Chapter 464: Forward Crisis
The league game against Newcastle will be followed by a two-week international break with the league suspended and the internationals returning to their respective national teams.
The national team also played on this international match day, and their opponents were West Asian side Syria.
The venue of the match was arranged at the Tuodong Stadium in Kunming, Yunnan Province, and Yang Fan took a flight back to China overnight after playing the match against Newcastle.
The national team has encountered Syria, Jordan and Lebanon in the past, and it is relatively easy to win, and points such as 20 and 30 are still more common, but in recent years, even Syria seems to have become the bitter master of the national team, and the national team needs to work hard to win Syria.
In the Asian Cup qualifiers, the national team and Syria were in a group, and the national team had lost two or three away games, however, at that time, Yang Fan had not returned to the national team, and later in the home match with Syria, Yang Fan had returned, and he helped the national team defeat Syria.
This warm-up match with Syria is also a warm-up for the Asian Cup, which will start in January 2o11.
At Kunming Tuodong Stadium, in the drizzle, the national team finally defeated Syria.
Syria, which was originally the bitter master of national football, can be said to have been beaten by Yang Fan alone and had no power to fight back. Yang Fan scored twice in the game to lead the team to a 30-0 lead, and Syria only scored in the final minute of the game with a penalty opportunity.
The victory in this game also ignited the enthusiasm of the national fans, who cheered for the national team, to be exact, for Yang Fan.
In the absence of Yang Fan, the national team played Syria, Jordan and other West Asian teams were also trembling, now what? With Yang Fan, the national team can be said to win easily, the whole game has an advantage, and the Syrian full-game that once gave the national team a headache almost did not get any decent offensive opportunities.
While the media is praising Yang Fan, they are also lamenting, they are lamenting that Yang Fan returned to the national team too late, they are criticizing the National Football Association, if Yang Fan returns to the national team earlier, judging from the performance of the national team with Yang Fan now, the national team has no chance to enter the World Cup finals in South Africa just past.
Of course, there is no regret medicine in the world, and there is no if, everything can only look forward.
As the world's footballer of the year, as the most outstanding star in today's football, Yang Fan's every move in the national team has also attracted the attention of many people.
The official website of the AFC also rarely reported on the warm-up match between the national team and Syria on the station page, and the title of the chapter is "World Footballer Leads the National Team to Victory", Zhang said that Syria has no power to fight back against the national team with Yang Fan, and a star of Yang Fan's level appears in the Asian arena, and the opponent has nothing to do with him.
In fact, not only the AFC, but also the media in Qatar, Uzbekistan and Kuwait also reported and followed the match.
Because these three countries are the same group opponents of the country in the Asian Cup. To say that these three teams may not have been too worried about the national team before, in fact, these three teams are also the bitter masters of the national team, and they have brought bitter memories to national fans. Therefore, when facing the national team, these three teams are confident.
However, now, the national team has Yang Fan, and the whole team seems to have a new look, and the national team won Syria like a wither, which shocked and vigilant these three countries, and they understood that with Yang Fan's national team, it will be the most terrifying opponent in this group.
On this national team day, the national team had two warm-up matches, and after the match with Syria, the national team left Kunming for Shenzhen the next day.
In Shenzhen, they will face their opponents in their second warm-up match, Uruguay.
For the opponent of this warm-up match is Uruguay, Yang Fan only found out on the night of the end of the match with Syria, he was very surprised, because in Yang Fan's mind, it is meaningless to play a warm-up match with Uruguay, the national team is now preparing for the Asian Cup, and should find a team with a similar style and strength to the opponent in the group stage of the Asian Cup, what is the point of warming up with a strong team like Uruguay? !
Every warm-up game before the Asian Cup is actually very important, Yang Fan's return to the national team is still relatively short, at this time, every warm-up game is very important, the national team must run in the lineup, be familiar with Yang Fan's rhythm of the game, and be familiar with the style of play and rhythm of the opponent in the Asian Cup. If the first warm-up game to look for Syria was against Qatar, there is some truth to that. So what does it mean to come all the way to find a South American team in the second game?
It can also be seen that the amateur side of national football management can be seen. It is said that when the foot tube was invited to warm up with Uruguay, he was still complacent, which means that he contacted the strong team and the national team to warm up, which is also a credit.
Yang Fan took the belly slander of this warm-up game to heart and didn't talk about it, of course, from his personal point of view, warming up with a strong team like Uruguay can also stimulate his fighting spirit, and playing with Uruguay is a completely different feeling from an opponent like Syria.
Uruguay are ranked 7th in the world and 82nd in the national team, and at this summer's World Cup in South Africa, Uruguay impressed the world football world with a strong performance of finishing fourth. Uruguay coach Tabares has said that in this warm-up match with the national team, World Cup Golden Ball winners Forlan and Suarez and other stars will lead the nine Uruguayan World Cup main players to appear.
Obviously, Uruguay still attaches more importance to this game, at least not just to make money with warm-up matches.
Before the game, the Uruguayan players were interviewed one after another, and they all talked about Yang Fan. In the mouths of these Uruguayan internationals, they expressed their respect and appreciation for Yang Fan.
Among these Uruguayan players, Diego Foran and Suarez are the biggest players, and when they were interviewed, they were full of praise for Yang Fan, and Diego Forlan even bluntly said that Yang Fan is the best player on the planet.
In this game, Yang Fan scored twice in the game.
However, the national team still lost by two or three, and Yang Fan's two goals helped the national team equalize twice, but Suarez's goal in the last minute helped Uruguay win the game.
Although it lost, the national team scored two goals in the game, only to be killed by the opponent in injury time, and finally lost to the South African World Cup quarterfinals by one goal, which is definitely a very remarkable performance, because, everyone can see that although Uruguay did not take the game as seriously as playing the World Cup, at least the attitude is still more correct, and there is no perfunctory game, so neither the national fans nor the media have any criticism of the performance of the national team, but praise more. The eyes of the media and the fans are bright, they can understand the game.
After the match with Uruguay, Yang Fan invited Diego Forlan and Suarez to have an authentic Cantonese meal, which was regarded as a demonstration of the friendship of the landlord.
And the next day, the tired Yang Fan rushed back to Manchester, and he was busy preparing for the next league.
Three days later, in the eighth round of the 2o1o2o11 English League, Manchester City defeated Blackpool 32 away, Yang Fan scored a goal, Dzeko also scored a goal, and Adebayo, who came on as a substitute, also seized the opportunity to score a goal, and the Togolese shooter after the goal beat his chest hard, not only to vent his depression, but also to declare his existence to everyone, Manchester City and him Adebayo, he can also score ahhh
However, Adebayo's luck was really bad, and less than two minutes after the goal, he went off injured and went off.
The commentators were also talking about the Togolese's bad luck, with Dzeko and Bam Adebayor both having a chance to compete for the main spot in Tevez's injury......
Still, with all said and done, Manchester City beat Blackpool to win all eight games in the new season, making the best start in the club's history and continuing to lead the league with a high attitude. It also makes Manchester City manager Manny happy, and he is really dreaming of the league title now.
However, on the way back to Manchester, Manny received bad news.
The team doctor's expression was very serious, and he made it clear to Manny that the situation of Adebayo, who left the game injured in the game, was not optimistic, and he needed to rest for at least nearly three months. If you don't want it to become a stubborn disease, you need to do it again in the future, and ask the horse to have surgery.
Manny, who was smiling because he had won, heard this, his face suddenly darkened, and his mood suddenly became bad.
Originally, Manchester City's most well-staffed team was the striker, and its Yang Fan locked in a main position, Tevez, Adebayo, Dzeko and Santa Cruz competed for another main position, of course, the main contenders are the top three, and Santa Cruz is basically unable to play now.
It's good now, Tevez is seriously injured and sidelined, and Adebayo is also injured now, and only Dzeko and Santa Cruz can be Yang Fan's partners in the front line, which makes the Manchester City team overstretched in the striker, Dzeko is okay, the strength is good, Santa Cruz obviously can't get into Manny's eyes, Manchester City needs a more powerful shooter to deal with emergencies.
However, with only the eighth round of the league and almost three months to go before the winter transfer market, how can Manny not be annoyed as a manager?
"Damn Blackpool......" Manny whispered a foul scold, showing how bad he was feeling.