Chapter 65: Defending and Counterattacking
In the end, the Japanese team was first, the Chinese team followed, Ogunod still did not hold the third position at the last moment, and the Saudi spurt was very strong, regaining the third place, and it was very embarrassing to be overtaken by 2 in a row. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In this way, the Japanese team, the Chinese team and the Saudi Arabian team directly qualified, and the Qatar team will have to look at the performance of the second group to compete for the two best places, but fortunately, the strength of the second group is weak, the sticks are very insidious, and there is no strong team in the group where they are in the South Korean team, and there is no problem in qualifying.
Xiao Ji, who finished all the games today, kept going to the training ground of the National Olympic team.
Tomorrow afternoon, we will face the strong enemy Iraqi team, and the national Olympic team attaches great importance to it and arranges night training, among which there are also reasons why Xiao Ji wants to participate in the competition in the evening, and he is waiting for him.
As the largest state in the world, Asia can be divided into six parts: East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia and North Asia, among them, East Asia is the largest, mainly because of the existence of China, followed by West Asia, with an area of more than 7 million square kilometers.
If Asia is roughly divided into East Asia and West Asia, West Asia is even larger than East Asia.
In such a vast area, there are not particularly large countries in it, and there are naturally many countries scattered in these countries, and these countries have different football divisions, some of which are even diametrically opposed.
For example, the opponent of the Olympic team, the United Arab Emirates, and the opponent Iraq this time.
There are also Arabs in Iraq, but there are also a large number of Persians and other strong races, so their football is tough, completely different from the delicacy of the UAE, all the players are very good in physical fitness, and many European teams are not inferior, and they rely on their bodies to bully and oppress each other during the game.
Although Iraq has been greatly affected by the war and domestic turmoil, their football has not been affected, but has risen in adversity, miraculously defeated Portugal and other strong teams in the 2004 Athens Olympics to break into the top 4, in the 2007 Asian Cup, in the case of being underestimated, Lianke many strong opponents, the legendary first Asian Cup championship, that group of players has basically aged, a new generation began to emerge, have emerged in the Gulf League, The Iraqi Olympic team is basically made up of them.
Facing a team with a completely different style all of a sudden, the national Olympic team must make targeted arrangements, and this night training is to test new formations and tactics.
Fu Bo didn't dare to hold high the banner of offense like before, he decided to focus on stability this time, first based on defense, waiting for opportunities to counterattack, and learn the Italian style of play.
Defense has nothing to do with Xiao Ji, and the coaching staff never assigns him defensive tasks.
Defensive counterattack, defensive counterattack, both parts are very important, it is useless to defend alone, but also to counterattack, this is Xiao Ji's task.
The national Olympic team trained until more than 11 o'clock before returning to the hotel to rest.
After tonight's hardship, tomorrow will be more relaxed, the coaching staff set the assembly time is relatively late, the national Olympic team soldiers can sleep well, and only need to do some low-intensity training after waking up.
At 4 p.m. on September 30, the battle between the national Olympic team and the Iraqi team was about to break out.
There were many Chinese students living in South Korea in the stands, as well as die-hard fans who came here from China, waving flags, beating drums and cheering, shouting and cheering hoarsely, this time they were happy from the bottom of their hearts, not the helplessness of only one home team, and the performance of the national Olympic team was worthy of them.
In contrast, there were very few Iraqi fans at the scene, and the photographers adjusted the lens a lot before finally finding a handful of Iraqi fans crowded in the corner, Iraqis have not yet recovered from the trauma of the war, and now they are very poor, Iraq is far away from South Korea, and it is extremely rare to have these fans.
South Korea, as the host, must have the most local fans, at this time, Xiao Ji's role was played again, many South Korean fans were holding Chinese flags, and some even painted five-star red flags on their faces.
Korean fans and Chinese fans sat together, chatted together, had a good time, and coexisted peacefully, which was difficult to imagine in the past, and only appeared when the Chinese team or the South Korean team played against the Japanese team.
After the track and field field, the football field has once again become the home of the Chinese team.
In such an environment, the young people of the national Olympic team feel very relaxed, and with the fact that they have achieved the goal of reaching the final four of the agreement, they have no pressure, they can do their best, and go as far as they can, which is even more relaxed.
In this game, the national Olympic team sent a super defensive formation of 541, and Xiao succeeded as a single arrow.
Originally, there was a numerical advantage in the midfield, as well as a technical advantage, coupled with this mentality, the national Olympic team actually boldly played ball control in the midfield, and the promotion could not be pushed, but the control of the ball was very firm, and the Iraqi players had no effect on the pressing, and they were played like monkeys, which made the fans addicted.
After 20 minutes, the Iraqi team did not have a few possessions, and there were even people who did not touch the ball, and the possession rate was only 28%, while the national Olympic team was as high as 72%, an overwhelming advantage.
Rao is the Iraqi player's physical fitness is excellent, and there is no hope in sight for the continued exhaustion of such exhausting pressing, and the physical strength has been seriously consumed, and if it continues like this, it will definitely not last in the final stage of the game.
Iraq's head coach also noticed that the situation was not good, and found a fourth official on the sidelines to complain that the national Olympic team was playing negatively and had been falling in the backfield.
The fourth official of this game is Thai, there is no expression on his dark face, and he simply dismissed the complaint of the Iraqi coach, stretched out his hand to signal him to return to the coach's seat, he is not blind, the national Olympic team is more backward in the backfield, but has been looking for opportunities to push forward, but they can't push in and are pressed back, their striker No. 9 has also got a few balls, shot the second goal, can only be said to play conservatively, and it is far from enough to play a negative game.
The game continued, Iraq's attack always hit the iron wall of the national Olympic team, there was no threat, your players' physical fitness is awesome, one-on-one can be forced, 2 people come together and there is no way, finally successful cross, but also by the central defender to push out.
The national Olympic team frantically arranged 3 central defenders, all of whom were tall and large, making it clear that they would not let you take advantage of physical confrontation and strictly guard against high-altitude balls.
Iraq's offensive was tepid, but the counterattack of the national Olympic team was quite sharp.