As Zhou Yi said, no matter how many off-the-board moves and how many verbal battles there are before the game, it is actually useless. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The outcome of a football match is largely determined by the game.

Of course, off-the-board moves and verbal battles may affect the players' performance on the field.

For example, if Qatar's adjustment to the Chinese team's hotel can make the Chinese players a little more tired, then they will not be able to be 100 per cent in the game.

However, it seems that the Qatar side really just doesn't want the Chinese team to live in their lucky hotel, and the hotel they have arranged for the Chinese team to stay now is actually better than the previous one in terms of conditions and geographical location......

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The match between China and Singapore kicks off at 10:15 p.m. Beijing time on November 11, which is not too late for domestic fans to watch the game without staying up late. After reading it, it was almost 12 o'clock in the morning, just in time to go straight to bed.

Of course, how many people will have the heart to sleep at that time is another matter.

At 10 p.m. Beijing time, it is 7 p.m. local time in Qatar, and there is a five-hour time difference between the two places.

For Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries with a tropical desert climate, with the exception of December and February, when the winter climate is mild, the daytime temperature is very high, rising to more than 40 degrees, and the air humidity is very high, and in the summer it is very muggy. Therefore, at this time, the football match will not be scheduled in the afternoon.

Kick-off at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, as in the Premier League, is almost impossible in the Qatari league.

The only good thing about this place is that although the temperature is very high during the day, the temperature difference between day and night is very large due to the fact that the surface is dominated by gravel, and it is still very cool in the morning and evening, and there is a sea breeze, so the temperature is not high.

This match between the Chinese team and Iraq was scheduled for this time period.

The western sky, near the horizon, still had some red glow, but it was already the last glow of the sunset.

Seabirds also fly over the course from time to time.

There were a lot of fans in the stands dressed in the white robes that are unique to Arabia, and not many of these people are actually Iraqis, and many of them are actually Qataris.

Zhou Yi is no stranger to this scene, when he was in the Asian Cup, almost every game was like this.

In addition to the fans of Qatar and Iraq, there are also many Chinese in red clothes holding five-star red flags in the south stands, they can hardly be said to be fans, but they are all Chinese, they are all employees and students of Chinese-funded companies in Qatar. Many of these people may not usually watch football at all, but they are not here to watch football, they are here to support the Chinese team. When abroad, sports can represent the motherland to some extent.

After the start of the game, Iraq launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team's goal, hoping to score early.

They almost beat the Chinese team on the road, and when they return to their home stadium, the goal must be to win.

In response to Iraq's thinking, Gao Hongbo formulated a strategy of defensive counterattack.

In the first half, Gao Hongbo's tactics were half the battle, as Iraq did not score.

However, the Chinese team was not able to threaten the Iraqi goal.

The two sides played to a 0:0 draw.

At halftime, Gong Lei, a guest commentator in the Chinese domestic studio, analyzed the performance of the Chinese team in the first half and believed that they put too much energy on defense, resulting in a slight lack of investment in attack. However, this is not too much of a problem, after all, if the Chinese team can take a draw away from home, it will be good.

“...... Of course, it would be better if we could win, but I think the most important thing for the Chinese team is not to think too much about it now. I'm afraid that if I think too much, I don't know how to play......"

Gong Lei's statement was agreed by commentator Liu Hong.

"Yes, we used to think too much about it. Actually, it's better to keep football simpler......"

"Yes, unity of thought. ”

Liu Hong thought about it, and then felt that it was not quite right: "Eh, Mr. Gong." But we also have too many precedents of wanting to draw and being afraid of losing, and in the end we really lost. If this game is too conservative, will it end up losing again?"

Gong Lei seemed to be stabilized, and after a few hums, he finally thought of what to say: "That's the case...... The Chinese team is not blindly defensive, and there will still be counterattacks. But it is definitely still defense-oriented, unless there is a good opportunity to counterattack, the Chinese team will not press the attack at will. As for the timing of this counterattack...... I think Zhou Yi will definitely grasp it well. ”

Liu Hong also echoed: "That's right, I believe that Zhou Yi will not let us down - when did he let us down?"

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In fact, Gong Lei said well, at halftime, Gao Hongbo did emphasize to the Chinese team that they should still play defensive counterattacks in the second half, and do not easily press up to attack, otherwise the space behind him is easy to be used by the opponent.

But when is it time to go back and fight back?

He didn't say it in detail, but said to all the players: "Zhou Yi decides." ”

He fully believes in Zhou Yi's judgment of the situation, and at the same time, it is also a kind of decentralization. In fact, the manager on the sidelines will never know more about what is happening on the pitch than the players on the pitch, but the head coach has an advantage, that is, they are deep on the sidelines, can see the overall situation, and observe the game from a macro perspective, so although they are not on the front line, they can command the game. And the players, although they are on the front line, are unable to understand the full picture because they are "in the mountains".

But such a problem does not exist in Zhou Yi at all, because he even has an observation angle beyond the head coach's perspective, he has a "God perspective"! So he can not only understand the situation on the front line, experience the changes in the game situation for the first time, but also have a more overall vision than the head coach.

So on the pitch, he makes decisions, it's actually better than the manager's decisions. The main manager is willing to delegate power.

Gao Hongbo is willing to delegate power. In fact, he didn't want to do it at first, but when he observed Zhou Yi's training and games up close, he found that Zhou Yi knew everything about the situation on the court, even to the point of being terrible. Everyone knows that the format of the game is changing rapidly, with the twenty-two players changing every minute and every second.

But Zhou Yi was able to master it.

After discovering Zhou Yi's characteristics, Gao Hongbo felt that Zhou Yi could be a mobile command hub center on the court, and he didn't need to yell on the sidelines to direct the game.

In this way, he gradually delegated power, and the players of the Chinese team gradually got used to listening to Zhou Yi's arrangement on the field.

As for Zhou Yi, he actually likes the head coach's arrangement. Because this will make things simpler, it is not easy to simplify the complex, and if you do it well, you can reap great results. Although the strength of other players in the national team is not as good as Dortmund's teammates, Zhou Yi does not feel that playing in the national team is a very painful thing, because he has such a privilege in the national team, and he does not have it in Dortmund.

Because Borussia Dortmund's manager Jurgen Klopp will not do what Gao Hongbo did, he wants to control everything and only allow players to play freely within his prescribed range, and not allow complete free play.

This is also the result of different systems.

Of course, this approach has a high demand for the player's own sense of responsibility and self-confidence.

People who don't have a sense of responsibility don't want to take that responsibility because it's also a lot of pressure, and if something goes wrong, it's the manager who is responsible and now it's the player who makes the decision.

People who don't have confidence are not up to the task, and people who don't have confidence will doubt themselves and hesitate, squandering great opportunities and possibly even putting their team in danger.

And it just so happens that Zhou Yi is a person with both a sense of responsibility and self-confidence.

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In the second half of the game, the two sides changed sides and fought again, and Iraq still launched a fierce offensive towards the goal of the Chinese team, even more fiercely than in the first half. Because they knew that there were only forty-five minutes left for them.

In the face of the menacing Iraq, the Chinese team played very calmly under the leadership of Zhou Yi and was not in a hurry at all, as if they really ******** to get a draw away from home.

Even when possession was at their feet, they were not in a hurry to pass forward, but were backing their feet back and forth, pushing forward slowly, letting the Iraqi players desperately return to the defense as if they couldn't see it at all.

Duan Xin felt sorry for the Chinese team for missing counterattack opportunities again and again at first, and then stopped talking.

And the Iraqi side after running back to the defense a few times in such a sprint, found that the Chinese team had no intention of playing a quick counterattack, they passed the ball there leisurely, but they were half tired because of the desperate return to defense, which was really a little unpleasant.

So when the Chinese team got the ball again, they were not in a hurry to run back, but stayed in the midfield first, trying to break the ball to play counterattack on the spot.

But when the Iraqi team did this, Zhou Yi suddenly passed the football to Hao Junmin, who was on the side in front, with a long diagonal pass!

"The Chinese team's counterattack!!" Liu Hong, who had been holding back for a long time, could finally shout this sentence.