Vol 3 Chapter 187: A breeze from the national team

After the game, Zhou Yi's red card and the absence of the final became a hot topic.
Both Chinese fans and the media are sorry for Zhou Yi's red card and also worried about the prospects of the Chinese team in the final.
After lacking the absolute core Zhou Yi, where will the Chinese team face the Japanese team in the final?
Some people expressed their anger at the referee of this game, thinking that this AFC guarantees the practice of sending the Japanese team to the championship. They think that even if Zhou Yi is a foul by the milligram, but considering the ornamental nature of the finals, should Zhou Yi be given a yellow card?
The red card was given directly, which was too harsh and lost the suspense in the final.
In these disputes, the parties seemed calm.
When the reporters came to ask him these questions, he said: "I don't think that without me, we will be inferior to the Japanese team in the final. Of course, in terms of strength, we are indeed inferior to the Japanese team. But look at our way In terms of strength, how many opponents are there that must be weaker than us? In football games, the strength on paper cannot tell everything. It is up to the players to play in the final game. I want to reiterate that I have no objections to that red card, and I do not regret my foul. I just did everything I should do, and I believe my teammates will also do it in my position. The same choice as me."
A reporter asked a slightly sharp question: "Will you regret if the Chinese team eventually lost to the Japanese team?"
Zhou Yi shook his head: "No. No regrets, I'm responsible for my own decision. I'll be back in four years."
After he mentioned it again for four years, it was really confident.
But he also has this capital. After all, he is only 19 years old, and 23 years later, what is impossible?
And for the entire Chinese team, they also have a chance four years later. Because the average age of this Chinese team is the youngest in the Asian Cup, and it is also the youngest team in the previous Asian Cup of the Chinese team.
Gao Hongbo's efforts to build the youth of the national team clearly focus on the future.
Before the start of the Asian Cup, he said that this time the national team is training for the World Cup qualifiers to warm up. They accidentally reached the final.
This is considered to have exceeded the task. So... there really seems to be no regrets.
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Two days after the semifinals, three or four finals were played between Australia and South Korea. The South Korean team defeated Australia 3:2 and won a consolation prize.
One day later. At the beginning of the final, the Chinese team played against the Japanese team.
This game should have been a revenge for the Chinese team on the 2004 Asian Cup final. But because of Zhou Yi's red card, everyone is not too optimistic that the Chinese team can beat Japan. Many people even think that in terms of the strength of the Chinese team and the Japanese team, this game is a victory without losing four goals.
They only ask the Chinese team to be able to lose decently.
Although Zhou Yi was banned from the red card in this game. But he also came to the stadium, he was arranged to sit in the box. Accompanied by several officials of the Chinese Football Association, watch the game.
Before the game started, the TV broadcast quickly found Zhou Yi in a large box, and after the game started. From time to time, the lens will be turned to Zhou Yi.
This game, the Japanese team originally thought that the Chinese team without Zhou Yi would be easy to deal with. Before the start of the game, they felt that this Asian Cup champion belongs to them.
But when the game started, the situation was not as they thought.
After missing Zhou Yi. Deng Zhuoxiang, who has always been on the sidelines, came to the middle road to replace Zhou Yi. On the passing ability, Deng Zhuoxiang is naturally not as good as Zhou Yi. But this game has a very special meaning for the Chinese team players, so each player is very hard and hard, their hard work performance to a certain extent to make up the gap between their strength and the Japanese team players.
This is Zhou Yi's opportunity to participate in the finals in exchange for his absence in the finals. How can he waste it at will?
Every player of the Chinese team thinks so, and the mental outlook they have shown surprised the old rival Japan.
The Chinese team still played that set of tactics, Gao Hongbo did not choose to defend.
After all, this set of tactics has been practiced by the Chinese team for more than a year and two years, and everyone is familiar with it.
The Japanese team completely did not expect the Chinese team to play so aggressively and tenaciously. Their forcing in the middle and frontcourts also made the Japanese team players known for their delicate skills and tacit understanding.
It only took more than ten minutes, and Chinese fans who had no hope in front of the TV widened their eyes in surprise, and found that the national team was a little strange...
Even Liu Hong couldn't help but admire: "The Chinese team did not give up this game, although they did not have the core Zhou Yi, although they are far inferior to the Japanese team in terms of strength. But no one gave up, the will they showed Quality makes us unfamiliar-is this really the national football that we have been scolded by us countless times?"
In the past, the most scolded thing about the Chinese team was that the Chinese team players easily gave up after encountering difficulties in the game. They surrendered themselves, broke the jar, and fell short of their fighting spirit.
But these problems are not seen in the national team today.
This is simply incredible.
Because although the Chinese team singed all the way forward, it was because they had Zhou Yi, who helped them solve many problems. And this time, Zhou Yi was suspended with a red card, and the Chinese team was knocked back to the prototype at once-this is the "familiar formula" of the Chinese team.
However, although the Chinese team that was beaten back to the prototype is still a familiar formula, it is not a familiar taste...
Why is this?
Before the game, many players of the Chinese team mentioned Zhou Yi in an interview with reporters.
"We will strive to dedicate a victory to Zhou Yi in this game!"
"I know that the Japanese team is very powerful, but we will not easily admit defeat, because this is the opportunity Zhou Yi has fought for us!"
"We will do our best, otherwise I would be too sorry Zhou Yi!"
"Zhou Yi can't play, then we will bring his share together and fight!"
"Even if this game is for Zhou Yi, it will have to fight!"
Even Gao Hongbo said at the pre-match press conference: "I know the importance of Zhou Yi to this team, but we also have the same idea, that is, in the game, everyone in the team is more than usual Run more and pay more, then you can make up for the lack of Zhou Yi's absence. Zhou Yi's red card will not be a regret or a burden for us. On the contrary, it is a horn for the team to forge ahead. Zhou Yi also agrees with this ."
Why is there the kind of change mentioned before? The answer is already clear, all because of Zhou Yi.
After this young boy joined the team, it seemed that a breeze was blowing into this team that was burdened with heavy burdens and was neither optimistic nor highly hoped by everyone, so that everyone in this team Physical and mental pleasure, throwing away the burden, neither inferiority nor arrogance.
This team rejuvenated from the inside out.
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For this reason, the performance of the Chinese team surprised the Japanese team and beat the Japanese team by surprise. In the first half, he was able to fight against the Japanese team.
But unfortunately, after the lack of Zhou Yi, the team's final pass is still poor. Deng Zhuoxiang has a good free kick ability, but his attack is not as good as his free kick.
It turned out that before Zhou Yi joined the national team, he was not specifically responsible for organizing the offensive midfielder.
There is no way to send a better final pass, and teammates cannot get a better shot.
In the first half, although the Chinese team got some opportunities, they failed to score.
The Japanese team of course did not score a goal, the two sides played a 0:0.
After changing sides in the second half, the Japanese team gradually gained the upper hand after adjusting for the intermission.
For a period of time, the Chinese team's front door was simply screaming, very dangerous, and it was possible to lose the ball at any time.
But the Chinese team finally carried it over.
The Japanese team couldn't attack for a long time, but became impatient.
The Chinese team also launched several threatening counterattacks. Unfortunately, no goals were scored.
After such two visits, the Japanese players did not dare to venture.
The game then stalled.
After the stalemate until the 85th minute, the Japanese team saw that it was still unable to score a goal, and launched a rapid offensive, hoping to score a goal at the last moment.
At this time, they no longer have to think about what big score to win, as long as they can win, even if they only win a ball!
During this time, the Chinese team recovered across the board, shrinking to the point.
Hope to drag the game into overtime.
In fact, their physical fitness is already a problem~EbookFREE.me~ But there are still thirty minutes to work hard in extra time. Is it better than being lore by the Japanese team at the last moment of the game?
They did it. When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the 90-minute game, the score was still 0:0!
"Ninety minutes of the game is over! Before the match, the two teams that were considered to be very different in strength ended up playing quite well!" After the whole game, Liu Hong is now not as surprised as he was at the beginning. After watching the game for 90 minutes, he was not surprised by the draw. All the players of the Chinese team were united and it was not impossible to tie the Japanese team.
What should be surprised is that the Japanese are right.
"It's incredible! The Japanese team didn't end the game in ninety minutes! The final was dragged into overtime!" The Japan TV commentator was really surprised and couldn't accept the result for a while.
"For both teams, overtime may be difficult, because they played a full 120 minutes in the semifinals... but the Japanese team may have to take some more rest because of their The semifinals ended earlier than the Chinese team’s semifinals." (Unfinished. To be continued.)