Chapter 1,167 Falling Behind

After taking the corner kick, the players quickly returned to their own half, waiting for Jordan's attack.

Jordan relied on its players to be stronger than the Chinese team. Goalkeeper Shafi kicked directly towards the frontcourt, allowing his forwards to fight for the header.

The Jordanians are indeed very fast and powerful, but the Chinese team's central defenders Li Feng and Feng Xiao are also very good at heading the ball, especially Li Feng, who is very aggressive. After Shafi drove the ball over, he rushed directly to the back. The ball was tipped to Zheng Hua from the waist.

Zheng Hua stands in front of the two defensive midfielders Zhao Xu and Huang Bo. He seems to be the attacking midfielder, but the distance between Zhao Xu and Huang Bo is far away. Zheng Hua is responsible for protecting the front edge of the penalty area and acts like a defensive midfielder. In fact, Zheng Hua's The main task is defense.

The reason why Zheng Hua and Gao Xiaodong are in different positions is mainly because Camacho wants to win but is afraid of losing. He wants them to defend but also wants them to attack.

After Zheng Hua stopped the ball, he immediately looked at Gao Xiaodong's position and found that the Jordanian was closely following Gao Xiaodong. Zheng Hua did not dare to pass to Gao Xiaodong, so he found Qu Bo on the other wing with a long pass.

At this moment, Jordan was pressing forward and there was a lot of space in the backcourt. Qu Bo stopped the ball and faced Jordanian captain Bashar who was blocking the ball. He quickly passed the ball and forced the ball down from the outside.

Bashar is not as fast as Qu Bo, but he has rich experience. He first stretched his arms to slow down Qu Bo's acceleration, and then quickly turned around to pursue Qu Bo, forcing Qu Bo to go outside the sideline.

Qu Bo is no longer the young boy who chased the wind. Although he got rid of Bashar's pursuit, when he caught up with the ball and forced a pass, the ball had already crossed the baseline.

When the ball was passed to the center, Gao Xiaodong suddenly appeared in the penalty area like a ghost and headed the ball towards the top.

Gao Xiaodong's header was so tricky that goalkeeper Shafei didn't even react, and the ball flew from his side into the net.

But when Gao Xiaodong was about to celebrate, he suddenly found that the linesman raised his flag, and the referee also signaled that the goal was invalid.

Gao Xiaodong was very sorry and confused. He ran to the referee Irmatov and asked what was going on?

The Chinese fans in the stands began to cheer. Seeing the linesman raising the flag, they all looked at each other, wondering what was wrong.

Irmatov had already communicated with the linesman, and he indicated that the ball had already crossed the baseline when Qu Bo passed the ball.

The game had just begun, and the Chinese team threatened Jordan's goal three times. If the linesman hadn't seen it accurately, Jordan might have lost the ball.

The two or three minutes of fighting made the Jordanians tremble with fear.

It also greatly improved the morale of the Chinese team.

The players of the Chinese team even doubted whether there was something wrong with Camacho's judgment of Jordan's strength. Judging from this opening, the Chinese team can definitely defeat Jordan in the away game.

Although the players of the Chinese team did not want to go against Camacho's tactical deployment, everyone felt that they could be bolder and invest more when attacking.

This is normal, because the game is played by the players, and the head coach cannot fully control the thoughts and actions of the players on the field.

Although the Chinese team has superstars like Gao Xiaodong and even beat Singapore at home, the Jordanians defeated the Asian champion Iraq away from home. They feel that they are in better condition and stronger, so they are prepared to defeat China at home. The national team was now overwhelmed by the Chinese team and shot three times in the opening game. The Jordanians became a little angry and immediately launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team.

The Jordanian's offense is very simple and direct, including long passes and crosses from the side, using his body to attack the Chinese team's penalty area.

Jordan's tactic is very simple, but it is very effective against the Chinese team.

Because the players of the Chinese team had poor basic skills and poor physical and mental quality, facing Jordan's fierce impact, the defenders of the Chinese team were a little panicked and did not dare to control the ball at all. They all hurriedly cleared the ball.

Jordan was preparing to score three points and invested a lot of troops in the offense. The Chinese team blindly made a clearance to the outside. Almost all the second landing points of the ball were taken by Jordanian players who came up and launched a second attack.

Even a simple impact is very dangerous if it happens too often. The Chinese team finally made a mistake under Jordan's impact.

In the 7th minute of the game, Jordan sent a cross from the left. Jordanian forward Allah rushed over to fight for a header. Chinese team center back Feng Xiao rushed to clear the ball before Allah, but in his haste, he headed the ball towards the goal. On the pillar.

This goalpost stunned the Chinese team goalkeeper Yang Zhi. Fortunately, the two Jordanian forwards inserted too hard and the ball bounced out and fell behind them. The Chinese team player kicked it out of the sideline.

Then the Jordanian team got several corner kicks and throw-in opportunities. They desperately attacked the Chinese team's penalty area, trying to break through the Chinese team's goal early.

Camacho was originally planning to actively press in the midfield and grab the ball and counterattack quickly, but the Jordan team gave up controlling the ball in the midfield and mainly used long passes to attack the Chinese team's goal. Camacho's frontcourt pressing tactics It didn't have much effect.

However, according to Camacho's tactical arrangement, the Chinese players were able to accept a draw, so they were not too anxious. They still relied on the defense of the midfield and backcourt to deal with the Jordan team, waiting for opportunities to launch a counterattack.

The fierce offense and defense between the two sides put the Chinese team at a slight disadvantage, but they had many opportunities. The Jordanian team did not have many threatening shots. Such a scene was acceptable to the Chinese team.

In the fast and fierce confrontation, time passed very quickly. Thirty minutes passed in the blink of an eye, but neither side was able to score a goal.

Seeing that the opponent's attack power was limited, but their own shots were always just shy of the goal, the players of the Chinese team were a little anxious. They thought that if they put in more troops, maybe the goal would come.

Thirty minutes into the game, many players of the Chinese team were impatient and no longer wanted to defend and counterattack, so they gradually increased their investment in offense.

At this time, Jordan found that it was difficult to score goals with simple and crude tactics. They suddenly changed their playing style, from simple and direct long passes and crosses from the side to a combination of side and center, long passes and penetration tactics.

The Chinese team increased its offensive investment and Jordan changed its tactics almost at the same time, which also brought opportunities to Jordan's offense.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong made a pass from the left to the middle of the penalty area. Yang Xu's header was missed by goalkeeper Shafei.

The goalkeeper threw the ball and served. Jordanian defender Abdullah Dibu quickly cut in from the left wing, compressing the Chinese team's defense. Without waiting for the Chinese team's forwards Qu Bo and Gao Xiaodong to come back to support, Dibu was in the penalty area. The ball was suddenly knocked back near the line, and Bahar Abrad Rahman, who met him in the middle, hit a powerful shot and the ball flew straight into the net.

Yang Zhi flew to save but failed to touch the ball. Jordan took the lead at home 1-0.