Chapter 227: "Brother Salt"

The Chinese team did not perform well in the match against Hong Kong, China, and attracted a lot of criticism from fans and the media after the game.

Critics believe that the Chinese team is too underestimated.

In fact, there is such a reason - the Chinese team thought that it could break through the goal of the Hong Kong team by relying on this simple style of play at the beginning, and lacked the ideological preparation for the Hong Kong team to put the bus. As a result, they are somewhat helpless in the face of Hong Kong's stubborn defense.

Of course, this is only one reason, and it is not right to say that the Chinese team's one-goal victory over Hong Kong is all because of the light enemy.

After all, football is a sport in which many factors come together, and the outcome of a game can never be determined just by the performance of the players on the field.

Preparation is also important.

But it is clear that the Chinese team did not do well on this point, and the pre-match preparation was not as adequate as the Hong Kong team.

So after the game, Hong Kong's South Korean head coach Kim Jun-kun said at a press conference that he thought losing the game would be an unfair result for his team, after all, they were prepared to the extreme in all aspects.

However, he also said that when the two sides play the next leg, when Hong Kong is at home, their goal will no longer be a draw, but a victory.

Finally, he did not forget to mock the organization of the Chinese Football Association, and he thanked the Chinese team for choosing Shenzhen as the home stadium, because it made his team feel like they were playing at their home stadium.

The South Korean head coach's words upset Chinese journalists, who were already in a bad mood because they had only won one goal.

But what people said is right, the organization of the Chinese Football Association in this game can be described as chaotic.

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After playing the match against Hong Kong, China, Gao Zheng went to Shenyang with the Chinese team to prepare to play the game against the Maldives.

At that time, when the home stadium of the Maldives could not be used, the Chinese Football Association conducted a tender in China, and Shenyang and Jinan signed up. In the end, the Chinese Football Association chose Shenyang. Because Shenyang had just played a national youth team match before this game, the venue did not need to be re-prepared.

However, Shenyang is also further away from Shenzhen......

After winning just one goal against Hong Kong, China desperately need more goal difference, so the Maldives are a good target.

This time it is another home game, and the Chinese team has only one task in this game, which is to get enough goal difference on the Maldives.

In the end, the score of this game was 5:0, and the Chinese team won all three games after three games, but the goal difference was only thirteen.

In this round of the group stage, Qatar defeated Hong Kong, China 3:2 away, and won all three games, but the goal difference was as many as 17.

From this point of view, the Chinese team's five-goal home victory over the Maldives is still not satisfactory.

Of course, no one will criticize Gao Zheng. He scored a hat-trick in the game, along with an assist. It can be said that he was the biggest contributor to the Chinese team's five-goal victory over the Maldives. If there is no Gao Zheng, the Chinese team may even have a hard time playing the Maldives. Therefore, the Chinese media generally had a worry after the game, worried that Gao Zheng would not be able to lead the national team......

But Gao Zheng was optimistic, and before he left China and returned to Madrid, he said to reporters: "Goal difference? I don't care about that, we haven't spoken directly to Qatar yet, so goal difference won't be useful. For me, no amount of goal difference compares to points. ”

The implication is that as long as the Chinese team can beat the other team in the match against Qatar and take the lead in points, then goal difference does not matter at all.

However, Chinese fans have little confidence in this, after all, judging from the Chinese team's hard performance against Hong Kong at their home stadium, it may not be easy to beat Qatar......

The match between China and Qatar is next month, and on October 8, the Chinese team will challenge Qatar away.

This game is very important, in the case of goal difference is not as good as the opponent, if the Chinese team loses to Qatar away, even if the home team wins back, it will inevitably enter the stage of competing for goal difference, and this is the situation that is not good for the Chinese team.

And if the Chinese team can beat Qatar away from home, it will have the upper hand in the competition with Qatar.

Or at worst, a draw.

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After playing the game against the Maldives, Gao Zheng flew back to Madrid, leaving all the problems left for Chinese football in these two games. He's just a player, and a lot of issues don't take his turn to think about at all, and it's useless to think about them. All he can do is play well every time he comes back and play his best.

When he returns to Madrid, he will face a tough battle - in the third round of the league, Atletico Madrid hosts Barcelona.

This is the second time the two teams have met since the Spanish Super Cup.

Coincidentally, Atletico Madrid beat Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup last season and met Real Madrid again in the third round of the league.

The same is true this season, where they will face the same opponents they beat in the Spanish Super Cup in the third round of the league.

This makes this game full of revenge, after all, the Spanish Super Cup has not been long in time, and Barcelona has not forgotten it. It's definitely going to be hard to fight Atletico Madrid.

In particular, this game is the home of Atletico Madrid, which will definitely make Barcelona feel emotional, thinking of how they lost the league title in this stadium last season, and how they were beaten by Atletico Madrid here in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup.

But Gao Zheng objected to the reporter's hype of "revenge", and after returning to Madrid, he said in an interview with reporters: "I don't think there is any such thing as revenge or revenge, no matter what the result of a game is, the past is over." How to get revenge? Could it be that Barcelona beat us in the next league and they will be able to regain the league title and the Spanish Super Cup that they have already lost? Of course it's impossible, if the championship is lost, it's lost, and no matter what happens after that, the previous champion can't be recovered. ”

When Gao Zheng first said this, reporters thought that he wanted to cool down the current tense atmosphere between the two teams, so he downplayed the term "revenge". As a result, when I heard the end, I found out that Gao Zheng didn't open which pot to mention, specially picked apart Barcelona's wound again, and then sprinkled salt in public......

This is simply an attempt to provoke Barcelona!

Everyone looked at Gao Zheng's sincere expression, and they couldn't figure out whether he didn't realize what effect he would have if he said this, or if he did it on purpose......