Outside the training ground in Australia, journalists gathered.

Recently, the media has been hyping about the semi-finals between Australia and China. The Chinese team has Yang Fan, and Australia has a number of players playing in the UK, which can be said to be a contest between Yang Fan and a quasi-British team, which was already eye-catching, and now it is even more talked about under the rumors that Yang Fan may miss the semi-final due to injury.

On the media side, after learning the news that Yang Fan was injured in training, almost all of them were optimistic about Australia, believing that Australia would eliminate the Chinese team and enter the Asian Cup final in a historic way, and the Australian kangaroos would take another step forward on the road to dominating Asia. After all, Australia is strong and in good shape. And the Chinese team is indeed very scary in the case of Yang Fan, but when there is no Yang Fan, the performance of this team is very average, especially in the first half of the game with Qatar, it was bombarded by Qatar to score two goals, which shows that the strength of other players in this team is very mediocre except for Yang Fan, such a Chinese team is too unconvincing in the face of powerful Australia.

At the end of the day, the Australian players walked from the training ground to the dressing room, with reporters asking them questions about the semi-finals, about the opponent China, about Yang Fan. Most of them asked the question "Do you think Yang Fan can play?", and most of the players were able to answer this question politely that had little to do with them. They said that Yang Fan is an extraordinary star, and the Chinese team with Yang Fan is naturally difficult to deal with, but even if Yang Fan is absent due to injury, the Chinese team must be careful.

Leaving aside what they thought in their hearts, the answer was impeccable.

Of course, there are also some players who are unhappy, you say that this question you come to ask us what Australia do? Obviously it is the matter of the Chinese team, can Yang Fan play You have to ask the Chinese, ask us what to do?!

The questions asked by the reporters, all of them were related to Yang Fan, and everyone was very interested in such attention at first. After all, they and Yang Fan are also old acquaintances, in the Australian team, there are many players in the UK, playing in some European leagues, and many people have played against Yang Fan, so in the face of this problem, it is also a practice to compliment Yang Fan, and then express confidence in their own win.

However, these open and closed mouths are questions such as "how is Yang Fan" and "Do you think Yang Fan can play", and there will always be a feeling of "I am despised".

That's right, these Australian players are always asked this question, and gradually they get a little annoyed, and then they have a feeling of 'being despised 'slighted', as if the whole Australian team is afraid of Yang Fan, which is really unpleasant.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Australia is a strong team, almost seventy or eighty percent of their players play in the European league, for example, their three goalkeepers, including the main goalkeeper and the two substitute goalkeepers, are all playing in the English league, the main goalkeeper Schwarzer is the main goalkeeper of the English Fulham team, the two backup goalkeepers Adam Federic are playing for the English Reading team, Brad Jones is playing for the English team Liverpool, among the other players, the defender Carney is from the English Championship team Blackpool, Neil is from the local giants Galata Serre, the Wilkshire is from the Russian team Dynamo Moscow, and the midfield star Emerton is from the English team Blackburn, Richard Garcia from Inherre City, Holman from Eredivisie giants AZ Alkmaar, veteran Colwill from local giants Galatasaray, Kilkenny from Leeds United in the Championship, Karl Valeli from Serie A side Sassuolo, in the forward line, Burns from Greek giants AEK Athens, Tim Cahill from Everton and Scott McDonald from English Middlesbrough.

In addition to these players who played in Europe, the rest of the players either played in the Australian league, the Saudi league, the Korean K-League and the Japanese J-League, with defender Ognenovski being the best player in Asia last year.

It can also be seen from here that the Australian team is strong, so it is no wonder that they have some upset in their hearts.

The players were upset, and the head coach Osijek was also depressed.

At Australia's regular press conference, the questions were all about the semi-finals against China, and 80 percent of them asked Osijek to talk about his views on Yang Fan's injury and whether Yang Fan might miss the semi-finals.

Osijek himself has no ill feelings towards Yang Fan, and he has no festivals, but he is also depressed and angry when these reporters keep asking this question.

"I'm not the head coach of China, I'm the head coach of Australia, I've heard so many questions about Yang Fan, what I want to say is, gentlemen, you are in the wrong place, if you want to ask that question, you should ask the head coach of the Chinese team. ”

Osijek said unceremoniously, he was also on fire.

After speaking. Osijek got up and left the press room. Leave a room full of stunned reporters here and look at each other. They seem surprised by the Australian head coach Fire. They don't want to think about it, and it seems a bit disrespectful that they've been asking an Australian coach about whether a Chinese star can play.

Osijek's annoyance is not only because of the reporter's question, but also because of the truth of the matter, because he has not yet figured out whether Yang Fan is injured or not.

Didn't figure it out, but it's important and crucial for the line-up of the match between Australia and China.

If Yang Fan is indeed injured and will miss the game with Australia, then Osijek will be more confident in winning the Chinese team, so to speak, in this case, Australia's lineup will become very aggressive, because the Chinese team without Yang Fan is like a beast without fangs, not to be afraid. He believes that it is not a big problem to win the Chinese team with Australia's strength.

On the contrary, if Yang Fan is not injured, or the injury is not a big problem, this is just a smoke bomb on the Chinese side, Australia needs to be extra vigilant, in the face of Yang Fan such a powerful star, Australia must be cautious, and when arranging the formation, it is necessary to emphasize the marking of Yang Fan, so to speak, as long as Yang Fan is on the field, Australia will be very cautious and awkward. When attacking, you should be careful of Yang Fan's counterattack, and when defending, you should focus on Yang Fan, such a player will contain Australia's great energy.

Yang Fan is not on the court, and Australia's tactics are destined to be different.

The problem now is that I don't know if Yang Fan can play, which makes Osijek's training drills, especially the arrangement of the game, difficult.

If Yang Fan didn't play, Australia would be more conservative, which is okay, with Australia's strength, as long as Australia itself does not make mistakes, it is not a big problem to win the Chinese team.

However, if Yang Fan plays, however, Australia has a very aggressive formation, in this case, it will be bad, who knows if Yang Fan will take the opportunity to poke a few holes in Australia first.

This is where Osijek's troubles and entanglements come in.

The day of the semi-finals between China and Australia is coming soon.

The stands at the Qatar University Stadium were already full, and the two teams were warming up in the middle of the stadium, as the fans erupted in cheers.

To be exact, this is a huge cheer from the fans of the Chinese team.

They saw Yang Fan appear on the court to warm up, although it is not known whether Yang Fan will be able to, but seeing Yang Fan warming up, at least there is no problem on the field, which reassures them.

The head coach of the Australian team, Osijek, looked at this scene, and couldn't help but curse in his mouth, cunning Chinese. He was almost fooled, Australia has practiced two sets of lineups and playing styles these days, respectively for Yang Fan can play and Yang Fan will be absent, but on the last day of pre-match training, Osijek still finally decided to build tactics according to Yang Fan's possible appearance, which is safe. Although this tactic is a little conservative, if Yang Fan does not play, it will make Australia lack a stronger offensive force at the beginning, but this is safe.

Osijek's caution has paid off, seeing Yang Fan warming up, his angry scolding is understandable, because the Chinese team's smoke bombs are still effective, Australia has practiced two tactics in the past two days, which will naturally distract the players, how can it not have any impact at all?

Australia's head coach stood on the sidelines, but China's head coach Gao Hongbo was not on the sidelines.

Gao Hongbo is in the locker room.

Gao Hongbo sat alone in the locker room, where he muttered to himself.

"Boys, first of all, we have to understand what kind of game this is? This is the semi-finals, if we win, we will enter the finals, if we lose, we can only play in the three or four finals......" Gao Hongbo shook his head, no, no, saying this will only make everyone more nervous.

"Boys, don't think too much about this game, we can reach the semi-finals, we have completed the set task well, we will relax and ......play this game" is not good, Gao Hongbo shook his head, if you say it like this, it will be self-defeating, let the players relax, and it will be over.

"Well, about this game, we have been waiting for too long, our opponent Australia is a very strong opponent, this team has a lot of players playing in Europe, they are physical, they are ...... tactically", and it is not good to increase the morale of others, will it make their players afraid before fighting?

Gao Hongbo shook his head.

Then he patted his head and said to himself, "This can't be done, Gao Hongbo, this is your own nervousness, how can you be nervous, this is a big taboo, no." ”

Gao Hongbo smiled bitterly, although what he thought before was that as long as this Asian Cup entered the semi-finals, it would be a good completion of the task, and there should be no more baggage, but when it came to the game, he was still nervous! You know, this is the semi-finals, as long as it passes this hurdle, the Chinese team will reach the finals, this is the first time in seven years that the Chinese team has reached the finals, to be able to reach the semi-finals, in the face of the temptation of the finals, and even the temptation of the championship, it is not calm at all!

Gao Hongbo is a very ambitious and ambitious coach. If the Chinese team can reach the final under his leadership, or even win the final championship, then he will become a great hero of Chinese football, even if he leaves the head coach of the Chinese team, his name will be engraved in the history of Chinese football, praised and praised!

He deeply knows that with a star of Yang Fan's level, this Asian Cup will be the best opportunity for the Chinese team to impact the Asian championship, if he misses it, he will have to wait for at least four more years, how many four years are there in his life? Besides, four years later, he Gao Hongbo is still not the head coach of the Chinese team, who knows. Gao Hongbo is not a fool, he also heard a news, before the Football Association wanted to take him down and change a foreign coach, Gao Hongbo was ready to accept the result of leaving with grief and anger, but later he was told that he could continue to stay, and he later learned that this was because Yang Fan supported him and supported him to continue coaching, which made the Football Association stupid.

After such twists and turns, Gao Hongbo cherishes every opportunity to coach the Chinese team even more.

Therefore, in the face of the upcoming semi-finals, Gao Hongbo is still a little nervous: because there is hope and expectation, he is nervous.

In fact, there has always been a saying in the Chinese football circles that if the Chinese team can defeat the Japanese team to win the championship in the local Asian Cup in 2oo4, it will be an opportunity for the rise of Chinese football, and the general environment of Chinese football will definitely be much better than now. It's a pity that the Chinese team didn't seize the opportunity that time, and now, seven years have passed, the Chinese team has reached the semi-finals, and then the finals, which is the final championship - this is another chance for Chinese football to redeem itself!

The crunch of shoe spikes hitting the ground sounded in the corridor outside the door, and Gao Hongbo knew his players were back from warming up. So he let go of his clenched fists and waited for the players to push the door open, showing them a confident, scrappy manager. You can't let the players see that their manager is nervous, and that's the end of it,he said to himself.

The players are rushing in.

Yang Fan glanced at the head coach in surprise, Gao Hongbo's fists had been clenched tightly, and his expression was slightly stiff.

The head coach was nervous? The Chinese captain wasn't sure what he was thinking.

However, he still felt that he would do something in a while, because in the past few days, Yang Fan really felt that the team was a little less confident in defeating Australia, and they were frightened by Australia's 'strength'.

It's not okay to be cowardly before you fight.

As the captain, he has to find a way to boost the morale of the team first and face this game with the fullest mental state.