6. Asian Cup (2)

It should be said that the Chinese fans are still very powerful in this game. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Brisbane Stadium has received nearly 47,000 people, 30 per cent of whom are Chinese. If Australians were to say this was their home turf, it would only be half of that. Chinese immigrants, migrant workers, and young international students poured all their patriotic enthusiasm into this team.

Before the game, in the square outside the stadium, these fans sang and danced, which was extremely eye-catching. There are both traditional Chinese lion dance performances and Dama's square dance, which now despises everything in China, which can be said to have created a very good competition atmosphere for the Chinese team.

After the start of the game, the Chinese team adopted a very obvious defensive counterattack tactic, more in the middle and back, not in a hurry to attack, but chose to play a counterattack after the Australian attack.

It should be said that Perran's tactic almost succeeded.

In the fifth minute of the first half, the Chinese team successfully played a counterattack. Zheng Zhi made a successful steal in the backfield and handed the ball to Xu Mingyu, Xu Mingyu handed the ball to Wu Lei in the front court with a very beautiful through pass, Wu Lei formed a breakthrough on the left side, he used his relatively short stature and lower center of gravity to shake off Australia's left wingback Davidson, and then handed the ball to Qin Minghao, who was inserted from the middle.

Qin Minghao was immediately pressed by Australian defender Jedinak after receiving the ball, and he thought he could use his body to gain an advantage in the confrontation, but after hitting Qin Minghao, he found that the opponent was not as vulnerable as other Chinese players. Although Qin Minghao's body shook slightly, he still held the ball steady, and he broke through successfully.

This time, Qin Minghao directly faced the Australian backline.

Qin Minghao used his skills to successfully steal the top of Australian centre-back Wilkinson, and then shot with his feet before another centre-back, Sainsbury, came up, and the shot was very beautiful, flying directly into the top right corner of the goal.

However, Australia's goalkeeper Matthew Ryan showed what he could do with a very good save to get the must-score off the line.

After all the previous group games, Matthew Ryan was named the best goalkeeper in the group stage, and this save showed everyone that he is now the number one goalkeeper in Asia.

Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of the commentary, also applauded Qin Minghao's breakthrough and shooting: "Qin Minghao's continuous passing in the midfield, beautiful getaways, shooting, oops, the opponent's goalkeeper is really strong." The Chinese team obviously entered the rhythm of the game first, the Australians were the hosts, but the South Korean team that was comprehensively suppressed in the group stage succeeded in stealing chickens, and the second place in the group obviously put them under pressure. ”

And Liu Jianhong's commentary partner Li Ming also commented on the Chinese team's attack: "Qin Minghao's ability at the feet is very prominent, although the Australian player is taller, with longer legs and a larger defensive area, but the weakness in speed and turning is obvious, Qin Minghao took advantage of this and played his own advantages, and then the Chinese team is going to play like this, specifically behind them." ”

The Chinese team, which won a corner kick, did not directly drive the ball to the middle of the opponent's crowd this time, after all, in terms of header ability, whether it is defense or offense, Australia is the best in Asia.

Qin Minghao and Xu Mingyu, who were in charge of the corner, played a tactical corner, and finally Ding Huaiyi completed a shot in front of the penalty area, and the ball was slightly off the goal.

The Chinese team's attack this time is very morale-boosting, after Australia pressed the formation before, they continued to kick on the side, although because the pass was not good, it did not pose any real threat to the Chinese team, but it still put the Chinese team's back line under pressure.

The Chinese team's counterattack told the opponent to "don't press too high, otherwise be careful of your goal." ”

In the next game, they continued their previous offensive, still pressed their formation very high, and strengthened the pressing and confrontation on the field, and at the same time, the rhythm of the game suddenly became faster, and Australia woke up with confidence in winning.

In the next game, the Chinese team played very hard, except for Qin Minghao, who could hold the ball in the midfield, whether it was Ding Huaiyi, Xu Mingyu or Wu Lei in front of him, they all seemed very passive.

In the 27th minute of the first half, an encounter by Wu Lei was the epitome of the Chinese team's players. This time, Cai Huikang and Xu Mingyu finally broke the ball of the Australian player in the midfield, but Cai Huikang's passing accuracy was not strong, the ball was a little far away from Wu Lei's body, Wu Lei wanted to start quickly to grab the ball, but unfortunately in the confrontation with the Australian player, Wu Lei seemed to hit a wall and was ejected far away, and the referee did not say anything in the face of such a normal physical confrontation.

The ball that the Chinese team finally grabbed in the backcourt was so easily gone.

Liu Jianhong, who had praised the performance of the Chinese team before, gradually fell silent during this time, especially after seeing this ball, Liu Jianhong said: "The Australian players are too strong, and their level of confrontation is something that the players of the Chinese team have never encountered in these years, and now the situation of the game, the Chinese team is very passive." ”

Li Ming also said sadly: "For so many years, the backwardness of Chinese football has made this national team have a lot of debts, you must know that in the past 10 years, we have not even had the opportunity to compete with the first-class teams in Asia." Today's opponents, Australia, have reached the finals of the World Cup for the second time in a row, and they have much more top-level experience than us. ”

Li Ming's words are not wrong, not to mention the World Cup, the Chinese team has only reached the finals in 2002 for so many years; even in competitions like the Asian Cup, the Chinese team's results over the years are ridiculously poor. In 2007, the Chinese team failed to qualify for two consecutive group games, if it were not for the players of the Longteng team, this year's Asian Cup Chinese team was the best group third to barely enter the Asian Cup.

In terms of players, except for Qin Minghao and Li Yun in Europe, most of the players in the Chinese team now belong to Asian players from the "last era".

Some players, such as Wu Lei, have speed and technique, and even do not lack strength and explosiveness, but do not have the ability to play technical skills in high-intensity confrontations, or only have the physical ability to play high-intensity confrontations for 60 minutes;

Although the Chinese team is now vigorously catching up with the appearance of the Longteng team, it is far from enough in just one or two years.

The next step of the Chinese team's strength improvement, must cultivate a group of top physical conditions, flawless basic skills, strong tactical execution ability of the players, and this depends on a highly competitive league system, only the league level continues to improve, the pressure on the players to maintain progress, in order to let those talented players do not lie on the physical advantage of sleep, so that the average physical condition of the players are forced to hone their skills to the super Asian level. The final selection of the national team will naturally have a great improvement.

It's still the first half of the game, the Chinese team has the physical fitness of football to fight, maybe coupled with luck and Wang Dalei's super-level play, the Chinese team can hold the first half, but in the second half, it can't be held.

Secondly, according to Zhang Sheng's idea, such a game should be a few wild attacks in the first half, to see if you can use the players' physical foundation to play a few beautiful cooperation, once there is a goal, insist on playing defensive counterattack. If you don't score in the first half, wait until the second half, and then replace the players with strong defensive ability to entangle with the opponent in the middle and back, wear down the opponent's morale, and finally see if you can steal the chicken before the end of the game.

At this time, the situation was very bad, including Qin Minghao, the frontcourt players had to return to the midfield to defend, so that Qin Minghao's offensive organization ability could not be fully played, and the Chinese team could only rely on running in the midfield to stop the opponent's attack.

Zhang Sheng, who has been watching the game, has to sigh that the outside world has been complaining about the rough skills of Australian players, but this roughness also depends on who to compare with, when Australian players are compared with those players in South America, Europe and even Africa in the World Cup, it is indeed rough in technology, but at the Asian level, especially in the face of the Chinese team, it is a top player with outstanding skills.

For example, as is the case on the field now, the Australian players made continuous passes on the left side of the Chinese team, and then Bresciano handed the ball to Kreuzer who inserted it into the penalty area, and Kreuzer's shot was too small and was saved by Wang Dalei.

This time Australia's attack was completely ground passing, and it was very smooth, the player's running position was accurate, it was completely a textbook short pass in the front court with the attack, although the ball did not go in, but their offensive routine did play.

In the 33rd minute of the first half, Australia won a corner kick, Kreuzer's header was very beautiful, but Wang Dalei's save was more beautiful, and he almost bent his waist into the maximum angle in the backwards, and then used his hand to pull the ball off the crossbar, and the Chinese team escaped.

In the forty-fifth minute, before the end of the first half, Xu Mingyu fouled Australia in the midfield and gave Australia a free kick in front, Reciano passed the ball on the right side, and Sainsbury's forward plug ball was slightly higher than the crossbar.

The Chinese team also relied on tenacious defense to keep the score at 0:0 in the first half.

At halftime, all the players of the Chinese team looked very tired, and the non-stop running in the first half made them very physically exhausted, and the high-speed rhythm and high-intensity confrontation made them out of breath.

Perrin didn't have much to do at halftime, the team as a whole was suppressed, the attack couldn't beat the opponent's half at all, and the physical consumption was serious, the second half would be more difficult, he could only keep encouraging the players, hoping to give them mental support, but it didn't have much effect.

Liu Jianhong, who was in charge of the commentary, also said embarrassedly: "Judging from the first half of the game, the Chinese team fell behind in an all-round way. In the first half, China's possession was as low as 22.7%, while the opponent not only had 77.3 possession, but also had as many as 8 set-pieces in front, and the Chinese team only had one at the beginning. In terms of shots, Australia had 11 shots on goal, 4 shots on target, and 2 almost broke the Chinese team's shots, while the Chinese team only had 6 shots and 3 shots on target, and most of them were not threatening, and the gap was very obvious. ”

"But we still want to praise the players in this game, in such a difficult situation, they were able to maintain the stability of the back, did not concede a goal, Li Yun's command at the back is indispensable. Li Ming still said something nice, "If we can really delay this time of not conceding a goal, maybe the opponent's mentality will be impatient, and then our opportunity will come." ”

"Then let's see how Coach Perrin arranges his tactics in the second half. Liu Jianhong nodded and said, "I hope the Chinese team can grit their teeth in the second half." ”

It's a pity that less than ten minutes into the second half, the Chinese team conceded a goal.

This time it was the Australian team that won a corner kick, the Chinese team's header was not far away, the Australian team headed the ball to the penalty area outside the big penalty area, Cahill collided with Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi fell to the ground, Cahill seized the opportunity of the Chinese team to be stunned, and scored with a beautiful barb, the score became 0-1, and the Chinese team fell behind.

Soon after falling behind, the Chinese team made personnel adjustments, Sun Ke replaced Cai Huikang, and the formation returned to 4-2-3-1, Sun Ke, who had just come on the field, was very active in running and passing on the field, injecting vitality into the Chinese team's attack.

In the 58th minute, Qin Minghao sent Xu Mingyu a second pass, and Xu Mingyu, who was inserted later, made a beautiful long-range shot from more than 20 meters away to cause Matthew Ryan to save the ball, and the faster Wu Lei grabbed the ball before the Australian player got the second point, but he hit the ball high under the close interference of the Australian defender, and the Chinese team missed a great opportunity.

Soon the Chinese team was punished, Li Yun failed in a forward attack, Australia played a counter-attack, Cahill was still a beautiful lion in the middle of the two Chinese team players to shake the ball into the goal, and the score became 0-2.

In the next game, the Chinese team basically had no good offensive opportunities, and the decline in physical fitness allowed them to only defend passively in the backfield, thanks to Wang Dalei's wonderful play, the Chinese team did not concede the goal again, but the Chinese team still went out of the Asian Cup with a score of 0-2.