Chapter 343: Arrogant Little Japan
"3-2, Dong's goal helped Manchester United overtake the score. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info yellow card, the referee showed Nasri a yellow card. It must have been Nasri's displeasure with the fact that he had just fallen in the Manchester United penalty area and was not treated fairly, and he spoke out to the referee. It seems that the Arsenal players could not accept the referee's yellow card, and they gathered around the referee to complain......"
The Arsenal players, who had fallen behind, looked a little anxious after the restart.
Although the game became intense, due to the anxiety of the Arsenal players, the game continued intermittently until the moment the final whistle sounded, and neither side was able to change the scoreline.
3-2, relying on King Dong who came on as a substitute, Manchester United got a victory at the Emirates Stadium.
Manchester United, who have won all three points, have temporarily climbed to the top of the table on goal difference.
Later in the round, Liverpool beat West Bromwich Albion to move them to the top of the table with 29 points. In the other game in the same period, Chelsea also won all three points, holding Liverpool by one point and sitting second in the table.
Although it has only been a few hours to reach the top of the table, Manchester United have cemented their third place in the league with a game in hand.
This week is a double week, and after a league game with Arsenal, Manchester United return to Old Trafford to welcome League Cup opponents Queens Rangers.
King Dong, who scored twice against Arsenal last weekend, finally ushered in his start in this league game.
In the 58th minute of the second half, King Dong, who started the game, received a through ball from the edge of the penalty area from Fletcher, volleyed it into the net, and scored the only goal of the game to send Manchester United to the quarterfinals of the League Cup.
King Dong, who scored three goals in two games, is in hot form.
In the weekend's game against Stoke City, he came off the bench in the second half to help the team beat Stoke City 5-0.
The consecutive goals allowed King Dong to sweep away the haze of not playing in many rounds of previous games, and at the same time, he was successfully elected as Manchester United's player of the week.
After finishing the match with Stoke City, Yu Liang and Dong Wang packed up and rushed back to China non-stop to prepare for the upcoming top 10 match.
While waiting at the airport for their flight to Qianchuan, they were interviewed by the media.
"You've scored in three games in a row, you're in hot form, will you carry that hot form over against Japan?"
In the next round of the top 10 matches, the Chinese team will face the Japanese team at home. There is no doubt that Japan are also the strongest opponents in this group, so this game will be a big test for them as well.
Naturally, this game is also followed by fans across the country.
Because of the problems left over from history, Chinese fans always hope to defeat the Japanese team when the Chinese team meets the Japanese team and give them a painful lesson.
But in the past ten years, all that has been left for Chinese fans is bitterness.
Many fans of the younger generation can only learn from the mouths of the older generation of fans about the high-spirited scene of the Chinese team when they faced the Japanese team.
In the face of reporters' questions, King Dong, who has scored consecutive goals, said with confidence: "I feel very good now, and I believe that I can bring excellent form to the game." I also want to score goals and help the team win! ”
"At the beginning of the year, we didn't beat Japan in the semi-finals. We haven't been able to beat them for 10 years in the history of our encounters, will that affect your mentality? Will it affect the rest of the game? ”
The lack of a victory against the Japanese team for ten consecutive years is another embarrassing record engraved in the history of Chinese football. As for another shame, it is that Feng Han is invincible.
At the East Asian semi-finals in Chongqing at the beginning of the year, the new national football team that Chinese fans were expecting did not bring them the victory they wanted.
Although all the overseas players have returned and the strength of the team has been greatly improved, whether they can beat the Japanese team is still a question of concern for fans.
Listening to the reporter's question, Yu Liang frowned.
Think about that damn Koreanophobia, isn't that exactly what the Chinese media shouted out? Every time there is a match against South Korea, the media has to hype up Koreanophobia.
Just like now against Japan, they all have to take out the "heroic deeds" that they haven't defeated in ten years.
seems to be inspiring the national football players, but in fact, it may not be there to boost the morale of others.
Yu Liang is very disgusted by this behavior of the media.
"Of course not!" King Dong's answer was very firm, "Ten years of winless is a thing of the past, and from today we will not only be able to defeat Japan, but also South Korea!" ”
King Dong's sonorous words were applauded. These journalists, who have been running sports all year round, also hope to be able to hold their heads high in front of their foreign counterparts. Of course, these are not determined by beautiful words, but the strength of their national team is naturally what can determine this.
"Can you predict the score?"
"What's there to predict, I'm going to beat them anyway!"
Yu Liang, who was standing beside King Dong, shook his head in his heart when he heard King Dong's words.
Japan is not an ordinary fish belly team, but Yu Liang still has great confidence in defeating them.
After seeing off the reporters, Yu Liang and Dong Wang also boarded a flight to the provincial capital, where they would transfer to the Qianchuan County Football Training Base.
King Dong's acceptance of what the media said was indeed very morale-boosting.
It was a few short sentences that made him successfully attract fans, and countless fans waited outside the training base for King Dong to ask for autographs and group photos.
For a while, he became the most popular player in the national team, and there were even crazy female fans who showed their love directly outside the training base.
The crazy behavior of the female fans embarrassed King Dong, who was already a father, and made a big red face on the spot.
However, the crazy behavior of the fans did not bring much interference to the training of the national team. For the sake of tactical secrecy, Shi Liansheng only trains openly for fifteen minutes every day, and then the entire training ground will be closed.
The closed training has filled the national team with a sense of mystery and made fans look forward to the refreshing performance of the national team.
When the national team was immersed in closed training in the base, the Chinese media and the Japanese media outside quarreled.
The reason is that King Dong accepted what the media said, he not only boosted the morale of the national team players, but also boosted the morale of the Japanese national team.
Although Japan is not a pleasant country at home, its tenacious character and humble attitude towards learning are indeed admirable.
They can be dismissive when facing the weak, but they will definitely lower their profile when facing the strong.
Of course, this is not just reverence, they hope to learn from the strong how to become stronger, and then defeat the strong.
A few decades ago, Chinese football may have had a place for Japanese football to learn from, but now that it has long been a first-class Japanese football in Asia, do you still need to lower your profile to learn Chinese football? Obviously, this is not needed.
On the contrary, they also despise Chinese football very much.
Even though there are now several Chinese players who have achieved great success and success in the European league, they still scoff at Chinese football.
In an interview with the media, Japanese defender Taiki Iwamasa said very arrogantly: "They haven't beaten us in the past ten years, and they won't beat us now." We're going to win at least three goals in this game! ”
Iwamasa Taiki's arrogant remarks were unanimously approved by other teammates of the Japanese national team, and he was even named a new national idol by Japanese fans.
In the face of such arrogant remarks by the Japanese national team, the Chinese media naturally refuted them there.
The Chinese media, which have no way to argue with their head-to-head record, have switched the concept and they have taken advantage of the huge success of Dong Wang and Yu Liang at Manchester United to sour Japan there.
There is no doubt that although Japanese football is gradually becoming one of the world's strongest teams, there is no one in their country who has achieved such great things on the European stage for the time being. Hidetoshi Nakata, the only player to have been selected as one of the FIFA Top 100 players, chose to retire two years ago when he was in his prime.
Compared with the rebuttal of the Japanese media, this is the only straw for the Chinese media.
So they also hoped to refute with the help of the players, but when they came to the outside of the training ground to find Yu Liang and King Dong, they were closed.
The Chinese media, which has limited power, is naturally at a disadvantage in this confrontation.
And the last straw that crushed the Chinese media was what Japanese head coach Takeshi Okada said in an interview with the media.
"Yes, Chinese football has indeed produced a lot of talented people in recent years, and they have achieved great success and achievements in overseas leagues. But the strength of the individual is not equal to the strength of the team. A lion leads a herd of sheep, never more than a pack of wolves! So we have a chance to win this game. ”
Takeshi Okada, who has already set his sights on the World Cup in two years, certainly did not take the current Chinese team into account.
When Takeshi Okada's words were transmitted to the national team, only King Dong threw two words of arrogance to the media, and the other players did not express their position.
However, the training ground was full of solemnity, and it was clear that the players were stimulated by Takeshi Okada's words.
This is exactly what Shi Liansheng is happy to see.
"You said I should treat Takeshi Okada to a drink after the match?"
Gao Jun looked at Shi Liansheng's smiling face, and a wry smile appeared on his face.
Like many people, he is full of worries about the upcoming match! (To be continued.) )