Chapter 257: First Fight for the National Team

The referee blew the whistle at the end of the half, and Li Liang warmed up with his teammates. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The performance of the national team made Li Liang slightly disappointed. Thinking about the eyes of the Maldives players seen in the video, he feels that with such a style of play and condition, it may be difficult for the national team to get enough goal difference.

Compared to the Maldives, the national team's midfield attack configuration can be called luxurious, but the manager's cross-to-cross tactics are not ideal.

In the second half, according to the prior agreement, the national team replaced most of the main players, and Zhang Xiong also tacitly sent all the substitutes, including Li Liang, to the court.

Gao Bohong's purpose of rehearsing the main lineup has been achieved, and in the second half, he mainly wanted to let the substitutes play to maintain their condition, so he did not particularly emphasize the tactical play requirements, but only reminded the players to pay attention not to get injured.

Although he didn't seem to care when Liao Qiu talked about Li Liang, Gao Bohong had carefully read some news and reports about Li Liang, so he recognized Li Liang wearing No. 37 at a glance.

Gao Bohong did not make special arrangements for Li Liang in the preparation before the game, on the one hand, he didn't want to give people the impression that he had concerns about such a grassroots player, and on the other hand, Gao Bohong, who was also an international player, did not believe in the fact that a wild player could be qualified to be a sparring partner of the national team.

He believes that even in a training match of this intensity, the threat posed by Li Liangneng is completely negligible. What gets the Premier League's endorsement and the Monaco invitation is just a well-hyped one.

In addition to Li Liang, all the players on the field are young players, and Li Liang has become the oldest player in the opponent of the national football team.

At yesterday's preparation meeting, Zhang Xiong had already emphasized the discipline of the game. In addition to strict confidentiality, he asked the players to pay attention to their foot movements and never cause non-combat attrition to the national football team.

After the preparation meeting, Zhang Xiong also arranged for Hua Linlie to leave Li Liang behind and give him a good advice, to the effect that he hoped that Li Liang would be calm and take the completion of the sparring task as the first thing, and not think about anything else.

Li Liang knew that the coaches were worried that they would be hot-headed and cause accidents after they played. Hua Linlie also specifically told him that these international players are all dragons and phoenixes among people, and they are all talented, and he asked Li Liang to avoid confrontation as much as possible and be careful not to get hurt.

The 4231 lineup of the national team, which is dominated by substitute players, is still not in the same order of magnitude as the Silver Dragons.

Looking at these incomparably familiar international players, Li Liang's heart jumped wildly again, and he immediately reminded himself to be calm, otherwise once he started to get nervous at 15 times the speed again, it would be a pity to have such a precious opportunity to play.

Even if it is a sparring partner, but facing the national team, if Li Liang has no ideas, it is absolutely impossible.

He didn't think about himself first. He didn't agree with the performance of the Silver Dragons' six-year-old squad plus five first-team substitutes in the first half.

In his understanding, the Silver Dragons did not put enough pressure on the national team, and it was hard for him to believe that this quality of play would help in the upcoming official competition.

The first half looked like a lively affair, but the Dragons' resistance was symbolic – and even then, the internationals managed to score two goals and were in a worrying state.

Li Liang's judgment is consistent with Gao Bohong and Liao Qiu.

Li Liang is determined to help the national team in his own way, and he wants to put some pressure on the opponents while making sure it is safe, rather than continuing with the "tricky" style of play that others played in the first half.

In addition, Li Liang has some other thoughts in his heart.

learned from Feng Xiao that it was Liao Qiu, the veteran leader of the national team, who insisted on recruiting himself to participate in sparring training, and Li Liang was very grateful for this. Even for Liao Qiu, he was determined to put on a decent performance.

Moreover, after knowing that he was recruited to sparring partners, although he knew that it was impossible, Li Liang also began to look forward to knocking on the door of the national team.

At the beginning of the game, Li Liang immediately noticed that the performance of the international team was completely different from the first half.

The national football team removed high school striker Xu Yang, and although the height of No. 18 Geng Lin, who came off the bench, also reached 1.85 meters, Geng Lin was not known for grabbing points with his headers.

He likes to control the ball, has good physical fitness, has a wide range of activities, and has a variety of attacking methods, and many years ago when he was still in the national youth team, he was praised by the then head coach, German Krauchen, as an "all-round center forward who can make sacrifices for the whole team and play with a very modern style".

At that World Youth Championships, the national youth team performed eye-catchingly, playing a surprising result, and Geng Lin also squeezed the team's two star strikers - Dong Zhuofang who plays for Manchester United and Mei Jianqing, the most talented player in the team, to the bench.

But the fly in the ointment is that Geng Lin's final kick has always been a weakness, so he has never been a prolific striker.

Geng Lin's arrival immediately changed the midfield of the national team, and the internationals quickly played various attacking routines with their superior strength.

The young players of the Silver Dragons had little to fight back, and the midfield and backfield were completely scattered, and for a while, from the second half of the game, the Silver Dragons barely got the ball.

Li Liang's position was arranged behind striker Kang Zhijie, and opposite him was No. 8 midfielder Cai Huigang, Li Liang quickly realized that No. 8 would be his big trouble.

Generally speaking, football players usually have a relatively well-proportioned body shape because they do a lot of aerobic exercise for a long time, and Cai Huigang was born with an unusually strong body, his height is slightly higher than Li Liang, but his body size is far greater than Li Liang.

The Silver Dragon team finally got a chance to counterattack, Li Liang just got the ball, Cai Huigang successfully squeezed Li Liang away with his body and easily broke the ball.

In this round, Cai Huigang, who had a total rating of 69, shocked Li Liang.

Unlike the game in England, Li Liang only had Kang Zhijie in front of him, so it was difficult for him to pass the ball out at the first time.

Unable to find a forward match with his teammates, Li Liang could only try to find space in possession and ball protection, and in the relatively slow situation, the strong Cai Huigang made him almost feel incomprehensible.

Therefore, compared with Fofana and Mizga, who have targeted Li Liang, Cai Huigang's work is more relaxed, and he completely restricts Li Liang's play by virtue of his position.

Li Liang had to keep retreating, but under the pressure of Hong Bowen, another relatively high position of the national team substitute back, he also found it difficult to get a chance.

In addition to the physical and technical advantages, Li Liang found that the international players were unusually relaxed on the field. With such a mentality, Li Liang and his teammates were like a group of middle school students who were powerless on the field.

Of course, this also has to do with Li Liang's style of play, he has become accustomed to focusing on observation in the early stages of encounters. In the face of these substitute internationals, he was obviously still a little uncomfortable.

The national team's indiscriminate bombardment had an effect, the substitute No. 17 Chen Dong hit the goal vigorously on the left side of the penalty area, Jiang Xingyao struggled to save the ball from the small penalty area, and No. 22 Xu Bao, who also came on as a substitute, threw off the defender and jumped into the air and swept the ball into the goal with his right foot.

The referee's whistle blew, and when Li Liang only touched the ball once, the Silver Dragons were already 0:3 behind.