Chapter 580: Friendly matches are friendship first

There are still two international breaks left in November, so after the league game against Swansea, Arsenal's internationals are flying in to their respective national teams.

Li Zihan was no exception, he just rested at his home in London for the night, and then flew to China early the next morning.

This time, the training location of the Chinese team was in Guangzhou, and the Chinese Super League overlord Guangzhou Evergrande team provided a training ground for the national team.

As the head coach of the Guangzhou Evergrande team, the Italian world-class champion coach Lippi, known as the silver fox, also came to the training site of the country and had exchanges with head coach Perran.

The time of the training camp was only a few days, and it passed quickly, and it was time to test the results of the training.

On November 14, the national team will play a friendly match with the New Zealand team at the Tianhe Sports Center in Guangzhou.

The starting lineup before the game was announced, and important players such as Li Zihan and Wu Lei were impressively listed, while captain Zheng Zhi was sitting on the bench. It is said that for such a game with no gold content, Evergrande head coach Lippi hopes that Zheng Zhi will only play half a game at most, after all, he is not young, and the club is still inseparable from him. Having a player of his age train and play at high intensity will undoubtedly increase his risk of injury.

At the beginning of the game, the Chinese team set the tone for this game, they did not press the attack aggressively, but controlled the ball at their feet for a long time, and then advanced layer by layer, and immediately retreated after encountering the opponent's stubborn resistance.

It was really a friendly match

The Chinese team is in contact with the transmission and cooperation, increasing the tacit understanding of the team.

Although the Chinese team won very well in the last few games, in general, they still relied on Li Zihan's personal ability.

And in this game, Perrin gave orders to the other players that they must keep up with Li Zihan's pace and rhythm. And Pei Lan also told Li Zihan not to deliberately suppress himself, and to follow his own ideas.

Therefore, fans are often prone to see the chaos of the road on the field.

The first few games have given the Chinese team a lot of confidence and spectacle, and they are really not used to seeing this game by chance!

When the Chinese team's coordination errors increased, New Zealand's chances also increased.

In the thirty-second minute of the first half, New Zealand scored a goal.

Although the opponent took the lead, the Chinese fans did not lose hope. Now this Chinese team is a Chinese team with Li Zihan, and with Li Zihan, you can never predict what will happen until the end of the game.

The morale and sentiment of the Chinese team have not changed because of this goal, and they are still faithfully implementing Perran's tactics.

The 1-0 score lasted until the eighty-second minute of the game, the cooperation of the Chinese team became deeper and deeper, Li Zihan's running position tore apart the defense of New Zealand, Wu Lei received Wang Shangyuan's pass and hit the goal directly, but the football bypassed the goalkeeper and hit the post, but the follow-up Gao Lin happened to appear in this position and scored a supplementary shot.

At this time in the game, Perrin also began to replace Li Zihan.

In this way, the friendly match between the Chinese team and New Zealand finally shook hands with one to one.

Although Chinese fans don't like this result, everyone is not stupid, the so-called long-term illness has become a doctor, and they have watched a lot of football, so they naturally understand a lot of truths about football. For example, in this game, everyone understands that this is Perrin deliberately training.

On November 18, the Chinese team ushered in the second friendly match. This time their opponent is the Honduras team, this team is the fish belly team in this summer's World Cup, but I often see this team on the stage of the World Cup, and it also means that this team that is regarded as a fish belly in other giants is actually not easy to bully in China's heart, and it is not even good not to be bullied by others.

At the beginning of the game, the Chinese team still adhered to the tactical strategy of the previous game against the New Zealand team, and they deliberately used Li Zihan, Wang Shangyuan and Wu Lei as the offensive center to seek cooperation.

This time, it was not the other party who scored the first goal, but the Chinese team. Gao Lin's front pressure withstood the opponent's central defender, Wang Shangyuan immediately ran on the right side at this time, Wu Lei did not give Wang Shangyuan after taking the ball, but knocked it to Liu Binbin behind him, and then ran by himself.

Now the defenders of Honduras are not easy to do, who are they going to pay attention to after Wu Lei, Wang Shangyuan and Gao Lin run and press at the same time?

Liu Binbin helped them solve this problem, Liu Binbin is still very good at passing, but he didn't pass the ball to Wu Lei, nor did he find Gao Lin in front, and he didn't even go to Wang Shangyuan, who raised his hand to ask for the ball.

Liu Binbin passed the ball to Li Zihan on the other side, Li Zihan did not stop the football, but stretched out his foot to pick the ball behind the New Zealand full-back in front of him, and he also rushed past him.

easily passed the opponent's fullback, and when the opponent's central defender pulled over to fill the position, Li Zihan made a feint to lie in and then seek space to hit the goal, but he passed the football to the middle.

Wu Lei, who had been behind Gao Lin in the middle, stood up at this time, and he directly picked up his foot to shoot at Li Zihan's pass.

In the case of no interference and no one blocking, Wu Lei's shooting in the penalty area is very threatening, and whether this threat can be directly converted into a goal basically depends on the opponent's goalkeeper.

Obviously, this time the Honduran goalkeeper was not ready, the Chinese team's non-stop passing and cutting cooperation made him a little unfamiliar, he was not the first time that the Chinese team played a good game, Honduras and the Chinese team had a lot of friendly matches, an average of once a year.

But now the Chinese team's watch Xiàn made him feel very unfamiliar, and finally after he reacted, there were huge cheers in the stands of the Guangzhou Tianhe Sports Center.

Football has scored!

The goal gave Perrin a firm belief that the Chinese team was being changed little by little, and they were moving towards a truly tactical and cohesive national team. It's just that this road forward is relatively long, and they still need time!

The Chinese team was particularly excited after the goal, and it was clear that they had seen their own growth. After a cheerful celebration of the goal, the Chinese team returned to the game.

After the resumption of the game, the Chinese team did not press on it in one go, nor did they show their personal heroism. They are still patiently executing the tactics of manager Perrin.

And on the TV, the commentators gave thirty-two likes to these young men, praising them for guarding against arrogance and rashness

When the game came to the second half, Perrin started to make substitutions. He needs to give other players a chance to make it easier to investigate, and now the Chinese team's squad for the Asian Cup has not yet been reported, and he still needs time to inspect other players.

Huang Bowen, Yang Xu, Wu Xi and other three were substituted.

In the 50th minute of the game, Honduras equalized and teams from North America and the Caribbean celebrated at the Tianhe Sports Center.

Obviously, the Chinese team, which has not entered the top 32 of the World Cup, has put pressure on their team that often reaches the top 32 or even the top 16!

It's just that the Hondurans didn't be happy for too long, and the Chinese team equalized in less than five minutes, and this time it was Li Zihan who contributed to the team!

Once again, the Chinese team took the lead.

Fifty-five minutes into the game, the Chinese team led 2-1, and at this time Perrin began to make substitutions. Li Zihan, the hero of this game, was replaced, and he was replaced by captain Zheng Zhi.

This is a substitution, which seems to be a conservative substitution of a defensive nature, but in fact, Shang Peilan wants to give Li Zihan more time to rest. After all, now that the European league and the Champions Cup are in full swing, Arsenal needs Li Zihan to steal points for them in the league. So in order to reduce Li Zihan's injury, Peilan had to give him more time to rest, after all, he came to China to participate in training camps and competitions, but he flew half the world

And Zheng Zhi, this time is also conducive to him to play and find his feelings.

But some pseudo-fans don't see it that way, replacing Li Zihan, who has fierce attacking firepower, and Zheng Zhi, who plays in the midfield, this is a conservative substitution, and they think that this is Perrin playing conservative football.

And when Li Zihan was replaced, the Chinese team couldn't find a way to adapt. Because they have been under the leadership of Li Zihan for a long time now, he is still not suitable for leaving Li Zihan all of a sudden

In the end, captain Zheng Zhi stood up and led the team to continue walking.

It's just that after leaving Li Zihan and other main players, the substitutions and rotations did not play as expected, and finally in the 81st minute near the end of the game, Honduras scored a goal to equalize the game.

And this game ended up with a score of 2-2 and the two sides shook hands.

In his post-match press conference, Perrin was adamant that the team was on a positive trajectory and that there were no problems.

And Li Zihan also told reporters that he is full of confidence in the future of the national team, and his teammates are also very good!

True fans who know football can certainly see that since Perrin took office and Li Zihan joined the national team, the national football team has really improved a lot.

After finishing the mission of the national team, Li Zihan is ready to return to London non-stop, he is now a trapeze, if he adds up the flight mileage of his aircraft over the years, I don't know how many times he can circle the earth

And under Li Zihan's personal social account, there are also many fans who leave messages, asking Li Zihan to pay attention to his body. It's easy to get injured in this back-and-forth, especially when his teammates Nkuru and Monreal were injured in the national team.

Most of these fans are fans from Arsenal and the Chinese team.