defeated Oman away and qualified for the World Cup two rounds in advance, but this does not mean that the Chinese team can go through the motions in the next two games. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After a day of repairing at the national team's Xiangshan base, the Chinese team returned to Beijing and set off again for Changsha, the site of their next match.

Here they will face a formidable foe - the Japanese team.

Although the outcome of this game no longer matters whether it appears or not, it is still very important.

Because the opponent is Japan, and because this is a match between two teams competing for the top spot in the group.

Domestic public opinion has also begun to gradually divide, with some continuing to celebrate the qualification, while others are focusing on the next matches.

If China can beat Japan at home, the final game against Australia will be completely meaningless, and even if China loses to Australia away, they will still be top of the group.

With the transfer of the Chinese team to Changsha, there are many reporters who have been reporting with the team for a long time.

Six days later, China's home game against Japan will be played in Changsha.

Some media even used headlines like "Battle Changsha" to report on the game.

The Battle of Changsha was a famous contest between Chinese and Japanese armies during the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. The entire city was burned for two days and two nights, and the Chinese and Japanese armies fought four battles in the city and the surrounding area over a period of six years. After four large-scale battles, the Japanese army finally captured Shangsha and opened up the mainland communication line.

The war is a thing of the past, but it has not been forgotten.

The Chinese media used such a name to cover the match, which is obviously murderous.

It's about wanting to be a shame in football.

Today's Chinese team is gaining momentum, which makes the Chinese media and fans full of confidence. The pain and anger of the surprise 1-0 defeat at home to Qatar is over.

Although this game is not related to the right to qualify, it is related to the dignity of Chinese football and even Chinese.

It is a coincidence that the competition was chosen to be held in Changsha, and it seems that it also has a sense of destiny.

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Zhou Yi is a Chinese born in the nineties of the twentieth century, he did not experience the war years, and he learned more about the Anti-Japanese War from textbooks and film and television works.

His goal was to beat Japan in this game, but not because of a war fought more than 60 years ago, but because of the reality that any professional player wants to win.

He has friends in the Japanese team, and Shinji Kagawa has a very good relationship with him.

But this did not prevent him from saying in an interview that he would definitely not let the Japanese team regain the top spot in the group.

“...... In fact, the Japanese team has already qualified ahead of schedule......" Zhou Yi told reporters.

After the end of the previous round, Japan drew 1:1 with Australia and accumulated 12 points, while Oman, who was originally third in the group, still accumulated five points because of the loss to China, seven points away from Japan. Oman only have one game left and they are unlikely to overtake Japan in any way.

Therefore, the Chinese team and the Japanese team qualified ahead of schedule at the same time.

"Now that everybody's out. Then I hope everyone can let go of the burden of qualifying and go all out to give a very good game to the fans. Of course, I don't have a lot of requirements, as long as we win the game in the end. Zhou Yi said this and laughed slyly.

What does the Japanese side think about this?

After the last game, the Japanese media also began to pay attention to the match against the Chinese team.

As for the World Cup qualification, it is not the content of the big report, because compared to China, Japan has become accustomed to participating in the World Cup, and neither the media nor the fans will celebrate it.

They care more about the game against the Chinese team.

The Japanese media considered the match a "revenge fight".

What revenge?

The first leg of the top 10 match was not able to win against the Chinese team at home.

Avenge the loss to the Chinese Olympic team in the Olympic final.

If you can beat the Chinese team away from home, you can take revenge.

In fact, it was not too difficult for the Japanese team to beat the Chinese team away from home, and there was no need for the media to make such a big fuss, and the gap between the football level of China and Japan was quite large.

China may only have a slight advantage over the Japanese team until the mid-90s of the last century, and then it has gradually been left behind by the all-out development of Japanese football.

Japanese football used to be full of awe of Chinese football, and later realized that Chinese football was just a paper tiger.

As long as they are a little more serious, it will be difficult for the Chinese team to bargain for anything from the Japanese team.

But in the last two or three years, the situation has changed again.

Japan found that by the time they faced the Chinese team, the advantage had disappeared little by little.

First of all, starting from the 2011 Asian Cup, in the final, facing the Chinese team without Zhou Yi, the Japanese team still played very hard, and in the end it can only be said that it narrowly defeated the opponent and took away the trophy. If Zhou Yi hadn't been banned and missed that game, it would be hard to say who the final championship would belong.

Then at the Olympics, the Japanese Olympic team, which reached the final of the Olympic Games for the first time, was tasked with making history. lost to the Chinese Olympic team in the final. Both teams have a large number of returnees who have played in Europe, and in terms of the quality of the returnees, Japan has lost completely.

Next is the World Cup qualifiers round of 10, the first leg of the battle between the two sides. The Chinese team challenged the Japanese team away. With Zhou Yi's goal, the Chinese team forced them to a draw at the home of the Japanese team. You must know that the Chinese team at that time was not "complete", and not all returnee players started the game. And at that time, the Chinese team had just introduced some players from the National Olympic team, and they were still digesting and absorbing, and they did not pinch everyone together.

In this way, the Japanese team wanted to win at home.

The balance of power between China and Japan in football is suddenly like their military balance of power, and the Chinese team has gradually gained the upper hand!

This time, facing the Chinese team, which should be the strongest lineup, the Japanese side also sent the strongest lineup they could.

Shinji Kagawa was asked about Zhou Yi in an interview, and he smiled: "Zhou Yi has been the best midfielder in Europe in the past season, and he is in good shape. But we're not going to throw in the towel, we're going to give it our all, and I think that's the respect for him......"

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The craze for the top 10 did not subside with the Chinese team qualifying ahead of schedule.

The Sino-Japanese contest has found a good reason for everyone to pay attention.

Although the Chinese Olympic team defeated the Japanese Olympic team in the final of the Olympic Games.

But at the national team level, the Chinese team has not been able to beat the Japanese team in recent years. Chinese fans are also eager for the Chinese team to win a dignified victory over Japan in an official match, and it is a victory with gold content.

However, some people are also worried that after qualifying for the World Cup finals, the players of the Chinese team will lose their fighting spirit and are unwilling to go all out in the match against Japan.

Some media asked the players of the Chinese team this question.

"How is it possible? The opponent is Japan, and the fighting spirit may not be able to fight Japan?"

Sun Pan, who was asked, laughed and waved his hand, the big hand was like a pu fan, so that the reporter followed him to a gust of wind blowing in front of him, and he couldn't help but stay on Sun Pan's hand for an extra second. I thought, with such a big pair of hands, it is no wonder that he can be the top goalkeeper in Europe......

When everyone else answered this question, they also gave a very firm answer: "There will not be such a situation, and you don't need to mobilize to play against the Japanese team." ”

The implication is that you don't need to be mobilized to be high-spirited.

There are naturally reasons for the enmity between the family and the country, but it is also inseparable from the grievances between Chinese and Japanese football.

Some of the national team players who participated in the top 10 tournament participated in the 2011 Asian Cup final.

The Japanese team wants revenge, and the Chinese team also wants revenge -- defeating the Japanese team in the Olympic Games is a matter for the national Olympic team. They are the national team, and the Asian Cup is a grudge against the national team.

Both sides are desperate for revenge.

The atmosphere was stirred up before the game.

By the time there were three days left before the game, all tickets for the match were sold out.

Some tickets with good positions have even been speculated by scalpers to sky-high prices. Even so, it's hard to get a ticket.

This is the first home game after the Chinese team qualified for the World Cup finals in this World Cup qualifiers.

In addition, the match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team will be very concerned by fans.

The combination of these two factors made Changsha's Helong Stadium full on the day of the game.