Chapter 178: Group First

The next day, the streets of Britain were talking about last night's defeat, and even the Iron Lady stood up with a gloating face and publicly expressed her disappointment!

Her reasons are very good, how could the British Empire lose to China when she is about to visit China for negotiations?

Isn't this a support for the country, for Lafayette?

Lafayette's face has been disgraced to them!

China is naturally the opposite scene, basically from the end of the game, until the next night, the streets and alleys across the country are bustling, firecrackers are ringing, gongs and drums are noisy, the national flag is flying everywhere, Wu Jie's portrait and name appear more often than "have you eaten", many people feel like it is another Spring Festival.

Wu Jie also felt that he had celebrated the New Year, and yesterday he got 40,000 Olympic coins just for the "three bars" celebration.

In addition, the victory over England itself was due to too many elements and too much influence, and all the rewards yesterday were much more than usual, and finally counting the special reward of "doubling", the win itself was close to 40,000 points, and then counting the personal reward for his hat-trick, all the benefits were counted as 100,000 Olympic coins on this night.

"This game is actually close to the reward of the Champions League championship + league champion?"

Wu Jie was also taken aback by such a benefit, but he also knew that this was a special benefit after the superposition of many factors, and if he wanted to get so many Olympic coins in one game in the future, it was estimated that he would have to reach the final and win the championship.

But for the current Chinese team, winning the championship is really unrealistic.

His words in his post-match press conference yesterday were just to scold the English media and boost the morale of the team.

In fact, although the two goals he scored yesterday were the embodiment of "creativity" and "imagination", they were not invented by him, so they were really opportunistic.

Of course, he said that this kind of evaluation is okay, and others say that it is not good.

But the problem is that this tactic basically fails after one use.

These are one-time scoring tactics, and the British were also unlucky to bump into the Chinese team in the first game, otherwise last night's game was probably more likely to be won by the British.

The next match they will play against Czechoslovakia on July 3, England and France on July 4.

This schedule is naturally very unfavorable to the Chinese team, because it is equivalent to France and Great Britain can rest for one or two more days between games, including Czechoslovakia and one more day of rest than the Chinese team, and the Chinese team suffers the most.

But this is something that can't be helped, the Chinese Football Association has long protested against this schedule, but FIFA said: The schedule of the 6 groups is arranged in this way, and all the fourth-tier teams suffer the same, since others can do it, why can't you?

What else can be said about this, although everyone knows that even if the Chinese team is a first-tier team, eighty percent will still be arranged in such a schedule.

But there was one thing that had to be done, and that was that yesterday's Polish linesman had to be unlucky.

After the game, Wu Jie bought a gold-level [Doom Lianlian Card] and pasted it for him, and then there was a bunch of recovery cards of the same level for the starters to use to help them recover their physical fitness as soon as possible.

After a day of rest, the Chinese team immediately entered the preparations for the second game.

Unlike England and France, Czechoslovakia is a team that is not as strong in terms of individual ability, but it is better in terms of teamwork and discipline, especially the ability to cooperate with each other.

This is related to the fact that their domestic leagues are not as developed as those of England and France, and the more developed the domestic professional leagues in Europe, the more vulnerable the level of the national team is to both aspects.

Countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain can rely on successful commercial leagues to create a better football atmosphere and produce more stars to strengthen their influence around the world.

However, the time for national team training is naturally less, and the biggest impact is that it is often difficult for the stars to play enough chemistry with each other, and team cooperation will inevitably be affected, and in many cases, factors such as infighting will affect combat effectiveness.

Czechoslovakia's ability to draw with France in their first game was largely due to a better teamwork that offset the gap in individual ability.

The Chinese team is likely to be more difficult to play when encountering this kind of team, because Czechoslovakia's individual ability is only half a notch worse than that of England and France, and it still has a lot of advantages over the Chinese team as a whole, and it has advantages in many aspects.

Wu Jie thought about it, but decided that it was safest to play a 4-5-1 retrenchment defensive tactic, and he must not fight a positional battle with Czechoslovakia, nor could he attack the opponent.

The morale of the Chinese players is very high, they beat the famous England in the first game, and they have scored goals and won the victory, in fact, they have completed the task set before the trip.

Then you can let go of your hands and feet to do it, and you won't lose anything anyway.

During the team's preparation, Wu Jie also took time to watch a match between Argentina and Belgium.

At this time, Maradona was already at the level of "idol star" in Argentina, and all Argentines regarded him as the only talent who could compete with Wu Jie in the same period, and this World Cup was looking forward to him playing better than Wu Jie's national team performance to prove himself.

Now the media in Catalonia has also revealed that Maradona has moved to FC Barcelona for a record $6 million.

This number is a little lower than the original plane, of course, because Wu Jie's performance is amazing, and Chen Haonan's performance in La Liga last season was also amazing.

But their transfer fees are not so high, Wu Jie's time is two years earlier, and Chen Haonan transferred to Real Madrid last year for a value of two million US dollars.

This made Maradona unable to create the original $9 million transfer fee.

Maradona naturally wanted to prove himself in this World Cup, and fans in Argentina and Barcelona were expecting him to put in impressive performances, but the results often backfired.

In this game, the whole Argentine team was sluggish, and Maradona did not play as well as everyone expected, and in the end Argentina lost 0-1 to Belgium, and the record of one draw and one loss made their prospects for qualifying worrying.

But the worst news for fans in both places was not the loss of two points in this game, but the fact that Belgium defended the highly-anticipated Argentine talent.

Of course, Belgium were able to defend against Maradona, thanks to their tight and brutal foul tactics.

The Belgian used all kinds of insidious small moves throughout the game, vicious tackles, and rough body charges, so that Maradona could not show his superb skills at all.

But whatever the reason, Maradona's World Cup debut was a crash.

Especially after Wu Jie led the Chinese team, which was far worse than Argentina, to defeat England, whose reputation far exceeded that of Belgium, these two people did not look like a level of genius when compared with each other, and they were even much worse than Chen Haonan.

Although Chen Haonan's style of play is low-key, his excellent performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends against England is still visible to pseudo-fans.

However, Maradona is in the defending champions, and as a first-day talent in South America, what can he do now?

Although Maradona suffered a brutal defense in this battle, everyone can see too many sticky balls on the field, a large number of brainless dribbles, and untimely personal heroism.

Wu Jie thinks this is normal, Old Ma Ke doesn't have a plug-in like dream training, how can he show the overall situation like him and Chen Haonan at this age?

Maradona, who was originally on the plane, was because of his poor performance in this World Cup, which made Barcelona fans feel that he was not worth so much money at all.

Lao Ma's private life was in a mess again, which naturally caused Barcelona fans to be even more disgusted with him, coupled with the abuse of something to relieve pain after the serious injury of the broken leg, the reputation of the addict that had been rumored for a long time was completely confirmed, and finally Maradona spent a low point in his career in La Liga.

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On July 3, the Chinese team came to the Spanish province of Valladolid, and the venue for this match became the "Solilla Stadium", which is the home stadium of Valladolid Football Club, which can accommodate up to 30,000 fans to watch the game.

But today, the attendance of the "Stadium de Sorilla" was not full, and only 24,000 fans finally entered the stadium to watch, many of whom were local neutral fans, which shows that the economic situation and consumption level of these two countries are indeed not good, and many Western media have begun to take the opportunity to slander the socialist system.

The Chinese team's starting lineup today naturally made adjustments, Zhao Dayu was replaced, Zuo Shusheng moved to the starter, such a midfield combination of two backs + one forward can allow Wu Jie and Chen Haonan to send one person to support the side at any time.

Except for European stars such as Anthony Paneenka, Zedenek Nehoda and Marian Masney, most of the starting lineup of Czech Slova is not well-known.

But they are not bad, especially in the attacking end, obviously absorbing the experience of England in the last game, and today they stormed the Chinese team from the start.

Although these Czechoslovak players are not as famous as English players, many of them are not bad, their basic skills are even higher, their movements are more practical, and their coordination is at least one gear higher.

This made the Chinese team fall into the disadvantage from the beginning, even the five-man midfielder composed of Wu Jie + Chen Haonan can only hold on today, it is difficult to attack the front court to create a threat in the positional battle, and the only thing that can make Czechoslovakia nervous is Wu Jie's personal ability.

Of course, this is also related to the Chinese team's initiative to give up positional warfare, Wu Jie is very clear that playing positional warfare with this kind of Central and Eastern European teams that are good at "technical tactics", the current Chinese team has absolutely no chance of winning.

Today, Czechoslovakia not only learned from England's experience in attack, but also from Belgium in defense, and their defensive tactics against the Chinese team were - "Defend against Wu Jie, you will guard against China".

This is exactly the same tactic that Belgium used to defend against Maradona and Argentina.

In fact, from here, you can see the horror of the European team's adaptability and learning ability, which completely made the coaching staff of the Chinese team confused.

They simply didn't learn much from other groups, including their own.

Today, Czechoslovakia also put a lot of effort into Wu Jie's defense, mainly to prevent him from easily contacting his teammates and cutting off the cooperation between him and his teammates.

This task is certainly not easy to accomplish, so they resort to all kinds of small moves, rough defensive moves, and even tactical fouls to achieve their goal.

This style of play made the Chinese team very uncomfortable, but it also showed that Czechoslovakia made the right tactical choice.

In addition, the Polish linesman in the last game had a car accident yesterday, but the Norwegian referee was not much better today.

Wu Jie was repeatedly subjected to small actions, violations, and fouls by Czechoslovak players today, but he always turned a blind eye.

But on the other hand, as long as the Chinese team's defense makes a big move, it will always be whistled for a foul, which will make the referee aware again.

It is clear that even though they are all socialist countries, socialism in Europe is still better than socialism in China.

But even with such a double standard, the Chinese team still relied on Chen Haonan and Wu Jie's large-scale mobility ability, as well as Lin Yaodong's excellent performance in front of the goal, and forced Czechoslovakia to exchange blanks with them in the first half.

In the second half, the Chinese team still focused on defense, resolutely did not fight positional battles with the opponent, and sent up to 3 to 4 people to participate in each attack.

The Chinese players also saw through the first half that Czechoslovakia's tactical execution ability is stronger, the cooperation is more tacit, the experience is more experienced, the age but the overall athleticism is not worse than them, and they still take advantage of the whistle, how can this be played.

It is impossible for Wu Jie to break through such a defense line alone, the kind of scene of three or five people in a row In a game of this level, in fact, the opponent makes a mistake first, otherwise he will not give you such a chance to pass in a row

Now he can only cooperate with his teammates to defend together, then wait for the opponent to make a mistake and seize the opportunity to kill with one shot.

Yesterday he watched a match between Argentina and Belgium, as well as a match between Italy and Peru in Group A.

These guys, as a team in the first gear, actually used this shameless method to force a draw with Poland and Peru.

Of course, it is embarrassing to say this, but Italy, which was originally in the plane, advanced in the group stage by relying on three consecutive draws.

It's a shameful way of playing, but it's really effective.

So even Italy doesn't feel so ashamed, what qualifications does the current Chinese team have to be reluctant?

At this time, the retrenched defense is the best choice for the Chinese team, because they have already won a game!

In the 70th minute of the second half, Czechoslovakia finally couldn't help but press up in the face of the iron bucket formation set up by the Chinese team in the backfield.

As a result, he didn't hold back once, and he was almost seized by Wu Jie's long-distance run, and finally relied on the goalkeeper's brave save to block Wu Jie's counterattack of more than 70 meters.

This long-distance raid made the Czechoslovak team no longer dare to press on it in a big way, and if Wu Jie counterattacked at this time, then they would also follow in the footsteps of England.

But the number of attackers is not enough, and in the end they can only win without points.

The Chinese team relied on Wu Jie and Chen Haonan to break through the running distance of 10,000 meters, plus Lin Yaodong continued the wonderful performance of the first game, and finally forced a draw against Czechoslovakia.

"It's difficult, Lao Tzu has run 12,000 kilometers in this race!"

Wu Jie also felt some fatigue after the race, and his running distance today was in the eighties, which was definitely a monster-level performance.

But he was quite satisfied with the result, Czechoslovakia played a little dirty today, but the level of competition shown by this team is really not low, and a draw is completely acceptable to him.

Now the Chinese team has one win and one draw in Group D, and Czechoslovakia has drawn two in a row, so they are naturally temporarily ranked first in the group.

This is the Death Group!

Even Wu Jie didn't expect to achieve such a result in advance!

Tomorrow is the big battle between England and France, and the two teams are one defeat and one draw.

If they draw, then the Chinese team's qualifying situation will be very good, and it can even be said that eight or nine are not far from ten.

But even if the French team wins, it will be on the same points as the Chinese team at that time; And if England wins, then the Chinese team will still be the first in the group.

So now the Chinese team is in the best position to qualify in Group D, and tomorrow after the match between England and France, the qualification situation of this group will become clear.