Chapter 115: Tug of War

"Friends of the audience, friends of the fans, you are now watching us live at the Olympic Stadium in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, bringing you the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers intercontinental play-offs, the match between the Dragons and Honduras."

"This is the first leg of the two teams and the first meeting in the history of the two teams!"

"I'm Liu Jiayuan, and we also invited former international player Xu Yang to guide this game, and I will bring you the analysis and interpretation of this game." Liu Jiayuan said in an enthusiastic voice.

"Good morning, audience friends! Although the start time of this game is the afternoon of local time in Honduras, due to the time difference, the domestic time should be six o'clock in the morning, and today is Saturday. Xu Yang said.

After saying the opening remarks, Liu Jiayuan and Xu Yang began to introduce the starting lists of the two sides, and in the process of their introduction, the game was going on steadily.

In this game, although the Dragon Country team discharged a 4-4-2 formation, allowing Shen Feng and Wu Lei, who had the strongest attack power in the team, to start together, they did not adopt the strategy of grabbing the start in the tactical arrangement.

Shen Feng and Wu Lei, after the start of the game, did not rush to the defensive hinterland of the Honduran team, but more moved in the position just past the middle line, maintaining close contact with the two lines of their own midfield.

Although the Honduras team is playing at home, when preparing for the game, it is obvious that the dragon team has also had a special understanding of the offensive ability of the dragon team.

Liu Jiayuan combined with the situation on the field and said, "The game lasted for ten minutes, and the warring parties were very cautious in the opening stage, more in the midfield, probing, and did not rashly attack. ”

"Yes!" Xu Yang said, "Due to some special relationships, the Dragons and Honduras have never played each other in history, the two teams don't know each other very well, and this game is an important game like the World Cup qualifiers intercontinental play-offs, and it is understandable that the two sides behaved cautiously in the opening stage." ”

"Dragon and Honduras have not established diplomatic relations until now, and Dragon people need to use visas from the United States and the European Union to travel to Honduras, but before this game, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Tourism Administration, and the Football Association jointly issued an announcement that it is not recommended that fans of Dragon come to Honduras to cheer for the Dragon team!" There was nothing to say about the game on the field, so Liu Jiayuan began to talk about some idle words.

"This is not because these functional departments are not optimistic about this game of the Dragon Team, but because the tourism environment of Honduras is not very stable, and there are now netizens on the Internet who have rated the top ten dangerous cities in the world, and San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras, has been in the first place for many years!"

"Originally, the Honduran Football Association was going to arrange this match to be held in San Pedro Sula, but under the strong protest of the Dragon Football Association, after the coordination of FIFA, it was finally adjusted to Tegucigalpa, which is the capital of Honduras after all, and the security environment is relatively better."

Xu Yang said, "In this game, there are still dozens of brave Dragon Country fans, who have traveled thousands of miles, not afraid of danger, and came to the scene of the game to cheer for the Dragon Country team!" ”

"I admire their spirit, but I don't support such dissuasion!"

"I heard that in order to ensure the personal safety of these fans, the Dragon Football Association not only invited security forces in Tegucigalpa, but also coordinated to invite several security experts from the nearby Costa Rican Dragon Embassy, and now outside the stadium, there are special vehicles, and as soon as the game is over, let these fans, together with the media reporters who came with the team, first transfer to Costa Rica, where the domestic situation is relatively stable, and return home from there."

"The players of the Dragon Country team, after the game, will also go directly from the stadium to the airport, and take a chartered flight to return home immediately."

Liu Jiayuan said, "This arrangement of the Dragon Football Association is by no means in the cup of the bow and snake shadow, not to mention the murder rate in Honduras, just the personal experience of our coming here in the past few days, you can really feel that the security environment here is indeed quite tense, after nightfall, there are almost no idlers on the street, we can only stay in the hotel, there will be armed security guards at the door of the hotel, and no casual entry and exit are allowed." ”

"The reason why this game is scheduled to be played in the afternoon local time should also be due to safety considerations, the game starts at four o'clock and ends around six o'clock, some distance before dark, so that the players and fans of the visiting team can leave when it is safe to do so."

The game on the field is still going on unhurriedly, Xu Yang gave his own guess in response to this situation, "I don't know if the current situation on the field is affected by the domestic security environment in Honduras. ”

"The Honduran team in the last stage of the previous World Cup Central American and Caribbean qualifiers, the record of ten games is 3 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses, of which the home record is 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, occupying a clear advantage, I don't know if those teams who come here to play have also been affected by this."

"Honduras's troublesome domestic security environment, now it seems that it should be regarded as a kind of home advantage of the Honduran team!"

Xu Yang said, although it was a joke, but it could be regarded as some defense for the lackluster performance of the Dragon Country team in this game.

Now, in terms of strength on paper and recent records, the Dragon Country team is indeed slightly better than the Honduras team, before the game, in the eyes of the Dragon Country media and Dragon Country fans, although the Dragon Country team is playing away from home in this game, but to win, the problem should not be very big.

The bigwigs and celebrities in the various football circles of the Dragon Country, when they support the Dragon Country team, most of them suggest that the Dragon Country team grab the start in this game and establish a score lead in the away game, so that after returning to the home field, the game will be better to play!

Hundreds of millions of fans also have such expectations for the Dragon Country.

However, after the game officially began, the Dragon Team did not show a winning posture on the field, even if the Honduran team had taken the initiative to shrink the defense, the Dragon Team did not press the attack aggressively, but only cautiously engaged in a tug-of-war with the Honduran team in the midfield.