Chapter 178 Group 1

Qatar really didn't expect that they were chased back by the Chinese team in the second half when they were leading by two goals in the first half...

A draw means little to them. In the Uzbekistan game completed earlier, this Central Asian team defeated Kuwait 2:1. While sending Kuwait out early, it also allowed them to qualify from the group early.

If Qatar draws with China in the end, China will get four points and they will only have one. Then in the final round of the group match, as long as the Chinese team does not lose to Uzbekistan, no matter what the match between Qatar and Kuwait is like, they will qualify from this group, and Qatar will be eliminated with Kuwait, the West Asian brothers.

Of course, this is not acceptable to Qatar.

So after the game restarted, they launched a fierce offensive towards the Chinese team's goal, hoping to kill the Chinese team at the last moment.

Those who are familiar with Zhouyi know very well that this kind of situation is simply Zhouyi's favorite!

In the 87th minute, Zhou Yi made a long pass from the backcourt and accurately found Hao Junmin. After receiving the ball, the latter sprinted towards Qatar's goal. Then after entering the penalty area and attracting almost all of the Qatari defenders, the football was crossed.

Deng Zhuoxiang, who cut in from another wing, was completely unmarked, and in front of him, most of the goal was empty!

He faced the football, swept it sideways, and the football just rolled into Qatar's goal...

Undisputed and impeccable, a textbook-like classic counterattack that can never be faulted!

The referee Jin Dongjin can only point his finger to the center circle, indicating that the goal is valid!

"Ahhh! The goal is scored! The goal is scored! It's a lore! It's a lore! In the 87th minute, Deng Zhuoxiang's goal beat Qatar!!" Liu Hong roared excitedly, even though it was already two o'clock in the morning It was ordered, but it didn't scare anyone, because at this time in China, the fans shouted louder than him.

What this victory means, every fan is very clear - they will get the right to qualify for the group in advance!

Four years ago in 2007, when the Chinese team was eliminated in the group stage of the Asian Cup, I don’t know how many fans smashed their teacups and TVs at home. I vowed never to watch the national football games again. From the runner-up in the 2004 Asian Cup to 2007, they couldn't even qualify for the group. In just three years, this huge gap is indeed not acceptable to everyone...

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Deng Zhuoxiang ran wildly towards the coach's bench,

Celebrate goals with teammates and coaches who are waiting there. His hair was wet and stuck to his forehead, and there was an excited smile on his face.

behind him. It was a Qatari player slumped on the ground dumbfounded.

Zhou Yi also ran to the coach's bench with his teammates to celebrate.

He could hear the boos and curses of the Qatari fans in the stands. He raised his fist to the stands where the boos were the loudest.

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At the last moment, Qatar, which was behind, fought back desperately. Injury time is as many as six minutes.

But the Chinese team still held on to a one-goal lead, when South Korean referee Kim Dong-jin blew the whistle for the end of the game. The substitute players of the Chinese team, who had been waiting on the sidelines for a long time, rushed onto the pitch screaming and celebrated their elimination of the hosts on Qatar's territory.

Liu Hong and every Chinese audience in front of the TV felt elated.

Not just because this game is a reversal to win. It is also because during the game, Qatar's various off-the-board tricks really made them feel uncomfortable.

If this is put in the past. After falling behind by two goals in the first half and being unfairly treated, the Chinese team might have given up. Because losing the game like this is really a crime without war.

But this time, everyone saw a team that never gave up.

This is probably the happiest point for all the fans in front of the TV. If a game is just about winning. That's nothing more than three points. But if there was more to this victory, it would be quite different.

Through this game, the Chinese team not only scored three points and qualified to qualify early, but also showed their completely different mental outlook.

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Because the Chinese team and Uzbekistan both won the two games, the two teams will join hands to qualify. In some people's eyes, the last game of the Chinese team against Uzbekistan is not so important.

It's great to be able to qualify for the group stage, why bother to think about more?

But Zhou Yi didn't see it that way.

He still wants to fight for the first place in the group. He didn't do this to avoid Japan, because it's hard for Japan to say which group they will get in the end.

It's just purely out of the idea of ​​"why take the second place in the group when you can get the first place in the group".

The Japanese team defeated Syria 2:1 in the second game of the group, and both scored four points with Jordan, and the goal difference is the same.

In fact, Uzbekistan also has the same idea. It wants to win the first place in the group, but not the second place in the group. Their reason is just to avoid Japan, which may become the first in the group.

As the most successful team in the history of the Asian Cup, Japan is still a great deterrent in Asian football, and it is an opponent that no one wants to meet.

So the Chinese team and Uzbekistan actually played very fiercely in the third round of the group match.

The striker who replaced Gao Lin in this game was Yu Hai. He received Zhou Yi's pass in the opening six minutes and opened the scoring for the Chinese team.

But in the next 30 minutes, Ahmedov of Uzbekistan equalized the score for the team.

Just one minute into the second half, Heinrich made another overtake for Uzbekistan and took a 2:1 lead.

Ten minutes later, in the fifty-sixth minute, the Chinese team got a free kick on the right side in front of the penalty area. Hao Junmin took the free kick. The football went around the wall and hit the dead corner. The ball sighed and watched the football fly into the goal.

The Chinese team equalized the score!

Then the two sides fell into a stalemate.

However, this score is beneficial to the Chinese team. If the score of 2:2 is maintained to the midfield, the two sides will draw. Then, when both teams have seven points, this year’s Asian Cup is stipulated in this way-first compare the relationship between the two teams with the same points. This is because the two teams are tied, so there is no way compared.

Next, look at the goal difference between teams with the same points. Because of the tie, the two teams are zero in this item, and they are also tied.

Look at the number of goals scored by teams with the same points in games against each other. It's also two goals, it's still a tie, and it's hard to tell the winner.

The fourth step is to look at the total goal difference of the teams with the same points in the group stage. In this regard, the Chinese team has an advantage, and this advantage comes from Zhou Yi's unremitting efforts after the Chinese team led Kuwait by two goals in the first group match. The Chinese team has a goal difference of four, and the 3:2 against Qatar gave the Chinese team another goal difference, a total of five goal difference. And what about Uzbekistan? In the first game, they beat Qatar 2:0, with two goal differences. In the second game, they only defeated Kuwait 2:1, which added up to only three goal differences. In terms of goal difference, they lost two goals to the Chinese team. .

Unless they beat the Chinese team in the current game, they will not be able to win the first place in the group anyway.

The Chinese team has more tactical options.

When the situation was stalemate, they were not in a hurry to attack, but dealt with Uzbekistan patiently.

If Uzbekistan is not reconciled to such a draw and wants to strengthen its offense to win the game, then Zhou Yi can directly pass a long pass in the backcourt, threatening their goal.

Just like the goal lost in the last moment of Qatar in the last game.

However, Uzbekistan has no choice. If it does not attack or score, the draw will be the second place in the group. Pressing out to attack, of course, the Chinese team may score again and lose the game, but losing the game is also the second place in the group, so a draw or loss is meaningless to Uzbekistan, they only want to win.

If you attack with all your strength, you still have a chance to score a goal, and finally beat the Chinese team and reversed to win.

So it's not a multiple choice question.

In the following time, the Chinese team was under tremendous pressure, but at the same time these pressures also contained opportunities.

It's just that the Chinese team didn't grasp it... Of course, Uzbekistan didn't score either.

In the end, the two teams shook hands with a score of 2:2.

The Chinese team won the first place in the group with the advantage of goal difference, and Uzbekistan can only be second in the group.

On the second day, the final ranking of Group B was also determined.

The Japanese team commented on the score of the 5-0 victory over Saudi Arabia in the last game. It also relied on goal difference to squeeze out Jordan and become the first in Group B.

In this way, if the Chinese team and the Japanese team want to meet, they really have to wait until the finals - as Zhou Yi said.

Unfortunately, Uzbekistan will face the powerful Japan in the first round of the knockout round.

The Chinese team's opponent is Jordan.

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Being able to qualify from the group made the Chinese fans naturally very happy.

However, there are also many people who feel that the Chinese team should have qualified from the group stage due to the strength of the Chinese team. This is not worth celebrating and happy.

The two sides also quarreled on the Internet.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the Chinese team. Most people are already very satisfied with the performance of the Chinese team in this Asian Cup.

Before the game, the third-rate Asian talk caused a lot of dissatisfaction, but in fact the performance of the Chinese team was quite satisfactory, so everyone didn't care much about the third-rate Asian talk, no matter how good it was, they could win The ball will do. Victory is the last word! (To be continued.) Enable new URL