Chapter 68: Qatar Asian Cup Begins

200 skill points, which is twice as many as the Asian Games champion, is enough for Cheng Hai to increase the two skills of bouncing and heading to the full value, and other barb shots, rainbow passes, etc. can also be added.

Seeing this reward, Cheng Hai said that he was full of motivation.

That night, after Cheng Hai entered the dream world for training, his teammates became the national team, not his teammates at the club.

However, after being replaced by a national team teammate, the dream training experience that should have been 2000 in one night became 1000, which proves that in the eyes of the system, the national team only has 500 daytime training experience.

Although it is higher than the national Olympic team, it is still not as good as the first team of Dortmund. In the eyes of the system, Dortmund's strength is higher than that of the Chinese national team, so Cheng Hai's training experience is not as good as Dortmund's.

Cheng Hai doesn't matter.

Compared to the experience reward of the Asian Cup, this training experience is simply a drop in the bucket.

Based on the final winning reward, it can be speculated that the Asian Cup may have twice as much experience as the Asian Games, with a goal reaching 100,000 experience.

If you can score two goals in a game, get the best player on the spot, and add the prize for winning the game after the game, then you have 500,000 experience, which is quite a lot.

Moreover, during the period of the holiday, Cheng Hai's weight increased by 1kg to 73kg, and his confrontation ability was further strengthened.

Cheng Hai said he couldn't wait for the competition.

The next day, Cheng Hai began to really train with the national football team.

In fact, for Cheng Hai to report so late, whether it is the coaching staff or the players, many people are muttering in their hearts, feeling that Cheng Hai is too big, and the head coach is too indulgent to Cheng Hai.

There is not much time left, and I don't know if Cheng Hai can smoothly integrate into the new national football team.

This is not the national Olympic team, it is the national first team that Cheng Hai has not played together before. Although there were several of Cheng Hai's teammates when he was in the National Olympic team, most of them had never played with Cheng Hai.

If this kind of behavior is done by someone who has no strength, it is definitely a manifestation of disorganization and undiscipline, and I am afraid that he will be expelled from the team long ago.

In the eyes of some unconvinced people, Cheng Hai is the performance of a big-name football bully.

In addition, he occupied the position of captain when he was selected for the national team for the first time at the age of 18, which also made some people who felt that Cheng Hai was not qualified enough.

In short, it is impossible for the team to really be united, everyone has their own little ninety-nine in their hearts, but they just don't say it.

Some people with dark psychology are looking forward to Cheng Hai's poor training with the team, poor performance in the game, and the team's early return home, Cheng Hai was pulled out to take the main responsibility, and then criticized by the media and fans, deprived of the captain's armband, and so on.

As a result, their dark thoughts failed on the first day of training.

Cheng Hai does have problems with the cooperation of his teammates, but Cheng Hai's personal ability is too perverted.

Physique, archery, dribbling, stopping, grabbing, balance, acceleration, speed, running off the ball, Matthews feints, a full 10 skills or abilities are 20 full of perfect status.

There were also 19 bounces and 17 headers.

In the case that the intensity of confrontation is not as good as that of the Bundesliga and the League Cup, Cheng Hai played a full 45-minute game in the afternoon training match.

As a result, even if his teammates did not have any subtle cooperation with him, as long as the ball was handed to him, Cheng Hai, who was wearing a red training uniform, was enough to penetrate the red team's defense.

After 45 minutes of training, Cheng Hai scored four goals and staged a big four.

Among them, there were two points in the penalty area, one shot with the ball outside the penalty area, and one header in the corner kick.

It's a kick in the head and can do anything.

On the first day of training, Cheng Hai can be regarded as giving everyone a dismount, and let everyone know why Cheng Hai was able to lead the National Olympic team to win the Asian Games, why he was able to run 100 meters in 9.56 seconds, and why he was able to rank first in the Bundesliga scorer list.

Compared with Cheng Hai, these ordinary Chinese players are like a few light years behind, and they are a big step behind in all aspects, which makes people unconvinced.

In the next two days of training, Cheng Hai showed his stability and recovery ability even more.

No matter how tired he is from training during the day, Cheng Hai will become energetic when he sleeps, which anyone can only admire and bow down.

As a result, after a few days of joint practice, everyone was convinced, and they all thought that Cheng Hai's captain was deserved and deserved, even if he was only 18 years old.

As for Cheng Hai's ability, everyone can already imagine what amazing performance Cheng Hai will show after the game starts.

If the national football team does not achieve good results in the end, I am afraid that the media and fans will not spray Cheng Hai for not doing his best, but spray other players for not having enough level, dragging Cheng Hai down.

Thinking about it like this, no one dares to complain about Cheng Hai, hurry up and cooperate with Cheng Hai to train hard, strive to keep up with Cheng Hai's rhythm, and don't hold Cheng Hai back.

If they can really break into the finals, win the championship, and make a historic breakthrough for the national football team in the Asian Cup, they can also touch Cheng Hai's light and become a member of the Asian Cup champion team, and their value and status will usher in a skyrocket.

Thinking of such a prospect, almost no one resented and jealous Cheng Hai, and everyone cooperated with the coach's overall tactics to train well, and strive to have a good performance after the game started.

A few days flew by, on January 8, 2011, the match day, the match started at 16:15 local time, and it was exactly 21:15 domestic time, just right.

Therefore, domestic fans are very concerned about this game, and there are many people watching the live broadcast.

Before the start of the game, everyone watched the CCTV reporter's interview with some overseas Chinese fans who rushed to the scene to watch the game, and at the same time discussed in the forum and post bar:

"The game is about to start, the first game of the national football team against Kuwait, should be able to win, right?"

"Kuwait's FIFA ranking itself is more than 20 places lower than ours, and now there is Cheng Hai leading, if this can't win, then the national football team will be disbanded directly."

"I don't know if Cheng Hai can start! The intensity of the Asian Cup is certainly higher than that of the Asian Games, but it is not as high as the Bundesliga and the League Cup. With Cheng Hai's physical fitness, it is possible to start like the Asian Games. If he can start, take a break at halftime, and Cheng Hai can play for sixty or seventy minutes, then the odds of winning will be much greater. ”

"Look, we'll announce the starting list later!"

Indeed, an hour before the start of the game, all the media got the starting lists of both sides of the game, and everyone can spread it to the audience who cares about the game in various ways.

Seeing Cheng Hai appear in the starting list, all the Chinese media and fans were suddenly in high spirits.

As long as Cheng Hai can start and can play sixty or seventy minutes in a game, the Huaguo team does have the expectation of creating a new history in the Asian Cup.

Half an hour before the game, when Cheng Hai and his teammates appeared on the field to warm up, it attracted cheers from tens of thousands of overseas Chinese fans.

In this football stadium, which can only accommodate 25,000 spectators, overseas Chinese fans almost turned it into the home stadium of the Chinese team, and Kuwaiti fans, as half of the landlords, may not have as many overseas Chinese fans.

It can be seen that the attraction of Cheng Hai.

After the warm-up was completed, it was the appearance ceremony, and when the 18-year-old Cheng Hai wore the captain's armband to lead the Chinese team to play, even the commentators from other Asian countries exclaimed:

"Oh my God, the captain's armband of the Huaguo team is on Cheng Hai's arm."

"Cheng Hai is the youngest player in the Chinese team, only 18 years old, and the youngest of the others is three years older than him."

"Being able to wear the captain's armband on such a young man shows the importance that Chinese people attach to Cheng Hai."

Of course, Cheng Hai's strength and popularity are also worthy of this heavy responsibility. Moreover, Cheng Hai is the starter today, which means that he may play the first half like the Asian Games, take a break at halftime, replenish his physical fitness, and last for twenty or thirty minutes in the second half, which is definitely the biggest bad news for Kuwait. ”

"Yes! In other words, a player of the Chinese Olympic team said in an interview that the secret of Cheng Hai's recovery at halftime is that he can fall into a deep sleep in the noisy stadium locker room and recover his physical fitness quickly, I don't know if it's true or not. ”

"Anyway, more than one person said this, I guess it's true, otherwise I can't explain how quickly Cheng Hai recovered so quickly after 15 minutes of halftime when he exhausted his physical energy in the first half."

In the midst of everyone's discussions, the two sides lined up to play and sing the national anthem, took a group photo, and Cheng Hai and the captain of Kuwait completed the edge picking ceremony and the exchange of team flags under the auspices of the referee, and the game is about to begin.

As a team in Group A, the Huaguo team is still relatively favorable in terms of schedule, if they can qualify from the group and advance to the knockout round, they will have a three-day shorter schedule than the team in the last game of the first round.

The first game of Group A was the opening match of the Asian Cup between the host Qatar vs Uzbekistan, but unfortunately the host Qatar did not win in the cheers of the home fans, but was beaten 2-0 by Uzbekistan.

In other words, in order to qualify, when the Chinese team meets the host Qatar, Qatar will definitely have to work hard.

This match between the Chinese team and Kuwait has become a game that must be won.

At 16:15 p.m. local time on January 8, 2011, with the referee's whistle, the second Kuwait VS Huaguo match of Group A of the 2011 Qatar Asian Cup group stage officially began.

In the case of Cheng Hai's start, Kuwait also played very practically, did not attack with the Chinese team, but put on a posture of defending and counterattacking at the beginning, and sent a formation of 4231 double back defensive formation, and the two full-backs and forwards are also players with good defensive ability, just to protect their own penalty area and not give Cheng Hai a chance to shoot.

However, compared with the Asian Games, Cheng Hai at this time has improved to a greater extent in terms of physical confrontation ability, speed, dribbling skills, etc.

Even though this is a senior national team match, Kuwait still can't stand Cheng Hai, who can gain a foothold in European football.

Just 3 minutes into the opening game, Cheng Hai completed the first shot on goal.

However, there were indeed too many people in the opponent's penalty area, and Cheng Hai's shot was intercepted by a defender on the other side and destroyed the bottom line.

Although the goal was not scored, it still scared the Kuwaiti players and fans.

They knew how powerful Cheng Hai's archery skills were, and it was a fluke that the shot was blocked this time.

Next, Kuwait is even more concerned about Cheng Hai's defense, often two or three people defend Cheng Hai alone, and others assist in the defense, striving not to give Cheng Hai any chance to shoot.

When Kuwait's defense focused most of its attention on Cheng Hai, the rest of the Chinese team naturally got a lot of opportunities.

Although most of the time their poor shooting skills led to the failure to score any shots on goal, they still had more chances and could still create a threat, especially for Cheng Hai to create opportunities to make up for the shot in the chaos in the penalty area.

In the 17th minute, Cheng Hai ran sideways to the left in the penalty area and took away two defenders, resulting in a brief gap in Kuwait's right rib defense in the penalty area.

Right midfielder Qu Bo entered the penalty area from the side, and received the straight plug of the forward Deng Zhuoxiang in the right rib of the penalty area, but unfortunately the angle was slightly correct and was saved by goalkeeper Halliday.

Just when the Kuwaiti players and fans were about to breathe a sigh of relief, Cheng Hai, who had just run sideways, suddenly appeared at the landing point of the ball in the small penalty area, and stabbed the goalkeeper Khalidi into the goal with a stabbing shot.

Cheng Hai's full-value off-ball running, ability to grab points, starting speed, etc., played a decisive role at this moment.

In the case of Cheng Hai's sudden change of direction and acceleration, and he didn't dare to easily pull people to foul in the penalty area, Kuwait's defenders finally failed to stop Cheng Hai's point-grabbing shot.

The moment the ball flew into the net, the Chinese fans at the scene and in front of the TV immediately applauded and cheered excitedly.

Cheng Hai himself also received the experience reward for the official goal of this Asian Cup, as he guessed before the game, the official goal experience reward of this Asian Cup reached 100,000, which is very rich.

The players of the Chinese team celebrated for almost half a minute, and after the game resumed, Kuwait still guarded Cheng Hai.

It's not that they don't want to juggle other Chinese players, it's that they can't do anything about it.

When Cheng Hai needs two or three people to pinch the defense, there will definitely be holes in the defense of other Huaguo players, which is unavoidable.

After all, it was Cheng Hai who scored the goal just now, so they thought it was more important to pay attention to defending Cheng Hai.

At the same time, now that they are behind after all, they still have to think of a counterattack and try to score.

As a result, Kuwait continued to defend Cheng Hai strictly, and the defense of other players in the Chinese national team was not so tight.

The result was that not long after the first goal, in the 25th minute, the Huaguo team scored the second goal.

The goal was cut inside after Yu Hai broke through on the left side, and Cheng Hai's response in the penalty area caused a panic in the Kuwaiti backline, and the running positions of Deng Zhuoxiang, Qu Bo and other people also attracted most of Kuwait's attention.

Then, it was Zheng Zhi, the back back who was inserted in the back row, who was in a short unguarded gap.

Yu Hai saw Zheng Zhi's back row plugged in, did not hesitate, and immediately crossed the ball to the gap at the top of the arc of the big penalty area.

This time, the two of them crossed and cut the running position and pulled the other players just right, Zheng Zhi didn't need to stop the ball to adjust, and directly volleyed without any interference.

Zheng Zhi's shot was accurate in touching the ball without interference, and the power was very good, and the ball kicked out was very good in terms of speed, power, and angle, and went straight to the bottom right corner.

Although goalkeeper Halliday realized that it was not good when Yu Hai passed the ball horizontally, he was ready to save Zheng Zhi's shot.

But Zheng Zhi's undisturbed shot was too good at speed and angle, and although Halliday made a save, he was still helpless against this tricky angle, and finally he couldn't reach the whip, watching the ball rush into the goal from the palm of his hand.

In the 25th minute, the Huaguo team scored another goal by Zheng Zhi and took a 2-0 lead.

This is even worse for Kuwait.

At this time, they have realized that it is no longer feasible to concentrate most of their energy on defending Cheng Hai, and the other Chinese team players are still players after all, not wooden stakes.

If the defense is not good, other Chinese players can also score, just like the goal just now.

But what is more painful for Kuwait is not only the follow-up defensive problems, but also the more realistic scoreline problems, and they are now two goals behind.

Like the Chinese team, they will face hosts Qatar, who lost in the first round, and if they do not get a satisfactory result against the Chinese team, they will not be able to qualify from the group.

Therefore, in addition to defense, they also have to think of counterattacks and offenses.

If they completely wait for Cheng Hai to be replaced in the second half and then counterattack, in just twenty or thirty minutes, I am afraid that there will not be enough time for them to equalize or reverse the score.

Kuwait, who are two goals behind, must start counter-attacking now, rather than passively allowing the Chinese team to attack.

Although he knew that it was very risky to attack and defend Cheng Hai again, after the game restarted, Kuwait, who was forced by the situation, had to take the initiative to strengthen the attack and try to score goals.

However, Kuwait's overall strength is not as good as the Chinese team, and Cheng Hai involved most of the opponent's defenders in the backfield, so that he did not dare to step forward to participate in the attack, Kuwait's offensive efficiency can be imagined.

If the offense is not effective and you can't score a goal, the key is that you are often beaten back by the broken ball.

Cheng Hai's acceleration and speed skills are both full value, and he is a terrifying existence that has set a world record of 9.56 seconds in 100 meters.

As long as a teammate passes the ball to Kuwait's half after breaking the ball, Cheng Hai's off-ball running, grabbing points, and speed can create huge problems for Kuwait.

Although the players of the Huaguo team are not passing masters like Xavi and Iniesta, and they can't match Cheng Hai's running position and speed every pass, they will always succeed once the times they do.

And Kuwait, which is two goals behind, can't stop attacking because of Cheng Hai's threat.

As a result, after Kuwait's attack failed to score for a long time, and the Chinese team experienced several failed counterattacks with poor cross-cutting coordination, in the 38th minute, the Chinese team once again got the opportunity to break the ball and counterattack.

Kuwait's pass was misguided, and defender Zhao Peng intercepted it halfway through a flying tackle, stabbing the ball to the feet of defender Zheng Zhi.

In the process of the ball being shoveled by Zhao Peng and rolling towards Zheng Zhi, the keen Cheng Hai immediately turned around and rushed towards Kuwait's half at the fastest speed.