Chapter 777: Winning the first three games
Inzaghi did not break his promise, and AC Milan finally claimed another three points with a slaughter after two consecutive rounds of winless runs. Despite the quality of their opponents, it was not easy for AC Milan to score six goals in the game, and from the perspective of the scene, AC Milan were completely in control, whether it was the number of shots, passes, or time of possession, they were far ahead of their opponents, and the victory of the Rossoneri was well deserved.
After this round, the major European leagues will be suspended for a round, the players will return to the national team to fight for the country, and the Chinese team will also usher in the third game of the top 12 of the World Preliminary Tournament, the opponent is Syria, and the venue is the provincial stadium in Xi'an.
An Rong said as early as last month that he would not recall all the foreign players, so the media began to speculate about who An Rong would call back.
First of all, the choice of the striker: Zhang Shujie and Li Mu should come back one; secondly, the midfielder: choose one of the two twins, Zhao Wenkang and Xu Zhixin will also come one; and then the four defenders: Yan Tao and Liang Xiran The two central defenders can come to one, and one of the two wings will also come to ensure the smooth flow of one side; and finally the goalkeeper, Ma Junqiang will return to China to guard the country There is little suspense.
The imagination is very reasonable, so that the Chinese team only needs to discharge half of the main force. After An Rong's national team list came out, everyone was shocked, only two of the eleven main players came back, one was Ma Junqiang, the other was Xu Zhixin, and the other players all stayed in Europe.
Some media couldn't sit still: "Will An Rong play too much by doing this? You must know that Syria is also a strong team in West Asia, and the national football team has also suffered a lot of losses from them, how much chance can the national football team have if there are only two occasional players and all domestic players are used in other positions?"
Another part of the media said: "An Rong also has his own reason, although there is still a big gap between the domestic players of this national football team and the foreign players, the overall mental outlook is much stronger than the previous national football team, at least dare to fight and dare to play, and will not take the initiative to give up the game, so even if most of the regular main forces are missing, the national football team fighting at home is still very promising." ”
An Rong did not make any comments on all this, he is not a person who likes to fight with the media, he will only rely on the results of the game to speak. and Guo Fan, chairman of the Football Association, didn't say much, but just said that he supported all of An Rong's decisions.
On the day of the game, even if the national football team lacked superstars such as Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, the scene was still full of fans, and in such an important game, no matter what kind of lineup the national team played, Chinese fans would always support them.
The process of the game was not exciting, and the Chinese team did not occupy much advantage, but with the cheers of the home fans, the offensive efficiency of the Chinese team was still stronger than that of Syria. Liu Jianwei scored an offside goal in the 22nd minute, and although the goal was cancelled, the Chinese team was not far from leading in the eyes of the people.
Sure enough, eleven minutes later, Xu Zhixin used his speed on the left side to run all the way for 50 meters, shook off three players along the way, and hit the ball into the goal before the goalkeeper attacked!
Indeed, Xu Zhixin's breakthrough with the ball to his goal is very similar to Manchester United's goal in the 1999 FA Cup final against Arsenal, and even the celebrations of the two are not much different.
The first half ended with a 1:0 lead for the Chinese team, and in the second half, Syria changed its offensive and strengthened a lot, and in the 66th minute, there was something wrong with the coordination between Li Yongxuan and Ma Junqiang, and the Syrian striker Mawass seized the opportunity to knock the Chinese team open.
Li Yongxuan and Ma Junqiang are both responsible for the goal conceded by the Chinese team, compared to Li Yongxuan, who is more responsible and should occupy about seventy percent. He had a handicap when he was chasing the ball back to the defense, and Ma Junqiang didn't expect him to concede, so he gave Mavas a one-handed knife. If this kind of ball is replaced by Liang Xiran or Yan Tao, this kind of thing will not happen.
After all, it is caused by the fact that the substitutes and the main players play together less time and do not cooperate tacitly.
Ma Junqiang played the role of a captain at this time, he didn't blame Li Yongxuan, in his eyes, this was not a low-level technical mistake, and he felt that he should shout at Li Yongxuan just now, so that Li Yongxuan knew what he wanted to do. The main Ma Junqiang is used to Liang Xiran and Yan Tao in front of him, and many times he doesn't have to shout by himself, and the two of them know what to do.
Ma Junqiang applauded the players and cheered them up, there were still more than 20 minutes left in the game, the score was still a draw, and the Chinese team only needed to score one more goal, and the victory would be close to them.
Now An Rong doesn't have many cards in his hand, his standard forward is four, except for Li Mu and Zhang Shujie, the remaining two are Liu Jianwei and Wu Xiao, and now the latter two are already on the field, so the other two sitting on the bench are Yu Dabao and Zhang Yulin.
Someone once asked An Rong why he didn't let Yu Dabao and Zhang Yulin play the main force, but these two are stronger than Liu Jianwei and Wu Xiao in terms of comprehensive strength, Zhang Yulin is still playing in the Netherlands, Yu Dabao also went to Benfica, how can I say that I have to be more knowledgeable than Wu Xiao?
An Rong's explanation is very simple: "Football is a sport of eleven people, Yu Dabao and Zhang Yulin are not bad among domestic players, but they have too little cooperation with other players, and Liu Jianwei and Wu Xiao know their teammates better, they played together when they were in the National Olympic team, which is why they can play the main team." ”
The performance of these two people is not bad so far, Wu Xiao has retreated more times, between the striker and the front waist, Liu Jianwei is the center, because An Rong is in urgent need of victory, so he replaced Li Yongxuan first, replaced Zhang Yulin, and strengthened the attack.
This substitution has worked, in the seventy-fourth minute, Zhang Yulin received a pass from Xu Zhixin, leaned on Midani in the front court, made the ball to Wu Xiao, Wu Xiao passed Liu Jianwei again, Liu Jianwei **** unloaded, he deliberately unloaded the ball a little big, the purpose was to avoid Shipley's interception.
Liu Jianwei faced the goal alone, his calm right-footed volley, the ball passed through Alma's hands and flew into the goal, the Chinese team 2:1 Syria!
This is Liu Jianweishi's first goal in the preliminaries, not the icing on the cake, nor the opening score, but it is a goal to overtake the score, so crucial!
After regaining the lead, An Rong began to focus on defense, he let Xu Zhixin's position be reclaimed, and replaced the goalscorers Liu Jianwei and Wu Xiao with Qin Tianzhu and Bai Shoushan, who had just returned from injury, to strengthen the defense.
Syria launched two offensives and formed two shots on goal, but they were rejected by Ma Junqiang, and when the referee blew the final whistle of the game, the Chinese team, which came on as a majority of the substitutes, won the game as they wished. So far, China has won the first three games of the round of 12, and has successfully obtained nine points.
(End of chapter)