Chapter 453: First Battle of Australia

The strength of the Japanese team, the Australian team, the Saudi Arabian team, and the North Korean team is indeed good, but in the recent record with the Dragon Country team, the Dragon Country team occupies an all-round upper hand.

In the past three years, the Dragon Country team has not tasted defeat against the above teams!

If four years ago, when the Dragon Country team played the top 12 matches, they were trembling and had no confidence in the record, then this time, the confidence of the Dragon Country team is much more sufficient!

According to the AFC schedule, the World Cup Qualifiers for the top 12 in Asia will start from the international break week in September, and the international break week in October and November will also have event arrangements, plus the international break week in March and June next year, and ten rounds of matches will be completed in five international break weeks.

This arrangement, compared to the one-time, is much more dense and compact, mainly because the time of the 2022 Qatar World Cup is different from the previous ones, from the usual June and July, to January.

This is to adapt to the local climate in Qatar.

In June and July every year in Qatar, the temperature is as high as 40 degrees Celsius during the day and 30 degrees Celsius after nightfall, which is not suitable for football matches, even if there is an air conditioning system in the stadium.

Only January, the winter in Qatar, when the temperature is relatively low, is more suitable for holding the World Cup.

This is the same reason that the 2019 Asian Cup in the UAE was also scheduled for January.

The UAE and Qatar, both on the Arabian Peninsula, have similar geographical and climatic conditions.

Because the 2022 Qatar World Cup event arrangement is different from the previous ones, it not only forces the qualifier schedules of all continents to be slightly adjusted on the basis of previous ones, but also in the 2021-2022 season, leagues on all continents also need to make corresponding adjustments for the World Cup schedule.

In leagues like Europe, which has a multi-year season, there is a break of at least two months in the middle of the season for the World Cup.

And a single-year league like the Dragon Super League can take advantage of a little advantage, and the holding of the World Cup will not have any impact on the league's schedule.

After Inter Milan won the UEFA Super Cup and won the first championship of the season, the Serie A and Champions League that began one after another are progressing smoothly and still maintaining the momentum of winning all the games, and the Serie A winning streak is steadily moving towards 50 games!

Shen Feng's performance is still excellent, and the number of goals scored in a single game is still above 1.5.

Last season, Shen Feng made a total of 32 appearances for Inter Milan in Serie A, scoring 58 goals, with an average of 1.8 goals per game, setting a new record for the top five European leagues.

Shen Feng thus became the first player in European football to score more than 55 league goals in a single season, before him, only Messi, who scored 50 league goals in a single season, and Ronaldo's single-season league goals were only 48 at most.

What's even more rare is that Shen Feng's goal record was obtained in the Serie A league, which focuses on overall defense!

In La Liga, Ronaldo, who could easily break 30 goals in the league this season, arrived in Serie A, although his form was still excellent, but the league goals for two consecutive seasons were below 30, which is enough to prove the defensive intensity of Serie A.

Shen Feng was able to maintain such a high goal efficiency in this situation, how could he not amaze the world?

In 2019, Shen Feng scored a total of 87 goals for Inter Milan in all competitions, and won four championship trophies for Inter Milan, including the Champions League, the International Champions Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

At the same time, Shen Feng also scored 30 goals for the Dragon Country team in various competitions, winning the Asian Cup and the Copa America for the Dragon Country team, plus the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian Top 40 Tournament successfully qualified.

In 2019, Shen Feng scored a total of 117 goals in club and national teams, improving his natural annual goal record set in 2018!

Shen Feng is also the only player in the history of world football who has scored more than 100 goals in two consecutive natural years!

Before Shen Feng, the record for goals scored in a calendar year was 91 set and held by Messi, and before Messi, this record belonged to German legend Gerd Müller, who recorded 86.

On the basis of these two superstar records, Shen Feng increased the value of this record to more than 100.

If it is said that in 2018, Shen Feng scored more than 100 goals in a natural year, breaking Messi's record, and the level of the season he participated in was too low (the club's goals were in the Dragon Super League, AFC Champions League and FA Cup), there is a suspicion of brushing data.

Then the data for 2019 is indisputable.

This year, Shen Feng's league goals were obtained in competitions at the level of Serie A and the Champions League, and the goals of the national team were obtained at the level of the Asian Cup and the Copa America, all of which belong to the first-line events in world football.

In 2020, Shen Feng's goal efficiency is still high, in the first half of the year, in the Serie A and Champions League, 41 goals were scored, and then counting the two goals in the Italian Cup final and the two goals in the European Super Cup, Shen Feng's league goals have reached 45.

Due to not participating in the pre-season warm-up matches of the Inter Milan team, Shen Feng's club goals were slightly less than the same period last year.

And because this year, Shen Feng basically did not participate in the game of the Dragon National Team, only in the men's football game of the Olympic Games, scored 11 goals for the Dragon National Olympic Team, and participated in the U23 Asian Cup and Olympic Trials at the beginning of the year, although Shen Feng was called up by the Dragon National Olympic Team, but only in the quarterfinals, and the Thai team, played 50 minutes, but also scored 5 goals.

So far, Shen Feng has scored 16 goals for the Dragon National Olympic team in 2020.

In other words, before the official opening of the new season, Shen Feng's total number of goals in 2020 was only 61, and if he wanted to score more than 100 goals in a single year for the third consecutive year, he needed to work hard in the remaining four months.

However, with Shen Feng's current state, in the sixteen rounds of Serie A, six Champions League group games and six World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 12, a total of 28 games, the difficulty of scoring 39 goals is not very difficult.

On September 3, in the first round of the top 12 of the Asian zone of the World Cup qualifiers, the Dragon Country team hosted the Australian team.

In order to fight for a place in the World Cup, the Australian team defected from Oceania and switched to the arms of the AFC, and in the last World Cup, in the play-offs, fell in front of the Dragon team, which made the two teams have a grudge.

In this year's top 12 match, the two teams are in the same group and face each other directly, and the competition will be more brutal.