Due to the expansion policy of this Asian Cup, many weak teams have entered the finals stage, which has reduced the intensity of competition in the group stage compared with previous events.

Due to the disparity in strength, the first team in each group, regardless of how fast or slow they entered the state, the process of the game was relatively smooth, and there were no upsets.

After two rounds, the promotion situation of each group has become clearer, but because of the expansion of this tournament, the four groups with better records in the six groups are third, and they can also advance to the round of 16, so the final eighth-final situation needs to be concluded until the group stage is over.

Due to the fact that there are too many variables in football matches, the analysis and prediction of the situation of the Dragon Country team coaching staff in the subsequent knockout stage can only be used as a reference and cannot be confirmed, so for the Dragon Country team, the final round of the group stage and the Saudi Arabian team should still be based on themselves and strive to win.

In the rising stage of Dragon Country Football, the victory of any game will play a certain role in boosting the development of Dragon Country Football!

Not to mention, it's still in the Asian Cup!

The Asian Cup is the only continental competition that the Dragon Team can compete for the championship at this stage!

However, despite the goal of going all out to win, Lippi still has reservations in the line-up for this game.

Of the two cores of the Dragon Country team, only Shen Feng continued to appear in the starting list of this game, and Zheng Zhi hung up the exemption card in this game and stayed for the knockout round.

In addition, in other positions, Lippi has also made a big adjustment this time, putting several veteran players over 30 years old on the bench to rest, replacing a number of fringe players and young players, providing them with an opportunity to show their abilities.

The same is true for Saudi Arabia, who have won the first two rounds of matches and have already secured qualification from the group, but have put a number of key players on the bench and played only in a semi-main lineup.

In this game, although the Dragon Country and Saudi Arabia teams did not send a full main lineup, there were many marginal players and young players on the field, and the desire of these players to fight was more urgent and stronger than those main players!

Therefore, there are still a lot of highlights of this game.

On January 16, 2019, at 5:30 p.m. local time in the United Arab Emirates and 9:30 p.m. Beijing time, the two matches of the third round of Group C of the 17th Asian Cup group stage were played at the same time at two stadiums.

The match between the Dragons and Saudi Arabia will be held at the Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

Al Nahyan Stadium is a small to medium-sized stadium with only 20,000 spectator seats, but it has a special meaning that is very different from other stadiums – it was built by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to host the wedding of Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and Princess Salama!

Of course, this may have some special significance for Saudi Arabia, which is separated from the United Arab Emirates, but it has no impact on the Dragon Team.

The Dragons will not show mercy to our Middle Eastern brothers because of the special features of this stadium!

In this game, the starting lineup, which was four or five years younger than the previous two times, showed amazing energy under the positive role of a young player eager to show himself.

Saudi Arabia is a traditional powerhouse in Asia, although the results on all fronts in recent years have not been ideal, but they are also a regular in the World Cup and one of the hegemons of the Asian Cup, they have won the Asian Cup three times, in 1984, 1988 and 1996.

The tiger will not fall!

Although the West Asian Tigers of the Saudi Arabian team are old and decrepit, they have a deep heritage and should not be underestimated.

However, the Saudi Arabian team, which also played with a relatively young starting lineup, was a bit dwarfed in this game against the energetic Dragon Nation team!

The Dragon Country team lined up an attack formation of three forwards in this game, with Wu Lei and Xiao Zhiding, who started for the first time, at the front, and Shen Feng behind them as shadow forwards.

This allowed Shen Feng to have more room for movement, and he could give full play to his advantages of fast speed and flexible and reasonable running.

In addition, Wu Lei, who scored 4 goals like Shen Feng in the previous two games, and Xiao Zhi, who only played once as a substitute in the first two games, scored 1 goal, and was in front, which also helped Shen Feng share the pressure of attack to a great extent.

Although the Saudi Arabian team knew the importance of Shen Feng in this Dragon Nation team, they did not dare to let Wu Lei and Xiao Zhi go and cross them to flank Shen Feng.

The combined force formed by the attacking trident of the dragon team made the Saudi Arabian team lose sight of one or the other, and they were exhausted and unable to defend themselves.

In the first 30 minutes of the game, the Dragons created a number of shots on goal, but they were all unable to convert into goals due to a lack of handling of the goal.

It wasn't until the thirty-first minute of the game that the offensive trident of the Dragon Country team tore the Saudi Arabian team's defense into pieces through a subtle three-person cooperation, and finally Xiao Zhi made the final decision, completed the shot, scored a goal, took the lead in the score, and won the opportunity.

Although Xiao Zhi's goal was not directly assisted by Shen Feng, the role played by Shen Feng in the attack of the Dragon Country team cannot be ignored, without his containment, Xiao Zhi would not have been able to get a chance to get his feet.

After the deadlock on the field was broken, the Dragon Country team behaved more freely in the later games.

At the end of the first half, in a corner kick tactic, Shen Feng jumped high in the crowd, overwhelmed the defenders of the Saudi Arabian team, and grabbed the ball first.

Shen Feng's header was so powerful that it was close to the goal of the Saudi Arabian team, and the goalkeeper of Saudi Arabia had nothing to do in the face of this header.

Shen Feng scored in three consecutive games, helping the Longguo team enter the halftime break with a score of 2:0.

In this game, Lippi finally stopped replacing Shen Feng at the beginning of the second half, because he had to think about it for the Dragon Country Team after the end of this Asian Cup, and the starting lineup of the Dragon Country Team in this game will be the main player who will fight side by side with Shen Feng in the next World Cup cycle.

Players like Zheng Zhi, Feng Xiaoting, and Hao Junmin, who are born after 85, will withdraw from the Dragon Country team one after another after the end of this Asian Cup, giving up the stage to young people.

This World Cup is the last moment for them to shine and add bricks to Dragon Country football.