Chapter 398: There is not much time left for the Chinese team
After a day of rest and training against Singapore, the Chinese team flew to Jordan to prepare for the second round of 20 group stage there. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
It was actually a very crucial match, ten times more crucial than the game against Singapore.
In the first round of the group stage, Jordan defeated Iraq 2-0 away from home, and the Chinese team was tied with China on three points, and the Chinese team ranked first because of the advantage of goal difference.
But if China loses away to Jordan, they will be overtaken by Jordan, and they will be overtaken by Iraq, because Iraq's opponent in the second round is Singapore.
At the same time, from the perspective of the entire qualifying situation, it is best not to lose away from home in the face of direct competitors. Even if you can't win, you can't lose.
If you analyze it this way, you can see how important the match against Jordan is.
Away to challenge Jordan, Gao Hongbo's tactics are still based on passing and control.
Now with Zhou Yi, the Chinese team's passing and receiving ability in the face of pressing has improved a lot, and Gao Hongbo has the confidence to do it away from home.
He replaced Zhou Yi in the last game at 70 minutes, also because he was going to play Jordan next.
He hopes that Zhou Yi can get more rest, because it is not good that the Chinese team will have to fight Jordan for 90 minutes away from home. If Zhou Yi's physical fitness is problematic, it will be bad.
The match was so closely watched that even though it was 12 o'clock in the middle of the night Beijing time, the TV was crowded with Chinese fans.
Zhou Jianliang is also among them.
The first half of the game was a close affair, with Chinese midfielder Huang Bowen and Jordan's midfielder Abdel Fattah both receiving a yellow card.
But there was no goal.
If this trend continues, it will naturally be beneficial to the Chinese team. From the start, the Chinese team was hoping for a draw away from home.
However, after the two sides changed sides in the second half, the Jordanian team took the lead in breaking the deadlock!
In the 49th minute, their midfielder Suleiman broke through the door of the Chinese team first!
While the Jordanian players were celebrating their goals, the atmosphere in front of the TV was tense.
Fortunately, in the 56th minute, Hao Junmin used a direct free kick to equalize the score for the Chinese team!
"Well done! Hao Junmin! Well done! Now the two sides are back on the same starting line!"
But just when the Chinese fans and commentators were breathing a sigh of relief, the Jordanian team had just kicked off, and they used a quick attack to penetrate the Chinese team's goal again!
The Chinese fans and commentators haven't finished their breath yet......
"This ......" commentator Liu Hong was stunned, he couldn't imagine that the opponent would be able to score a goal just after kicking off, which instantly made the Chinese team's goal meaningless, and the dream of a draw came to naught!
"What a fart!" Zhou Jianliang in front of the TV couldn't help but scold. "Did you get carried away when you scored a goal? Obviously inattentive, let them just hit the ball into our box!
Li Cuiyun was silent beside her, her husband watched Dortmund's games well, but when he saw the national team games, he was like a different person, full of swear words and no quality at all. She also asked him before that since the national team game was so anxious to watch, then simply don't watch it.
As a result, Zhou Jianliang replied to her: "Can you not want your son after beating him because he made a mistake?"
"Of course not. ”
"So it's impossible for me not to watch the national team!"
Li Cuiyun had nothing to say.
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Jordan's goal can be described as a "devastating" blow to the morale of the Chinese team.
Because he had just equalized the score, he was not happy to finish, and he was led by the opponent again. It's like winning a five-million lottery ticket, dancing with excitement in your hand, only to be blown out into the sea by the wind......
Subsequently, Jordan took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce offensive against the Chinese team's goal, hoping to take the opportunity to make another city and completely lock in the victory.
The Chinese team could only defend passively, and all of them retreated back to their 30-meter zone.
For a while, the Chinese team was in front of the goal, and it seemed that they could lose the ball at any time.
Jordanian fans cheered excitedly from the stands, cheering on the team.
The clock ticked by in the Jordanian bombardment, and it was the 80th minute.
"In the 80th minute of the game, there is not much time left for the Chinese team...... Liu Hong threw out his classic quote.
Seeing that the Jordan team had been bombarded indiscriminately for so long and had not been able to score, they simply recycled their defense, and if they let the opponent counterattack, it would be all over.
There is not much time left, and if the Chinese team equalizes, Jordan will not want to see it.
After they recycled their defense, the Chinese team could finally press the attack.
Gao Hongbo also made some adjustments, replacing Yu Hai and replacing Feng Renliang, who has stronger breakthrough ability.
In addition, he replaced defender Liu Jianye with defender Wu Xi to further enhance his control and interception ability in the midfield. This is mainly to prevent the Chinese team from being counterattacked by Jordan when it presses up for attack. After Wu Xi came on the field, he could intercept the opponent's counterattack in the midfield, and then hand over the football to Zhou Yi to launch a second attack.
Now the situation has become that Jordan is holding on to the death, while the Chinese team is besieging and fighting the most difficult position.
This is also the time to fully test the offensive organization ability of the Chinese team.
Zhou Yi received and passed the ball again and again, sorting out the situation of the game.
Five minutes later, the Chinese team still failed to score, and more often than not, they could only rely on the simple practice of long-range shots from outside the box and wide crosses to threaten the Jordanian goal.
But this kind of offensive means is too simple, and it is easy to defend against it.
Zhou Yi is still receiving and passing the ball, but it seems that more of it is useless...... Because most of them are horizontal passes and then horizontal passes, from left to right, and from right to left, and it is not possible to take a step forward, so the end result of such a cross is often a cross from the side, and then the rest is left to God. God forbid, if you're lucky, you can score, if God forbid, if you're unlucky, you won't be able to score all the time.
Jordan's defensive system is so complete that it's hard to find a break with just passing.
"It's the eighty-sixth minute, the score is still 1:2, Jordan is ahead! There is really not much time left for the Chinese team!" Liu Hong shouted.
Zhou Jianliang in front of the TV scolded angrily: "! You can say something nice!
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The defense in the middle was too dense, and Zhou Yi came to the left side. The teammates passed the football to him, and Zhou Yi advanced along the side and received the ball.
Jordan's defender Khalil also pressed up.
Facing the approaching Khalil, Zhou Yi made a move to send the football directly with his right foot - his body gently deviated to the left and made a gesture to lift his right foot.
Khalil immediately pounced on him with a sliding tackle to try to block his pass.
As a result, Zhou Yi's right leg was only lifted, but it was not really raised, and the football rolled in front of him, and then was blocked by his left foot.
But Khalil slid straight out of the touchline......
Zhou Yi stopped where he was and watched him out. Then he flicked the ball forward with his left foot and broke through to the penalty area!
"Zhou Yi, good job!" Liu Hong yelled excitedly.
However, Zhou Yi soon encountered the interception of the Jordanian players.
In the face of the blockade of the two players, Zhou Yi did not force a breakthrough, but used the outside of his right foot to dial the football to Hao Junmin nearby.
Then he passed between the two while the defender in front of him shifted his attention to Hao Junmin, continued to run forward, and ran into the penalty area.
After Hao Junmin received the ball, he saw Zhou Yi burst into the penalty area, he didn't have time to adjust, leaned back, swung his legs on the spot, and sent the football out. He then lost his balance and fell to the ground.
But before he fell, he saw Zhou Yi catch his ball!
"Hao Junmin's wonderful pass!Good ball!Zhou Yi received the ball in the penalty area!!"
After Zhou Yi received the ball, he gently knocked the football to the bottom line with the outside of his left foot, and the opponent's defender Usman pounced on the whole person, intending to clear the football out.
But when he rushed up, Zhou Yi's left foot hooked the football back!
So Usman also swept past Zhou Yi, and then lost his balance and fell to the ground......
This time, Zhou Yike didn't have the time to watch the other party slide out, after his left foot hooked back to the football, the outer instep of his right foot was immediately gently moved to the right by the football, and at the same time, the whole person jumped up lightly on the spot.
Just as he was doing all this, another Jordanian defender Yassin's sweeping leg had already arrived!
But it's a pity that he was a little late, didn't play football and didn't sweep down Zhou Yi.
In fact, Zhou Yi doesn't have to jump, he can be swept down in the penalty area, but this is Jordan's home stadium. The devil knows what off-the-board moves the West Asian people will use, so Zhou Yi didn't dare to hand over his fate to the referee.
He always wants to take his fate into his own hands!
After dodging Yasin's attack, Zhou Yi landed on the ground and regained control of the ball with his right foot.
At this time, on his left side, two Jordanian defenders - Usman and Yassin - have already fallen sideways. In front of him was the goalkeeper Shafi who was blocked in the near corner, and several other Jordanian players, who formed an impenetrable wall in front of Zhou Yi, not letting him advance another half a step, and not letting him shoot!
But they seem to have forgotten that Zhou Yi's more powerful weapon is...... Pass!
Zhou Yi turned his right ankle outwards and rubbed the football up, and the football flew over the Jordanian wall at the front point and flew to the back point.
There, Yang Xu, the high school forward of the Chinese team, doesn't have to jump, as long as he leans back and swings forward, a simple header!
Before Jordanian goalkeeper Shafi could turn over and pounce, the ball flew into the almost unguarded goal......
"2:2!! Yang Xu! Yang Xu! Yang Xu—!!!" Liu Hong raised his arms in the studio and shouted. "The Chinese team did it! They did it! They equalized at the last minute! But 95 percent of the credit for this goal should be credited to the ...... Zhou Yi's body! It was he who broke into the Longtan Tiger's Den alone, creating such a good opportunity for Yang Xu!"
"!!," Zhou Jianliang in front of the TV opened his mouth wide on the TV screen and roared.
Li Cuiyun watched from the side as the green tendons on his neck bulged, and his face turned red.
Although she has watched the ball with her husband for the past two years, she still can't figure out these fans.
Why do you swear when you're upset, and even more so when you're happy?