The Chinese side has made a high-profile statement that its goal is the champion, which has attracted the attention of public opinion.

The Japanese side is naturally very disdainful, although they are still a little worried about the Chinese team with Yang Fan, but the Japanese look down on the Chinese team in their bones, and in their eyes, the Chinese team is not afraid of anyone except Yang Fan. Such a team dares to shout out to win the championship first, which is a provocation.

All of a sudden, the Japanese side was also boiling with emotion. The media also cheered for the Japanese team, plus sneered at the Chinese team.

Gao Hongbo was both angry and helpless about the noisy situation caused by the big man of the Chinese Football Association, he could only pretend not to pay attention to it, and put all his attention on the consideration and analysis of the final.

Now for the Chinese team, there is good news that the Japanese team is fighting all the way, especially in the semi-finals with the South Korean team, and their semi-finals are one day behind the Chinese team, which means that they have one less day of rest than the Chinese team, and they must be better than the Chinese team in terms of physical exertion.

Gao Hongbo and the coaching staff are holding a tactical analysis discussion meeting.

Gao Hongbo has not yet made up his mind what tactics he will use against the Japanese team.

"Japan are an attacking team, but, don't forget, their coach is Zaccelloni. Gao Hongbo said this in a meeting with the coaching staff.

"yes, an Italian coach. Fu Bo nodded and said.

Zaccheroni took over as head coach of the Japanese team at the end of last year, and he has only led the Japanese team to two training camps in his two months in office. Four days before the 2o11 Asian Cup, the Japanese team gathered all the personnel, trained twice in Doha, adjusted as they played, and finally advanced to the semi-finals of the Asian Cup by eliminating their arch-rivals South Korea. It was a match that showed the strength and heritage of Japanese football, and because of this victory, the Japanese team gained enough confidence that Zaccheroni also became the new leader and commander of Japanese football from an Italian who was originally thought to only play with Bierhoff's high-pitcher tactics, and won the trust of the Japanese Football Association, players and fans.

You know, this kind of trust is not easy to come by. In the 2oo2 World Cup, although Troussier's fans are very popular, he was criticized within the Japanese Football Association, although Japan entered the round of 16 of the World Cup for the first time in history, but Trussier was still bombarded after the World Cup.

In the 2oo6 World Cup, Zico, who led the Japanese team all the way to the Asian championship in China's Asian Cup, has never been trusted by Japanese fans and the Japanese football community. Even in the last six months before the World Cup, Japanese fans continued to demonstrate in front of the Japanese Football Association in Tokyo, demanding that Zico be dismissed. Throughout the World Cup in Germany, Zico was whipped by the media and scolded by the fans. Since then, Zico, who had originally saved up contacts in Kashima, has almost broken off with Japanese football. I rarely participate in domestic football events anymore.

In the 2o1o World Cup, Takeshi Okada learned his lessons on the basis of the fiasco of leading the Japanese team to the World Cup in France in 1998, and finally designed the striker tactic, his tactical system was originally not understood, and was considered conservative and nonsense. Facing the Netherlands in the group stage, even if I was behind, I was the main one, insisting on playing defensive counterattacks and conceding as few goals as possible. In the end, Japan qualified from the group for the first time outside of their home soil. Takeshi Okada's experience of failure and reflection have made him a master in the history of Japanese football.

After Takeshi Okada, the Japanese side believes that the Japanese team's offense has reached a considerable level, the weakness of the Japanese team is defense, and in the World Series, the importance of defense is even more important than offense.

What Gao Hongbo meant by this is that the Japanese team is more difficult to deal with now than before, their offense is good, but the defense is even better.

"In this final, my consideration is to play defensive counterattack tactics, we have Yang Fan in the frontcourt, the whole team will do a good job of defense, and Yang Fan will find a way to attack. ”

"As for how to play defensive counter-attack, there are also options, one of the options, which is to step up the attack at the beginning and try to score as soon as possible in the game, forcing the Japanese team to press out and attack us. We'll have more opportunities that way. ”

"There is another option, that is, to do a good job of defense at the beginning, the Japanese team will definitely press out to attack, we will shrink back to defense-oriented, avoid conceding the ball first, if you get the opportunity to counterattack, it depends on whether Yang Fan can seize it, if there is no opportunity, then drag them to the penalty shootout, to bet on luck. ”

"What do you think?" asked Gao Hongbo.

The coaches were lost in thought.

Generally speaking, continental finals are usually tedious, as most people choose to be conservative and make sure they don't concede a goal before thinking about scoring. Of course, there are exceptions, that is, a team is very confident in its attack, and may stick to the attack, try to score first, and strive to score more goals in order to take the lead and win in the score.

Japan are an attack-oriented team, and although their coach is Italian, their tactics should not be too conservative.

Therefore, in the face of the Japanese team's attack, the overall strength of the Chinese team is not as good as the opponent's choice to play defensive counterattack, this is a more appropriate tactic, the problem is what Gao Hongbo just said, defensive counterattack also has two routines of counterattacking first and then defending and always defending, how to choose this is a problem.

Fu Bo, the assistant coach of the Chinese team, was the first to express his opinion: "I think it's better to be cautious, Lao Gao. Defense comes first. We have to make sure that we don't concede first before we can think about beating Japan. In a final like this, the side that concedes first becomes very passive, especially when we face a Japanese team that is very good in attack, and once we lose the ball, we have to press out and attack, so then our defence will be under more pressure......"

Gao Hongbo nodded slightly, but did not agree with Fu Bo's point of view, but turned his attention to other people, he wanted to hear more of their opinions. In the face of the finals, in the face of the Chinese team's historic opportunity to reach the top of Asia, Gao Hongbo is nervous, he is a young coach, young means hardworking, energetic, but also means inexperienced, this time should brainstorm.

In particular, the entire coaching staff of the Chinese team, including him Gao Hongbo, has no player with experience in the finals of the continental competition, which is the biggest weakness and must be carefully prepared and dealt with.

"I don't agree with you, Fu Gui. Another assistant coach, Su Maozhen, disagreed, "I think we should be a little more positive. Zaccelloni and Japan would never have thought that we would attack in the final. He thought we were going to play a counter-attack, he thought we were going to stabilize the line first. I feel like that's exactly what we can take advantage of. Take the initiative to attack and strive for the first goal. This will catch the Japanese team off guard. He said with some excitement that as the hero of the Chinese team to the 2oo2 World Cup, as a young coach, he was very excited to be able to reach the final of the Asian Cup with the team.

"I think it's better to be conservative. This is the final. We can't make mistakes, conceding first is fatal, we have to defend first, Japan have a strong midfield, I think they are a lot better than Australia's attacking ability, we have to be cautious......" Fu Bo objected, his meaning was obvious, to be cautious.

"The final is not about who performs better, but who makes fewer mistakes. Before Gao Hongbo didn't speak, Fu Bo added.

Gao Hongbo hesitated a little, the two assistants, Fu Bo and Su Maozhen, the opinions of the two were at odds, Fu Bo tended to be conservative, and Su Maozhen tended to remain aggressive.

Now, the offense and conservatism are one-to-one, and if there is a draw, the decision is in the hands of Gao Hongbo.

Gao Hongbo did not give an answer immediately, and in the face of the pressure and nervousness of the final, he was thinking too much now and was even more hesitant. Fu Bo's reason is convincing, such a final winner is a team that makes fewer mistakes or even no mistakes, and if you want not to make mistakes, conservative defense is the way.

At this time, Su Maozhen said again, "Don't forget, we have Yang Fan and this big killer, if we don't do something in the attack, it's a pity." ”

Su Maozhen's words made Gao Hongbo tilt a little towards the offensive side, yes, with Yang Fan's nuclear weapon in hand, if he didn't make a fuss about the attack, it would be too tyrannical.

The internal meeting of the coaching staff lasted for half an hour, and no clear conclusion was reached until the end, but Gao Hongbo knew that he had to make a choice as soon as possible, whether it was offensive or conservative, he had to have a result as soon as possible, so that he could practice tactics earlier in training and prepare for the final against the Japanese team.

During the afternoon training, Gao Hongbo finally made a decision, and finally Gao Hongbo's inner ambition and gambling played a role, he still decided to fight at the beginning, press out to attack first, and strive to be able to hit the Japanese team by surprise, if you can score first, it will be a good thing.

actually decided on tactics, and the drill was going to start during the training, and Gao Hongbo also made a decision: the whole team closed training!

No media reporter, including a Chinese reporter, wants to see the Chinese team's training, let alone take pictures of the Chinese team's training.

If the Chinese team conducts any closed training at the beginning of the Asian Cup, the Chinese media and some foreign media who pay attention to the Chinese team may be very dissatisfied.

However, now that the Chinese team has reached the final of the Asian Cup, out of caution about the finals, the Chinese team chose closed training, although the media is unhappy, but the media is not easy to say anything, can only express understanding.

It's the final......

And because the Chinese team reached the finals, and the opponent in the final was Japan, this also greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of Chinese fans to watch the game.

In just one day, there were many more Chinese on the streets of Doha, the capital of Qatar. In fact, in the eyes of Qataris and Europeans, it is difficult to distinguish between Chinese and Japanese. However, at this time, it was easy for them to distinguish between Chinese and Japanese.

Because most of the Chinese fans wear the red jersey of the Chinese team, even if they are not wearing the Chinese team jersey, they are wearing red or almost red clothes.

China drew the away team in the final, where they will use the away team's dressing room and wear the away kit during the game.

And the Chinese team's away jersey is the red one - in fact, this is a question that Chinese fans can't understand, obviously China's national flag is a five-star red flag, red is the main color, and in China, red also means joy and celebration, in this case, why will the Chinese team's home jersey always be white?

Many fans complained indignantly about this, and listed this as one of the crimes of the Chinese Football Association's amateurs.

On the Japanese side, the color of the jersey is mainly blue, which is in line with the color of the jersey of the Japanese national team.

The enthusiasm of the Chinese fans was completely aroused. In order to be able to witness the Chinese team's historic victory in the Asian Cup, domestic tour groups have urgently opened a variety of tour groups to Qatar to watch the Asian Cup finals, tickets plus a few days of accommodation and tourism projects, travel agencies directly fired a very high price, but Rao is facing such a high price, or can not stop the enthusiasm of the fans, but all the travel packages to Doha to watch the Asian Cup finals have been completely sold out.

Chinese football is very sluggish, Chinese fans have been aggrieved for all these years, in the face of the Japanese team, the sworn enemy, stimulated by various factors, the enthusiasm of Chinese fans is like the erupting volcano, completely bursting.

And the tickets for the Asian Cup final with the Japanese team have long been sold out, and on the Internet, posts of buying tickets for the finals at high prices are everywhere, and fans who have obtained tickets for the finals have posted their tickets on the Internet, which will cause all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred of fans who have not bought tickets.

CCTV is also crazy about advertising on TV, and in the prime time of CCTV, that is, before the start of the TV series at eight o'clock, it also played bold subtitle advertisements: January 27, Doha, come on, China!

It can be said that the entire land of China is crazy about the Asian Cup final between the Chinese team and the Japanese team.

In such a warm atmosphere, time flies quickly, and the day of the final between the Chinese team and the Japanese team will soon come.