The World Cup Stadium in Paris, France, was full of people. French fans in the stands waved the red, white and blue flags in their hands to cheer for their national team.
The ongoing warm-up match between France and China is a pre-World Cup warm-up match.
The reason why the Chinese team can play a warm-up match with the French team is because the French team was assigned to a group with the South Korean team in the group stage of the World Cup finals. They need an East Asian team to do a targeted warm-up.
The Chinese team is in the same group as Brazil, Russia, and Algeria in the World Cup finals.
The opponent in the first warm-up match is France, and the second warm-up match is against Ukraine.
Choose Ukraine as the opponent for the warm-up match. Naturally, I hope to get to know the Russian team under the same system by playing against Ukraine.
The warm-up opponents of France were not chosen by the Chinese team, but by France. None of the three opponents in the group stage had the same characteristics as the French team. If you insist on saying so, maybe Algeria has something to do with French football. After all, there are many players in France.
Of Algerian descent. 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, experience the strength of the world's top teams, and see how far the current Chinese team is from the world's top level.
Now they know how far they are from the world’s top players...
The big screen in the stadium displays the real-time score of the game:
3:0
The game only lasted an hour, and the French team led the Chinese team by three goals.
Forward Mendy Payet, who plays in Paris Eger, scored twice in the game and also assisted a goal. He is the best French player so far in the game, and he is worthy of being the number one player in French football.
star.
His sharp breakthroughs made it difficult for the Chinese team players to resist.
Only 12 minutes into the game, Paye took advantage of the Chinese team's interruption in the frontcourt and sprinted for more than 50 meters with the ball. He used his speed to break through Yao Huasheng's defense at the front of the penalty area, and then entered the penalty area to face the attacking goalkeeper.
Hao De, another fake shot and a real dunk, passed Hao De and pushed into the empty goal.
The whole process seemed extremely relaxed and comfortable, and even made people feel that he still had some energy left.
When he jogged to celebrate with his arms outstretched, he left a group of staggering Chinese team players behind him, who stared blankly at Payet's figure.
This is their first time playing against this player who can always be seen on TV. Although they have all watched Payet play through live TV, they also know that he is good at straight-line breakthroughs, fast, explosive, and capable of breaking through.
Strong ability to combine man and ball.
Before the game, Shi Wuyin also repeatedly warned the players to avoid being stretched by the opponent's defense line when defending, and then break through one by one, to maintain a suitable distance, and to keep the defense line intact...
You can know it, but you know it.
When it comes to competitions, many times you don’t just agree with the training conditions for every situation like you do in daily training...
It is said that the defense line must be kept compact, but when the opponent really charges, the players of the Chinese team will either fight and retreat collectively, but they cannot retreat indefinitely. They must meet the enemy, and once they meet the enemy, they will be passed...
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Either someone steps up to block or someone retreats, it is inevitable that the opponent will challenge the opponent with the ball and defeat them one by one.
In short, the Chinese team players know what Payet is good at and how to defend him, but when they actually go one-on-one with him on the court, what they know is useless and meaningless.
They simply moved the football forward and then accelerated. The Chinese team players were thrown away.
When you turn around, Paye is already five or six meters in front of you. You can only watch your teammates go up, only to be easily passed by them...
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“I’m powerless...” Yong Jun in the box looked away from the scoreboard on the big screen, shook his head and murmured.
This game was played in Paris, France, and the others were in Leeds. They were so close and they definitely had to come to watch the game live.
Beside him, Li Qingqing said calmly: "It's normal, Uncle Yong. The French team was the semi-finals of the last World Cup."
As someone who plays football in France, she understands the level of French football very well.
Besides, the French team did not come into the match with the Chinese team with the mentality of underestimating the enemy.
This may be related to Hu Lai.
After all, Houlay is the Chinese national team player that French players are most familiar with. If you take Houlay's performance in the Premier League as a reference... you can understand why the French team players performed so actively in the game.
In this game, Houlay was defended by French players at the highest level in the game.
Julian Lame, the main goalkeeper of the French team, has been scored by Hulay for a total of six goals in the league. As a result, he has not allowed Hulay to score in this game so far.
Has Lame suddenly become more powerful?
Of course not, it’s because Hulay was more tightly defended, and at the same time, the strengths of his teammates in the national team and those in the club were also different, which affected his performance to some extent.
The game lasted for sixty minutes. Hu Lai had a total of four shots, but only one hit 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, shook his head and said: "That's good. At least let those blindly optimistic people in the country see how big the gap is between us and the world's top teams. Lest they
I have been thinking wildly all day long... I just saw it on the Internet today. It turns out that some fans have already set the Chinese team's results in the quarterfinals of this World Cup... 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’s grouping in the World Cup came out, fans have launched various speculations on the Internet...or predictions. Predicting the final results of the Chinese team in this World Cup.
What is surprising is that with the strength of the Chinese team, it is not easy to qualify in the group. However, qualifying in the group has become the minimum goal for many fans.
According to their analysis, although Brazil is the seeded team in this group, its strength is not what it used to be. Today's Brazil is no longer the "football kingdom" it used to be. Although the team has Kendall Kabangca and Dudu
· Carlos, Victor Lemos and other star players who are firmly established as the main players in European giants teams are nothing more than "the end of a strong crossbow" in the eyes of Chinese fans.
When Brazil becomes too proud and underestimates its rivals, we may not be able to get a point from the only "six-time champion" in world football.
The other two opponents in the group, Algeria, like them, both entered the World Cup for the first time in history. Russia has average strength and is only in the middle of the pack in Europe.
In the group qualifying roadmap planned by Chinese fans for the Chinese team, they first defeated Algeria, the weakest team in the group, in the first round and scored three points.
Then when they faced Russia in the second round, fans had different opinions: Some people thought that with the strength of the Chinese team, it might not be impossible to defeat Russia, so they should try their best to win in the second round. After scoring six points, the Chinese team would advance to the group stage.
Qualifying, the final round match against Brazil doesn't matter.
Some people think that Russia's strength is not outstanding, but it is not bad, especially its physical strength, which is very restrained by the Chinese team. If they seek to win, they are likely to lose. It is better to play slowly, put a bus in front of the goal, and try to force the Chinese team.
Draw with Russia and get one point. With four points, as long as the Chinese team can draw with the Brazilian team, which is "at the end of its strength" and "proud and underestimating the enemy", it will still have a high chance of qualifying for the group stage if it gets five points.
But no matter which route is taken, qualifying from the group is everyone’s default result.
On the Internet, everyone discusses the hot and the sky, just look at the speeches of the fans, you will feel that the heroes in the world are not Errh. As long as our Chinese team is serious, everyone can explode!
Now Yong Jun can't help but wonder how the fans in front of the TV will feel when they see such a score...
This is the gap between us and the world's top teams. There is no beauty filter, it is so real, cruel, and nakedly displayed in front of everyone.
Whether it is Yao Huasheng or Wang Guangwei, the top players in the Chinese Super League seem to be vulnerable in front of the players from the world's top teams.
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He Feng seemed to be afraid that this game would damage everyone's confidence. He kept emphasizing during the explanation: "...because the World Cup is getting closer and closer, the French team also attaches great importance to this game...to what extent?
?They didn’t even let reporters film the training content... It can be seen that they really treat this game as a World Cup match. So the French team went all out in this game, plus there is a home field advantage, we
It’s actually not easy to be able to play like this. All the players tried their best, and the attitude of the game cannot be said..."
Yan Kang glanced at He Feng from the side and hesitated. After hesitating for a while, he said: "But actually this is what we will encounter in the World Cup. The French team is of course not Brazil, but Brazil is not weak either.
Never assume before a game that your opponent will be proud and underestimate you. That is not the right approach... After all, this is our first time entering the World Cup. If we want to make progress, facing the gap is the first step."
His words were specifically aimed at those arguments on the Internet. In his opinion, the Chinese team's historic first appearance in the World Cup seemed to have made many people get carried away. They did not realize that the world is so big and the Chinese team is just an insignificant little one.
It’s just shrimp. He believes that allowing this kind of sentiment to spread will definitely not be a good thing for Chinese football.
If you cannot correctly understand yourself and the world, you will suffer great losses.
"Yes, the reality is cruel. But we cannot live in a dream forever because of this... Chinese football has long returned to the world football family, but it has never officially entered the world football stage. And now is the first time
,For the first time, we can’t ask for too much..."
He Feng and Yan Kang sang together and started their "traditional arts" again, pouring cold water on Chinese fans and making them "normal".
But this time what they said is actually quite right, and it can’t even be considered as “throwing cold water on purpose”.
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“Okay, let’s change people.”
In front of the Chinese team coaching bench on the sidelines, head coach Shi Wuyin said to assistant coach Li Zhifei next to him.
“Call back the players who are warming up.”
Li Zhifei nodded, turned around and ran out.
After all, it is a warm-up match, and Shi Wuyin still hopes to give more players the opportunity to play in the game. In addition, the Chinese team is so far behind in the score, there is no need to insist on the personnel configuration on the field, otherwise it will be a waste of time
Opportunity for warm-up matches.
He knows that there are actually many Chinese fans in front of the TV, just waiting for Hu Lai to get a goal back. Now they no longer expect the Chinese team to beat the French team in the away game, or draw with the French team. The standard has been lowered again and again, and it has been lowered to
As long as Hu Lai can score a goal and save some face, they will be satisfied...
But Shi Wuyin still needs to make decisive substitutions.
Of the two warm-up matches, Shi Wuyin didn’t care about the result or process of the match in this one. He just wanted the players to compete with the world’s top teams in person and feel the atmosphere. The real test of the team’s tactics will have to wait until the next game.
Warm-up match in Ukraine.
He doesn't care what the outcome is or how the situation turns out.
In the 63rd minute, after the French team's shot missed the baseline, the referee made a substitution signal.
The Chinese team changed five players on the sidelines in one breath.
Hu Lai, who came on the field, was replaced by Gao Chen as the Chinese fans watched with regret.
He failed to score a goal until he was replaced.
Li Qingqing in the box has been watching Hu Lai's end 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!