Before the match between China and Switzerland, Iran 1:3 Mexico; 0:2 Portugal; 1:1 Angola, only one point in three games, the bottom of Group D. Japan 1:3 Australia; 0:0 Croatia; 1:4 Brazil, one point, last place in Group F. Saudi Arabia 2:2 Tunisia; 0:4 Ukraine; 0:1 Spain, also with one point, fourth in the group.

The remaining three teams in Asia have all been wiped out, and the Chinese team is left with the only seed in the whole of Asia.

After a bloody battle with the French team, the Chinese team is at least a quasi-first-class team in the eyes of Chinese fans and media, and the rest of the Asian teams are not comparable with the Chinese team at all, and the Chinese team does not need to be compared with the rest of the Asian teams.

But Lu Hai summoned the reporters accompanying the Chinese team and told reporters: "Our Chinese Football Association is a member of the Asian Football Confederation, and when we have the ability, we should play a greater role in the AFC, and we should provide help to the rest of the AFC members as much as we can." ”

The reporters immediately understood that this was the Chinese Football Association's waist pole and wanted to seize power within the AFC. Reporters also believe that with China's size and the current achievements of Chinese football, the AFC should accept China's leadership like the AFC. After communicating with the media in China, the reporters decided that after the match between China and Switzerland, at least in China, they would hype Chinese football as the savior of the AFC, and they were convinced that the Chinese team would inevitably appear. The reporters also decided that at the post-match press conference between the Chinese team and the Swiss team, no matter which reporter was called, the first question after being called must be about Chinese football being the only seedling of the AFC. After each of the remaining matches of the Chinese team in this World Cup, this question has to be asked in a different way and from different angles.

In the past year, especially after Lu Hai actually grasped the power of the Chinese Football Association, the domestic media began to consciously praise Lu Hai, and with Lu Hai, the relationship between Lu Hai and the media has become better and better. In order to popularize football for domestic fans, Lu Hai will personally set aside two and a half days every month to give football tactics lessons to reporters. Lu Hai took out several games he commanded and the classic matches in the previous World Cups to explain to reporters, and told reporters in detail the reasons and consequences of each decision made by the coaches of both sides. Reporters asked him questions about tactics, and he also answered them in detail, and the senior sports reporters in China have slowly become admirers of Lu Hai, and they are more confident in Lu Hai than anyone else.

Before the match with the Swiss team, Lu Hai told Chinese reporters indifferently: "The Swiss team can't play well in this game, they definitely want to win, but the Chinese team's defensive counterattack makes them have no way to speak, and they have a chance to appear even if they are drawn, and the French team Thuram can't play yet, so they will hope that the French team can't win Togo by two goals." This is something to be afraid of both ends of the first mouse, such a mentality will inevitably make them fly and eggs. Our whole team is very unified, I just want to defend and counterattack, you don't attack, we don't attack, we can have a draw anyway; If you want to attack, watch out for our counterattacks. You can understand the situation on the pitch by comparing the process of another game in this way. "The two matches between China and Switzerland, France and Togo started at the same time.

"Director Lu, if you tell us this now, aren't you afraid that the Swiss will know about our plans?" A familiar reporter asked Lu Hai.

"What are you afraid of! This is our best tactic now, and it is also the tactic that the Swiss are most afraid of, this is the conspiracy, you just tell Kuhn (the head coach of the Swiss team), Kuhn can't help it. The reporters laughed.

At 21:00 on June 23, the match between the Chinese team and the Swiss team began. At the same time, the match between France and Togo at the Rheinenergy Stadium in Cologne began.

The lineup of the Chinese team in this game is:

Goalkeeper: No. 1 Li Kui

Defenders (left to right): No. 3 Sun Xiang, No. 6 Zhao Xuri, No. 2 Yang Jie, No. 4 Feng Xiaoting

Back (left to right): No. 5 Zhou Haibin, No. 3 Zheng Zhi

Avant-garde (left to right): No. 7 Hao Junmin, No. 17 Xu Yunlong

Forwards: No. 9 Zhang Yi, No. 8 Lei Heng

On the bench were: No. 16 Hou Jian, No. 13 Zhang Yaokun, No. 15 Zhang Xiong, No. 18 Luo Jinkai and No. 11 Li Jinyu.

The Swiss line-up is:

Goalkeeper: No. 1 Zubebull

Defenders (left to right): No. 17 Spiel, No. 3 Magnin, No. 4 Senderos, No. 19 Behrami

Midfielders (left to right): No. 16 Banetta, No. 8 Vikki, No. 6 Volger, No. 7 Cabanas

Forwards: No. 9 Frey, No. 22 Feng Lantang

After the start of the game, the Swiss seemed to have made up their minds and launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team's position, but the Swiss did not have the skills of the French. Under the pressure of the Chinese team, they quickly lost possession of the ball, and then quickly retreated. The Chinese team saw that the Swiss retreated quickly, and they were not in a hurry to attack, and directly began to fall in the backfield. Lu Hai on the sidelines and the Chinese reporters in the stands laughed as the Swiss were trying to lure the Chinese team into attacking.

Sure enough, the Swiss team saw that the Chinese team was not fooled, so they had to rush up to grab the ball, and the Chinese team saw that the Swiss backfield was relatively empty, and quickly played a counterattack. Zhou Haibin made a long diagonal pass, Zhang Yi's header returned to the top, and Zheng Zhi's shot was wide to end the attack. After kicking off again, the Swiss repeated the same trick, and the Chinese players, who had been fully discussed and deduced, were not fooled at all. After much probing, the Swiss were a little overwhelmed. Their two attacks in the opening game actually really wanted to attack, but they were tackled by Chinese players before they reached the Chinese team's penalty area, and if they didn't press all of them, the Swiss's offensive strength was not enough to pose a threat to the Chinese team's defense in the positional attack. But the consequences of the whole pressure, the French in the last game have already demonstrated to the Swiss, and the Swiss still have the illusion that the French can't win Togo's two goals. They hesitated.

Fans in front of the Chinese TV set felt very strange that Huang Jianxiang's commentary level suddenly became very high today, and he explained every move of the Swiss very clearly, and the response of the Chinese team was also very clear. Whether they understand the ball or not, the fans in front of the TV know a lot about what has happened, what is happening and what is going to happen in this game. On the Internet, some fans wondered when Huang Jianxiang had such a level?

After the Chinese fans understood the situation on the field, they did not mind the Chinese team's backfield at all, and they did not mind the dullness of the game, but settled down to enjoy the poor performance of the Swiss. As long as the Chinese team can enter the round of 16, what does it matter if the foot of the backcourt is down for a whole game.