In the first half of the game between the Dragon Team and the Kyrgyzstan team, they successfully established a huge lead of 5 goals and won the game, so after the halftime break, Lippi decisively made continuous substitution adjustments, replacing Shen Feng and Zheng Zhi off the field one after another, protecting the two indispensable cores of the team, replacing them with newcomers, feeling the atmosphere of the game and increasing the experience of the game.

Shen Feng, and now Zheng Zhi, why is it the indispensable core of the current Dragon Country team, from the fact that after they left the field, the changes in the Dragon Country Team on the field can be intuitively felt.

The most direct embodiment is the score!

In the first half, when Shen Feng and Zheng Zhi were on the field, the Longguo team attacked sharply and broke the opponent's goal five times; The defence was solid and left little chance for the opposition.

In the second half, after Shen Feng and Zheng Zhi were replaced one after another, although the Dragon Country team still firmly controlled the situation on the field, the control and the first half had a significant decline, especially in terms of offensive efficiency.

In the forty-five minutes of the first half of the game, the Dragons didn't really have many shots on goal, only nine in total, but five of them scored, which was extremely efficient.

In the second half, the Dragons created more shots, completing a total of 12 shots on goal but scoring only three goals, and the efficiency dropped from more than 50% in the first half to just 25%.

Although the 25% shot success rate is still very high in a football game, the comparison between the two halves shows the difference!

Why Shen Feng was able to become the double "efficiency king" of the Dragon Super League and the AFC Champions League last season is really not in vain!

After Shen Feng was replaced, the offensive efficiency of the Dragon Country team was greatly reduced; After Zheng Zhi was substituted, there were also some problems with the defense of the Dragon Country team.

In the second half, with a big lead, the players' mentality was somewhat relaxed, and the Kyrgyzstan team seized the opportunity, formed several attacks, and successfully scored a goal.

In the end, the debut of the Dragon Nation team in this Asian Cup ended with a score of 8:1, and the Dragon Nation team won a big victory.

This big victory seems to indicate the prospect of the Dragon Country team in this Asian Cup!

The 8:1 score created by the Dragon Country team in this game also set a single-game goal record in the history of the Asian Cup, as well as a record of point difference!

The strength of the Dragon Nation team in this game made the media of other participating countries exclaim, "The dragon is awake!" ”

Before the opening of this Asian Cup, although the Dragon Team performed well in last year's World Cup, and the current FIFA ranking continues to be high, there has been a trend of replacing the Iranian team and becoming the boss of Asia, but due to the poor record of the Dragon Team in the previous Asian Cup, it is not the favorite to win the Asian Cup.

However, after this game, all major bookmakers have invariably adjusted the odds of the Dragon Country team to win the championship, and the Dragon Country team was officially included in the ranks of competing for the championship of this Asian Cup.

Of course, one game doesn't mean much, especially the opponent of the Dragon Country in this game, or the weak Kyrgyzstan team, which is participating in the Asian Cup finals stage for the first time.

In the group stage, the real test of the Dragons' quality should be the final round, the game against Saudi Arabia, the strongest team in the group.

Moreover, the results of the group stage will not have much impact on the teams that enter the knockout stage.

The Dragons also performed eye-catching in the group stage of the last Asian Cup in Australia, winning all three games to qualify as the group winner, but they were defeated in the first knockout round.

Although the quarter-final defeat was partly due to the fact that the Dragons met the eventual champion of the Asian Cup, the host Australia, it can also explain some things to a certain extent.

The situation and outcome of a football match is the most difficult to predict.

Just like in the previous World Cup, who would have thought that the Dragons would be able to advance to the round of 16 as group winners under the watchful eye of hosts Russia, South American giants Uruguay, and African powerhouse Egypt?

Who would have thought that although the Dragons advanced to the round of 16, they could only use the remnants to welcome the new European Cup champions, led by international superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, with a full lineup of Portugal?

It's the same now.

Although due to the expansion of this Asian Cup, the number of participating teams has increased from 16 to 24, so that the number of teams that have advanced to the knockout stage is much higher than before, thus reducing the competition in the first two rounds of the knockout round to a certain extent, and making the knockout round one more round than the previous editions.

This is neither good nor bad for a strong team like the Dragon Country.

One more round of knockout rounds means that if the Dragon Nation team wants to compete for the championship, they will have to play one more game and consume more than the previous editions.

However, at the same time, the increase in the number of teams that advance to the knockout stage also makes the opponents that the Dragon Team may face in the knockout stage relatively weakened, which can make the Dragon Team pass the test with a more relaxed attitude - just like this game with the Kyrgyzstan team, it is completely possible to replace the core of the team to rest through substitutions when establishing a relatively large lead, so as to ensure that they have more physical strength to cope with the more competitive games later!

But, at the same time, there is the possibility of extreme situations!

In case of other group games, there are strong teams that deliberately stay strong, or enter the state slowly, and do not perform well in the group stage, and fall behind in the group, falling to second or even third place.

In this way, even if the Dragon Country team can successfully win the first place in Group C, it is possible that in the first round of the knockout round, they will encounter a strong team in the traditional sense, which will advance the big battle.

Although the Dragon Team is now full of confidence in its own strength and is not afraid of any team in Asia, if it consumes too much in the first round of the knockout round, it will definitely affect the subsequent games and add some obstacles to the Dragon Team's road to the championship.

However, the probability of this happening is still relatively low.

Although it has to be guarded, the most important thing for the Dragon Country team now is to do a good job and play the next two group games well.

The big victory of the Dragon Country team in the first group stage of this Asian Cup made the football boom in the Dragon Country, which has gradually calmed down after the World Cup, regain the trend.

On the night of the end of this game, and the next day, the major media and the Internet of the Dragon Country were overwhelmed with news about the Dragon Country Team, as if the Dragon Country Team had won the Asian Cup!