Grass roots glory

Chapter 974 Bay Messi
The Chinese team turned 2:1 at halftime, Lippi stood up and walked into the locker room with a smile, behind him Madaloni put Zheng Zhi's shoulders: "Look, Zheng, it's actually not that troublesome, here, it's very simple. Hahaha."

Zheng Zhi smiled awkwardly. He didn't expect the other side to mention this, but there are two feelings on the court and off the court.

The quick reversal put him in a good mood.

Entering the knockout stage, the British Sky Sports, which holds the copyright of this Asian Cup, has also begun to cut into the live broadcast of the Asian Cup. This is the first time that European authoritative media such as Sky Sports will broadcast the Asian Cup live, and only the Chinese team will be broadcast live.

There is no other reason, because Zhou Tiancheng is not here, Van Gaal has played with fire too much.The Chinese team went smoothly in the Asian Cup, but Manchester United has lost the top spot. They pay attention to the Chinese team. In fact, the bigger reason is related to Manchester United.The better the performance of the Chinese team, the greater the reversal of the competition for the Premier League title this season.

Carragher and Yang Cheng were lucky. The first Asian Cup broadcast saw a twists and turns in the half-time reversal, and they were more confident to tease Van Gaal.

"Maybe Van Gaal can consider serving as the head coach of the Chinese team, so that he no longer has to worry about Zhou Tiancheng not being in the team. Hahaha, the facts have proved that without superstars, Van Gaal just can't continue playing. No wonder the Bayern president in those years I can't play against Schalke, and I can't play against Dortmund."

When Yang Cheng said that, Carragher couldn't help laughing: "Old man, if you say that, what are Robben and Ribery?"

Yang Cheng didn't have any psychological pressure at all, so he answered casually: "Are they as good as Zhou Tiancheng? How many Golden Globe Awards have they won?"

Although Sky Sports is a well-known media in Europe, the main audience is England fans. Most of them can get up early in the morning to watch the game in London time to watch Zhou Tiancheng, so there is no pressure on Yang Cheng to say that.

Carragher just spread his hands and smiled, anyway, now that the Chinese team has overtaken, whatever you say is reasonable...

That's right, the score is leading, and the level of strength is there, so you can have confidence.

This is a knockout match, and Australia obviously has no way out, unless they really only regard the match against the Chinese team as a low-key study, and it doesn't matter whether they win or lose.

But that was out of the question, with Postkoglu upping the ante early in the second half, bringing in attacking midfielder Matthew Leckie - who had nothing to do with goalkeeper Matthew Ryan, In Australia, Matthew is a common surname.The only thing in common is that both of them play for European clubs and play for the German second team Ingolstadt.

There are indeed enough players in the Australian team to travel to Europe. There are as many as seven players in the main lineup, but this level is obviously inferior to that of the Chinese team. They are tall and powerful, but few of them are really qualified to face Zhou Tiancheng.

Matthew Lakey is not a defensive champion, which means that the burden of defense is still on Jedinak's head. As his physical fitness declines, Postkoglu's face becomes quite ugly. I discovered a truth: confronting the Chinese team and replacing them with offensive players to strengthen the offense seems to be the wrong way to go.

Although this is common sense, it has to be able to break the ball from Zhou Tiancheng's feet.

This is not a person who can use common sense to judge!
In terms of score and scene, the Chinese team has already taken advantage.Lippi started to make substitutions at this time, and Cai Huikang was about to come on, replacing Wu Xi.

That's right, for the rest of the time, Lippi started to put more effort into defense. It's not that Lippi is conservative. It's okay to continue to attack, but judging by the strength of the opponent's defense, it's hard to guarantee that no players will be injured. This is not worth the candle .

Lippi walked to the sidelines to signal Zhou Tiancheng to slowly stabilize the rhythm, and the Chinese team strengthened the pass control in the backcourt.

The momentum of the home fans was very strong. Seeing that Zhou Tiancheng began to link up the midfield and play pass control steadily, He Wei was relieved a lot: "This is definitely the most effective way to get twice the result with half the effort. Put down the formation and wait for the opponent to attack. It is necessary to go head-to-head with the opponent, and the situation can be controlled, so why bother."

It seems like an ordinary joke, but only when you have a certain degree of confidence in the control ability of the Chinese team can you agree to conservatively defend the fruits of victory when you only have a one-goal lead.

But the Chinese team can do it.

Australian coach Postkoglu is getting more and more impatient. Now that the Chinese team is not in a hurry, it will be difficult to catch a counterattack like just now.

His biggest worry before was that he relied too much on Cahill for the counterattack. The 36-year-old veteran's physical fitness may not be able to support the audience. It does not seem to be Cahill's physical fitness problem now.So what if he has plenty of energy?Kong raised his hands and complained in the frontcourt that he couldn't get the ball, so he could only return to the midfield and wait for the ball.

After eight or 10 minutes of the game, Postkoglu had already played the last card, and the momentum of the home fans had weakened a lot.

A set of data can already explain the situation of the game: Australia still had four shots in the first half, but only once in the second half after the Chinese team slowed down, and the ball possession rate dropped from 43% to 27%.

Even if Australia is trying to put their lives together in the frontcourt, but with Zhou Tiancheng here, how can you be afraid of you?
Even if it is the host country, it is impossible to squeeze people down in the frontcourt and let the referee turn a blind eye.

The commentator of Australian national television can no longer have the confidence of the previous goal. He can only shake his head and sigh helplessly: "The Chinese team's control ability is too strong, that is, their heights are not similar, but the control ability is too strong. In terms of strength, they are truly Asia's Barcelona."

Barcelona in Asia, in the years when Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa were at their peak, this nickname was exclusive to the Japanese team.

And look at the expression of Australian coach Postkoglu, he has shown a sense of powerlessness.

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The Chinese team's victory over Australia is not considered an upset. The hosts were eliminated early, and they can only be blamed for their bad luck.

However, the second quarter-final game on the following day was a big upset.

Originally, Chinese journalists were hyping up the semi-final against the Japanese team. With the strength of the Japanese team, there should be no problem in passing the UAE.Everyone is looking forward to the early match between the last championship and runner-up.

The Asian Cup without the confrontation between China and Japan is always less exciting. Zhou Tiancheng and Shinji Kagawa, two of the top midfielders in Asian football and former teammates, would always regret not having a confrontation.

不过谁也没想到日本队居然会翻船，和阿联酋120分钟打成1:1，点球大战4:5落败。制霸亚洲足坛多年的霸主就这么被打在四强之外。

The opponent of the Chinese team has become the United Arab Emirates. On the AFC official website and major Chinese media, all the analysis reports on Shinji Kagawa have been withdrawn and replaced by another person.
A small man with flowing curly hair and an official registration profile of only 1.6 meters [-], but the core of the UAE midfielder, Omar Abdurrahman.

The introduction on the official website of the AFC is more direct: If the UAE wants to beat the Chinese team, it may have to rely on whether the small "Messi of the Gulf" can withstand Zhou Tiancheng's strong oppression.

Gulf Messi, this is Omar’s nickname, as long as any country produces a talented small football genius these days, they will be dubbed “××Messi”. “Messi” is also free of money like Chinese cabbage .

But Omar deserves such a nickname. Not only is his height similar to Messi, he was born in 1991 and he is not yet 24 years old.

But three years ago, he had already amazed the world.

(End of this chapter)