Chapter 45: The Battle of the Middle Cards
On October 2, the Qatar Football Association announced the 25-man squad for the Chinese team in the World Preliminaries on its official website, and the 32-year-old veteran Sebastian returned.
Qatar's new coach Carreño announced the list of candidates for the World Preliminary Tournament on the official website of the Qatar Football Association. After 4 rounds of the top 40 of the World Preliminaries, Qatar won all 3 games, scored 19 goals and conceded 2 goals, ranking first in Group C with a goal difference, and the second place was Dai Zhiwei's Chinese team.
Qatar will play China at home on 8 October, a crucial battle for both teams' prospects of qualifying, with the winner likely to finish as group winners.
Sebastian played 101 games for the Qatar national team and scored 29 goals, but Sebastian has not been selected for the national team for a year and missed the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, and scored a killer goal for Qatar when he played against the Chinese team in the 2008 World Preliminary Championships.
After the big win over Gamba Osaka, Dai Zhiwei didn't have time to go home to celebrate the National Day with his parents, so he went to Doha away to challenge Qatar, the long-time sufferer.
The line-ups of both sides -
China line-up:
Goalkeeper: Wang Dalei
Defenders: Ren Xing, Mei Fang, Zhang Linpeng, Zhang Chengdong
Midfielders: Yu Dabao, Zheng Zhi, Cai Huikang, Wu Xi, Ji Xiang
Forward: Dai Zhiwei
Qatar line-up:
Goalkeeper: Amin
Defenders: Hassan, Cazorla, Yashir, Moussa
Midfielders: Huhe, Boudiaf, Asadala
Forwards: Maksuod, Sebastian, Haydos
Previously, China and Qatar had 14 meetings in the international A-level competition, and the Chinese team had a slight advantage with 6 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses. In these 14 games, the Chinese team scored 19 goals and conceded 13 goals. Among them, in the World Cup Asian qualifiers, China and Qatar have met 7 times, the Chinese team has 1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses, scored 8 goals and conceded 8 goals, there is no advantage at all, and has never tasted victory in Doha.
Since the 2004 Asian Cup defeated Qatar 1-0 at home, the Chinese team has failed to win three meetings with Qatar in the following 11 years.
Dai Zhiwei was standing in the players' tunnel waiting to play at this time, he glanced helplessly at the Jassim Ben Hamad Stadium and smiled bitterly.
The Qatar national team's home stadium is Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, also known as the "Al-Essad Stadium", which can accommodate 18,000 people with VIP seats. The 18,000 people are only theoretical data, considering the potential safety hazards and the broadcast effect, the number of fans watching the game is extremely limited, and the number of fans inside the stadium today is around 10,000.
"Such a small stadium is not very beneficial for the attacking players!" Dai Zhiwei shook his head and walked into the court.
Only 11 minutes into the game, Dai Zhiwei has not received a few balls, let alone a shot on goal, at this time he is watching Qatar with his hands on his hips and speechlessly celebrating wildly.
At the start of the game, Qatar played attacking football and took the lead in the 22nd minute.
After the opening, it was difficult for the Chinese team to form an effective offensive, and Qatar formed a continuous suppression, and in the 22nd minute, Sebastian's cross-cut shot on the penalty line was blocked.
Yu Dabao was fouled by the handball when defending, taking advantage of this free kick opportunity on the right side of the front, Haydos passed diagonally into the penalty area, and the auspicious header was cleared and rubbed, just falling on top of Budiaf's head, who rushed to the top and scored!
0:1!
Dai Zhiwei looked at the team's back line with constant mistakes, he was really helpless, it took a lot of effort to score a goal, and the opponent could easily score as long as he grabbed the mistakes of his own backline, which was too embarrassing.
For the construction of domestic football, Dai Zhiwei is really powerless to complain, a person with a score of 30 points, do not humbly learn from those who score 90 points (Brazil, Britain, France, Spain), and have the face to say that those who score 90 points are not good.
There is an RB next to it that used to be about the same, and now it is basically stable at about 75 points.
Everyone used to be in a similar situation, RB can be copied, so can't you copy RB with 75 points?
I can't even copy it, I don't work hard to learn, and I want to innovate on my own, it's really funny!
However, as long as you wear the national team jersey, you will not allow others to show off in front of you!
For the Football Association, Dai Zhiwei hates it!
However, for the country, Dai Zhiwei is determined to recommend Xuanyuan!
Wait, Qatar!
The match between China and Qatar is still in full swing.
In the 29th minute, the Chinese team attacked, Wu Xi passed, and Zheng Zhi made a long pass on the side.
Dai Zhiwei took two big strides, overtook Yasir, who was defending him, and volleyed directly into the ball, and the ball flew straight above the middle of the goal.
Qatari goalkeeper Amin reacted immediately, holding his hands and not holding the ball, but the football did not break the goal, but flew slightly over the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line.
"it! Didn't go in again! ”
After landing on the ground, Dai Zhiwei's mouth was like turning on a machine gun, and he vented that this was his third shot in this game, but it was a pity that he missed the goal.
Just when Dai Zhiwei regretted it, the Chinese team organized another attack, Wu Xi broke the ball in the half and passed it to Zheng Zhi in front of him.
Zheng Zhi, who took the ball in the middle, saw Dai Zhiwei pull out of the penalty area, and he might be stunned if he changed to other teammates, but Zheng Zhi cooperated best with Dai Zhiwei, and he also saw Dai Zhiwei turn around at the front of the penalty area to break through in the game, without the slightest hesitation, and immediately made a direct pass to Dai Zhiwei's feet.
Dai Zhiwei stopped the ball, Yashier behind him immediately stuck to him hard, Dai Zhiwei did not turn around and break through as Zheng Zhi thought, but passed the ball back to Yu Dabao's feet again, and then turned around and ran towards the penalty area.
Yu Dabao is also blessed to the soul, he did not hesitate at all, immediately raised his foot and hoisted the ball directly into the penalty area!
Dai Zhiwei jumped high with his back to the goal.
In the case that he couldn't see the goal at all, Dai Zhiwei relied on his own feelings, and then rubbed the top of his head, and struggled to rub the ball in the direction of the goal he wanted!
Amin had planned to take the ball off the top of Dai Zhiwei's head, because a lob like this wouldn't be too fast, and he had plenty of time to attack.
Who knew that Dai Zhiwei actually jumped up and shot directly with his back to the goal near the line of the big penalty area, or a header hanging shot!
With Dai Zhiwei's bounce and height, he could only barely rub under the ball.
This is also the reason why Amin will choose to attack, if Dai Zhiwei waits for the ball to fall a little more before shooting, then the ball is definitely in Amin's control.
However, now Dai Zhiwei hit the ball first.
On the football field, sometimes it's the line that fights for the first place.
Armin knew that it was obviously too late to go back, and the only thing he could do was to jump up with the forward momentum and intercept the ball in the middle of the game, so he jumped hard.
But Amin's idea was good, but the result was not as good as he hoped - the football failed to hit, so he drew a very high and graceful arc in the air, flew over Amin's head, and then fell in the direction of the goal......
Yasir, who had just missed Dai Zhiwei, was desperately rushing towards the goal, intending to barb to save the danger, but when he ran to the goal, he found that the arc of the ball almost grazing the crossbar and flying towards the goal.
Jasir could only use his head to push the ball desperately, but in a hurry, his jump height was extremely limited, and the ball jumped over his head and crashed into the net!
"The ball is in! The ball is in! The ball is in! The commentator of Huaxia TV's sports channel couldn't help roaring, "Dai Zhiwei's goal equalized the score, and it was actually a header near the line of the big penalty area." Sometimes, scoring goals depends on the flash of inspiration of the stars! ”
The Chinese commentators in the live broadcast room were still immersed in the joy of Dai Zhiwei's goal, and the Chinese team had ushered in Qatar's increasingly crazy counterattack.
When the Chinese team equalized the score with Dai Zhiwei's wonderful goal, Qatar began a stormy attack, if it weren't for the defensive strength of the Chinese team, I am afraid that it would have been beaten into a sieve by Qatar at this moment.
"Leave the ball for me!"
With Zhang Linpeng's fierce sliding tackle, he directly cut off Sebastian who didn't notice him, and at the same time, regardless of Sebastian who was lying on the ground and didn't know whether he was really injured or pretended, Zhang Linpeng directly passed to Jixiang in front of him, and when he got the football Jixiang, he began to run wildly along the side with the ball.
However, Zhang Linpeng's ferocity was only a flash in the pan.
Wang Dalei roared, jumped up hard, stretched his body as much as possible, and finally met Maksud's small-angle shot, the football jumped and rolled out of the sideline, and Qatar won a corner.
"Hey! Focus on it, don't let them get up so easily! Wang Dalei, who had just stood up, couldn't help but start shouting at his teammates.
You must know that Wang Dalei is anxious, after Dai Zhiwei's goal equalized, the current Qatar has gone crazy, and most of the time it suppressed the Chinese team in the half, and there have been 3 shots like just now that are very likely to score.
If it weren't for his good form today, I'm afraid the current score would not be 1:1, but 2:1, or even 3:1.