of "Come on, Chinese team" are everywhere.

Let every Chinese fan feel as if they have come to their own home court, rather than playing in a foreign country.

It is said that 14,000 Chinese fans and local Chinese fans came to watch the game live.

Looking around, red is the main color in places where people gather, and green or white in Saudi Arabia is very rare.

This is not Gao Zheng's first game, nor is it his first national team game. But for some reason, looking at these overwhelmingly dominant Chinese fans, he still became a little nervous.

Joining Sampdoria didn't feel like a dream come true for him, and playing for Atletico Madrid didn't feel like it was a dream come true. But today, at this moment, he felt that his dream had come true.

Wearing the jersey of the Chinese team, representing the Chinese team on the stage of the Intercontinental Competition.

Calm down, Gao Zheng, this is just the Asian Cup. And your real goal should be the World Cup!

Thinking of this, Gao Zheng took a few deep breaths to calm down his emotions.

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"After a series of ceremonies before the game, players from both sides are now standing in their respective positions, and the game is about to start..." said the on-site commentator He Ping. "In fact, in terms of historical confrontation record, we and Saudi Arabia should be close, with six wins, four draws and seven losses. But the problem is that it has been too long since we beat Saudi Arabia last time. The last time we beat Saudi Arabia was in 1997. Since then, we have no British opponents. I hope the boys of the Chinese team can muster their fighting spirit and courage to defeat Saudi Arabia and win the first prize for the Chinese team's trip to the Asian Cup!"

"The good news is that last year's Asian Footballer of the Year Alhamrani from Saudi Arabia was absent due to injury..." commentator Xu Yang laughed. "Of course, I believe that even if Shamrani is not injured, the boys of the Chinese team should not be afraid..."

"Saudi Arabia has Alshamrani, and we have Gao Zheng!"

Both He Ping and Xu Yang laughed.

After the joke, the referee also blew the whistle to start the game.

"Okay, the game begins! CCTV! CCTV! Audience friends, welcome to the first round of the 2015 Australian Asian Cup Group B group match, the match between the Chinese team and Saudi Arabia!"

After the standard prologue, the game began.

There were huge cheers from the Chinese fans at the scene.

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