Chapter 229: How far are we from the top of the world?

There was a loud voice at the World Cup Stadium in Paris, France. French fans in the stands waved the red, white and blue flags in their hands to cheer for their national team.
What is going on is a pre-World Cup warm-up match between the French team and the Chinese team.
The reason why the Chinese team was able to play the warm-up match with the French team was because the French team was divided into a group with the South Korean team in the group stage of the World Cup finals. They needed an East Asian team to do a targeted warm-up.
In the World Cup finals, the Chinese team is divided into a group with Brazil, Russia, and Algeria.
The opponent in the first warm-up match was France, and the second warm-up match was Ukraine.
Choosing Ukraine as the opponent in the warm-up match naturally hopes to understand the Russian team under the same system by playing against Ukraine.
France's warm-up opponent was not chosen by the Chinese team, but by France. None of the three opponents in the group stage has the same characteristics as the French team. If you insist, Algeria and French football may have a touch. After all, there are many Algerian descendants in France. However, the styles of the two teams are still very different.
But the Football Association finally agreed to France, mainly because it wanted the Chinese team to play against the world's top teams, to experience the strength of the world's top teams, and to see how far the current Chinese team is from the world's top level.
Now they know how far they are from the world-class level...
The real-time score of the game is displayed on the big screen of the stadium:
3:0
The game only lasted for an hour, and the French team led the Chinese team with three goals.
The striker Mendy Payer, who played in Paris Eger, scored twice in the game and also assisted. He is the French player who has played the best so far in the game, and he is also the number one star in French football.
His sharp breakthrough made it difficult for the Chinese team players to resist.
Just twelve minutes into the game, Peyer used the opportunity of the Chinese team's frontcourt attack to be interrupted to sprint more than fifty meters with the ball. At the front of the penalty area, Yao Huasheng broke through Yao Huasheng's defense with speed. He went into the back of the penalty area and faced the goalkeeper Hao De.
The whole process seemed extremely relaxed and comfortable, and even made people feel that he still had plenty of energy.
When he opened his arms and jogged to celebrate, a group of Chinese team players were left behind him. They stared at Payer's figure blankly.
This is the first time they have played against this player who can always be seen on TV. Although they have watched Payer play through the live TV broadcast, they also know that he is good at straight breakthroughs, fast, explosive, and when breaking through. Strong combination of man and ball.
Before the game, Shi Wuyin also repeatedly warned the players to avoid being pulled apart by the opponent's defense line when defending, and then break them one by one, keep a proper distance, and keep the defense line intact...
But you know, go to know.
When it comes to the game, many times it doesn’t fit the training conditions just like daily training.
It is said to keep the defense line tight, but when the opponent really rushes, the Chinese players will either collectively fight and retreat, but they cannot retreat without restrictions. They must always meet the enemy, and once they meet, they will be passed... …
Either someone goes up to block, someone retreats, then it is inevitable that the opponent will dribble the ball head-to-head and each will break.
In short, the Chinese team players know what Peyer is good at and how to defend, but when they are really one-on-one with him on the court, all those things they know are useless and meaningless.
They simply take the football forward and then speed up. The Chinese team players were thrown away.
When you turn around, Peye is five or six meters in front of you. You can only watch your teammates go up and be easily swayed by the opponent...
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"There is no power to parry..." Yong Jun in the box retracted his gaze from the scoreboard on the big screen, shaking his head and murmured.
This game is played in Paris, France, and the others are in Leeds. So close is definitely going to come to watch the game.
Beside him, Li Qingqing said calmly, "It's normal, Uncle Yong. The French team was the top four in the last World Cup."
As someone who plays in France, she knows the level of French football better.
Moreover, the French team did not play against the Chinese team with the mentality of underestimating the enemy.
This may be related to Hu Lai.
After all, Hu Lai is the Chinese national team player most familiar to French players, and using Hu Lai's performance in the Premier League as a reference...you can understand why the French team players behave so positively in the game.
In this game Hulay was defended by the highest level of French players in the game.
The main goalkeeper of the French team, Julian Lame, was scored by Hulet in the league for a total of six goals. As a result, he has not allowed Hulai to score a goal until now.
Is Lame suddenly getting better?
Of course not. It was Hulai's defense that has become tighter. At the same time, his teammates in the national team and the club have different strengths, which somewhat affected his performance.
After 60 minutes of the game, Hu Lai had a total of four shots, but only one shot was within the range of the goal frame.
This shows how much defensive pressure he faces.
Yong Jun naturally knew that Li Qingqing was right. He sat back in his seat and shook his head and said: "That's good, at least let the blindly optimistic people in China see how far we are from the world's top teams. Lest they Thinking about it all day long... I just saw it on the Internet today. It turns out that some fans have already set the results of the Chinese team in this World Cup in the quarter-finals... What do you think they think?"
Hearing Yong Jun's complaint, Li Qingqing laughed.
She also knows this.
Since the results of the Chinese team in the World Cup came out, fans have launched various speculations on the Internet... or predictions. Predict the final result of the Chinese team in this World Cup.
Surprisingly, with the strength of the Chinese team, it stands to reason that it is not easy for the group to qualify. But qualifying for the group has become the lowest goal for many fans.
According to their analysis, although Brazil is the seeded team of this group, its strength has long been inferior to the past. Brazil is no longer the "Football Kingdom" it used to be. Although there are Kendor Kabonka, Dudu Carlos, Victor Lemos and other star players who are the main players in the European giants. In the eyes of Chinese fans, it is just "the end of the crossbow."
When Brazil is proud to underestimate the enemy, we may not fail to score a point on the only "six crown" in world football.
The other two opponents in the group, Algeria, like them, have both scored in the World Cup for the first time in history. Russia's strength is average, and in Europe it is only a lower midstream.
In the group line drawing planned by the Chinese fans for the Chinese team, first defeated Algeria, the weakest group in the first round, and scored three points.
Then in the second round facing Russia, the fans' opinions appeared divided: some people think that with the strength of the Chinese team, it may not be impossible to defeat Russia, so the second round should go all-out to win. After getting six points in this way, the Chinese team will qualify for the group ahead of schedule, and the final round of the match against Brazil does not matter.
Some people think that Russia is not outstanding, but it is not bad, especially the body is strong, which restrains the Chinese team. If you win, you are likely to lose. It's better to fight steadily and put a bus in front of the door to try to draw with Russia and get a point. With such a four-point Chinese team, as long as it can finally draw with the Brazil team, which is "at the end of the crossbow" and "proudly underestimated", it has a high chance of qualifying for the group with five points.
But no matter which route it is, the team's qualifying is the result of everyone's default.
The discussion on the Internet is in full swing. Just looking at the speeches of the fans, you will think that the heroes in the world are nothing but you. As long as our Chinese team is serious, anyone can beat it!
Now Yong Jun can't help thinking, fans in front of the TV, how would it feel to see such a score...
This is the gap between us and the world's top teams. Without any beauty filters, it is so true, cruel and naked to show to everyone.
Whether it is Yao Huasheng or Wang Guangwei, the top players in the Chinese Super League, in front of the real world's top teams, seem to be vulnerable.
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He Feng seemed to be afraid that the game would hit everyone’s confidence, and he kept emphasizing during the commentary: "...Because the World Cup is approaching, the French team also attaches great importance to this game...How much attention does it take? They didn’t even let reporters film the training content... It can be seen that they really treated this game as a World Cup match. So the French team went all out in this game, coupled with the home court advantage, we It's actually not easy to be able to play like this. All the players have tried their best, and the attitude of the game has nothing to say..."
Yan Kang glanced at He Feng next to him, hesitated to speak, hesitated for a while and said: "But in fact, this is what we will encounter in the World Cup. Of course, the French team is not Brazil, but Brazil's strength is not weak. Never set the opponent to be proud and underestimate the enemy before the game. That is not the right approach... After all, this is our first World Cup. If we want to make progress, then facing the gap is the first step."
His remarks were specifically aimed at those arguments on the Internet. In his opinion, the Chinese team's first historic World Cup scored in the World Cup seemed to have made many people confused. I don't know how big the world is, and the Chinese team is just a small insignificant one. Dried shrimps. He believes that allowing this kind of emotional thought to spread is definitely not a good thing for Chinese football.
If you can't understand yourself correctly, and you can't understand the world correctly, you will suffer a big loss.
"Yes, the reality is cruel. But we can't live in our dreams forever because of this... Chinese football has long returned to the world football family, but it has never officially appeared on the world football stage. This is the first time now. For the first time, we can’t ask for too much..."
He Feng and Yan Kang sang and started their "traditional arts" again, pour cold water on the Chinese fans and make them "normal heart~EbookFREE.me~ but what they said was actually quite right this time, even both. It cannot be regarded as "deliberately pouring cold water."
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"Okay, let's change people."
In front of the coaching bench of the Chinese team, the head coach Shi Wuyin said to the assistant coach Li Zhifei next to him.
"Call back all the warm-up players."
Li Zhifei nodded and turned and ran out.
After all, it is a warm-up match, Shi Wuyin still hopes that more players can get the opportunity to play the game. Coupled with the fact that the Chinese team is so much behind in the score now, there is no need to stick to the staffing on the field, otherwise the chance of this warm-up match will be wasted.
He knows that there are actually a lot of Chinese fans in front of the TV, just waiting for Hu Lai to win back a goal. Now they don’t expect the Chinese team to beat the French team in the away game or draw the French team. As long as Hu Lai can score a goal and save some face, they will be content...
But Shi Wuyin still wants to change decisively.
In the two warm-up games, Shi Wuyin didn't care about the outcome and process of the game. It was to let the players break their wrists with the world's top teams and feel the atmosphere. The real test of the team's tactics is to wait until the next warm-up match against Ukraine.
He doesn't care what the result will be, and he doesn't care what the scene looks like.
In the 63rd minute, after the French team shot wide of the baseline, the referee made a substitution gesture.
The Chinese team changed five players on the sidelines in one breath.
Hu Lai, who started the game, was replaced by Gao Chen in the regretful gaze of the Chinese fans.
He failed to score until he was replaced.
Li Qingqing in the box kept watching Hu Lai's exit, and said to him in his heart:
It's okay, Hu Lai. This is just a warm-up match, your real stage is in the World Cup!