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Chapter 221 The Second Chinese Team Plays
Doha Al Gharafa Stadium, Qatar local time 4:11 pm, a sunny afternoon.

Standing in the stadium, Li Guo set up a pergola to see that the audience was sparse. The stadium has more than 2 seats. Because the front row seats are detachable, the maximum capacity is more than 4 people.

But today, in an Asian Cup group match held in the afternoon, only more than 7000 people came to the scene, of which about 500 were Chinese fans who chartered a flight from China, and the rest were Qataris. How many of these people bought tickets, and how many were organized by the government?Li Guo didn't know.

In fact, in the last few Asian Cups, except for the one held in China in 2004, almost all of them were dissatisfied, so this is quite normal.

"The atmosphere in this stadium is more lively than this when I play coaching games in Europe," Dutt said.

Chen An chuckled. The football market in Asia is incomparable to that in Europe. Even for daily training in Germany, it is not uncommon for 2000 people to come.

Li Guo said: "The competition with Kuwait is similar to the teaching competition, and the level of the opponent is between professional and amateur."

For such a game, Li Guo sent most of the substitute players. In fact, Li Guo knew the starting list two days ago.

Goalkeeper - Wang Dalei.

Defense line - Zhang Linpeng, Feng Xiaoting, Li Weifeng, Sun Xiang.

Midfielders - Shao Jiayi, Hao Junmin, Qu Bo.

Single striker - Yu Dabao, Gao Lin, Pu Shuang.

When the starting list was submitted to the AFC official, the text reporters on the scene shouted, "Is this still the Chinese team?"

This is the Chinese team, but it is only the second Chinese team. It is normal for Asian journalists not to know them, because many players here have basically never played since Li Guo took office, including friendly matches.So in the first match of the Asian Cup, it is a bit strange for Li Guo to form such a strange formation.

In fact, the Chinese team has done a lot of weird things. For example, once when the Chinese team played in the second half, Fan Zhiyi wore Li Weifeng's number, Li Jinyu wore Zhang Yuning's number, and so on.

But this time is different. The purpose of the Chinese team this time is not to disturb the morale of the opponent's army, but to train troops.

In his previous life, Li Guo watched the Chinese team's first Asian Cup match at home, and it was Zhang Linpeng who opened the scoring for the Chinese team.

Regardless of whether it is the previous life or this time, one thing is the same, that is, Li Guo has zero impression of the Kuwaiti players.

The only thing that can distinguish the characteristics of the opponent's players is the beard. Some Kuwaiti players have big beards, and some don't. This is Li Guo's only impression of the opponent.

A Kuwaiti player in a blue jersey walked out of the player channel, and beside him was a Chinese player in a fiery red jersey, which looked particularly eye-catching.

The national anthem was played before the game. This was the first time that the Chinese national anthem was played in the Asian Cup. What Li Guo and his players had to do was to make the national anthem last longer.

After the game started, the Chinese team completely controlled the rhythm of the game, and the blue Kuwaiti players were densely packed one by one in their own half.If you look at it from a height, it looks like a ball of flames enveloping a pool of sea water.

And when the sea water wanted to escape from the flames, the flames could always surround them more tightly. Finally, in the opening 5 minutes, the Chinese team scored a goal. This time it was Zhang Linpeng who shot in from the wing.

The Chinese team led 1-0.

After conceding the ball, Kuwait’s mood fluctuated a lot. They could accept conceding the ball or accept losing the ball, but it was a bit embarrassing to concede the ball so early. Although they often scored big scores of more than 5 goals in the Asian Cup, Kuwait did not want it to happen to them.

After losing the ball, the Kuwaiti players became obviously rougher, and there were fewer scruples in their actions, but the Chinese team made short passes very quickly, leaving no room for Kuwait's roughness.

The ball came to Pu Shuang's feet, the opponent was weak, and Pu Shuang was a person who liked to perform. He dribbled the ball and did two consecutive cycling and passed two Kuwaiti players. When the No.3 player rushed up, Pu Shuang did not pass the ball. When the No.4 Kuwaiti player rushed up again, Pu Shuang was still dribbling the ball.

As a result, in 2002, the wonderful scene of Denilson singled out half of the Turkish team was reproduced in the 2011 Asian Cup group stage.

Kuwait did not lose their minds, they did not pounce on the fifth and sixth players, Park Shuang saw the timing and passed the ball to the middle, Gao Lin slapped him and rushed to score the goal.

The Chinese team led 2-0.

When the Chinese players were still celebrating, the Kuwaiti players stopped Park Shuang because they felt that Park Shuang had humiliated them.

I still remember that when Pirlo took a penalty kick to the former Italian national goal Pagliuca, all the players in Bologna surrounded Pirlo, thinking that he insulted the old Italian national goal.

Professional players are like this, everyone eats this bowl of food, you can score goals, but you can’t humiliate me, and Pu Shuang’s practice of juggling half of the Kuwaiti team with acrobatic moves made the Kuwaiti boys unable to suppress the fire anymore.

The Australian referee hurried over to deal with it. Fortunately, both sides did not make a move. Facing the angry eyes of a few bearded men, Pu Shuang just smiled. Pu Shuang didn't like this kind of game. He was born for a higher stage.

In the second half, Li Guo simply replaced Pu Shuang and replaced him with Ji Ke. Pu Shuang's technical characteristics are easy to get angry on the court, so it is better to replace Pu Shuang with the unpretentious Ji Ke.

Sure enough, in the second half, after Ji Ke came on the field, he scored two more headers, and the score became 4-0. At this time, the bearded Kuwaiti players lost their anger in the first half.

Finally, in stoppage time, Hao Junmin made the icing on the cake and scored another goal. The Chinese team won the first game 5-0 and temporarily ranked first in Group A with the advantage of goal difference.

In the mixed interview area after the game, Li Guo praised Park Shuang in an interview, "He is a phenomenal player, a player who is destined to be great."

The reporter smiled knowingly and knew what it meant. In fact, the word “Phenomenon” came from English. People who don’t watch football don’t understand it, but those who watch football can easily understand it. In addition, there is a similar pronunciation in Spanish. For example, Maradona liked to repeat this pronunciation when he commented on Messi.

The interview was very short. In fact, such a one-sided competition is very boring, without suspense, just like a teaching competition. The only bright spot may be the number 99 of the Chinese team who likes to pedal bicycles.

But the upcoming game will be different, the Chinese team will face the host.

(End of this chapter)