Chapter Seventy-Four: Not a Strong Team Yet

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However, the premise of this qiΔ“ is that the Chinese team must first have a way to send the ball to the front court, and this problem is not easy to solve. If you make a direct long pass, with the air superiority of the Australians, even Yu Hai and Xue Lin will not be easy to fight for the header, let alone the other two. And the direct pass in the middle is easily intercepted by the current back three midfielders of the Australian team

In this case, the situation can only be opened from the wing, but because Australia has set up a formation of three backs, the two full-backs are very resolute when they make up for the defense on the wing, and the pass of the Chinese team to the winger is easy to be intercepted by the opponent. In this case, experienced right-back Sun Jihai first began to insert assists frequently, but it was Rong Hao on the other side who really helped the Chinese team break the game again.

Rong Hao's forward insertion was very resolute, he dribbled the ball all the way, and along the gap that Gao Jun pulled out for him, he went directly to the bottom line! Rong Hao's cross is a boccia, very fast, ah! The ball is in! Who scored the goal? Sue Lin? Ah, no, it was the Australian defenders who cleared the ball! Has the bad luck of the national football team finally run out? Huang Jianxiang laughed in surprise, "No matter what, the Chinese team finally equalized, which is a miracle!" ”

"Yes, it's not easy to get back from three goals behind, and the current national football team is completely different from a few years ago." , guest Zhang Lu couldn't help but sigh, "I hope the boys don't be complacent, if we draw with the Australian team, it will still be very difficult to qualify, and we must reverse the tables." ”

However, as some old fans on the net feared, after the equalizer. The players on the field of the Chinese team have obvious differences on how to play next, the young players generally hope to blow up and continue to attack until the score is reversed, while those old internationals generally feel that it is not easy to equalize the score under the unfavorable shape of falling behind by three goals, and should properly recycle the formation, wait for the opportunity to counterattack on the basis of ensuring that the defense is solid, and if it can be reversed, it is the best, even if it can not score again. A wonderful draw with three goals in a row was enough to explain to the fans, the media and the leaders.

Although the head coach Alihan and the team's leader Gao Jun kept waving to continue the attack, those half-hearted old internationals could no longer have the same attacking enthusiasm as before, and the mentality of worrying about making mistakes completely prevailed. You only have to look at the defenders who start to kick straight at the back so often. Australia's air dominance is significantly stronger than China's, and blindly kicking the ball is tantamount to handing over the ball, but doing so can indeed avoid personal mistakes and responsibility.

As a result, for about ten minutes, the Chinese team did not get another chance to shoot on goal, and the previously active front four was completely submerged in the muscle jungle of the Australians. Gao Jun also realized that his leadership was not yet qualified, and those old international players could not really convince him in their hearts, "It seems that we still have to rely on young players." Now there are five old and six new on the field, if the number of old internationals can be reduced to less than three, there should be no more such a situation, because the Chinese have a strong herd mentality"

The head coach of the national football team off the field, Alihan, also noticed this problem, but he couldn't come up with any countermeasures, he has either sent young players with strength on the field, or overlapped with the positions of young players on the field, if he insisted on sending young players with insufficient strength to the field. The problem of aggressiveness may be solved, but the quality of the team will definitely suffer. What to choose. What a dilemma!

At this time, the Australian team counterattacked at the request of head coach Hiddink, and Zhao Ming, who had a good appearance, finally exposed his inexperienced weakness, and he reached out in a hurry to pull down the main center of the Australian team, Viduka, and not only gave the Australian team a penalty, but also received a second yellow card, two yellows and one red and was sent off

"Li Leilei is not capable of turning the tide. Although he judged the right direction, the goal went in, and Australia went ahead again in the 78th minute, and with one more man on the pitch now, it was already a tough game for China." Huang Jianxiang said with regret, but he did not blame the "sinner" Zhao Ming, but defended him, saying, "Although this mistake is likely to lead the national football team to lose this game, Zhao Ming's performance in this game still has a lot to be remarkable, and we can't be too harsh on young players, because this is the inevitable price of their growth." Zhao Ming, wipe away your tears like a man, straighten your back and stand up, I hope that the mistakes you made today will become your precious wealth tomorrow."

While the guest Zhang Lu echoed his partner, he also once again pointed the finger at the head coach of the national football team, Alihan, "Yes, as a young central defender who has only played in the Chinese League, Zhao Ming has done his best. But in the most important game like the World Cup, there is a shortage of manpower so much that Zhao Ming can only be sent to play, we can't help but ask, what did the head coach Mr. Alihan do during the half-year preparation period? ”

At this time, Alihan, who was unwilling to fail, used up the remaining two substitutions at once, and he sent young midfielders Zhou Huakai and Cui Peng to replace Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe, preferring to let the back line leave the heavy hidden danger of a single central defender, but also to maintain the number of midfielders.

However, if you think about it carefully, you will find that Alihan's substitution is actually very helpless, although Zhou Huakai is good in the first table, but his personal ability is still not comparable to Zheng Zhi, and Cui Peng, although his style is tough and he runs actively, he can't compare with the old international player Zhao Junzhe in terms of body and technology, not to mention the gap between the two youngsters in terms of game experience. The main reason why Alihan sent the two to play is actually that Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe are now physically unable to hold on

In fact, only from the perspective of personal experience, Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe are players with good endurance, but the problem is that they have always played in China, and they are used to the slow rhythm of the domestic league at this time with only six or seven kilometers of running distance per person per game.

Although the Chinese team has played a lot of high-level warm-up matches before, the warm-up games cannot be compared with official competitions in terms of physical fitness and confrontation, let alone the most important competition such as the World Cup. China's ability to beat world champions France in the warm-up match was played like this by a much weaker team in the face of Australia, which is just as crucial as the reversal of the ball and the scale of the referee

Compared with the disconnect that occurred after the Chinese team's previous equalizer, the Australian team resolutely recycled and changed the defensive counterattack immediately after the goal, leaving only Colwill in front to harass the Chinese team's backline, and the other players all retreated to their own backfield, and the formation became 901, and their defense quickly became like an impregnable wall. There is no such rare supertalent as Gao Jun in this team, but the Australian team is clearly more well-trained than the Chinese team. And being able to pinch the Australian team to this kind of Cheng dΓΉ in less than a year is enough to prove that Hiddink, the world's famous coach, is indeed not in vain, and is much better than his compatriot Alihan, who has led the Chinese team for three and a half years but has not reached this level.

However, as an enemy, this is not a good thing, and in the remaining ten minutes, although Gao Jun and his teammates tried their best to counterattack, they could not break through the iron bucket formation set up by the Australian team. Although Hiddink gave up the idea of attacking the weakness of the Chinese team's single central defender, he still maintained the score until the end of the game with the solid defense he trained single-handedly, and won this crucial game without danger

"Alas, the players have worked hard, but Australia's defense in the final stages was really good, and it's worth learning from. The national football team has always been bent on defending and conceding the ball, and it is useless to pile them all up in the penalty area. When the national football team can be like today's Australian team, determined to defend to the death, it will be a huge improvement. In addition to regretting, Zhang Lu gave a high evaluation to the Australian team.

But Huang Jianxiang was very unconvinced, he pursed his lips and snorted coldly, "If it weren't for Alihan's death at the beginning and the Australian team's luck, we should have won."

Compared with these two "half buckets of water", real industry experts have seen the real problems of the Chinese team from this game, and the German "Kicker" magazine published an article saying, "This Chinese team's rapid counterattack is skillful and fluent, and the efficiency is amazing, and it already has a world-class level, but in addition to this advantage, there are no more bright spots." Once the opponent recycles the defense, the Chinese team has no good way but to rely on set-pieces and opponent mistakes, although Gao Jun's ability to pick up leaks may already be at the top level in the world, but in the real world series, few teams will make so many mistakes. Compared with the offense, the problem of defense is greater, no matter how weak the opponent is, there is no guarantee that the goal will not be conceded, no matter how much the front scores, the back line may lose more Even in the face of the weak team, the offense and defense lack sufficient certainty, this Chinese team is not a strong team, occasionally one or two games upset is possible, but if you want to achieve good results, it is very unrealistic" (to be continued......