"Whoa—"

Tang Zheng helped the Chinese team break the deadlock with a shocking world wave, and the passionate chanting of the Chinese fans resounded over the Australian stadium, which continued until the fifth minute of the game.

It's not that the mood of the Chinese fans has dropped, but the prolonged chanting has caused them to have a very serious drop in physical fitness, and it will take some time to buffer.

The goal scored less than a minute into the game was the fastest goal in the history of the Asian Cup final, and as fans, it was natural that they could not contain the excitement in their hearts.

In this frenzied atmosphere, it is easy to get overexcited, which can lead to some sequelae.

For example: out of breath.

Australia, who had fallen behind, accepted the result after a few minutes of re-turning, and with the cheering and cheering of the home fans in the stands, many players quickly came out of the doldrums and faced the game again.

Indeed, the Chinese team is the favorite to win the Asian Cup, but as the host, Australia is also the same, they have the absolute strength to wrestle with the Chinese team, as long as the game is not over, they have the hope of beating the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup!

The Asian Cup has been held 16 times since 1956, and a total of eight national teams have won this honor in the last 15 Asian Cups, which means that whichever team wins this game will become the new Asian champions, and will represent Asia in the Confederations Cup in Russia in 2017.

Getting back to the point, players on both sides of the game are heading for the championship, every ball must be fought, especially the backward Australian team, their players themselves are physically strong, high tactical literacy, although the current Chinese players have improved their ability to execute tactics a lot, but the overall improvement of physical fitness is not a few years, decades can be achieved, it takes generation after generation of efforts and accumulation to change.

The bodies of Australian players are very European, so few Chinese players can carry them in physical confrontations, so Australia's attacking and defensive strategies have been effective under the shouts of the home fans.

The Chinese team, which was still able to control the game, gradually lost control of the football, and Tang Zheng's attention had to be more focused on the defensive end, which indirectly led to the weakness of the offensive end and made Australia have more offensive opportunities.

However, the Chinese head coach Lippi, who was sitting in the away team's dugout, did not feel any worries, and he crossed Erlang's legs, as if the game had nothing to do with him.

Of course, this is directly related to the very stable combination of Tang Zheng and Li Kui's double backs.

Tang Zheng has rich experience in the game, has a strong ability to read the game and a strong sense of position, and with Li Kui, who has very strong frontal defensive ability, Tang Zheng's excellent defensive ability can also be reflected, that is to say, the combination of Tang Zheng and Li Kui can achieve the effect of 1+1 greater than 2.

In addition, the Australian players' bodies are close to those of European players, but the skills at their feet are far from the same, football is a team sport, not every encounter is one-on-one, and Australia is also worried about the rapid counterattack of the Chinese team, and the offensive forces invested are not particularly large, so the Chinese players seem to be inferior to the Australian players, and Yan Junling has not been tested for a long time to guard the goal.

In the blink of an eye, the game came to the twentieth minute, and the Australian attack never threatened the Chinese goal, and Postecoglou, who was standing in the coach's command area of the home team, was a little impatient, and he signaled the two full-backs to be brave enough to participate in the attack and not take too much care of the defense.

Because in Postecoglou's view, the Chinese team has been under great defensive pressure during this time, and there should be no extra focus on the offensive end.

Tang Zheng, the core of the Chinese team's attack and defense, focused on defense during this time, and did not dare to participate in the attack when there was an opportunity to switch from defense to attack, so Postecoglou believes that the team should invest a little more offensive force and strive to score an equalizer as soon as possible.

The final is not comparable to any other competition, and once the game drags on for a long time, the chances of an equaliser become smaller.

Anyway, a 0:1 loss is a loss of the championship, and the result of a 0:2 and 0:3 loss is the same.

Having said that, the Australian players on the pitch had different ideas, with several veteran players with rich experience believing that the team should be on a defensive footing before organising the attack, and the opponent China is not a weak team, the sixth place in last year's World Cup in Brazil, and the team with the most goals scored and conceded the fewest goals in this Asian Cup.

Don't underestimate it!

Besides, it's still a long time before the end of the game, so there's no need to look like you're going home.

What if we concede another goal?

The Chinese team's 1/4 final opponent South Korea and semi-final opponent Japan were not all locked in by the Chinese team like this?

With another five minutes to go, Australia head coach Postecoglou shook his head and sighed, his players' concerns were understandable, because there was still a long way to go before the end of the game, and if too many troops were put in, the defence could easily go wrong.

Tang Zheng did focus a lot on defense during this time, but his vision and passing ability can directly send exquisite long passes to his teammates.

Lu Liang and Wu Sanshi are extremely fast, Gao Lin has a strong ability to make the ball, and Hao Junmin's ball and ball sharing are very distinctive, as long as Tang Zheng can send the ball to their feet, it can bring a direct threat to the team's backline.

If it weren't for Gao Lin's habitual handjob, the score might have been expanded by the Chinese team.

Once the score is extended to two goals, it will be really difficult to chase.

Thinking of this, Postecoglou decided to let the team's attack slow down first and wait for the opportunity.

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Australia slowed down the tempo of the attack, and no one expected that the Australians, who had changed their attacking strategy, would get more chances, with veterans Cahill and Bresciano each getting shots on goal to force Chinese goalkeeper Yan Junling to make a crucial save.

Yang 5 commentator He Wei's calm mentality has changed a little: "The Australian team playing at home shows the strength they should show, I hope that the Chinese team can maintain 100% defensive attention during this time, if Australia seizes the offensive opportunity to equalize, then the next game will be very difficult to play......

As the game time went by, Lippi, who was originally calm, had a trace of worry, and he took advantage of a dead ball opportunity to pull Tang Zheng on the sidelines to teach the opportunity, adjust the defensive strategy, and strengthen the defense.

Lippi is a coach with a considerable coaching experience, and his targeted tactical adjustments have been very effective.

Strengthening the defense in the middle directly leads to the difficulty of Australian players who are not strong in their feet to get the ball in the middle, and indirectly reduces the pressure on the back.

Postecoglou shook his head again, he didn't expect the surprise to be gone so quickly.

So, I couldn't help but turn my head to look at Lippi on the sidelines.

Lippi, who was frowning before, had returned to normal at this time, returning to the expression that had nothing to do with him in this game.

Don't...... Is that what sets me apart from a world-class coach?

However, Postecoglou was not discouraged, and he did not admit defeat after playing in the professional league.

As long as the game is not over at full-time, any possibility is possible.

"Whoa—"

The scene of the Chinese team's noisy scene in front of the goal ended, and the attack created chances from time to time, so the Chinese fans in the stands saw a glimmer of hope to expand the score, and the cheers created were higher and higher.

Those fans holding banners, slogans and flags waved wildly for the world to see their enthusiasm.

The Australian fans, who occupy more than half of the stadium, naturally do not want the Chinese fans to show off their strength on their home turf, creating huge boos when the Chinese team attacks with the ball, and deafening huge shouts when they attack with the ball.

The frenzied home atmosphere also brought some confidence to the Australian team that was behind the score, but the Chinese team's defense was very good, starting from the midfield, the Australian players who were not very good at the foot technology were very uncomfortable in the face of the Chinese team's defense at the beginning of the midfield, and there were frequent problems with the ball.

The mistakes in the Australian midfield began to increase, and the Chinese team's attack, which switched from defense to attack, emphasized fast foot passing, and did not give Australian players the opportunity to get close to their bodies, so after the first half of the game, the Chinese team gradually got some counterattack opportunities.

The opportunity is out, but unfortunately the ability to grasp it is slightly lacking.

Gao Lin and Wu Sanshi wasted the exquisite passes sent by Tang Zheng and Lu Liang in a row, otherwise the Chinese team would have taken a two-goal lead in half an hour of the game.

If the score becomes 2:0, the next game will definitely be much better for the Chinese team.

Therefore, He Wei, the commentator of Yang 5, sighed: "In terms of comprehensive ability, our national team is indeed slightly stronger than other national teams, especially the midfielder, but the weak scoring ability of Gao Lin and Wu Sanshi affects the creativity of the midfield. ”

Commentator Xu Yang nodded and said: "The Chinese team has scored a total of 14 goals since the group stage against Saudi Arabia in the group stage, and Tang Zheng has personally contributed eight goals and three assists, accounting for 78.5% of the team's goals......

People are forced out many times, and Tang Zheng is the same.

Since the striker can't score goals, he can only rely on his super individual ability to score goals.

Gao Lin, who missed the opportunity again, pulled his hair with both hands and sighed to the sky.

He also knows that the outside world has been unhappy with his performances, scoring in inconsequential games but not in crucial games, and the pressure on him is increasing when he thinks about some of the young players playing in Europe.

If Lippi hadn't been familiar with himself since he coached Guangzhou Evergrande, perhaps he would have changed the starting center long ago if he had been replaced by other coaches.

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The Chinese team failed to grasp the opportunity, and Australia did not create absolute chances, and the score did not change until the end of the first half, and the game ended the first half with the Chinese team leading 1:0.

In accordance with international practice, the close-up of the live broadcast is given to the players on both sides of the game as they walk to the players' tunnel.

The Chinese players who appeared on the broadcast screen were clearly happy with the end of the first half, with several of their close friends talking and laughing, while the home team's Australian players looked preoccupied and sullen.

A microcosm of the first half can also be seen from the facial expressions of the players on both sides, with Australia, who dominated most of the time, unable to score points, and the Chinese team seized one of the limited attacking opportunities to break the deadlock.

It's a pity that most of the chances were squandered, otherwise the second half would have been better.

The fifteen-minute break passed quickly, and the second half changed sides.

It is worth mentioning that the coaches of both sides seemed to be happy with the performance of the starters and had no intention of making changes, but the Australians, who had the advantage on the tee, organised a wave of dangerous attacks at the start of the second half.

The attacking routine is very simple, the captain of the back half, Jedinak, receives the football directly to the right side of the attack, and the winger Cahill relies on the accurate judgment of the football landing point to beat Li Xuepeng to top the ball to Kreuzer, who sends the ball to the left rib of the attack at the first time, and the veteran Bresciano appears in the position where it should appear.

Bresciano's stop and shot were so coherent that Li Kui didn't have time to step forward to block the ball and roared towards the goal.

At this time, Yan Junling, as the starting goalkeeper of Dortmund, showed super personal quality, and blocked the ball from the right goal post with one palm.

"Oh, oh, oh-"

The Australian fans in the stands clearly did not expect the team to create an attacking opportunity that could open the scoring at the start of the second half, and when they reacted, they could only subconsciously let out a burst of exclamation.

The Chinese coach Lippi was a little annoyed by the fact that he almost conceded at the beginning of the second half, and he rarely stood on the sidelines waving at the players on the field to express his dissatisfaction, but it is not difficult to see that this is a vent for Lippi's lack of concentration on the players.

Many times the head coach's reaction can influence the players on the pitch, especially the manager with both coaching experience and glory, and the players are often affected by their physical movements on the sidelines.

Of course, most of this impact is positive.

Yang 5 commentator He Wei groaned with palpitations: "At the beginning of the first half, we played a blitzkrieg from Australia, and at the beginning of the second half, we were almost beaten by Australia with a blitzkrieg, fortunately Yan Junling was focused, otherwise Australia would have equalized 1"

The game continued, and with Lippi's venting dissatisfaction on the sidelines, the attitude of the Chinese players on the field has been qualitatively improved.

The Chinese team's strategy in the second half was very simple, first solid defense, and then waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.

Five minutes later, the scoreboard showed that the score was still 0:1, with Australia in front and China behind.

Australia head coach Postecoglou stood in the home coaching area with a heavy brow on his face, and he didn't know how to make adjustments.

In the face of a solid defensive Chinese team, he really doesn't have many ways to attack.

In other words, with the current Australian team's offensive ability, it will take some luck to knock on the door of the Chinese team.

As it happens, the team seems to have had a bit of bad luck.