The match, which attracted the attention of fans around the world, ended with a home team victory that few would have expected, and Spain, who won six and drew one of their first seven games, have left their biggest rivals in the group behind. Due to the schedule behind them, as long as they don't make the unforgivable mistake of facing Israel in the final round, they can almost lock in a direct spot for next year's World Cup in Russia.

The Azzurri, who are currently four points ahead of Albania, the third place in the group, have a great chance of qualifying for the play-offs, although according to common sense, with their strength, there is still a good chance of qualifying, but now the entire Italian football world is still in a sad atmosphere. Although the hope of qualifying for the World Cup is still very high, many media still believe that Italy's football level has not climbed out of the trough, since the 2012 European Championship runner-up, the strength of the blue team is no longer the world's top, five years later, there is no sign of recovery.

Of course, some people blamed the defeat to Spain on the current national team coach Ventura, who felt that in the hands of Conte, the Italian team could easily win the opponent by two goals, but after the current Torino coach took over the team, they could only lose by three goals. The players are still the same wave of players, but the head coach has changed, and the ending is very different, doesn't this just show who is the biggest cancer of the team!

However, in an interview with the media, the old coach said that he did not carry this pot, and the loss of the game was mainly because the players on both sides were not at the same level, he said: "In fact, our players are far behind the opponent in terms of ability and physical strength. We made a few mistakes and left the opposition with chances that they seized and scored quickly, with Isco netting two of his first two shots. Although we had a couple of good chances, with Belotti and Insigne both getting close at one point, David De Gea made the crucial save. In terms of ability, our players are just ordinary people, but the Spanish players have gone above and beyond the ordinary. ”

"It's crazy to play 4-2-4 at home in Spain? We're experimenting with our tactics and one game doesn't change our plans. Now it's a question of what we're going to do and what kind of team we want to be. This defeat will be a valuable lesson for everyone to learn from and analyse and how to develop in the future. If we break our confidence in one game, it means we are not competitive, so I can't believe that, we are still confident in the final qualification. ”

Belotti defended his manager and himself in an interview with La Repubblica after leaving the flight home, "We put out a very aggressive line-up because we want to get a positive result, the opponent is very strong, and if we choose to defend on the road, it is likely that we will not gain anything." The Spanish players played better than us in those 90 minutes, they were aggressive and sometimes they came back and I think it taught us a lesson, we should have played better, unfortunately we lost, but we need to learn from it. I didn't do very well, I missed a good chance, and hopefully I can get my luck back later. ”

Regardless of whether the fans are waiting and watching for the time being, or swearing, the Italian Football Federation will not dare to dismiss Ventura at this time. First, there is no better replacement at present, Allegri, Sarri and other local coaches are mixed smoothly in the club, and they are unwilling to come to this troubled water, and others are not qualified enough; Second, the team currently has three group games left, which will be played in more than a month, and the time is very tight, even if a new coach takes over, it is difficult to fully implant his tactics into the national team in such a short period of time, and the effect may be worse. So at least before the possible play-offs are over, Ventura's position is still very stable, and once he leads the team out of the play-offs, it is estimated that it will be even more impossible to get out of class, and changing the coach is just a false proposition.

At 23 o'clock in the evening of September 5, Beijing time, the national football team went to West Asia and will complete the final match of the top 12 with Qatar. If they are to qualify for the play-offs for third place in the group, they will need to win, in addition to the face of the other two games. However, there was a more ideal news before the game, the home team that has been determined to miss the qualifying place will hide most of the main players in this game, and the training attitude of the opponent also gave Lippi and his team a chance to "change their lives".

In the face of this battle of life and death that must be won, the Italian Silver Fox was not conservative, and the frontcourt combination of Yu Hanchao, Gao Lin and Xiao Zhi showed the determination of the national football team to attack. And after the opening, the national football team did play its own momentum, in the first minute, Yu Hanchao found a cross opportunity on the right side, but unfortunately the unmarked Gao Lin did not hit the target, the ball grazed his scalp and deflected the far post, and the away team missed the golden opportunity to lead at the beginning.

Four minutes later, Zheng Zhi, the captain who played as the central midfielder today, came to shoot after a long run, but unfortunately his long-range shot with good angle power was lifted over the crossbar by the excellent Qatar goalkeeper Siboo, otherwise it would have been a wonderful world wave.

The home team's attack is also very distinctive, although most of the players on the field are fringe internationals, but they still have some advantages in individual speed and technique. And they have a lot of attacking routines, such as wide crosses, long-range shots from the middle, short penetrations and through diagonal passes. In particular, he repeatedly played through balls to threaten the attention and tacit cooperation of the national football team's defense, and almost scored in the 35th minute, but Almoez's volley from about 10 meters from the goal was slightly off, and the difference of less than 10 centimeters would give the national football team a heavy blow.

Turning around, before the end of the first half, the visitors also played a narrow combination and almost took the lead. In the 41st minute, Xiao Zhi received a long pass from the back and rubbed the ferry, Yu Hanchao rushed into the right side of the penalty area at high speed, and shot low with his right foot into the far corner of the goal before the two defenders blocked, but unfortunately it was still slightly off the post, which was the same as Moes's previous goal.

At the end of the 45 minutes, both sides created some good chances, but both missed them at the same time. The other two games that kicked off at the same time were also scoreless, with Uzbekistan drawing at home to the Kimchi Nation and Iran as substitutes in a 1-1 draw with Syria in Tehran. This result is not very favorable for the national football team. If they want to move up to third place in the group, they will have to score early in the second half and then take advantage of the opportunity to widen the gap and count on Iran and Kimchi to take out their respective opponents, which will indeed require the mercy of Lady Luck.

In order to strengthen the attack, Lippi changed the formation to 3-5-2 at half-time, but this change caused a mistake in his own defence. As soon as the second half began, the national football team suffered a head-on blow, and Qatar's first offensive knocked on the door guarded by Zeng Cheng. Taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the national football team's change of formation, Qatar held the ball on the periphery to face the national football team's forced to break through the midfield defense line with a wall-hitting cooperation, and then quickly passed and ran directly to form a direct opportunity behind the plug. Almoez burst into the box and crossed the middle, and the outflanked Afif pushed the ball into the bottom corner of the net without interference, and the 1-0 score almost killed the hopes of the Celestial Empire.

Fortunately, the silver fox has not given up, he first commanded the players to press the offense with all his might, and then replaced Wu Lei and Hao Junmin one after another to increase the creativity and impact of the frontcourt. However, this will also make the defence more scarred, leaving more room for opponents to counterattack, but this is a desperate attempt to win, and this risky approach to attack is also a no-brainer.

And this desperate crazy pressing tactic finally brought gains to the national football team. In the seventy-third minute, Jiang Zhipeng, who came on as a substitute at the beginning of the half, sent a precise cross on the left side, Xiao Zhi outflanked and pushed in front of the goal, and the ball flew into the net of the home team's goal, and the national football team finally pulled the two sides back to the same running line. However, the draw doesn't make the slightest sense, so they still have to keep attacking and try to score another goal to get the bottom three points.

Unfortunately, the holes in the back are too obvious, and Qatar finally created a killing chance after missing two or three good chances in succession. In the 79th minute, they broke the ball at the back and made a long pass directly to the front, Almoez's non-stop diagonal pass just broke through the last line of defense of the national football team, and Afif cut the ball forward at high speed and went straight to the away goal. Zheng Zhi, who was returning to the defense, had no choice but to pull the opponent's striker to the ground from behind at the front of his own penalty area, and then was directly shown a red card by the referee.

At this time, the vast majority of people thought that the national football team with one less player was almost hopeless to win, but they burst out with unimaginable energy and subverted the previous impression of them from the outside world. Just after the referee blew the whistle that the Qatari players could start to take the set-piece, which was a little too close to the goal, Haydos's direct shot was blocked by the human wall, and the national football team immediately launched a counterattack. After a simple but effective pass, Hao Junmin managed to get into the left side of the opponent's penalty area, but his low cross failed to find his teammate and was blocked by a defender and rebounded to the penalty spot. At this time, Wu Lei suddenly hit the landing point, and a right-footed shot broke through the home team's goal, and the Celestial Dynasty overtook the score!

At this moment, all the Celestial Empire fans are boiling, and the national football team can still play an exciting offensive in such a passive situation, which is indeed commendable. However, it was their last outburst, and in the next ten minutes, including injury time, they were unable to cause problems for the home team's defence with one man less, but they still relied on rare willpower to withstand the onslaught of the opposition, and kept the score 2-1 until the final whistle blew.

Sadly, the other two games ended almost at the same time as they ended in draws, with Syria drawing 2-2 away at Iran thanks to a stoppage-time winner, and qualifying for the play-offs by virtue of goal difference over Uzbekistan, who had been in a good position before, and will face third-placed Australia in the other group in October to secure a World Cup ticket with the fourth place finishers in the CONCACAF qualifiers.

So far, the group stage of the top 12 of the 2018 Russia World Cup Asian Qualifiers has ended, and the national football team has 12 points in 10 games, 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses, ranking fifth in the group, only one point less than the third place. After Lippi took over the team, they got a good result of 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, a total of 11 points, and almost succeeded in counterattacking. The performance of the national football players in the last two games has also been recognized by many fans, and many comments after the game are relatively positive, almost all of them believe that if it were not for the penultimate round away from Syria, or Lippi can lead the team to the top 12 from the beginning, the national football team may have won the right to qualify.

Although they made a big mistake at the last moment of the game against Syria, Wu Lei and Hao Junmin were forgiven by the fans for their excellent performance today, so all the pots were carried by Gao Gui alone, which was really a disaster from the sky.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the problem of football in the Celestial Empire is not whether it can enter the World Cup at all, but that it is fundamentally about to die. The manager can't do it? Gao Gui is already the best ability and courage among local coaches, don't you see that the Celestial Empire League is already a foreign foreign coach in the water; Players are not capable? These people are already the better people selected by all professional players, and the fans who say that they have poor skills and bad consciousness have never seen worse ones? It is said that the leaders of the Football Association are all laymen to guide insiders, the domestic system is like this, and the Basketball Association is also a group of laymen, but the men's basketball team can at least be regarded as the first-class in Asia, and has repeatedly entered the top eight of the Olympic Games and the World Championships before, and the results are a big cut off football.

Looking at the roots, in fact, the reason why the level of football in the Celestial Empire has not been able to rise is that we have not had a modern football system at all, and we have been following the ideas and methods of the seventies and eighties of the last century for many years, and have never had the determination and measures to carry out real reforms. The domestic football population is ridiculously small, the talent training mechanism for young people has never been perfect, the league management is chaotic, and the players lack professionalism...... If you want to analyze the cause, you can really publish a book. But in the final analysis, we still don't follow the rules of modern football at all, thinking that buying big stars and hiring world-class coaches with a lot of money will be all right, but in fact, this is completely putting the cart before the horse.

If the Chinese people can settle down, do not rush for quick success, do not seek short-term false results, and invest billions or even billions of dollars in infrastructure construction and youth talent training every year, at most 20 years later, the football of the Celestial Empire will rise again. Unfortunately, there are many people who understand this, but there may be very few who actually do it. Although Li Mudi's sponsorship activity seems to be quite lively, it does not actually help to improve the level of professional football, he just hopes to plant some seeds in the hearts of those children, and when there is an opportunity for change, it can make them less resistance.