There is a dream called football

Chapter 254 The group stage is very strong
"The national football team beat the European champions."

"The Turkish iron cavalry was defeated by the national football team."

"It's great for the national football team to show off the prestige of our country."

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Seeing these reports on the Internet, Li Qiao just laughed. The domestic media is still the same, they praise the sky when they win, and scold them like dogs when they lose.

Li Qiao doesn't like the urgency of the domestic media very much. In fact, it is not only for the national football team, but also for other sports.

Three days later, we will still be in Utrecht for the national football match against Ukraine, but we will still go back to Amsterdam first.

Clausen did not give the players a holiday, and still practiced twice a day.

Li Qiao was still training alone, and his muscles were still what the coach was most worried about. It was like a rubber band stretched to the limit, and it might break in the next second.

Fatigue is Li Qiao's worst enemy. He started to play all the Champions League and league games in Liverpool.

At this time, Li Qiao was refreshed by a unique treatment method of the national football team, that is, acupuncture.

The 30-minute acupuncture treatment greatly relaxed Li Qiao's muscles. In addition, Klauschen halved the amount of training for him, and Li Qiao's muscle tension was quickly relieved.

For Kraushen, Li Qiao is the secret weapon that will be saved until the knockout stage. It is actually unnecessary in the group stage, because a group can have up to three teams, and there is a big Panama in this group, so there seems to be no suspense about qualifying for the group stage.

Three days later, in the match against Ukraine, Krautchen put Li Qiao in the bench lineup, starting with Hao Junmin.

The European runner-up won the first game, and the Chinese team was very confident. The match against Ukraine was very good. In the end, the Chinese team defeated Ukraine 4-2, and had already qualified for the group stage ahead of schedule.

Compared with the strength of the Chinese team, the other Asian teams in this cup are lackluster. The South Korean team was beaten into a dog, and Japan is also very difficult. Syria is similar to South Korea. Only the Chinese team is the strongest.

Li Qiao remembers that many fans in the previous life called the 2005 national football team the golden generation. Maybe there is some truth to it. At least in the Netherlands in 2005, the national football team really shocked the whole world.

So at the end of the second game, the official website of the AFC played Asian Pride to praise the strong performance of Chinese football.

The domestic media is even more boastful, ignoring the country's football players again, what the players need most is not your praise when I win, but when I lose, you can shout that you will never walk alone.

How Li Qiao hopes that one day, Chinese fans will be as inseparable as Liverpool fans, but it will take a long time.

In the last game, Panama, which had lost two games in a row, could only fight for honor. For this game, Li Qiao simply stayed in Amsterdam and did not go to Utrecht with the team. The attendance rate of this game was also the lowest, with less than 4000 people. Many fans were already preparing to watch the knockout game.

Even Chinese fans seldom come, because the Chinese team has secured the first place in the group, so they are ready to go to the next venue.

In this game, Krautchen made a big rotation. The substitute goalkeeper who had not played before came on the field, and all the midfielders were replaced. Zhu Ting was used as a striker and Gao Lin was used as a substitute.

In the end, the Chinese team beat Panama 2-0. The group won all 3 games and scored 9 points, firmly ranking first in the group.

but……

The Chinese team was not happy for too long. They actually met the German team in the knockout round. This time the German team performed very poorly. They got the third place in Group D, behind the United States and Argentina.

However, some people in Germany did it on purpose. They just wanted to touch the Chinese team. This is actually possible.

After all, many teams in the group stage have hidden strengths, and it is enough to qualify, but in the knockout stage, it is a real contest.

Krautchen is a German. He knows the team of his motherland too well. Don't look at the German team's stumbles in the group stage, but that is not the real strength of the German team, at least not all of them. The Germans often show very strong strength in the knockout rounds.

Krautchen changed his tactics again, this time he played a single striker, Li Qiao played a single striker alone, Krauthen was preparing for the knockout round, if the team's cooperation was suppressed, then Li Qiao would go it alone.

It is easiest for young players to follow suit, but once they encounter setbacks, they will not be able to show their normal strength in training.

In addition, what Krautchen was more worried about was that the team's group stage went too smoothly. Facts have proved countless times that the group stage is not a good thing. If you think about it, you can understand that the final champions of many major competitions have stumbled in the group stage.

For example, Spain, the 2010 World Cup champion in South Africa, was beaten by Switzerland in the first group match. Needless to say, Italy in 2006, all Italian players came to Germany as if they were guilty.

When Clausen was thinking, there was laughter from everyone on the training ground. It turned out that they were playing a game of shooting tires.

Gao Lin kicked up and hit the plane.

"Gao Lin, with your footwork, you can't kick 10 tires."

"Haha."

Gao Lin looked embarrassed, his footwork was indeed not up to par, and the best footwork of the Chinese team was Chen Tao.

He tried a kick, and it was very close, but he still couldn't shoot into the center of the tire. At this time, everyone was looking forward to Li Qiao.

"Li Qiao."

"Come here."

"Show it off."

"Hehe, I won't play anymore."

"do not."

In fact, although everyone admires Li Qiao very much, the young people are holding their breath in their hearts. No one thinks that they are inferior to others. This is why the Chinese national youth often perform better than the national team, because they don't know what it means to be afraid.

"Then let me declare first, if I fail to score, everyone don't laugh."

"Don't laugh, don't laugh."

After a small run-up, Li Qiao aimed at the tire and rubbed his foot, and the ball slowly flew towards the tire, right in the middle.

"Wow!"

Everyone's mouths were surprised to form an O shape.

"Is it really stronger than us?"

"I can't accept it." Gao Lin laughed.

"It's just a trick." Li Qiao laughed.

In the evening, Krautchen arranged for everyone to watch the three games of the German team in the group stage, and especially pointed out some advantages of the German team.

Li Qiao knew that it was definitely not Germany's true strength. In the previous life, it was in the knockout round. The German team showed its strong strength, while the Chinese team also lost to the inexperienced team.

Li Qiao didn't know if everything would be different if the Chinese team went further that time.

Maybe the Chinese team can really create a miracle and make the fans proud of themselves. Li Qiao made up his mind that since he can do it all over again, this time he will make up for the regrets of the last time.

Clausen asked everyone to remember the German team's offensive routines, and remember them firmly.

(End of this chapter)