After three days of adjustment, the Chinese team ushered in the second opponent of the group stage, the host Qatar.

I don't know if it was the easy win in the first game that made people get dizzy, Gao Hongbo unexpectedly adopted a semi-rotation strategy in this game against the host, Gao Feilin replaced Yang Xuri in the front, Yu Tao replaced Zhao Xuyang in the back position, and the goalkeeper replaced Yang Zhi with Zeng Cheng.

To be honest, despite Qatar's previous defeat to Uzbekistan, not many people were optimistic about the Chinese team before the game, because Qatar is the host, and the teams in West Asia are far more likely to play with the rules than East Asia.

Sure enough, maybe it's a psychological effect, maybe it's really the impact of the home whistle, or maybe it's just a pure dislike for the Chinese team, anyway, the referee South Korean Kim Dongjin just turned a blind eye to Qatar's various suspected fouls, but instead boasted about the Chinese team's actions of the same scale, interrupting the Chinese team's two offensive opportunities in a row.

However, it is undeniable that the frontcourt players with Deng Zhuoxiang as the core also played some good cooperation, Qatari goalkeeper Burhan and the defenders had to make several thrilling saves and blocks, but whether it is Deng Zhuoxiang's free kick, or Qu Jiangbo, Yu Hai and others to grab points, it is always a little weak and difficult to break through the host's door. Gao Feilin, the top scorer in the Chinese League last season, only had one shot at the goal in the first 30 minutes.

In the 27th minute, in the midfield scramble between the two sides, Du Weifeng and Yang Hao both fell down when they competed with the opposing player Sebastian, taking advantage of the chaos of the Chinese team's defense, Qatar's header to the penalty area, Zhao Peng hastily stopped the football at the feet of the opposing player Amid, and in the face of the big gift to the mouth, the Qatar midfielder smiled and couldn't close his legs, he immediately chose to volley, and the ball flew straight into the back corner of the goal.

And at this moment, Zeng Cheng, the goalkeeper of the Chinese team, has not even found a football.

After the goal, Qatar's morale was boosted, and it continued to form an offensive in a short period of time. In order to stop the offensive, the Chinese team's forwards Qu Jiangbo and Gao Feilin received yellow cards one after another, among which Qu Jiangbo got a yellow card because he faked a fall during the scramble.

In the 41st minute, Gao Hongbo made the first substitution adjustment early: center Gao Feilin was replaced by Yang Xuri, but there was no change in the shape. In first-half stoppage time, it was Amid again, he leaned on Dewey's back to pick up the ball in the arc of the penalty area, and then suddenly got up and fired a low shot, the ball rolled into the bottom corner of the goal, and the goalkeeper Zeng Cheng was unresponsive because his vision was blocked.

The score of 20 made tens of thousands of Qatari fans thunderous, while the already small number of Chinese fans were silent.

Gao Hongbo stood alone in the command area, and the winter wind in Qatar blew his long hair messy.

The winter winds in the Middle East are not as cold as ice blades in North China, but at this moment, Gao Hongbo has to grit his teeth. In the face of the host's morale, the young Chinese coach had no choice but to gesture over and over again, signaling the players on the field to be more stable and more stable.

At half-time, he almost kept emphasizing the team's defense, but he didn't adjust the mentality of the players too much, and he was not a good coach after all.

At the beginning of the second half, Gao Hongbo replaced Yu Hai with his henchman Artemisia Jun, which surprised Qin Goode: Although Artemisia Jun can play on the left and right, he is obviously more accustomed to the right side, and Yu Hai's breakthrough and bottom cross on the left side are obviously a big weapon for the Chinese team in the first half, and several shots by the Chinese team came from the left side

After Hao Jun came on the field, he really stood in the position of the right midfielder he was most familiar with, and the original right winger Qu Jiangbo switched to the left side, which made Qin Gude even more confused.

And the Chinese team changed from the bottom cross from the side in the first half to the middle penetration: the center Yang Xuri frequently retreated, made the ball for the two wingers Qu Jiangbo and Hao Jun many times, and also sent a very penetrating straight stopper, but unfortunately Yang Xuri is not Messi after all, and Qu Jiangbo, who has tried his best to insert at high speed, is not Luo and Bale, and can only watch the football fly directly out of the bottom line.

Qatar, who had two goals in hand, did not beat the water dogs, they used continuous short passes to control the rhythm on the field, and hoarded troops in the midfield, so that the Chinese team's mid-field penetration play completely lost its effect.

At the same time, the South Korean referee is still playing a role: in the 52nd minute, **Peng's long pass on the right side is empty on the left, and Rong Ritian was directly overturned by Califa with an extremely rough action when he stepped in in front, although the referee ruled that Califa fouled, but did not play a card, and after the free kick of the Chinese team, he also showed a yellow card to **Peng with a trumped-up handball In fact, **Peng's hands were at least half a football away from the football.

After this yellow card, Gao Hongbo in the cold wind was already a little shivering, he looked at the young people on the field who were constantly panting, his face was full of confusion.

If this game is lost, the third game against Uzbekistan, which is the first in the group, will become a life-and-death battle for the national football team! And Uzbekistan, which won both rounds, will force the host to death for the sake of the Chinese team's qualification?

He didn't dare to imagine it at all.

He only knows that the semi-rotation tactics he adopted in this game will definitely be criticized by the media and fans, and will become the fuse for the national football team's elimination. And if the national football team returns home in the group stage again, it will definitely not be possible for him to sit in this position again.

"High guidance." A voice came from behind him.

Gao Hongbo was stunned for a moment, and slowly turned around.

In front of him was the youngest player in the team, 19-year-old Qin Gude looked directly into his eyes: "Won't the leaders above let us win the host?" ”

Faced with such a direct question from the young man, Gao Hongbo's mind was a little blank, and after being in a daze for ten seconds, he finally shook his head with difficulty: "No." ”

"Then let me play," Qin Goode looked at his teammates on the field, "they are a little too tired. ”

Gao Hongbo also followed his gaze and looked over, Deng Zhuoxiang, the core of the frontcourt hand-picked by him, was not known for his body and speed, and the one-hour game had made him unable to deal with the entanglement and scrambling of the Qatari back.

"Good" Shao Jiayi noticed the conversation between the two, and he hurriedly stopped his club's junior teammates, "Director Gao, he doesn't understand the rules of the national team yet, don't take it to heart"

Gao Hongbo shook his head slowly, but didn't say anything more, and then fell into silence.

Assistant coach Fu Bo pulled Qin and Shao back to the bench, leaving the head coach alone in the wind.

No one knows how many trade-offs and ideological struggles he went through, nor how determined he was to support him in making the following decision.

In the 62nd minute, he clenched his fists and turned and walked to the bench.

Qin Gude began to warm up.

He was unwilling to put all his hopes in the last game.

I don't want to fight to the death!