Of course, Cai Zhenhua can't always be in charge of the Dragon Football Association, not to mention 2026, that is, when the Qatar World Cup in 2022, he may not be in office.

However, if the future development of the Dragon Country Team is the same as he predicted, then the rise of the Dragon Country Team began during his tenure, which is a great political achievement for him, and after he retreats to the second line in the future, he will also have to blow.

Cai Zhenhua has a little difference from the previous leaders of the Dragon Football Association, that is, he has a professional background, although it is not football, but table tennis, but table tennis is the national sport of the Dragon Country, and the attention is not much lower than football.

Therefore, after taking up the leadership position, although Cai Zhenhua also pursues political achievements, he will not be as eager for quick success as the previous leaders of the Football Association, and has the patience to accompany the Dragon National Team to reverse the decline little by little, make progress, and move towards victory.

The Dragon Country team can reach the Asian play-offs of the World Cup qualifiers, and for Cai Zhenhua, it is already a complete task!

When Lippi first took over the Dragon Country team, the Dragon Country team was in the first four rounds of the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 12, without a win, only accumulating 1 point, and was at the bottom of the group!

In the next six games, they were able to achieve 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, grab 13 points, and finally rank third in the group and qualify for the play-offs, which is a miracle for the Dragon Country team!

Such a dragon team has given dragon fans hope, even if they fail to qualify in the play-offs, the future is worth looking forward to.

Dragon country fans have been waiting for the Dragon Country team to return to the World Cup for 16 years, and they don't care about waiting for another four years!

Of course, it would be better if you didn't have to wait for these four years.

Not only do the fans not want to wait, but the players of the Dragon Nation team don't want to wait either!

For old players like Zheng Zhi and Feng Xiaoting, they can't wait longer, they can't afford to wait!

Therefore, this group of veterans, in the process of preparing for this battle, one by one the old men chatted about the madness of youth, devoted themselves wholeheartedly, and did not make any reservations.

Zheng Zhi was suspended for a red card in the first leg and failed to play his due role on the pitch, and decided to redouble his efforts in this game to make up for the shortcomings of the previous game.

Old players lead by example, young players like Shen Feng are naturally not far behind, although among them, except for Shen Feng's main position is already unshakable, the probability of other players playing in this game is not high, but they still have to be fully prepared, in case of temporary changes in the game, they need to be in danger?

The preparation atmosphere of the Dragon team is very good, and the morale has not been affected by the draw at home, and they are full of confidence in advancing away from home.

The Australian team, too, is well prepared and confident for this game.

Australia's home record in World Cup qualifying has been excellent, going 20 games unbeaten at home, with the most recent defeat dating back to 2008.

Coincidentally, the opponent of that game was also the Dragon Country, and the Dragon Country team won by 1 goal.

Through the first leg of the battle between the two teams, the Australian team also re-acquainted itself with this dragon country team and did not dare to have any contempt for this opponent.

In the last game, although the Australian team dominated the field, but did not complete a few threatening attacks, but was seized by the Dragon team, completed a few very threatening counterattacks, if it was not for good luck, the goalpost twice meritorious service, they are very likely to not be able to retreat from the away side.

In this game, how to break through the dense defense of the Dragon Country team is still a big problem that the Australian team needs to solve.

The Australian team's tactical style is to cross from the wing, rush with long passes, and rely on the characteristics of the forward players to compete for headers in the middle and complete the goal.

But this characteristic is not advantageous in the Dragon Country team, because the two central defenders of the Dragon Country team, in height and weight, and confrontation ability, are not inferior to them.

If the Australian team wants to win at home against the Dragons, it is not enough to rely on the original tactics, which has been proven in the first leg of the battle between the two teams.

Therefore, what kind of tactical adjustments the Australian team makes in this game is also a major highlight of the game.

On the side of the Dragon Country team, the tactical arrangement of the last game worked well, and this game only needs to continue to continue, and there are not many places that need to be adjusted.

At most, it will be adjusted accordingly according to the changes in the tactics of the Australian team, but this can only be carried out after the official start of the game, through a period of time, and after the new tactics of the Australian team have been verified.

Lippi's on-the-spot command ability is quite strong, and it is believed that he can quickly find a way to deal with the change in the tactics of the Australian team.

An hour before the official start of the game, the two teams announced the starting lists for this game at the same time, and by comparing them with the starting lists of the previous game, it can be seen that the two teams have made changes in this game after the first leg of the competition.

In the starting list of the Australian team, two people were replaced, one of them was suspended because of the accumulation of yellow cards, and the formation changed from 4-3-3, which was the main attack in the last game, to a more balanced 4-4-2 in attack and defense.

In this game, the Dragon Country team still discharged a 4-5-1 defensive formation, and only one person was changed in the starting list.

At the front, it is still the teenager Shen Feng.

In the last game, although Shen Feng hit the post twice and missed a great opportunity to score, in terms of offensive ability alone, he is still second to none in the current Dragon Country team.

Don't look at his young age, but his skills are quite mature, and his psychological quality is also quite good.

Although he is still under the age of 20, he has been recognized as the banner figure of Dragon Football in the next ten or even fifteen years, and he can no longer be said to be a star of hope, he is the hope of the rise of Dragon Football!

In the past few days of training, Shen Feng has maintained a very good condition, and the hit rate of his set pieces and penalties is also very high.

The Dragon Country team has made full preparations for the difficulty of this game, and in training, they deliberately practiced penalty kicks, in order to prevent the game from still being 0:0 in regular time, and there was no winner in overtime, and finally it was necessary to rely on penalty shootouts to decide the winner or loser.

Shen Feng was in the penalty kick training, and he had the highest hit rate among the other 20 people in the team except for the three goalkeepers, and the choice of the direction of the shot was completely irregular, not to mention that the goalkeeper couldn't guess it, and even he himself was not sure which way to kick the next kick.