The domestic media is still blowing the news about the match against the South Korean team, and the coaches, players, and very few people like Zhang Sheng who keep a clear head are already worried about the game against Iran.

"How's your physical condition?" After receiving Nie Jiang's call to him, Zhang Sheng's first concern was his body.

"It's a bit of a no-brainer. Nie Jiang replied honestly.

"It's fine. There's always a recovery period after a tournament. Zhang Sheng, who has studied the last game of China vs. South Korea, knows the intensity of the game, the last game is the game with the most running distance, high-intensity running distance, and sprint running distance since Nie Jiang's debut, and it is also the game with the highest above three data for the Chinese team in the past ten years, "Pato also mentioned you to me yesterday." ”

"Oh, he's back to China?" Nie Jiang was obviously drawn to the topic as well.

In fact, this is also the topic that Zhang Sheng deliberately wanted Nie Jiang to come out of his tired state: "He actually watched your last game, and he went to the scene." ”

"Sister Shuang also went?", when Pato was still in the team, he was very good to Nie Jiang and always treated him as a little brother, and Pato's Chinese wife Lu Shuang, as Nie Jiang's former Spanish teacher, also loved this child who had been dependent on his mother since he was a child, and usually took care of him in life. Nie Jiang also asked her for the first time.

"Yes. They came back to make a birthday wine for their children. Zhang Sheng deliberately pulled these parents with Nie Jiang, "Pato saw us arresting Zhou for the first time, and I don't know how surprised I am. You know? What's even more peculiar is that the first thing that their son caught was a soccer ball, and we all said he was the successor. ”

"Haha! Nie Jiang looked very happy, "Maybe it will be a generation of football kings in the future." ”

"Pato and your sisters both asked me to talk to you. Zhang Sheng finally brought the topic back, "They told you not to be too anxious." It's much better to watch a funny movie and get a good night's sleep than if you always have a nerve. Pato, in particular, said that he often distracts himself by learning new things that have nothing to do with football, posting scarves on the Internet as an after-game pastime, which helps him recover. ”

"Got it. Nie Jiang really felt Zhang Sheng's heart for him, "I will adjust my state in time." ”

"It's all about the body. Zhang Sheng finally admonished, "Say something you shouldn't say, if you feel unrefreshed, you'd rather be ready to rest at any time in this game, it's better than if you're injured." The Top 12 is a long-term process, and there are still a long way to go. ”

"Hmm. Nie Jiang took the phone and nodded heavily, as if Zhang Sheng was standing in front of him.

It was not only Nie Jiang who contacted Zhang Sheng, Qin Minghao, who was injured during training, also called Zhang Sheng in extreme depression, this time the sprain was still a bit serious, and the team doctor of the national team thought that he would need at least two to three weeks to fully recover.

This is very bad news for Qin Minghao, who needs to fight hard to fight for a position in RB Leipzig.

"It's been a bit moldy lately. Qin Minghao on the phone had a muffled voice, complaining about his injury.

In addition to comforting him, Zhang Sheng didn't know how to persuade him: "Players always have highs and lows. When the state is good, it is naturally smooth sailing and happy, but when the state is average, the days have to be passed, isn't it? At this time, how to treat people with a calm mind is also the most tempering, you should take this as a test. I believe that these things are not a problem for the players who came out of our Dragon team. ”

"Hmm. Although Zhang Sheng was only a very basic comforting operation, the persuasion of his mentor still gave Qin Minghao great strength.

As an "outsider", Zhang Sheng is relieving pressure on the players, and Lippi, as an insider, understands this better.

"I know expectations are high for everybody right now. In the pre-match meeting, Lippi was very relaxed about his opinion on the game, "but that's just the outside world's opinion. Iran is not a good team to play, this is a team that would rather defend and get a point than take the plunge and get three points, if we always think about how many goals we have to score and how beautiful we want to win, then we are likely to win and lose. Give up illusions, take it one step at a time, and rather defend it first, and then think about winning. ”

"So according to the tactics that we've been training in all this time. Lippi instructed word by word, "In the first half we will defend first, and in the second half we will find a way to attack." I believe that in Asia, as long as we defend each other, we will definitely be able to defend it, and as long as we want to attack, there will always be a way to attack it. ”

Lippi arguably set the tone for this game – resilient defensive counter-attacks.

After the official match began, the players of the Chinese team kind of understood why the Asadi Stadium was called the home of the devil.

The 1,100-meter-high plateau stadium is very uncomfortable for the teams who come here, and the Iranians, who have always used the national team game as an outlet, are also very wild in the stands, and the stadium with a capacity of 100,000 spectators once packed 120,000 people, although this game did not reach this number, but it was also full.

In the history of previous encounters, in the 23 encounters, the national football team won 5, drew 7 and lost 11, scoring 20 goals and conceding 39 goals. In the World Preliminaries, Iran can be described as the "bitter master" of the national football team, the two teams have met a total of 5 times in the World Preliminaries, the national football team has 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses, and the last time the national football team defeated the Iranian team in the World Preliminaries, it was back in 1989.

As for the Assadi Stadium, the Chinese team was completely defeated.

So far, Iran has not scored many goals - only five, less than China and South Korea, but it is terrible not to concede a goal in five games, this is the final stage of the world preliminaries, Iran is facing the strongest teams in Asia.

In the minutes since the start of the game, Iran have played something completely different on their home turf than they have on the road.

The same is the defense, the Iranian team's defense starts from the front, which is also what everyone often calls high pressing.

In the 4th minute of the first half, Taremi's pressing caused Feng Xiaoting to lose the ball to the Iranian team in a hurry, and then he received the ball from his teammates, and hit the Chinese team's goal with a homeopathic push.

Iran then took another corner and Guchanejad's header went just wide.

"It's a bit passive. Although He Wei, who was in charge of the commentary, said it lightly, he was actually very worried about the Chinese team, "Iran's high-level pressing is very powerful." ”

"It's their home turf, after all. Old partner Xu Yang was also staring nervously at the field.

In fact, a large part of the reason for the poor performance of the Chinese team is that the attack in the front court is a bit difficult to play, and it has not been able to give the Iranian team enough threat to the defense.

Qin Minghao and Zheng Zhi are injured and the other is muscle fatigue, and their positions were replaced by Lin Feng and Qi Ming respectively, and at the same time, in order to hold the first half, the more physical Gao Lin and Zhang Yuning were on the front line, and Ding Huaiyi and Nie Jiang were both sitting on the bench, obviously to prepare for the second half.

With such a big change in the frontcourt, the offensive fluency of the Chinese team is not the same as in the last game.

Fortunately, the current Chinese team is not bad, and after letting Guchanejad finish a very dangerous shot from outside the box again in the eighth minute, Lippi's roar on the sidelines made the Chinese players normal.

In the twelfth minute of the first half, the Iranian team wanted to repeat the old trick, the four players in the front court and the two players in the midfield suddenly forced the Chinese team with the ball on the collective premise, and as a result, Li Yun, Feng Xiaoting, Qi Ming and Lin Feng, who had withdrawn back, transferred the ball several times in a row, and selected the ball from the defensive net arranged by the Iranian team.

This time, the backfield and the front court of the Iranian team were obviously a little disconnected because there were too many people who were involved in the front court, and when Lin Feng passed the ball to Zhang Yuning, there was no one to defend within five meters of the latter.

Iran's defensive midfielder Ezatolahi had to take Zhang Yuning down with a foul, which also led to his first yellow card of the game.

"Zhang Yuning is still slow, he shouldn't take this step more, if he passes the ball, the threat will be greater. He Wei said regretfully, "Gao Lin has already asked for the ball on the left side." ”

'It's a bit of a shame but our tactical thinking is clear. Xu Yang took over the conversation, "Don't panic in the face of high pressure, hold the ball steady, let a few players with good skills at their feet in the midfield come to respond, once they can pass the ball, Iran's high pressure will become a hidden danger for them." ”

"Definitely. Now they have received a yellow card at the back. The game has only been played for so long, and he will play very hard later. On the field, the Chinese team stabilized its position, and He Wei was also relieved.

Sure enough, the Iranian team no longer dared to use too many players to the front court to force as before, and the Chinese team finally had the opportunity to slowly push the ball forward from the back court to play a positional battle.

After Iran shifted their tactical focus to a more central midfield, another advantage came to their fore, and that was the physical advantage.

Qin Minghao and Zheng Zhi are not there, the Chinese team has not only lost the proficiency and accuracy in ball control and organization, but also in the confrontation, Lin Feng and Qi Ming are obviously still a little immature.

In the twenty-first minute of the first half, Xu Mingyu got Qi Ming's pass, and he obviously suffered a loss in the confrontation with the one-meter-eighty-seven Taremi, who squeezed behind his body so that Xu Mingyu staggered and lost the ball, and Jahanbakhsh, who was not far from Xu Mingyu, took the ball away from Xu Mingyu when he saw the opportunity.

Fortunately, Qi Ming was very alert, and when Jahanbakhsh had just won the ball, his tackle arrived, and the latter was brought down by Qi Ming with the ball.

Because it was a relatively positive tackle, the referee just warned Qi Ming to make a small move, and did not show any cards, which was a very cost-effective foul.

In the next game, the speed of the Iranian team's midfield pressing and attacking and defensive conversion was obviously higher than that of the Chinese team, and the home advantage made them dare to make moves, and the three midfielders of the Chinese team 4-3-3 could not withstand it, and Gao Lin and Wu Lei, who were on the two wings, had to withdraw to help the team defend.

Gradually, the Iranian team pressed back the overall formation of the Chinese team.

The Iranian team, which had the advantage in midfield, played a rare positional attack.

As long as fans who are familiar with the style of the Iranian team know that this team has the best body and strength in Asia, individual players have very good foot skills, the speed and individual breakthrough ability of the wing players are also very strong, and even their goalkeepers have a lot of fame, but they have not had a good midfield playmaker.

In other words, the style of the Iranian team players is suitable for playing defense and counter-attack, not for playing pass control.

For example, they now have the advantage of the midfield, and several players in the midfield hold the ball and keep passing the ball horizontally or diagonally, in front of the Chinese team that stands firmly in the defensive formation, in fact, there is not much threat.

Before the game, Lippi boasted to his players that "as long as you want to defend, you can definitely defend", which was not an empty phrase.

Seeing that the time of the first half passed by minute by minute, Iran, who had the advantage in midfield, could not score, and they began to play more simply.

Several players in the Iranian midfield and backfield began to pass a large number of balls behind the Chinese team, creating panic in the Chinese team's penalty area or a vacuum in the defense by using the physical confrontation advantage of the forward players in the one-point competition, and then the central midfielders inserted in the back row continued to expand the offensive threat in the second penalty kick and sought a good opportunity to dunk.

However, Lippi's nickname of "Silver Fox" is not in vain, after the Iranian team's Taremi and even fullback Mohammadi made two very threatening long-range shots from outside the penalty area, he commanded Qi Ming to strengthen the sweep at the top of the arc in front of the penalty area, and at the same time asked Feng Xiaoting to put the position on the premise and not give the Iranian team the opportunity to easily take the ball and get up from the second penalty.

In the 41st minute of the first half, Ibrahimi fired an anti-aircraft gun to reveal the Iranian team's impatience.

"Coach Lippi was obviously going to hold on for the first half. And this strategic task has been done very well. He Wei, who had seen through Lippi's tactical arrangement early, is completely different from the opening meeting, "The Iranian team has body and speed. We limit your body, limit your speed, don't let you rush up, recklessly, and we do a good job of targeting. ”

"Zheng Zhi and Qin Minghao are not there, which has a great impact on us, but the two substitute players still play very brightly. Xu Yang also looked very relaxed when he saw the Iranian team that was a little helpless on the field, "Especially Qi Ming, who has a very experienced grasp of the rhythm." When the opponent's midfield was exerting force, his several tackles and fouls were very timely. ”

Indeed, several of his key interceptions interrupted the flashpoint of the opponent's offensive acceleration, and the foul level was also good, this player who is extremely valued by Coach Zhang Sheng does have his advantages. When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, He Wei was still vigorously touting Qi Ming.

And the players of the Chinese team who walked down from the field were also relaxed, talking and laughing.

Obviously, both the commentators and the players were very satisfied with the 0:0 score in the first half.

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