host must win

Chapter 423 The Cocooned Alihan
Yin Jun and Sun Jihai did not fly directly to China, because Ali Han had already led the Chinese team to Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.The Chinese team will complete assembly and training here, and then fly to Kuwait to participate in the competition.Therefore, the players in Europe, including Yin Jun, Sun Jihai, Dong Fangzhuo and Shao Jiayi, all went directly to Amsterdam.

On the evening of October 10, all 10 members of the Chinese team boarded the flight to Kuwait.

When the Chinese team arrived in Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait, it was almost 12 o'clock at night local time.According to the original itinerary plan, the Chinese team arrived earlier, but the plane was delayed for an hour.

After arriving in Kuwait, the Chinese team went through simple entry procedures at the VIP hall of the airport, and then took a special car prepared by the Kuwait Football Association to check in at the Sheraton Hotel in the center of Kuwait City.

In the pre-match training, the Chinese team will be at the training ground of a local club in Kuwait City.The venue for the match was held at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, the home court of the Kuwaiti League Kachman Club.

In mid-October, the temperature has begun to drop in most of China, let alone the UK, but in Kuwait at this moment, the temperature is still as high as 10 degrees.This is very unfavorable to all Chinese players.

It can be said that in addition to facing the opponent Kuwait, the Chinese team also has to face the biggest enemy of high temperature!

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On the evening of October [-]th, at the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Kuwait City.In the fifth round of Group D of the German World Cup Asian qualifiers, China challenged Kuwait away.

Before this round of competition, the Chinese team ranked first in Group D with 4 consecutive victories, followed by Kuwait with 3 wins and 1 loss.It seems that the situation of the Chinese team advancing to the quarter-finals is very good.If the Chinese team wins Kuwait in the away game, they can even qualify one round ahead of schedule.Even if it is a tie at the away game, the Chinese team only needs to score 1 point in the last round of the match against Xiangjiang at home to advance.

Even, even if the Chinese team loses away, they will still have an advantage in advancing.Because the Chinese team has a greater goal difference advantage.

At present, the Chinese team scored 15 goals in the group stage without conceding a goal, while Kuwait scored 8 goals and conceded 6 goals, with a goal difference of only 2.

The advantage of 13 goal difference allows the Chinese team to beat the Kuwait team in the last round even if they only have a small victory over the Xiangjiang team at home.

Coupled with the fear that Kuwait would take extreme measures in a desperate situation, Alihan did not start Yin Jun in this game, and Sun Jihai also did not start.

However, Ali Han's employment method was criticized by many Chinese fans, and everyone left messages on the Internet saying that Ali Han was completely fooling around.

Obviously, the problem can be solved in this game, why should the suspense be left for the next game?If something unexpected happens at that time, it will be too late for the Chinese team to regret.

After all, the Chinese team had also lost to the Xiangjiang team before, and that loss just ruined the Chinese team's hope of advancing.

Since there are such precedents, why not prevent problems before they happen?
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After the start of the game, the Chinese team performed very poorly in the first half. Not only did they fail to score a goal, but their defense was also frequently strained. This made more Chinese fans think that there was a problem with Alihan's tactics.

When the game progressed to 4 minutes in the second half, Shao Jiayi took the ball in the midfield and was intercepted, and Kuwait quickly counterattacked from the right.

When he was far away from the opponent's player, Sun Xiang suddenly made an absurd sliding shovel. Instead of being able to shovel the ball, he was easily broken by the opponent. The ball passed through the goalkeeper Liu Yunfei and the defense of the defense.

At the front of the small penalty area, Bashar headed back and Juma followed up with an angry shot, piercing the goal of the Chinese team.

At this moment, the entire stadium was blown up, and the fans in Kuwait cheered and shouted. This goal allowed them to finally tie the Chinese team in points.

Although there is still a disadvantage of goal difference, this at least allows the Kuwaiti people to see the hope of reversing the Chinese team.

On the other hand, the Chinese players on the field were hit hard, and they all showed disbelief, looking a little at a loss.

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Everything that happened in Kuwait was clearly included in the live broadcast of the game, and it was shown in the live broadcast of the national TV station in China. Even the commentator of the game was very depressed and said that the ball was a great blow to the team. big.

"It should be said that this has always been a stalemate in Chinese football. Every time we have a problem at a critical moment. Tonight, we can advance to the quarter-finals as long as we win, but we made a mistake again."

"One team after another has brought us painful memories and disasters, which makes us have to reflect again and again, whether our team's strength is only at this level, or is it because of other reasons Woolen cloth?"

"Before this game, we had an interview with the national team coach Ali Han. He said unabashedly that there are two serious problems with Chinese players. One is that they don't have a deep understanding of football. To put it simply, It is the lack of tactical literacy, which is not only reflected in the existing players, but also in the way we train players. Another point is that the psychological quality of the players is not strong enough, so that every critical moment, they bear a heavy psychological burden .”

"Arihan is not the first head coach to raise this issue, but he has never been able to find an effective solution. Our players enter the game too slowly and lack a unified thinking. Under the circumstances, everyone will unite, but not every game we have the strength to equalize and reverse."

"During the Asian Cup, the Chinese team won the first Asian Cup championship in history with a complete victory record. We once thought that the team had gotten out of the predicament and found a solution to the problem, but we didn't expect to play against Kuwait tonight. One time."

"The team played chaotically throughout the first half and was very embarrassed by Kuwait. The team did not have a unified game idea, which led to the team playing very loosely, without the integrity of the Asian Cup."

"There is no doubt that head coach Arihan should be held accountable for this."

"Everyone knows that the Chinese team with Yin Jun and the Chinese team without Yin Jun are two completely different teams, but Alihan still took a chance and hid Yin Jun in this game, which led to It explained the disadvantage of the Chinese team in the first half and the conceded goal."

"It's hard to say that with Yin Jun on the field, the Chinese team will not concede the goal, but we can be sure that with Yin Jun on the field, the Chinese team may have taken the lead in the first half!"

(End of this chapter)