The World Cup qualifying match between the Chinese national team and Qatar has attracted much attention.
This game is about fighting for the initiative to be first in the group.
After losing this game, even if Zhao Yang returns later and the national football team succeeds in revenge at home, Qatar still has a goal difference of more than 8 more than the Chinese national team. There is still no hope of ranking first in the group.
Therefore, the goal of the Chinese team in this game is to maintain a tie and win.
Guaranteeing a tie and competing for victory is an unlucky word for the Chinese team. Throughout history, whenever a game needs to be tied, the Chinese team will eventually lose.
History always has striking similarities.
In this match in the early morning of October 9th, the Chinese team lost again.
Only one goal was conceded, but throughout the game, the Chinese team played submissively, without any aggressiveness, and did not get a chance to score a goal.
After the game, the media bluntly stated that the game was a wasteful loss and that head coach Perandang was primarily responsible for the loss.
When Zhao Yang was interviewed by the media, he was also disappointed with the performance of the national football team. He believed that this defeat pushed the national football team to a desperate situation. If the Chinese national team wants to qualify from the group later, it must maintain a complete victory.
In fact, Zhao Yang was a bit optimistic.
By losing this game, the Chinese team lost more than just the possibility of first place in the group.
In fact, it is very difficult to advance.
After this game, the national football team's points still stayed at 7 points, and the goals scored and conceded were 9 to 1. In comparison, Hong Kong, China's goals scored and conceded were 11 to 3, and Qatar's goals scored and conceded were 20 to 2. Therefore, the national football team
Dropped to 3rd in the group.
Of course, losing is not the end of the world. As long as they defeat Hong Kong, China, on the road and win Qatar at home, the national football team will definitely still be second in the group. But the question is, is second place in the group useful?
According to the rules of the top 40, the four best ranked second in the group can also advance. But the current situation is really very severe for the national football team. The second place in Group A, the United Arab Emirates, has 7 points, but the goal difference is
10 (goals scored and conceded 12 to 2). Australia, second in Group B, currently has 9 points, Oman, second in Group D, currently has 8 points, Syria, second in Group E, also has 9 points, and Group G has 9 points.
Second place Kuwait also has 9 points, and second place Uzbekistan in Group H also has 9 points.
In addition, due to the global ban of the Indonesian team in Group F, the "second place in the group with the best results" rule has also changed, that is, the second place in the other seven groups will not be counted with the bottom team in the group when comparing results.
The results of the two rounds. Therefore, the 6 goal difference in the only big victory of the national football team is also likely to be useless. After all, Bhutan just lost 2-3 to the Maldives this morning, and has basically locked in the bottom of the group.
Therefore, it is quite difficult for the national football team to become the second among the four best-performing groups.
In fact, can the national football team still finish second in the group? This is also a question that no one dares to answer. Maybe, everything is possible.
The national football team did not perform well in any of the four World Cup preliminaries. In the first away game against Bhutan, although the score was 6-0, throughout the first half, the national football team was completely wasting opportunities and even allowed the Bhutanese team to besiege them.
Gate. And Qatar defeated Bhutan 15-0; Huagang also scored a 7-0 win, and the national football team really had nothing to say; the second home game against Hong Kong, China, was the best in the world preliminaries.
A bad score. A 0-0 draw with the opponent at home in Shenzhen, and the disparity in the performance of the two teams in the first and second half has given the team a red light; in the third "away" game against the Maldives, 3-0 can only be regarded as a small win.
Even though they were so lucky that the opponent gave up their home court, they still couldn't get more goal difference. The national football team's forward line was seriously weak. In the fourth away game against Qatar, it was a game they couldn't afford to lose. In the end, the tactical thinking was too much.
Losing under conservative circumstances, the national football team directly pushed itself to the edge of the cliff.
In this state, can the national football team really win all the next four games? What if the eagerly awaited Hong Kong team of China completes a counterattack?
Of course, both the Chinese team and Perrin had a straw, and that straw was Zhao Yang.
However, the media pointed out with disappointment that although Zhao Yang has strong personal abilities, he is only one person after all. Zhao Yang alone cannot change the current situation of the national football team.
On social media, most Chinese fans are not as pessimistic as the Chinese media.
Chinese fans believe that what the national football team lacks now is a player who can make the final decision, and Zhao Yang is such a player.
With Zhao Yang, the goal difference disadvantage may be restored.
With Zhao Yang, the possibility of winning all four games is extremely high.
As for the lackluster state of the national football team and the tense relationship between the head coach and the players, fans believe that what is missing is just victory, and with a few wins, everything will change.
After the defeat of the national football team, Zhao Yang, who did not play, still became the protagonist after the game. Fans and media were all discussing Zhao Yang.
Fans on major social media and forums are also debating whether Zhao Yang can change the current situation of the national football team.
Foreign forums are naturally not interested in how Zhao Yang will perform when he returns to the national team. What they care about is when Zhao Yang will return and how he will perform in the Espanyol team after returning from injury.
After the national team match, the Espanyol team ushered in their 8th round opponent-Real Betis.
Like Sporting Gijon, Real Betis is also a newly promoted team.
Real Betis, located in Seville, the capital of Andalucia, has always played the role of "elevator" in La Liga. After being relegated as deputy squad leader in the 2013-14 season, it returned to La Liga as the La Liga champion last season.
At the beginning of the season, Betis signed Hamburg captain Van der Vaart for free, and his Hamburg teammate Westerman also came to invest. Later, the team introduced Nice midfielder Digard and Marseille midfielder Kadir from Ligue 1.
River Plate center back Pezzella and Corinthians winger Pietrus, and before the start of the season, winger Vargas was signed from Fiorentina, which greatly enhanced the team's midfield and backcourt configuration.
Betis coach Meyer is the meritorious coach who has promoted the team twice in the past five years. Last season, after Meyer returned to take charge of Betis, he led the team to be promoted to the top of the Spanish Second Division. The team averaged 1.74 goals per game and ranked first in the league. In
Meyer was a forward as a player, and after becoming a head coach, his offensive characteristics were impressive.
In the past seven games, Real Betis has lost 2, drawn twice and won three times, ranking 11th.
When a mid-tier team plays as a newly promoted team, no one originally pays attention to it, but because head coach Sergio put Zhao Yang on the roster, the fans' interest immediately rose, and they were all discussing whether Zhao Yang might play.