Green Dragon

Chapter 157 Are You Going Offside?
On January 1, after 12 days of rest, the Chinese team ushered in their second opponent.

Hosts Qatar.

Compared with the less than 7000 spectators in the first group match, the number of spectators in this game has doubled directly. More than 1000 Qatari fans have poured into the stadium. Although the Chinese staff have tried their best to promote and give away free tickets , but there were only about [-] Chinese supporters present.

Long Shute, who is familiar with history, probably knows best that the game ended 0-2.

There are many reasons for the failure: away games, pressure from fans, unfair refereeing...

But the biggest pot should be borne by the head coach Gao Hongbo, or the leadership team.

Because when they played against the hosts, they actually adopted a half-rotation lineup!
Deng Zhuoxiang still plays the core role. Gao Lin, who has poor shooting skills, replaces Yang Xu. Yu Tao, who was born as a striker, replaces Zhao Xuri, who is energetic and tough, as the midfielder. Zhao Peng replaces Feng Xiaoting, forming an unreliable central defender with Dewey Team, even the goalkeeper has changed...

Most of the people he reused were blamed: Deng Zhuoxiang’s role was only to take a weak long-range shot when taking a free kick; Gao Lin was replaced by Yang Xu in the 41st minute, and Yu Tao also left after 10 minutes in the second half .Zhao Peng was even worse. He was hit and injured in the 70th minute and had to leave the field for treatment. However, because Gao Hongbo used up his substitution quota early, the Chinese team could only play less and more in the last 20 minutes. The passiveness of the scene can be imagined .

Fortunately, Gao Hongbo in this time and space still seems to be rational. Facing Zheng Zhi, Li Weifeng, Zhao Junzhe and Long Shute, he finally did not dare to make a big adjustment to the lineup. He just replaced Yu Hai with veteran Qu Bo, and the other The rotation position is of little concern to the goalkeeper.

This is one of the "disadvantages" of recruiting big names into the team, because it is impossible for the head coach to put them all on the bench when they are healthy, especially on the premise that they performed very well in the last game and almost no one made mistakes. cause unrest.

Leave the ready-made Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe unused, and use your Yu Tao as a striker to play in the midfield?
Li Weifeng, who has many years of captain's qualifications, does not need you, Zhao Peng, to play the starting guard?
Although Deng Zhuoxiang is the main force of Shandong Luneng, the champion of the Chinese Super League in 2010, how is it compared to the core midfielder of Ajax, the champion of the Eredivisie and the quarter-finals of the Champions League? -
"Cha, cha, cha!"

The turf of the Khalifa Stadium was quickly rubbed by a pair of football boots.

Under the gaze of more than 3 spectators, Long Shute completed a wonderful anti-offside.

Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe jointly blocked Qatar's advance, and Hao Junmin's right pass completely penetrated the opponent's defense.

The only thing left for them... is to watch Long Shute's performance in the middle circle!

The young Chinese captain has run free. He received the football on the right side of Qatar's penalty area and broke through the goal guarded by Qatar goalkeeper Burhan with a light push!

The entire stadium was a little quiet, and some unwilling home fans booed.

Only a few bright red flags fluttered in the wind in the stands.

"Only 5 minutes into the game, the Chinese team took the lead!"

CCTV commentator Duan Yixuan couldn't wait to announce that the Chinese team took the lead.

The guest Zhang Lu praised the other players by the way:

"Although the goal was scored by the teenager Long Shute, it cannot be ignored that the two veterans also played a huge role in this counterattack! Hey? This goal is not counted?!"

When Long Shute, Hao Junmin, Zheng Zhi and others were high-fiving each other, the referee Jin Dongjin blew his whistle with a serious face.

The international referee from South Korea waved his arms crossed, and then pointed to the penalty area line, indicating that this is a free kick for Qatar.

"Offside?" Duan Yixuan questioned.

Zhang Lu also hesitated: "Maybe we need to take a look at the slow motion..."

The slow motion came out quickly. At the moment when Hao Junmin passed the ball, Long Shute was almost at the same level as the last defender of Qatar, but from the naked eye, there was no sign of offside.

But the referee is the biggest on the field, and since Jin Dongjin has made a penalty, no one can make him take it back.

Although Long Shute felt a little regretful, he could only accept that for him who was as fast as lightning, it was common for him to be called offside once in a while.

More importantly, he believed that just now was not the last chance.

As he thought, the Chinese team then went on the offensive again.

Only 1 minute later, Qatar made a mistake in the backcourt pass. Long Shute intercepted the ball near the center circle and gave it diagonally to Qu Bo on the left. The latter dribbled the ball down but was blocked by the Qatar full-back , can only hit back to Rong Hao who plugged in to respond.

Rong Hao didn't say a word and passed the penalty area. Yang Xu jumped high to form an attack, but he didn't hit the strength and angle, and was easily hugged by Qatar goalkeeper Burhan.

The Chinese team, with Long Shute, Zheng Zhi, and Zhao Junzhe as the offensive and defensive core, then took over the rhythm of the game, and because of the existence of the two big men, Long Shute's position also got a proper premise, he can intercept from the defense Freed from work, so as to devote more energy to the offensive end-if it is the midfielder partnered by Yu Tao and Yang Hao, he will definitely not be at ease.

Having studied under Suarez for one and a half seasons, although Long Shute has not yet reached the realm of most defenders under his master, his physical fitness and speed are even better. He is an attacking midfielder who runs all over the field and is everywhere. , Qatar's midfielder also suffered a lot, and made several low-level mistakes in a row.

The goal of the Chinese team finally came first: in the 27th minute, Zhao Junzhe and Zheng Zhi jointly intercepted the ball, and they quickly handed over the ball to Long Shute.

After the Chinese captain dashed 40 meters along the right side, he still did not cut in, but chose an inverted triangle pass near the baseline.

Yang Xu, who was walking slowly, missed a good opportunity to outflank the front point. Qu Bo, who was catching up from the left, wanted to shoot but had to choose a cross because he rushed too hard. Zhao Junzhe, who strode in from the middle With an angry shot, the ball passed through many players in the penalty area and smashed into the goal firmly!

The hosts, who were one goal behind, became flustered because they lost to the strong Uzbekistan in the first round. If they lost another game, they would definitely miss the knockout round, so they had to step up their offensive.

Qatar stepped up its offense, while the Chinese team stepped up their pressing. At the same time, they fought and retreated. Hao Junmin and Qu Bo directly shrank to become the flank midfielders.

After 15 minutes of onslaught but no gains, Qatar was finally discouraged, but was counterattacked by the Chinese team before the end of the first half: Long Shute completed the 70-meter dash in ten seconds, and he threw away All the Qatari players who were chasing back, faced Burhan with a light push and scored!
This time the referee Jin Dongjin didn't say anything, because Long Shute completed it all by himself from stealing the ball to shooting, and there was no possibility of offside at all!
He didn't even have any obvious physical contact with any Qatari player, even if Kim Dong-jin wanted to call the Qatari player foul... he would have no chance!

2-0!

The Chinese team led by two goals in the first half!

(End of this chapter)