Chapter 311: Against the "Kangaroo Army"

If the last-minute draw against Japan was just a joy for the Chinese supporters, then the three-goal victory over arch-rival South Korea in two consecutive East Asian Cup matches was enough to make Chinese fans feel excited and excited. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Perhaps, the overall strength of the South Korean team participating in the last East Asian Cup is slightly stronger than that of the South Korean team this time, but the reason why the Chinese team was able to win that game also has a lot to do with Yu Hai's lightning goal in the opening 4 minutes. Moreover, the South Korean team in that tournament was more or less contemptuous of a team that had not defeated itself in 32 years.

If you compare the difficulty of winning these two games, the Chinese team led by Fu Bo, who has just taken over the national team, will undoubtedly face more difficulties.

Therefore, the Chinese football team, which has just experienced the turmoil of the change of coach, was able to play the spirit of the team at the beginning of the new coach Fu Bo's tenure, and defeated the performance of the old enemy South Korean team neatly, which immediately made the supporters of the Chinese team across the country as happy as the New Year.

On the night of the day after the Chinese team defeated the South Korean team 3-0, even the national television's "trump card column" "News Continuous" reported the results of the game.

For Chinese football, which is often regarded as a "spitting spittoon" by domestic keyboard warriors and those who ridicule the national football team, it is tantamount to a great honor to be mentioned by the "politically absolutely correct" "News Series".

And for the players who participated in that game, they can finally show off to their relatives and friends with their chests.

"Brother, I am also a person who has been on "News Continuous". And it's not bad news yet......"

However, while the national team's victory attracted a lot of praise, for some reason, some traditional media in China that did not have a high degree of attention, as well as some online media that like to "have nothing to do", have turned over the "old accounts". began to question why the Football Association did not directly appoint Fu Bo as the head coach of the national team, but chose Camacho, who had a high salary and low command ability.

Perhaps due to the atmosphere of these "not very harmonious" media, some "ill-intentioned" guys actually lost 1-5 to the "Thai Youth Army" more than a month ago, and the current acting national team head coach Fu Bo has a lot to do with it.

They believe that the reason why many players in the Chinese team played extremely abnormally in that game was because of the physical problems of the players due to three consecutive games in ten days and three consecutive games at the same time. The main reason may be that Fu Bo reached a certain "tacit understanding" with several "big guys" in the team before the start of the game on the matter of bringing down the Spanish coaching team led by Camacho.

Although fans were not surprised by the result of Camacho's dismissal from the Chinese team. However, under the impetus of some people with "ulterior motives", a small number of fans who "don't know the truth" actually thought that Fu Bo, who had sought the position of national team coach by "improper means", should be dismissed immediately when the Chinese team performed well. For Chinese society, which is deeply influenced by Confucian morality, even the national football team he led has given Chinese fans hope in the last two games.

However, under the leadership of such an "immoral" coach as Fu Bo, the Chinese team was unable to make substantial progress at all.

Although the criticism of Fu Bo is not unreasonable, in the case of the recent excellent performance of the national football team, these discordant voices quickly disappeared under the attack of more fans who want to see the "bright future" of Chinese football.

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Although he led the newly formed national football team, he defeated the bitter South Korean team cleanly, winning a voice of praise for Fu Bo in China. There are even some more radical fans who proposed to simply remove the word "agent" from Fu Bo and let him officially serve as the coach of the national team.

However, Fu Bo, who is low-key and has a calm personality, was not carried away by this sudden joy.

In his view, beating South Korea in a friendly match like the East Asian Cup does not have much practical significance other than to boost the team's confidence and increase the pride of domestic fans.

Only a win against South Korea in a World Cup qualifier or an official continental tournament such as the Asian Cup can be considered a real victory. After all, the South Korean team participating in this competition is just a team formed with the main purpose of training newcomers, including Kim Young-kwon, who plays in the Korean K-League, Japan's J-League, and the Chinese Super League team Suicheng Evergrande.

Several key players of the South Korean team on the offensive line who play in major European leagues are all absent from this competition without exception. Therefore, even if the Chinese team defeated only South Korea's "second team" or even "third team", it is not an exaggeration.

So, the day after the game against the South Korean team, Fu Bo led the Chinese team into preparation training.

Although Fu Bo doesn't care on the surface, what kind of results the Chinese team he leads can achieve in the East Asian Cup. But for Fu Bo, the new coach of the national football team, if he can directly win the championship in the prime minister's event in which he led the team, he will undoubtedly make himself more stable in the position of the coach of the national football team. At the same time, it can also be avoided to the greatest extent that the Football Association resorts to the despicable means of "unloading the mill and killing the donkey".

Because the last opponent of the Chinese team, Australia, is basically a team composed of some tall and strong impact players. Therefore, they will basically choose the traditional and British punching power style in the game.

Considering the disparity in physical strength between the Chinese players, Fu Bo asked the players to try to increase their speed when passing and receiving the ball in training. Moreover, in addition to Feng Quan, other wing attacking players must minimize the number of breakthroughs with the ball. After all, with the physical fitness of Chinese players, if there is no absolute advantage in ball control skills, the opponent will inevitably use their advantage in physical strength to prevent the Chinese team's breakthrough attack.

Therefore, only by speeding up the passing speed of football between players and avoiding the opportunity to form physical contact with the opponent, can the Chinese team's attack be carried out more effectively.

Of course, the exception is wind, which has excellent speed, power, and transmission and control technology. Even if the physical fitness of Australian players is the best in Asian football, they have endured more than half a season of tempering in the Bundesliga, and they are not lagging behind in terms of physical strength.

Moreover, if it is a physical confrontation with an Australian player in a running state, Feng Quan, who is explosive, even has a clear advantage.

At the same time, after three days of joint training with the team, the cooperation between Feng Quan and his national football teammates is obviously more tacit. Although in the previous two games, Feng Quan's performance was also quite good. But if you can work more closely with your teammates, you will undoubtedly be able to continue to improve the overall strength of the team.

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Although Australia (26th) is more than 50 places ahead of China (78) in the FIFA world rankings.

However, because the Australian team participating in this East Asian Cup competition also has the main purpose of training the newcomers of the national team and selecting qualified substitutes for the team. Therefore, many of the core players of the Australian team who play in the European League did not come to South Korea to compete.

It is precisely because of this that the Australian team drew 0-0 with the in-form South Korea team in the first round of the East Asian Cup, and then lost to the Japanese team with excellent skills and tacit cooperation in the second round with a score of 2-3.

Although the Australian team, which only accumulated one point after two rounds of matches, has almost missed the championship of this East Asian Cup. However, as a first-class team in Asian football, the "Kangaroo Army" is obviously unwilling to return to Australia with an embarrassing record of not winning in this competition.

Before facing the "weakest" Chinese team among the four participating teams in the final round, the head coach of the Australian team, German coach Osyk, issued a must-kill order to his players.

Moreover, when holding the team's pre-match preparation meeting, Osik also released: "If there is anyone in the game against the Chinese team, I see that I did not give my best." Then this gentleman can say 'goodbye' to next year's World Cup in Brazil in advance".

So, when the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, the players of the Australian team pounced on the Chinese players wearing red players as if they had seen a bull in red cloth.

However, Fu Bo, who had long expected that the opponent would have such a move, had already practiced the strategy of cracking the opponent's frontcourt fiercely and tightly in the previous three days of team training. That is to avoid physical contact with opponents as much as possible through quick passes between players, so that the physical advantage of the "Kangaroo Army" cannot be exploited.

Of course, once the Chinese team's attack is advanced to the frontcourt, if they want to continue to penetrate into the 30-meter area of the Australian team, they will inevitably have physical contact with the opponent. After all, with the passing and possession ability of Chinese players, it is not yet as good as the Barcelona team, even in the opponent's penalty area, they can still complete the degree of tacit understanding and precise cooperation.

Therefore, in order to avoid physical contact with the Australian team as much as possible, head coach Fu Bo asked the players of the national football team to keep themselves in a "moving" state after attacking the opponent's 30-meter area. Through the interspersed running positions between teammates to create gaps, so as to give full play to the advantages of Chinese players' fast running speed and physical flexibility, in order to achieve the purpose of tearing apart the opponent's defense line through the tacit cooperation between players.

In addition, once you can't create an offensive space after attacking the frontcourt, and you can't get rid of the opponent's defense, then you can directly choose to pass the ball to Fengquan. It was up to him to use his sharp break to tear apart the Australian defence.

While it may sound simple to get a player to "run" during a game, it actually demands a lot of passing and possession, as well as the amount of physical fitness required to keep the player running all the time.

Because Fu Bo, who has just taken over the Chinese team, cannot quickly improve the players' passing and possession ability in the short term. Therefore, he selected a few wide players who had played less time in previous games or did not get a chance to play at all in the game against Australia, and added them to the starting line-up.

In this way, the problem of the physical reserves of several wide players has been well solved. After all, in addition to Feng Quan, the difference in strength between several wing players of the Chinese team is not very obvious, but the skills they are good at are different.

For the Chinese team, which mainly relies on the wings in attack, as long as the team's four wide players do not have problems with their physical fitness in the game, the players in other positions are basically no problem.

Therefore, Rong Hao, Wu Xi, Feng Quan, and Wu Lei, four players who are good at wing activities, who have never entered the starting list in the first two rounds, were finally included in the starting list against the Australian team by Fu Bo.

And the process of this game also proved that the four players who entered the starting list for the first time did not live up to Fu Bo's expectations.

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Less than 5 minutes into the first half, captain Zheng Zhi suddenly launched a long pass in his own half and hoisted the ball to the left side of the front.

However, Feng Quan, who played as the starting left winger in this game, did not appear on the left side of the front, but came to the top of the arc of the penalty area. However, when Feng Quan moved to the middle, he also took the left wing-back of the Australian team, who was supposed to be marking him, out of the area where he should have been. Therefore, Rong Hao, who was inserted at high speed near the middle line, received Zheng Zhi's pass very calmly on the left side of the front court without interference.

Then, when the central defender of the Australian team, McGovern, moved over from the middle to help his teammates defend Rong Hao, Feng Quan, who had just moved to the middle, quickly moved closer to Rong Hao's position in order to receive his teammates' attacks.

Because Fu Bo has mentioned many times in the pre-game preparation meeting: "When I don't know what to do in the front court, I choose to pass the ball to Fengquan."

So, Rong Hao did not hesitate to pass the ball directly to Feng Quan's feet, and at the same time quickly inserted it into the penalty area, so as to take McGovern, who was marking him, away from the area where Feng Quan was.

When Feng Quan received a pass from Rong Hao near the corner of the penalty area on the left, the opponent's left-back McKay and defensive midfielder Goodwin quickly formed a circle around him.

However, just when the two Australian players thought that their closing had succeeded in limiting Feng Quan's breakthrough, they were ready to cut the ball right from his feet.

Feng Quan first followed the left sideline and made three consecutive moves to pull the ball in the direction of his own half. Then, just as McKay and Goodwin moved their positions to continue putting pressure on Feng Quan, he suddenly knocked the ball through the gap between the two Australian players.

The next moment, just as McKay and Goodwin were about to slam the door on Feng Quan, Feng Quan once again relied on his "perverted" explosive power and strong body strength to force through the gap between the two.

Feng Quan, who crossed the opponent's double attack, took two steps sideways to the right and dodged a little space, and then directly completed a heavy bombardment at a distance of twenty-five or six from the goal.

Although goalkeeper Birigiti, who reacted quickly from his position, saved the ball on the post on the right side of the goal. But the football that rebounded back was still caught by Wu Lei, who was good at suddenly plugging in.

Before the goalkeeper could react a second time, Wu Lei pushed the ball into the unguarded goal with the arch of his left foot......