As a footballer, anyone knows very well that football is a team sport, and team ability, in most cases, is much more important than individual ability. However, there are times when people have to admit that individual ability is also part of football.

Players rely on their individual ability to dominate the game, and the more they are in Asia, the lower the level of competition, the more likely it is to appear. Moreover, especially the forward position, compared to other positions, it is more conducive to individual performance. A top striker can often improve the strength of the national team a lot in the confrontation of Asian countries, which is the reality that Asian football is quite helpless.

In the top 10 match in 97, it was also the Chinese team against Qatar, Hao Haidong had a high fever at that time, and he still caused a lot of trouble to the Qataris in the game. It was not until the 04 Asian Cup that the news of Hao Haidong's injury came, and the head coach of Qatar immediately called it the most exciting news after hearing it. A top striker in Asia is always very destructive in the game. Facing the Chinese team, the Qataris have a lot of bad memories.

And this game, apparently, the nightmarish memories of Qatar have resurfaced. Hao Haidong has retired, but now Gao Shunyao's performance on the field is still better than Hao Haidong back then. His skills may be a little worse, but his enthusiasm is enough to make up for this, and soon after the opening, he let Qatar at home fall behind by one goal, and Gao Shunyao's play proved his strength.

The performance of a top striker, against a particularly strong team, may not be enough to go against the sky. But against a weak team, it is enough to deter the opponent's activity. Ko Soon-yao showed his counter-attacking ability. Such a speed of advancement made the Qatari attack timid. They didn't dare to step forward excessively, for fear of being taken advantage of by Gao Shunyao again, and this kind of kick made them unable to gain the upper hand.

Football matches have an impact on each other, Gao Shunyao was able to suppress the opponent, and the cringe of the Qataris also made the confidence of the Chinese team rise a lot, and they did not give the opponent any chance for the whole game. Coach Gao's tactical arrangement is still quite decent. The team under his coaching can be obscene when they want to be obscene, which can also be said to be a great asset for the Chinese team.

Moreover, I have to say that China has a very good grasp of the scale of defense for this game: the high level of coaching may not be very strong, but he has been in the Asian football world for many years, and he also knows some things in Asian football. Qatar is playing at home and he knows he needs to be careful with the referees. This game. The Chinese team played very carefully, although it was a square hand strategy, but they did not foul many fouls throughout the game, and did not leave the opponent with many opportunities for the referee to exert his power.

Gao Shunyao's performance boosted morale. Lewd tactics ensured victory.

It is precisely because of the rise in the morale of the whole team that in this game, the Chinese team finally held the situation. Although this game. They played ugly, but they got the win.

This one victory. It means that the Chinese team has qualified ahead of schedule: Kuwait and Qatar have both lost their games, and they have already lost their qualification for the group in advance. The task has been accomplished in two games. The Chinese team also proved that their strength is indeed not bad.

Maybe it's because some people are too proud, or maybe it's because they've already qualified from the group, and the team is a little careless. In the third game against Uzbekistan, the Chinese team played much worse. In this game to decide who is the top of the group stage, the Chinese team played a little absent-mindedly and was not able to continue the victory.

In this game, although the Chinese team still decided to continue to use the routine of defensive counterattack, in the game, their defense was not as tight as the last game. After beating the first and second teams in the group, the players also got a little carried away, and they seemed to have forgotten that the Chinese team has a tradition of stumbling in the last game of the group.

In the game, Uzbekistan played their dark horse spirit to the end, in the game, the first half of the game was not seen by both sides, and in the second half, Uzbekistan relied on the Chinese team's defense to gradually negligent, taking advantage of a set-piece opportunity, scored a goal. Compared with China, their execution is stronger, which also makes the Chinese team face a dilemma.

Faced with this situation, the Chinese team naturally launched a fierce counterattack, but unfortunately, Uzbekistan's defense was also excellent. The Chinese team's half-time time was simply not enough to score two goals to win, and what they could do was to score a goal in the final moments of the game after Gao Shunyao's header was returned to Yu Hanchao.

Gao Shunyao's dumb fire ended the game 1-1. With two more goal difference than China, Uzbekistan became the top of the group.

At this time of this Asian Cup, the minimum standard originally scheduled by the Chinese team has been reached. However, the domestic media are not very satisfied with this result. It is possible to win the first place in the group, but the media is naturally very dissatisfied. In their opinion, being the top of the group is always more likely to advance than being second in the group.

However, Gao Shunyao is very satisfied with the second place in the group, because after the second place in the group, the opponent in the next game is the first group in Group B: the first team in Group B is the Japanese team.

If Gao Shunyao is asked to make a choice, the Japanese team is definitely the team he wants to meet the most in this Asian Cup.

Ko played in Japan for three years, and his opponents, his teammates, were innumerable players of the Japanese national team. He had heard those teammates talk about how strong the Japanese national team was and what a good team it was, and because he had heard so many of these words, he also wanted to play a game with the Japanese team to see what the strength of these people was.

They claim to be the top team in Asia, but before Gao Shunyao weighed it, he didn't want to admit it.

And then he really wants to score a goal against the Japanese team - playing in Japan for three years is just a profession for him, but at home, many fans are not very happy with his approach. They felt that Gao Shunyao was not playing in China, and it was wrong to go to Japan to play.

Domestic fans are dissatisfied with Gao Shunyao going to play abroad, and the Japanese media are also dissatisfied with Tokyo's training of Gao Shunyao. When I first played football in Japan, the Japanese media often chirped crookedly that Tokyo was raising tigers. In their eyes, Gao Shunyao is like a beast in a flood, and giving him a chance is irresponsible to the Japanese team.

Gao Shunyao is very grateful for Tokyo's cultivation of him at the beginning, and he is also disgusted by the complaints of the Japanese media at the beginning. Even if he didn't have any hostility towards the Japanese football team, he was a little dissatisfied when he was said so many times. scored a goal in this game, letting domestic fans know that he would never be soft on Japan, and it also made the Japanese media depressed, they expected everything accurately, which also made Gao Shunyao feel comfortable.

Moreover, in this game, although people say that China has almost no chance of winning, Gao Shunyao feels that he may not necessarily lose.

The lineup of the Japanese team is indeed very strong, and Gao Shunyao knows better than others: he has friends in the Japanese football world, even in this year's Japanese national team, his former teammates and current teammates add up to three or four people, and he also knows very well how the Japanese football world boasts that their lineup this year is the strongest Japanese team in history.

Their frontcourt, known as Daisuke Matsui, Shinji Kagawa, Keisuke Honda, three European-level forwards, half of their team, are composed of players in Europe, goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima, Yuto Nagatomo on the back line, Maya Yoshida, Atsuto Uchida, Daisuke Matsui on the midfield line, Makoto Hasebe, Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa, so many players in Europe, it is indeed the first in Asia.

This kind of strength is definitely the first in Asia, and other teams are indeed much worse in front of them.

However, Gao Shunyao is too familiar with Japanese football, and he knows very well that this lineup looks full of flowers, but it has a very fatal problem. Japan's strikers have been short for a long time, and looking at their strikers using Li Zhongcheng, you can see how short they are. After Ryoichi Maeda, the Japanese team did not have a decent striker at all, and no matter how good the midfield was, without a striker, Gao Shunyao also had reason to question their attacking power.

And this is not what makes Gao Shunyao the happiest, what makes him even more excited is that Japan's back line has also changed a lot from before.

Previously, Japan's two players on the back line, Yuji Nakasawa and Tanaka Doukasa, were almost the top defender pairings in Asia. Gao Shunyao has been in Japan for three years, and he has not played against them less, and every time he plays with Tanaka Doukasa King, Gao Shunyao feels extremely tired. However, this time, these two people did not come to participate in the Asian Cup, and it is said that they were injured before the Asian Cup and neither of them came.

This is too good news for Gao Shunyao. The opponent does not have Tanaka Doukasa King, and the strength of the guard line is definitely directly weakened by two percent. And without Yuji Nakazawa, then Gao Shunyao wants to play header bombing again, and they can only watch.

Of course, the Japanese team still fielded their best defender: the combination of Yasuyuki Konno and Maya Yoshida is now the best they can come up with. However, looking at these two names, Gao Shunyao just smiled: his old buddies and old opponents, their strength and playing characteristics, he couldn't be more familiar.

It's a good thing to play with them: I needed to prove myself in front of the Germans, and I happened to meet the Japanese team. They can blow themselves into the strongest, European-level, giant team in history...... But the more they brag so much, when they meet Gao Shunyao, the more they will set off Gao Shunyao.

Their defenders are too weak and that's an irreparable problem. In the face of them, Gao Shunyao has a way to score, and in this game, even if the opponent has a European-level striker, he is not afraid.

He believes that the crushing effect of those three people on the Chinese defenders can be achieved by him alone. More than anything else, he might be inferior to those three. But in an Asian game, he scored more than goals, at least in this game, he was alone against the three of them. (To be continued......)