Chapter 26: Playing Soy Sauce's First Trip to the National Team

"Mom, you also watched my game yesterday? Your son is acting okay, right? ”

Dai Zhiwei was woken up by a phone call from his mother early in the morning of the second day of the match against Seongnam FC.

"Look at the news that you have found a girlfriend?" Dai's mother on the other end of the phone said in a very flat tone as much as possible.

Dai Zhiwei looked back at Zhong Luchun, who was still lying on the bed, and after making sure that the sliding door of the balcony was closed, he whispered: "No, don't listen to the nonsense of those unscrupulous media." ”

"But I don't think what those reporters said is fake." Dai's mother expressed disbelief, "There are still photos of you and that girl holding hands on the Internet." ”

"Hehe, we're just good friends." Dai Zhiwei snorted, "Don't worry, in a few years, I'll bring you a daughter-in-law back." ”

“……”

After nagging for a long time, Dai's mother reluctantly hung up the phone.

Abandoning an entire forest for the sake of a tree?

Dai Zhiwei is determined to be a hard-working lumberjack!

……

On June 1, the Bhutanese national team arrived in Hong Kong, China, to prepare for the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers in Russia for the Asian Top 40. The Bhutan national team, China's opponents, has announced a 23-man squad that will face China on June 16.

Previously, the Bhutan national team defeated Sri Lanka and advanced to the round of 40 in history. They are in the same group as China, Qatar, Maldives and Hong Kong. The head coach of the Bhutanese national team is Japanese Tomio Tsukidate, who has announced a 23-man squad that is almost entirely amateur, five of whom are selected for the national team for the first time.

According to the schedule, in the first round of matches on June 11, the Chinese team has a bye, and Bhutan will play against Hong Kong, China; In the second round of matches on June 16, the Chinese team will face the challenge of the Bhutanese national team, which is also the first match of the Chinese team.

As early as a month ago, the Chinese Football Association held a press conference in Beijing to announce the 30-man squad for the first game of the World Preliminary Tournament against Bhutan, with a total of 30 people from 7 Chinese Super League clubs. In this list, Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao is still the largest international player, with a total of 9 people shortlisted.

Among them, the most eye-catching is naturally Dai Zhiwei, who was selected for the national team for the first time.

In fact, it is not surprising that Dai Zhiwei was selected for the national team, as a striker at the top of the scorer list of the current Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League, it is big news if he cannot be selected for the Chinese national team.

There is no contradiction between Pei Lan and Dai Zhiwei and the Evergrande team, so naturally they will not turn away Dai Zhiwei, who is in hot form.

Before reporting to the national team, Dai Zhiwei played the 12th round of the Evergrande Chinese Super League against Guizhou and the 13th round against Tianjin TEDA.

Dai Zhiwei scored in both games, helping Evergrande continue its winning streak and consolidate his position as the top scorer in the league.

The Chinese media also unanimously praised Dai Zhiwei's performance, and Dai Zhiwei, who was constantly praised for his performance, did not feel too much discomfort after reporting to the national team - there are a total of 30 people in the national team, 9 of whom are from the Evergrande team, so Dai Zhiwei does not have too much unfamiliarity.

However, Dai Zhiwei, who has never experienced the national team training camp, is not too familiar with the teammates of the current national team except for Evergrande players, so he has been adjusting his state and getting familiar with his teammates in the first few days after reporting.

In this case, Dai Zhiwei can also understand Perran's move not to include himself in the starting line-up for the match against Bhutan.

Prior to this game, the Chinese team had a good start to the 7th consecutive World Preliminary Championships: since the 2-0 victory over Bangladesh in the first game of the 1990 World Preliminary Championships, the Chinese team has won the first game of the 8th consecutive World Preliminary Championships. But apart from Jordan and Kuwait, the opponents are the likes of Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Maldives, Myanmar, Laos and Bhutan.

China, currently ranked 79th in the world, is the second-highest-ranked opponent in the history of Bhutan and the highest-ranked team in the world to face at home. In 2003, Bhutan qualified Guam and Mongolia in the 2004 Asian Cup qualifiers, playing two matches against Saudi Arabia, then ranked 49th in the world, losing 0-6 and 0-4.

"This home stadium is not much better than our middle school stadium!" Dai Zhiwei saw Bhutan's home stadium Changli Mitang Stadium as a substitute, and he couldn't help but complain.

Located in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, Bhutan's home stadium, Changli Mitang Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bhutan, with a capacity of 25,000 people as the national stadium, and is also the first venue for open theatrical performances in Bhutan.

It is worth noting that the stadium is usually an archery range.

Just when Dai Zhiwei was still thinking nonsense, the game had already started at the referee's whistle.

The Bhutanese team, which was the first to kick off, did not have the slightest confidence in the home field, and after ten seconds, all the players were already cowered in their own half, and the forwards were all acting as the back midfielders, and the Chinese team, which was a little ill-prepared, missed good opportunities in a row.

Less than 1 minute into the opening game, the Chinese team crossed a low flat ball on the right side, which was cleared by Jimei Dorjee out of the bottom line, and then Jiang Zhipeng took a corner kick, Mei Fang grabbed the first nod and rubbed it back, and Wu Lei's heel attack from 1 meter in front of the goal was confiscated by Bhutanese goalkeeper Hari Gurung.

4 minutes later, Yang Xu picked the ball in front of the goal in the penalty area, and Wu Lei's volley was miraculously saved by Bhutanese goalkeeper Hari Gurung, and then Gao Lin's close-range follow-up shot was confiscated by Hari Gurung again.

In the 9th minute, the Chinese team sent a long pass from the backfield, Bhutanese goalkeeper Hari Gurung rushed out of the penalty area to block the ball with his hand, but the referee on duty only showed him a yellow card warning, the Chinese team got a free kick opportunity in the arc of the penalty area, Wu Lei took the penalty, the ball grazed the post and missed, and the Chinese team missed a good opportunity to break the deadlock.

In the 44th minute, the Chinese team's cross from the right side was sent to the back point, Wu Lei's header was ferried to the goal, and Sun Ke inserted it in the face of the empty goal, and a shot was missed, and the Chinese team missed the opportunity again.

In the second minute of stoppage time in the first half, Jiang Zhipeng's long pass to the penalty area, Sun Ke's header in the penalty area was ferried to Yang Xu, Yang Xu's shot hit Dawa Gyaltsen's body and bounced into the net, and the Chinese team was lucky to take a 1:0 lead.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, Bhutan gave the Chinese team a head shot at the beginning, the midfield sent a straight stopper, Chen Zhuo Gyaltsen threw off the defense and entered the penalty area, and then faced Yan Junling's shot to the near corner, fortunately Yan Junling concentrated and bravely blocked the opponent's shot.

3 minutes later, Zhu Dorjee sent a cross from the right side, and Chen Zhuo Gyaltsen volleyed in front of the goal, forcing the Chinese goalkeeper Yan Junling to make a brave save again to block the ball from the bottom line.

Fortunately, after 10 minutes, the Chinese team finally showed its strength.

In the 55th minute, Zheng Zhi took a corner kick, Ren Xing's header was blocked by the Bhutanese goalkeeper, and then Yang Xu's supplementary shot was destroyed by the goalkeeper out of the bottom line.

Then Zheng Zhi took a corner kick again, and Gao Lin's header was pounced by Hari Gulong and popped up on the door frame, Wu Lei's header made up for the shot, Hari Gulong pounced again and hit the door frame and popped up, and then Wu Lei hit the goal with a header again, and finally crossed the ten finger pass of Hari Gulong, and the Chinese team expanded the score to 2:0.

In the 60th minute, the Chinese team broke the ball in the midfield, and then passed the ball to the front of the penalty area.

In the 66th minute, Sun Ke shook off the defense at the front of the penalty area and hoisted the ball to the back point, Wu Lei stopped the ball on his chest, and then passed the ball back to Yu Dabao, who had just come on as a substitute, and pushed it into the net, and the Chinese team took a 4:0 lead.

10 minutes later, the Chinese team made a steal at the front of the penalty area, and then distributed the ball to Liu Binbin on the left side, Liu Binbin took the ball to the near the bottom line and crossed in front of the goal, Yang Xu shook off the defense after getting the ball, and then pushed the empty goal, Yang Su wore a hat and helped the Chinese team expand the score to 5:0.

After Yang Xu completed the hat trick, Perrin also used the last substitution of the Chinese team in this game and replaced Yang Xu with Dai Zhiwei.

After hugging Yang Xu, Dai Zhiwei quickly ran into the field.

He looked up at Bhutan's rudimentary scorer – 77 minutes and 21 seconds, which was when he made his first appearance for the national team.

"Plus stoppage time, almost 15 minutes, try to score a goal, otherwise it will really be a game!" Dai Zhiwei set a small goal for himself.

Dai Zhiwei was particularly active after he came on the field, and the Chinese team players on the field at this time also included the old captain Zheng Zhi and Gao Lin, after hearing Dai Zhiwei's request for help, the two big brothers also gave their own responses.

In the 83rd minute of the game, the Bhutanese midfielder made a mistake and was tackled by Zheng Zhi, Gao Lin scored the ball at the top of the penalty area and distributed it to the left side, and Dai Zhiwei grabbed the Bhutanese defender before the left-footed volley 10 meters in front of the goal.

This time the football was bombarded by Dai Zhiwei to some deformation, although this powerful shot was supported by the quick reaction of Hari Guron with one hand, but it still could not completely change the trajectory of the football flying to the goal, the football flew into the near corner, 6:0!

: After Dai Zhiwei scored this goal, he also seemed quite excited, and jumped directly to Gao Lin, who assisted him!

Poor Gao Lin only felt that it was dark in front of her, and she was thrown to the ground.

After scoring the first goal of the national team, Dai Zhiwei no longer had the desire to vent on the weak team, and began to play health ball with other teammates on the field, and Perrin also signaled Mingjin to withdraw the troops.

In this way, the Chinese team easily won the first game of the World Preliminary Tournament with a score of 6:0, laying a pretty good start for another World Cup.