Chen Sirou's persuasion made Gao Shunyao quite well prepared for the upcoming national team competition during the holiday in May. However, although Chen Sirou was able to help Gao Shunyao regain his fighting spirit, he could not help Gao Shunyao improve his strength. When June came and the game really started, Gao Shunyao immediately found out painfully that it seemed that his preparation did not play a big role. In the first game of the top 10 match, in the home game against Iran, the Chinese team still lost the game as expected.

Before the start of the national team competition, Gao Shunyao was happy that his team had successfully become a third-pot team. But at the beginning of this game, he really realized that there was still a big gap between the so-called third-tier team and the second-tier team.

This kind of gap, when he played for the Chinese team and the Japanese team in the past, Gao Shunyao didn't feel very much, but this time facing Iran, he really felt the strength of the opponent.

Although it is said that the Chinese team has made new adjustments for this game. After entering the top 10 matches, Coach Gao completely let go of his face problem and called the old players back to the team. With the entry of Zheng Zhi, Li Weifeng and others, the strength of the Chinese team can be said to have risen to a higher level, and in order to play this game well, Coach Gao has also made sufficient preparations.

However, in the face of Iran, his preparation did not seem to have much effect.

In the game, the Chinese team was completely suppressed. The midfielder of the Iranian team continued to exert pressure on the Chinese team, so that the midfield of the Chinese team was almost crushed by the defensive level. The counterattack that the Chinese team wanted never came. They were pressed very badly, it was difficult for football to pass the half, and this defensive counterattack, from the beginning, had no effect.

In the game, Gao Shunyao was not able to play much role. In order to catch the ball, he had to retreat to near the center circle every time, which basically took half of his role away from the Iranians' defence. is also very exciting, they have always maintained the pinching of Gao Shunyao, every time he gets a football, he does not give him a chance to attack. Gao Shunyao was also at a loss in the competition. There is simply no way.

For a long time, the Chinese team's results in the game against Iran can be said to be very bad, and this team, both in terms of physical condition and technical level, is completely superior to the Chinese team. The Iranians are very physical, they are very technical, and they play with a lot of defensive attention, against a team like that. The most China can consider is to lose a few fewer goals.

This strategic goal was achieved by the Chinese team: entering the top ten, Coach Gao grasped the defense more tightly. What a beautiful football or something, he had forgotten about it. The Chinese team set up an iron bucket formation on their home stadium in this game, but it was also quite effective, although the Iranians defended well, but the attack was not particularly good, so the game did not become a big score slaughter.

This game lasted until 70 minutes. After the Chinese team was physically exhausted, it was considered to have won and lost. The Chinese team has always had the characteristics of a last-minute collapse, and in this game, they can be regarded as yesterday's recurrence. The final stage of the competition. Iran scored two goals, so that the Chinese team, which held on for 70 minutes, had to swallow the bitter pill of defeat.

A loss can be said to be expected, but it is still disappointing. Entering the top 10 competition, the domestic media was happy for a while, but after seeing the start of the top 10 competition. The Chinese team lost in the first game, and they were speechless again. In this group, the Japanese team is the absolute strongest, while the Chinese team will have to meet the Iranian team if they want to compete for the qualification spot. But they all lost to their opponents at home, and it seems obvious who is higher and who is lower.

Of course, there are also media who don't think so, but their words don't help at all.

"The strength of the national football team still needs to be improved, and in the top 10 matches, the Chinese team must play better to have a chance to get the ticket to the World Cup. Losing to Iran may be a good encouragement for China. The national football team also lost to Iraq in the top 20, but still managed to fight their way out. Since the 2010 Football Association's crackdown, the national football team has taken on a new look, and under the right leadership, they should play at a better level......"

The words of the media made Gao Shunyao quite helpless, he admitted that the anti-crime campaign is indeed good for the development of football, but if you want to say that a good leader can play a good game...... That's. It took 10 years to carry out reforms, and in 12 years they wanted to see results, and the people above were too anxious, which was completely to add unnecessary pressure to the players.

Fortunately, the brain-dead comments of the media are familiar to the players. Their words didn't have much impact on the national team, and after losing the first game, China also left for Japan to play the second game of their top 10 match.

This is the first time that Gao Shunyao has returned to play on the pitch in Japan since leaving the J-League. And what made him quite emotional was that in this game, he still played the ball at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. A year and a half ago, it was on this pitch that Gao Shunyao lifted the AFC Champions League trophy and won the most glorious honor in his life. And a year and a half later, he returned to his old place, and this time he came here, and he was playing away.

What made him quite happy was that when he came to play in Japan this time, he found that many Japanese fans still remembered him. In the stands, there were also some Japanese fans wearing Tokyo jerseys who came here, and on the side of the stadium, they couldn't stop signaling to Gao Shunyao. After a year and a half of leaving, the fans have not forgotten themselves, and this feeling makes Gao Shunyao quite happy.

However, his happiness was washed away by this game. After losing at home to Iran, China lost again in this away game against Japan.

Unlike against Iran, against Japan, the Chinese team originally thought that they had some hope. In last year's Asian Cup, China and Japan played a 3-3 score, and although China was eliminated on penalties, it was still remarkable. Compared with the game against Iran, at least the Chinese team is not too scared to face the Japanese team, and it has a physical advantage, and the Chinese team may not have the strength to fight.

It's a pity that the Japanese team, which is playing at home, has a better performance than the Chinese team. In the middle of the game. They showed their technical strength to the fullest, and they also made the Chinese team quite confused. In the game, Hiroshi Kiyotake, Gao Shunyao's old teammate, scored the only goal of the game, which also made the Chinese team reap another defeat.

Gao Shunyao, who had high hopes. There was no good performance in the game. Japan also took a smarter approach to this game. They no longer thought about defeating Gao Shunyao by relying on physical confrontation, but adopted the conventional method of dealing with Gao Shunyao in the J-League, relying on tactical cooperation, so that Gao Shunyao could not play.

It's not easy to look at the players tactically. But the Japanese team did a very good job in this game. In the midfield, Makoto Hasebe was specifically responsible for marking the ground ball passed to Gao Shunyao, and on the side, Nagatomo Yu stared Hao Junmin to death. And on the backfield, when Gao Shunyao wanted to run the header, Yasuyuki Konno commanded the back line to create an offside position - in the Japanese team, there are too many players who are extremely familiar with Gao Shunyao's offensive characteristics. Gao Shunyao was extremely depressed when he lost.

The top 10 came up with two consecutive defeats, which is really terrible.

"If they hadn't been so us, we would have at least managed to get a draw. They played too well this one and we played really badly. ”

Speaking of that game, Gao Shunyao was also extremely resentful. After the race, when he visited his old friends in Japan, he always had this attitude. None of Tokyo's old teammates said anything to him, but just laughed at his words, and Li Ze listened to him. But he was quite unimpressed.

"You can't play well in key games, what's the use of talking so much nonsense? It's all in the top 10, and you still can't play well, so who is to blame? ”

Complaints about Gao Shunyao. Only Li Ze dared to accuse him like this. Gao Shunyao is now a star, and when he doesn't play well, there are very few people who dare to accuse him in person. But as Gao Shunyao's sworn friend, Li Ze's sentence made Gao Shunyao have no way to refute it at all.

"We'll play well in the next game."

That's all he can say.

Gao Shunyao, who lost, was really not very happy. The two battles made Gao Shunyao quite unoptimistic about the results of the top 10 matches, but at this time, he really did not lose confidence. There are ten rounds in the top 10 competition, and it would be too cowardly to admit defeat after only two rounds.

Moreover, speaking of which, this time after all, he came up to play with the two strongest teams in the group, and these two rounds were the two most difficult rounds, and he also believed that after these two rounds, the top ten will get better and better.

This kind of confidence is obtained through continuous tempering in the league, which is also Gao Shunyao's biggest gain this season.

His attitude, after Li Ze saw it, he was secretly happy for him. For players, failure is not terrible, loss of confidence is the most terrible. As long as Gao Shunyao can maintain his confidence, then there may be a lot to be done in the future.

"If you play Japan well at home, the Chinese team may not have no chance, but the first two games are not good, which is not a big deal. Be happy and don't think about so many boring things – speaking of which, the European Championship is just around the corner. If you're okay, why don't you stay in Japan and watch the game together? ”

Li Ze opened up Gao Shunyao, and by the way, he thought about how to distract him: The European Cup has begun, and it is a very happy thing for friends to get together to watch the ball. Li Ze has his own job in Japan and can't leave for a while, but in the third round of the top ten, the Chinese team did not play, and Gao Shunyao could stay in Japan and watch the game with him.

His suggestion can be said to be very good, but hearing his words, Gao Shunyao shook his head.

"No, I still have things to do - I have to go back to China in the summer. Because this summer, I'm in the country, and I still have business events to attend. (To be continued.) )