Chapter 665: Qatar at the expense of one another

After their home victory over Napoli, AC Milan not only responded to the media's doubts about the lack of gold content of the victory with practical actions, but also shattered the wishful thinking of other teams that "Mandzukic can make AC Milan's attack dumb".

Just when AC Milan's morale was high, Serie A was once again suspended for a week due to the national team break.

Although Feng Quan led the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup held at the beginning of the year, in Asian football, which is generally low in strength, countries still value the World Cup qualifiers the most.

Because of this, Japan, South Korea, Iran and Australia and other first-class Asian teams will only recall all the elites who play in the European league to form the strongest squad when they are in the World Cup qualifiers.

Lippi, who led the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup for the first time, originally wanted to use the group stage to investigate more marginal internationals, but the embarrassing result of being forced to draw by the Xiang G team at home made him have to re-examine the true strength of the Chinese team.

Although Lippi had previously said that he would not recruit Feng Quan in the group stage, due to the double pressure of domestic public opinion and team results, Lippi still added Feng Quan's name to the new national football squad.

Of course, in order not to embarrass himself too much, Lippi will only play in the two games against Qatar, and the rest of the games will still focus on fringe internationals.

Although the away game against Qatar is Feng Quan's World Cup qualifying debut, for Feng Quan, who breaks the record like chopping melons and vegetables, in addition to Japan, South Korea, Iran and Australia and other Asian first-class teams, the game against other Asian opponents is even less intense than AC Milan's team training.

Although there is a big gap between the strength of the national football teammates and the club teammates, it is relatively simple for Feng Quan, the "god", to take a group of "bronze" teammates and beat another group of "bronze opponents".

If you consider personal data alone, Feng Quan is definitely the first person in today's football, but Lippi did not put all the focus of the team's attack on Feng Quan alone, at least on the surface.

As a world-class coach, Lippi still needs to retain some compulsion, if most of the ball is concentrated at the feet of Feng Quan, wouldn't it be no different from domestic coaches?

Of course, when the national football team's offense advances to the opponent's 30-meter area and it is difficult to further tear apart the opponent's defense, the players will still subconsciously pass the ball to Fengquan.

After seeing this scene, Zheng Jun, who loved NBA games when he was a student and now works as a commentator on a live video website, couldn't help but joke: "This game reminds me of the Chicago Bulls in the 90s of the last century, when the team's offensive attack was blocked, their players would pass the ball to Jordan, the basketball god, and then open up space for him to create a single opportunity." ”

"Immediately after, Jordan will choose to force a single score on his own according to the actual situation on the court, or attract the opponent to wrap up and pass the ball to a better teammate."

"Although this style of play may seem simple and straightforward, as long as the opponent adopts a multi-player strategy, it can greatly reduce the offensive threat of superstars. However, if the superstar can draw the attention of two or three defenders on his own and is willing to sacrifice his stats for the overall good of the team, it will be disastrous for his opponents. ”

After a pause, Zheng Jun continued: "Of course, in order to win smoothly, at least we must equip the great god with one or two right-hand men, otherwise if the great god keeps feeding the cake, the teammates will not be able to win the game even if they don't eat." ”

In the 27th minute of the game, Feng Quan got the ball near the center circle and got rid of the two defenders one after another to the top of the arc of the penalty area, and then made a long shot, but when the opponent's defender subconsciously stretched his leg to block, he passed the ball to the space on the right side of the penalty area.

Wu Lei, who was previously cruising in the corner of the penalty area on the right side, suddenly started to insert into the penalty area, and then rushed to the Qatari defender to tackle the tackle with his right foot, helping the Chinese team take the lead in breaking the deadlock on the field.

Before the start of the game, the Qatar team thought that as long as they could not let Feng Quan get the opportunity to shoot calmly, it would be difficult for the Chinese team to score, after all, the weak Xiang G team could get a draw away from home.

However, although the Qatar team's multi-player package forced Feng Quan to only get one shot on goal in the first 20 minutes, the slighted "other strikers of the national football team" broke through their goal.

Despite trailing the scoreline, Qatar coach Al-Fossati replaced a striker with a defensive midfielder in a 4-4-2 formation.

Although the removal of a striker has reduced the gap in the defense to a certain extent, it has also made the Qatar team's frontcourt lack an attack point, which indirectly reduces the defensive pressure of the Chinese team.

Of course, Wu Lei's goal not only helped the defense to relieve pressure, but also created more space for Feng Quan.

13 minutes later, Feng Quan broke through along the left side to five or six meters from the baseline and then made a cross, but when the opponent's defender stretched his leg to block, Feng Quan used his left foot to lightly knock the ball between the opponent's legs, and then suddenly accelerated from the opponent's side into the penalty area.

Because Feng Quan's position in the penalty area was relatively close to the bottom line, the angle left for him to shoot was not very large, and Wu Lei's previous goal also made the Qatar team realize that the Chinese team was not only able to score goals.

Therefore, except for a Qatari defender closest to Feng Quan, who stepped forward to block it, the rest of the defenders in the penalty area chose to target other Chinese players.

Feng Quan was originally going to pass the ball to his teammates who were outflanking in front of the goal, but after seeing that his teammates were all stared at and the opponent only one defender stepped forward to mark him, Feng Quan immediately changed his mind.

When the Qatari defender subconsciously shifted his center of gravity towards the bottom line, Feng Quan suddenly flicked the ball to the right front with his right foot, and after dodging the angle, he sent the ball into the upper right corner of the opponent's goal with a curling ball with his right foot.

Faced with the unfavorable situation of falling behind by two goals, Fossati did not choose to break the boat.

Although investing more troops in the attack can increase the chance of scoring goals, it is not easy to really break through the Chinese team's defense with their strength, and there will be more gaps in their backfield, and it is easy for Feng Quan to take advantage of the speed advantage to further widen the score gap.

And, even if Qatar loses this game, they can secure second place in the group by beating the other opponents in the same group, and then compete for four places in the last 12 of the other seven groups.

At that point, every goal difference will be extremely important. Rather than fighting with the Chinese team, it is better to put more energy on other opponents.

Although the Qatar team did not completely give up the game, their step-by-step attack was difficult to really threaten the Chinese team's goal.

However, in order to avoid being counterattacked by the Chinese team, unless the opportunity is good, the Qatar team will choose to pass the ball forward, otherwise it would rather keep crossing back and forth than concede the ball easily.

It's really not good, just come to the front of the penalty area with such a long shot, even if you can't break through the goal, you will never give the Chinese team a chance to break the ball and launch a counterattack.

At the beginning, Lippi also asked the national football team to strengthen the pressing of the midfield, forcing the opponent to be unable to organize the attack calmly, but soon, Lippi saw through the opponent's true intentions.

As a result, Lippi also made the national football team choose the same style of play as the opponent, after all, the value of victory is far greater than more goal difference.

In the end, after a relatively dull second half of the game, the Chinese team successfully won the Qatar team and regained the top spot in the group.

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