Guo Junfu stared at his mobile phone. He was browsing the East Asian Cup album on the "Goal" website.
Here is a summary of all the news about the East Asian Cup, as well as various statistics about the East Asian Cup.
Among the four teams, the Chinese team currently ranks first with six points after winning two games in a row.
The Japanese team has one win and one draw and ranks second with four points. The South Korean team has one loss and one draw and ranks second from last with one point.
The North Korean team, which has not won a single game, is ranked last.
Looking at it this way, the Chinese team actually hopes to win the East Asian Cup.
Seeing this result, Guo Junfu couldn't help but want to cover his face.
He still remembered that when the training camp just started, he went to talk to Hu Lai because of his "big words".
The conversation between the two people at that time could be said to have ended unhappily.
When he finally left, he said: "Let's not mention the World Cup. Even in this East Asian Cup, the championship is not that easy to win!"
Thinking about it now, his current results are like a slap in his face.
They actually really... have hope of winning the East Asian Cup?
Of course, there is not a single horoscope yet.
But the situation is already very good. In the last East Asian Cup match, as long as the Chinese team draws with the Japanese team, they will win the championship.
Yes, you don't need to beat the Japanese Olympic team, you just need to draw with them.
A draw will win the championship.
Guo Junfu frowned when he thought of this.
It sounds like a curse no matter what...
Qualifying after a draw, but not qualifying has happened many times in the history of Chinese football.
"Whatever happens if it's a draw" is really a curse.
And with the strength of the Japanese team, it will not be easy to beat them.
The Korean team tried their best but only tied with them...
Speaking of the Korean team, Guo Junfu suddenly thought, we defeated the Korean team 3:0!
The Korean team tied with the Japanese team, so why can't we also draw with Japan?
When he thought of this, Guo Junfu suddenly felt confident.
Thinking about it again, who gave him this confidence...
Hu Lai.
When it comes to Hu Lai, Guo Junfu really has mixed feelings in his heart.
At first, he thought he was an arrogant or clownish clown.
Later, he discovered that Hu Lai had real qualities in training and warm-up matches, and his view of him changed. He felt that although this person was a bit crazy, he was not just a person in vain, and he was still qualified to play in the Olympic team.
Won a place in it.
And now, he has overturned all his previous views on Hu Lai. What does it mean to be "qualified to win a place in the Olympic team"? With this performance, it will be no problem to go directly to the real national team!
Even after the game against the South Korean team, he made another wild statement in front of reporters, describing winning the East Asian Cup and being the top scorer in the East Asian Cup as "small goals." This time, both on the Internet and in the media,
No one calls him "arrogant" or "grandstanding" anymore.
Even Guo Junfu himself didn't think there was anything inappropriate in what Hu Lai said, and he even felt in his heart that he said it well.
Didn’t Park Kyu-hyun already call out these two goals before the game?
We have now defeated the Korean team 3:0, and speaking of this goal, it is already very low-key and very pragmatic.
Now that I think about it, it's not because we are low-key and pragmatic... It's entirely because Hu Lai who said this just completed a hat trick in the game and did something that no Chinese player could do in the previous 41 years.
raving?
When he has this ability, he will naturally be qualified to talk wildly.
Because what he said may not be "wild talk".
Now think back to what he said when he first joined the training team.
World Cup...
Guo Junfu still didn't dare to think about winning the World Cup, but he suddenly had more expectations than usual for the Chinese team to reach the World Cup finals...
Maybe, maybe, what if, if, it's possible... you really go in?
In the second game, the Chinese team played North Korea, Hu Lai also scored a goal in his first appearance, which fully demonstrated that his performance was not a flash in the pan.
Guo Junfu has been observing Hu Lai's performance.
In the game against North Korea, because Hu Lai had already worn a hat in the game against the South Korean team, the opponent must be on guard against him, and he would not be able to take advantage of the opportunity of others not being familiar with him to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger.
Therefore, in fact, the game against North Korea can best reflect Hu Lai's true level.
North Korea also has a strong team on the football field, and their national system also has their advantages in cultivating talents.
Hu Lai was indeed heavily targeted by his opponents during the game.
Most of the time, it is difficult for him to even get a chance to shoot.
In the entire first half, he only had one shot, and it didn't hit the goal frame.
Guo Junfu thought at the time - it's over, the Internet doesn't know how to criticize Hu Lai's performance in the first half at this time...
As a result, until he was replaced in the 76th minute, he only had three shots in total, one in the first half. The number of shots in the second half was twice as many as in the first half, reaching two!
And then...a goal.
Three shots and one goal helped the Chinese team defeat North Korea 2:1 and win two consecutive East Asian Cups.
Guo Junfu discovered that Hu Lai is really a very efficient shooter. He does not need himself or other teammates to constantly pass the ball to him during the game to create shooting opportunities for him.
On the contrary, he can always seize those few shooting opportunities and convert them into goals.
As a midfield organizer, Guo Junfu really likes this type of shooter.
After all, sometimes you feed the cake to the forward's mouth, and the forward can spit out the cake and say: "Bah! A man doesn't eat what he comes to eat!" That really makes Guo Junfu, who feeds the cake, very helpless and angry - what the hell are you doing?
If you had told me if you don't want to eat the cake, I won't feed you. Isn't it a waste of food to spit it out even if you don't eat it? Now that the country is calling for food conservation, you are still so wasteful. It's a waste of natural resources!
But he could only complain like this in his heart. He couldn't feed the cake and then stab it into the stomach with a wooden stick, right?
This game also made Guo Junfu realize that Hu Lai is the kind of forward who is difficult to target. Unless you don't give him a chance in the whole game, he may seize the only chance and convert it into a goal.
ball.
What is the saying?
"He was invisible for the entire 89 minutes. You couldn't see him. But when you saw him, he scored."
Hu Lai is such a striker.
Not to mention how much psychological pressure it will bring to you when such a forward who is good at seizing opportunities and finding gaps is constantly moving in your defense during the game...
No one can guarantee that they will not make a single mistake in the ninety-minute game. It is not a big deal if you make a mistake normally, but when you play against Hu Lai, you will die if you make a mistake!
So even though the North Korean team played very tenaciously in this game and scored a goal, they still lost the game.
Their defense was pretty good, and they only gave Hu Lai three chances to shoot in the whole game, but they still lost the ball in the end...Who do you want the North Korean players to talk to for reason?
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"We must pay attention to their No. 14." In the hotel conference room where the Japanese Olympic team is staying, Japanese team coach Koichi Sato is holding a meeting with the team.
They had just a draw with the South Korean team yesterday. This draw made the Japanese team fall behind the Chinese team in the East Asian Cup.
If they still want to win the championship, there is no other way but to defeat the Chinese team in the last game.
If there is a tie, we can only go for the runner-up spot.
"I just watched the video of the match between the Chinese team and the North Korean team. What do you think of this number 14?" Sato Koichi pointed to the close-up shot of Hu Laite on the big screen and asked.
Sugiyama Tatsuya raised his hand: "I feel like he is a forward who is very good at catching opportunities. His skills are not too outstanding, and his physical confrontation is average, but his ability to run without the ball and find open spaces is very good. Coach."
Sato Hikaru nodded very satisfied with Sugiyama Tatsuya's answer: "Observe very carefully, Sugiyama. What else can you see?"
Sugiyama Tatsuya frowned. He felt that when the head coach asked this, there must be something else that he hadn't noticed, but what exactly it was... He felt that he had observed it very carefully. The man named "Hu" was running without the ball.
What the Chinese striker is best at is his biggest advantage.
When he was watching the game video, he even came up with this idea - if our Japanese Olympic team had such a forward, coupled with my passing, I believe we can win many goals against our opponents in every game!
Sato Koichi found Sugiyama Tatsuya frowning and lost in thought, but decided to give his favorite general a hint: "Have you noticed how many shots he shot in this game?"
Hearing these words, Sugiyama Tatsuya raised his head suddenly, then shook his head and said: "Sorry, coach, I didn't pay attention to this data, I didn't count..."
Sato Koichi raised three fingers: "Three shots. In seventy-six minutes of playing, three shots and one goal. What does this mean?"
"He is very efficient!" Sugiyama Tatsuya almost blurted out.
"Yes, he is very efficient in front of goal!" After finishing speaking, Sato Koichi turned to the whole team, "Don't just focus on those players who like to play football to the fullest. Don't always think that you can only beat a few people with the ball.
Players who enter a world wave are the most threatening. I will tell you right now, the most threatening players are like him!"
He pointed back at the frozen writing of Hulett on the projection screen.
"Use the least number of shots to complete the most goals! Efficient forwards are what every team in today's football dreams of! Why did the Korean team stumble against the Chinese team? It's because this idiot Li Anren didn't realize this.
!His mind is filled with all about Xinyan, Guan Xinyan... What is so good about Guan Xinyan? He just runs faster. This talent is amazing! He scored three goals with five shots against the South Korean team; he scored three goals against the North Korean team with three shots.
The ball, what a terrifying efficiency is this? So we must completely freeze him in the next game! We must prevent him from even taking a shot!"
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"In the game against the Japanese team, we will not use full-court press, because it is useless, but it will also provide opportunities for the Japanese team."
Shi Wuyin said at a tactical meeting for all team players.
"The Japanese team is good at controlling the ball. With midfielder Tatsuya Sugiyama as the core, they pass and advance. Our pressing played into their hands. In this game, we mainly used defensive counterattack tactics and deployed three three-dimensional defense.
A defensive line. After returning to the center line, starting from the forward line, blocking them layer by layer, compressing their passing space, especially the spaces around Sugiyama Tatsuya..."
Combined with PPT, Shi Wuyin explained specific tactics to the players.
Since a draw can lead to the championship, Shi Wuyuan’s tactics this time were a bit conservative.
But no one can be wrong. After all, facing an opponent like the Japanese team, you can only be conservative if you don't want to be conservative. With the current strength of the Olympic team, pressing out to attack the Japanese team will only lead to a dead end.
Guo Junfu is also an offensive organizer, but in terms of strength, he is still worse than Sugiyama Tatsuya.
Even if there is a striker like Hu Lai, after these two games, is the Japanese team coach Koichi Sato an idiot and can't see the importance of Hu Lai?
Therefore, in the third game, it is completely conceivable how much defensive resistance Hu Lai will encounter in the game.
Shi Wuyin's strategy was to strengthen the defense, which would frustrate the Japanese team's offense and also dampen their spirit.
Then make adjustments according to the situation on the field.
If the Japanese team wants to win the championship, it must press forward and attack with all its strength. Then it will be the opportunity for the Chinese team to counterattack.
Of course, if the Japanese team is worried about the Chinese team's counterattack and does not dare to press out and attack, then Shi Wuyin does not mind slowly dealing with the Japanese team and finally gets a 0:0 score, which can still win the championship.
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After the tactical meeting, the players returned to their rooms.
Hu Lai was chewing on the name of the head coach of the Japanese Olympic team that he heard in the tactical meeting.
"Koichi Sato... does this name sound familiar?"
His soliloquy was heard by Wang Guangwei: "Of course I am familiar with it. He is the Japanese defender who scored the Chinese team's ball with his hand in the final of the 2004 Asian Cup, which caused the collapse of the Chinese team."
"Shall I go? Doesn't that mean that enemies are extremely jealous when they meet?"
"It has long since ceased to be popular. Eighteen years have passed..." Wang Guangwei sighed, "No matter how much hatred and resentment you have, if you can't avenge it, don't mention it again. It will only embarrass yourself."
The huge gap in strength between Chinese football and Japanese football caused hatred to accumulate. At first, everyone was filled with indignation and clamored for revenge.
As a result, it was later discovered that revenge could not be achieved at all, and gradually no one said anything anymore, because by repeatedly using one's own wounds to make excuses, it was oneself who was embarrassed, not the enemy.
Hu Lai also understood this helplessness. He sighed: "This East Asian Cup is actually a cup to settle old scores, right?"
"Don't think so much. Whether it's an old score or not, it has nothing to do with us, Hu Lai. Don't bear the burden of history."
Hu Lai snorted: "My ability to shake off burdens is historic."
Wang Guangwei smiled when he heard this, he believed it.