After drinking too much, Gao Shunyao boasted in front of his girlfriend that he would take the team to Brazil next year, but when he woke up the next day and the alcohol passed, Gao Shunyao lay on the bed, feeling a little annoyed.

It's not that easy to go to Brazil, especially for the Chinese team.

During this time, the national team competition has always been the biggest problem that plagues Gao Shunyao, and when he thinks of the current national team results, he always can't help but have a headache. Now the Chinese team is third in the group, and the hope of qualifying is still very slim. If they want to finish in the top two of the group and qualify for the World Cup, then they will not only need to win themselves, but they also need Iran to lose at this time - the former may rely on hard work, but the latter can only rely on luck, saying that their team will definitely qualify, which is really a big word.

The World Cup is not so easy to play, if it was really that easy, the Chinese team would not have entered the World Cup finals once in so many years. Even if they have Gao Shunyao now, it is still not easy to qualify from the group. After sobering up, Gao Shunyao was also annoyed in his heart, he boasted about Haikou and said that he wanted to give the girl the greatest romance, but he was afraid that this time, he might really disappoint his girlfriend.

It's just that although his chagrin flashed, he turned over to look at his girlfriend's sweet face, thinking about the girl's happy look after hearing his words, and he immediately suppressed all his depression. He couldn't bear to break this illusion by himself after just making the girl happy. Gritting his teeth, Gao Shunyao thought about what he said. And you can only make up your mind, no matter what. Try it too.

After making a bold statement, Gao Shunyao was interested in the future competition. More attention has been paid to it. In his mind, this is not just a national team game, but also a battle of personal commitment. He can only believe now that his team still has a chance in the future, after all, the last two games have not been played, since the ball has not been played, that means that everything is possible, who knows how to win or lose in the end?

It's just that. It's not easy to win the last two games. Because in the remaining two teams, there is an extremely difficult opponent - the Japanese team, which is now the first team in the group, is the next opponent of the Chinese team.

The second leg of the group stage between China and Japan is about to start, and this game is also the game that worries Gao Shunyao the most. When playing away, the Chinese team has already lost, and if the home team plays again, it will not win. It's basically like saying goodbye to the World Cup in advance. This game is going to be won no matter what, but looking at the Japanese team's squad, the strength of this team really makes Gao Shunyao a little helpless.

As the most recent Asian champion. The Japanese team is quite good right now. Every time he saw their information, Gao Shunyao was a little bored from the bottom of his heart: the opponent is indeed too strong, and it is really not easy to win.

Goalkeeper of Japan. It's still Eiji Kawashima – and as a Japanese country, his level is second to none even in Asia. The location is not picky. Although in Gao Shunyao's current eyes, he is no longer a top goalkeeper. But at least in the Asian range, he is also a master.

This link is definitely not the weakness of the Japanese team.

And one of Japan's back lines is a little worse in comparison. It was Atsuto Uchida, Maya Yoshida, Yasuyuki Konno, and Yuto Nagatomo who started as the main force. Three of these four are foreign players, and there is no shortage of the best players in the league and the main defenders of the giants. And the remaining one is not Liuyang, Yasuyuki Konno is now one of the best defenders in Japan, and the absence of Liuyang is largely limited by his body, and theoretically speaking, this should be regarded as the strongest guard line that Japan can take.

If you only look at the fame, they are indeed the strongest defender that Japan can come up with right now. At least compared to the Chinese team, they are much stronger. But having said that, seeing this Japanese team, Gao Shunyao was quite happy in his heart: although the other party did not look weak, at least compared to before, they were much weaker.

The current Japanese team is no longer the era led by Tanaka Doukasa in the past, because of age, the old defenders of that generation have withdrawn from the Japanese national team. After losing this defender who even dared to fight Drogba, the Japanese team paid too much attention to technology and underestimated the problem of physical condition, which has become more and more prominent, and now their backline also has players like Maya Yoshida who plays in the Premier League, but the strength is not as good as before.

Gao Shunyao has played in Japan, and he is quite aware of the level of these defenders in Japan. Compared to the players of Tanaka's generation who did not have the slightest problem with technique and body, the Japanese team may have the skills and awareness of the back line now, but the most important confrontation is that they do not have an advantage.

Fame and ability are not the same thing, especially for defenders, no matter how famous they are, there is only one aspect of weakness that will cause the team to fail. Even when Gao Shunyao had not traveled to Europe before, he was not afraid to face Maya Yoshida, and now after more than two years of growth, he is only more excited when he meets his old opponent.

He believes that as long as his team-mates can get the ball to his feet, then he will always have a chance to score. Even if he is allowed to take on this line of defense alone, in his opinion, there is nothing impossible.

However, the big question is whether they can get the ball to their feet.

Although the Japanese team's back line is not strong, it is from the perspective of Gao Shunyao as a striker, but if you look at it as a whole, they are still terrifying. Japan's backline is absolutely top-notch in their ability to support the midfield, and although they are not good at defending, they have a strong offensive support ability, which is a great help to their midfield.

And the midfield of the Japanese team, in front of the Chinese team, has a crushing advantage.

The midfielder of the Japanese team is a five-man midfielder composed of Hohito Endo, Makoto Hasebe, Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa, and Shinji Okazaki. Among these five people, Endo is the No. 1 local player in the J-League, and Makoto Hasebe is a teammate of Gao Shunyao, and he can be regarded as the main rotation player at Wolfsburg this season. Shinji Kagawa went to Manchester United this season, although he did not play at the same level as the Bundesliga in the Premier League, and it can even be said that he did not play well, but his strength still did not degrade much. The remaining two, Keisuke Honda, are CSKA Moscow players, and although the Russian league is not a great league in European football, it is better to be able to establish a foothold there than to play in Asia. And Shinji Okazaki played well in Stuttgart last season, although he was only a player in rotation, scoring not many goals and having no status, but Stuttgart itself did not play well, and he was only ranked 12th in the league, but he was noticed by other Bundesliga teams, which is enough to show his level.

The strongest Japanese team used to be their midfielder, but now the strongest is still the midfielder. Looking at the level of the midfielders of his team, and then looking at the grade of the Japanese team, Gao Shunyao can only sigh, if he wants to fight with the Japanese team in the midfield, in the whole of Asia, I am afraid that no one can do it - South Korea's strength is not bad, and Australia is even stronger, but simply speaking of the midfield organization, they are not Japan's opponents.

However, although Japan's midfield strength is still as strong as Ko Soon-yao's memory, they are not without problems. While carefully observing the recent games of the Japanese team, Gao Shunyao also quickly noticed some fatal problems of the Japanese team.

Japan's midfield organization is good, but they are not without any problems either. At least their striker is still Ryoichi Maeda, which also makes Gao Shunyao breathe a sigh of relief. This old striker, playing Gao Shunyao, was the first choice of the Japanese forward line when he played in Japan, and now five years later, the Japanese forward line can only rely on him. The rest of Japan's talent is changing quickly, but the striker is still the same, still half-dead.

When Gao Shunyao was playing in Japan, someone once predicted that Japan would have an era of scarcity in the future, and there would be fatal shortcomings in some positions. And now as time goes by, although there are no problems in the Japanese midfield, in the forward line, they have exposed problems. Their Takashi Usami and others in Europe did not play at a very good level, and the domestic forwards were not of great use, and their offensive ability was already quite lacking.

Five or six years have passed, and the forward line has not changed, and it is no wonder that the Japanese domestic media themselves have complained, saying that the Japanese football team only knows how to control the ball and does not know how to attack, and the games played are not as good as the viewing of women's football.

This Japanese team, on the whole, is still thick in the middle and thin on both sides. They have top midfielders, but at the front and back, they don't have a lot of quality. The forwards are not good enough, the defenders are not tough enough, and although they have the advantage of possession, they can't win many games, which is also their old problem.

And this is the biggest problem that Gao Shunyao found: the Japanese team has strong control, but controlling the scene does not mean that it determines the outcome of the game. They can get the ball, but that doesn't mean they have the ball and they can win.

After all, this game is played at home in China, and it will not be easy for the Japanese team to win so easily.

Not being able to score is a problem that technical teams have to face, especially when it comes to away games. Even if Barcelona's technical level is very strong, Guardiola's performance in leading the team away is still criticized. And no matter how good Japan's ball control is, it is always inferior to Barcelona, facing the Japanese team at home, which also makes Gao Shunyao more confident.

The home advantage belongs to China. And Gao Shunyao also has reason to believe that his team can make good use of his home advantage and win this game.

After all, the players of the Chinese team have been playing quite well in recent days. (To be continued.) )