The warm-up was over, and the players of both teams walked to their dressing rooms. In the pre-match period, there was speculation that the two teams should adopt a more conservative style of play, as they only need a draw to qualify together, and Colombia coach Pekerman and Senegal coach Cisse even publicly expressed concern in front of the media that the two teams would not play "tacit ball".

The so-called tacit ball is that when it is known that it only needs a draw to appear, both sides will not give it their all. This has not happened before, such as Sweden and Norway in the 2004 European group stage, when Sweden and Norway played a 2-2 match, and both teams entered the knockout stage at the same time, and Italy was eliminated from the same group. The advantage of this is not only to ensure that both sides qualify at the same time, but also not to hurt the other party's harmony, because there may be a chance of meeting.

However, it must be made clear that Norway and Sweden belong to the same Eastern Europe, while Poland and China are one in Europe and the other in Asia, which is too far apart, and the possibility of meeting again in the World Series is far less than that of the other two Eastern European brothers, so the two teams do not attach much importance to this so-called "affection" at all. Both Zhang Shujie and Lewandowski have expressed their desire to beat each other, and although this statement has not been made public in front of the media, the stars of the house have thought so, and others will certainly not take the game negatively.

Some Colombian media once talked about the last World Cup, when the Chinese team played a tacit understanding with Colombia in the last round of the group stage, but the situation at that time was completely different from now, four years ago, the Chinese team and Colombia won both games, and qualified for the group in advance, and the final round will not change the qualifying situation regardless of whether they win or lose, and the only impact is that the opponent in the round of 16 will be different. But this year is different, the Chinese team and Poland did not qualify in advance, if anyone dares to play negatively, and accidentally lost to the opponent in the game, and Colombia and Senegal played another big score, then the final elimination is very likely to be one of China and Poland.

Therefore, counting all kinds of reasons, who will play the so-called tacit ball? The stadium is the battlefield, and it is the right thing to ensure that you have a place in the qualifiers.

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In the locker room of the Chinese team, An Rong determined the tactical idea of focusing on defense and counterattack, but he also reminded the players: "You can't press the formation too far back, if the ball is in the opponent's place, we must try to grab the ball in the middle of the midfield, and then counterattack." If we don't grab it, it doesn't matter, we have another layer of defense behind us. In short, lure them out and force them to leave space in the backcourt. ”

An Rong runs this tactic through to the end, this seemingly simple but hidden mystery of the anti-counterattack is used in many strong teams, An Rong likes this simple and effective style of play, he doesn't like to grind.

So what if the counterattack is not successful? An Rong has a second solution: transmission control. He said: "When you don't break in front of the opponent's goal, try to keep the ball at your feet, do a good job of transferring, and disrupt their defence in the middle of the pass. ”

The team members nodded, even if An Rong didn't say anything, everyone knew how to do it, because they were too familiar with each other!

An Rong's mentality is relatively relaxed, and due to goal difference, the situation in the group stage is more favorable to the Chinese team. An Rong said: "Lewandowski is their most dangerous figure, the technique is very comprehensive, Yan Tao, I will hand him over to you, but you have to remember, I don't let you defend close to each other in normal games, as long as he reaches your area, you will stick it on me!

"Yes! An Zhi!" Yan Tao's voice is very loud, once in the Champions League, Yan Tao has defended Lewandowski, and it is generally relatively successful. Today in the national team, he will face Lewandowski again! Yan Tao will do his best to stop the Polish striker!

An Rong said: "We have to pay more attention to the attack on the right side, because their left side is relatively weak, how to do it, we usually practice a lot, and I won't say much about the time relationship now." In short, we have a win against Poland, although we don't yet know if we will meet England or Belgium in the round of 16. But no matter who I will meet in the future, I have only one goal in this game – three points!"

Ahn Rong is very resolute and must win. In the locker room on the other side, Navalka and An Rong had the same goal, and he warned his disciples: "No matter what the other two teams will play the game in, we must win!"

Nawalka naturally wants to enter the knockout rounds smoothly, and the best way is to win, although he knows that Poland's winning rate is smaller than that of China, but anything can happen on the football field. Just like in the second round of the group, the Chinese team, who were optimistic before the game, did not equalize until the 76th minute, although the luck and refereeing factors in that game prevented the Chinese team from winning, but who can guess whether the luck of this game will be on the side of Poland?

So Navalka would still love to see Poland take all three points against the Chinese team.

Tactically, Nawalka mainly plays on the side, but he has another worry, Poland's left-back has always been a weakness, he has let many people try this position, the effect is not very ideal, he believes that the Chinese team must have studied this aspect, and there will be a targeted style of play.

Nawalka is a little nerve-wracking, he envies that there are powerful planets in every position in China, and he can't even find where the weakness of the Chinese team is. Offensively, he can also rely on Lewandowski, but defense can't rely on anyone to resist Zhang Shujie and Li Mu alone, he can only rely on the overall defense to defend against these two people.

The game was about to start, and the players of both teams walked out of the dressing room, with 22 main players standing in the tunnel and the substitutes going to the bench first. Ma Junqiang looked at Lewandowski, the two have also played against each other at the club, and each has won and lost. Ma Junqiang saved Lewandowski's threatening ball, but Lewandowski also broke through Ma Junqiang's ten fingers. But from today onwards, everything before is not important, and Ma Junqiang will try his best to block him to zero.

Zhang Shujie stood at the end, and Li Mu was by his side. After a while, the queue began to move, and Zhang Shujie also followed the footsteps of his teammates and slowly walked out of the passage and towards the court. Wang Shihan in the stands saw the last Zhang Shujie to appear, in the last round, she saw her fiancé's only goal blown with her own eyes, resulting in Zhang Shujie failing to score consecutive goals, this time she hoped to see Zhang Shujie running on the field to celebrate. Of course, she hopes that the Chinese team can appear in the list of the top 16 without any danger.

(End of chapter)