Chapter 638: The Australian team with a two-goal lead

Li Zihan originally wanted to mention these things to his national team teammates after the game against arch-rivals Australia, but considering that the game was over and only a week before the winter transfer window closed, there was little time for the two clubs to negotiate and discuss with each other.

So Li Zihan simply talked a little about his teammates at this time, if they are very willing to play abroad, then after the Asian Cup, they can let the clubs and players of both sides and agents operate.

Then negotiate and look at each other for half a season, and a deal will be reached in this year's summer transfer window. It's just that in the summer, other European clubs are in the process of preparing for the season, while Chinese clubs are in the middle of the season, so it is more difficult to get the opposing club to release them.

But this has nothing to do with Li Zihan anymore, he only needs to express the wishes of both parties a little, and the rest is none of his business.

Before the match against Australia, Li Zihan deliberately mentioned everyone's opinion of playing abroad. To Li Zihan's surprise, almost all of his teammates in this group of young players wanted to train and play in Europe.

The rest are the kind of teammates who are twenty-seven or eight years old and are in the prime of playing, but there is no room for breakthrough and growth, so they naturally choose to stay in China to play. If they can be five years younger, they definitely want to play abroad.

When Li Zihan learned that everyone was willing, it would be easy to do, so he immediately called Susan, and then asked her to do something, and by the way, he also found John Dasler and some of Li Zihan's friends in the European media and football circles to help.

On January 22, the match between China and the host team Australia began at 6:30 p.m. Beijing time in prime time.

The match was played at the Brisbane Stadium, the home of the Chinese team in Australia, and the 50,000-person Brisbane Stadium was almost full, and many fans could not even buy tickets.

According to incomplete statistics, the number of fans attending this match between the Chinese team and Australia is the largest in this Asian Cup so far.

Of course, most of them are Australian fans, because they are the hosts, so they naturally occupy these advantages, but there are also many Chinese fans, a full 20,000.

Facing Australia, Perrin is naturally the main force to face the battle. The main players who were rested in the last game all appeared in the starting lineup in this game, Li Zihan, Wu Lei, Wang Shangyuan, Gao Lin, Zhang Linpeng and captain Zheng Zhi were all in the starters.

And the tournament goes to the knockout stage, and every match is a final for everyone, because only by winning this game can you be qualified to play the next game.

Therefore, the Australian team is also the main team, and the veteran Cahill, Crystal Palace midfielder Jedinak, West Bromwich Albion defender Davies, Aston Villa midfielder Hurd and other players are also present.

As soon as the game began, the Australian team launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team. They took advantage of Cahill's personal advantage and constantly used high-altitude bombardment to attack the Chinese team's backline.

The Australian is tall and big, and he has an innate advantage physically, so he is relatively tall, and it is very difficult for the Chinese team to defend high-altitude balls.

simply didn't concede the goal, but there was no time and opportunity to attack, so he could only defend passively.

Although I knew that this game was very difficult for the Chinese team, everyone did not expect that it would be difficult to play this kind of game.

The Chinese team had a few attacks, but Li Zihan was immediately put down by the Australian players as soon as he got the ball.

The referee was naturally "cared for" by the AFC, so although the opponent's actions were enough to eat a yellow card during the second foul, the referee did not give Australia a yellow card.

There was not even a verbal warning, just a direct free kick was given to the Chinese team, but the place of this foul was only five yards in front of the Chinese team's penalty area, what is the use of the free kick? It's pretty much the same to shoot at your own goal

The only good thing may be that the Chinese team has the ball themselves, so there is no need to worry about the Kangaroos scoring their own goal for the time being.

However, the hearts of the Chinese fans did not last long, and in the 35th minute of the first half, the Kangaroos still broke through the Chinese goal.

Australia's Tongguò tore apart the Chinese team's defense with a combination of side and middle attacks, and then a high ball cross, the Australian star Cahill, wearing the number four shirt, pretended to retreat to leave space for his teammates, but suddenly stepped forward to run, and then jumped a lion and shook his head, and the football flew into the Chinese team's goal.

"Hey, before the game, everyone thought that the focus of the Chinese team in this game should be to defend against Australia's Cahill, and the Chinese team did a good job in the first 34 minutes. But he didn't expect to lose the ball because of a small negligence in the 35th minute, Ren Hang didn't pay attention to Cahill."

Ren Hang can't be blamed, although Ren Hang's height is taller than Cahill. However, Cahill could not keep up with Cahill in terms of experience, technique and tactics, and his ability to read the game.

Zheng Zhi, as the captain, naturally stood up to cheer up his teammates.

Then after the game restarted, China began to attack actively, not that the previous Chinese team was not active, but at that time Australia attacked too fiercely, they had no chance at all, and now the Australian team has closed a little.

But at halftime, the Chinese team still couldn't open the Australian goal.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

Perrin made an adjustment, he replaced the defensive midfielder Wu Xi from Jiangsu Shuntian, and replaced Liu Binbin of the Shandong Luneng team, who has outstanding passing ability and is biased towards attack.

This is a signal to attack!

However, this substitution did not bring the Chinese team a goal, but conceded another goal.

In an Australian attack, goalkeeper Wang Dalei blocked a shot from Crystal Palace midfielder Jedinak and the ball went off the line and Australia won a corner.

Jedinak kicked the ball out, and Cahill didn't jump to the ball, but leaned back and raised his thigh.

"Upside Down - Golden Hook !!"

In the end, the football cut through Wang Dalei's ten fingers and flew into the goal.

"Oops, it's Cahill again, it's Cahill, it's really Cahill who scored twice, and now the Chinese team is in danger"

The game was only 50 minutes into play, and the Chinese team was two goals behind, and the rest of the game was indeed very difficult to play.