Because the national football team has too much dark history, after consecutive missed shots, Chinese fans became nervous again.
The old fans thought of the "Three Black Minutes", and the young fans thought of the home game against the Hong Kong team that just passed.
A 2-goal lead does not reassure fans, nor does it reassure players.
Continuous failure to score a goal makes the players even more impatient.
In the 41st minute of the game, Qatar attacked the frontcourt after consecutive passes.
The Chinese team retreated to defend and stationed heavy troops around the penalty area.
Seeing that the Qatari players were unable to enter the penalty area, midfielder Maqsoud suddenly fired a cold arrow from the outside of the penalty area.
There were too many players around the penalty area, and Maqsoud's shot hit the Chinese midfielder Zheng Zhi.
The ball was originally shot to the right side of the goal, but after hitting Zheng Zhi and refracted, it flew to the left.
Goalkeeper Cheng Cheng was in good condition and focused. He judged the right direction when Maqsud took off his foot and began to move to the left.
By the time Cheng Cheng saw the ball refracted, it was already too late to go back.
After refraction, the ball speed was not very fast, but the Chinese players could only watch it fly into their own net.
1:2
Qatar was passive and unexpectedly regained a point.
The applause of the Chinese fans stopped and the shouts disappeared.
The atmosphere at the scene immediately became solemn.
On-site commentator He Wei sighed: "We are not very lucky."
Fan Yidao: "We are still ahead and have the upper hand, but we are afraid that the players' mentality will change."
He Weidao: "That's what I'm worried about. Long-term losses make our players mentally too fragile."
Unfortunately, He Wei was right.
After Qatar scored a goal, the Chinese team suddenly stopped playing football.
He made repeated mistakes in passing the ball. After receiving the ball, the ball was like a red-hot iron. The opponent was still ten meters away, so he quickly passed it out.
He didn't dare to take the ball from the backcourt. To be safe, he always kicked it out.
Although Qatar had been on the offensive before, the threat was not great. The Chinese team's defense was very stable and they did a good job transitioning between offense and defense. Every counterattack made Qatar's goal trembling.
But after losing the ball, the Chinese team made too many mistakes and did not dare to control the ball, thus losing the opportunity to counterattack.
There is no threat to the rear, and Qatar's full-backs and center-backs frequently attack, making the Chinese team's defense even worse.
At the end of the first half, Qatar launched its most violent attack.
The ball was passed back and forth between the center and the wing. The Chinese team's defensive players were exhausted, but they still couldn't catch up with the speed of the ball. Tabata broke the defense with a through ball.
The forward center back Pedro entered the penalty area, faced the attacking goalkeeper Cheng Cheng, and pushed a shot into the lower left corner of the goal with his right foot.
Cheng Cheng fell to the ground and it was too late to save. He subconsciously stretched his foot to block it. Fortunately, Cheng Cheng touched the ball and changed its direction. The ball hit the outside of the goal post and bounced out.
When Pedro shot, the entire stadium was so quiet that you could almost hear breathing.
It wasn't until the ball hit the goal post that a burst of bellows-like breathing could be heard from the stands.
Then there was a burst of warm applause, this applause was given to goalkeeper Cheng Cheng.
If Qatar scores another goal, perhaps the mentality of the national football team will collapse directly.
Qatar failed to score this time, and the regular time of the first half of the game also passed. The fourth official raised the 1 minute stoppage time sign.
At this minute, Qatar wanted to strike while the iron was hot and even the score. The Chinese team was in shock and did not attack. All players returned to their own half to defend with all their strength.
The time was too short and Qatar had no chance to score again.
After halftime, the Chinese men's football team temporarily led Qatar 2:1.
At the end of the game, the Chinese players breathed a long sigh of relief. Finally, Qatar's morale improved. If the game had been extended for a few more minutes, they didn't know if they could hold on to the score.
Now, with 15 minutes of rest and adjustment, they can be more fully prepared to face their opponent's counterattack in the second half.
Peilan, the head coach of the Chinese national team, also breathed a long sigh of relief.
Just now he was more worried than the players on the field.
Fortunately the game is over.
Perrin hurried to the locker room. He had to have a good talk with the players. He must not play like this in the second half.
Qatar head coach Carreño doesn't care.
An equalizer is better, but not equalizing is nothing. We were only one goal behind in the first half. This score is acceptable to Qatar.
In other words, as long as we don't lose by a big score, the purpose of this game will be achieved.
Fan Yi, the guest commentator, was very angry at the last period of the Chinese team. He kept scolding the Chinese players for being bloodless and being beaten by Qatar like this.
He Wei was very nervous at the time and did not comment much. After the first half of the game, He Wei took up Fan Yi's topic.
"Lao Fan, don't scold these players. The pressure is too great. Anyone who replaces them will worry about gains and losses. In addition, our history is too bad. It is full of lessons from failure and no experience of victory."
Fan Yi said: "It depends on who we are playing against. Now we are playing at home and our opponent has already qualified. We are still leading 2:0, but we are almost overturned. It's really annoying."
He Weidao: "Aren't we still in the lead? I think Perrin will adjust during the halftime break."
Fan Yidao: "There will definitely be adjustments. I hope we can score first in the second half, otherwise, we might collapse again in the end."
He Weidao: "It shouldn't happen this time. We still have Zhao Yang. When he was at Espanyol, he often led the team to great comebacks. His willpower should be okay."
Fan Yi said: "I'm worried that Zhao Yang can't support himself alone."
Fifteen minutes passed quickly, and while the fans had something to eat, went to the toilet, and had some conversation, the second half of the game began again.
After 15 minutes of adjustments, the mentality of the Hua Guo team players stabilized, and both offense and defense returned to the levels at the beginning of the first half.
Although Qatar's players were mainly training today, the substitute players all hoped to perform well in order to get a chance in the next top 12 games. Therefore, they played very hard and constantly attacked the Chinese team's penalty area.
In the 48th minute of the game, Qatar central defender Abdulrahman assisted the frontcourt, received Tabata's pass, and went straight into the penalty area.
The Chinese team's center back Feng Xiaoting and defensive midfielder Zheng Zhi tacitly intercepted the ball. Zheng Zhi split the ball and passed it to the winger Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning dribbled the ball all the way to the frontcourt. This time he didn't dare to shoot, and passed directly across the middle to Hao Jun for organization.
Hao Jun saw that Zhao Yang was being watched by two defensive players, so he simply dribbled the ball straight into the penalty area.
This time when they intercepted the ball and counterattacked, Qatar's defensive players had not fully returned to their positions. Two more people were guarding Zhao Yang, leaving the center empty.
Hao Jun dribbled the ball straight into the penalty area, forcing Qatar's players to shrink in the middle to block Hao Jun.
Hao Jun successfully attracted the opponent's attention and immediately distributed the ball diagonally toward the ribs.
There is no one in the ribs, but Hao Jun believes that Zhao Yang will definitely move in this direction.
Sure enough, after Hao Jun's ball was passed, Zhao Yang ran to the ball almost immediately, and the two players who were marking Zhao Yang were thrown away by him.
Zhao Yang did not stop the ball and did not have time to stop the ball. He rushed to the ball and shot directly.
Zhao Yang's kick was so powerful and heavy that it hit the upper right corner of the goal like a cannonball with the sound of howling wind.
Although Qatar goalkeeper Amin kept looking at Zhao Yang, his shot was too close, right at the edge of the penalty area. Amin could not react in time and could only watch the ball hit the net.
3:1
The Chinese team once again took the lead by 2 goals.