Gao Zheng was really speechless about the pre-match preparations of the Chinese Football Association.

He flew directly from Madrid to Doha, Qatar, as his national team teammates had already arrived in Doha ahead of schedule.

In order to prepare for the match with Qatar and adapt to the hot local climate in advance, the Chinese team came to Doha a week ahead of schedule.

Every day, I waited until the sun went down in the evening and the weather was a little cooler before I went outside to train, and during the day I chose to do physical training in the gym.

What's so bad about such preparations?

Acclimatize to the climate and venue a week in advance, and carefully prepare a team chef.

Looks like a lot of care.

But when the Chinese players stepped onto the turf of the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, where the game was held, and prepared to warm up for the last time before the game, the Chinese players in short-sleeved shorts couldn't help but shiver - they actually felt cold!

It is important to know that October is already cooling down for other countries in the temperate zone, and the temperature is gradually cooling. But for Doha, a country in the Middle East, the average temperature is still in the mid-30s, and the highest temperature can even be close to 40 degrees.

It is precisely because the local temperature is very scary that the Chinese team came to Doha a week in advance to prepare for the game, just to let the players adapt to this temperature in advance.

Even if the game is played at night, the ground will continue to emit heat after a day of exposure to the sun, making people feel hot on their feet.

On the day of the race, the temperature was around 36 degrees.

How can such a temperature make people feel cold?

But the first reaction of every Chinese player who walked out of the players' tunnel and came to the court was to clasp his arms with his hands and use the temperature of his palms to make himself feel warmer......

Cold.

This is their first feeling.

Very defying common sense, but true.

Many players looked up strangely, the Hamad Stadium is not closed and connected to the outside world, so why is the temperature here completely different from the outside temperature?

They still remember taking a bus to the sports venue in the hotel, from the hotel lobby to the bus parked outside, only a dozen meters away, but when they walked out of the fully air-conditioned hotel lobby, the oncoming heat wave almost made them stumble...... Everyone trotted "oh yo" and got on the same air-conditioned bus, and then they felt alive.

It felt like a fish out of water......

But now the stadium feels like an air-conditioned hotel lobby.

Turn on the air conditioner?

What a joke!

How can this stadium be fully air-conditioned?

But the sharp-eyed Gao Zheng pointed to the dense circular holes in the stadium stands and said to everyone: "Are those air conditioning outlets?" ”

When you look at it, you can see that the circular holes are spraying white smoke outward, but it may not be smoke, but because the hot air around you meets the cold air blowing out of the holes, and the water vapor produced by condensation is like a person breathing outside in the middle of winter......

And it was only at this time that the staff of the Chinese Football Association on the rostrum also discovered this - the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Qatar was actually air-conditioned!

Some people recall that after winning the right to host the 2022 World Cup, Qatar made some upgrades to their stadiums, which seemed to include the installation of air conditioning......

At this time, some players found the current temperature in the stadium on the big screen of the stadium - minus 20 degrees Celsius!

Twenty degrees?!

Gao Zheng has a feeling of being a dog.

Twenty degrees is the best time to wear a long-sleeved jersey in the league, and the coaching staff should remind the players to keep their body temperature warm. Why when watching the live broadcast of the European League, you will find that even in April and May, you can see the players on the bench wearing thick coats at a glance, not that the players are worse than ordinary people and are more afraid of cold, but they need to keep warm more, otherwise the body is very easy to get injured after it cools down.

As a result, now the players of the Chinese team are wearing short-sleeved shorts jerseys and running directly onto the field.

This shows that the staff of the Chinese Football Association did not know enough information before the game.

Is there a secret to the installation of air conditioning at Hamad Stadium?

Not necessarily, as long as someone has a heart to flip through the news, it is estimated that they will know, but the players of the Chinese team only knew about it when the game was about to start.

This completely caught the Chinese team off guard.

The temperature of the game was 20 degrees, which meant that the hot weather that the Chinese team had adapted to in Doha a week earlier was gone, and the week of preparation became a joke.

Thinking of the arrangement of the stadium in the previous games against Hong Kong and the Maldives, Gao Zheng can't help but sigh - what a group of pig teammates.

But swearing won't solve any problems at this time.

Gao Zheng said to his teammates who were a little confused around him: "Everyone should be more active than usual when warming up, be sure to move your body, and don't let your body cool down." ”

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Although there was Gao Zheng's reminder, the players of the Chinese team also worked hard to warm up.

But 20 degrees is too low.

After the warm-up, back in the air-conditioned locker room, everyone was busy putting on everything they could put on their bodies, light coats, blankets, and towels.

But the effect is still very limited.

The coat with a thin layer of cloth could not stop the cold air from blowing from the air conditioner through the gaps between the fibers and blowing onto the human body.

After all, when you come to a hot place like Doha, no one will bring a down jacket.

The temperature in the stadium is 20 degrees, but the stadium is so big, to make the average temperature reach 20 degrees, think about how many degrees of cold air blowing from the air conditioning vent should be?

In such a small place in the locker room, you can imagine how low the temperature is......

Some Chinese players even wondered if Qatar had deliberately turned the air conditioning in the away team's locker room to a particularly low temperature.

Such a low temperature makes the heat shots of the Chinese team players almost in vain, and even makes many Chinese team players want to return to the court immediately, at least 20 degrees on the pitch should be a little warmer than the locker room......

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In this way, the Chinese players on the field are obviously not as comfortable as the Qatari players, and their movements are still a little stiff.

Qatar took the opportunity to launch a ferocious offensive, constantly instigating attacks to impact the Chinese team's goal.

In the seventh minute, Sebastian received a through ball from a team-mate on the right side of the penalty area and fired a shot into the corner of the six-yard box, and the ball hit the side-netting. But it scared the Chinese fans enough, because from the perspective of live TV, it looked like a football had scored the goal.

Then Moussa broke through on the right and forced a breakthrough, and the bottom cross was defused by Chinese goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei.

In the ninth minute, Hassan's shot from the left was blocked by Zhang Linpeng again.

In the twelfth minute, Qatar got a free kick opportunity, and Huhe shot directly, hitting Mei Yuan's head and refracting, flying to the goal, and was held out of the bottom line by Wang Xiaolei with one palm.

At this time, the possession rate of both sides was played under the live TV screen, Qatar was as high as 73 percent, and the Chinese team was only a pitiful 27 percent......

Such a big gap in the scene really made the Chinese fans in front of the TV can't help but worry, worried that they can't withstand such a fierce offensive from Qatar.