Chapter 235: Champions League 1/8 final second leg
The Chinese fans at the Tianhe Sports Center in Guangzhou did not give up cheering because they had not been able to open up the situation for a long time, but released more energy, creating a tsunami-like roar and a tsunami-like roar, and the atmosphere was extremely frenzied. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the 56th minute of the game, Hao Junmin's cross from the right side was blocked by a Jordanian player and a corner kick.
As China's number one star, Tang Zheng has super scoring ability, and his height, bounce and strength are outstanding in both teams, so he is the Chinese player who attracts the most Jordanian defenders in the Chinese team.
Despite this, Tang Zheng still made the Jordanian players who had been running for more than 50 minutes a little unable to keep up with the rhythm through active running and ghostly emergency stop turning, and they lost it at the moment when Hao Junmin took a corner kick!
In other words, the Jordanian players did not follow Tang Zheng, and it happened that the corner kick taken by Hao Junmin was looking for Tang Zheng wearing the No. 10 jersey.
He leaped high from the penalty spot and by the time the Jordanian players reacted, it was too late.
All they could do was subconsciously look up at Tang Zheng and complete a textbook lion shake.
Tang Zheng's header thrown out was full of power and the angle was tricky, and Jordanian goalkeeper Shafi tried his best, but there was no way to touch the football.
The ball almost grazed the right-hand post and crossbar of the goal and flew into the goal......
"Whew-"
The whole stadium was completely boiled because of this, and the deafening shouts spread throughout the entire Yangcheng from Tiyu West Road in Tianhe District.
Tang Zheng, who scored the goal, got up from the ground and spread his arms, ran all the way, and ran to the right corner flag to play a sliding kneeling celebration.
Behind him was a group of excited Chinese players.
Yang 5 commentator He Wei hysterically praised Gao Tang: "What is the role of a star? Tang Zheng's goal is a perfect interpretation of the role of a star for a team! He stood up when the team was in danger! Broke the deadlock with one of his best ways of scoring goals! Let Tang Zheng lead us! Defeat Jordan! Advance to the top 10 of the World Cup in Asia! Then impact the World Cup in Brazil!!"
At the same time, head coach Camacho was reckless.
The Chinese team can only get a chance to qualify by beating Jordan in a home game, and the team's delay in opening up the situation has put him under great pressure, and now Tang Zheng's success in breaking the ice means that the next pressure has come to Jordan.
Their surprise home defeat to Iraq made the away game a loss-making.
A draw could qualify, so that the Jordan team did not dare to give it a go, and finally chose a conservative defense.
The first half was perfect, they defended the Chinese attack.
However, what people didn't expect was that the role of the star was vividly reflected at this time, and Tang Zheng's sudden outburst caused the balance of the game to be broken.
If the match ends with this scoreline, Jordan will be eliminated due to insufficient goal difference in the relationship between wins and losses!
So there is no choice for Jordan in the next matches, because not being able to get a point means being eliminated!
This is an unacceptable result for Jordan, who have won all four of their first four games!
The Jordanian coach began to deploy his troops in an attempt to equalise.
However, Tang Zheng, Zheng Zhi and Zhao Xuri defended the middle quite steadily, while the Jordanian backline, which gave up defending and attacking with all its might, gradually revealed serious problems.
In the 63rd minute, Tang Zheng cut off the ball at the feet of Jordanian defender Baha and passed it straight behind him, and Yu Chao, who came on as a substitute, took the ball from the ribs and went directly into the penalty area, facing the goalkeeper's smart cross to the middle, and Gao Lin, who followed in time, shot the ball into the empty goal.
2:0
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With Gao Lin scoring a goal to expand the score, the frenzied atmosphere of Tianhe Sports Center reached its highest peak since the opening.
Jordan was hit like a blow to the head by the Chinese team when they were increasing their offensive investment.
If a goal down means a chance to equalise, but with less than half an hour left to go, it's harder to equalise than to get to the top.
And the facts have proved this, because at this stage of the game, the Jordanian team has a severe physical exertion.
Football is a physical sport after all, if you don't have enough physical fitness, what can you play?
In the eighty-first minute of the game, Tang Zheng suddenly fired a cannon 28 meters from the goal, and the goalkeeper Sha Fei was stunned and failed to make any save, all he could do was to turn his head to look at the football that flew into the goal.
3:0
This goal also means that China has completely sealed the victory, and entered the Asian top 10 in the final stage of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil as the top 10 in Group A.
Tang Zheng's goal was also the last goal of the game, and in the end, the Chinese team relied on Tang Zheng's two goals and an offensive plan to win the final game, and the Chinese fans were excited like a child, hysterical.
Before the start of the World Cup in Brazil, the World Cup was held for a total of 19 years, but China, as a big country, only participated in one World Cup in the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan.
After that, the World Cup in Germany and the World Cup in South Africa all fell outside the top ten matches in the Asian region.
But now, the Chinese team is ahead of Jordan by a large score, which will mean that the Chinese team will beat Jordan and Iraq to break into the top ten in the Asian region as the first in the group.
You must know that before the start of the fourth round of the group stage, the Chinese team ranked third in the group and was only one step away from being out.
Three months later, the Chinese team won three consecutive victories to qualify from the group.
Hell and heaven, just a stone's throw away.
Therefore, at the moment when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the Tianhe Sports Center felt like an earthquake, and the whole stadium was trembling.
This shows how excited Chinese fans are.
Of course, it's not just the fans who are excited, the players on the pitch, and the media workers.
They are extremely proud at this moment.
The footage of the live broadcast gave Tang Zheng, the biggest contributor to the Chinese team's ability to stand out at the last moment, for the first time.
He appeared in the camera with his hands in front of his face, leaving tears of excitement like most Chinese fans who cried with joy.
As a fan, Dad Tang lost confidence after the Chinese team lost to Jordan and Iraq one after another, and as a result, his son returned to the national team and led the national team to play a wave of three consecutive wins in the second half of the cycle to get the chance to advance.
At this point, silence is better than sound......
As for the draw of the Chinese team in the top 10 matches in the Asian zone, we can only wait until the draw at the AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on March 10.
That night, Tang Zheng didn't even see his parents, so he and Hao Junmin flew back to Germany on a flight to prepare for the next Bundesliga.
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In the past 23 rounds of the 2011-2012 Bundesliga, Dortmund has won 18 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, accumulating 58 points, 10 points ahead of Bayern Munich, the second place in the league.
It was with this in mind that manager Jurgen Klopp did not put the long-distance Tang Zheng in the starting line-up for the 24th round of the home game against Mainz.
Now that the league standings are safe, Tang Zheng played another fierce World Cup qualifier for the Chinese team, which is completely unnecessary.
However, the team is without Pirlo and Tang Zheng, Gundogan is not enough to shoulder the responsibility of the team's offensive and defensive transition, and the team's creativity in the midfield is insufficient.
At the end of the ninety minutes, the scoreboard showed 0:0
The home draw with Mainz was somewhat surprising, but considering Pirlo's injury and Tang Zheng's half-round rest, it was relatively normal.
However, the draw at home to Dortmund did not narrow the points with Bayern Munich, but increased by one point.
Because Bayern Munich lost 0:2 away to Bayer Leverkusen.
Dortmund then got a week's rest to prepare for the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final at the Westphalun Stadium in the middle of next week.
The day before Borussia Dortmund challenged promoted Augsburg, the draw for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was held in Kuala Lumpur, the headquarters of the AFC, and Tang Zheng watched the live broadcast at home.
Although the Chinese team has won three consecutive victories in the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in Brazil, the Chinese team's points have not soared, and it is still ranked sixth in Asia, which belongs to the third bracket of the draw.
South Korea and Japan are the top two, while Australia and Iran are third and fourth.
The next in the rankings are Uzbekistan, China, Iraq, Qatar, Lebanon and Oman.
The draw ceremony was simple, with a brief speech by AFC President Hammam, and then the draw began.
The Chinese team was finally divided into Group A, with Australia, South Korea, Qatar and Lebanon.
This signing is not good for the Chinese team, and it is not bad to say that it is bad.
After all, Saudi Arabia, the traditional powerhouse of Asia, and North Korea, the hard-nosed North Korea, did not enter the top 10 competition, otherwise the group draw would be even more sinister at that time.
The results of the draw were announced, and the media of various countries naturally began to analyze the specific quota for representing Asia in the World Cup in Brazil.
The Chinese team has the No. 1 star in Asia, Tang Zheng, but many Asian media are not optimistic about the Chinese team, after all, football is a team sport, and having Tang Zheng does not mean that the Chinese team will definitely advance.
The reason why they were able to stand out in the top 20 was entirely because of the limited strength of Iraq, Jordan and Singapore.
Of course, the Chinese media don't think so, they think that as long as there is Tang Zheng, the Chinese team can at least finish third in the group and participate in the play-offs.
If you perform well overall, you can even get a direct promotion spot.
This possibility is becoming more and more likely as the Chinese media analyzes it.
The star may not be anything in front of the whole, but no one can deny the role of the star.
A lot of games are won with the sparkle of the stars in a relatively stalemate situation.
Who can be sure that Tang Zheng will not break out in the top 10 of the Asian zone of the World Cup in Brazil?
In the past, Tang Zheng gave a very convincing performance in Dortmund, and even became the thigh-level figure of the Chinese team in the top 20 in Asia.
In this regard, those foreign media were dumbfounded.
As the No. 1 star in Asia, Tang Zheng naturally wanted to be interviewed by the media from various countries after the draw results came out.
But apart from Tang Zheng's interviews with Chinese media, other Asian media simply ignored him.
It's not that Tang Zheng is playing a big name, but he has to concentrate on preparing for the weekend league and the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 final in the middle of next week.
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Andrea Pirlo was injured in the first leg of the 2011-2012 Champions League quarter-finals away to AC Milan and is currently recovering from the game.
This is a big blow to Dortmund's fighting power, and the last round of the home draw at Mainz showed the clues.
However, the local media in Dortmund did not care about the draw in the last round of the game, after all, Pirlo was injured, Tang Zheng played as a substitute, and it was normal for the attack to not play.
Augsburg is not as strong as Mainz, and it will be difficult to hold off Borussia Dortmund at home.
Sure enough!
After 90 minutes, Dortmund won 2-0 away at Augsburg.
Among them, Tang Zheng, the star who returned to the starting lineup, dominated the game, with a goal and an assist, showing a very good competitive state.
It is worth mentioning that during the game, the live director captured AC Milan coach Allegri appearing in the stands, obviously to check Dortmund's overall form before the start of the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 final.
Dortmund's lack of Pirlo is indeed a small flaw in the transition between attack and defense, but Gundogan's improvement is obvious, which makes up for the impact of Pirlo's injury the most.
Coupled with Tang Zheng's full state, Dortmund's offensive routines are playing vigorously, like mercury.
Two days before the start of the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals between Dortmund and AC Milan, the entire AC Milan team flew to Dortmund.
Speaking to the media, AC Milan's number one star Ibrahimovic, who arrived in Dortmund, expressed his confidence in the second leg, saying: "If Dortmund can win at the San Siro, we can also win the game at Signal Idona Park!"
Brazil international Pato, who scored a hat-trick in the just-concluded Serie A match, was also full of confidence: "Borussia Dortmund is back in the Champions League after nine years, both their manager and the players are very new to the Champions League, especially the stalemate in the knockout stage, this is our chance!"
Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski was the first to speak to the media about the confidence of the AC Milan players, saying: "It's a fool's dream to beat us away from home if we lose at home! We haven't lost at home for more than two seasons, can they win? ”
Robinho disagreed with Lewandowski's statement, saying through media channels: "Records are often broken, and since Dortmund haven't lost at home for more than two seasons, then we will give them a big defeat!"
In this way, the players on both sides said a word to me, and then through the media to add oil and vinegar, the war of words was very happy.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the second leg of the 1/8 final of the 2011-2012 Champions League.
With half a day to go before the start of the game, there were a large number of fans from both sides in the square outside the Westphalic Lun Stadium, among which the Dortmund fans at home had an absolute advantage.
They gathered in groups of three or five, holding banners, slogans or posters, singing team songs, drinking beer, and waiting for the game to begin.
Considering the criticality of the game, Dortmund sent a large number of local police to maintain order at the scene.