"Good work!"

When Yang Yang walked out of the Kuwait airport, he found that it was Zhu Leader of the national team who personally picked up his plane at the airport.

"It's okay, I fell asleep all the way." Yang Yang said with a smile.

For others, long journeys are indeed a big problem, especially jet lag, but for Yang Yang, this is not a problem, because he can sleep directly, and wake up full of energy and state.

But his reaction made Team Leader Zhu even more ashamed and self-blaming, and instead felt that Yang Yang was deliberately comforting them.

In the end, it was their dereliction of duty and the work of the Football Association that caused Yang Yang to come in a hurry.

After leaving the airport, I got on the shuttle bus arranged by the hotel and returned to the hotel all the way.

In the car, Team Leader Zhu told Yang Yang that Alihan relied on him very much, and when he heard that he could catch up, he immediately put him in the eighteen-man squad, and everyone in the team did not have the slightest objection to this.

"Seriously, everyone is here to win, and when I heard that you were coming over, everyone was more confident."

Yang Yang smiled modestly, "I hope I can help." ”

"Yes, surely." Team Leader Zhu is very sure, "You can come in time, which is the biggest help in itself." ”

Sometimes it's really weird to think about.

Yang Yang is the youngest player in the team, but he is the best player in the national team.

During the Asian Cup, everyone didn't feel it, but when they played Malaysia later, everyone found out that there was no Yang Yang, and the team played so hard.

"Now, I believe you know the situation in China, it is very complicated, it is difficult to say what is going on, but one thing is certain, that is, everyone's starting point is to hope that Chinese football can once again go out of Asia and enter the World Cup."

Team Leader Zhu was obviously worried that Yang Yang had mustards and ideas in his heart, so he took the initiative to persuade him.

"Maybe in terms of doing things in specific things, or some things, everyone has disagreements and misunderstandings, and even made mistakes, but because we have no experience before, it's like the last time we played in the World Cup, we were unprepared, we didn't know how to prepare, and that was our first time."

Yang Yang nodded, "I can understand." ”

"The more critical the moment, the more we need you international players to play a role, stabilize the morale of the military, and keep the last hope." Team Leader Zhu said sincerely.

'You know, we've had so many setbacks, we've been through so many wrongs that our media doesn't believe we can succeed, our fans suspect that we're dreaming, and even our players don't know how to put everything in front of us in perspective.

Yang Yang understood what Team Leader Zhu meant, thought about it, and said lightly: "Then don't pay attention to the others, although the fog covers the distance and you can't see the direction and road clearly, then concentrate on grasping the front and playing every game in a down-to-earth manner." ”

"yes." Team Leader Zhu sighed with mixed feelings, "Who knows what the future will look like?" There are a lot of things that we can't control at all, the only thing we can do is try to play every game and try to continue the performance of the World Cup in '02 and make it to the World Cup again. ”

"I really think that if we play normally, we definitely have this strength." Yang Yang said.

Team Leader Zhu nodded in agreement, "But the fortress always starts to split from the inside, especially now, the public opinion environment is very unfavorable to the national team, but the more this time, the more you have to hold on." ”

Yang Yang remembered the slogans shouted by some domestic media reporters, Chinese football is not worthy of winning, dragons and dragons are born and phoenixes are born, he feels disgusted when he thinks about it, their faces are too ugly and ugly.

In Yang Yang's view, these media reporters are worse than Chinese football, rotten to the bone, rotten to the soul.

"Don't worry, I'll do everything I can to keep some people from getting their way." Yang Yang said resolutely.

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When Yang Yang arrived at the Sheraton Hotel where the national team was staying, many international players came to see him after receiving the news.

This time, the national team has covered 17 to 19 floors, which are the highest three floors of the hotel, which is also to avoid the disturbance of the outside world.

Since Yang Yang's previous roommate Zheng Zhi did not participate in this expedition due to injury, Yang Yang was arranged in a separate room, and most of the international players just came over to say hello and say a few words.

Yang Yang also asked about Li Weifeng's injury with concern, and the captain of the national team said that he was okay and could cope with the game.

Later, Alihan also came to visit Yang Yang.

After the arrival of the head coach of the national team, Yang Yang also felt the change in the atmosphere, and obviously many contradictions within the team were also exposed, such as Sun Jihai's position, as well as the contradictions between Alihan and the Chinese coaching staff.

In Yang Yang's view, this is also very normal, no team can be monolithic, the key is to see how to deal with it.

Alihan was very happy when he saw Yang Yang, and asked him about his situation, as well as how he was at the moment.

Yang Yang replied 1510, and at the same time said that he was in very good condition and had no problem starting.

Of course, Alihan would not believe that how could anyone who had traveled thousands of kilometers and sat on a plane for more than 20 hours be in such a state that he was in a state of collapse?

"You are a substitute in this game, if necessary, I will use you in the second half." Alihan said his arrangement, and also showed off a rare Dutch humor, "Of course, I want you to sit on the bench for the whole game." ”

Yang Yang could understand the meaning of his words, and smiled: "I also hope that I don't have to play." ”

That would show that the team had taken Kuwait without any danger.

If this is the case, then Yang Yang will be happy even if he sits on the bench for 90 minutes.

But in fact......

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On the evening of October 13, Kuwait City Peace and Friendship Stadium.

In the fifth round of Group D of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup qualifiers, China challenged Kuwait away.

When the game reached the 54th minute of the second half, Shao Jiayi was cut off from the midfield, and Kuwait quickly counterattacked on the right.

Far away from the opposing player, Sun Xiang suddenly made a ridiculous sliding tackle, but instead of tackling the ball, he was easily broken by the opponent, and went down to the bottom line to pass a very strange cross, which passed through the defense of goalkeeper Liu Yunfei and the back line.

At the edge of the small penalty area, Bashar's header was returned, and Juma followed up with a direct angry shot that penetrated the Chinese team's goal.

At this moment, the whole stadium was fried.

The Kuwaiti fans cheered and cheered.

This goal allowed them to finally tie the Chinese team and rely on goal difference to take advantage.

The Chinese players on the field were devastated, showing disbelief and looking overwhelmed.

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All this that happened in Kuwait was clearly included in the live broadcast of the game, and it was shown in the live broadcast of the national television station in China, and even the commentator of the game was very depressed and said that the ball was very the team.

"It should be said that this is a dead knot in Chinese football all along, and every time we have problems at critical moments."

'Tonight, we needed a draw to qualify for the quarter-finals, but we made another mistake.

"Team after team has brought us painful memories and disasters, and we have to ask again and again, is it because of our team, or is it something else?"

"Before this game, we had an interview with the national team coach Alihan, and he made no secret of saying that there are two very serious problems with Chinese players, one is that they do not have a deep understanding of football, and to put it simply, they are not enough tactical literacy, which is not only reflected in the existing players, but also in the way we develop players."

"Another point is that the psychological quality of the players is not strong enough, so that every critical moment, they carry a heavy psychological burden."

'Alihan wasn't the first manager to raise the issue, but he never found an effective solution.

'Our players are too slow to enter the game, there is no unity of mind, and we only come together when we are forced to retreat by the opponent, but not every game we have the quality to equalize and turn around.

"During the Asian Cup, we thought that the team had come out of the predicament and found a solution to the problem, but we didn't expect that then we played Malaysia and tonight against Kuwait, and that happened again."

"The whole first half of the team played in a disorganized manner, was very embarrassed by Kuwait, and the team did not have a unified idea of the game, which led to a very loose team and no unity as during the Asian Cup."

'There's no doubt that manager Alihan is to blame for that.

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Yang Yang sat on the bench of the away team and watched the game silently.

He found that after conceding the goal, the Chinese players on the field instead unified their thinking and began to want to fight back.

Alihan's starting tactic in this game is to defend and counterattack, because the Chinese team has a psychological advantage, and a draw is acceptable, but Kuwait can't, they have to press out and play.

However, it is clear that Alihan did not make his intentions and ideas clear to all the players, which led to some players feeling that he wanted to attack, while others felt that he wanted to defend.

Eleven people on the field have eleven ideas, and no matter how strong the team is, they can't play their strength.

If you don't say it, the manager has to take the blame for it.

In addition, the state of many players is indeed not excited enough, on the one hand, it is related to the absence of Zheng Zhi, after all, Zheng Zhi, as a central defender, plays a very obvious role in the midfield.

Zheng Zhi's absence made Shao Jiayi a little lonely in the middle of the midfield and failed to continue his excellent performance in the Asian Cup.

Yan Song also sat on the bench in this game, Xu Yunlong on the right and Yangpu on the left.

And in this game, the left wingback Yang Pu and the left wingback Sun Xiang played a little abnormally.

Of course, this has something to do with Kuwait's ability to attack on the right side, that is, to attack the left side of the Chinese team.

On the contrary, it is the left side of Kuwait, that is, the right side of the Chinese team, there is no threat in this game, which is very undeserved, according to the news obtained by Yang Yang, Xu Yunlong is injured on the field.

In addition, Hao Dong and Li Jinyu on the front line, Li Weifeng and Zhang Yaokun on the back line, these players are obviously not in good shape, and even goalkeeper Liu Yunfei has made several mistakes that should not be made.

It can be said that the mentality of the national football players in this game is indeed a little unbalanced, otherwise they would not all perform unsatisfactory.

Just when everyone was in a hurry, Alihan and Dejan exchanged words for a while.

Deyang immediately turned around and shouted at Yang Yang.

"Yang, quick, warm up!"