Chapter 331: A Long Way to Go

The traditional East Asian Cup matches are played at WH. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info The national football team regards this event as the last training before the World Cup qualifiers, and attaches great importance to it, and the international players who play in Europe are all called up.

On August 2, in the first game of the East Asian Cup, Shi Hao and Jun Yingzhi fed each other a goal, fought back after falling behind 0:2, and drew 2:2 with South Korea.

After the game, the Chinese media were not satisfied with what the Chinese team showed in this match.

Because the visiting Japanese and South Korean teams are mainly youth teams, overseas players have basically not been called.

In the face of the South Korean second team, the Chinese team once behaved in a panic, the formation was like scattered sand, and the South Korean team easily broke through the city twice. Daniel Zhang appeared in the central defender position, instead of playing the back he played in Serie A and Serie B in recent years, showing too slow to turn and stand too forward.

On the offensive end, he didn't launch any good-looking attacks, basically relying on long passes to rush into the opponent's penalty area.

Even if the score is equalized in the end, it is only a reflection of the individual skills of Shi Hao and Jun Yingzhi, and the Chinese team's attack is generally not eye-catching.

And all night long, Chelsea lost 1-0 to Arsenal in the Community Shield. After the game, Costa called Shi Hao to complain, saying, "The team's combat effectiveness has dropped a lot all of a sudden." ”

Shi Hao comforted him and said: "Hiddink has just arrived, and everyone is not familiar with his style of play, so it will be fine after a while." ”

"You don't know," Costa said, "that some teammates feel like they've got the accolades and now they're bent on making money." Someone told me yesterday that a Chinese Super League team contacted him and offered him an annual salary of 40 million euros, which was very moving. He's so young......"

Shi Hao was surprised: "Who is it?" ”

"I can't tell you this," Costa is not a joker, "I hope you come back soon." ”

"It's a pity I shouldn't be able to participate in the opening game." Chelsea's first Premier League game was played on the evening of 8 August, while China's final match in the East Asian Cup was played on 9 August.

On August 5, head coach Perrin made a big rotation of the lineup, and Shi Hao and Jun Yingzhi did not start. In this match, the Chinese team defeated the North Korean team 2:0, which has been gradually eliminated by modern football.

However, there is still a lot of criticism from the media for Pei Jiajun, believing that the Chinese team's defense is unreliable, and the offense will only rely on Shi Hao and Jun Yingzhi.

If it is in this state to play in the world preliminaries, even if the Chinese team can rely on the flash of inspiration of Shi Hao and Jun Yingzhi to reach the top 12, it will not be able to stand out and enter the final stage of the competition.

On the night of August 8, Shi Hao secretly got up in the middle of the night and watched the live broadcast of Chelsea's game on his mobile phone in his room.

Chelsea take on Swansea City at Stamford Bridge in the opening league game of the new season, breaking the deadlock in the first half with Oscar's free-kick before Ayew equalised for Swansea. Swansea Own-Goal just before half-time gave Chelsea a 2-1 lead at home.

But early in the second half, Courtois was shown a red card for tripping Gomis in the box, and Gomis converted a penalty.

In the game that followed, Chelsea responded with 10 men and did not concede a goal, but they were unable to change the scoreline, and finally drew 2-2 with Swansea.

After watching the game, it was already more than 2 o'clock in the morning, Shi Hao didn't have time to sigh, so he quickly turned off the lights and went to sleep.

In the next day's clash between the Chinese team and the Japanese team, Shi Hao first opened the scoring with a free kick. However, the Japanese team played fluently, completely bursting the Chinese midfield, and creating danger one after another, and Takashi Usami hit the crossbar and almost equalized.

However, under the continuous pressure of the Japanese team's midfield, the Chinese team still made frequent mistakes, and could only rely on physical strength and diligence to make up for the gap.

In this game, Shi Hao was once again placed in the midfield position, but even with him, the midfielder of the Chinese team still couldn't hold up, but on the offensive end because he and Jun Yingzhi were separated, they couldn't even attack.

Although Shi Hao has the ability to organize attacks, he is more accustomed to organizing in the front court, putting him in the midfield, his weak defense is completely exposed, and the Japanese team has played him as a breakthrough one after another.

In the 30th minute, the Japanese team once again organized a smooth attack, and Yuki Muto received a pass from Tsuneki Yonekura and scored the equalizing goal.

Japan were not reconciled to end the tournament with a draw, and they launched an attack in the second half, wave after wave.

And this also gave the Chinese team a chance to fight back. In the 67th minute, Shi Hao grabbed the ball in the backfield, turned around and played a long pass into the air, Jun Yingzhi took the lead in the scramble, dribbled the ball at high speed, and shot into the net against the goalkeeper of the Japanese team outside the penalty area, taking the lead for the Chinese team again.

Although the Chinese team's defense has been beaten to pieces, the Japanese team also had physical problems, failed to grasp the advantage, and finally lost to the Chinese team 1:2 with the advantage of the field.

In the end, the Chinese team won the East Asian Cup with 7 points.

After this game, Shi Hao did not stop much and soon returned to the club. In the Chinese team's game, Shi Hao always felt very aggrieved.

When he was in the club, what Sun Xingmin, what Shinji Okazaki, were all beaten by him. But at the national team level, even the substitutes for these people, he played so hard.

He can accurately find his teammates with the ball, but his teammates can't stop; He can run to a reasonable position, but his teammates can't see him all the time. Only when he cooperates with Jun Yingzhi can he find some feelings.

That's it...... Want to reach the last 8 of the World Cup? Shi Hao felt very pessimistic.

But he still can't help but care about what the media says about the national team.

Perrin believes that the Chinese team in the East Asian Cup is not excellent, but it has achieved the purpose of training.

However, most of the media believe that Perrin's coaching ideas are not suitable for the Chinese team, and he has failed to integrate the Chinese team.

For most of the game, the Chinese team was a group of scattered soldiers on the field, with a lack of organization in attack and a lack of complements in defense.

In the first game, although the Chinese team barely drew with the South Korean team, judging from the game data, it ran 11 kilometers less than the opponent. Illustrate that each player on the field runs an average of 1 km less...... In modern football, which is increasingly focused on running, this statistic is telling. There is no mature style of play, no effective combination, no skillful coordination......

In the second game against North Korea, although the result was won, the number of shots on goal of the national football team was only one-third of that of North Korea.

In the last game with the Japanese team, although it was won in the end, from the use of skills and tactics on the field and the threatening shots created, the national football team is far behind the Japanese second team that does not have a foreign player, is all selected from the local area, and the average age is less than 23 years old.

It's a long way to go!