Chapter 302: Advance to the Top 10
In order to meet the arrangement of football events in the Olympic Games, a total of six stadiums will host football events in the Beijing Olympic Games. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info they are the National Stadium Bird's Nest, Beijing Workers Stadium, Shenyang Olympic Sports Center, Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center, Tianjin Olympic Sports Center and Shanghai Stadium.
According to the schedule, the first game of the National Olympic team against New Zealand and the second game against Belgium were played at the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center, so the destination of this training camp is in Shenyang.
In July, the national Olympic team will have several warm-up events, all of which are also arranged in Shenyang.
Therefore, from the beginning of the training camp to the Olympic Games, Yu Liang and his national Olympic team will stay in Shenyang for almost a month.
Although they stayed in a hotel in Shenyang, after arriving in Shenyang, Yu Liang and Chen Tao went to the supermarket to buy a lot of daily necessities, which was environmentally friendly and convenient.
After arriving in Shenyang, they quickly threw themselves into training.
When Yu Liang followed the national Olympic team to start a training camp in Shenyang, the national team returned to the home stadium with a draw away.
They drew 1-1 with Qatar inside the Tianjin Olympic Stadium. After four rounds, the Chinese team has 8 points and ranks first in the group. Australia finished second with six points, Qatar with five points, and Iraq, the champions of last year's Asian Cup, finished bottom of the group with three points.
In these two games, the young national football team showed a weak form. The media, which had been applauding the national football team before, immediately changed the direction of the wind and began to question Shi Liansheng. They think that Shi Liansheng is stubborn, and if it weren't for his stubbornness, he would have recruited overseas players early, and now the national football team would have qualified two rounds ahead of schedule.
The reason why he has always adhered to the purpose of not recruiting overseas players before the top ten matches has been made clear many times in front of the media.
Because even in these two games, the national team players were a little weak, and he still did not call up players to play overseas in the game against Iraq.
As a result, they lost 1-2 at home to Iraq.
The loss of the Chinese team made the originally clear qualifying situation confusing.
In this round, Australia defeated Qatar and surpassed the Chinese team with 9 points to temporarily occupy the first place in the group. Iraq defeated the Chinese team and ranked third in the group with 6 points from 5 games, and Qatar was at the bottom of the group with 5 points.
With one round left in the group, the qualification situation of the Chinese team immediately became jeopardy.
The media have been calling for overseas players to be called up for the final away game against Australia. A crisp win in Australia to secure a place in the last 10. The fans' expectations for Shi Liansheng have also gone from the first two consecutive wins to the loss of patience with two draws and one loss.
In the home game against Iraq, there were even fans holding high the banner of Shi Liansheng's dismissal!
This is the real state of Chinese football.
From top to bottom, there is no patience. Like some people, they are eager to get rich overnight.
In fact, at this time, Shi Liansheng himself hesitated.
Not calling up overseas players is definitely beneficial, allowing domestic and young players to get full training, and at the same time ensuring that opponents don't know the true strength of the national team. In this way, in the top 10, he will be able to surprise his opponent.
But now facing the dilemma of qualifying, whether to call or not, Shi Liansheng hesitated, and finally chose to stick to his bottom line and did not recruit any overseas players.
When the 23-man squad for the match against Australia was announced, most of the domestic media and fans were there to complain.
Even many fans believe that the national football team will once again become the first team to prepare for the next World Cup.
"See? I think you should know very well what the media is saying right now! Do you think we'll make it? ”
In the away locker room at the Australian Stadium in Sydney, Shi Liansheng took the newspaper he brought from China and threw it on the table in the dressing room.
Seeing that the players didn't say anything, Shi Liansheng took a deep breath, "This is the last game of the top 20 competition, whether you can enter the top 10 or not, it depends on this game!" As I told you, our ultimate goal is South Africa, and even with the current qualifying situation, I can confidently tell you that my goal is still South Africa! Can you tell me what your goal is? ”
The players all looked up at Shi Liansheng and did not speak.
However, the eagerness in their eyes gave Shi Liansheng the answer he wanted.
"The top 20 has been played so far, we are second in the group, and you have been able to achieve this result because of your continuous hard work! The results you have earned with your sweat are nothing in their eyes! They think you're rubbish, you don't deserve to play in the World Cup, or even in the round of 20! ”
Of course, the media will not say that these players are garbage, these are just Shi Liansheng's exaggerations in order to stimulate the fighting spirit of the players.
"Can you tell me you're garbage?"
"It's not!"
"Are you rubbish?"
The voice was not loud enough, Shi Liansheng asked again.
"It's not!"
"Excellent! In fact, in my eyes, you are garbage! You're a bunch of scrappy trash. ”
All of a sudden, the players were ignited with anger.
The eyes that looked at Shi Liansheng were full of anger.
"yes, that's what it looks like!"
Looking at the angry looks of the players, Shi Liansheng's heart blossomed.
He needs the players to be angry now, he needs the players to play without fear!
"We're not trash!"
Liu Wei, who has always regarded Shi Liansheng as his life mentor, immediately refuted loudly after listening to Shi Liansheng's words.
Most of the 23-man players in the 23-man squad for this time against Australia are post-85s. Even a lot of the players are 87, 88, 89 age groups.
They are young and vigorous, and they are easily ignited with anger.
"Really? That's the kick to win Australia again! ”
"What if we win?"
"What do you want?"
"I want you to apologize, you can't call us garbage! And learn to bark three times, and from today we will call you livestock! ”
Uncle, do you want to be so ruthless?
Looking at Liu Wei, Shi Liansheng's eyebrows raised.
"Liu Wei, what do you say?"
Gao Jun immediately scolded Liu Wei loudly.
Isn't it the opposite of asking the head coach to learn how to bark? It's still called livestock, if this is spread out, how can he Shi Liansheng still mix!
"Good! I promise you! But what if you guys lose the game? ”
Shi Liansheng simply agreed, which surprised the players and Gao Jun.
Liu Wei only said angry words, but now that he was put on the shelf by Shi Liansheng, he couldn't back down.
"If we don't win the game...... Liu Wei pondered for a moment, "Uncle, Lao Tzu swims back to China!" ”
Depend on! Vicious!
Shi Liansheng gave Liu Wei a thumbs up in his heart.
"It's a deal!"
"Lao Shi, you ......"
Shi Liansheng immediately interrupted Gao Jun, who wanted to speak, and said to the players: "Okay, it's time for the garbage, let's play quickly!" ”
Under Shi Liansheng's playful gaze, the players walked out of the locker room one by one with a sullen face.
Seeing the players walking away, Gao Jun pulled Shi Liansheng and said a little angrily: "Old Shi, how can you do this? In this way, those players will not be able to turn the sky upside down! ”
"What's there? Aren't animals and names just the same title? It doesn't matter, and if they can beat Australia just like that, won't they have accomplished their initial goal? Compared to the top 10 competition, what is this? ”
Saying that, Shi Liansheng left Gao Jun with a surprised face, turned around and left the locker room.
Compared with the World Cup, other things are not a matter in Shi Liansheng's eyes.
The players in the dressing room who were irritated by Shi Liansheng played quite aggressively after the start of the game.
Especially Liu Wei, who served as a midfielder in this game, moved from the opponent's goal to his own goal, and his desperate posture made some Australian players retreat.
"Uncle, does this guy hate me so much? Or did this guy see through my little trick? ”
Seeing Liu Wei desperately struggling in the field, although Shi Liansheng was happy, he was suspicious.
The Chinese team's active scramble soon paid off, Liu Wei split the ball after a steal in the front court, and Zhao Junzhe assisted Gao Lin's header in the penalty area with a direct pass.
The Chinese team took the lead in the first ten minutes of the game.
The Chinese fans who came to the away stadium with the team immediately burst into cheers in the stands.
Watching Gao Lin score, Shi Liansheng also raised his arms and cheered on the sidelines.
And when Liu Wei passed in front of the bench, he deliberately winked at Shi Liansheng.
Provocation, naked provocation.
Now Shi Liansheng has every reason to believe that he has won the full set of this guy.
But what does that mean compared to a win?
Shaking his head with a smile, Shi Liansheng returned to the bench and sat down peacefully.
In this match, he is already 100% confident that they will definitely win.
After the resumption of the game, Australia formed a siege against the Chinese team, and if they lose this game, they will also face elimination.
But they attacked again and again in the face of the stubborn defense of the Chinese team, but they all returned in vain.
The stalemate was not broken until the 76th minute of the second half.
China scored again.
Liu Wei fought desperately in the backfield, once again formed a steal, Zhao Junzhe launched a counterattack with a long pass in the backfield, Jiang Ning on the side took the ball quickly and crossed to find Gao Lin in the penalty area, when Gao Lin's header was ferried, the football hit the hands of the defenders, and the referee directly awarded a penalty.
Chen Tao, who was seconded from the National Olympic team, took the penalty and scored easily, and the Chinese team playing away led Australia 2-0.
For the rest of the time, the Australian team launched a frantic counterattack, but in the end it was not able to tear apart the Chinese team's defense.
2-0, in the final round of the top 20 match, the Chinese team relied on tenacious fighting spirit to defeat the powerful Australian team and advanced to the top 10 as the group leader. (To be continued.) )