Chapter 163: Let's Fight Saudi Arabia!
However, the more slim the qualifying situation, the more excited Guan Xiaolong became. Hmph, what is the system for? Do you satisfy my own selfish desires? It's better to be alone than to be happy, and of course I don't mean to make the system public and wait for everyone to dissect me.
The ability that the system helps to improve must be of great help to the national team. I only hate that I don't have enough progression now, and I can't call the wind and rain. Half a year ago, I dealt with various youth teams in La Liga, and their strength was very strong, and Guan Xiaolong also knew that the strength of the national youth team was relatively poor.
At least there are midfielders like Prieto at Real Sociedad, and with future stars like Antoine Griezmann and Ilia Ramendi combined, Guan Xiaolong can occasionally play well.
But the national youth team ...... In the past two days of training, Guan Xiaolong can see that his strength is still the same as half a year ago, and there is no change. In the early days of the fight against the La Liga Youth Army, there was an element of timidity, so the scene was one-sided. However, objectively speaking, the training of the national youth team in Spain is getting better and better, although the record is very scummy.
Speaking of which, the prospects for the group stage of the national youth team are not optimistic. The first battle against Saudi Arabia is a hard battle, and we must take them first. Two days before the game, Su Maozhen organized everyone to watch and study the video of the Saudi Youth Army. The technical characteristics of the Saudi players are fast, agile, physically stronger, and the tactics tend to be balanced between offense and defense. Su Maozhen decided to line up the most popular 4231 and seek stability in the first battle.
The Asian Youth Championship is relatively unpopular, and it can be said that no one pays attention to it. However, CCTV Sports Channel still did a special live broadcast, after all, it was a continental competition held at home. The competition venues are Linzi Stadium, Zibo Stadium and Zibo Municipal Stadium. A total of 16 teams participated, and the knockout rounds were played after a round of round-robin, so the number of venues was not required.
Saudi Arabia arrived in Linzi a week early, but they relaxed their minds and organized a day of travel for the players. The external training is open, and the atmosphere of the whole team is very active. This West Asian youth army is mostly drawn by the second-tier team of the local Saudi team. Unlike Huaguo, the Saudi Arabian team has been relatively strong in the AFC Champions League in recent years, and the strength of the youth army is also higher than that of Huaguo. I vaguely feel that Saudi Arabia is not worried about the first match against China, and they will focus more on the game against Japan.
On October 2, after a relatively simple opening ceremony, the curtain of the 2010 Asian Youth Championships officially opened. The two sides are the host group Huaguo team and Saudi Arabia from West Asia.
At the pre-match press conference, the Saudi Arabian coach said with confidence: "We will show the quality we deserve, and our goal is by no means as simple as qualifying from the group. ”
Su Mao's truth is relatively peaceful, and he hopes to get off to a good start. This kind of speech feels familiar, it will not be followed by fighting for qualification, then fighting for honor, and finally in fact, this session still hopes to train more for the next session......
Although Su Mao really had no nose or face for Guan Xiaolong, Guan Xiaolong still endured it. It's all to the team, and the battle is imminent, so you won't fall out with the coach for this bit of. As soon as Guan Xiaolong appeared on the stage for training, Su Maozhen's attitude changed. It can be said that Guan Xiaolong's stop pass with shooting is the best in the team. Especially Su Maozhen couldn't figure out that Guan Xiaolong's explosive power would suddenly increase when he was dribbling the ball, and his speed with the ball was faster than running without the ball.
Guan Xiaolong thought to himself, of course you can't figure it out!
Wu Lei is a single arrow, the newcomer Zhang Xize is the front waist of the organization, Guan Xiaolong is arranged on the left side, and Wang Shengli is on the right side. Jiang Yunbo and Yu Shi were in the back, and Dai Hong was leading the defense.
It is no wonder that Saudi Arabia despises Huaguo, looking at the data, I don't feel it, and after the players are ready to enter the field, they find that the players of the Saudi Arabian team are half a head taller than the players of the Chinese team. Physically, the Huaguo team is completely inferior this time. Guan Xiaolong 173, Wu Lei 171, Zhang Xize reluctantly, there are 179, and Wang Shengli on the right 175......
About 10,000 Chinese fans gathered in Linzi Stadium to cheer and shout, with a few Arabs sitting sporadically. There are many Arab diasporas in China, so they also came to cheer on when they heard the news.
I don't know why, my heart and mind want to fight for my country. really stood on a field like the Asian Youth Championships, but Guan Xiaolong didn't have that feeling of excitement. Looking left and right at these teammates who knew each other but were not familiar with them, Guan Xiaolong felt that something was missing.
There was no time to complain, and the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game after calibrating the time.
Saudi Arabia is very strong, and when it comes up, it will suppress a wave. The opponent is 442 this time, and the speed of the two forwards is super fast, and it is rumored that the speed of the 100th meter is about 11 seconds.
Saudi Arabia, which has a slight advantage in strength, controls the midfield first. Jiang Yunbo lost the ball in the midfield, and Saudi Arabia closed the ball and approached the Huaguo goal. Dai Hong inserted a steal to temporarily resolve the crisis.
"Old Dai!" Guan Xiaolong shouted.
Dai Hong took a few steps and passed the ball to Guan Xiaolong.
The defender on the left side of the flank stuck to Guan Xiaolong very tightly, apparently specially arranged by the Saudi coach. Don't brag or brag, Guan Xiaolong's data is really good to get. It's all on video sites, and occasionally makes headlines in La Liga. So the first thing that the opposing coach thought of was to defend Guan Xiaolong, and he specially arranged a back man to keep an eye on him.
After Guan Xiaolong took the ball, he leaned on the opposite back, looked left and right to see if anyone answered. Fullback Cheng Yong came up, and Guan Xiaolong passed the ball to Cheng Yong. But when passing the ball, Guan Xiaolong was pushed down by the opponent's back, and the referee blew a foul.
After the opponent pushed Guan Xiaolong down with his back, he was still scolding and pointing at his chest. Judging from his hideous expression, Guan Xiaolong must have done something shameful to him.
Guan Xiaolong smiled contemptuously, thinking to himself, you are a bastard, you will stand up to me when you come up, you have a lot of strength, right? The other party's back waist underestimated Guan Xiaolong, because he found that Guan Xiaolong was not as easy to push down as he imagined. In the process of wrestling between the two, Guan Xiaolong grabbed the dragon's claw hand and gave it to the opposite side, so he was angry and pushed Guan Xiaolong down.
"Restrain your emotions...... Don't curse! The referee is from Thailand and is reprimanding the opponent's midfielder in the same broken English as Guan Xiaolong.
Guan Xiaolong pressed the ball and quickly issued a free kick. The referee was stunned for a moment and motioned for the game to continue.
The opponent's back waist couldn't be scolded, he wanted to run to the middle to support, but he didn't dare to let Guan Xiaolong ignore it.
Zhang Xize in the middle got the ball and advanced, behind the defender, Wu Lei got the ball to form a single knife.
The Chinese fans cheered at the scene, is this to surprise the opening?
However, Wu Lei did not receive the ball, and the goalkeeper who was attacked swept the ball out of the penalty area.
Seeing that the offensive was defused, the fans sat down in disappointment. But I saw a Chinese player outside the penalty area pick up his right leg and sweep it, and the ball crossed the back line and the Saudi goalkeeper who had no time to return to the goal, and got into the net.
The Huaguo team leads 1-0!