The Chinese team's World Cup squad was finally confirmed, Ma Junqiang, Zhao Wenkang, Xu Ziyi, and Yan Tao were not on the list, and there were only four fewer heroes who won the last World Cup. In addition, Zhang Shujie, Li Mu, and Tang Ling's injuries did not recover as well as expected, but An Rong still brought them with him. If even they can't go, then the Chinese team really won't have anything to play in this World Cup.

During the training, the three of them were closed on their thighs, and it is conceivable that they really had to fight with injuries. An Rong didn't dare to arrange too much training content for the three of them, most of them were recovery training. He only played the ball at the start of the game and their injuries did not affect their form.

The Chinese team is in a group with Uruguay, Sweden and Wales, and although it is not a group of death, it is definitely not an easy group. In the first round, the Chinese team faced the South American powerhouse Uruguay, the two 35-year-old veterans Suarez and Cavani formed a forward partner, if a complete Chinese team defense line will certainly not be afraid of this pair of strikers who are 70 years old, but Yan Tao is not there, the central defender is composed of Liang Xiran and Li Yongxuan, and the goalkeeper is Liao Dongyuan who replaced the injured Ma Junqiang.

In the midfield, An Rong lined up Xiao Feng, Chen Zihua, Lin Li and Xu Zhixin, and on the forward line, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu played closed. Fans are very worried about the two, for fear that they will miss something in the game, and in the process of the game, the two did play more conservatively, and the number of times they broke through with the ball was very rare, and the two only had one each. In the first 45 minutes, the two sides drew 0:0, and in the second half, the Chinese team opened and closed first, and the first goal was Li Mu, Zhang Shujie passed diagonally from the left side, and Li Mu grabbed the point in front of the goal, turning the score into 1:0.

This was the 62nd minute of the game, and the Chinese team scored first. Although Zhang Shujie and Li Mu's physical condition had a slight impact on their form, the two of them still contributed an assist and a goal respectively. Uruguay, who were behind the score, launched a counterattack, and Suarez and Cavani threatened the gate guarded by Liao Dongyuan several times, which made the Chinese fans tremble.

In the World Cup in Russia, Liao Dongyuan's butter hand made everyone remember it vividly, but fortunately, due to the age of Su Shen and Cavani, the shooting was also a little inadequate, and Liang Xiran was saving in the penalty area twice, which ensured that the Chinese team's goal was not lost.

1:0 is also the final score, and the Chinese team made a good start to the Qatar World Cup with Li Mu's goal. However, the Chinese media is not satisfied with the process of this game, it can be seen that after the absence of Xu Ziyi and Zhao Wenkang, Chen Zihua is a father and a mother in the midfield, Xiao Feng and Qin Tianzhu play generally in this game, and Xu Zhixin is a side attacker, let him attack the opponent's defense line OK, but let him organize, tandem and plan the attack, it is not his strength. In the past, when Zhao Wenkang and Xu Ziyi were there, the two and Chen Zihua were divided and cooperated in the attack, Chen Zihua organized in the front, Xu Ziyi was transferred in the back, and Zhao Wenkang was responsible for planning and transferring greatly in the attack, but now, all these tasks fall on Chen Zihua alone.

In the past, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu's alternate retreats could still give some help to the midfielders, but now that both of them are injured, it is obviously inappropriate for them to do too many things beyond the scope of the strikers. Many people think that An Rong needs to solve this problem, otherwise when it comes to the knockout round, everything will become very troublesome.

An Rong also understood this truth, his purpose in letting Lin Li play in the midfield was to hope to share the pressure for Chen Zihua in terms of organizing the attack, but Lin Li did almost nothing in the whole game, but let Chen Zihua make up for him twice. There are so many people in An Rong's hands, the so-called Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, what can he do now?

In addition, the Chinese team's side attack is also full of problems, because Zhao Wenkang is not there, An Rong asked Xu Zhixin to play on the right side, and the left side is left to Xiao Feng, who knows that Xiao Feng can't form a chemical reaction with Huang Yu on the left side, and Xu Zhixin on the right side is the same, he and Yuan Chengye are also relatively unfamiliar with each other, and there is no tacit understanding at all.

In the second round of the match with Sweden, An Rong decisively changed the formation, from 442 to 4312, goalkeeper Liao Dongyuan, defenders Huang Yu, Liang Xiran, Li Yongxuan has returned to the main force of Tang Ling, midfielders Qin Tianzhu, Chen Zihua and Xu Zhixin, Li Mu played the front midfield, Zhang Shujie and Liu Jianwei played double forwards.

After changing the formation and tactics, the Chinese team's attack really had some effect, especially on the left side, Xu Zhixin and Huang Yu's assault made Sweden miserable, and on the right side, Tang Ling and Chen Zihua cooperated, Li Mu returned to the original front waist position, Liu Jianwei covered for Zhang Shujie and sat on a bridgehead.

In the twenty-fourth minute of the game, Xu Zhixin plugged straight on the left, Huang Yu inserted the ball and knocked it to Li Mu, Li Mu gave a clever heel to Chen Zihua, Chen Zihua rubbed the ball with his right foot, the ball flew over the Swedish defense line, and fell between the small penalty area line and the penalty spot, Zhang Shujie successfully countered offside, and before the goalkeeper attacked, he swept with his left foot, and the score became 1:0.

This is Zhang Shujie's first goal in this World Cup, and his fifteenth goal in the history of the World Cup, he tied with Ronaldo, the two are tied for second all, and Klose, who is the first in history, is only one goal away. It can be said that it is only a matter of time before Zhang Shujie breaks this record.

But China's lead didn't last long, as Sweden equalised just six minutes after Zhang Shujie's goal. Liao Dongyuan pounced on the ball and was shot into the net by the opponent, and the Chinese team conceded the first goal in the Qatar World Cup.

The first half was 1-1 and both teams stepped up in the second half, with Sweden drawing with Wales in the last round and failing to beat China in this round will be slim. If it was four years ago, Sweden would not have dared to want to win the Chinese team, but now and the past are different, the main team of the Chinese team has not given up on plastic surgery, and many of the main players are still injured, they are not hopeless.

They believe that Liao Dongyuan's goalkeeper is average, as long as he keeps looking for shooting opportunities, he will always overtake the score. However, Liang Xiran's existence still caused them some trouble, and the Swedes' proud aerial advantage could not take any advantage of him, and most of the corners and crosses were pushed out by Liang Xiran.

In the seventy-ninth minute of the game, after the Chinese team withstood the offensive pressure of Sweden, it played a beautiful counterattack, Li Mu passed directly to Zhang Shujie, Zhang Shujie passed the ball to Tang Ling on the oblique insertion, and then Tang Ling handed the ball to Chen Zihua, Chen Zihua passed to the back point with his feet on the right side, Xu Zhixin scored with a header at the back post, 2:1!

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