The Marshal Sports Center, which can accommodate 50,000 people, was packed with seats.
The fifth round of the World Cup qualifying match between the Chinese team and the Bhutan team has begun.
Zhao Yang's first national team game finally arrived after long-awaited arrival.
When they challenged Bhutan away from home in the first round, the Chinese team easily won 6:0.
Now playing at home, there is no suspense about winning. The key is how to win the most cost-effective way.
After losing 0-1 away to Qatar in the key match of the fourth round of the national football group stage last month, unless Qatar collapses later, the national football team, which has only 7 points in 4 games, 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, has actually said that it will be the first in the group.
Goodbye.
At present, the realistic goal of the national football team is to become the "second best among the four groups" among the eight groups in the top 40, so as to obtain tickets to advance to the top 12.
Due to the ban of Indonesia in Group F, there are only 4 teams in this group. Therefore, when comparing points, the two-round head-to-head results of all 8 groups against the last place in this group will be ignored.
Maldives, another loser in the group stage, has already defeated Bhutan. Currently, Maldives has conceded 9 net goals, while Bhutan has conceded 30 net goals, so Bhutan has basically locked in the last place in the group.
This means that no matter how much goal difference the national football team gets against the Bhutan team, it will be of no use in the final second match against other groups.
The current Huaguo team is mainly composed of Hengda players. Recently, Hengda has been having tough battles one after another. The new striker Zhao Yang has to come all the way from Spain. And five days later, the Huaguo team will have another
Playing against China's provincial and Hong Kong teams in an away game.
Therefore, from the perspective of competing with other teams for the second place in the best group, the most cost-effective thing is to win a small victory and save the energy of the main players to play against the provincial and Hong Kong teams.
However, the prerequisite for this is that the Chinese team can get second place in this group.
In fact, currently ranked second in the group is the Huaguo Hong Kong team.
The Hong Kong team had 5 games in the group stage, 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and scored 10 points. The national football team, which had played one less game, only had 7 points. In addition, Hong Kong, China's 9 goal difference is also better than the Chinese team's 8.
In other words, the Chinese team must defeat the Hong Kong team in the next game to get second place in this group.
Once the national football team loses points again in subsequent games, it will end up with the Hong Kong team on the same points. At this time, comparisons with other groups must be put aside, and the goal difference must be competed with the Hong Kong team first.
In this case, the number of goals scored against Bhutan becomes important again.
In fact, the key is whether the Chinese team has the confidence to win the Hong Kong team and Qatar.
The Chinese team is confident in defeating the Hong Kong team, even though they were tied at home, and even though the Hong Kong team threatened to defeat the Chinese team 5:0 at home.
But it’s hard to say whether they can beat Qatar at home. Qatar’s strength cannot be offset by the Chinese team’s home court advantage.
Although Qatar may have been determined to be number one in the group when they played against Qatar, it is up to others to decide whether to give in or not. Of course, the fate is in their own hands.
In the team affairs meeting the day before, the coaching staff analyzed the situation faced by the Chinese team. In the end, Perrin chose a conservative and pragmatic approach, believing that he should win a big game first to ensure a sufficient goal difference, and then consider other matters.
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However, when the coaching staff informed the players of this decision, the players' opinions were not unanimous. Some players thought that playing it safe was better, and the strength of the Chinese team did not allow them to aim too high.
There are still many players who think there is no need to be so conservative. Don't they have the confidence to even play against the provincial and Hong Kong teams? Then how will they play in the top 12 games later?
Everyone is very tired, so if we allocate our physical strength well, we will win against the Hong Kong team in five days, and no goal difference will be needed.
Zhao Yang's opinion is that there is no need to beat Bhutan to death. The provincial and Hong Kong teams who tied with the Chinese team at home are the biggest enemies. It is most reasonable to use all the energy to deal with the Hong Kong team.
However, Zhao Yang had just joined the national team and had little influence on the team, so Zhao Yang kept these thoughts in his heart.
Since the coach decided to have a goal difference, after the game started, the Chinese team pressed forward with the whole team and bombarded the Bhutan team indiscriminately.
In the 3rd minute of the game, Zhao Yang, who was closely watched by two Bhutanese players, finally got the ball.
It was captain Zheng Zhi who decisively passed the ball to Zhao Yang regardless of the defensive players around him.
Zhao Yang lived up to Zheng Zhi's pass. He caught the ball and made a Cruyff turn, instantly getting rid of the two defenders.
Even after passing, Zhao Yang still had time to think about how good these two defensive players were.
But what was even worse were the other defensive players. They seemed to think that with two people staring closely at Zhao Yang, there would be no problem, so after Zhao Yang got rid of it, no one came to cover the defense immediately.
Players like Zhao Yang are used to playing in the fast pace of La Liga, and Dandan's players seem to be playing in slow motion.
After he caught up with the ball, he even made some adjustments and volleyed a tiger-style blast from 28 meters.
The Bhutanese players were already too slow to block the ball when they tried to block it, and the ball roared straight towards the upper left corner of the goal.
The Bhutanese goalkeeper Kelsang Gyaltsen is only 1.75 meters tall, so there is no way he can catch Zhao Yang's fast and tricky shot.
Kelsang Gyaltsen jumped into the air, stretched out his arms, and was still half a meter away from the ball. He could only watch the ball go straight towards the net.
1:0
In the third minute of the game, Zhao Yang took the ball for the first time and scored a long shot that broke the Bhutanese team's goal.
This is Zhao Yang's first national team goal.
Scoring for the country and scoring for the club have completely different feelings.
Zhao Yang's blood surged and his mind went blank. He took off his shirt and ran to the stands yelling wildly. He wanted to dedicate this goal to the fans and his parents.
The fans in the stands did not expect to score so quickly. Last time they played against Bhutan, Yang Xu scored at the end of the first half.
Almost subconsciously, all the fans stood up, applauded, and shouted towards the stadium: Zhao Yang, Zhao Yang, Zhao Yang...
In an instant, the Marshal Stadium turned into a boiling ocean.
The on-site commentator He Wei changed his style from a poet in the commentary world and shouted at the top of his lungs: "It's in, it's in! Zhao Yang scored! In the third minute! The first time he touched the ball! Zhao Yang scored for the Chinese team! He didn't
Live up to the expectations of the fans! He is a real killer! Oh! There are words written on his underwear! Well! Dedicated to my relatives! Yes, Zhao Yang! All your relatives are here! Keep scoring goals! For them
!For China!”
Head coach Perrin never dreamed that scoring a goal could be so quick and easy!
Just pass the ball to Zhao Yang's feet!
Peilan almost burst into tears! Zhao Yang was the answer he dreamed of!
The assistant coaches and substitute players all rushed out, hugging, applauding, and cheering. They knew that with the first goal, the rest of the game would be easy to play, and a big victory would not be possible.