After the Champions League group stage, Borussia Dortmund lost 2-1 away to Hannover 96 in the league. Pen ~ fun ~ www.biquge.info but in the seventh round of the league, they defeated Mainz 2:1 away.

After seven league games, Dortmund have four wins and three losses, accumulating 12 points and sitting fifth.

The start to the league has not been impressive, considering that Dortmund lost only four games last season and now they have lost three.

The road to defending the league title is not easy.

However, their performance in the Champions League is still quite good, in the second round of the Champions League group stage, Dortmund challenged Marseille away from home, defeated Marseille with a score of 2:1, and won two consecutive group stage victories.

They also topped the group with six points.

Back in the league, Borussia Dortmund found their form, beating promoted Augsburg 4-0 at home. Zhou Yi handed out an assist and a goal.

After this game, it will be the national team break.

Zhou Yi left the club and returned to China.

For the Chinese national team, there is only one game in October, but it is very crucial.

Their opponents are Asian powerhouse Iraq.

China is now tied with Jordan on four points, but they are top of the group on goal difference.

Before the start of the group stage of the top 20, there was an analysis of Chinese domestic media that if the Chinese team wants to qualify from the group, then the two home games against Jordan and Iraq must win, otherwise the hope of qualifying will become very slim.

And this game, which kicks off at 8:15 p.m. Beijing time on October 11, is the first home game that must be won.

The Iraqi national team won the Asian Cup in 2007. At that time, the national team born in the flames of war won the respect of the whole world.

There are many Chinese fans who also compare Iraq with the Chinese team, saying that the motherland of the Iraqi national team is in the midst of a chaotic war, and the team does not even have a normal training venue, so they can only train abroad, and the family members of every player are risking their lives.

In this way, they also won the Asian Cup.

The domestic conditions of the Chinese team are so good, the society is stable, and the economy is prosperous, but the Chinese team has always been like mud that cannot support the wall.

Because of the chaos in Iraq, Chinese fans seem to have preconceived ideas that the strength of the Iraqi national team is not good, so the Chinese team should be stronger than the Iraqi team.

But it's actually a misconception.

The Iraqi national team has always been a representative of West Asian football, nicknamed the "Lions of Mesopotamia", having won the Arab Cup four times in 1964, 1966, 1985 and 1988, the Gulf Cup three times in 1979, 1984 and 1988, and the gold medallist in football at the 1982 Olympic Games. And once reached the World Cup finals in 1986, it was the first team in the Middle East to reach the World Cup finals, you must know that there were only two seats in the whole of Asia at that time, which means that Iraq was one of the two best teams in Asia at that time.

Until 2002, the Chinese team was still struggling to find a place in the World Cup finals.

Therefore, in terms of historical results, Iraq is stronger than the Chinese team.

Iraqi football is not bad.

It's just that after the Gulf War, Iraq has been in turmoil, and people will take it for granted that their national strength is weak, which is equivalent to the strength of football.

Indeed, after the golden age of the eighties, Iraqi football had a trough. However, symbolized by the fourth-place finish in football at the 2004 Olympic Games, Iraqi football ushered in a new golden generation, and finally won the 2007 Asian Cup.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese team and Iraq have played each other a total of seven times in various competitions, and the Chinese team has three wins, two draws and two losses.

However, if you have to carefully analyze these seven games, you can find that in fact, the Chinese team does not have any advantages as everyone thinks.

Of the seven matches, the Chinese team won three of them, two of which were friendlies, one was an invitational match in 2000, and the Chinese team defeated Iraq 4-1. The other was the warm-up match before the Asian Cup at the beginning of this year, where the Chinese team defeated Iraq 3:2.

The only game in which the Chinese team defeated Iraq in an official match was the 2004 Asian Cup held on home soil, where the Chinese team defeated Iraq 3-0 in an eight-to-four match.

In the matches with three draws and two defeats, there are two Asian Cup qualifiers and two World Cup qualifiers.

Is it the victory in the warm-up match or the victory in the qualifier that is important?

Go without saying.

So in fact, the Chinese team has no advantage over Iraq in the real game.

And judging from the entire historical record, it is also Iraq that has the advantage - since the two teams met for the first time in the group stage of the Asian Games in 1974, the Chinese team and Iraq have played a total of 16 games, Iraq has won seven, drawn three and lost six, scored 20 goals and conceded 19 goals, giving a slight advantage.

Coupled with the fact that Iraq is now the golden generation that won the Asian Cup in 2007, they are at their peak.

It will not be easy for the Chinese team to beat them.

So the game was a stalemate from the start.

It is difficult for either person to take advantage and overwhelm the other.

There was no goal in the entire first half.

But the game changed suddenly in the second half, just a minute into the second half, Younis Mahmoud, the striker and captain of the Iraqi side and the representative of the golden generation of Iraqi football, finally broke through the ten fingers of the Chinese team's goalkeeper Yang Zhi and took the lead for Iraq!

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Judging from the scene, the Chinese team fighting at home did not have any advantage, and despite Zhou Yi, it did not suppress Iraq. After all, it is the golden age of an entire generation of Iraq, and what about the Chinese team? Although they won the runner-up in the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, everyone knows who the biggest contributor to the runner-up is.

Without Zhou Yi, the strength of this national team is still worrying.

If Iraq is the golden generation, then the golden generation of the Chinese team has not yet arrived......

So there's nothing wrong with falling behind at home to this Iraqi team.

The key is what to do after falling behind.

Everyone looked at Zhou Yi, including the camera lens of the live broadcast of the game, which also gave Zhou Yi a close-up.

Although Zhou Yi is very young, only twenty years old, he seems to be the core of this national team.

Here we must also thank the head coach Gao Hongbo, who likes to use young people and dislikes veterans. If it weren't for his resolute exclusion of those veteran players from the national team, Zhou Yi would want to be the core of the national team? Have you ever visited the dock?

Now this kind of problem does not exist, the country's internal mountainism has been effectively curbed, the factional struggle is gone, and everyone is unprecedentedly united, so Zhou Yi can easily become the core.

Coupled with the outstanding performance in the Asian Cup, Zhou Yi has conquered everyone's hearts, and he has shown his skills in times of crisis more than once.

So what about this time?

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This time it wasn't so easy.

Iraq had a very tight defense against Zhou Yi, and they were quite aggressive in their defense of Zhou Yi.

This Iraqi team is almost the same as the Iraqi team that met in the warm-up match before the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, and this is the biggest difference between the warm-up match and the official match - the opponent has a different level of commitment.

When Iraq launched a full-court rush like a hunt against Zhou Yi, the Chinese team's midfield was not smooth enough.

"Zhou Yi needs help...... Liu Hong can see that if the Chinese team relies on Zhou Yi alone, they can still catch the opponent off guard in the Asian Cup, but when they win the Asian Cup runner-up and Zhou Yi performs extremely well, it is naturally impossible for the opponent to ignore Zhou Yi.

At that time, what will happen to the Chinese team that relies only on Zhou Yi?

Some teams regard the World Cup qualifiers as heavier than the Asian Cup, and they may not be as desperate as the World Cup qualifiers when they play the Asian Cup. After all, the Asian Cup is played in Asia, but if you can break into the World Cup finals, it will be an opportunity to show your face in front of people all over the world.

Gao Hongbo obviously saw this, so he began to make substitutions, replacing Deng Zhuoxiang on the field and replacing a striker Yu Dabao. It seems to have weakened the power of the attack.

But Deng Zhuoxiang can enhance the control of the midfield after he plays, and Zhou Yi can also have a helper, after all, before Zhou Yi joined the national team, the main forward of the Chinese team was Deng Zhuoxiang.

After Deng Zhuoxiang came on the court, the pressure on Zhou Yi was much less.

China finally equalized in the 63rd minute.

And this goal was precisely because Zhou Yi gave the football to Deng Zhuoxiang, so that Deng Zhuoxiang attracted some defensive attention, and then received the ball from Deng Zhuoxiang, and then stuffed the football to Gao Lin, who scored the football into the goal.

When Gao Lin equalized, the stadium was thunderous.

"The ball is in!!The Chinese team equalized!!Beautiful!!" Liu Hong shouted excitedly. "The Chinese team did it!Zhou Yi's assist!!"

Gao Lin, who scored the goal, turned around and pounced on Zhou Yi, and then hugged each other to celebrate the goal.

The rest of the Chinese players swarmed and surrounded them.

The Chinese fans in the stands cheered, and this was just the beginning, they began to hope for a comeback at the same time as they equalized!