Vol 4 Chapter 142: Walked to the edge of the cliff again

The heavy snow that was rare in a century at the end of last year finally melted away before March entered. All the remaining snow fell into the earth, and the Zhongnan Mountain in the south of Xi'an was no longer mottled.
In March, everything recovers. The snow melts and moisturizes the mountains and the earth, the streams are gurgling, and the winter wheat is satiated. They say that this year will definitely be a bumper year.
The St. Zhuque Stadium, located between Xi'an Zhuque Street and Chang'an Road, was full again tonight, and 65,000 people made the stadium burn.
But the atmosphere in the home team's locker room was not enthusiastic, and even a little depressed. The 22 players of the Chinese national football team had no one to talk, and they all lowered their heads to listen to coach Sforza’s usual talk about tactical points.
Today is the last round of the first group stage of the Asian region of the 2018 Russia World Cup qualifiers. The situation of the Chinese team is not optimistic.
The competition system of this qualifier has changed a little. Previously, it was the top 20 and top ten matches. After the 2018 qualifiers, the 40 teams in the Asian region were divided into 8 groups and the final 12 teams were determined. Divide into two groups and decide the final 4.5 places to go to Russia.
Tonight is the last round of the Chinese team in the top 40, and the opponent is Qatar, who is firmly at the top of the group.
In fact, the grouping of the top 40 is very beneficial to the Chinese team, because it seems strong and weak. China, Qatar, China Fishing Port, Bhutan, and Maldives. On paper, this group is actually a matter of the Chinese team and Qatar. The other three teams can only focus on participating.
The Chinese team was the top eight of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. At that time, the lower limit of strength was recognized by the football as the second-rate power in Europe, but football is a highly transparent sport under the high spotlight, so experts and senior media can see it clearly.
Leaving Zhuo Yang's Chinese team, the upper limit of strength is only the first class in Asia.
The 2015 Asian Cup in Australia was unsuccessful and fully confirmed the football's inference that the Chinese team lost their spirit.
Then Rijkaard left the team, and the team fell into despair. The new coach Sforza could only do his best to fight the panic.
After two warm-up matches, after tying the inexplicable Ballesta and Haiti in a row, the Chinese team started the Asian Top 40 at a loss.
Bhutan and Maldives have nothing to say, the Chinese team has won two consecutive victories. But then it became 0:0 in Shenzhen and the fishing port, which is very outrageous.
What team is the fishing port? Asia is not second-rate at all. The Chinese team is so decadent, and the whole world is in an uproar. The fishing port dumplings are really excited.
In an important confrontation in October last year, the Chinese team lost 0:1 to Qatar in the away game in Doha, directly behind their opponents by 4 points, and Algerian naturalized player Baodiaf scored a lore.
Without Zhuo Yang, the Chinese team’s shortcomings are all-round. The most obvious is the weak attack. In addition to continuing to abuse the appetizers of global football like Bhutan and Maldives, the rest of the defense is stable or committed to the iron bucket. For the team, the Chinese team really doesn't have much to do.
Then in November last year, the Chinese team once again battled with Yugang 0:0 on the away game, and the front was weak, and the draw severely hit the team's already precarious psychological quality.
In fact, lack of psychological quality has always been a chronic disease of the Chinese team, but in those years, because of Zhuo Yang's plug-in backbone, this shortcoming was hidden to the greatest extent.
Now that there is no Zhuo Yang, and the home and away games are tied by the fishing port, the Chinese team players are familiar with the panic caused by the combination of restraint, complaining, fear of wolves and tigers.
It is in this situation that the Chinese team ushered in today's last decisive battle with Qatar.
It is indeed a decisive battle.
In the top 40, Group C is strong and weak. Qatar won the first place in the group with 7 wins, 7 wins and 21 points. The fishing port has finished 8 games, 4 matches, 2 draws, 2 losses and 14 points. The Chinese team 7 matches, 4 wins and 2 A draw with 1 loss also accumulated 14 points, but because it was still awkward, he had a few more goals difference and ranked second in the group.
And even if it loses to Qatar today, as long as it is not a breakthrough, it will still be second.
However, forty teams in eight groups to determine the top 12, only 8 group tops and 4 best results in each group second can advance.
The Chinese team is currently 14 points behind the United Arab Emirates 16, Jordan 16, Syria 15, Iraq 17, and North Korea 16. These five teams are second and only in the sixth sequence.
Not to mention losing to Qatar, even if it is tied, it will be eliminated. The dignified World Cup quarterfinals were reduced to the point where they would be out of the preliminary rounds of the qualifiers.
The only good news for the Chinese team this year is that the national fans and the media pay more attention to Zhuo Yang's safety and no longer care about the performance of the national team, otherwise they would have been criticized long ago.
Zhuo Yang had already woken up, but what was presented before his eyes was such a decayed willow that the national team didn't know how to face him.
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Since the 1970s, China has basically universalized compulsory education, so China is now one of the countries most respected and believes in basic science in the world, and it is also one of the countries with the most scientific common sense and the most respect for scientists.
In Zhuo Yang's medical team, there are senior nurses like Ye Zi, as well as authoritative medical experts. They have absolute power in Zhuo Yang's physical rehabilitation, and Zhuo Yang also trusts these scientists.
Chinese people who believe in science also believe in Zhuo Yang's medical team, because everyone is not illiterate, not anti-intellectual, and believes in science.
So the medical team said Zhuo Yang was not suitable for going out, so he would not go out.
It has been a long time since St. Vermilion has hosted a national team game. Xi'an is Zhuo Yang's hometown. Today, the stadium stands are full of portraits of Zhuo Yang and banners of blessings and thoughts.
Perhaps the fans of Saint Suzaku today do not care whether the national team can win ~EbookFREE.me~ because in the six years from 2008 to 2014, they have won too much. Chinese football fans are actually very contented. Those six years of glory have allowed most people to drink in their next life.
Zhuo Yang was able to escape from the dead and rebirth from the bottom of Zhongnan Mountain. Their fine wine could be kept for their sons and grandsons, and there was nothing else to ask for.
The fans sang the "Song of Zhuo Yang" in the stands over and over again, waving Zhuo Yang's banner and singing and dancing.
But the national team, from the coaching staff to the players, once they cannot beat Qatar today, they will have no face to see Zhuo Yang again. The huge psychological pressure makes the atmosphere in the locker room very depressing.
The team's performance slippage is expected by everyone, but the slid so fast, so thorough, and so back to its original shape, so that the internationals want to die.
It was agreed that tomorrow morning, we would go to Zhongnanshan to visit the captain as a group, but now more than half of the people are afraid to see him.
Even many people are afraid of the game before they fight.
Suddenly, the door of Saint Vermilion's home team's locker room was pushed open, and the national team captain Zhuo Yang walked in with his head raised.