Even if you are worried about the national football team, when you see Wang Guangwei’s goal, you must admit that there should be no big suspense for the Chinese team to break out of the Asian qualifying play-offs.
They may not say these things out loud, but they can’t help but think so in their hearts.
They will also start to look forward to the two-leg match against Paraguay. Paraguay is better than Uzbekistan. How can the Chinese team defeat this powerful opponent?
At this point in the qualifiers, many Chinese fans are no longer satisfied with stopping there, nor are they satisfied with a "glorious failure." This was a popular argument on the Internet before, saying that the Chinese team did well in the World Cup qualifiers.
It was so outstanding, even if it failed to reach the World Cup in the end, through the changes before and after the top 12, everyone saw the hope for the future of Chinese football, which can be regarded as "a glorious failure."
At that time, many people still supported this argument. After all, at that time, it seemed that the Chinese team’s hope of qualifying for the World Cup was very slim.
Striving to find some light in the darkness to comfort oneself is a routine operation for Chinese fans.
As a result, things developed a bit beyond everyone's expectations. The Chinese team actually qualified for the Asian qualifying play-offs as the third place in the group!
At this time, many people’s ambitions are beginning to “get ready”.
It’s just that more people still dare not admit this.
Even if the Chinese team defeated Uzbekistan 2:0 at home in the first round, they would not dare to think about it.
Until now, Uzbekistan is three goals behind at home, and the Chinese team has two away goals, which means that if they want to make a comeback, they have to score four goals in a row in less than thirty minutes of the game...
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But even if the Chinese team collapses, it will be difficult to collapse like this.
Not to mention, judging from the performance of the Chinese team in this game, how could they suddenly collapse?
Whether we look at this game from an emotional or rational perspective, there is no suspense anymore.
But on the sidelines, Chinese team coach Shi Wuyin still made gestures to the players when they returned to half-court after celebrating and pointed to their temples to remind them to stay calm and not to get carried away.
Even if we lead by three goals, it’s not safe!
As long as the final whistle has not sounded, no score is guaranteed!
The Chinese team took the lead again thanks to Wang Guangwei's goal. The players' morale was high and they were full of confidence.
On the other hand, Uzbekistan was dejected by the blow.
This is their home court, a game they cannot afford to lose. They are fighting against the odds, so logically they should burst out with stronger energy.
Actually, they did break out, but...but every time they started to gain momentum, they were interrupted by a goal from the Chinese team.
At first it was Hu Lai, and now it is Wang Guangwei.
If you can withstand it once, who can bear it again?
It’s really demoralizing.
It’s like telling them that no matter how hard they try, it will all be in vain.
So after the game restarted, Uzbekistan's performance was obviously not as good as before the goal was conceded.
The players played very anxiously, attacking simply and directly, but when defending, they were not united. Except for the defenders who were defending, everyone else was waiting in the frontcourt to attack...
This ball was very uncomfortable to play.
The Uzbek fans in the stands continued to cheer for the team at first, but their voices became quieter and quieter later on.
It’s not that they are dissatisfied with the team’s performance, but that they feel a little desperate about the current situation.
The hope of qualifying for the World Cup is getting slimmer and slimmer. Under such a blow, how many people can continue to show enthusiasm and wave flags in the stands?
When the Chinese reporters in the media gallery saw this scene, they couldn't help but sigh. Once upon a time, we Chinese fans were like this in the stands, watching our opponents celebrate under our noses, and watching our opponents play more and more confidently.
Watching the time passing by, there is no sign of the Chinese team winning...
This scene is so familiar because we have all experienced it.
So these reporters are particularly able to understand the feelings of the Uzbek fans in the stands.
Seeing this, they even suddenly lost some interest in being happy for the Chinese team.
Because I feel sorry for myself, I dare not smile too happily, for fear that I will become the clown I hate in the blink of an eye.
After taking a three-goal lead in the total score, the Chinese team slowed down and slowly dealt with Uzbekistan.
At the same time, Shi Wuyin also began to make substitutions and adjustments, becoming more conservative in tactics and no longer aggressively attacking in pursuit of goals.
The players were inevitably a little relaxed, so in the 82nd minute, Uzbekistan scored another goal.
It was still their captain Faruk Namozov who scored the goal, and the method of scoring the goal was still the same powerful long shot.
This is the way Namozov is best at scoring.
He has scored many important goals in this way, such as the goal that helped the Uzbekistan national team reach the Asian Cup finals. It was a highlight moment in the history of Uzbekistan national team football.
But this time Namozov was unable to save the national team with his best goal.
After this goal, neither side scored again.
Until the referee blows the whistle for the end of the game.
The Tashkent Stadium suddenly fell silent.
Uzbekistan fans stared blankly at the stadium, their dreams of the World Cup were once again shattered.
The players of the Chinese team were running wildly on the court to celebrate the victory.
One country’s World Cup dream is shattered, but another country’s World Cup dream continues.
Namozov found Hulay who was celebrating the victory with his teammates. The latter thought he was going to exchange jerseys with him, but Namozov shook his head: "I just wanted to come and say a few words to you. You should listen."
You have to understand our country’s language, right?”
Hu Lai nodded. Although he didn’t know how the other party knew, he did understand.
“That’s good...” Namozov said, “I hope you can beat Paraguay and participate in the World Cup.”
Hu Lai was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he would get the blessing of his opponent. This kind of situation doesn't happen often...
“Why did you come to me specifically to tell me this?” he asked in Uzbek.
"We are all Asian teams, and of course we hope that more Asian teams can appear in the World Cup. In this way, maybe there will be more quotas for Asia next time." Namozov said seriously. "Of course.
There is another reason. If you lose to Paraguay and fail to go to the World Cup, then I will be very unhappy about losing to you today. Since you can't seize such an opportunity, you might as well lose to us today.
Let’s go try it.”
“You may not be able to win against Paraguay even if you try.” Hulay told the truth.
“That’s at least our own problem.”
Hu Lai shook his head: "But you didn't even win against us."
The implication is that you haven’t even won against us, so you still want to win against Paraguay?
Namozov was stunned for a moment and realized this. He just said that to Hu Lai out of emotion. Because he was really unhappy about being eliminated.
He had some anger in his heart that he wanted to vent.
In the end, he said such stupid things to his opponent.
Thinking of this, Namozov was also a little ashamed. He apologized to Hulay: "I'm sorry. Congratulations to you, come on!"
After saying that, he turned around and walked away without even shaking hands with Hu Lai.
Looking at his back, Hu Lai couldn't help but think of what Wang Guangwei said before the first round.
It really looks like Brother Lin...
When Lin Ge had no choice but to bid farewell to the national team, he might have been just as helpless and unwilling as Namozov is today.
So in fact, Hulay understood why Namozov came to the door and said those unfriendly words. He did not feel offended by it, nor did he feel unhappy.
A country's football hero can only fight through children's bickering and angry words in the end. I have to say that this is actually a kind of sadness.
Hu Lai thought again of the time and space he traveled through, the big boss who had a similar personality to Qin Linlin. When he left the national team, he was not even qualified to speak angrily, so he could only apologize to the fans across the country with choked sobs...
How sad is it that the only face of a country’s football has to apologize to its fans?
But fortunately...this situation did not happen to the Chinese team today!
We have given all the treatment that only Chinese football can enjoy to our opponents before. We don’t need to say harsh words to our opponents to show our fighting spirit, because we can continue to fight!
Hu Lai did not feel sad for others for too long. He turned around and ran to his teammates, opened his arms and hugged them, cheering.
The Chinese team has passed another level. Next, before the World Cup, a new stage, only Paraguay, the fifth-placed team in South America, is left.
That will be in a month.
Whether the Chinese team can create history will be known in a month!