Chapter 416: The Second Lucky Hotel
When Zhou Yi passed the football to the side, there were still many people who didn't think of where Zhou Yi was going to pass the ball to. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info until they found Hao Junmin in sight.
The wide player lifted his foot to stop Zhou Yi's ball, then burst forward with the ball towards Iraq's goal.
At this time, Iraq only had two central defenders at the back in addition to the goalkeeper.
Hao Junmin used his skills to shake off the first Iraqi player to pounce, and he was already on the edge of the Iraqi penalty area.
Then he got up and shot decisively!
The football made contact with the second Iraqi player who came up to block his shot, and there was a slight change of line, which was not very large, but it just bypassed the Iraqi goalkeeper's ten fingers, and then flew into the goal by grazing the inside of the far post!
"Good ball, good ball!! Hao Junmin, the Chinese team is leading 1:0 away from home!" Liu Hong shouted excitedly. "That's great news!"
Hao Junmin was also excited, and after the goal, he ran to the bottom of the stands and waved to the Chinese fans in the stands, winning cheers and applause from the Chinese fans.
Then he turned around, and Zhou Yi and the others had already run up.
They hugged each other again.
The Iraqi players made the best backdrop for their celebration.
The commentator on Qatar TV was stunned and did not broadcast the game for the first time.
I really didn't expect Iraq to have the advantage in the game, but it was the Chinese team that scored first......
However, this kind of unexpectedness is just a delusion of the Qatari commentators, in fact, with Iraq's style of play, it is only a matter of time before they concede a goal......
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Gao Hongbo on the sidelines was also happy to celebrate the goal with his assistants, and they high-fived each other.
This goal was scored by the Chinese team through a typical defensive counterattack, and only two people were involved in the whole goal process, one was Zhou Yi who passed the ball, and the other was Hao Junmin who shot the goal.
What does this mean?
It shows that his arrangement is correct, and the decision of whether to counterattack or not is handed over to Zhou Yi, and at the same time, Hao Junmin is allowed to fight back in the front court.
Defending and counterattacking does not require too many troops, so there is no need to worry about the opponent seizing the opportunity to counterattack after going up to attack.
It depends on individual ability.
Although Hao Junmin didn't play much in Germany and returned to China, he has been training in the Bundesliga club for a season and a half, and he is the closest to Zhou Yi in the national team in terms of football philosophy and awareness.
So since you can't rely too much on Zhou Yi, you can appropriately increase Hao Junmin's tasks.
Judging by this ball, the idea executes well.
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After the Chinese team scored, they returned to the state of defensive counterattack, and did not take advantage of the situation to score another one because they scored one goal. After all, this is Iraq's home turf, and the devil knows what the West Asians will play on their home turf.
So the Chinese team is very cautious.
They shrank back after they scored and continued the way they were before the goal, as if they hadn't scored at all, still trying to get a draw away from home.
But Iraq knows that the score is different, and the next game is different!
They now have no choice but to continue to storm the Chinese team's goal, and they don't care about the space behind them. If the Chinese team seizes the opportunity to score a goal...... That's the end of it, but if you don't dare to attack because you're afraid of it, that's the same game!
For both teams that are playing, each other is an opponent that must be beaten. If Iraq wants to turn the tables, it must beat the Chinese team at home, which is the same as when the Chinese team wanted to beat Iraq at home.
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Iraq's onslaught put a lot of pressure on the Chinese team. In the 80th minute, right-back Zhang Linpeng received a red card for a foul and was directly punished.
All of a sudden, the situation became extremely unfavorable for the Chinese team.
The Iraqi and Qatari fans in the stands cheered and seemed to see Iraq's hopes of equalising or even beating China – with 10 minutes left on the clock, they may have thought Iraq could score two goals in a row.
It's not unreasonable to think so, any team will always have some emotional swings when they suddenly send off someone.
But that doesn't apply well to this game......
Because just when Iraq grabbed the Chinese team and attacked with one less person, they were once again counterattacked by the Chinese team.
This time it was still an attack with only two people participating, and the form was the same as Hao Junmin's goal, the person who passed the ball was Zhou Yi, but the person who received the ball and shot was replaced by Gao Lin.
This time Zhou Yi did not pass the football to the side again, but directly passed it to the core of Iraq, because Iraq was too pressed, and there was no one in their core area, Gao Lin even thought he was offside when he received the ball there, but in fact, when Zhou Yi passed the ball, Gao Lin was not offside.
After receiving the ball, Gao Lin turned and dribbled forward, and after only a few steps, he entered the penalty area. Then facing the attacking Iraqi goalkeeper, he opted for a pick-and-shoot.
The ball flew over the goalkeeper's head and crashed into the Iraqi goal.
In the 82nd minute, the Chinese team led Iraq 2:0 away and almost sealed the win!
"Ball in, in, in!!" Liu Hong was very excited, much more excited than when he scored the first goal, because although the first goal was scored, it still made him worry about being equalized by Iraq in the end. But this goal scored but it made the stone in everyone's hearts fall to the ground - the victory of this game is stable!
Gao Hongbo on the sidelines also felt that the game was stable, he slapped hard, and he was usually a little shy, but now he was smiling happily, and his movements were wild and exaggerated.
The players of the Chinese team all rushed to Gao Lin, even goalkeeper Yang Zhi.
"How's that, Lao Fu. Did Zhou Yi's state come out early?" Gao Hongbo asked Fu Bo next to him.
Fu Bo smiled and didn't speak.
He was wrong.
But he was very, very happy that he had miscalculated.
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Gao Lin's goal completely killed the suspense of the game, the Iraqi players lost their fighting spirit after conceding the goal, the game includes injury time, in fact, there are still ten minutes left, but it is almost impossible to score two goals in the last ten minutes, it would be good to score one. And even if they scored two goals in a row and equalized, it would not mean much to Iraq.
Because taking away a draw away from home is the minimum requirement of the Chinese team, and they are completely acceptable, but Iraq can't.
So when I think of this, the Iraqi side has little fighting spirit to continue fighting.
And the Chinese team is still shrinking its defense under the leadership of Zhou Yi, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, and it is not because they have almost locked up the victory, they get carried away or something, and they don't give Iraq a chance.
In the end, the Chinese team defeated Iraq 2-0 away and won the key victory in the key game.
With the victory, China got three points, and their total points in this group became eight points, and they are temporarily in first place with Jordan and Singapore still to play. However, in the end, they will still be overtaken by Jordan, because Jordan will beat Singapore at home There is no suspense.
Despite this, the Chinese team has also reaped the best results, and they have squeezed Iraq down. If Iraq are to qualify from this group and qualify for the last 10, they will have to win the next two group games, especially against Jordan.
But that's already a problem for Iraq, and it has nothing to do with the Chinese team.
Next, the Chinese team can use a relatively relaxed mentality to challenge Singapore, the weakest team in the group.
If they can win that game, they will reach 11 points while they sit back and watch the outcome of the match between Iraq and Jordan.
If Jordan can beat Iraq at home, then the 11-point Chinese team and Iraq will reach a seven-point difference, the Chinese team will qualify from the top 20 group one round ahead of schedule, advance to the top 10, the last game against Jordan will not be the overall situation, the two teams will work together in a very friendly atmosphere to qualify.
If Iraq beat Jordan away, they will have seven points, and with the final game remaining, they are still four points behind China, and it is impossible to threaten China in any way. Jordan is their direct competitor to qualify from the group.
Even if China lost their last game at home to Jordan and Iraq beat Singapore, China would have finished second in the group.
So as long as they can beat Singapore in the next game, the Chinese team has already qualified for the top 10 in advance!
Fate has been firmly held in the hands of the Chinese team!
This kind of situation was difficult to happen to the Chinese team before......
Chinese fans were stunned by such happiness for a while, and before they could react, the situation was actually very favorable to them.
After the game, everyone started to calculate the score on the Internet, only to find that the Chinese team was only one step away from the top 10!
Since the 2002 World Cup, the Chinese team has not been able to participate in the top 10 stage of the Asian qualifiers. It's unbelievable to say this -- it's a shame that the football of such a big country as China can't even participate in the final stage of the qualifiers in Asia!
In the past, Chinese fans never thought about whether we could participate in the top 10 tournaments, and at that time we were only worried about how the team would break out of Asia and go to the world.
Compared to the past, it seems to be a step backwards to just get into the top 10 now.
This is of course a regression, but it is better to be able to participate in the top 10 than to be able to participate in the top 10.
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After the game, Zhou Yi, who was interviewed by reporters from many countries in the mixed zone, was very happy and said with a smile: "I said before the game that Qatar is our blessed land, see if I am right? We won a key game here, which is very important for us." And I said before the race that it was a pity that I couldn't stay at our 'Lucky Hotel', but now I find out that the hotel we stayed at this time is also a 'Lucky Hotel'. It's great that we have two 'lucky hotels' in Doha!
The Chinese reporters laughed when they heard Zhou Yi say this, and they all knew why Zhou Yi said this.
Before the game, Qatar made a disgusting thing, and anyone with a normal IQ knows what is going on, but because there is no evidence, it is really hard to say anything, except for scolding a few words in their own media, it will not affect the other party at all.
But now it's different, after the Chinese team defeated Iraq, Zhou Yi brought up the old story again, mentioning the "lucky hotel", which in the eyes of Chinese reporters is simply a naked slap in the face.
Do you think that by sealing our "lucky hotel", we can help Iraq defeat the Chinese team?
naive!
We can find another "lucky hotel" to come out!
Next time, if you have the ability, you will close all the hotels in Qatar for renovation!
Sure enough, hearing Zhou Yi say this, the media reporters in Qatar looked a little embarrassed......