Although the Chinese team defeated the Oman national Olympic team with a score of 4:0 in the opening game, it fully demonstrated their strong offensive firepower.

However, the Trident handed in a clean sheet in the second group game.

They played 0:0 against the strongest team in the group, the Uzbek Olympic team.

The best performance of the Chinese Olympic team in this game was the backline.

In the three warm-up matches in October last year, they conceded goals in each of them, and the backline of the national Olympic team, which was criticized, withstood the fierce attack of the Uzbek national Olympic team in this game.

Although this is related to the tactical focus of the Chinese Olympic team in this game, it is undeniable that the central defender combination composed of Wang Guangwei and Liu Yan, coupled with the addition of goalkeeper Lin Zhiyuan, the hard power of this defense line has indeed improved a lot.

Especially Lin Zhiyuan.

He didn't have much room to play in the last game, and this game almost became the protagonist.

With his help, the Chinese Olympic team shook hands with the Uzbekistan Olympic team.

After the two group stage games, the Chinese team and Uzbekistan both won one and drew one, accumulating four points, and the Chinese team temporarily ranked first in the group with a goal difference advantage of four goals.

A total of 16 teams will participate in the U23 Asian Cup, divided into four groups, and the top two teams in each group will qualify for the knockout round to determine the champion, runner-up and third place. The U23 Asian Cup is held every two years, but only in the Olympic year is the Olympic qualifiers, with the top three qualifying for the Olympic football competition.

Regardless of whether it was an Olympic qualifier or not, except for the first U23 Asian Cup, the Chinese team has never qualified from the group in this event.

In fact, if it is not linked to the Olympic qualifiers, the most practical goal in front of the Chinese Olympic team should be to qualify for the group stage of the U23 Asian Cup first.

Although it failed to defeat Uzbekistan in the second round, public opinion is still very supportive and optimistic about this national Olympic team.

After all, four points have already given them an advantage in qualifying from the group.

In the final group game, they only need to get points from Qatar to qualify for the knockout stage - whether they get a point or three points, they will definitely qualify for the group if they don't lose anyway.

To put it bluntly, it is a tie and qualifying......

However, the media seems to think that this statement is too unlucky, so when publicizing, they all said that "in the next group stage, as long as the Chinese team gets points, they can advance".

It's a lot more reassuring to say that.

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After two rounds of group stage matches, the current situation in Group A is as follows:

The Chinese team has one win and one draw, accumulating four points, and ranking first with a goal difference of four.

Uzbekistan has one win and one draw, accumulating four points and ranking second on goal difference.

Qatar has one win and one loss, with three points and a goal difference of zero, ranking third.

Oman has lost two games and two games, accumulating zero points and ranking fourth on goal difference.

In the final round of the group stage, Uzbekistan and Oman played. There is no suspense in this game, judging from the strength and performance of both sides, Uzbekistan's winning rate is very high, and the only suspense may only be to win a few goals.

The other group stage is the match between the Chinese team and Qatar.

Whether it is this time and space or the time and space where Hulai came, Qatar can be regarded as one of the sufferers of Chinese football in recent years - of course, there have always been many sufferers in Chinese football, and it is not an uncommon thing.

This is still the very determined reform of Chinese football in 2015. If they don't change, in terms of the performance of the youth training of Vietnam and Thailand, they will soon be awarded the "new bitter master of Chinese football".

The last feud between Chinese football and Qatar at the Olympic level was in the qualifiers for the 2016 Olympic Games, when the Chinese team qualified from the group stage in the U23 Asian Cup and Olympic qualifiers, and met Qatar.

And then lost.

Lost his qualification for the Olympics.

The reason why that defeat impressed Chinese fans was that before this qualifier, Chinese football had just undergone a radical reform, and everyone had high hopes for this reform. As a result, the Chinese Olympic team lost in the U23 Asian Cup in the Olympic qualifiers the following year......

Although football is not a sport that can be effective immediately after the reform, in such a symbolic qualifier, the Chinese team was defeated by the Qatar Olympic team and lost the qualification for the Olympic Games, which was a great blow to everyone's confidence in China's football reform at that time.

Since then, the Olympic team has never met Qatar again – including in the warm-up matches.

This is really a coincidence, but under the interpretation of those who have a heart, it becomes:

"Chinese football is heartbroken by Qatar, and if it can't be beaten, it can only hide, so it deliberately does not arrange a warm-up match with Qatar, which is essentially a cowardly act. is so timid from top to bottom, how can Chinese football be so good? ”

It's as if Chinese football was scared out of Qatar.

The U23 Asian Cup and Olympic Games qualifiers held in their own home country this time just let those who hold this view take a look at whether Chinese football has really been scared by Qatar......

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"Fuck, our match with Qatar is being blown by this!"

In the U23 Asian Cup WeChat group of the National Olympic team, Wang Zijian posted a news link.

You don't need to click in and just look at the title to know what to say: "The referee of the battle between China and Qatar has confirmed that Iranian referee Alireza Fahani will enforce the ...... of this key battle"

"Who is this man?" Hulai asked in the group.

"Hulai, don't pretend!" Wang Zijian replied quickly.

"I really don't know who this man is, what's wrong with him?" Hulai was confused.

"I'll go, won't I? You just forgot? The East Asian Cup, our match with South Korea, is what he bragged......"

Hu Lai, who was holding his mobile phone, widened his eyes and suddenly realized: "Oh, oh, oh, it's him!" ”

In that East Asian Cup match against South Korea, Hulai could still feel the bias of the referee when blowing the penalty game, and he was more lenient with the actions of the Korean players than the actions of the Chinese players.

If it weren't for the obvious action of Son Ho-min shoveling towards Hu Lai, and the visual impact of Hu Lai's reaction was so great that it was impossible to ignore the past, I am afraid that Sun Ho-min would have stayed on the court until the end of the game.

"An Iranian referee bragged about our match against Qatar, the AFC can do it......" someone complained in the group.

"Ahem, don't say that, in our match with Oman, the referee is still Japanese, the East Asian referee. Why doesn't anyone say that East Asian referees help East Asian teams? ”

"Can that be the same? It's not that I don't know what virtues West Asian football has, and West Asian people are the best at holding together. On the other hand, it is impossible for us to unite in East Asia. I dare say that if it were a Korean referee who blew our game, the hell would it be like......"

"You can't simply use geographical relationships to separate relatives and distance from each other, right? It seems that the various factions in West Asia also don't like each other, and even have a deep blood feud...... Can they unite so easily? ”

"I don't know the reason behind this, but I know that West Asian football has done such disgusting things before!"

Seeing that everyone was arguing, Guo Junfu, the captain of the team, hurriedly extinguished the fire in the group: "Okay, okay, no matter who the referee is, the game still depends on our own play." What does football politics have to do with us? If you have emotions towards the referee, don't bring it to the game! ”

Hulai sent first: "Roger!" ”

Chen Xingyi followed: "Received!" ”

Then Wang Zijian, who started to provoke the topic, immediately replied: "Received!" ”

Here's the "received" swipe for everyone to keep in formation.

Guo Junfu saw this scene in front of his mobile phone and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Before the final round of the group stage, everyone's mood seemed to be a little different.

The mixture of anticipation of qualifying and apprehension about the unknown makes the atmosphere inside the team weird.

Therefore, the news of a referee can cause controversy in the group. If it were to be changed to the past, who cares who the referee of this game is?

Anyway, no matter who it is, it's normal to kick.

The last group game that can qualify for a draw, coupled with the opponent of Qatar, these factors are put together, Guo Junfu feels that his teammates have a somewhat grass-and-tree mentality.

As captain, he needs to help the manager maintain the atmosphere within the team, which is part of his job.

Today, he felt that he had intervened in a timely manner, and he didn't wait for everyone to compete for hundreds of chat records before coming forward, so I am afraid that everyone would not be able to accept it.

This is thanks to him, an "observer", who likes to dive in the group and peep at the screen when he has nothing to do, so that he can find bad signs in time.

Alas, this captain is not easy to do......