Zhuo Yang was a little worried, the national team in the Asian Cup was obviously not as good as the one in the World Cup half a year ago, and he felt that he had returned to the jerkiness he had at the beginning of his return to the national team.

With the support of Zhuo Yang, Rijkaard did not recruit Deng Bangxiang, Wang Dalei and Rong Hao in this Asian Cup, plus Li Jinyu and Li Tie retired, and Sun Jihai was also suspended by Jie Shuai because of state problems, and the national team immediately lacked half of the main force of the World Cup.

The national team in the World Cup in South Africa is undoubtedly the most powerful in the history of Chinese football so far, far surpassing 02 Milu and 97 'the strongest in history', not to mention the previous national teams with distinctive characteristics but obvious weaknesses. The Chinese team in South Africa is actually the last dividend derived from the first peak era of Chinese football professionalization.

The retreat can not be retained, the punishment can not be soft, Jie Shuai and Zhuo Yang did not hesitate to start the stove, directly set their sights on the 2014 Brazil World Cup, Zhang Linpeng, Yang Xu, Huang Bowen, Li Xuepeng, Zeng Cheng, Liu Jianye, and other young people around the age of 20 will be included in the national team's key training scope, and all the selected lists came to Qatar.

The drastic reshaping is admirable, but it also has to face the dilemma of declining strength and the difficulty of tactical jerky, Zhuo Yang and Jie Shuai know this, but the domestic media is still immersed in the historic glory of the South African World Cup, and cannot fully realize the difficulty of the national team to start again.

In the World Cup, all vegetables and melons are chopped, and the champion can be caught casually in the Asian Cup, which is the common view of most domestic media. Other Asian media and even international media also regard the Chinese team as the biggest favorite in the Asian Cup, and they all believe that one Zhuo Yang is enough to make all Asian teams bow down.

In the warm-up match just after New Year's Day in 2011, the Chinese team's 3:2 victory over Iraq seemed to confirm the outside world's view, leading easily 3:0 in the first half, showing the outstanding strength of the World Cup round of 16, although conceding two goals in the second half, it was just because Jie Shuai replaced nine main players including Zhuo Yang at halftime.

However, the Chinese team did not play very well in the first game of the group stage, and the score of 2:0 in the Alfara Stadium did not satisfy Zhuo Yang and Jie Shuai at all.

Because the Chinese team failed to appear in the 2007 Asian Cup group four years ago, this time when the results of the previous session were divided, the Chinese team was listed in the third bracket, and there were the first bracket of the host Qatar, the second bracket of Uzbekistan, and the last bracket Kuwait in the same group.

To tell the truth, perhaps except for the host Qatar, the three teams of China and Ukraine should be the strongest teams in their respective grades, and Kawuco must be jumping on the street and scolding the street, indignant at his bad luck.

In the opening game, Uzbekistan unexpectedly overturned the host Qatar, and the score of 2:0 showed that the Central Asian wolves were very skilled in defensive counterattacks. The Chinese team also defeated Kuwait 2:0, which is completely logical, even if there is no Zhuo Yang, China is also dead Kuwait, how to fight, how to take points.

In the eighties and nineties of the last century, the most famous serial nemesis of Asian football was probably the iron triangle cycle of China, Kuwait, and South Korea, and it was unreasonable to be a cat and a mouse at all. Until the advent of the new century, as the Chinese team's characteristics of flying with one high and one fast wings are no longer distinctive, the strength gradually declines, which makes this famous iron triangle have no retribution cycle.

The result of 2:0 is quite satisfactory, but the process is really awkward, and the whole game is stumbling.

Before the end of the first half, the score was still 0:0, the Chinese team led by Zhuo Yang did not have a clear advantage, and in the 44th minute, Kuwaiti central defender Mousa Ad Nada was sent off for a rough foul on Zhuo Yang, which made the Chinese team occupy a numerical advantage and changed the trend of the game.

Only 5 minutes into the second half, Hao Junmin broke through to win a corner, after Huang Bowen kicked out, Zhuo Yang struggled to push the football back to the middle of the penalty area line at the far point, and Zhang Linpeng, who was empty, raised his foot and volleyed. The ball didn't actually hit the power, but the clever Kuwaiti defender Fadil stretched his leg to block, so that the football changed direction, and went straight to the near corner to refracted the far corner, 1:0.

The moment the football entered the net, Kuwaiti captain and goalkeeper Nawaf al-Khalidi lay on the ground and was so angry that he wanted to strangle Fadil. After the game, the goal was still counted on Zhang Linpeng's head, and the own goal of Non Diller was also Zhang Linpeng's first goal in the national team.

In the 66th minute, Zhuo Yang was tackled by Jarrah Attig outside the penalty area, and his subsequent free kick went around the perfect arc to rewrite the score to 2:0. After that, Jie Shuai replaced Zhuo Yang with Shao Jiayi.

In the whole game, the only bright spot of the Chinese team was still only Zhuo Yang's pass and shot, and the smooth routine half a year ago was not played at all. However, he won the game.

A few days later, the Chinese team was met with a tough block from Qatar at the Khalifa International Stadium.

The two teams have old grievances, more than two years ago in the top 20 match, the Chinese team tossed the Qataris miserably at the Tianjin Water Drop Stadium, and Zhuo Yang, who had a bad stomach, made Qatar, which introduced naturalized players, finally missed the top 10 matches after that.

Compared with two years ago, there were still a few local players pretending, and two years later, the Qatar team is all naturalized players, and the bench is full of 'foreign' devils. Of course, all the foreign guns have complete procedures, and there is not a single loophole in the procedure.

An even more crucial change in Qatar was the replacement of Uruguayan Herrho Fossati by French coach Bruno Mechu as head coach of the national team.

The 56-year-old was not a famous coach earlier, but in 2002 he led the little-known Senegal to the quarter-finals of the World Cup, and he became a famous manager at the national team level. After the World Cup that year, Mechu came to West Asia to coach the gold rush, and led Al Ain to win the AFC Champions League the following year. He then coached the UAE national team, winning the Gulf Cup surrounded by wolves.

The most suitable is the best, Mei Chu is good at leading mediocre teams, good at encounters, and understands Asian football, although his football concept is not advanced, but a defensive counterattack is indeed very slippery.

The unexpected loss to Uzbekistan in the first game forced Mechu and his Qatar to the edge of the cliff, and the loss to the Chinese team in this game will be a big loss of face as the host. Qatar has spent a lot of money for this Asian Cup, and if it loses this year, how can it be embarrassed to bid for the 2022 World Cup!

The enemy was particularly red when they saw each other, and Qatar, which was in danger, broke out with extraordinary combat effectiveness, taking advantage of the jerkiness of the Chinese team's midfield cooperation, and two sharp counterattacks led 2:0 in the first half.

Qatar's number one star Sebastian Quintana assisted 22-year-old demon star Yussef Ali twice with his physical and technical advantages, and Ali also penetrated the door of the Chinese team with two world wave shots.

Zhuo Yang feels that the beginning of 2011 was not very smooth, maybe this year will not be peaceful.