World Cup of Great Powers

Chapter 289 Fans' Outrageous Expectations

Whether you are worried about the world preliminaries is not said by a newscaster in a suit and tie.

It was played by the players on the court with real knives and guns.

Fans across the country breathed a sigh of relief after the victory over Indonesia.

All three opponents in the group stage lost to the Chinese team.

It seems that there is really no problem in the first stage of the group stage.

However, people in the Indonesian football community and public opinion believe that the main reason for their loss is the cold weather and the decline in the physical fitness of the players.

"Indonesia scored a goal in the first half to show that China's defense can be broken!"

Indonesian soccer team leader Irawati said via a long-distance call, "If the players were more capable of grasping scoring opportunities, the Indonesian team would not concede so many goals."

And repeatedly emphasized, "The Indonesian team will prove at home that they can compete with the Chinese team. The Indonesian team will also prove at home that the results of the Kunming match will not be repeated in Jakarta."

The secretary-general of the Indonesian Football Association told reporters standing on the lawn of Tuodong Stadium, "In Jakarta, there are 12 Indonesian fans waiting for the Chinese team!"

The secretary-general expressed great concern about the distance between the stands of the Tuodong Stadium and the stadium.

He half-jokingly said, "If it's the same in the stands at the Jakarta stadium, then you must be dead."

According to reports, the reason why the stadium in Jakarta can accommodate 12 people is because a large part of the stands has no seats, and the distance from the stadium is also very far.

No matter how unconvinced the Indonesian side is, the facts are in front of us.

"Republic" commented: It should be admitted that the strength of the Chinese team far exceeds that of Indonesia.

After the Indonesian team lost, the hope of qualifying is getting smaller and smaller. They can only expect the Chinese team to make mistakes.

This is the case.

Indonesia only has the last match with the Chinese team at home.

Before the Chinese team goes to Jakarta, they have to go to Harbin to play a home team match with Cambodia.

think about it.

What latitude is Harbin?
What latitude is Cambodia?
What is the level of the Chinese team?
What is the level of Cambodia?
As long as the Chinese team beat Cambodia at home.

Even if they lose to Indonesia in Jakarta, the Chinese team will qualify.

No way, the goal difference of the Chinese team is too much!

Even if the Indonesian team had three times the time, they would not be able to catch up!

In this regard, the Indonesian coach Benny is magnanimous.

"The Chinese team has already qualified!"

"Now Indonesia's goal difference is only 9, while the Chinese team has 59."

"Who knows how many times the Chinese team can enter Cambodia at home?"

If Indonesia wants to qualify, it must at least win the Chinese team by more than 50 at home.

"How is that possible?" Benny shook his head.

For him, bring the international players back home safely, and then play the last game seriously, so that everyone will not get hurt
That's enough!
On May 5, Zeng Jiajun and his party arrived in Harbin.

At Taiping International Airport, the team received flowers presented by local fans.

"Coach Zeng, Coach Zeng, Coach Zeng!"

"Li Jinyu, Li Jinyu, Li Jinyu!"

"Zhang Xiaorui, Zhang Xiaorui, Zhang Xiaorui!"

The local fans shouted the names of Zeng Zheng and the players.

If it weren't for Zeng Zheng and Jianlibao.

Up to now, Harbin can only watch Jilin and Liaoning teams to enjoy themselves.

Compared with Xi'an and Kunming, the fans here are obviously more enthusiastic.

In the past few days, the number of personnel changes in the team has been somewhat frequent.

First of all, the Dalian team reached the semi-finals of the Asian Club Cup.

Several members of the Dalian team were transferred by the club to play in the Asian Club Cup. Zeng Zheng didn't stay and chose to let them go.

The second is that the World Youth Championship is about to start.

People like Qu Bo, Du Wei, Sun Xiang, and An Qi have all returned to the youth team and are preparing for the competition.

During this period, the national youth team led by Chen Jingang played a friendly match with the visiting Boca Juniors.

The China Youth Team beat the visitors 4-1.

After the news reached Zeng Zheng's ears, Zeng Zheng only commented on four characters: guard against arrogance and impetuosity.

Think about it, what team is Boca Juniors?
Can you send your main force here to compete?
It's nothing more than a business friendly match, come here for a cutscene, and let the national youth train their troops by the way.

Winning them doesn't mean you can beat Argentina.

This time in the Argentina World Youth Championship, they are determined to win the championship at home!

Except for the Dalian team and the National Youth League, the other international players who have studied abroad have basically returned to China.

Yang Chen's Frankfurt failed to relegation and was relegated to the Bundesliga Bundesliga.

Under the halo of the Golden Boot of the Asian Cup, there are still many teams that have offered an olive branch to Yang Chen.

After many considerations and discussions, Yang Chen still prefers to stay in the Bundesliga.

He is 27 this year and has no energy to play in other leagues.

Torino, where Li Jinyu is located, succeeded in relegation this season, and the club sent Li Jinyu back home one round ahead of schedule.

This season, Dayu contributed 7 goals and 6 assists for Turin, and was selected to the best team of the month in Serie A many times.

"Football Age" recently selected the best foreign aid team in Serie A, and Li Jinyu's name is impressively listed.

In this 3-4-3 best lineup, Li Jinyu, Shevchenko and Crespo were jointly named the best striker.

But in "Milan Sports", Li Jinyu is still regarded as a midfielder.

The newspaper also made a comparison of the players who played the midfielder position in Serie A a few days ago.

Zidane of Juventus ranked first, and Dayu unexpectedly ranked second.

After the Chinese team visited Italy, almost all Serie A fans got to know this Chinese striker with a baby face and baby fat.

Sevilla, where Li Tie is located, succeeded in the last round of the season and returned to La Liga.

Although Li Tie, who contributed 1 goal and 2 assists, is not conspicuous in terms of statistics, his contribution is obvious to all.

According to the Spanish "Marca" report, Li Tie is the player with the longest running distance in Spain, not one of them.

In all competitions in Seville this season, he played a total of 39 times, and the running distance per 90 minutes was as high as 12.587 kilometers.

It is with such hard running that Sevilla scored points in many away games, and finally succeeded in rushing to the top.

Sevilla was relegated last season, and Li Tieben had the opportunity to transfer to other teams like other players.

But in the end he chose to stay with the team.

Now, the Sevilla veteran has helped the team return to La Liga in just one season.

According to the Sevilla public opinion survey, 72% of the fans support Li Tie to wear the captain's armband next season.

Sun Jihai played quite well on Manchester City's wing.

Contributed 2 goals and 5 assists this season, allowing him to completely secure the position of Manchester City's right back.

Manchester City face a coaching change this season.

Kevin Keegan, who is most likely to coach Blue Moon, also publicly stated that if he coached Manchester City, Sun Jihai would definitely appear in his starting lineup.

As for Zhang Xiaorui in Benfica, he did not attend the last few games of this season.

But still scored excellent data of 13 goals and 11 assists.

In the past few years, he has already won the best foreign aid in the Portuguese Super League, the best rookie in the Portuguese Super League, the best midfielder in the Portuguese Super League, and the best team in the Portuguese Super League.

For Zhang Xiaorui, helping Zeng Zheng in the world preliminaries is his top priority during this time.

According to the Portuguese "Ball Hug" report, Zhang Xiaorui once publicly stated that he must win a golden boot or the best assist in the Portuguese Super League, otherwise he would not consider transferring.

I don't know if this news was sent out on purpose by Benfica.

Crystal Palace has successfully avoided relegation this season.

But even if the relegation is successful, it is still a League One team.

In the past few days, it is said that Liverpool has an idea to introduce General Fan, but the premise is that he will be allowed to participate in the national team less.

This made General Fan worry.

Compared to playing in the Premier League, he still prefers to shine for the national team for the last time at the end of his career.

As for other players, Zhang Yanhua has already scored one goal in Grimsby, and Shao Jiayi has also scored three goals for Borussia.

Although Zheng Zhi scored only one goal in Eindhoven, his performance has been appreciated by the club coach.

Zhang Ran has already scored twice in Brazil International, and has scored 3 goals and contributed 2 assists for Brazil International so far.

Qu Bo made limited appearances for Benfica, but also scored a goal.

As for whether Xie Hui will stay in Aachen next season, he will also use his achievements in the national team to negotiate with other clubs.

On May 5, the Cambodian team, which had just arrived in Harbin, appeared in the side field of the city stadium for their first training session after their arrival.

Compared with the scene of thousands of spectators during the training of the Chinese team, the reporters and fans who went to watch the training in Cambodia were greatly discounted.

Cambodia is not so much a pre-match training, it is better to go through the motions and give reporters a chance to interview.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Cambodian team, under the leadership of the German coach Fekte, first warmed up symbolically, and then began their training theme - anti-high-altitude ball practice.

Feckert asked his players to continuously play the ball into the penalty area from both sides, and the defenders and goalkeepers destroyed the ball as soon as they had a chance.

Their purpose is very obvious, in order to disintegrate the trump card of the Chinese team.

The reporters present commented one after another: "If these guys practice like this, no matter how low our shooting percentage is, we still have to shoot them four or five goals."

Because the players of the Cambodian team are too short.

There are only one or two people in the team who are taller than 1 meters.

After practicing high-altitude ball defense, the Cambodian team also had a group confrontation.

The head coach Feckert simply adopted the "sheep herding" policy, allowing the players to rush around and rarely calling a stop for tactical analysis.

In an interview with reporters after training, Fekt said that the strength of the Cambodian team is not at the same level as that of the Chinese team.

This competition is mainly with a learning attitude.

The team's top priority is to achieve better results than they have in Southeast Asia.

In his opinion, trying to break through the opponent's gate in the match against the Chinese team is simply a dream.

On May 5, facing Cambodia, which is the weakest in the team, Zeng Zheng formed a superficially strong lineup based on the existing international players.

Goalkeeper Ou Chuliang, defenders Wu Chengying, Li Weifeng, General Fan and Sun Jihai.

Midfielders Zheng Zhi, Li Tie, Zhang Xiaorui and Li Jinyu.

Forwards Yang Chen and Xie Hui.

Seeing the starting lineup of the Chinese team, Fekte spread his hands.

In his opinion, Zeng Zheng's lineup today is more than enough for the World Cup.

Unexpectedly, in the first group stage of the world preliminaries, he would be sacrificed to deal with his weakest opponent in the group.

So what else?
kick it!

Anyway, it's for learning purposes.

After the opening game, the Chinese team, which clearly had the upper hand, used fierce firepower to suppress the Cambodian team in the backcourt.

Only 5 minutes into the game, Xie Hui and Li Jinyu made two consecutive headers in the penalty area.

Yang Chen followed up and pushed a shot into the net from twelve yards, opening the scoring for the Chinese team and fulfilling his promise to score before the game.

The Cambodian team played for more than ten minutes, and it was only in the 14th minute that they reached the half of the national football team for the first time, which won rounds of applause from the fans.

When Li Weifeng intercepted the ball from the wing very coolly, the fans even chanted "Li Datou", and the atmosphere at the scene was very lively.

Facing the visiting team's dense middle lane and the defense on both sides, Zeng Jiajun played in no hurry.

In the 16th minute, three players from the Chinese team succeeded in offside.

Li Weifeng, who went to the meeting alone, was disturbed by the opponent's goalkeeper Dara and kicked the ball on the leg of the opponent's defender.

Li Jinyu rushed over and shot the ball into the net.

2 is better than 0!

However, after only 1 minute, Li Weifeng made a fatal mistake: the Cambodian team made a long pass from the backcourt. Li Datou turned to protect the ball confidently after stopping the ball, but the opponent's striker Makara kicked the ball from behind. snatch away.

Facing the sudden accident, Ou Chuliang didn't react, the ball rubbed against the post and rolled into the gate of the Chinese team.

Seeing this goal, Liu Jianhong recalled Indonesia's goal in the last game, and directly opened his mouth to shirk for Li Weifeng.

But in the next second, Zeng Zheng's hideous face appeared in the camera.

Although the director cut off Zeng Zheng's voice.

But at this moment, all the fans across the country could tell what Zeng Zheng said from his mouth.

Zeng Zheng: "Li Datou, you ****"

Li Weifeng, who was scolded bloody, didn't even dare to lift his head.

From then on, he never dared to shake his new hairstyle in front of his head during the game.

Every pass, every kick, is extremely careful.

After the Chinese team accidentally conceded a goal, the fighting spirit of the Cambodian team soared.

For a while, there was a stance to break through the blockade of the Chinese team's midfield.

Under Zeng Zheng's order, Zhang Xiaorui, Zheng Zhi, Li Jinyu, Yang Chen, and General Fan fought back and forth to control the midfield.

Forcibly repelled the opponent's offensive.

In the 21st minute, Li Jinyu passed the opponent's two defenders consecutively in the frontcourt, rushed to the opponent's penalty area, and bravely confronted the opponent's last central defender.

Sun Jihai, who rushed to the side, took advantage of the fisherman and easily grabbed the "rebound".

The outside instep kicked the dead corner of the goal and rewritten the score to 3 to 1.

Two minutes later, Dayu, who was active in this game, made another successful steal in the frontcourt and distributed the ball to Zhang Xiaorui on the other side.

The latter shot angrily at the ball from the penalty area line, and the ball rushed straight to the upper left corner of the goal. The extraordinary goalkeeper Dara threw the ball across and made another great contribution to the visiting team.

In the 28th minute, after Li Jinyu got the ball in the middle, he knocked back on the top of the gourd in the penalty area. Li Tie volleyed and the ball missed the goal.

In the 32nd minute, Zhang Xiaorui made a direct pass to the penalty area. Xie Hui wiped out a defender of the opponent and then took a shot to expand the score again.

The Cambodian team's intensive defense did not have any effect at all.

Whether it is high altitude or underground, the Chinese team has absolute strength to penetrate into the opponent's penalty area.

Facing such a weak team, Li Weifeng's conceded goals seemed even more inappropriate.

In the 39th minute, Wu Chengying made a cross from the left, and Dara fell to the ground bravely when Xie Hui and Li Jinyu hit the goal, and hit the ball out of the penalty area.

Zhang Xiaorui shot angrily at the ball, expanding the score to 5-1!

Even at the end of the first half, the Chinese team's offense was not over yet.

The players seemed to be atoning for Li Weifeng's loss of the ball. In the 43rd minute, Shensi volleyed from outside the penalty area, and Dala saved the ball with a single punch;

In stoppage time, Zhang Xiaorui made a pass from the right, and Xie Hui fell to the ground in the middle and shot was blocked by the opponent's central defender.

Li Jinyu followed up with a follow-up shot, and the ball passed under Dara's armpit.

6 is better than 1!

After the start of the second half, Li Weifeng was replaced by Zhang Yanhua.

can see.

Li Weifeng is worthy of being Zeng Zheng's beloved disciple.

Even if he made a mistake, he still gave him enough face.

Facing the vulnerable Cambodian team, Zeng Zheng still did not choose to hold back.

You have also scored goals and learned skills and tactics, so don't think about losing face.

When the score became 10 to 1, Li Huajun, Chi Shangbin and the others couldn't help but remind Zeng Zheng whether he had to restrain himself, so as not to be collected more information by the opponents in the top ten.

Zeng Zheng shook his head, and continued to wave his hand to strengthen the attack.

In the end, the Chinese team played a 15-1 score in the northernmost provincial capital.

Completed the pre-match promise.

Let these northern fans have enough eye addiction.

At the end of this game, the Chinese team is already guaranteed to qualify.

Even if Zeng Zheng took U16 to Jakarta, Indonesia would not be able to score more than 60 goals.

So after the game, the internal and external atmosphere was relaxed.

Many team members asked to go to the Songhua River to play in the water, or go for an outing on Sun Island.

Zeng Zheng was also very generous and directly gave the team a day off.

"Coach Zeng, what do you think of the last game?"

Several teaching assistants came to Zeng Zheng's room and asked.

"I think it's better to bring some main force."

After pondering for a while, Zeng Zheng replied, "We don't need to give up eating because of choking."

"The World Cup is coming soon."

"Tough battles must be fought, and injuries will definitely occur."

"The most important thing is that it is impossible for us to use a group of people for the world preliminaries and a group of people for the World Cup."

"It's also unscientific."

"In this case, don't think about other problems."

"Jakarta will bring a few, and then Japan and South Korea will bring a few more."

"Although there is no requirement for me from above, my own goal is to be at least the semi-finals."

The semi-finals are not the semi-finals of the World Cup.

But the Confederations Cup semi-finals.

After playing the last World Preliminary group match at the end of May, the Confederations Cup will start in early June.

Because the Chinese team is the champion of the Asian Cup and there are two other countries hosting the World Cup, a total of nine teams will participate in this Confederations Cup.

The format is also very interesting.

The three teams are divided into three groups, each playing two round-robin games.

The three group winners and the best group runner-up advance to the semi-finals and then compete for the championship.

To be fair, the three teams of China, Japan and South Korea were separated.

But I don’t know if the organizers intend it. The opponents of the Chinese team in Group C are the last World Cup champion France and the last Confederations Cup champion Mexico.

Under such circumstances, Zeng Zheng said that if he wanted to qualify from the group, he would have to spend at least a lot of trouble.

However, since Zeng Zheng made this decision, the teaching assistants present also gave their full support.

In the words of late Shangbin: What's the point of playing against weak teams?If you want to test your strength, you have to fight against a real strong team!
After simply setting the tone for the itinerary for the next month, several coaches sat together and chatted again.

At this moment, Shen Xiangfu took today's Harbin Daily and smiled at everyone:

"Have you read today's paper?"

The crowd shook their heads.

Chi Shangbin asked: "What? What did it say? The Harbin fans won't be holding on to that conceded goal, right? Isn't Li Weifeng from the Jianglong team? Will he always give him face?"

Shen Xiangfu shook his head, "It wasn't yesterday's match."

"what is that?"

"It's a fan's contribution."

When Shen Xiangfu said this, he was also a little speechless.

"Uh, how should I say it?"

"It's like a good expectation for the future of our team, and it's like his own free enjoyment."

"If you want me to say, this article should be placed in science fiction."

When everyone heard it, they also became curious.

Zeng Zheng stepped forward to take a look.

Hey!
Good guy!
The title turned out to be "The Chinese team wins the World Cup!"

"Good guy! This fan really dares to think!"

"Yeah, we didn't dare to guarantee that we will qualify in the group stage. He won the championship directly."

"Tsk tsk tsk, our fans' expectations of us are not so high!"

Zeng Zhengrao took it over with interest and took a closer look, and couldn't help laughing.

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