Chapter 61: The Situation of the Group
Jiangcheng currently does not have a team in the top league of the Dragon Country, players from the first division team, and there are no players selected for the training list of the Dragon Country national team.
Shen Feng is the closest player to Jiangcheng, and he chose the high-speed rail flight early in the morning, and when he arrived at the national team's registration location, it was not yet noon, the national team's registration office was deserted, and the sign-in sheet was empty.
Shen Feng signed his name, received the room key, put his belongings in the room, went to the restaurant to ask for a steak, ate some fruit, and went straight to the gym where he checked in.
Today's daily training task has not been completed.
After staying in the gym for more than two hours, completing the various training items in the daily training tasks with quality and quantity, and returning to the room sweating profusely, his roommate for this training camp has arrived.
The hotel rooms booked by the Dragon National Team for the international players are all standard rooms with two single beds, and everyone is treated equally.
In the allocation of rooms, it is generally in accordance with convention, or the principle of voluntary collocation.
The convention is to follow the distribution plan from the last training camp, which applies to those veteran internationals; The principle of voluntary pairing, aimed at new internationals.
The training list of the Dragon Country national team this time is basically all old faces, even Shen Feng, who has entered the palace for the second time.
When Shen Feng came to the national team training camp last time, the roommate he was assigned to was Deng Hanwen from the Longjiaren team.
"Brother Deng! When will it arrive! When Shen Feng saw Deng Hanwen, he said hello first.
Deng Hanwen was sorting out his luggage when Shen Feng came in, and when he heard this, he raised his head and replied, "Just arrived!" You're training again? ”
Shen Feng has been insisting on daily training tasks in accordance with the requirements of the "Shenfeng" system in the last national team training camp, and if the amount of training in the national team's training class is insufficient, he will practice by himself, and even the usual rest period on the second day after the game, he will go to the gym for physical training, and the reputation of "training maniac" has spread.
Deng Han came to the room when he reported for duty, and saw that there was only Shen Feng's luggage and belongings in the room, but there was no one in sight, so he guessed that he must have gone to training, and now he saw Shen Feng coming back sweating profusely, and guessed that he was sitting down.
"Hey, hey! It doesn't hurt to practice more. With that, Shen Feng kicked off his shoes, took off his sweat-soaked shirt and shorts, picked up his bath bag, and walked into the bathroom in the room to take a shower.
Deng Hanwen shook his head and ignored him.
A person has a personal life plan!
If Shen Feng hadn't trained so hard, he wouldn't have been able to make a name for himself in the national team at such a young age!
Shen Feng is the youngest one in the training list of the Dragon Country national team! Born in November '97, he is now not yet twenty years old.
Deng Hanwen is also a U23 player now, but he was born in 95, two years older than Shen Feng, and his birth month was earlier, in January, which is actually two years and ten months older than Shen Feng!
In the training list of the Dragon National Team, there is another U23 player who is also born in 95, and he is Gao Zhunyi of the Huaxia Happiness Team.
Originally, there was also a player who was also born in 97, that is, Zhang Yuning, the only player recruited to play overseas, but Zhang Yuning also had a birthday in January, ten months older than Shen Feng.
Shen Feng is a veritable little brother of the Dragon Country national team!
But it was this little brother who was not yet twenty years old, but in the last game, he became the biggest hero to save the team!
Now, among the media and fans, the call for Shen Feng to start the game on behalf of the Dragon Country team and serve as the center forward of Zhengyin in the life-and-death battle with the Uzbekistan team a few days later is very high, even surpassing the veteran strikers Gao Lin, Xiao Zhi and others of the Dragon Country National Team.
The specific arrangement of the lineup must listen to the coaching staff led by the World Cup-winning coach Lippi, and the voices of the media and fans will not affect Lippi's decision.
However, even if the players are decided based on their abilities and performance in the league, the probability of Shen Feng starting is greater than that of Gao Lin and Xiao Zhi.
Gao Lin and Xiao Zhi's current goals in the Dragon Super League, the two of them combined, are less than half of Shen Feng's alone!
In recent rounds of the league, Shen Feng's goal efficiency has decreased slightly under the condition of being taken care of by the opponent and closely marked, but throughout the game of the Jianye team, his offensive efficiency has not decreased significantly, and has been maintained at a very high level, which is the key to the undefeated Jianye team!
What the Dragon team needs most now is offensive efficiency and goal efficiency, and if they want to compete for the World Cup Qualifiers Asian Top 12 play-offs, and even directly qualify for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia, the Dragon Team must not only win all the remaining two games, but also strive for as many goal difference as possible!
The current situation in the group where the Dragons are in the top 12 of the Asian zone of the World Cup qualifiers is as follows:
After the first eight rounds, the Iranian team remained unbeaten with 6 wins and 2 draws, accumulated 20 points, scored 8 goals, conceded 0 goals, and had a goal difference of 8, and has locked a direct qualification for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.
South Korea won 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, accumulated 13 points, scored 11 goals, conceded 10 goals, and scored 1 goal difference, temporarily ranking second in the group.
Uzbekistan won 4 and lost 4, accumulated 12 points, scored 6 goals, conceded 6 goals, and had a goal difference of 0, temporarily ranking third in the group.
Syria team 2 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses, total 8 points, scored 4 goals, conceded 4 goals, goal difference 0, temporarily ranked fourth in the group.
The Dragons are also 2 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses, accumulating 8 points, scoring 6 goals, conceding 9 goals, and goal difference -3, ranking fifth in the group.
Qatar team 2 wins, 1 draw, 5 losses, total 7 points, scored 6 goals, conceded 10 goals, goal difference -4, bottom of the group.
If the Dragons want to qualify for the play-offs, they need to win at least three goals on top of winning the remaining two games, and require Uzbekistan to not win the remaining two games!
If the Dragons want to go one step further and compete for a direct promotion spot, they need to win their remaining two games and win at least four or more goal difference, while South Korea will lose all of their remaining two games, or draw one and lose one.
The opponents of the South Korean team in the last two rounds are the strongest Iranian team in this group, and the Uzbekistan team, the South Korean team lost to the opponent in the first leg of the contest with the Iranian team, but it was at the home of the Iranian team, and after the battlefield was transferred to the home stadium of the South Korean team, it is difficult to speculate what the result will be.
Uzbekistan is currently a more dangerous team for South Korea than the Dragon Nation, and although the South Korean team played away from home in the last game, they will definitely do their best.