When he woke up in the morning, even though he couldn't play, Li Liang's heart was still full of anticipation and faint excitement, just like before every official match he had ever participated in.

It's just that this time it's different, the sports channel live broadcast team that came to Tehran later than the team found Lippi and the team leader two days ago, hoping to invite Li Liang as a guest commentator to participate in the live broadcast of the game.

Li Liang was hesitant at first, he had never had such experience, and he finally agreed to the invitation under the unanimous encouragement of Lippi, the team leader and his teammates.

The training environment in the past few days is very poor, there are a total of two training grounds for the Chinese team to choose from, in comparison, the national team still chose the outfield of the Azadi Sports Center, which is relatively better, for pre-match preparation.

Li Liang, who still has single-digit experience in national competitions, was a little surprised, this "relative" is too exaggerated, right? !

The outfield of the better Azadi Sports Center is not as good as the old Haicheng Stadium! Although it is real grass, the turf is potholes and looks like it hasn't been watered in a long time.

This is a far cry from the training ground that preceded the Tashkent vs Uzbekistan match.

Seeing Li Liang's indignant appearance, Zhou Zhi smiled and told him: "Liangzi, you will know if you play a few more national team games, this is too normal!" ”

Even Madanilo told the players after training that the Iranian team hopes to use such an off-the-board move to affect the preparation of the Chinese team because they are worried about the strength of the Chinese team! As long as everyone continues to maintain the performance against the Korean team, there will definitely be a game on the 28th.

The situation is very grim, in addition to the suspension of Li Liang, who has already provoked the main beam, because the game of the South Korean team is too expensive, Wen Lei, Wang Yong, and Hao Jingmin's physical condition is very unsatisfactory and they are all put on the substitute list.

Lippi continued to line up with 433, but it was quite different from the previous game.

In addition to the coach's pre-game preparations, Zhou Zhi and Feng Xiao gathered everyone together again the day before the game.

This time there was no PPT, and several veteran players talked about the past game against the Iranian team.

Li Liang himself has done his homework, in the official game the Iranian team has always been the most difficult "hard bone" for the Chinese team, in the 24 battles between China and Iran, the national team is at an absolute disadvantage with 6 wins, 6 draws and 12 losses, especially in the 5 matches at Iran's home stadium, the Chinese national football team lost all.

What impressed him the most was the Doha Asian Games that he watched in Fa Xiaojia when he was in high school.

On December 9, 2006, in the quarterfinals of the men's football competition of the Asian Games, the national team with an average of three goals per game in the 2005 World Youth Championship in the Netherlands defeated Turkey, Ukraine and Panama, and finally defeated Germany 2:3.

This Asian Games team has only added a few overage players such as Zheng Zhi in the world, and the goal is mainly to train the team.

In the 40th minute of the first half of the game against Iran, the Iranian midfielder sent a penetrating wonderful pass, and the striker Bohani used the change of pace to cleverly shake the Chinese goalkeeper Wang Dalong to get a single chance after winning the ball!

Bohani did not choose to shoot directly in the face of the empty goal, but turned to pull the ball and stopped the ball on the goal line, looked at Wang Dalei who had been shaken to the ground, and beckoned his teammates to step forward with both hands, and then slowly hit the ball in.

The national team, which was humiliated, was completely aroused by the fighting spirit and fought to catch up.

In the 51st minute, Feng Xiao scored an equalizer with a wonderful volley.

Unfortunately, in the 63rd minute, the Chinese team's striker Zhu Tie was sent off with a direct red card for too big a move, and then the Chinese team, which fought hard with 10 people, drew 1:1 with Iran in the 90th minute.

In extra time, the national team, which played one less, did not give up. In the 98th minute, Zhou Zhimiao passed to Zhou Hai, who shot skillfully in the penalty area to help the Chinese team overtake the score 2:1.

However, the good times did not last long, and in the 105th minute, Haseni burst into the penalty area and scored an equalizer in the face of Wang Dalong. The two sides did not achieve anything after that, and went into the penalty shoot-out with a score of 2:2.

In the penalty shootout, Zhou Zhi's half-high ball was saved, and the central defender Zheng Ming hit the post, and finally the national team lost to Iran 7:8 in the penalty shootout.

Li Liang, who was still an ignorant teenager at the time, was impressed by Bohani's provocative shot, which also added to his regret that he could not participate in the match against Iran.

Sure enough, Zhou Zhi, Feng Xiao, Geng Lin and Hao Jingmin, who participated in the big battle of the year in the Chinese team, all recalled this game.

Li Liang found that Bohani's goal was also fresh in the memory of some people.

Unlike the atmosphere during the pre-match mobilization against the South Korean team, the current Chinese players are obviously much more confident.

In the end, everyone agreed to put aside those memories and anger from the past for the time being, and the goal of this game was only one, that is, according to Lippi's deployment, to take at least 1 point from the Azadi Sports Center in the case of unorganized personnel!

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On the morning of the game day, Li Liang set off early, got in the car of the live broadcast team and rushed to the scene in advance. At noon, under the arrangement of the local reporter of the TV station, everyone went to the local specialty restaurant.

When we walked further to the sports center, everyone realized that something was wrong, and there were long queues of vehicles on all the roads that passed through the Azadi Sports Center.

In desperation, everyone had to park their cars aside and start hiking with the fans more than 1 kilometer away from the stadium.

What is surprising is that many Iranian fans recognized Li Liang, and people kept coming to ask Li Liang for autographs and group photos. Some fans even said in stumbling English: "Li, No. 1 in Asia, but the victory belongs to Iran!" ”

He Wei quipped: "Liangzi, look at it, even these Iranian fans say that you are the first!"

After playing South Korea, I also told you Brother Xue Yang, Liangzi is really a typical football king now! ”

Li Liang is modest, of course, this is also his true attitude now.

He remembered that he had asked himself a question in the past, he worked so hard and so hard, did he want to be the king of the ball?

He smiled and replied to He Wei: "I don't want to be the king of the ball.

I just want to play every game and win more with my team."

Entering the stadium and coming to the commentary seat, Li Liang took a closer look at the famous Azadi Sports Center, which is said to be able to accommodate 100,000 people.

It looks like it's on par with the age of the Haicheng 10,000-person stadium, and it's also a very old building.

There was already a large crowd of fans in the stadium, and it didn't take long for the Chinese players to start warming up, which drew boos from the home fans. Xue Yang smiled: "The Iranians still have some scruples about us. ”

Li Liang knew that since the departure in the morning, the entire live broadcast team has actually been shrouded in a tense atmosphere.

Facing the strongest opponent in this group, the Iranian team, the general view is that the Chinese team is at least half a notch worse than the opponent. Along the way, everyone is pretending to be relaxed and joking, purely to make each other relax.

With loud cheers and the roar of horns, the Iranian team began to warm up.

Judging from Li Liang's observations, the teammates were a little nervous, but they were all very calm, and even reminded themselves of the state of their friends before the group fight in Haicheng.

He understands that his teammates are nervous that this is a crucial battle after all about whether they can keep the hope, and everyone, including himself, is not afraid of any opponent and has already made up their minds to fight until the last second!

He Wei has already obtained the lineup list of both sides, the Iranian team has the strongest lineup, and the Chinese team has replaced Li Liang, Hao Jingmin, Wang Yong and Wen Lei with Zhang Xinzhe, Wu Dong, Geng Lin and Jiang Yuning respectively.

After a short wait, the race is about to begin. By this time, more fans had come in the stadium.

The Iranian fans shouted tirelessly, and Li Liang was shocked to find that the wall at the top of the stadium stands was also full of fans!

He Wei and Xue Yang told Li Liang that this is one of the characteristics of this devil's home stadium, the Iranian people's enthusiasm for football is unprecedented, and the Iranian team will also burst out with amazing combat effectiveness after returning to the home stadium.

Xue Yang said: "Their head coach, Portuguese Queiroz, is very pragmatic and very experienced at the same time.

Iran are very conservative away from home in the round of 12, aiming for at least one point, and they will definitely attack it when they return to home! ”

He Wei sighed: "It would be nice if Liangzi were here, it would be completely different if you could have one more point to control the ball in such a game!" ”

The players on both sides were ready to play, and He Wei and Xu Yang began to get into the working state.

Li Liang brought a headset, and began to understand with them in a complicated mood.