On July 6, there is one day left before the match between China and Germany. The two head coaches, An Rong and Loew, also held a pre-match press conference, during which An Rong said: "There is no doubt that this will be the toughest game we will face in this tournament. Both of our teams have the quality to win the title, so it's not a surprise who wins and who loses this game. We're going to take this game more seriously than we have ever done before. ”

Chen Hui stood up at this time and asked, "May I ask An Zhi, can Ma Junqiang get on?"

An Rong glanced at Chen Hui before saying, "Now I can't answer your question, because I don't know either." I asked the team doctor, and the team doctor said that Ma Junqiang's injury is recovering quickly, but it remains to be seen whether he will be able to play. ”

The Chinese reporters in the audience became worried after hearing this, everyone understood that An Rong was just a euphemism, if Ma Junqiang could play, he could say it directly, without being so tactful. And those German reporters were happy, although they all knew that the Chinese team's substitute goalkeeper in the last round performed well in the last nearly 20 minutes, but they can't feel that he is better than Ma Junqiang for this reason, Ma Junqiang is not an "event-type" goalkeeper, a "stable" goalkeeper, any game, no matter how big or small, as long as he is in front of the goal, there will be neither a moment of convulsion, nor a moment of making low-level mistakes.

Loew said: "I don't know if it was lucky or unfortunate for us to meet the Chinese team, it is a very strong opponent. If you want to successfully defend your title, you have to pass this hurdle. I studied their tactics carefully, and to be honest, there is nothing very unique, but they are very efficient, and that's the scariest thing. ”

A German reporter asked him: "What do you think of the offensive line of the Chinese team?"

Loew said very directly: "Strong! Very strong! I don't think any words can describe the powerful firepower of the Chinese team's attack line." But what I'm most concerned about now is not China's front line, but who their goalkeeper will be. ”

Obviously, Loew also hopes that Ma Junqiang will not play. In fact, judging from the first four games of the Chinese team, Ma Junqiang is not like other players who are in the spotlight anytime and anywhere, especially offensive players like Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, but as long as the opponent's ball hits the goal, Ma Junqiang can resolve it - except for the goal of Ronaldo against Colombia. But that conceded goal was largely due to Ma Junqiang's inability to make a second save after the first save before Ronaldo hit the goal.

Germany relies on stability, and Ma Junqiang is also very stable, so Loew is still very jealous of this goalkeeper. Loew also specially prepared a set of offensive tactics, which was prepared for this battle, as long as Ma Junqiang could not play, the German team would definitely steal the start. Now Loew is 80 percent sure that Ma Junqiang will not play.

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At 8 o'clock in the evening on July 7, Beijing time, the Chinese team boarded the bus at the Samara Stadium in front of them after dinner. Unlike the previous situation when the Chinese team went out of the hotel, the fans who usually came to see them off would chant the name of every player, especially Zhang Shujie, but today, there is only one person they care about the most - Ma Junqiang!

When Ma Junqiang played, some fans even shouted: "Can you play in the horse team?"

Ma Junqiang, who heard this, frowned slightly, but soon smiled at the fans and waved his hand. He didn't speak, he didn't know what to say.

When they arrived at the pitch, the players quickly went to the locker room and then went on the pitch to participate in the warm-up. In CCTV's live broadcast room, He Wei and Xu Yang were also discussing Ma Junqiang's affairs.

He Wei said: "We don't have the main lineup list of An Rong at the moment, so we don't know whether Ma Junqiang can appear in the starting lineup. ”

Xu Yang also said: "Yes, An Rong has done a very good job of keeping this matter secret, his main list was only submitted to the organizers of the event, and it was not made public at all in front of the media." Judging from our analysis alone, the possibility of Ma Junqiang playing is actually not very large. In the pre-game report, there was news that Ma Junqiang's injury was no longer serious, but An Rong had asked the team doctor for advice, and we didn't know what kind of advice the team doctor gave. ”

"That's right. And there is news that those players who play abroad, those full-time reporters around them have also asked these players, hoping to get first-hand information, but these players are silent. This is obviously explained by An Rong in advance. ”

"This may make us even more worried. Of course, we really hope that Ma Junqiang can appear in the starting eleven!"

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On the pitch, the players of both teams had finished their warm-up and walked towards the locker room. Zhang Shujie glanced in the direction of the Germans, and there were many people he knew, such as Kroos, Neuer, Boateng, Thomas Müller, and so on.

He didn't give them to his former team-mates before the game, and in fact after all these years, he only kept in touch with a handful of them, and Muller was one of them. Sometimes professional football is no different from the people they are in the workplace, when they are still working together, they are more connected, and once they are gone, except for a few players who have a better relationship, most of them may never have any contact again.

Zhang Shujie smiled self-deprecatingly, turned his head and walked into the players' tunnel.

In the locker room of the Chinese team, An Rong looked at the disciples and said, "Okay, you all know, in this game, I can't let Ma Junqiang play for the time being." ”

He said "temporarily", which implies that there may be room for a turnaround. If Liao Dongyuan's performance is not good, then Ma Junqiang will be in danger. An Rong looked around and said, "Zhang Shujie will be the captain of this game." We had to give up the counter-attacking style of play and focus on passing, and I think you should all know why. ”

The team nodded, and of course they knew. In the past, the Chinese team dared to play defense and counterattack, just because of the strength of the back line, and now it lacks the most critical Ma Junqiang, who is still a goalkeeper, An Rong does not dare to play defense and counterattack casually. Therefore, the transmission control has become the best choice for An Rong.

"Although it is a pass control, but the idea of attacking remains the same, or to combine the side, remember, this kind of diversified attack, is our biggest advantage, we don't have to be limited to which road, that side, where we can play! Another point, in the past two years, Neuer does not like to run outside the penalty area as before, so that kind of long-range hanging shot, probably not much effect, we have to play steadily, especially when defending, less let them hit our penalty area. Got it?"

"Understood!" the team members said in unison.

An Rong looked at everyone and nodded silently, he fell on Liao Dongyuan and found that the young goalkeeper was a little nervous. He sighed quietly, hoping that there would be no chaos in the game.

(End of chapter)