Chapter 106: Three warm-up matches

After three days of intensive training, the Chinese team ushered in the first opponent of their series of "World Cup warm-up matches" in Shenyang - Macedonia.

"World Cup warm-up match" is the name given by the Chinese media, which of course does not mean "a warm-up match for the preparation of the World Cup", but because it is now the World Cup, the warm-up match of the Chinese team that failed to participate in the World Cup during this period is also jokingly called the "World Cup warm-up game" by the media, which also has a taste of ridicule and self-deprecation.

Where is Macedonia?

Well, welcome to the program "The National Football Team Takes Me to Learn World Geography".

Macedonia is located in the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, independent from Yugoslavia in 1993, with a population of only 2 million, is an Eastern European country with an Orthodox Christianity, adjacent to Greece, Bulgaria and Albania.

Such a small country located in the so-called "Balkan powder keg" region, which is not wealthy, of course, can hardly expect to participate in the World Cup. Therefore, they can only come to China to play a warm-up match with the Chinese team during the World Cup.

What a pitiful .....

Of course, the captain of the national football team thinks how pitiful it is for people to come to China to play a game. When Li Qingshan stood in front of the referee with the captain's armband, to be honest, he was not too familiar with these processes.

Fortunately, I have never eaten pork, but I have seen a pig run, and the pre-game edge picking ceremony was successfully completed.

In this game, Lippi sent all the main players, this is the first national team game that Li Qingshan has participated in, and the feeling of the club game is not quite the same.

So, when he got the ball into the opposition goal in the second minute with a corner, he ran to the corner flag and jumped into the corner flag area to fly down to celebrate.

"Hahaha, Li Qingshan, who scored his first goal for the national team, looked quite excited, he scored with a header from a Macedonian defender in the second minute of the game, and the opponent couldn't pose much threat to him at all." The narrator also sounds quite relaxed.

Indeed, compared with the defensive pressure that Li Qingshan received in La Liga and the Champions League, the current defensive pressure is too easy for Li Qingshan.

The Macedonian team is not a strong team either, they look much weaker than the Chinese team.

Li Qingshan, who didn't feel much pressure, scored a second goal soon after, in the twelfth minute, he turned and volleyed after receiving a pass from a teammate in the penalty area, and the football went into the net, 2-0!

It was just two minutes before Li Qingshan scored when he received a cross from the middle and fired a side-to-head into the back of the net.

Less than 15 minutes into the game, Li Qingshan scored a hat-trick. This characteristic of him is simply a BUG, when the opponent does not have a corresponding point to pose a threat to Li Qingshan on the high ball, it is very difficult to defend. Of course, when the opponent has a way to limit Li Qingshan's header, Li Qingshan doesn't have many ways.......

After 3-0, Li Qingshan began to seek more cooperation with his teammates, and he also hoped to establish a tacit understanding with his teammates in the national team as soon as possible.

Towards the end of the first half, the Chinese team scored again, Li Qingshan nodded the ball to the middle, and the forward midfielder Huang Bowen smashed the ball into the goal.

Four to zero!

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Lippi made a large-scale substitution, and this kind of warm-up friendly match is not limited to the number of substitutions, so Lippi directly made a number of nine substitutions, except for goalkeeper Zeng Cheng and Li Qingshan, all the other players were changed!

The rhythm of the second half slowed down slightly, but the Chinese team still scored two goals, first in the 60th minute, the Chinese team through a free kick cross on the left side of the front, by Li Qingshan completed the head of the goal, and then in the 78th minute, the Chinese team played a quick counterattack, Zeng Cheng directly threw the ball to launch a fast attack, Li Qingshan's header was ferried to the high-speed forward young player Wu Lei, who completed the single goal.

At the end of the game, the score was fixed at 6-0.

It's a good friendly match, and it's probably over after this game.......

Although Macedonia is very weak, the Chinese team finally achieved a hearty victory, and the fans still feel very happy, especially after Li Qingshan joined, he won the fourth game on behalf of the Chinese team, and the national team debut was quite perfect, and the problem of the Chinese team's lack of scoring for many years seems to have been solved. All this gives the fans a lot of hope.

Isn't that what the fans are all about? Disappointed again and again, even despairing, but always finding some hope to comfort yourself..........

Four days later, the Chinese team's second warm-up match was still against Macedonia, but the venue was changed to Jinan.

This time, the Chinese team once again defeated Macedonia with a score of 4-0, and Li Qingshan scored two yuan alone.

After the game, Lippi shook his head and complained to his assistant coach, Madaloni.

"The quality of such warm-up games is too low."

Madaloni also nodded in agreement: "The opponent's strength is too weak, and the warm-up effect is not very good, but fortunately, Lee's integration into the team is very fast." ”

The opponents in this series of warm-up matches were selected by Lippi before he took office, so Lippi couldn't do anything about it.

It seems that in the future, even the selection of warm-up opponents will need to be done by themselves.

Lippi had a little headache, and the inability of a certain association made Uncle Li dare not trust them too much........

A few days later, the Chinese team flew to Shenzhen, where their warm-up match was against Mali.

Mali is a landlocked country located in West Africa, and in terms of international rankings, Mali is much stronger than the Chinese team - of course, without Li Qingshan.

It's just that Lippi didn't send Li Qingshan to start in this game, he mainly wanted to see the defense of the Chinese team.

The Mali team is a typical West African team, with a very strong desire to attack and a rather unrestrained style of play.

Sure enough, in the absence of Li Qingshan, a big center in the frontcourt, the Chinese team soon fell into a disadvantage. In the 23rd and 38th minutes of the first half, the Mali team scored a goal respectively, and at the end of the first half, the Chinese team was 2-0 behind.

Lippi frowned on the sidelines, the team's defensive problems are still more prominent.

At the beginning of the second half, the Mali team scored another goal and led the Chinese team 3-0.

At this time, the mentality of the Chinese players on the field began to be turbulent, which is also an old problem of the Chinese team, and when the situation is unfavorable, the players' ability to withstand pressure is too poor.

Lippi shook his head, it seems that there is a long way to go to improve the defense of the Chinese team.

He quickly made substitutions, Li Qingshan and eight other players came on the field, and almost all the starting players were replaced, which also showed that Lippi was very dissatisfied with the team's performance.

After Li Qingshan came on the pitch, his pressure on the Malian defenders quickly paid off, and he scored in just three minutes.

Then the Chinese team also began to press on the attack. The defense is not good, but the Chinese team with Li Qingshan has played quite well offensively.

In the end, Li Qingshan scored another goal and assisted his teammates to score a goal to equalize the score.

In this series of warm-up matches, the Chinese team won two wins and one draw, and the record was quite reasonable, at least it did not cause large-scale abuse..........