At the post-match press conference, Perrin explained why he didn't let Gao Zheng start, which was similar to Liu Hong's guess, considering that Gao Zheng had just returned from Madrid, he didn't have much time to run in with the team, and he was not allowed to start due to factors such as time difference.

He then also praised Gao Zheng's performance after coming off the bench.

In fact, it is not a big deal to let a message player like Gao Zheng play as a substitute, and Peilan's explanations make perfect sense.

But that's how the media and fans in China are paying attention and caring about it.

I have to ask Pei Lan to give an explanation, as if not letting Gao Zheng start is a very serious accident.

Although it is true that Gao Zheng was not allowed to start, the Chinese team was unable to score in the first half, and finally let the opponent take the lead.

But in football, where is the smooth sailing?

Isn't it normal not to score a penalty and be scored by the opponent?

But the Chinese don't see it that way.

However, Peilan really didn't dare to put Gao Zheng on the bench anymore, this time it can be explained that Gao Zheng had just come back, and his physical condition had not recovered to his best after a tiring journey.

And what about the next game against Jordan? You can't use this excuse again, can you?

So no matter what Perrin thinks in his heart, he must also put Gao Zheng in the starting list.

Jordan is indeed stronger than Kuwait, after all, it is the fourth-ranked team in Asia.

In this game, Peilan did not continue to use the 343 in the previous game, but replaced it with a 4231 that focused more on defense, and Gao Zheng was at the front as the "1".

Seeing Gao Zheng start the game, the controversy seemed to disappear overnight.

In the match with Jordan, the Chinese team used defensive counterattack tactics.

I have to say that the Chinese team's defensive counterattack is still in place, and the backcourt players can remember to find the "bridgehead" Gao Zheng in front after taking the ball, and on the premise that Gao Zheng can ensure that he controls the football, the two fast wingers Wu Lei and Yu Hanchao can actively step forward, and they can form a counterattack and threaten Jordan's goal.

That's how China's first goal came about.

Gao Zheng got the ball in the front court and gave the football to Wu Lei, who took the ball into the penalty area, but was tackled to the ground by the Jordanian defender, and the referee decisively blew a penalty in the cheers of the Chinese fans.

And this penalty was not taken by Gao Zheng, but by Gao Lin - Gao Zheng stuffed the football into Gao Lin's arms and motioned for him to kick.

In the last game, Gao Lin also won a penalty, but it was missed, and the Chinese team conceded a goal in the final moments of the first half.

After the game, Gao Lin also apologized to the whole team in the dressing room for failing to score a penalty.

And now Gao Zheng asked Gao Lin to take the penalty for this ball, obviously hoping that his family would get up from wherever he fell.

This time Golin did not disappoint, he steadily kicked the ball into the goal.

After the goal, Gao Lin was very excited, he hugged Gao Zheng hard, and thanked him for this opportunity.

The other teammates also came up to hug the two of them.

The stands resounded with the cheers of Chinese fans.

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Although they did a good job on the counter-attack, the Chinese team's defense did not dare to compliment.

The addition of Gao Zheng has improved the attacking power of the Chinese team, but in terms of defense, Gao Zheng is very limited.

The offensive tactics of the Jordanian team are not complicated, they have repeatedly used simple and direct play to break through the defense of the Chinese team, and the players of the Chinese team have obviously fallen behind in one-on-one defense many times, if it were not for the excellent performance of the goalkeeper Zeng Cheng, who started in this game, the Chinese team may not be able to lead by one goal.

In addition to the Chinese team's lack of dominance in one-on-one defense, the Chinese team also has problems such as poor marking, small areas to play more and less defense, and weak sense of defense.

Shortly after the start of the second half, Jordan used a very simple offensive combination to penetrate the Chinese team's defense, and then sent the football to the Chinese team's balls, and Zeng Cheng was also weak this time.

If this is the previous Chinese team, I am afraid it will make many Chinese fans sigh.

But today's Chinese team is different, they have Gao Zheng.

In the 78th minute, Gao Zheng took a free kick in front of him that he won, and after a beautiful curved kick, the football drilled into the goal of the Jordanian team!

In the end, with Gao Zheng's goal, the Chinese team won Jordan 2:1 at their home stadium and won two consecutive warm-up games.

These two warm-up games also made Perrin understand a truth, the current Chinese team is still inseparable from Gao Zheng, if he wants to achieve good results, he must fully rely on Gao Zheng.

In getting along with Gao Zheng, he has to put himself in the right position. Although he is the head coach of this team, the most important person in this team is definitely not him......

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With two consecutive warm-up victories, Gao Zheng left China and flew back to Madrid after playing the game against the Jordan team.

There's a very, very important game ahead of him.

That's the Madrid City Derby.

In fact, the Madrid media paid great attention to the game of the Chinese national team, because Gao Zheng, as the protagonist of the Madrid derby Atletico Madrid, is very important whether he can come back from the national team in good health.

In the past, the Madrid media would not pay attention to the Chinese team's game at all, and the Chinese team was far away from them, and they couldn't play with eight poles. They simply don't spend even the slightest bit of energy to pay attention to the national team of a small football weaker country thousands of miles away, unless the national team has a warm-up match with the Spanish national team.

But now it's different, because of Gao Zheng, Madrid's media began to pay attention to the Chinese team's game, and through their dissemination, more Madrid fans also began to know about the representative team of the world's most populous country.

Next is the Madrid derby, and everyone is worried that Gao Zheng will be injured in the game or consume too much physical energy.

So while Chinese fans and media are unhappy with Perrin for putting Gao Zheng on the bench, Atletico Madrid fans are happy.

What reassured them was that after the two warm-up games, Gao Zheng was not injured, and he did not play the whole game in these two games. He came off the bench in the second half in the first game and was substituted early in the 80th minute in the second.

The match between China and Jordan is on September 9, and the Madrid derby is on September 13, with four days to go, but there is not much time left for Gao Zheng, because he has to fly back to Spain from China, and it will take a whole day on the way.

After he finished the game with Jordan, he left the team in advance, flew to Beijing in time to catch the only plane to Beijing at that time, and then rested in a hotel near the airport, took a flight to Dubai at seven o'clock in the morning on the 10th, waited for three hours in Dubai, and then took a plane from Dubai to Madrid, and when he arrived in Madrid, it was already eight o'clock in the evening local time, and the 10th spent all his time on the journey.

The flight time adds up to seventeen hours, and even if you buy first class, these seventeen hours are not easy.

The impact of long-distance travel on a player's body really cannot be ignored.

The next day, that is, No. 11 Gao Zheng had to train with the team, and there was no time to give him jet lag, and there was no time for him to recover slowly.

Because he only has two days to train with the team, the 13th is the day of the game.

Not only does he need to toss so much, but the internationals in South American countries in the Atletico Madrid team are also tossed, and the flight time is not much less than Gao Zheng.

Of course, this situation is relatively fair, because Real Madrid, as a big international player, also has many international players who need to go through a long flight like Gao Zheng after this national team break.

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PS, I'm sorry, but the automatic update set after watching the Espanyol game in the early hours of this morning, and it turned out that tomorrow was today, and the automatic update was set to tomorrow......

In the morning, I went out to run errands, and now I come home and find that I haven't updated......

Hurry up and make it up, sorry, I'm so sorry!