Chapter 40: The Japanese Team with a Headache
The final score was 3:0, the Chinese national team easily defeated Saudi Arabia in the semifinals of the Asian Cup, and there is generally no such disparity in scores in games like the semifinals, and the strength of the Saudi Arabian team is actually not so bad, the biggest reason for this score is the mistake in the tactical arrangement of the Saudi Arabian team.
Of course, the performance of the Chinese national team in this game is definitely worthy of praise from the fans, their own strength is stronger than the Saudi Arabian team, plus the play is solid enough, how can there be a reason not to win the game.
After a relaxed semi-final, the Chinese national team unexpectedly entered the final of the Asian Cup, and they can be said to have not encountered any strong opponents in the first five games, whether it is the traditional strong team South Korea team or the Saudi Arabian team that also entered the semi-finals, they have not been able to cause the slightest trouble for the Chinese national team.
The Chinese national team passed all the way so easily and stepped directly into the finals!
"The Chinese national team has shown a momentum of looking down on Asia in this Asian Cup, and almost all Asian teams have become vulnerable in front of them!" It was the day after the semi-finals, and the Asian media made headlines.
The Chinese national team did show strong combat effectiveness, although they did not enter the final with a winning record, but everyone knows that the only draw of the Chinese national team was Liu Yihai's special training for Lin Qi.
In a training match, how seriously do you expect the Chinese national team to play?
Except for the third group game against Kuwait, the Chinese national team won other games with ease, whether it was South Korea or Indonesia in the group stage, or Iraq and Saudi Arabia in the knockout stage, they could not stop the Chinese national team at all.
Or rather, in fact, these four teams did not let the Chinese national team do their best at all!
Yes. Didn't give it their all. Sensitive Japanese media first put forward such a point of view, they feel that until now, the Chinese national team in the Asian Cup has not shown their strongest strength, even the big victory against the South Korean team did not let all the strength of the Chinese national team fully show.
This makes the Japanese media very worried, because they don't know where the limit of the Chinese national team is, and they don't know where the hole cards of the Chinese national team are.
The Chinese national team in this Asian Cup is like an abyss that cannot be seen. It is a team that can't see through the strength at all, no matter whether the opponent they encounter is strong or weak, it seems to be so vulnerable at the feet of the Chinese national team.
Such an opponent is the most terrifying, and even the Japanese media have a strange idea, they suddenly feel that the other teams participating in the Asian Cup seem to be children's teams, and the Chinese national team is the only senior team, and they can easily beat any opponent.
Even against Japan, it will be the same.
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While the semi-finals between the Chinese national team and Saudi Arabia ended, the other semi-final between Japan and Iran was also decided. In the end, the Japanese team successfully eliminated Iran with a score of 2:1 and advanced to the final of the Asian Cup.
They became the last opponent of the Chinese national team, and similarly, the Chinese national team was also the last opponent of the Japanese team in the Asian Cup.
No matter who wins or loses this game, the Asian Cup will end here, and before it is over, they must also decide the final winner, the final champion!
As the last opponent of the Japanese team. It is impossible for the Japanese media not to pay attention to the Chinese national team, and the ease shown by the Chinese national team in the Asian Cup really shocked the Japanese media.
Although the Japanese team also reached the final of the Asian Cup. However, their journey was definitely not as smooth as that of the Chinese national team, in the group stage, the Japanese team suffered a defeat, and then in the knockout stage, they also played quite hard, especially against Iran in the semi-finals.
In this semi-final. The first to break the deadlock was Iran.
Iran showed unexpected strength in the game, holding on to a 1-0 lead until half-time and even into the 76th minute of the game.
With about 15 minutes to go, Japan struggled to equalise, and the two teams went into extra time.
The Japanese team relied on their tenacious strength. Only then did they qualify for the final in extra time.
This qualification was not easy for the Japanese team to obtain.
This may also have something to do with the luck of the Japanese team, none of the opponents they have encountered can be easily beaten, and each opponent has caused more or less problems for the Japanese team.
It seems that the luck of the Japanese team in the Asian Cup is really not as good as that of the Chinese national team.
However, the Japanese media are really reluctant to attribute the difference between the two teams in the process of reaching the final to luck, preferring to believe that it is strength.
Although the Japanese are also very shameless, they will at least face up to their opponents, even if the opponent's strength is not as good as their own, the Japanese team's attitude towards the game will be quite serious.
And when the opponent's strength is indeed stronger than their own, the Japanese media can also point this out without hesitation, they are not afraid that such an approach will hit the morale of their own team, knowing the strength of the opponent's strength is better than blindly going to the battlefield.
The Japanese media and fans are still so sensible, and it is their sanity that allowed them to truly discover the strength of the Chinese national team before the final.
The phrase "look down on Asia" to describe the strength of the Chinese national team was also first used by the Japanese media, who felt it was necessary to let their team know what their opponents were like in the final.
The media reports attracted the attention of the Japanese team, before the final, the two teams did not pay attention to each other because of the tight schedule, when the Japanese team knew that the Chinese national team had a draw, they naively thought that the Chinese national team was like them, stumbling all the way to the final.
It wasn't until the reporters woke them up that the Japanese team was still immersed in the joy of advancing to the finals, and the media reported that the entire Japanese team was immersed in infinite pressure.
The Japanese team began to study the previous games of the Chinese national team, and through the video, they found that the Chinese national team really showed the momentum of looking down on Asia in the previous games, and what the media said was true.
After watching and studying over and over again, the Japanese team still couldn't find any way to beat the Chinese national team in the final, and as they got to know the Chinese national team more and more, the more they felt that the Chinese national team was unfathomable, and the more they felt that the Chinese national team was invincible.
In the past, the problems that caused the Chinese national team to constantly have a headache finally came to their opponents, no matter which Asian team, when they meet the current Chinese national team, I am afraid they will have a headache like the Japanese team.
This is the result of the old monster's training for the Chinese national team, he will never put the Chinese national team in the position of the weak team, whether it is a training camp or a game, what the old monster asks is a strong Chinese national team, and it is a headache for the opponent The Chinese national team.
Liu Yihai has the heart of a strong team, only with the heart of a strong team, the Chinese national team can truly transform into an absolute strong team, they will not think hard about countermeasures when they encounter any opponent, but let the opponent think about countermeasures against them.
This is the biggest difference between Liu Yihai and Liu Bo and Chen Song! (To be continued......)