Chapter 19: The Opponent of the Second Warm-Up Match
With the continuous repetitive training of the Chinese national team, the run-in between the players has achieved good results, and the mistakes of the players have been significantly reduced in the training matches.
This kind of training lasted for a whole week, and Lin Qi did not spend too much time training his personal ability during this week, and it was more important to strengthen the cooperation with the team than to improve his personal ability.
Now Lin Qi is already very strong, what he has to do is not to continue to improve himself, but to make his role in the national team to the greatest extent.
After a week of training, the Chinese national team ushered in their second warm-up match, this time Liu Yihai's team is very strong, and it can even be said that it is unprecedentedly strong, they are the new champions of the 98 World Cup - the French team!
The French team is also looking for an opponent for the warm-up match, and they hit it off with the Chinese national team and decided to have a warm-up match with a relatively large disparity in strength.
The French team seems to like to play warm-up matches with the Chinese national team, whether it is in Lin Qi's previous life or in this world, the warm-up matches between the Chinese national team and the French team are not small, but they have never met in the official competition.
This is mainly because the Chinese national team can participate in too few major events, and they have only participated in the main match of the World Cup once, so it is naturally difficult to meet the French team.
Especially the current French team is ridiculously strong, they have been occupying the first place in the national team rankings since the end of the 98 World Cup, and the current Chinese national team is ranked 37th.
Although the Chinese national team participated in the World Cup in France as one of the 32 teams, the overall strength of the Chinese national team was not ranked among the 32nd. In the entire World Cup, it can only be at the bottom of the strength.
In the face of such a super strong team as the French team, the entire Chinese national team was a little nervous, and they were full of questions about the arrangement of head coach Liu Yihai.
In the warm-up game, in addition to warming up the players, a very important role is also to find confidence for the players, so the warm-up matches of various countries will choose relatively weak opponents. But why did Liu Yihai choose such a strong team?
Or is this not a warm-up match for our Chinese national team, but a warm-up match for the French team, and we are just their sparring partners?
When the Asian Cup is coming, will it be too inappropriate for the Chinese national team to challenge such an opponent?
The players are in a difficult mood and they are facing an extremely difficult challenge before the Asian Cup has even started. The players have no doubt that the French team is a stronger opponent than any Asian team, and the Chinese national team will not be able to defeat them, even if they try to force a draw.
It's almost a doomed warm-up game, and now you know it's going to fail. Why does head coach Liu Yihai have to arrange such a game, isn't this a blockage for the players.
The players only dare to be angry and dare not speak, in the face of the arrangement of the old monster, they only have to obey, since the head coach thinks that this warm-up game is very necessary, then it is necessary, we just need to do our best in the game, and give full play to our strength. It doesn't matter if you lose.
With a relatively positive attitude, the players stepped onto the field of the warm-up match against France, which was set to be held in Asia. There were obviously more Chinese fans than French fans who came to watch the game.
As a world powerhouse, the French team has no shortage of fans in China, especially several superstars in their team, and players like Henry are deeply loved by Chinese fans.
But today, the arrival of Chinese fans is not to support the French stars they like, no matter how much they like them, they are also French. It's not us Chinese, as a Chinese fan, of course, we still have to support our own team more.
Despite the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, the Chinese fans are full of passion to face a world champion like the French team. Even if the Chinese national team loses, it must lose face.
They wholeheartedly support their national team, if the Chinese national team is really likely to win this game, no fan will feel sad for the French team, no matter how much they like the French team, no matter how much they like the French star, they all remember their identity - they are Chinese, they are Chinese fans!
In the cheers of the fans, the warm-up game officially began, and Lin Qi still sat on the bench.
Lin Qi's expression on the bench was very serious, he didn't care about his identity as a substitute at all, and his whole mental state was the same as starting the game.
Soon after the start of the game, Lin Qi realized the strength of the Chinese national team, although the situation of the game was still more inclined to the French team, but the Chinese national team did not sit still, the players on the field played very disciplined and played very smoothly.
This is completely different from Lin Qi's national team in his previous life, Lin Qi's Chinese national team in his previous life would play extremely chaotic when facing a strong team like the French team, and he really responded to that mad dog tactic, and the players of the Chinese national team behaved like mad dogs.
Of course, the Mad Dog tactics are aimed at the opposing players, but they are not the only football on the field, and it is difficult for the football to stay at the feet of the Mad Dogs for too long, and they can only rely on the Mad Dog defense to give the opponent a headache.
All in all, Lin Qi thinks that the mad dog tactics proposed by the head coach of the Chinese national team in the previous life are pure nonsense, if there are really any mad dog tactics, then why let the players play football, just send eleven mad dogs.
Relatively speaking, it is still the Chinese football in this world that makes Lin Qi feel more satisfied, at least they will not move those crooked thoughts, but fundamentally improve the strength of their national team.
This point, from the situation on the field, can be seen intuitively, the Chinese national team is really not chaotic at all, whether it is offensive or defensive, the Chinese national team has shown a strong organization.
Yes, it's organization, and only an organized team can really be a team, they know how to attack and how to defend.
The fans also saw it more clearly, and they could clearly feel that even if the opponent of the Chinese national team was the strongest French team at the moment, they could still deal with it calmly.
Although they had less possession than their opponents and had fewer chances than their opponents, they played to the fullest.
This is not a one-sided game, let alone a game in which the French team finished beating the Chinese national team, at least not a game on the field...... (To be continued......)