Grass roots glory

Chapter 690 Still Trusting
In stoppage time, the Chinese team still had a chance to kill the game.

It's just that when Gao Lin, who came off the bench, faced an opportunity in the penalty area, he didn't choose to cross to Jiang Hao's feet, but chose to shoot himself.

The mentality is understandable. Catching the ball in front of the goal is indeed an opportunity. At that moment, Gao Lin only had the goal in his eyes.After all, everyone wants to be a hero, which is understandable.

However, Gao Lin has not been a real shooter since his debut. He is better at supporting the team's offense from the front line.

Ochoa reacted quickly and fell to the ground to make a save, but the ball didn't even touch his hands-it went straight wide of the goal.

"Oh, what a pity! When the ball was passed to the goal, Jiang Hao and Wu Sanshi could finish the game with a light push! Gao Lin didn't have this diamond, so he shouldn't be doing porcelain work. There is no time left for him Chinese team."

He Wei used the same lines he used to describe the Chinese team in the past, but in fact, the result this time was not bad. Most of the players in this Chinese team participated in this level of competition for the first time. Two consecutive draws, at least they did not lose.

After two rounds, Brazil has four points, Italy three, China two and Mexico one.As long as they beat Italy in the final round, the Chinese team will qualify as the top two in the group.

The team is far from reaching a desperate situation, but if Gao Lin's choice is more reasonable, we could have occupied a more favorable and absolute dominant position.

After taking the lead in two games, it was equalized. It can only be said that the Chinese team still needs to pay tuition fees on such a stage, but everyone can accept it now.I think when we set foot on the World Cup for the first time that year, we paid the tuition fees directly to the World Cup.Before the expedition, the whole country was still thinking about how to qualify...

And it's even better now that Lippi's counterattack against Italy has become even more topical.

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Another match in Group A was held in the coastal city of Salvador in the northeastern part of Brazil. Italy and Brazil had an ups and downs goal battle, and finally lost to the host 2:4.

After this game, when the Italian media interviewed the national team coach Prandelli, it was inevitable to mention Lippi.This is not only the next opponent, but Prandelli took over the mess left by Lippi.The elimination of South Africa's World Cup group discredited Italian football, and just two years after Prandelli took over, he brought the team to the European Cup runner-up.

Now there is a lot of support for Prandelli in Italy. As for Lippi... Although it is not like "eat and sleep scolding Lippi" as it was then, Lippi now has mixed reputations in the circle of Italian journalists.This is because his credit for leading Italy to win the World Cup in 2006 cannot be ignored. In fact, the Italian journalists are still quite critical of Lippi at the moment.Because it will soon be an enemy of Italy.

How can the godfather of the Italian champion be an enemy of the motherland's team?
They want to hear from Prandelli that they must win, but Prandelli, who is quite a gentleman, is very low-key: "It must be a different experience to play against the Chinese team. We have never played against them. I have played against each other, but I know that the team that Lippi coaches must not be easy. He is my predecessor and a hero in Italy. I am very honored to play against him."

The Italian reporters were not comfortable hearing these words. They tried to guide and ask: "Can this game have more meaning? Maybe we will be in the same group with the Chinese team in the World Cup next year."

Prandelli smiled: "That would be great! The game will never be boring."

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Similarly, the Chinese media is sparing no effort to play up the game.They are very active. Even the day before the game, Chinese reporters have obtained the news closest to the team's starting lineup through various channels.

Although the fans have great opinions, they think this is an early leak.Since the training is not open to the media, it makes sense. If the Chinese team loses the game, these reporters will definitely have something to do with it.

However, when everyone saw the content, they still found valuable news: Wu Sanshi’s state has improved, and he scored goals frequently in the team’s group confrontation. The possibility of Lippi placing him in the starting lineup cannot be ruled out. .

In fact, this news was only accompanied by a video of Zhou Tiancheng giving him a small talk alone. This was the only video material that the reporters could obtain conditionally after the team training.

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"Sanshi, you can see that it is much better now, so this thing has to be done slowly in the future. The key is that you have to temper your mentality in the game. It is useless to have a [-]% success rate in training, but at least it is a good thing. Start."

Wu Sanshi nodded with a smile. After getting along with the national team for a period of time, he can fully listen to Zhou Tiancheng's words.

"Sanshi, these days and weeks of training, I think you have gained a lot."

During the training, Lippi found that Wu Sanshi's success rate has improved a lot when dealing with single-handed swords. better.

"Be prepared and try the feeling of starting. I think you deserve a chance. If you want to continue to improve, you have to prove yourself."

This sentence was a sudden surprise, Wu Sanshi nodded heavily.

Not only that, Lippi also took him to the pre-match press conference to meet with reporters.

The questions prepared by the Chinese reporters were all about the relationship between Lippi and Italy, but when they saw Wu Sanshi, many people were really surprised, and then they improvised, and the focus suddenly became him, but the problem There is a faint smell of gunpowder hidden in it, such as asking Lippi, "Is the Chinese team's participation in the Confederations Cup really just as indifferent training?"

There is an unwritten rule in international football that all players participating in the pre-match press conference must start the game, but this is not nonsense!

If there were no other foreign counterparts present, it is estimated that the Chinese reporters would directly ask: "Would you still let him go? How many singles do you want him to throw?"

Wu Sanshi didn't realize the smell of gunpowder in it, and he was still a little cautious in the face of so many reporters, but Lippi understood, frowned, and explained very firmly: "I don't know why you say that, the game only wins , For the Chinese team, there is no game purely for the purpose of training, at least not in my team."

The translator next to him patted Wu Sanshi lightly, which also conveyed a kind of encouragement.

It's no wonder that Wu Sanshi hardly played for a few minutes in the last game, and the reporters subconsciously thought that Lippi had also lost patience with him.

But in fact, this is just Lippi's expedient measure, to protect him properly.

If there is only a little patience for him, he will not get the treatment of Xiaozao, and he will not have such trust in young players. It can only be said that Chinese reporters do not know enough about Lippi and underestimate the mind of a world famous coach.

(End of this chapter)