Chapter 225 Worse

"It's hard work!"

When Yang Yang walked out of the Kuwait airport, he found that the national team leader Zhu personally came to the airport to pick up his plane.

"It's okay, I fell asleep all the way." Yang Yang laughed.

For others, long-distance travel is indeed a big problem, especially the jet lag, but for Yang Yang, this is not a problem, because he can sleep directly and wake up refreshed and full of energy.

But his reaction made Team Leader Zhu feel even more ashamed and remorseful, and instead felt that Yang Yang was deliberately comforting them.

In the end, they and the Football Association were negligent in their work, which caused Yang Yang to rush here.

After leaving the airport, I took the shuttle bus arranged by the hotel and returned to the hotel all the way.

In the car, Team Leader Zhu told Yang Yang that Alihan relied heavily on him, and when he heard that he could make it in time, he was immediately placed on the 18-man roster, and everyone in the team had no objection.

"To be honest, everyone came here to win, and when I heard that you were coming over, everyone felt more confident."

Yang Yang smiled modestly, "I hope I can be of help."

"Yes, definitely." Leader Zhu is very sure, "You can come here, which is the biggest help in itself."

Sometimes it's really weird to think about.

Yang Yang is the youngest player in the team, but he is the best player in the national team.

At the time of the Asian Cup, everyone didn't feel it, but when they played in Malaysia, everyone found out that without Yang Yang, the team played so hard.

"Now, I believe you know the domestic situation. It's very complicated, and it's hard to tell exactly what's going on, but one thing is certain, that is, everyone's starting point is to hope that Chinese football can once again go out of Asia and enter the World Cup. ."

Leader Zhu was obviously worried that Yang Yang had grudges and ideas in his heart, so he took the initiative to persuade him.

"There may be differences and misunderstandings or even mistakes in terms of specific things, or some things, but because we have no experience before, just like the last time we played in the World Cup, we were completely unprepared and didn't know how to prepare. , that was our first time."

Yang Yang nodded, "I can understand."

"The more critical the moment, the more you need the international players who have studied abroad to play a role, stabilize the morale of the army, and keep the last hope." Leader Zhu said sincerely.

"You know, we've gone through so many setbacks, we've gone through so many wrong paths that our media don't believe we can succeed, our fans doubt that they're dreaming, even our Players don't know how to put everything in perspective."

Yang Yang understood what Team Leader Zhu meant, thought for a moment, and said lightly: "Then don't pay attention to the others, although the fog covers the distance and you can't see the direction and road clearly, then concentrate on your eyes and play every game well. Contest."

"Yeah." Leader Zhu let out a mixed sigh, "Who knows what the future will be like? We can't control many things at all. The only thing we can do is to play every game well and strive for continuity. The performance of the World Cup in 2002, once again rushed into the World Cup."

"I really feel that we absolutely have the strength to play normally," Yang Yang said.

Team leader Zhu nodded in agreement, "But the fortress always starts to split from the inside, especially now, the public opinion environment is very unfavorable for the national team, but the more this time, the more we must hold on."

Yang Yang remembered the slogans that some domestic media reporters shouted, Chinese football is not worthy of winning, and the slogans of dragons and phoenixes make him feel disgusting. Their faces are really ugly and ugly.

In Yang Yang's view, these media reporters are worse than Chinese football, rotten to the core, rotten to the soul.

"Don't worry, I will do my best to prevent some people from getting their wish." Yang Yang said firmly.

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When Yang Yang arrived at the Sheraton Hotel where the national team stayed, many international footballers came to see him.

This time, the national team has booked 17 to 19 floors, which are exactly the top three floors of the hotel. This is also to avoid the disturbance of the outside world.

Since Yang Yang's former roommate Zheng Zhi did not participate in this West Expedition due to injury, Yang Yang was placed in a separate room, and most of the international players just came over to say hello and say a few words.

Yang Yang also asked with concern about Li Weifeng's injury. The captain of the national team said that he was fine and could cope with the game.

Later, Alihan also came to visit Yang Yang.

After the arrival of the national team head coach, Yang Yang also felt the change in the atmosphere. Obviously, many contradictions within the team have also been exposed, such as Sun Jihai's position, and the contradiction between Alihan and the Chinese coaching staff.

In Yang Yang's view, this is also very normal. It is impossible for any team to be monolithic. The key is to see how to deal with it.

Alihan was very happy when he saw Yang Yang, and asked him about his situation and how he was at the moment.

Yang Yang answered one by one, and at the same time said that he was in very good condition, and there was no problem with starting the game.

Of course Alihan wouldn't believe it. How could anyone be in a state of overwhelm after traveling for thousands of kilometers and sitting on a plane for more than 20 hours?

"You are on the bench in this game. If you need it, I will use you in the second half." Alihan said his arrangement, and showed a rare Dutch humor, "Of course, I hope you will sit for the whole game in this game. Bench."

Yang Yang could understand what he meant inside and outside the words, and smiled: "I also hope that I don't have to play."

That shows that the team has won Kuwait by surprise.

If so, then Yang Yang would be happy to sit on the bench for ninety minutes.

But actually...

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On the evening of October 13, Kuwait City Peace and Friendship Stadium.

In the fifth round of Group D of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup qualifiers, China played away to Kuwait.

When the game went to the 54th minute of the second half, Shao Jiayi got the ball in midfield and was interrupted, and Kuwait quickly counterattacked from the right.

When he was far away from the opponent's player, Sun Xiang suddenly made an absurd sliding tackle. As a result, not only did he fail to tackle the ball, but he was easily penetrated by the opponent, and a very strange arc came from the bottom line. The pass crossed the defense of goalkeeper Liu Yunfei and the back line.

At the front of the small penalty area, Bashar headed back, and Zhuma followed with a direct shot that pierced the goal of the Chinese team.

At this moment, the whole stadium was fried.

Kuwait fans cheered and shouted.

This goal allowed them to finally tie the Chinese team and take advantage of the goal difference.

The Chinese players on the field were hit hard, and they all showed unbelievable expressions and seemed overwhelmed.

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Everything that happened in Kuwait was clearly included in the live broadcast of the game and presented on the domestic national TV broadcast. Even the commentator of the game was very depressed and said that the ball hit the team very badly. big.

"It should be said that this is the dead end of Chinese football, and every time we have problems at critical moments."

"Tonight, we could advance to the quarter-finals as long as we tie, but we made another mistake."

"Team after team has brought us painful memories and disasters, which makes us have to reflect again and again, whether our team's strength is only at this level, or is it because of other reasons. Woolen cloth?"

"Before this game, we had an interview with the national team coach Alihan. He made no secret of saying that there are two serious problems with Chinese players. One is that their understanding of football is not deep enough. To put it simply The lack of tactical literacy is not only reflected in the existing players, but also in the way we develop our players."

"Another point is that the psychological quality of the players is not strong enough, so that every critical moment, they bear a heavy psychological burden."

"Arihan is not the first head coach to raise this issue, but he has never been able to find an effective solution."

"Our players entered the game too slowly and lacked a unified idea. Only when we were forced to retreat by our opponents would everyone unite, but not every game we have the strength to equalize and reverse. of."

"During the Asian Cup, we once thought that the team had gotten out of the predicament and found a solution to the problem, but we didn't expect that, after playing Malaysia and playing Kuwait tonight, this situation happened again."

"The entire first half of the team played out of order and was suppressed by Kuwait. The team did not have a unified game idea, which led to the team playing very loosely and without the kind of integrity during the Asian Cup."

"There is no doubt that head coach Alihan should be held responsible for this."

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Yang Yang sat on the visiting team's bench and watched the game silently.

He found that after losing the ball, the Chinese players on the field unified their thinking and began to fight back.

Alihan's starting tactic in this game is a defensive counterattack. Because the Chinese team has a psychological advantage, a draw is acceptable, but Kuwait can't. They must press it out to fight.

However, it is obvious that Alihan did not let all players understand his intentions and ideas, which led some players to think that he wanted to attack, but some players felt that he wanted to defend.

Eleven people on the field have eleven ideas, and no matter how strong the team is, no team can show its strength.

Not to mention, the head coach must take the blame for this.

In addition, the state of many players is really not exciting enough. On the one hand, it is related to Zheng Zhi's absence. After all, Zheng Zhi, as a center defender, plays a very obvious role in the middle and backcourt.

Zheng Zhi's absence made Shao Jiayi a little lonely in the middle of the midfield and failed to continue his excellent performance in the Asian Cup.

Yan Song was also on the bench in this game, with Xu Yunlong on the right and Yang Pu on the left.

In this game, left midfielder Yang Pu and left back Sun Xiang played a bit abnormally.

Of course, this has something to do with Kuwait's ability to attack on the right, that is, the main attack on the left of the Chinese team.

On the contrary, Kuwait's left, which is the right of the Chinese team, did not pose a threat in this game, which is very inappropriate. According to the information received by Yang Yang, Xu Yunlong played with an injury.

In addition, Hao Dong and Li Jinyu on the front line, Li Weifeng and Zhang Yaokun on the back line, these players are obviously not in good condition, and even goalkeeper Liu Yunfei has made several mistakes that should not be made.

It can be said that the mentality of the national football players in this game is indeed a little out of balance, otherwise it will not all perform unsatisfactorily.

Just when everyone was anxious, Arihan and Deyang whispered for a while.

De Yang immediately turned around and shouted at Yang Yang.

"Yang, hurry up, warm up!"