"Thank you for your hard work!"

When Yang Yang walked out of Kuwait Airport, he found that it was the national team leader Zhu who came to the airport to pick up his plane.

"It's okay, I've been asleep all the way." Yang Yang laughed.

For others, long journeys are indeed a big problem, especially the jet lag, but for Yang Yang, this is not a problem, because he can sleep directly, wake up and be in full spirit.

But his reaction made Team Leader Zhu even more ashamed and blamed himself, and instead felt that Yang Yang was deliberately comforting them.

After all, it was their dereliction of duty with the Football Association that led to Yang Yang coming in a hurry.

After leaving the airport, I took the pick-up and drop-off bus arranged by the hotel and returned to the hotel.

In the car, Team Leader Zhu told Yang Yang that Alihan relied on him very much. When he heard that he could hurry up, he immediately placed him on the 18-man roster, and everyone in the team had no objection to this.

"To be honest, everyone comes here to win, and when I heard that you are going to come here, everyone is more confident."

Yang Yang smiled modestly, "I hope I can help."

"Yes, sure." Team Leader Zhu was very sure, "You can come here, it is the greatest help."

Sometimes it's really strange to think about it.

Yang Yang is the youngest player in the team, but he is the best performing player in the national team.

During the Asian Cup, no one could feel it, but when they played in Malaysia, everyone discovered that the team had such hard work without Yang Yang.

"Now, I believe you know the situation in China. It's very complicated and it's hard to explain clearly what's going on, but one thing is certain, that is, everyone's starting point is to hope that Chinese football can once again go out of Asia and enter the World Cup."

Team Leader Zhu was obviously worried that Yang Yang would have grudges and thoughts, so he took the initiative to persuade him.

"Maybe there may be differences and misunderstandings in specific things, or in some things, and even made mistakes, but because we had no experience before, it was like the last time we played in the World Cup, we were unprepared and didn't know how to prepare for the game. That was our first time."

Yang Yang nodded, "I can understand."

"The more critical the moment, the more you international players who are studying abroad need to play a role, stabilize the morale of the army, and preserve the last hope." Team Leader Zhu said sincerely.

"You know, we have experienced so many setbacks, we have gone so many detours that our media doesn't believe we can succeed, our fans all suspect that they are dreaming, and even our players don't know how to look at everything right in front of us."

Yang Yang understood what Team Leader Zhu meant, thought for a while, and said lightly: "Then don't pay attention to the others. Although the fog covers the distance and cannot see the direction and road clearly, then focus on the front of you and play every game down-to-earth."

"Yes." Team Leader Zhu sighed in a mixed mood, "Who knows what the future will be like? Many things are not something we can control at all. The only thing we can do is to try to play every game well, strive to continue the performance of the World Cup in 2002, and once again enter the World Cup."

"I really feel that we have the strength to perform normally," Yang Yang said.

Leader Zhu nodded in agreement, "But the fortress always starts to split from the inside, especially now, the public opinion environment is very unfavorable to the national team, but the more this time, the more we have to hold on."

Yang Yang remembered the slogans shouted by some domestic media reporters that Chinese football is not worthy of winning, and dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes. He thought about it and felt disgusting. Their faces were too ugly and ugly.

In Yang Yang's opinion, these media reporters are even worse than Chinese football, so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad that they are so bad

"Don't worry, I will do my best to prevent some people from getting what they want." Yang Yang said firmly.

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When Yang Yang arrived at the Sheraton Hotel where the national team checked in, many international players received news and ran to see him.

This time, the national team enclosed three floors of seventeen to nineteen, which happened to be the highest three floors of the hotel, which was also to avoid the troubles from the outside world.

Since Yang Yang's previous roommate Zheng Zhi did not participate in this Western Expedition due to injury, Yang Yang was arranged to a separate room, and most international players just came over to say hello and greet him.

Yang Yang also asked about Li Weifeng's injury with concern. The captain of the national team said that he was not seriously injured and could handle the game.

Then, Alihan also came to visit Yang Yang.

After the arrival of the national team head coach, Yang Yang also felt the change of the atmosphere. Obviously, many contradictions within the team have been exposed, such as Sun Jihai's position, and the contradictions between Alihan and the Chinese coaching team, etc.

In Yang Yang's opinion, this is also very normal. No team can be a solid piece of cake. The key is to see how to deal with it.

Alihan was very happy when he saw Yang Yang and asked about his situation, as well as his condition at this moment.

Yang Yang answered in a lot of ways, and said that he was in very good condition and there was no problem.

Of course, Alihan would not believe that how could anyone have been in a state of great condition after traveling thousands of kilometers and taking a plane for more than twenty hours?

"If you need it in this game, I will use you in the second half." Alihan said his arrangement and showed off his Dutch humor with a rare chance. "Of course, I hope you will be on the bench for the whole game in this game."

Yang Yang could understand what he meant inside and outside, and smiled and said, "I also hope I don't have to go on stage."

That means the team won Kuwait without any danger.

If this is the case, Yang Yang would be happy even if he sat on the bench for 90 minutes.

But in fact...

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On the evening of October 13, Kuwait City Peace and Friendship Stadium.

In the fifth round of the Asian qualifiers in the World Cup Peripheral Championship, China challenged Kuwait away.

When the game reached the 54th minute of the second half, Shao Jiayi's midfielder was cut off, and Kuwait quickly counterattacked from the right.

When far away from the opponent's players, Sun Xiang suddenly made a ridiculous slip-twisting action. In the end, not only failed to tackle the ball, but was easily broken by the opponent. He went down to the bottom line and passed a very strange cross, passing through the defense of goalkeeper Liu Yunfei and the back line.

At the front of the small penalty area, Bashar headed the ball back, and Zhuma followed up and shot directly, piercing through the Chinese team's goal.

At this moment, the entire stadium was in full swing.

Kuwait fans all cheered and shouted.

This goal allowed them to finally tie the Chinese team and gain an advantage by relying on goal difference.

The Chinese players on the court were hit hard, and they all showed unbelievable expressions and looked at them at a loss.

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Everything that happened in Kuwait was clearly included in the live broadcast of the game and presented it to the live broadcast of domestic national TV stations. Even the commentator of the game said depressedly that this ball hit the team very much.

"It should be said that this is the deadlock of Chinese football. Every time we have problems at critical moments."

"Tonight, we can advance to the quarterfinals by just a draw, but we made another mistake."

"One team after another brought us painful memories and disasters, which made us have to reflect on again and again, is it because our team's strength is only at this level, or is it because of other reasons?"

"Before this game, we interviewed the national team coach Alihan. He said without any concealment that Chinese players have two very serious problems. One is that they do not have a deep understanding of football. To put it simply, they lack tactical literacy. This is not only reflected in the existing players, but also in the way we train players."

"The other thing is that the players' psychological qualities are not strong enough, so whenever they reach critical moments, they bear heavy psychological burdens."

"Alihan is not the first head coach to raise this question, but he has never found an effective solution."

"Our players enter the game too slowly and lack a unified thinking. Only when we are forced to retreat by our opponents, can all be united, but not every game we have the strength to equalize and reverse."

"During the Asian Cup, we thought the team had already gotten out of the dilemma and found a solution to the problem, but unexpectedly, we played Malaysia and Kuwait tonight, and this situation happened again."

"The team played in disorganized in the whole first half and was suppressed by Kuwait in a very embarrassing way. The team did not have a unified game idea, which led to the team playing very loosely and not as integrity as in the Asian Cup."

"There is no doubt that head coach Alihan should be responsible for this."

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Yang Yang sat on the visiting team's bench and watched the game silently.

He found that after conceding the ball, the Chinese players on the field had their minds and began to want to fight back.

Alihan's tactic in this game was defensive counterattack, because the Chinese team has a psychological advantage and a draw is acceptable, but Kuwait cannot do it, they must push it out and play.

However, it is obvious that Alihan did not let all players understand his intentions and ideas clearly, which led some players to think that he wanted to attack, but some players felt that he wanted to defend.

Eleven people on the court have eleven ideas, and no matter how strong the team is, they cannot show their strength.

Without saying it, the head coach must take the blame for it.

In addition, many players are not in a state of excitement. On the one hand, it is related to Zheng Zhi's absence. After all, as a goal-posting central defender, Zheng Zhi's role in the midfield and backcourt is very obvious.

Zheng Zhi's absence made Shao Jiayi feel a little lonely in the middle of the midfield and failed to continue his outstanding performance in the Asian Cup.

Yan Song also sat on the bench in this game, with Xu Yunlong on the right and Yangpu on the left.

In this game, the left forward Yang Pu and left defender Sun Xiang performed a bit abnormally.

Of course, this has something to do with Kuwait's good at attacking on the right, that is, mainly attacking the Chinese team on the left.

On the contrary, Kuwait's left side, that is, the Chinese team's right side, did not threaten this game, which is very inappropriate. According to the news obtained by Yang Yang, Xu Yunlong played with an injury.

In addition, Hao Dong and Li Jinyu on the front line, Li Weifeng and Zhang Yaokun on the back line are obviously in poor condition, and even goalkeeper Liu Yunfei made several mistakes that should not have made.

It can be said that the mentality of the national football players in this game is indeed a bit unbalanced, otherwise they would not have performed poorly.

Just when everyone was anxious, Alihan and Deyang whispered for a while.

Deyang immediately turned around and shouted at Yang Yang.
Chapter completed!