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After the game against Saudi Arabia, the Chinese team will welcome Uzbekistan, their second opponent in the group stage, in Brisbane.

Compared with Saudi Arabia today, Uzbekistan is stronger. They are the seed team in this group, the first grade.

However, compared with Saudi Arabia, the Chinese team's performance against Uzbekistan was even worse.

Because Uzbekistan only joined the AFC in the 1990s, the Chinese team has not had a long history of confrontation with them.

The Chinese national team has faced Uzbekistan nine times in history, and these nine games refer to international A-level events.

In these nine games, the Chinese team only won three games, tied one game, and lost all the remaining five games.

Moreover, two of the three games they won were insignificant warm-up matches. Only in the top ten of the 2001 World Cup Asian qualifiers, the Chinese team defeated Uzbekistan 2-0 at home, but then they went Lost to the opponent in the away game, the undefeated golden body of the top ten match was broken.

The games lost by the Chinese team are basically important games.

For example, in the Asian Games in Hiroshima in 1994, the Chinese team was strong and strong, and reached the finals, aiming to win the championship. In the final, they met Uzbekistan, which was participating in the Asian Games for the first time. As a result, the Chinese team lost 2:4 to this new Asian team in the final, and missed a great opportunity to win gold in the Asian Games.

Next, in the group stage of the Asian Cup in 1996, Uzbekistan was short of major generals compared with the lineup that won the gold in the Asian Games two years ago. In the game, the Chinese team did indeed have the upper hand. They played very beautifully in the first 80 minutes, but they failed to score. Instead, because of their impatience, they were counterattacked by the opponent twice at the last moment, and finally scored again with a score of 0:2. Drink hate.

In the 2007 Asian Cup, the Chinese team was once again in a group with Uzbekistan. At that time, the Chinese team could qualify from the group after a tie. The situation was very good. But it was this damn "a tie can qualify", so that the Chinese team didn't know how to play in the game. In the end, the Chinese team lost 0:3 to Uzbekistan. Zhu Guanghu's Chinese team created a shameful record: two For the first time in 17 years, the Chinese team failed to qualify for the Asian Cup group stage.

In the 2011 Asian Cup, the Chinese team was divided into a group with Uzbekistan for the third time. This time the Chinese team is no longer able to qualify for a draw, but must beat Uzbekistan to qualify. As a result, they drew with Uzbekistan 2:2 and were unfortunately out.

The last time the Chinese team and Uzbekistan played against each other was in a warm-up match in 2013. The Chinese team lost 1:2 to Uzbekistan.

This is just the history of confrontation at the national team level. At the level of the national youth team, there was a very humiliating defeat in the match against Uzbekistan-it was the knockout stage of the 2008 Asian Youth Championship. Uzbekistan was still tied for extra time, but in the last minute of extra time there was an accident:

The goalkeeper of Uzbekistan was awarded a free kick in the penalty area by the referee after touching the ball with his hands twice in the penalty area. The goalkeeper quarreled with the referee because he was dissatisfied with the penalty and was sent off by the referee. At this time, Uzbekistan has run out of three substitutions, and in desperation can only let defender Tuta Huhayev temporarily guest goalkeeper.

Under such circumstances, the situation of the Chinese team is very good, and it should only be a matter of time before they can advance and qualify for the World Youth Championship-even if a free kick in this penalty area is not scored, the next penalty shootout, facing a temporary Can a defender who plays as a guest goalkeeper fail to score a penalty?

As a result, in the subsequent penalty shoot-out, Wu Xi, the national youth player at the time, kicked the football wide. At the same time, the temporary goalkeeper also saved Li Zhichao's penalty, helping Uzbekistan beat the National Day with a score of 4:3 and won the participation Qualification for the World Youth Championship.

Being eliminated by the opponent in this way is simply a huge humiliation and disaster for the National Youth Team.

And it is worth mentioning that Tutahuhayev, who was the goalkeeper who eliminated the national youth team, is also in the Uzbekistan team this time. In the national youth team that was eliminated at the beginning, there are also two players in the current Chinese team, namely Wu Xi who missed a penalty kick and full-back Zhang Linpeng.

In terms of historical record, the Chinese team has no advantage at all. They met Uzbekistan four times in the Asian Cup group stage.

However, with Gao Zheng this time, the confidence of Chinese fans is still very strong.

Of course, some Chinese media may think that the fans are too optimistic, and keep pouring cold water on everyone, telling them that it is not uncommon for the Chinese team to win the first round of the Asian Cup group stage, but the most important thing is the second round. From the statistical point of view, all the Chinese teams that qualify for the group stage basically win the second game.

In the last two Asian Cups, the Chinese team failed to qualify for the group stage because they failed to win the second group match.

With Uzbekistan's strength, blind optimism is not conducive to the Chinese team defeating the opponent, but will also send a wrong message to the international players-that is, they are already very strong now, no one is afraid, and anyone can win. Going into the game with such emotions is likely to lose the game because of pride and underestimation of the enemy.

If they lost to Uzbekistan in the second round, they would have to beat North Korea, which is known for its tenacious style, in the final round if they want to qualify for the group...

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However, during the training of the Chinese team, head coach Pei Lan sang against some domestic media:

"You must always keep in mind that you are very strong, stronger than others imagine! To be honest, I don't know much about the grievances between Chinese football and Uzbekistan, and I am not interested in knowing the records in those old paper piles. The historical results of the past and eight years ago do not mean anything. You are completely different today than you were four or eight years ago, not to mention the team. Uzbekistan is strong, but we are not weak, I believe As long as everyone believes in this and brings out the best in the game, we can beat Uzbekistan! Remember what I said earlier? We want to be first in the group, let's come back here!"

As a coach, when you need to boost morale, of course you will not use any historical confrontation data to beat your players.

And the players were actually not very nervous.

What the domestic media say may be able to affect many fans, but they cannot affect the national team yet.

After defeating Saudi Arabia, the Chinese team was very relaxed in preparation.

A reporter took pictures of Chinese players talking and laughing during training, Gao Zheng also expressed his confidence when interviewed by Chinese reporters after training: "If you want to win the first place in the group, you must beat Uzbekistan, right? So isn't it easy? We're going to win for sure."

Because in the case of the same score in the Asian Cup group stage, the rules are the same as in Europe. Let's first look at the relationship between the two teams with the same score. As long as the Chinese team beats Uzbekistan, even if the Chinese team loses to North Korea by a large margin in the last group match, they will definitely be able to win the group, because no matter whether Uzbekistan or Saudi Arabia wins, they will be on the same score as the Chinese team. Under the circumstances, they do not have an advantage in the relationship with the Chinese team - they have all been defeated by the Chinese team, so as long as the Chinese team can beat Uzbekistan, they will lock in the first place in the group in advance.

A reporter also asked about scoring goals. Gao Zheng said: "The team's victory is the most important thing. Of course, if the team needs me to score, then I will score."

He downplayed the matter of scoring a goal, and it didn't seem to be a difficult thing.

But everyone is still a little worried. After the outstanding performance in the last game, Uzbekistan will definitely pay more attention to guard against Gao Zheng. Will he still have a chance to score? If Gao Zheng is restricted by Uzbekistan, can the Chinese team really deal with Uzbekistan?

Twenty-two minutes into the match between the Chinese team and Uzbekistan, this worry seemed to be proven not to be "unfounded".

Because Uzbekistan scored!

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