Chapter 36: The Nightmare Returns
Gao Lin, because when he finally shot in the game, he kicked the ball and hit the anti-aircraft gun, and was once called "Gao Plane" by fans!
Before this game, he couldn't contribute goals for the Dragon Team for more than 600 consecutive minutes, which also made him one of the most criticized players in this Dragon Team.
Under such pressure, Gao Lin finally waited for the opportunity to prove himself!
He did prove it!
The ball he threw was powerful and heavy, and the goalkeeper of the Syrian team was still out of reach although he judged the right direction.
1:1!
In the 68th minute of the game, the Dragon Team finally equalized the score on the field!
This goal greatly boosted the morale of the Dragon team, and after the restart, they continued the previous high-pressure situation and continuously attacked the Syrian team's goal.
During this period, Shen Feng also got two chances to shoot on goal, but he didn't take advantage of it.
In the 75th minute of the game, Jiang Zhipeng, a fullback who was replaced in the second half, assisted to the front, crossed from the left, and the ball flew to the back point of the Syrian team's penalty area, accurately finding Shen Feng who was ambushed there.
Shen Feng had the Syrian team's defenders close to him, and he had no shooting angle, no reluctance, and chose to transition the ball to the middle of the gap.
Wu Xi was near the landing of the ball, saw the incoming ball, immediately made a decision, directly raised his leg, volleyed, the ball crossed the ten fingers of the Syrian goalkeeper and drilled into the net.
1:2!
The Dragon Nation team overtook the score!
This goal immediately ignited the enthusiasm of thousands of Longguo fans in the stands, and the shouts and cheers resounded in the sky.
The players on the field of the Dragon Country team, the breath that they had been holding in their hearts, could finally be relieved, and they were ecstatic one by one.
When all the media commentators who broadcast the game live, when they saw the goal, they invariably shouted, "Good ball!" The previous malaise was swept away, and one by one they began to excitedly analyze the qualifying situation of the Dragon Country team.
If such a score is maintained until the end of the game, the points of the Dragons will rise by 8 points and be equal with the Syrian team.
Prior to this game, the Dragons scored 3 goals and conceded 7, with a goal difference of -4; Syria scored 2 goals and conceded 3, with a goal difference of -1.
Counting the 1:2 difference in this game, the goal difference of the Dragon team is -3, and the goal difference of the Syrian team is -2, and the Syrian team has a slight advantage, still ahead of the Dragon team, and the Dragon Country team is still ranked fifth in the group.
The Uzbekistan team, which lost before, still has 12 points, and after this win, the Dragons are only 4 points behind them.
In the next game, the Dragons will have a direct dialogue with the Uzbekistan team, or the home of the Dragons team, if the Dragons can win that game smoothly, the points will rise to 11 points, and the Uzbekistan team is only 1 point away.
In the final round of the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 12, the opponent of the Dragon Country team is the Qatar team at the bottom of the group, and the opponent of the Uzbekistan team is the South Korean team.
If the Dragons can beat Qatar and Uzbekistan fails to win against South Korea, then the Dragons will complete a shocking comeback, surpassing Uzbekistan with 14 points, and at least finishing third in the group and winning the play-offs.
Of course, at the same time, we must also be wary of the Syrian team, if the Syrian team also wins the next two games, then the dragon team will have the same points as the Syrian team after ten rounds, and need to compare the goal difference.
Therefore, in the next two rounds of games, the Dragon team must not only strive to win, but also strive for as many goal difference as possible.
Although the situation in the next two games is still grim, and even the opportunity to compete for the play-offs is not in the hands of the Dragon Country team itself, and other games are needed to have a favorable result for the Dragon Country team, but at least, the chances have increased a lot compared to before.
You must know that when Lippi took over the Dragon Country team, the situation of the Dragon Country team in the top 12 of the World Cup qualifiers was that they had one draw and three losses in the first four rounds, and only got 1 point, ranking at the bottom of the group.
After Lippi became the head coach of the Dragon Country team, in the next two rounds, he led the Dragon Country team to one win and one draw, grabbing 4 points, especially the victory over the South Korean team at home, which greatly boosted the morale of the Dragon Country team and made the Dragon Country team regain the hope of advancing to the World Cup finals.
It's a pity that in the away game against the Iranian team, the Dragon team tried their best, but still failed to grab the points, lost a small goal, and completely lost the initiative to qualify.
The past is gone, and there is no point in discussing it anymore, so it is better to focus on the situation in front of you.
As the game time passed, the balance of victory gradually tilted in favor of the Dragon team, when the regular time of the game of 90 minutes was exhausted and entered the five minutes of injury time, the commentator of the National TV Sports Channel in Malaysia, thinking that the victory was in hand, was happy, and said witticisms, "Now, I can finally give the phrase that was always used on the Dragon Team before to our opponents - there is not much time left for the Syrian team!" ”
I don't know if he has the potential of poisonous milk, not long after this sentence was said, in the final stage of the game, Artemisia Junmin, who was replaced on the field, made a mistake that made all the Dragon Country fans nervous, and gave the Syrian team a direct free kick in front.
The Dragons, in this game, defensively, overall, did a good job and did not leave much for the Syrian team to take advantage of.
In addition to the penalty gift given to the Syrian team at the beginning of the game, Zeng Cheng also performed decently in the later games.
Before the captain of the Syrian team and the foreign aid of the Jianye team, Saleh, took this free kick, the Longguo team was generally relatively relaxed.
This free kick, although it can directly threaten the goal of the Dragon Country team, but whether it can be scored or not is still two words, and the probability of scoring a goal is much lower than the probability of missing a penalty.
In front of their own goal, the Dragon Country team lined up a wall of nine people, except for Wu Lei who stayed in the front court and waited for an opportunity to counterattack, the rest of the players were all involved in the defense.
However, the iron law on the football field - football is round, the game is not over, anything can happen - at this moment, it was once again verified.
The ball kicked by Saleh flew through the cracks in the human wall of the Dragons and went straight to the top left corner of the Dragons goal!
Zeng Cheng couldn't save it, and he hated it again.
2:2!
Syria equalized in the final stages of the game!
After the goal, the stadium at the game site suddenly fell into a dead silence, and only a few Syrian fans let out some cheers.
All the commentaries of the Dragon Country media who broadcast this game live also fell silent at the same time after this goal!
Dark clouds once again shrouded the hearts of all Dragon Country fans.
The fate that has shattered the football dream of the Dragon Kingdom countless times seems to be going to be staged again!