On the evening of March 23, Changsha, China.

The sixth round of Group A of the Asian Qualifiers for the World Cup in Russia is in full swing.

The Chinese team wearing the red jersey was mainly defensive from the beginning of the game, while the South Korean team wearing the white jersey launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team's defense from the first minute.

In the stands, 40,000 Chinese fans turned the entire stadium into a sea of red, [Battle of Changsha] became the theme of this game, and the defense of Changsha also became the slogan of the fans on the stadium, and the game in the stadium was also as fierce as the theme and slogan.

Gao Han and the head coach of the visiting team, Stillik, were both in the coaching area from the first minute, and both of them watched the game solemnly, but the mood was completely different.

When the game reached the eleventh minute, the Chinese team quickly counterattacked, Zhang Xizhe and Huang Baiwen formed a cooperation on the right side, Zhang Linfan quickly came up from the side, received the ball and went to the bottom line, and passed a very high-quality cross.

Zhang Yuning in the middle of the penalty area quickly grabbed the first landing point, jumped to the top and hit the ball, but unfortunately, the ball hit the post, rebounded back into the penalty area, and was cleared by the defender of the South Korean team.

After clearing the siege, the South Korean team pressed again and quickly launched a counterattack.

Gao Han quickly walked to the sidelines and applauded vigorously, affirming the player's performance in the counterattack just now, and at the same time signaling the player to calm down and not be in a hurry.

"Don't retreat too deep, keep your distance, try to push the line out, and the midfielder must resist. ”

"Zhang Yuning, Wu Lei and Zhang Xizhe, the front court continued to maintain pressing and pressing, jamming their attacks from both sides and the wings. ”

"Keep the distance between the three lines well, keep playing like this, control the rhythm, don't mess around, pay attention to the defense. ”

"Everyone cheered me up, they all ran up, remember what I said before the game, the arrival rate, the arrival rate, the arrival rate!"

With Gao Han's shout, the players on the field also received instructions, and the game quickly restarted.

As he walked back, Gao Han turned his head sideways to look at Stillik, the German coach looked a little out of breath, especially when he saw that the Chinese team had played such a threatening counterattack just now, if it wasn't for the goalpost, they would have fallen behind.

From Gao Han's point of view, the most important thing to do at this time is to be calm.

But both Stillik and the South Korean players on the pitch are clearly starting to get a little impatient.

"Their mentality is dying. Gao Han smiled faintly.

He had anticipated this situation before the game.

Many people always have the impression of the South Korean team that the Taiji Tigers are very strong-willed and the players are high-spirited, but as everyone knows, any team will have times when they are restless, and the key is to see how the head coach adjusts.

Sometimes, dealing with the mentality of the players is more important than any technical or tactical situation.

In the first leg of the match between the two sides, the Chinese team caught South Korea by surprise in Seoul and won 3-1, which made South Korea ashamed of the whole country, because it was Chinese football that they looked down on the most in decades.

But who would have thought that after the first round of five games, although the Chinese team played every group game very hard, it performed very steadily, Gao Han and the team almost did not make too fatal mistakes, and ranked first in the group with five wins in five games with a steady and steady strategy.

But what about the Korean team?

He lost points in a row until the last round and won the third place in the group.

This made South Korea, which has always boasted of being the strongest team in Asia, unacceptable, with coach Stillik and the international players in the team under great pressure, and domestic public opinion also poured into the national team like a tide.

In the first game of the second round, South Korea must win the away game against China, whether it is to defend the record advantage of decades or to qualify for the round of 12, and Stillik also needs a victory in order to consolidate the position.

Therefore, in this game, the Korean team was very impatient from the beginning and made a big gamble.

Nearly two-meter high school striker Kim Shin Wook started the game!

The South Korean striker's start has exposed the emotions of almost everyone up and down the Korean team.

They want to eat China in one bite right from the start.

On the other hand, Gao Han deliberately decompressed before the game, and in the opening stage, after giving Kim Shinyu a chance to hit the goal with a header, he decisively made adjustments, and the team's back line began to press forward, which has two advantages, one is to force Kim Shinyu to stay away from the goal as much as possible.

The South Korean team has always been characterized by passing control, but Kim Shinyu's appearance, although it occupies a commanding height in the penalty area, but the team's style of play is about to become a side cross, which is obviously a bit inconsistent, and Gao Han let Kim Shinyu stay away from the goal, and let Feng Xiaoting and Zhao Jun hit left and right, making it difficult for the Korean team's side crosses to create a threat.

The second benefit is that after the defensive line is pressed, the three lines remain compact, always putting defensive pressure on South Korea, and at the same time, the defensive line will be more resilient, as long as the players maintain a good arrival rate, it will be difficult for South Korea to break through.

It should be said that Gao Han's adjustment is very targeted, and the South Korean team's subsequent attack seems to be very powerful, but it is difficult to threaten, but it makes mistakes repeatedly, and the more mistakes are made, the more impatient and uncompulsory.

On the other hand, Gao Han kept calling on the players to calm down, knowing that the South Korean team was eager to counterattack and score goals, so he concentrated on defense.

The game has been played to this point, and there is no need to say more about whether Gao Han or Stillik is better or worse.

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"There were too many mistakes on our side. ”

In the away team's dugout, the assistant coach also took the initiative to report to Stillik on the situation on the pitch and the data.

"If it weren't for the lack of Chinese players to grasp opportunities and pass and receive the ball, we would be even more ugly than we are now. ”

Stillik's face was extremely ugly, of course he knew the current situation was unfavorable, and he even began to regret a little, he should not have let Kim Shin-wook start before.

Arrange the high school striker to start, Stillik's strategy is to occupy a commanding height in the penalty area and suppress the Chinese team's defense, which also played a certain effect at the beginning, but what I didn't expect was that as soon as Gao Han adjusted, the Chinese team's defense line pressed forward and back, coupled with Feng Xiaoting and Zhao Jun's pinching, Jin Xinyu lost his role in the frontcourt.

Not only that, but the South Korean team completely forgot how to attack.

It's not surprising that some players want to play crosses, but some players feel that the cross is ineffective and want to go back to the pass, so the players' thinking is not uniform, and the mistakes naturally start to increase.

"Damn it!" Stillik scolded indignantly.

In the face of the high cold, he really had a feeling of being helpless and helpless, as if he had stripped off his clothes and stood in front of him, without reservation, without any secrets to speak of.

Is this the world's top coach?

"Their mentality is so good, from the first leg of the top 12, Gao Han has attached great importance to the creation of this mentality, so far in six games, every improvement is very obvious, technical and tactical is certainly one thing, but the most important thing is the mentality of the players and on-the-spot performance. The assistant coach also sighed convincingly.

It can be said that after these few games, Gao Han has completely demonstrated the coaching ability of the world's top coaches.

On the other hand, the South Korean team did not play well in the first round of the group stage, and the team did not adjust well after that, which directly led to the continuous loss of points in the first two rounds, which put the team in a disadvantageous situation.

The arrogant South Koreans will not accept the fact that they are inferior to the Chinese in any case, and both within the team and domestic public opinion are like a pair of invisible pushers, forcing the South Korean team to be more active in grabbing points.

It's good to be aggressive, but it's not to be overly aggressive.

Anyone who watched this game would not doubt that South Korean players surpassed the Chinese team in terms of individual ability and overall strength, and international players such as Son Heung-min, Ji Chengyong, Nam Tae-hee, and Gu Zi-chul stood out from the crowd.

But against China, which is holding its own half, this is of no use at all.

"The young central defender named Zhao Jun performed very well in this game, Gao Han, is this going to officially promote him to the main lineup?" said Stillik with a frown.

The South Korean team's midfield advantage is very obvious, and Gao Han's technical three midfielders of Hao Junmin, Zheng Zhi and Huang Baiwen in this game are under great pressure, and sometimes it is difficult to resist, but at critical moments, Feng Xiaoting and Zhao Jun frequently pressed on and strengthened the defensive thickness and intensity of the midfield.

This move not only limited Kim Shin-wook, but at the same time strengthened the midfield defense, which can be said to be very bright.

It is also worth noting that the starting goalkeeper of the Chinese team, after three games out of injury, Zeng Cheng returned to the starting lineup, and performed very steadily, even better than before the injury, which shows that he felt the pressure of competition.

It has been almost 20 minutes since the beginning of this game, and the Chinese team has played too steadily.

The defense is very solid, the players run and press actively, the arrival rate is very high, and the counterattack is quickly played after the ball is broken, and the offensive and defensive transitions are fast, forcing the Korean team to have to return to the defense quickly, which is very troublesome.

South Korea is now full of depression and wants to kill China, but the opponent avoids and does not fight, so that South Korea has no way to start, and even from time to time they even make counterattacks and provoke, which undoubtedly further stimulates the anger of South Korea.

Stillik is also a headache now, if he pulls the players, it will undoubtedly lead to the collapse of the players' mentality, and it will be difficult to organize such an offensive again, but if they continue to develop like this, as long as they can't break through the defense of the Chinese team, the situation will only become more and more unfavorable for the South Korean team.

Besides, when the game is played on this one, the players may not listen to him.

With his situation that he may be fired at any time, he has no bottom on how much weight he still has in the minds of the South Korean internationals.

While Stillik was struggling, South Korea made a threatening attack on the left, Son Heung-min cut inside to the middle, received a pass from his team-mate, and volleyed directly from a distance without being marked.

As a result, this shot went high above the goal and became a goal kick for the Chinese team.

Stillik looked straight on the sidelines, he saw that Kim Xinyu in the penalty area had run to the position, Son Heung-min could pass to him, and if he couldn't do it, he could take the ball and force the Chinese team's defense line by himself, and then create opportunities after his teammates came up, which was always more reliable than a hasty long-range shot by himself, right?

Mentality!

In contrast, the Chinese team's goal kick was quickly sent to the front.

After Zhang Yuning grabbed the first landing point, the midfielder quickly planned an attack, Wu Lei retreated to respond, and quickly advanced along the left rib with the ball, Hao Junmin went up and pulled away the defenders, but Wu Lei suddenly went inside, and crossed the penalty area with his right foot, Zhang Yuning grabbed the point at close range in the penalty area.

"Danger!" Stillik cried out in shock.

At this time, more than 40,000 Chinese fans also exclaimed, as if they had seen the birth of the goal.

(End of chapter)