The Chinese team defeated Italy!

The incident quickly spread in China, and many domestic news media also regarded the game as a battle for the revival of Chinese football.

People's Daily: China has never defeated Italy, which is not something to be proud of, but just yesterday, this history was rewritten. A national team with an average age of only 20 years old won the world championship Italy 2:1, will this be the golden generation of Chinese football?

Sports Weekly: We never imagined that one day the Chinese team would be able to defeat Italy. Maybe I thought about it, but I definitely didn't expect it to be so soon. Under the leadership of Sun Xiang, this national team has shown something different. We should be thankful that our country has a player like Sun Xiang.

After that, not only the Chinese media, but also the entire international football world paid a lot of attention to this friendly match.

There are two main reasons, one is that Italy is almost all the main players; The second is Sun Xiang's first time representing the national team.

The results blew their minds away.

If the score is adjusted, maybe they will still believe it, after all, Sun Xiang is here, the score of 1:2 is normal, and Sun Xiang's ability to score is something they expected. However, the result was that the Chinese team won, and it still scored two, so some European media did not forget to raise the Chinese national football team to a new height while expressing their surprise.

Spain's "Marca": In the era when Europe and the United States dominated football, some Asian countries could only become passers-by of the World Cup. China, on the other hand, is the sleeping giant of Asian countries. Now, the giant has awakened, the "sun" has made him strong, and an era that belongs to Asia and China is about to come?

Italy's Milan Sport newspaper is more biased towards Sun, saying: Sun is a very talented player, as long as he is on the field, then the threat will be everywhere. It can even be said that Italy lost not to China, but to Sun.

While the perfect words in the news circle were spreading, the morale of the national football team was preparing for the match against the Swiss team in two days.

Switzerland are also a formidable opponent, having beaten Northern Ireland in the second round of the World Cup to claim their ticket to the World Cup, with Shaqiri and Xhaka and Ricardo Rindij. Rodriguez is the player of his year. So this game is bound to be a tough battle as well.

The Swiss side immediately changed their tactics after learning the news that the Chinese team had won Italy. They had been training with the Chinese team for the purpose of before, but they didn't expect them to defeat Italy.

So Swiss coach Petkovic watched the game footage of that game overnight, and saw that he summed up a truth at the end.

Lock up the No. 10 of the Chinese team.

He actually knew the name Sun Xiang, but because he didn't pay much attention to it, he didn't take Sun Xiang to heart. But after watching the video of the game, I realized that Sun Xiang was the soul of the entire Chinese team.

So he chose the tactic that almost all Bundesliga teams would choose, and watched Sun Xiang die.

So in the past few days, the whole team has been practicing around the formation of 4231.

Originally, Petkovic was a coach who made good use of the 4231 formation, and under his hands, the two midfielders had to be aggressive, which is a typical B2B player, so Xhaka and Denis Zakaria will only be reused.

It is worth mentioning that Zakaria had contact with Sun Xiang in the match between Borussia Mönchenchen and Wolfsburg, but the two did not have much communication at that time.

But as the saying goes, practice is not necessary, and Petkovic still plans to let Zakaria and Xhaka follow Sun Xiang throughout the whole process.

But just one day before the start of the game, such a news suddenly came out of the Chinese team.

Sun Xiang is sick!

Not only Switzerland, but even Chinese fans are stupid.

Sick? I played well two days ago, but I was sick when I said I was sick, this is too unscientific!

As a result, on the day of the game, the fans really did not see Sun Xiang's name in the team squad.

It turned out that a viral flu was prevalent in Switzerland in March, and the climate there was relatively dry, so the virus was a bit severe, and a cold could occur if you were not careful.

Not only Sun Xiang in the team, but also many people were also infected with this disease. It's just not that serious, and the team also joked that because the resistance of young people is relatively low, all Sun Xiang will be serious.

Anyway, for the sake of Sun Xiang's health, Lippi decided not to put him in the squad, so Sun Xiang watched this game from the stands.

In the end, the Chinese team drew 2:2 with Switzerland, and Shaqiri and Xhaka scored for Switzerland in the first half. In the second half, the Chinese team began to give it a go, and in the absence of Sun Xiang, Zhang Yuning carried the offensive banner alone. He scored a header from Wang Jingbin's pass at the start of the second half, and then took advantage of Yu Yue's penalty in the 70th minute to score again.

When he saw Zhang Yuning put the ball in, Sun Xiang, who was in the stands, jumped up excitedly and waved the hat in his hand desperately.

After the game, Zhang Yuning accepted a post-match interview with CCTV, and when asked about the results of the game, Zhang Yuning said that if Sun Xiang was on the field, then it was likely that the Chinese team would score first.

However, no matter how you say it, the Chinese team without Sun Xiang ended the game with a good result.

It is precisely without Sun Xiang that the result of this game surprised the domestic media, and even did not hesitate to use the "super golden generation" to evaluate them, in their eyes, in Qatar 4 years later, China has a reason to appear on the stage of the World Cup.

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"Two games, one win and one draw, facing former world champions and pre-World Cup teams, now this Chinese team can be said to have entered the ranks of Asia's first-class teams." This was said in an interview with the media the day after that.

And in that interview, the reporter also deliberately asked about Sun Xiang's views on this junior. Sun Jihai's answer is also very affirmative.

"Sun Xiang, there is no doubt that he is the pride of Chinese football, whether it is in the national team or Wolfsburg, he is a core player. I'm very optimistic about him! ”

When a reporter asked him what he thought about Sun Xiang becoming China's "new sun", Sun Jihai smiled.

"'Sun' is just a title after all, strength is the most important, it doesn't matter who is the Sun, of course I still hope that he can surpass me and become the best player."

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Sun Xiang, who finished the national team schedule, returned to Germany on the 28th, and the Wolfsburg club gave Sun Xiang a short day off to give him a little rest, and then accompanied the team to Berlin, the capital of Germany, on the 30th to play the game against Hertha Berlin on the 31st.

Sun Xiang set up Gomez for the winning goal and picked up the three points, while rivals Hoffenheim drew at home to Cologne, leaving only one point between Wolfsburg and Hoffenheim.

It is worth mentioning that there is also a key battle in this round of the game, that is, the strong dialogue between Bayern Munich and Dortmund. In the end, Bayern Munich got three points at home thanks to Lewandowski's brace, while RB Leipzig did not win, 17 points ahead of second-place RB Leipzig with six games left in the league. In other words, Bayern only need to get one point in the six rounds added to ensure the first place in the league.

It's so easy to get a point from six rounds, so the media has already seen Bayern as an early champion.

It is precisely because of this that the competition for the top four in the league will become more and more fierce.

There is only a five-point gap between second-placed RB Leipzig and sixth-placed Borussia Mönchengladbach, so the rest of the game is bound to be a battle for points.