Chapter 88: We are the champions of Asia!

"Fuck! The Chinese team leads Japan 2:0? Did I read it wrong?"
"Stop talking, I still can't believe my eyes..."
"If I hadn't watched the live broadcast of this game, I would have thought it was the TV station who made the wrong score..."
"It's not just the score, my friends! That scene...the Chinese team is not at a disadvantage in that scene! Even if the Japanese team played against the Chinese team for a while, but this gave the Chinese team a chance to counterattack. And the second This goal happened to be scored during the counterattack...I think the Chinese team’s tactics in this game are completely right!"
During the intermission, the excited Chinese fans could not wait to start a discussion on the Internet, expressing their feelings about the half-time game.
Everyone is so excited to understand, after all, this is a two-goal lead for the Japanese team.
Even if the Chinese team has participated in the World Cup, the Japanese team is still an opponent worthy of their special attention.
It can even be said that after the World Cup, they better understand the strength of the Japanese team.
After all, in this World Cup, the Japanese team is the only Asian team that has reached the knockout stage. The South Korean team, with "Pre-Asian Light" Park Chun-tae, also stopped in the group stage and failed to make any further progress.
In this comparison, we can know how strong the Japanese team is now.
In the face of such a powerful Japanese team, the Chinese team was able to take a two-goal lead at halftime... This performance cannot be overstated anyway.
However, this enthusiastic discussion soon turned into a weird angle-if the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team, can Dong Jianhai continue to serve as the head coach of the Chinese team?
Someone posted such a post on "Goal", and it quickly became the most popular discussion post during the intermission.
Everyone rushed in to express their opinions and even quarreled.
Some people were impressed by the performance of the Chinese team in this half, thinking that everyone should give Dong Jianhai some trust and opportunities. There must always be an adaptation process. Now he should have passed the adaptation period.
Frequent coaching changes are not a good thing for the Chinese team. It is still necessary to give the head coach a stable environment instead of clamoring "changing coaches" just a little bit turbulent.
It's easy to change coaches, but it's easy to change coaches, but you can't get out of the line until the end. Isn't it the Chinese football that is hurt, or the Chinese football fans?
There are also people who oppose this statement. They believe that even if Dong Jianhai led the Chinese team to defeat the Japanese team-let alone the possibility of winning Japan is very small-it cannot prove that Dong Jianhai is a competent head coach.
It is very likely that defeating the Japanese team is only a flash in the pan, and it can even be said that luck is far greater than the strength of the victory. If Dong Jianhai is allowed to stay in office just because of the high nationalist sentiment, that would be the biggest harm to Chinese football.
People who held two diametrically opposed views quarrelled like this, and there were some people who were not exactly the same in their positions, but were mixed with each other.
The popularity of the post has remained high, and it has attracted many people to watch the excitement.
At the same time, quarrels and personal attacks spread on the same topics on Weibo.
The enthusiasm that everyone showed on this matter proved how entangled they are.
Originally, if the Chinese team were eliminated cleanly in the group stage, then there would be no problems. Everyone would agree that Dong Jianhai was an incompetent person who would harm the country and the people.
Even in the knockout rounds, if defeated by the Japanese team, it is a result that will not cause any controversy. All the responsibilities are still to be carried by Dong Jianhai. As the team's head coach, he must be responsible for the team's poor performance. Not to mention the serious consequences of losing to the Japanese team...
Only after class can the civilians be angry.
Fortunately now, the Chinese team not only leads the Japanese team by two goals in the score, but is also not at a disadvantage on the scene, and can play back and forth with the Japanese team.
This has caused some people to turn to the side and feel that letting Dong Jianhai continue to coach does not seem to be an unacceptable result.
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There are endless quarrels on the Internet. Far away in the locker room of the Chinese team in Qatar, Dong Jianhai has no idea that his fate is being discussed fiercely by fans across the country.
He is saying to the Chinese players in the locker room: "The Japanese team will definitely step up their offensive in the second half, and our defense will face tremendous pressure. However, the more this is the time, the more we have to withstand it. If you feel like you are upset. Don't stop, just think about the World Cup."
Dong Jianhai's words made the Chinese team players a little dazed.
Before the start of the Asian Cup, they felt that they had "played the World Cup" as a huge advantage. There is a mentality of "I have seen any big storms and waves, what's the big deal about the mere Asian Cup?" This mentality.
As a result, when they faced the shrinking defense of Iraq for a long time in the game, their mentality completely changed.
The previous sense of superiority of "playing the World Cup" disappeared, but it became the culprit that made them so embarrassed.
After losing to Iraq, "playing the World Cup" became a taboo instead. Both the media and the fans are criticizing the Chinese team's mentality of "defying the Asian Cup after playing the World Cup" as one of the important reasons for their loss.
They are right to criticize, there is such a mentality among the players.
So the international players also learned from the pain and reflected on it. Even in the face of Palestine and the Philippines, I dare not take it lightly.
Thus achieved two consecutive victories and qualified from this group.
It seems that playing the World Cup is no longer the advantage of this team, it has become a burden that drags down their progress. They must get rid of this burden and can't let themselves continue to live in their previous achievements.
Now their head coach has asked them to "think about the World Cup."
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"...The Chinese team's offensive was very fierce in the first half. According to common sense, their offensives so fast cannot last forever." Hiroto Motegi said to his players with his arms on his hips, "It stands to reason that we only need to be in the second half. Defend patiently for a while, and after their own physical fitness drops, they can regain control of the situation on the court...but I don't want to do this!"
The Japanese players looked at their head coach, and from the tone of this sentence, they could tell that their head coach was obviously angry.
This is also normal, anyone who sees this first half will be angry.
Therefore, a group of players who play in European clubs, although they have been famous for a long time, dare not make a second in front of the angry Hiroto Motegi.
The Japanese national team has scored three times in the knockout stage of the World Cup before. Last year, the U.S. and Canada World Cup was their fourth knockout stage, and it was the first time they were led by a Japanese head coach.
So Hiroto Motegi's coaching level can be seen.
The Japanese Football Association is also very satisfied with the coaching work of Motegi Hiroto and renewed a contract with him after the World Cup.
If nothing happens, he will continue to lead the Japanese team to the next World Cup. If he does achieve it, it will create the history of Japanese football. Because no coach has ever been able to lead the Japanese nation to participate in two consecutive World Cups.
In front of such a coach, the famous players in the Japanese team also have to bow their heads.
"We are the Japanese team! We are the defending champions! Why do we want to avoid the edge? The dignified Japanese team has to wait for the opponent's energy to turn the situation around?" Motegi asked with a stern face.
No one in the locker room dared to answer his question.
"If we bow our heads to the Chinese team here, then in my opinion, we don't need to pursue any defense of the Asian Cup. Because we are not worthy! So we must push the Chinese team back in the second half! They are definitely not allowed in the second half. Wild on our heads!"
The atmosphere in the Japanese team's locker room also became enthusiastic.
Most of the Japanese players were originally dissatisfied with the Chinese team's stealing of their limelight in the World Cup. They were beaten up in the first half by the Chinese team.
Now let their head coach's remarks be ignited.
Yes, how can we hide in our penalty area and then pray that the Chinese team will exhaust themselves?
What does this look like?
We haven't won the Chinese team in 29 years. Just because we scored two goals in the first half, did we scare our guts? !
Do not!
Absolutely not!
We must not let the Chinese team players dominate our halftime, not even one minute!
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"Just after the second half of the game, the Japanese team launched the most violent attack on the Chinese team's goal. This is not unexpected... After all, the Japanese team is two goals behind! The Chinese team also tried to attack in the second half, but soon I was backed down by the Japanese offensive... this period of time is very important for the Chinese team, we must defend it!"
At the commentary, He Feng frowned and his expression was solemn.
The Japanese commentator on the other side yelled excitedly: "Yes! That's it! Do your best from the beginning! Never show any contempt for the Chinese team at all. The lion fights the rabbit with all their strength! Fight back! Press down! You are the Asian champions of Japan!"
The Japanese team's fierce offensive in the second half was kicked off by their midfielder Masao Yonezawa with a long shot.
Although the long shot was blocked by Harde, it gave the Japanese team a chance to shoot.
Forward Masato Hirokawa swept the football to the goal before the Chinese team player sabotaged.
Fortunately, the experienced Chinese team captain Yao Huasheng appeared in front of the goal line to make a key defense. The football hit his leg and deflected out of the baseline~EbookFREE.me~ The Japanese team got a corner kick.
The corner kick the Japanese team did not directly kick in front of the Chinese team, but made a cooperation. First, Masao Yonezawa, who served the ball, passed the ball to Akira Fukuzawa, who came up to meet him, and he moved to attract the attention of the Chinese team's defense, and then Akira Fukuzawa passed the football to the Chinese team's goal.
The captain of the Japanese national team, the central defender Kengo Yamagami leaped high in front of the Chinese team, and the captain of the Chinese team Yao Huasheng competed for this point.
He slammed into Yao Huasheng's body and grabbed some points.
But the football was pushed above the crossbar by him...
Although he didn't score a goal, after landing Kengo Yamagami still waved his fists to his teammates: "Just kick! We are the Asian champions!"
Right beside him, Yao Huasheng half-kneeled on the ground, clutching his shoulders.
(End of this chapter)