Chapter 578: True suffering

After the game against Saudi Arabia, the Chinese team will welcome Uzbekistan's second opponent in the group stage in Brisbane.
Compared with today's Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan is more powerful, they are the seed team of this group, the first grade.
However, compared with Saudi Arabia, the Chinese team's performance against Uzbekistan is even worse.
Because Uzbekistan joined the AFC in the 1990s, the history of the Chinese team against them is not long.
The Chinese national team has faced Uzbekistan nine times in the history. These nine games refer to international A-level events.
In these nine games, the Chinese team won only three games and tied the game. The remaining five games lost the Chinese team.
In addition, two of the three games won are insignificant warm-up matches. Only in the 2001 World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the Chinese team defeated Uzbekistan 2:0 at home, but then they Lost to the opponent on the road, the undefeated golden body of the top ten was broken.
The games that the Chinese team loses are basically important games.
For example, in the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, the Chinese team was strong and strong, and reached the finals, aiming to win the championship. They met Uzbekistan who participated in the Asian Games for the first time in the final. As a result, the Chinese team lost to the Asian new team 2:4 in the final and missed the golden opportunity to win the Asian Games.
Then in the group stage of the 1996 Asian Cup, Uzbekistan was short of the generals compared to the lineup that won the Asian Games two years ago. In the game, the Chinese team did have the upper hand. They played very beautifully in the first 80 minutes, but did not score, but because of impatience, they were counterattacked twice by the opponent at the last moment, and finally scored again with a score of 0:2. Drink hate.
In the Asian Cup in 2007, the Chinese team and Uzbekistan were once again in a group. At that time, the Chinese team was able to qualify from the group and the situation can be described as good. But it was this "you can qualify for a tie", which made the Chinese team do not know how to play. In the end, the Chinese team lost to Uzbekistan 0:3. Zhu Guanghu's Chinese team created a shame record: two For the first time in 17 years, the Chinese team failed to qualify in the Asian Cup group stage.
In the Asian Cup of 2011, the Chinese team and Uzbekistan were divided into a group for the third time. This time the Chinese team will no longer be able to qualify, but must defeat Uzbekistan to qualify. As a result, they drew with Uzbekistan 2:2 and regretted being out.
The last time the Chinese team played against Uzbekistan was in a warm-up match in 2013. The Chinese team lost to Uzbekistan 1:2.
This is only the history of confrontation at the national team level. At the national youth team level, there was a very humiliating defeat against Uzbekistan. At that time, it was the knockout stage of the 2008 Asian Youth Championship. Uzbekistan's overtime is still difficult to solve, but in the last minute of overtime there was an accident:
The Uzbekistan goalkeeper was awarded a free kick by the referee after touching the ball with his hand twice in the penalty area. The goalkeeper had a quarrel with the referee because of dissatisfaction with the penalty and was sent off by the referee showing a red card. At this time, Uzbekistan has run out of three substitution places, and in desperation, can only allow guard Tutahukhayev to make a temporary guest goalkeeper.
Under such circumstances, the situation of the Chinese team is very good. It should be only a matter of time to advance and qualify for the World Youth Championship-even if the free kick is not entered in the penalty area, the next penalty shootout will face a temporary Can the guard who is a guest goalkeeper still fail to score a penalty?
As a result, in the subsequent penalty shootout, the then National Youth player Wu Xi missed the football, and the temporary goalkeeper also saved Li Zhichao's penalty to help Uzbekistan beat the National Day with a score of 4:3 and won the participation. Qualification for the World Youth Championship.
Being eliminated by opponents in this way is a huge humiliation and disaster for the National Youth Team.
And it's worth mentioning that Tutakhayev, who was the goalkeeper who eliminated the National Youth Team, was also in the Uzbekistan formation this time. And in the national youth team that was eliminated, there are also two players in today's Chinese team, Wu Xi who missed a penalty and full-back Zhang Linpeng.
From the historical record, the Chinese team has no advantage at all. They and Uzbekistan met four times in the Asian Cup group stage. The first three times were all planted at the foot of this team. It is difficult to win.
But with Gao Zheng this time, the confidence of Chinese fans is still very strong.
Of course, some Chinese media may feel that the fans are too optimistic and keep pouring cold water on everyone, telling them that it is not uncommon for the Chinese team to win in the first round of the Asian Cup group stage, but the most important thing is the second round. From the statistics, the Chinese team basically won the second game in the group stage.
In the last two Asian Cups, the Chinese team failed to qualify for the group because they did not win the second group match.
With Uzbekistan's strength, blind optimism is not conducive to the Chinese team's defeat of opponents, but it will also send a wrong message to the internationals-that is, they are now very strong, no one is afraid, anyone can win. Playing with such emotions in the game is likely to lose the game because of pride over the enemy.
If the second round is lost to Uzbekistan, then if you want to qualify for the group, you have to die in the last round of North Korea, known for its tenacious style...
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However, in the training of the Chinese team, the head coach Peran sang against some domestic media:
"It must be kept in mind at all times that you are strong and stronger than others think! To be honest, I don’t know much about the grudges between Chinese football and Uzbekistan, nor am I interested in understanding the records in the old paper piles, four years The historical achievements before and eight years ago cannot represent anything. Now you are completely different from those four or eight years ago, not to mention the team. Uzbekistan is strong, but we are not weak, I believe As long as everyone believes this and shows the best of themselves in the game, we will definitely be able to beat Uzbekistan! Remember what I said before? Let’s be the first in the group and let us return here!"
As a coach, when there is a need to boost morale, of course, he will not come up with any historical confrontation data to hit his players.
The players were not really nervous.
The domestic media may have influenced many fans, but they have not been able to influence the national team.
After defeating Saudi Arabia, the Chinese team was very relaxed when preparing for the battle.
A reporter took a picture of the Chinese team players talking and laughing during the training. Gao Zheng also expressed confidence in the interview with the Chinese reporter after the training: "If you want to be the first in the group, you must defeat Uzbekistan? So isn’t this simple? We will definitely win."
Because in the Asian Cup group stage with the same points, the rules are the same as in Europe. First look at the relationship between the two teams of the same point. As long as the Chinese team defeats Uzbekistan, even if the Chinese team lost to North Korea in the last group match, they will definitely be able to be the first in the group, because whether Uzbekistan wins or Saudi Arabia wins there, it is the same as the Chinese team. Next, they are not dominant in the relationship with the Chinese team-they have been defeated by the Chinese team, so as long as the Chinese team can beat Uzbekistan, they will lock the group first in advance.
Another reporter asked about the goal, Gao Zheng said: "The team's victory is the most important. Of course, if the team needs me to score, then I will score."
He understated the goal of scoring, and it seems that it is not difficult.
But everyone is still a bit worried. After the excellent performance of the last game, Uzbekistan will definitely pay more attention to the prevention of Gao Zheng. Will he still have a chance to score? If Gao Zheng is restricted by Uzbekistan, can the Chinese team really deal with Uzbekistan?
This worry seemed to prove that it was not "worrying" when the Chinese team and Uzbekistan started 22 minutes.
Because Uzbekistan scored!
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