The two big wins showed excellent form, easily entered the second stage of the group stage, and completely made the Chinese climax.

The 1998 Asian Games season was a bit complicated, with the last edition to require two stages of group stage.

Now everyone is looking forward to the second phase of the grouping.

Japan, South Korea, and Iran did not capsize in the first phase of the gutter, which means that China will run into at least one of them. However, it is not a big problem, and in the case that Saudi Arabia did not send a team to participate, the Chinese team also has one less potential competitor......

"Oman,"

"Tajikistan,"

"Iran."

When the AFC officials grouped up at the beginning of the year, there was an uproar.

Iran and China are in the same group! The two teams favourites by Spinach met in the group stage early.

"Is this a warm-up for the finals?"

"However, it seems to have no impact on the progress of the season, because China played Tajikistan in the first game, Oman in the second game, and Iran in the third game.

A reporter from the newspaper "Football" said at the scene of the draw.

"Nonsense,"

"Why doesn't it matter?"

"The impact of the first and second qualifiers in the group is still very big, you have to consider South Korea's group, South Korea, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait are in one group, in case they are ...... South Korea," Wang Qinbo of "Sports Weekly" disagrees with this guy's statement.

"Although the strength of the Korean team is not strong this time, I always feel that I don't know the bottom of my heart when I play South Korea."

The reporter of the "......" "Football" newspaper rolled his eyes, and sneered at Wang Qinbo's Korean-phobic thoughts, and he didn't think that the current Chinese team would lose to the South Korean team.

"This South Korea team can't win against China, and the format of the semi-finals is a bit complicated, not the first and second in the AB group are fighting each other, and it's a headache to analyze. In fact, if China's goal is to be the champion, does it really matter who the opponent is? You can't hide from the champion by hiding! ”

Wang Qinbo's old face turned red, and he was speechless for a moment. The truth is that everyone is dong, but who doesn't want to go more smoothly on the road to winning the championship, if the opponent for the championship has various accidents on the road, and finally easily wins the championship, isn't it better?

You don't understand!

……

There was a lot of heated discussion among the fans, but the head coaches of the two countries were very calm, after all, they only played in the third round, which did not affect the overall situation of the group.

The only thing that got the excitement within the team was the battle for the top scorers between the two teams. Iran's Ali Daei and China's Yang Chen, Hao Haixi was originally the top scorer of the Chinese team, but because Hao Haixi has only scored one goal and Yang Chen has scored three goals, Yang Chen has become the first person to fight against Ali Daei.

Everyone really wants Yang Chen to put down Ali Daei and rightfully become the No. 1 striker in Asia.

However, Ali Daei played an extra game in the preliminary round, and he later scored another goal in the second game, and now he and Yang Chen are tied for the top scorer with three goals.

I don't know if Horton is to take care of Hao Haixi's face, in the first round of Tajikistan, Horton put Hao Haixi back in the starting lineup, and formed a forward partner with Yang Chen.

The younger Zhang Yuming could only sit on the bench. There is no way, if you go purely according to your strength, he has the ability to compete for the starting position, only in terms of qualifications, he is hopeless, one is the top scorer in the history of the national team, crazy tyrant, and the other is the most powerful scorer in the Bundesliga......

From Zheng Zhi's personal point of view, he thinks that Zhang Yuming is better than Hao Haidong, and he feels that Zhang Yuming's state is better, and he is more able to fight, but he can't point fingers at Horton's employment arrangement, and Hao Haixi's personal ability is very good, although he is lazy, but he is stable, anyway, when he goes to the court, everyone thinks it is reliable.

When the starting lineup came out, the fans didn't pay much attention to it, and their eyes fell on Yang Chen.

"Brother Yang, you have seen it, the domestic expectations for you are very high."

"Try to score more goals and take Ali Daei down."

"Brother Xi's running is a little less, so you can run a little more."

Before the game, Zheng Zhi and Yang Chen had a private exchange, "Tajikistan's defense is like that, as long as we run more, the opportunity will be easy to come out." ”

These words can only be said to Yang Chen, it is impossible for him to say this to Hao Haixi, he is not qualified to do so.

"Understood!"

Yang Chen is holding back his strength, although he didn't say anything, but he is also looking forward to separating a victory or defeat with Ali Daei, who doesn't want to be the first striker in Asia?

After the start of the match with Tajikistan, Yang Chen quickly got a good shot opportunity, but his shot was slightly off the goal, I wonder if he felt pressure to play with Hao Haixi? The first kick didn't go in.

On the contrary, Hao Haidong received Ma Mingyu's diagonal plug in the 15th minute and burst into the left side of the penalty area, and completed the goal with the first shot.

Of course, Hao Haixi is very happy, his total number of goals has come to 2, and they are only one goal short of Yang Chen.

Big brother is still big brother! Although he didn't say anything in his heart, everyone ignored him and chose to let Yang Chen go to the duel against Ali Dayi, and he was also unhappy in his heart.

However, Yang Chen quickly adjusted his form, and in the 35th minute, Zheng Zhi and Li Jinyu continued to cooperate in the midfield, Li Jinyu sent an assist to Yang Chen with his heel, and Yang Chen increased the number of goals to 4.

The first half ended 2:0, and in the second half, Horton did not make any substitutions for the time being, Zheng Zhi sent direct passes in the middle in a row, and Yang Chen missed two chances in a row! However, Zheng Zhi sent a direct pass to Hao Haixi in the 67th minute, and Hao Haixi seized the opportunity and completed the brace.

As everyone judged, although Hao Haixi lacked running, he was stable! And his goal count also came to 3, biting Yang Chen and Ali Dayi.

At the end of the game, the Chinese team defeated Tajikistan 3:0 and won the first victory in the second stage of the group stage. And the Iranian team also won, Ali Daei did not score in the match against the United Arab Emirates, which was very unexpected, with 5 overhead kicks in the game, but the UAE goalkeeper hung up and refused Ali Daei's goal.

However, after the game, the Iranian media still found strong comparative data. Iran's "Mission" newspaper gave a set of data that made Yang Chen very embarrassed:

Yang Chen: 6 shots, 3 on goal, 1 goal, 3 off target.

Hao Haixi: 3 shots, 3 on target, 2 goals, 2 off target.

Ali Daei: 5 shots on goal with 5 on target, 0 goals on target with 0 shots off target.

Conclusion: Ali Daei lost to luck, not that Daei was not good enough, but that the goalkeeper was crazy, and it seems that Hao Haixi is Ali Daei's biggest competitor.

Of course, "Mission" did not forget to praise Zheng Zhi - the terrifying Zheng Zhi, this game sent a total of 6 fatal passes, 4 to Yang Chen, 2 to Hao Haixi, I have to say, Zheng Zhi is becoming an Asian super midfielder......