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After two group games.

The Dragon Team won two games and won six points.

With a seven-goal difference advantage, he climbed to the top of the group.

There is a high probability that you can qualify as the first in the group.

Advance to the quarterfinals.

Since the brief glory of the 2004 Asian Cup on home soil.

The Dragon Kingdom has not broken through in the group stage of the Asian Cup for 11 years.

The past Asian Cups in 2007 and 2011 brought only endless pain to the players and fans of Dragon Kingdom.

So most of the players on the Dragons team are excited.

They wanted to burst out their full strength and knock Shaat down in the final game of the group stage.

He reached the quarterfinals with a winning record.

At this time, head coach Lippi suddenly gathered all the members.

Then he poured cold water on everyone:

"Strive for total victory? No, no, no, our goal is to get to the quarterfinals and go further.

"So we can't spend all our energy in the group stage, we have to save some strength for the rest of the game."

"And by analysing the standings, we can see that if we reach the quarter-finals as the top of the group, we will face an Australian team with the advantage of fighting on home soil."

"Their strength is super-first-class in Asia, and this cup is a local battle, and each of them will burst out 200% of their energy."

"So our goal is to get second in the group. In the quarterfinals, they were assigned to the neighboring Sakura Country.

"When you meet them, you will burst into full potential."

Lippi is an old quack.

When to go in and when to retreat.

He knew it in his heart.

When encountering things, I only know that the stuffy head rushes forward, but I don't know that the one who turns around is called a fool.

Does Lippi look like a fool?

This group is first, who wants to take who takes.

Lippi didn't want to do this.

What's more, he has coached the Yangcheng Hengda team in the Dragon Country for several years, and he can barely be regarded as a Dragon Country Tong.

I know that there are irreconcilable historical contradictions between the Dragon Country and the Sakura Country.

When encountering Sakura Country during matches, Dragon Country players can always burst out with amazing energy.

Although the strength of the cherry blossom country is comparable to that of the host Australia.

But for the Dragon Kingdom players, it's actually quite different.

Playing against Australia, which has the advantage of hosting.

Or fight to the death with the natural archenemy Sakura Country.

How can it be a state?

Not to mention.

Distribute physical fitness and adjust their state in the competition, so that the state of the players can burst out when it is most time to break out.

What a good manager should do.

Instead of exhausting the physical strength and state of the players in advance for the sake of momentary pleasure.

And not just in football.

In other events, even major events such as the Olympic Games.

A lot of managers make the same choice.

To explain it in the Dragon Kingdom's Art of War, this is called "not caring about the gains and losses of one city and one place".

It's like student exams.

The usual test is to accumulate strength and find shortcomings.

The final college entrance examination is the key to jumping the dragon gate.

When you exert all your strength in the college entrance examination, you can hammer it out.

If you usually ask yourself to get a high score in every test, squeeze out the last bit of your potential.

It may not be possible to perform normally during the college entrance examination.

It would be a pity to be crushed by huge psychological pressure and play out of order.

That's why Lippi held this discussion meeting and put his opinion in front of everyone in the Dragon Team.

It's just that the habit of the players of the Dragon Kingdom has always been "always competing for the first".

Because every time I go to an international competition.

The pig association always likes to play the trick of "yin and yang contract".

Externally, it is enough to "play at the level and play style", but internally it sets hard targets for the players.

It doesn't matter what the strength of each Dragon National team is.

Let's first highlight the hard and fast rule of "always striving for the first".

Forcing the players to give their all from the first game, desperate for the players to crush all their opponents.

I don't know what flexibility is!

But the question is, does the Dragon Country team under Pig Xie have the strength to crush the opponent?

It's about the same to be crushed!

The poor record of Dragon Country football for so many years is absolutely inseparable from the pig association's idea of "brute to the end".

For the Pig Association.

Even if it is only the first place in the group, it is also the capital to make political achievements!

It's good that I sent it to the above!

Therefore, the vast majority of Dragon Kingdom players, from the first day of their careers, are forced to accept the mindset under the pig agreement.

It has been ingrained for so many years.

So the players of the Dragon Team couldn't turn around for a while and looked at each other.

It was clear that some could not accept Lippi's suggestion.

At the critical moment, it was the captain Xiao Chenhui who stood up.

Helped the team members to unify their minds.

"If you think about it, what is the purpose of our coming to Australia?"

"Is it the first or final champion of the group?"

"Only by winning this Asian Cup can we prove the significance of the existence of the Dragon Team!"

"Otherwise, what is the point of us coming here after a difficult struggle and internal PK competition?"

"In every Asian Cup, there are several group leaders, but there is only one winner!"

"History will only remember the championship, who cares which team the runner-up is? Not to mention what group first. Xiao

Chenhui said so.

The members of the Dragon Team finally got bored.

Oh, yes.

The Asian Cup consists of four groups: A, B, C and D.

Each group will appear first in the group.

But even if you get the first place in the group, what does it mean?

The final winner doesn't have to be the first in the group!

Italy stumbled in the group stage of the World Cup.

Germany has always been unsatisfactory in the World Cup group stage.

Xibanya also lost to Ruishi in an upset.

But what about the end result?

Everyone on Earth knows!

Differences eventually disappear into invisibility.

Lippi's tactical thinking was highly unified.

So in the third game of the group stage against Shatte.

Lippi fielded a half-main, half-substitute lineup.

Continue to play in a 5-4-1 formation.

All the players who had not been given a chance to play in the previous two group games appeared.

Yan Zihao, who recovered from injury, Li Xuepeng on the bench, and Xu Xin, who had only played less than half an hour before.

and the only substitute goalkeeper Li Shuai.

All starts.

The only people who could not be moved were Xiao Chenhui and Zheng Zhi.

Lippi's purpose in this arrangement is clear.

He is going to use the strong Shattere team to hone his players and check his shortcomings.

After all, the Dragon Team has not been established for a long time.

The problems certainly exist objectively.

It's just that Xiao Chenhui's performance in the first two group games was too bright.

Cover up some of the problems.

If there is a problem, let it surface as early as possible.

It's too late to wait until the knockout rounds to find out the problem.

So Lippi took down Wu Lei, Zhang Xizhe and others, who had a tacit understanding with Xiao Chenhui.

He also wanted to see without the assistance of Wu Lei and Zhang Xizhe.

To what extent can Xiao Chenhui, who has fallen into passivity, go.

It turns out that Siu Chenhui is definitely worthy of the trust of any manager.

In the match with Shater.

Xiao Chenhui's performance is still strong.

He contributed a goal and an assist in 65 minutes.

The Dragons, who led the semi-substitute lineup, drew 2-2 with Shater.

Almost single-handedly completed the tactical objectives laid out by Lippi.

Helped the Dragons avoid hosts Australia in the quarterfinals.

For the first time in 11 years since 2004, reach the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup!