bloodnovel Chapter 431 Advancing to the Strong Competition
Chapter 431 Advancing to the Strong Competition
Chapter 431 Advancing to the Top Ten Tournament
In order to meet the arrangement of Olympic football matches, there are a total of six stadiums to host football matches in this BJ Olympic Games.They are the National Stadium Bird's Nest, BJ Workers Stadium, Shenyang Olympic Sports Center, QHD Olympic Sports Center, Tianjin Olympic Sports Center and Shanghai Stadium.
According to the schedule, the Olympic team's first game against New Zealand and the second game against Belgium will be played at the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center, so the destination of this training camp is Shenyang.
In July, the Olympic team will have several warm-up matches, all of which will be arranged in Shenyang.
Therefore, from the training camp to the Olympic Games, Yu Liang and his Olympic team will stay in Shenyang for almost a month.
Although they stayed in a hotel in Shenyang, after arriving in Shenyang, Yu Liang and Chen Tao went to the supermarket to buy a lot of daily necessities, which was environmentally friendly and convenient.
After arriving in Shenyang, they quickly devoted themselves to training.
When Yu Liang started the training camp with the Olympic team in Shenyang in full swing, the national team returned home with a draw in the away game.
They drew 1-1 with Qatar at the Tianjin Olympic Stadium.After four rounds, the Chinese team ranked first in the group with 8 points.Group No.2 is Australia with 6 points, and Group No.3 is Qatar with 5 points. Last year's Asian Cup champion Iraq won only one victory, and ranked bottom in the group with 3 points.
In these two games, the young national football team showed a weak state.The media, which had been applauding the national football team before, immediately changed the direction of the wind and began to question Shi Liansheng.They think Shi Liansheng is stubborn. Without his stubbornness to recruit overseas players early, the national football team has already qualified two rounds ahead of schedule.
The reason why Shi Liansheng has been adhering to the purpose of not recruiting overseas players before the top ten games has been stated many times in front of the media.
Because even in these two games, the national team players performed a little weakly, and he still did not call up players who played overseas in the game against Iraq.
As a result they lost 1-2 at home to Iraq.
The loss of the Chinese team made the originally clear qualifying situation become confusing.
In this round, Australia defeated Qatar and surpassed the Chinese team with 9 points to temporarily occupy the first place in the group.Iraq defeated the Chinese team, ranked third in the group with 5 points in 6 games, and Qatar ranked bottom in the group with 5 points.
With one round left in the group, the Chinese team's qualifying situation immediately became jeopardized.
The media have asked for overseas players to be recruited when they challenged Australia in the last away game.Get a clean win in Australia to secure a place in the Top Ten.The fans' expectations for Shi Liansheng have also been revered from the first two consecutive victories, but now they have lost patience with two draws and one loss.
In the match against Iraq at home, some fans even held up the banner that Shi Liansheng dismissed get out of class!
This is the real status quo of Chinese football.
From top to bottom, there is no patience.Just like some people, eager to get rich overnight.
In fact, Shi Liansheng himself hesitated at this time.
Not recruiting overseas players is definitely beneficial. It can allow domestic and young players to be fully trained, and it can also ensure that opponents do not know the true strength of the national team.In this way, in the top ten competition, he can give his opponent a surprise.
But now facing the predicament of qualifying, Shi Liansheng hesitated on the question of whether to recruit or not, and finally chose to stick to his bottom line and did not recruit any overseas players.
When the 23-man roster against Australia was released, most of the domestic media and fans complained there.
Many fans even think that the national football team will once again become the first team to prepare for the next World Cup.
"Have you seen it? I think you should be very clear about what the media is saying now! Do you think we can qualify?"
In the locker room of the visiting team at Sydney Australian Stadium, Shi Liansheng took the newspaper he brought from China and threw it on the table in the locker room.
Seeing that the players did not express anything, Shi Liansheng took a deep breath, "This is the last game of the top 20. Whether we can enter the top 10 or not depends on this game! I told you that our The ultimate goal is South Africa. Even in such a severe situation, I can still tell you with confidence that my goal is still South Africa! So can you tell me, what is your goal?"
The players all looked up at Shi Liansheng, but did not speak.
However, the longing in their eyes gave Shi Liansheng the answer he wanted.
"The top 20 matches have been played so far, and we are ranked second in the group. We are able to achieve such results because of your continuous hard work! The results you exchanged for with sweat are nothing in their eyes! They Think you guys are rubbish, you don't deserve to play in the World Cup, not even the Top 20!"
Of course, the media would not say that these players are rubbish. These are just exaggerated by Shi Liansheng in order to stimulate the fighting spirit of the players.
"Can you tell me, are you trash?"
"no!"
"Are you trash?"
The voice was not loud enough, so Shi Liansheng asked again.
"no!"
"Very good! In fact, in my eyes, you are trash! You are a bunch of trash with no fighting spirit."
All of a sudden, the players were ignited.
All of them looked at Shi Liansheng with anger in their eyes.
"Yes, that's what it looks like!"
Seeing the angry faces of the players, Shi Liansheng was delighted.
He needs the anger of the players now, he needs the players to play without fear!
"We are not trash!"
Liu Wei, who had always regarded Shi Liansheng as his life mentor, immediately refuted loudly after hearing Shi Liansheng's words.
这一次对阵澳大利亚的23人大名单中，大部分球员都是85后。甚至很多球员都是87、88、89年龄段的。
They are young and exuberant and easily ignited.
"Really? Let's talk about winning Australia!"
"What if we win?"
"What do you want?"
"I want you to apologize, you can't call us trash! And bark three times like a dog, and we will call you a livestock from today on!"
Sir, do you want to be so ruthless?
Looking at Liu Wei, Shi Liansheng frowned.
"Liu Wei, what are you talking about?"
Gao Jun immediately scolded Liu Wei loudly.
Isn't it against the sky to ask the head coach to bark like a dog?It's also called an animal. If it gets out, how can he, Shi Liansheng, be messed up!
"Okay! I promise you! But what if you lose the game?"
Shi Liansheng simply agreed, which surprised the players and Gao Jun.
What Liu Wei said was just angry words, but now that Shi Liansheng put him on the shelf, he couldn't back down.
"If we don't win the game..." Liu Wei pondered for a while, "My lord, I will swim back to China!"
Depend on!ruthless!
Shi Liansheng gave Liu Wei a thumbs up in his heart.
"A word is settled!"
"Old Shi, you..."
Shi Liansheng immediately interrupted Gao Jun, who was about to speak, and said to the players: "Okay, time is up, trash, hurry up and get out!"
Under the gaze of Shi Liansheng with a playful smile, the players walked out of the locker room one by one with sullen faces.
Seeing the players walking away, Gao Jun pulled Shi Liansheng and said angrily, "Old Shi, how could you do this? After this, those players will be in a mess!"
"What's the matter? Isn't the animal and the name the same appellation? It doesn't matter. Besides, if they can beat Australia, isn't that the initial goal? Compared with entering the top ten, what is this? "
After speaking, Shi Liansheng left Gao Jun with a surprised face, turned and left the dressing room.
Compared with the World Cup, other things are nothing in Shi Liansheng's eyes.
The players in the locker room who were irritated by Shi Liansheng played very aggressively after the game started.
In particular, Liu Wei, who served as a defensive midfielder in this game, moved from the opponent's goal to his own goal. His desperate posture made some Australian players shy away.
"Master, does this guy hate me so much? Or has this guy seen through my little trick?"
Seeing Liu Wei desperately pressing down on the court, Shi Liansheng was happy, but he became suspicious.
The aggressive fighting of the Chinese team soon yielded results. Liu Wei scored the ball to Zhao Junzhe after stealing in the frontcourt. Zhao Junzhe made a direct pass and assisted Gao Lin with a header in the penalty area.
The Chinese team took the lead in the first 10 minutes of the game.
The Chinese fans who came to the away game with the team immediately cheered in the stands.
Watching Gao Lin score the goal, Shi Liansheng cheered from the sidelines.
When Liu Wei passed by the bench, he even winked at Shi Liansheng.
Provocative, outright provocative.
Now Shi Liansheng has every reason to believe that he has won all the tricks of this guy.
But what was that compared to a victory?
Smiling and shaking his head, Shi Liansheng returned to the bench and sat down peacefully.
In this game, he already has 100% confidence that they will win.
After the game restarted, Australia formed a siege against the Chinese team. Once they lose this game, they will also face being eliminated.
However, their attacks failed again and again in the face of the tenacious defense of the Chinese team.
This stalemate was not broken until the 76th minute of the second half.
The Chinese team scored again.
Liu Wei scrambled desperately in the backcourt and formed a steal again. Zhao Junzhe launched a counterattack with a long pass from the backcourt. Jiang Ning from the wing dribbled the ball quickly and then kicked a pass to find Gao Lin in the penalty area. Gao Lin ferried the ball with a header. When the football hit the defensive player's hands, the referee directly awarded a penalty kick.
Chen Tao, who was seconded from the Olympic team, took the penalty and scored easily. The Chinese team in the away game led Australia 2-0.
In the rest of the time, the Australian team launched a crazy counterattack, but in the end they still failed to tear through the Chinese team's defense.
2-0, in the final round of the top 20 match, the Chinese team relied on their tenacious fighting spirit to defeat the mighty Australian team and advanced to the top ten match as the top of the group.
(End of this chapter)