With such considerations, the Chinese team sent the first brother of men's table tennis Ma Wenhua to serve as the first singles, and Zhang Lei was arranged to be the second singles because of his improvement in the Swedish league and his understanding of the opponent.

Lu Ning is used as an impactful straight board, holding the third singles, no matter who it is, he must strive to win.

Sweden were the first to confirm Persson as the No. 1 singles player and played in the first and fifth matches, while Waldner was the second singles player in the second and fourth singles.

Among the five tigers, there are the world's top 10 Aaron, Linde, and the younger, more impactful Pete Karlsson.

After several discussions with the Swedish coaching team, although Apooi Allen and Linde are ranked higher in the world, they have been thoroughly studied and have played against the Chinese team for nearly ten years, and their early records are not good, so it was finally decided that Peter Karlsson would play the third game.

The decisive battle was about to begin, and Kong Zhendong and the Victorian sisters, dressed in casual clothes, sat in the audience.

Looking at Ma Wenhua, Zhang Lei and Lu Ning, who were warming up, and Liu Guobang, who was sitting in the preparation area, Kong Zhendong knew that his initial judgment was not wrong.

In this World Table Tennis Championships, the whole country pays attention to the rise of men's table tennis.

Under this huge pressure, even the enterprising Mi Xingbang did not dare to use too many young players in the team competition.

Therefore, Kong Zhendong knows that even if he is selected for the team competition squad, at most one or two games in the group stage, semifinals, and finals, no matter how good his state is, he will not be able to play for a long time without the endorsement of the world record.

Participate in the team competition that can't be played, and there are only two results, if someone else wins, you can lie down on the crown, and if someone else loses, you have to take the blame.

If you want to win, you have to rely on yourself, and Kong Zhendong can't look down on the lying crown.

At seven o'clock, the lineup of the Chinese team and the Swedish team was displayed on the big screen.

Match 1: Zhang Lei vs. Persson.

Match 2: Ma Wenhua vs. Waldner.

Match 3: Lu Ning vs. Peter Karlsson.

Match 4: Zhang Lei vs. Waldner.

Match 5: Ma Wenhua vs. Persson.

As soon as the matchup list was announced, the national team coaching staff breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Mi Xingbang with more admiration.

What Mi Xingbang is best at is to put out a targeted lineup in the team competition to 'catch' the opponent's weaknesses.

First of all, Mi Xingbang bet that Sweden's third singles player would be the less strong Peter Karlsson.

Secondly, the tiebreaker will be between Ma Wenhua and Persson.

Ma Wenhua eliminated Persson in the semifinals at last year's Barcelona Olympics.

His style of play is counterproductive to Persson.

According to Mi Xingbang's arrangement, Lu Ning must win Karlsson in the third game, and as long as he wins one of the remaining three games, dragging the game into the fifth game, then Ma Wenhua's advantage can help the Chinese team win the championship.

In the first game, Zhang Lei started with five goals. Persson leans forward and raises his paddle to protect the entire countertop.

Although he couldn't play, Kong Zhendong still paid close attention to this game.

After the Swedish league and Champions League this year, he is not ready to renew his contract with the Wolverine, but is ready to return to China.

Both legs of this year's meeting with Persson have been completed, and although they have relied on new technology and reasonable rhythm to win the league, Kong Zhendong will not think that he has what it takes to beat Persson in international competitions.

Persson's position as the king of the two-sided arc ball will not be challenged for at least five years.

In this World Championships, Persson has achieved a super performance, and Kong Zhendong feels that he is more difficult to deal with than Waldner.

Why? Because the venue of the Gothenburg World Table Tennis Championships is the home of the Gothenburg Tibetan Mastiff team.

This is Persson's territory, and the largest number of fans are also local fans in Gothenburg, all of whom support the Tibetan Mastiff team and support Persson.

Therefore, if the Swedish team is the home team of the World Table Tennis Championships in Gothenburg, the king of popularity here is definitely not Waldner, but Persson.

Persson is a rigorous style of play. Kong Zhendong often relied on being more proactive and getting excited first.

But Persson, who has always been slow to heat up and steady, was actually one step ahead of Zhang Lei in the worship and shouts of the home fans today.

Kong Zhendong could only shake his head helplessly.

Victoria asked with concern.

Kong Zhendong explained: "To deal with a steady style of play like Persson, you can only play with excitement and impact to play. But today Persson was completely excited. It's like beating chicken blood. Persson was originally steady and invincible, but now he actually rushed. With his strength, he was completely excited, and the gods couldn't win. ”

Zhang Lei did not join the skiers team when he played the Tibetan mastiff team in the first game of the skiers, and he just returned to China to participate in the closed training camp of the World Table Tennis Championships in the second meeting a few days ago.

Therefore, Zhang Lei, who has played in Sweden for most of the season, is now the first time he has played against Persson.

And as soon as he came up, he met Persson, who was completely excited and rarely entered the state of supergod.

Soon, Persson defeated Zhang Lei cleanly 2:0.

This all-round crushing victory without dead ends is also a slap in the face to the Chinese men's team that intends to rise strongly in this World Table Tennis Championships.

Seeing the god-like Persson, Mi Xingbang felt that his vest was completely soaked with sweat.

This state is much stronger than last year's Olympics, if the fifth game is still in this state, can Ma Wenhua still win like last year?

After all, the arrangement of troops is just a little clever, in a duel of equal strength or slightly weaker, the arrangement of troops can play a role in defeating the strong with the weak, and turning defeat into victory.

However, if there is a generational gap or a gap in the strength of the two sides, all the arrangements and small means are paper tigers.

Zhang Lei lost in the vanguard, and the battle of Ma Wenhua, the first brother of national table tennis, became a matter of life and death.

After Jiang Jialiang retired, Ma Wenhua has been serving as the first brother of national table tennis and the leader of the burden.

It's a pity that the results are still not as good as the previous big brothers.

In the past four years, during the lowest period in China, Ma Wenhua, as the face of national table tennis, entered the top eight in the world in the world ranking, and occasionally entered the top four in major competitions, which is already the limit of his strength.

The strength of the top eight challenged the king of table tennis, the world's No. 1 Waldner, and was at an absolute disadvantage.

The charm of table tennis lies in this, the world's eighth is weaker than the world's first, is it necessary to be unable to defeat the world's first?

If this were the case, the table tennis competition would not have to be held, and medals would have been awarded according to the world ranking.

The on-the-spot play, the adjustment of the psychological state, the cohesion of the tactical play and the targeted effect, and the comparative state of these key points make the world No. 8 who plays well enough to defeat the world No. 1.

Compared with Persson, who seems to have been beaten with chicken blood, Waldner is not excited, and everything is decent.

Waldner's game, the ball is constant, free and easy to win, once the rules are in place, in the face of Ma Wenhua, who is fighting against the water and defending the honor of national table tennis, Waldner is at a disadvantage throughout the game.

Although Waldner won a game in the second game with a change in the key ball, it was Ma Wenhua who won a point 2:1 in the end.

Winning this game, the Chinese students in Sweden, the owner of the Song family's restaurant that Kong Zhendong had contacted before, and other Chinese people jumped up excitedly.

Mi Xingbang and other Chinese coaching staff were greatly excited, and the ambition to win the championship, which was originally destroyed by Persson, grew and sprouted again.

In the pre-match analysis, Waldner was the strongest enemy of the Chinese team, and the coaching staff originally planned to lose Waldner by two points in the final, and luckily won one point to complete the task.

Now that he has won a point, there will be Zhang Lei against Waldner in the future.

The national team arranged for Zhang Lei to face Lao Wa, just because he played with Waldner in the Swedish League for more than half a year, and he also trained together on weekdays, so this familiarity is more likely to score a point.

Now Ma Wenhua's victory is an unexpected joy for the Chinese team.

Mi Xingbang and other coaching staff began to look forward to Lu Ning to kill the slightly weaker Peter Karlsson, and Zhang Lei relied on familiarity to kill Lao Wa, so that the Chinese team could avoid Persson in a supernatural state and win the championship in advance.

It's a pity that dreams are always beautiful, and reality is often cruel and ironic.

All the plans and tactical arrangements of the Chinese team were arranged to win the third game steadily.

Peter Karlsson is indeed one of the five Swedish tigers, the weaker one, but whoever gives you the confidence of the fan, China Lu Ning can win 100%.

Peter Karlsson's biggest weakness is that he can't cope with the transformation of offensive and defensive rhythms, but this is not Lu Ning's forte.

Lu Ning is good at fast rushing near the stage, winning with speed and impact.

Kong Zhendong is not very optimistic about this match, Lu Ning and Pete Karlsson are comparable players of the same level in international strength.

One Swedish top five, one Chinese top ten.

This is not to say that Sweden is weaker than China, but that China's master base is larger.

Two players of equal strength face off against each other, and it depends on who can play their strengths and restrain each other's strengths.

Lu Ning's impact and vigorous smashing are not carried by Kong Zhendong and many Chinese skill-based players, but this kind of power and impact is still too small compared to Roskoff, Seifer, and Gaiting in Europe.

Peter Karlsson was born out of the annual battle with these great gods.

Lu Ning's strengths could not restrain Karlsson.

On the contrary, Peter Karlsson's specialty is the Swedish tradition of two-sided articulation, arcing and fast attack.

What is Lu Ning most afraid of? The most afraid of the crossboarder hitting him on both sides.

Now Peter Karlsson is precisely using an extremely skillful two-sided attack to suppress Lu Ning's one-sided play.

Lu Ning's strengths can't restrain Karlsson, Karlsson's specialty suppresses Lu Ning, and the Chinese team is expected to win the third game steadily, giving the Chinese team the heaviest blow.

Losing the one that is expected to be won, the Chinese team was forced to the edge of the cliff 1:2 in the first three games.

The only hope of the Chinese team is that Zhang Lei, who is also a teammate of the Skiers, can find a way to restrain Waldner, defeat Lao Wa, who is in average form today, and drag the final into the decisive field!