With the return of striker Hwang Hee-chan, who plays for Red Bull Salzburg in Austria, South Korea will finally be able to have a full training session after arriving in Changsha, and Stillik will be able to get a close-up look at the players' condition.

Although he came from a long journey, Huang Xican's state still looks quite excited.

The South Korea international had just come on as a substitute for half an hour in the Austrian league before scoring a brace to show his excellent form and much to the satisfaction of head coach Stillik.

The other international players who stayed abroad have also basically adjusted, and everyone is waiting for the game against the Chinese team with high morale.

In the past few decades, South Korean football has always stepped on Chinese football under their feet, and they will not allow it anyway, but in their generation, they have turned Chinese football around, whether it is for the honor of Korean football or for entering the World Cup, they must win the next battle.

For the team's fighting spirit, Stillik is still very satisfied.

The overall strength of the South Korean team is above that of the Chinese team, as long as the players' belief in winning is strong enough, I believe that the possibility of winning the game is still very high, even in Changsha, China.

Returning from the training ground to the Kempinski Hotel, Stillik soon received information from the South Korean coaching staff.

"Domestic public opinion has exploded, and the pressure on the Football Association is also very great, this round of Uzbekistan away from Syria, the possibility of winning is very high, Iran is away from Qatar, and it should also be able to win, so if we can't win China, it is likely that we will not be able to keep the third place in the group. ”

According to the rules of the round of twelve, the top two teams in the group qualify directly, and the third place in the two groups participates in the play-offs.

In other words, if the South Korean team wants to qualify, it must at least finish third.

"The domestic public opinion is still too exaggerated, and the Chinese team is not as weak as they imagined, especially after Gao Han coached. Stillik frowned and said with a bitter face.

He did make mistakes and underestimated the difficulty of the round of 12, especially the rise of the Chinese team, he made a serious miscalculation, which caused the South Korean team to lose points in the first two rounds, but he is still very confident in qualifying.

But the overall strength of the Chinese team is not weak, especially after Gao Han took over, in a short period of time, the team's defense is very tight, and the offense is also well organized, especially in the past three games against Syria, Uzbekistan and Qatar, it is obvious that the Chinese team and South Korea and Iran have adopted two different strategies.

Against South Korea and Iran, China is defending and counterattacking, but against other teams, the Chinese team is obviously more willing to attack.

This is Gao Han's strategy, very pragmatic and smart.

In the face of such an opponent, Stillik really couldn't come up with a good way, so he could only attack, but at this time, public opinion in South Korea was so optimistic, how did he deal with himself?

If you don't talk about him, I'm afraid even the international players will be affected.

But the question is, can he stand up against it? Can he tell the fans that the Chinese team has improved enough to compete with the South Korean team?

The answer is, no.

South Korea has had an advantage over China for decades, and he has only one choice at this point, and that is to go all out to win.

"How has the Chinese team been training recently?" Stillik asked with concern.

"It's not very clear, Gao Han adopted a closed training camp in Changsha, refused all interviews, and it is said that even the leaders of the Football Association were not allowed to attend, and even the hotel did not let them go, saying that it was to not add pressure to the international players, so we also failed to get any news from relevant parties. ”

When Stillik heard this, he suddenly became very envious of Gao Han.

The world's top coaches have such preferential treatment, not only the Football Association fully cooperates, but even the media and public opinion have to favor him.

"However, judging from the news we have received from many sources, as well as some photos and intelligence released by the national team, the focus should be on practicing defense, and it is said that Gao Han also specially practiced set-piece tactics every day. ”

Defending and set-pieces?

Stillik couldn't help but have a headache, because it basically confirmed his suspicion that Gao Han would be on the defensive.

Since Gao Han took over, the Chinese team's set-pieces are gradually becoming an important means of scoring, and several international players are very strong, which is very troublesome.

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Relax!relax!!or relax!!

These are the three things that Gao Han emphasized the most during the national team's training camp in Changsha.

The training intensity has been reduced, but there are more game-like training items on the field, and the national team has also arranged a lot of relaxing entertainment programs off the field, and even the pre-game preparation meeting that Gao Han originally attached great importance to, he tried to shorten the time as much as possible.

Externally, Gao Han said that the battle between China and South Korea is just an ordinary national team game, and internally, Gao Han even jokingly said that this game will not affect his qualifying plan at all.

Closed training, so that the national team is isolated from the inside and outside.

No one outside can know the situation inside the national team, and the coaching staff led by Gao Han is also doing everything to relax the tight strings of the international players as much as possible.

As a result, Steve Pieters, a psychology expert, became the busiest man in the national team training camp.

Team leader Li Tie is the person who can feel this change the most, and after he felt the atmosphere of the national team training camp, the first thing that came to his mind was Milu's happy football.

Back then, Milu relied on this set to bring the Chinese team into the World Cup.

And now, it is obvious that Gao Han also intends to use this set to relieve pressure on the national team.

In the past ten years, the more important the national team, the easier it is to drop the chain, and the more fans look forward to it, the more likely the international players are to make mistakes, which has led to many domestic fans ridiculing that when the fans no longer have hope for the national team, then Chinese football will be saved.

As the core figure of the national team, Li Tie felt that this was not just a joke, but a certain truth.

Is the level of Chinese players poor?

It is indeed inferior to Asian powerhouses such as South Korea, Japan, and Iran, but the Chinese team is not so bad that it has no strength to fight.

It is not difficult to see from the club's games that Chinese players can also compete with South Korea and Japan.

So why not in the national team?

The answer is simple, stress.

Li Tie felt this point the most.

Before Gao Han took over, the situation of the national team in the top 40 was precarious, and the pressure from the outside world was very great at that time, but the pressure within the national team was far greater than that from the outside, which was the pressure created by the outside world, the Football Association, the coaching staff and the players themselves, and that pressure was even so great that the internal atmosphere became very tense, and the atmosphere of the whole team became a little distorted and overly depressing.

Everyone knows that the more critical the tournament, the easier it should be, but everyone understands the truth, how many can do it?

Li Tie has personally watched Gao Han from taking over the national team to the present whole process, he has witnessed Gao Han bring leaps and bounds to the technical and tactical level of the national team, almost every player has been promoted and improved under Gao Han, especially several young players, the improvement is especially obvious.

But the most important thing is the psychological change.

In the past many years of weakness, the Football Association and the national team have always had a weak mentality, not daring to take responsibility, for fear of giving hope to the outside world, because once they have given hope, they will achieve corresponding results, and they are unwilling to take this responsibility, so they are always blindly instilling that we are weak.

But after Gao Han came, he pointed to the key point, pointing out that the performance of the players in the national team and the club cannot be equated at all, thinking that the main thing is that there is a problem at the psychological level, and his approach is to constantly instill in everyone a belief that we are a strong team, our club can win the AFC Champions League, and our national team will definitely be able to compete with the top teams in Asia.

Outside, he took on all the pressure alone, he was like a towering mountain, supporting the world of the national team, he dared to challenge all the media and public opinion, he also dared to rotate a lot, and arranged a large number of substitutes and young teams to play in Syria.

If it weren't for the national team, it would not be possible to see that behind the victories one after another, it was the international players who regained their confidence step by step, followed the cold step by step, and rose to the challenge.

What is the Strong?

Tarzan collapsed in front of it and the color remained unchanged!

Many people feel that the biggest change brought by Gao Han to the national team is the results, skills and tactics, but as the leader of the national team, Li Tie feels that the biggest change brought by Gao Han is the psychological quality and the overall temperament of the team.

It can be said that China has finally begun to have a strong team.

The most obvious manifestation is that on the training ground, the enemy is present, but they still let go of their arms to play, they can walk monkeys on the training ground, and sing loudly in the recreation room.

Gao Han even did his job to the Football Association, the General Administration of Sports and the leaders of the provinces and cities where the home stadium is located, hoping that they would not disturb the international players before the game, do not make any remarks related to the game, and avoid giving the international players any unnecessary pressure.

And what touched Li Tie very much was that he chatted with an international player before, and he even jokingly said that there was no pressure to play the South Korean team, why?

"Please, Brother Li Tie, we are now ranked first in the group, they are ranked third in the group, they can't get three points in this game, they are worse than us, the head coach is going to leave class, the qualifying situation is precarious, there is really pressure, that is also their pressure, okay?

This sounds very heartless, but it is hard for Li Tie to imagine that he is from the mouth of an international player.

This means that they don't have much pressure, no psychological burden, and really travel light.

On the other hand, the South Korean team has too much pressure in this game, it is an away game, a qualifying situation, and a phobia of Korea, and they are carrying too many things.

The international player is not wrong at all, if there is real pressure, it is also a lot of pressure on South Korea.

The world's top coaching team, the world's top medical team, and the perfect logistics have all allowed the national team to prepare for the game without distractions, and it has also created the transformation of the national team in the past year.

But Li Tie always insisted that even if he had the same set of team, it would be difficult to achieve the level of Gao Han, because his existence itself was the strongest and powerful guarantee, and he was born to be the kind of super coach who can bring confidence to people.

The game has not yet started, but Li Tie has already sensed the reversal of the situation between China and South Korea.

Perhaps, the appearance of Gao Han not only helped China break the embarrassing Koreanophobia, but may even turn around, bringing nightmares to the South Korean team and making them suffer from Sinophobia.

With the current internal and external situation, and the current environment faced by the two national teams, who dares to say that there is no such possibility?

(End of chapter)