Chapter 158: An Important Match
At 0:15 a.m. capital time on January 13, the second match of the Asian Cup of the Chinese team officially kicked off at the Khalifa Stadium in Qatar. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The stadium is located about eight kilometers west of Doha, a little farther than the last time China played at the Al-Garafa Stadium, which sounds a bit nonsensical, but when you think about the size of Qatar, you can understand that this is an away game.
Steeped in history, Khalifa Stadium is Qatar's national stadium and is home to the opening ceremony and first match of the Asian Cup, as well as the final and closing ceremonies.
Qatar hosts this Asian Cup naturally with the idea of wanting to break through, and it is best to take the Asian Cup into their arms at their own doorstep, but their overall strength is indeed problematic, which also makes their sports officials struggle to use a lot of methods to gather the teams they think are the most sure to beat or the easiest to beat in Group A, which is why this group seems a bit out of the stream.
However, they never thought that they would lose 1-2 to the little-known Uzbekistan in the first game, which also made them only hope to win China in the second game to hope to advance to the next round, so they also poured a lot of effort into this game.
The two sides have met twelve times in history, China has an absolute advantage of six wins, three draws and three losses, and the two sides have met three times in the final stage of the Asian Cup, and the Chinese team has won all of them, so psychologically the Chinese still have the upper hand, but this time the game is still different, because this is the home stadium of Qatar, which is why even Ai Huan said some more sensational things when looking forward to this game, almost all Chinese reporters have a premonition that this game will be a vicious battle, and there are countless variables on the fieldใ
The AFC also sent a South Korean referee to avoid suspicion as much as possible in order to avoid suspicion, so it did not send a West Asian referee to enforce the game, but sent a South Korean referee, but to be honest, the Korean referee is not a better choice for China.
In recent days, Chinese reporters have wanted to contact and interview Ai Huan, but they have all politely declined, even in the case that Uribe has had to agree to the evil spirit, Ai Huan himself did not hesitate to refuse, in his own words before such a big battle, it is not suitable to say any more words, and it is better to focus on the court if you have time.
In order to understand all the situations in China to the greatest extent, Qatar even used drones to shoot the training of the Chinese team, but what disappointed them was that the training in the past few days Ai Huan was just jogging, and never participated in the overall cooperation, which also made the whole world a little dumbfounded, what do these people want to do? But no matter what the outside world says, the Chinese team is still preparing step by step according to their own steps, but their preparation methods are not understood by others.
Khalifa Stadium was full today, a large number of Qatari fans all poured into the stadium to cheer for their teams, and Chinese from several nearby countries in West Asia also rushed over at the first time, and more than 7,000 people poured into the stadium for this game. In order to ensure the safety of the fans in the stadium as much as possible, the Qatari organizers stopped selling tickets for Chinese fans at the last minute, which also led to thousands of people still being blocked from the stadium.
At this time, the field has been occupied by traditional Arabic instruments, and the sound of the strange instrument that I don't know what it is called is even more strange, as long as it can be played, it will make a dull sound, but when the whole audience resounds at the same time, this sound will cause some people who are not familiar with this kind of thing to have an uncontrollable irritability.
The more exciting Chinese war drums and other instruments were kept out of the stadium by the Qataris, so at this time, Chinese fans could only shout their own voices in their own voices to suppress the lingering disgust of the other party.
The sound outside could also be heard in the lounge, which made many Chinese players frown, although it was not the first time they had played against the West Asians, but they still couldn't stand this annoying noise.
The line-ups for this game have been confirmed, with the Qataris in a 4-5-1 formation, goalkeeper Burhan, defenders Hamid, Rajaba, Majid and Janim, midfielders Lawrence, Majidi, Cazorla, Saeed and Ahmed, and just a Sebastian up front. Qatar was known for its penchant for planning foreign players to play for themselves, and the fact that there were no such players in their team in this cup was also a surprise to the whole world.
The lineup of the Chinese team was also decided as early as the day before, and now their names are very lined up on the tactical board in the house, and Uribe is also standing in front of the tactical board and arranging the specific tactics on the field in detail with his players.
Goalkeeper Wang Dalei, the defender and the last game have not changed Sun Jihai, Zhang Yaokun, Zhang Lindong and Xu Luyang, and today's midfield has changed a lot, the back has Zhao Xuyang, Huang Bowen and Lv Peng, and Chen Zhichao, who has excellent skills, was placed in the forward position, and Yu Hanchao and Yu Dabao, who performed well in the last game, were all put on the bench. Striker Dongfang Zhuo, and Ai Huan was placed next to him, but Ai Huan's actual position was still a free man.
"My boys, I've always stressed that this game is going to be the most dangerous game in the group stage of the Asian Cup, Qatar may be more than 30 places lower in the world rankings than us, they may never be our opponents in the Asian Cup, but today it was completely different. The Qataris will never tolerate being eliminated in the group stage, so they will definitely do their best to fight us, and Uzbekistan have already won the last game in the other game that has just ended, which means that they have accumulated six points, Qatar must win today if they want to appear. โ
The players all looked at Uribe quietly, they could see the nervousness on the manager's face, and everyone knew that it was going to be a tough game, so they all listened quietly.
"Judging from the situation in the past two days, their off-the-board moves will definitely make us unbearable, so I want you to keep one thing firmly in mind, that is, no matter what the referee decides, no matter how the opponent kicks, you have to stabilize your mind and don't give them an excuse to punish you. (To be continued.) )