Zhuo Yang's performance in the Asian Cup in Qatar was not very good, and he only scored two goals in the first four games, which is obviously inconsistent with his traditional image of killing people like a thousand miles. The media has talked about him because of the FIFA Golden Ball miss, which affected his state, but Zhuo Yang himself and Jie Shuai know that the excessive adjustment of the national team personnel has caused the strength of the midfield to drop by two notches, and Zhuo Yang can only revert to the helpless and disorderly singles mode many times.

Asia is the largest and most populous of the seven continents, with 29.4% land and 61% of the population. The AFC has 47 members of football associations, but only 16 teams participated in the 15th Asian Cup, and they qualified for the quarterfinals in the group stage.

The Chinese team's opponent in the quarterfinals is Jordan, and it is said that many American working class people cannot understand why an Arab country has to copy our basketball flyer in the name of the country, Jordan (Jordan) said that he was very innocent, Jordan (Jordan) said that he was helpless.

It is said that there are no weak teams in West Asia, referring to teams like Jordan, Syria, Yemen, and Oman, and it is not unusual for them to beat Iran and South Korea to the fullest, and it is not unusual to turn around and lose to Thailand and Vietnam. The Jordan that the Chinese team met in the quarterfinals belonged to the heart that is higher than the sky and the fate is thinner than paper.

With Zhuo Yang pressing the formation, Jie Shuai continued to train on a large scale, and he sent Sun Ke, Yu Dabao, Zhang Xizhe, Zeng Cheng and other young people to start in this field, and there were veterans such as Shao Jiayi, Qu Bo, and Yang Jun sitting on the bench. Zhuo Yang recovered the midfield, and Jordan's small fast spirit was not up and down, but the Chinese team was still scoreless in the frontcourt.

The Chinese team has six must-score chances in the whole game, and the 'must-score' here means that if the Chinese team is in Barcelona or even South Africa, it will basically be 6:0. But the final score was only 1:0, which was another opportunity that was not a chance, and in the 79th minute, after a scuffle in the penalty area, he was stabbed into the goal by Zheng Chen. attributed to him, it was still analyzed through the lens, otherwise even Zheng Zheng himself would not dare to be sure.

After this game, the domestic media who are accustomed to touting also saw the chaotic and jerky nature of the national team's frontcourt, they didn't understand the ball, but they didn't dare to say it before. The media cautiously proposed that the national team did not recruit Deng Bangxiang, Wang Dalei, and Rong Hao this time, is it a mistake?

So, Cheng Hao published "Please cherish your jersey". The article does not name and criticize anyone, otherwise they will be completely dead, and there will be no day to turn over. After punishing the former and saving people, Zhuo Yang kept the seams, but they needed to save themselves.

Cheng Hao also disclosed Jie Shuai's long-term strategy for the 2014 Brazil World Cup to domestic fans for the first time in the article, making it clear that the Asian Cup is just a training trip. Zhuo Yang and Rijkaard are playing chess, a big game of chess, and it is still only in the stage of arching.

Whether those tentative noises have ulterior motives, whether there is someone behind the scenes, Zhuo Yang doesn't want to care, after Cheng Hao's article appeared in the newspaper, all the doubts immediately fell silent. The media are all smart people, and they are in opposition to Zhuo Yang, who is in full swing, which is called self-defeat.

Four days later, China faced Australia, their opponent in the semi-finals.

The teams representing Asia in the World Cup in South Africa are China, Japan, South Korea and Australia, and West Asia and Central Asia were all wiped out in the qualifiers. Half a year later, in the Asian Cup, although the West Asian team fought at home, after the quarterfinals, the semi-finals of the Asian Cup were still China, Japan, South Korea and Australia, and West Asia and Central Asia were once again collectively defeated.

The Chinese team's 1:0 defeat of Jordan was the most inconspicuous, and South Korea's 1:0 defeat of Iran through extra time was much more energetic. Australia also eliminated the previous champion Iraq 1-0 with a goal in extra time, which can only be said to be decent, while Japan's 6-0 defeat of Uzbekistan was not straightforward.

The Chinese team has just finished fighting with Uzbekistan, and they know how difficult the Central Asian wolf is, but how can they be like paper paste in front of the Japanese? The six goals of the Japanese team were scored by different players, and such an all-round and evenly shared offensive firepower made the Chinese team very envious.

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After the World Cup, Australian coach Welbeck, who had been in charge of the team for three years, left and German Holger Osijek took the new head coach of the Kangaroos. Osijek is not an ordinary person, when the German team won the world championship in Italy in 1990, he was the chief assistant coach of Beckenbauer, and he is very famous in Germany, and Zhuo Yang has long heard others talk about it.

The 62-year-old went on to work as head of FIFA's technical department and senior lecturer for a long time, having also coached in the K-League and J-League. Australians favored him, I don't know if it was because he was beaten too much by Germany 4:0 in the World Cup and was beaten to his heart.

Perhaps the Australians were right, because at the Khalifa International Stadium, Osijek's Australia led China 3-0 in the first half.

In the 5th minute, after the Chinese team's attack in the front court failed, the Australians played a quick counterattack, and Matt McKay, a striker who had played for Changchun Yatai, easily flashed Hao Junmin on the side, and then pulled the ball horizontally and pulled Zheng Zheng into the ribs and passed through. The famous player Colwill received the ball and stepped into the penalty area, and stabbed through Zeng Cheng's small door and the gate behind him before Li Weifeng fell to the ground to tackle, 1:0.

Falling behind at the beginning, the Chinese team was inevitably a little anxious, eager to play the score back immediately, so it was in the arms of Australia, and the kangaroos played a good defensive counterattack.

In the 24th minute, Australia played a high-quality counterattack again, and it was this McKay who used two beautiful combinations to cut through the Chinese team's defense with Jedinak on the left flank, and then passed diagonally to the fast-inserted full-back Karney.

In the face of an empty central defense, Karney's angry shot was saved by Zeng Cheng with one hand, but it still rolled slowly into the net after changing direction, 2:0.

Not to mention the others this time, even Zhuo Yang was anxious: Are you planning to make a mortal enmity with me? Enraged, FIFA's Mr. Silver Ball then launched a heads-up mode, which suddenly caused the Australians to be uneasy. However, nothing is fake without a goal.

In the 39th minute, the Chinese team suffered another blow. A very common corner, after McKay kicked it, Feng Xiaoting, who was marking Cahill, slipped on the sole of his foot during the battle, allowing Cahill to easily send a header to the ferry. Ognenovski, the new Asian Footballer of the Year, picked up the bargain and extended the score to 3-0 with a left-footed effort from the open space.

Since Zhuo Yang returned to the national team, this was the most unsuccessful half of the Chinese team, and this 45 minutes of grievances could even rank in the top three in Zhuo Yang's nine-year career. 3:0 dumbfounded the few Chinese fans at the scene, and silenced Chinese mainland in the early hours of the morning.

You can lose the ball, but you can't lose so badly, and you can't lose it in the first half of the game, because it hurts your self-esteem and you lose face. Not to mention facing the aggrieved eyes of the fans, looking back at those sluts and smashing them up, it is inevitable that they will be weak in their hearts if they forcibly reply.

Why don't you pick up the lost face from the ground in the second half?