Chapter 799: The Last World Preliminary Tournament of the Year

After playing in the Champions League, AC Milan returned to the league, during this time the team's intensity was very high, not only Milan, almost all the teams that can participate in the European competition are three days and one game, which also makes the players feel a little tired, fortunately, the season has not started soon, everyone has no major physical problems, but as the game progresses, it is inevitable that there will be rotation.

However, Zhang Shujie, Chen Zihua, Yan Tao and other players have no substitutes in the team, and Inzaghi does not dare to replace them. So far, the three have only been substituted once, still when the team is leading by a large margin.

The members of other national teams are not much better, Li Mu, Xu Ziyi, Liang Xiran, Ma Junqiang, Tang Ling are the starters, Ma Junqiang is okay, as a goalkeeper, the physical consumption is not very large, and the physical consumption of several other players per game is very large, especially Xu Ziyi as a B2B midfielder, running all over the field, as long as it is a full game, the running distance of each game is more than ten kilometers. However, Xu Ziyi himself said that although he sometimes felt a little tired after playing games, it was a day full of energy after a night's rest, and now his physical strength is no problem at all.

Huang Yu received two yellow cards in the tenth round, and was suspended for the eleventh round and did not participate, and Zhao Wenkang had a small cold before and also suspended for a round. Xu Zhixin, a young player who plays for Stuttgart, has also played in all nine Bundesliga games of the team, scoring four goals and providing three assists. Because of his good performance in Stuttgart, he also caught the attention of other teams, including Bayern. It's just that with these games alone, Bayern can't have the idea of buying him, but they will pay more attention to him.

Liao Dongyuan, who plays in Panathinaikos in Greece, is already the team's main goalkeeper, Liu Jianwei, who transferred to Celtic this summer, has not played much, but he has also scored a goal, and Xiao Feng, who plays in Groningen, the Netherlands, can basically play in every game, but he can't become the main force yet.

On November 6, AC Milan played Palermo away, and home striker Nestorowski opened the scoring in the 15th minute of the game, but Zhang Shujie soon set up Suso to equalise. 1:1 lasted until the seventy-fourth minute, Zhang Shujie broke the ball in front, and after breaking through, he passed to Lapadula, who came on as a substitute, and Lapadula pushed the empty goal to overtake the score. Six minutes later, Chen Zihua passed to Abate diagonally, Abate crossed near the bottom line, Zhang Shujie outflanked in the middle, and hit the goal with his left foot, fixing the final score at 3:1!

It was Zhang's 16th league goal of the season, and he played just 12 games. He is now on his tally of six league games, with nine goals and three assists in those six games. The newspaper Sport is also speculating on how long his scoring streak will last.

Juventus also won away from home, narrowly beating Chievo 2-1, with Mandzukic and Pjanic netting and Huang providing his fourth assist of the season. Napoli were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Lazio, and after losing to Juventus in the previous round, they only managed to get one draw in this round, and have already opened up a gap between Milan and Juventus in the standings.

In the Premier League table, Manchester City is currently in first place, Chelsea are in second place by one point, Tottenham Hotspur is five and four points away from the top two in third place, and Arsenal is temporarily in fourth place. In the La Liga list, Tang Ling's Atletico Madrid ranks third, and the top two are naturally La Liga duo: Real Madrid and Barcelona.

After this round of league games, the Europa League will be suspended for a week, and the players will return to the national team to participate in the World Cup qualifiers. The Chinese team faced Qatar at home on the 15th, and the venue of the game was in Kunming. This is the last World Preliminary Tournament of the Chinese team this year, and the next time will be until March next year, An Rong does not want to end in defeat in the final game of 2016, although he also understands that the current Chinese team may be difficult to beat in Asia, unless there is an upset.

Of course, An Rong and all the national football players are not allowed to be unpopular.

On the day of the game, Kunming Tuodong Stadium was full of Chinese fans, and every fan believed that the powerful Chinese team would easily defeat Qatar. Even the Qatari coach openly admitted: "It is almost impossible to get out of the home stadium of the Chinese team." ”

However, the process of the game is unexpected, to say that the field advantage, the Chinese team is the absolute upper hand, the midfield has Xu Ziyi, Chen Zihua, Zhao Wenkang and Xu Zhixin's national football team completely controlled the scene, how can Qatar focus on defense, rarely attack, only in defense, occasionally play one or two counterattacks.

China has not been able to attack for a long time. Qatar's intention is obvious, first to defend the backfield, to see if there is a chance to steal a ball from the Chinese team, if not, it is good to return home with a score of 0:0. This is also the way some weak teams play against strong teams, and a draw is considered a victory.

On the other hand, the luck of the Chinese team is not very good, Zhang Shujie hit the goal frame twice in the penalty area, Li Mu's small-angle shot was also slightly sliding, Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi's shots at the top of the arc were blocked by the defenders. In short, all the bad luck in football seems to have been encountered by the Chinese team in this game.

An Rong couldn't do anything about it, he didn't score after 70 minutes, it's not a matter of strength, it's really luck. Sometimes, in the field of sports, athletes must also admit an off-field factor, and that is luck. In many big races, luck is sometimes part of the success.

In the 80th minute of the game, An Rong replaced all the offensive players who could be replaced, and Qatar defended with all his strength and did not attack, so it was better to go home with a point than to lose.

In the eighty-second minute, Zhang Shujie forced a breakthrough under the attack of three people and rushed into the penalty area, the opponent's fourth defender came up and blocked his shooting path, Zhang Shujie stabbed his left foot, the ball passed between the opponent's legs, and slid down the small penalty area to the back point, Li Mu even caught up, and pushed the ball into the goal with his right foot.

1:0! The Chinese team finally scored! This goal was really not easy to come by! The fans in the stands, who had been silent for a long time, also celebrated, and An Rong on the sidelines sighed, this is probably the hardest game that China has played in the world preliminaries.

Now everyone understands the situation on the field, Qatar will not have a chance to score again, they have no striker on the field, no one to charge, how can they score? Who will score?

The 1:0 remained until the end of the game, and China got the victory as they wished, and is currently in the group standings, the Chinese team ranks first, Iran is second, and South Korea is third. There are still four games left in the top 12, and the Chinese team is not in much suspense about qualifying, and Iran has no big problems, but South Korea, as the old enemy of the Chinese team, is afraid that it is a little hanging.

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