Chapter 435: The Ambition of the Champion
At the same time as China's 5-1 victory over Japan, Australia finally made a big splash in another game at the same time, beating Jordan 4-0 at home.
With Oman's bye, Australia overtook Jordan's six points with eight points to move into third place and saw hope of a play-off.
However, Australia faced the Chinese team in the final round, and if the Chinese team did not release the water, Australia may not be able to defeat the Chinese team with Zhang Huasong.
And if Australia loses to China and Jordan defeats Oman, Jordan will overtake Australia again.
Therefore, as soon as the ninth round of matches ended, the Jordanian domestic media began to report on the Chinese team, congratulating the Chinese team on qualifying ahead of schedule, complimenting Zhang Huasong for scoring a hat trick in three consecutive national team games, and talking about sportsmanship.
The intention is obvious, that is, to let the Chinese team not release water, do not play match-fixing, and do not play tacit ball, so that the Jordanian team has a chance to overtake Australia and qualify for the play-offs.
Similarly, Australia began to hype up the friendship between China and Australia, hoping that the Chinese team would not be so desperate in the final game, and it was better to release the water directly.
The Chinese team, Rehhagel and Zhang Huasong both said in an interview with reporters that the Chinese team will take every game seriously and will not be affected by the remarks of outsiders.
In fact, within the Chinese team, a strategy has been determined to train troops with Australia.
The Chinese team does not have much experience and opportunities to participate in the World Series, and the top 10 matches are already rare real competitions, which are very different from warm-up matches and invitational matches.
Australia will definitely fight in the final round of the game, and it is only fitting for the Chinese team to use Australia to exercise the individual ability and overall cooperation of their players.
Anyway, there is no pressure to qualify, just be careful not to get hurt.
As a result, on June 18, the Chinese team that had already qualified still lined up with an all-main lineup in Australia, and only one or two positions were rotated.
Seeing this lineup, the Australian players, coaches and fans were chuckled.
In normal times, Australia is not afraid of any Asian team, they are the number one team in the AFC themselves.
However, I don't know what's going on in the top 10 this time, Australia's performance has not been good, and the strength of Asia's No. 1 is completely inconsistent, and now if you want to play the play-offs, you have to look at the face of the Chinese team that they didn't look down on before.
Everyone thought that this was just the starting lineup, and in the case of having qualified, maybe the players of the Chinese team would not fight so the field.
However, as soon as the game started, the Australians despaired.
The players of the Chinese team on the field did not show mercy because they had already qualified, but they all fought bravely and performed very positively.
Australians don't know that in China, being able to go to the World Cup is an extraordinary qualification, involving the player's status, fame, seniority, annual salary, bonuses and other aspects in the circle.
Players who have participated in the World Cup and players who have not participated in the World Cup are definitely two different concepts.
Except for Zhang Huasong, there is no guarantee that he will be in Otto the Great's final squad and appear in next year's World Cup.
Therefore, even if the top 10 has already qualified, each of them will have to perform positively in order to impress Otto the Great, and hopefully Otto the Great will take them with him on next year's World Cup trip to Brazil.
As for Zhang Huasong, this game is a completely different person.
The Australians have been guarding against the goal machine Zhang Huasong shooting, but Zhang Huasong did not score a goal in this game.
Like Rehhagel's thoughts, Zhang Huasong took this game as an opportunity for him to practice cooperation with his teammates, not pursuing shooting and scoring, but pursuing cooperation and assists.
In the end, Zhang Huasong assisted 3 goals.
For the first time since cross-border football, Zhang Huasong did not score a goal in an official match, and finally stopped his streak of goals.
In the end, the Chinese team defeated Australia with a score of 3-2 away and advanced to the World Cup with the first place in the group.
Although Australia tried their best to attack, they only scored 2 goals and still lost the game.
Moreover, Jordan also managed to win at home to Oman in the other match played at the same time.
As a result, Australia, which ranked first in the AFC points before the start of the top 10 match, only ranked fourth in Group B after the top 10 match, and did not even get a play-off place, falling below the glasses.
Australia initially thought that the Asian region would be easy to qualify, but leaving Oceania and joining the AFC became a laughing stock.
After all the top 10 matches were over, CCTV produced a special qualifying feature to review the national football team's 2014 Brazil World Cup qualifying journey, which caused a viewing boom among people across the country.
This time, the Chinese team did not qualify because of Japan and South Korea directly qualified and benefited from the draw as in 2002, but really qualified first in the group of death.
Moreover, after having Zhang Huasong, the attack power of the national football team has no longer become a place for countless fans to criticize.
Under the strong management of Otto the Great, there is no phenomenon of pulling mountains and going through the back door within the national football team, and everything depends on performance to fight for opportunities to play in front of Rehhagel.
Such a national team is very thriving, and fans are also full of expectations for the performance of the Chinese team in the World Cup in Brazil next year.
No matter what, we won't be like in 2002 without scoring a point, without scoring a goal, and then going home in disgrace, right?
In fact, no one knows that in Zhang Huasong's heart, his goal is not to score goals or score points, and even to qualify from the group is not his goal.
Zhang Huasong, who led Atletico Madrid to win the quadruple crown, naturally set his goal on the championship.
Even though he knows it's hard, he'll definitely do his best.
However, Zhang Huasong did not say this goal for the time being, so as not to increase the pressure on the coach and players, and it would also cause jokes.
After leading Atletico to a quadruple title, Zhang Huasong added a lot of prestige, successfully upgrading his passing and off-ball runs to the master level.
Now, Zhang Huasong has four master-level basic skills of shooting, passing, running without the ball, and dribbling, and other offensive-related skills have all been upgraded to advanced, as well as a variety of rich dribbling and shooting skills.
Zhang Huasong's all-round ability has reached a higher level.
In the first season, he was able to lead Atletico Madrid to win the quadruple crown, and next season Zhang Huasong is ready to add strength to win the double six crowns of the year and season, surpassing Barcelona.
When the time comes, the fame will be higher and the prestige will be more abundant.
By the time of next year's World Cup in Brazil, it is estimated that most of the basic skills related to his forward attributes will be upgraded to the master level to make up for the poor strength of his teammates.
The Chinese team's victory in the World Cup is not entirely Zhang Huasong's fantasy, and there is still a hint of possibility of realization.
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