Volume 4 World Cup Legends, Chapter 40 The Starting Lineup
(There is another chapter) the next day the Chinese team arranged two training sessions at the Tokyo National Stadium, because the relationship between the Chinese team and the fans was a little tense in the past two days, the Tokyo Police Department sent a hundred police officers to maintain order, although there were many fans who came to make trouble at the scene, but they were only limited to shouting slogans, and no one really came out to make trouble, for the fans, the Chinese team has not grown enough to make them jealous, nor strong enough for them to worship, and their feelings about the Chinese team are more contemptible.
On this day, more and more fans came to the arena to watch the Chinese team train, including not only Chinese, but also many fans from Europe, South America, and even from Africa. According to the statistics of the company, the number of foreigners who have entered the city in the past few days has increased by 40,000 or 50,000 more than usual, and most of them have come to watch the match between the Chinese team and the company. Of course, no matter how good the Chinese fans feel about themselves, they will not think that these fans are fans of the Chinese team, these are mainly for Li Huan, Li Huan has made unprecedented achievements in the club, what he lacks is the honor of the World Cup, and now Li Huan fans all over the world are supporting Li Huan to lead the Chinese team to the World Cup.
At more than 8 o'clock in the evening, Li Huan was discussing tactics and starter arrangements with Chu Fu and others, and suddenly received a text message, which was sent by Gao Yuan Jundai, it turned out that Gao Yuan Jundai had come to Yueben with her daughter Xiaotong, Li Huan led the Chinese team to play with the Yue Ben team, as Li Huan's wife, and also as a Yue himself, Gao Yuan Jundai wanted to come to the scene to watch the game.
It was already more than 10 o'clock after the meeting, Li Huan hurriedly returned to his room and dialed Gao Yuan Jundai's mobile phone, "When did you come to Yuben?" ”
"Li Huanjun, I'm sorry, I didn't tell you before I came, I arrived this afternoon, and now I'm in Shizuoka. Tomorrow I will go to the site in a kimono to cheer you on. Gao Yuan Jundai looked very happy, "I haven't been back to the book for a long time, I'm homesick, and my dad also wants to see Xiao Hitomi." ”
"What did your dad say?" Li Huan pondered for a moment and asked.
"My dad likes Hitomi very much, and now he's playing with her, can you come over after the game?" Gao Yuan Jundai said with some expectation.
Li Huan's brows furrowed, and he remembered the unpleasant experience he had when he went to Shizuoka last time, "Okay, if there is no accident, I will go to Shizuoka with you." ”
"That's great, thank you, Li Huanjun, my dad will definitely be very happy, they all want to meet you now." Gao Yuan Jundai excitedly pressed one hand on her chest, as if she was afraid that her heart would jump out of her chest.
"Jundai, needless to say thank you, I should have taken you to Shizuoka a long time ago, but I'm worried that your father and brother will be unhappy when they see me and Hitomi." Li Huan sighed.
"No, my dad has accepted our relationship now. He said he wanted to invite you to tea. Gao Yuan Jundai hurriedly explained.
"That's good, as long as your dad doesn't get angry, it's no problem for you to go back to Shizuoka to live for a few days, and if your dad doesn't want to live in Yumoto, you can buy a property where you like it." Li Huan is in a better mood, in fact, his father-in-law is under a lot of pressure.
"No, my dad just wants to live in his hometown, he rarely leaves Yuben in his life, he says that Yueben is the most beautiful place in the world." Gao Yuan Jundai said.
"It's rare to see someone like your dad. Jundai, call me when you come tomorrow. ”
"Oh, got it, rest early, there's a game tomorrow." Gao Yuan Jundai admonished.
"Well, you get some rest early, too." "Shayanara."
"Goodbye."
The next morning, both sides announced their starting lineups at a pre-match press conference, and many of the players in the Chinese team are young people who have never played professionally, and the players who play in the European league are also non-mainstream outside the five major leagues, and these people are very little-known. They are not afraid that the team will study an ABC when they announce the list, and the team is a master of art and has already qualified in advance, so they don't need to play this little trick with the Chinese team at all.
The starting lineup of the Chinese team is No. 1 Zong Cheng as the goalkeeper, and the five defenders are No. 20 Fan Yang, No. 3 Wang Chunlei, No. 5 Sun Tao, No. 19 Xu Bin, and No. 13 captain Li Huan; The four midfielders are No. 6 midfielder Wu Han, No. 10 forward Yu Tong, right midfielder No. 15 Chen Teng, and left midfielder No. 18 Liu Chao. One striker is No. 11 Zhang Dong.
The starting lineup of the Chinese team has been adjusted in three places compared with playing Uzbekistan, the new international player Fan Yang has become a left-back, the thin Gu Tianyuan has been replaced by Liu Chao, who plays in the Belgian league, and the point-grabbing striker Xu Yang has also become Zhang Dong of the labor model.
The starting lineup of the team is like this, goalkeeper: Eiji Kawashima, left back Yuto Nagatomo, central defenders Tanaka Doukasa and Yuji Nakazawa, right back Atsuto Uchida, midfielder: Makoto Hasebe and Endo Yasuhito, left midfielder Daisuke Matsui, right midfielder Keisuke Honda, forward midfielder: Shinji Kagawa, forward: Takayuki Morimoto.
This game is not the strongest lineup of the team, their main central defenders Maya Yoshida and Yasuyuki Konno did not participate in this game, Tanaka Doukasa and Yuki Nakazawa are not small, and their strength is also excellent, but they are no longer young and experienced, but their physical fitness is no longer good. Neither Arsenal striker Ryo Miyamuro nor Bayern striker Takashi Usami have returned from Europe.
It is a coincidence that the team and the Chinese team have discharged a 451 formation, but the fans and players do not think that the same formation will have the same style of play, the team has excellent ball control, tacit understanding, and the overall surname is the best in Asia.
On the day of the game, there were many Chinese fans holding the Chinese flag and wearing Li Huan's No. 13 jersey on the streets of Tokyo, and as the time approached, more and more Chinese fans came to Tokyo, and these fans kept chanting Li Huan's name, and came to the National Stadium from the subway, bus, and taxi to wait for the start of the game. Of course, fans won't care that there is a young woman with a child in their team at this time, and they don't know that this young woman and child are the lover and daughter of their idol Li Huan.
This is the key game for the Chinese team to impact the World Cup, whether you can get the third place in the group to watch this game, the domestic media and fans attach great importance to this game, there are more than 30,000 fans and more than 100 reporters with the team across the sea expedition, and countless fans in order to watch this game to go home, skip class and go online, and there are no way to watch the live broadcast, only listen to the radio to relieve boredom.
China's CCTV5 sent the famous "World Football" program host Duan Xuan to the scene to commentate, and the famous repeater Liu Jianhong was also arranged to the live broadcast room to be responsible for the live broadcast.
Liu Jianhong can't play the live opening show, but he explains the history of football, takes the list and analyzes the lineups, starters and strengths and weaknesses of both sides to the computer, and he is still competent.
"Hello everyone, the final round of the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian qualifiers began an hour later, today is also an important moment related to the life and death of the Chinese team, before we won three and lost four in 7 games, no draw, we accumulated 9 points in third place, and Uzbekistan at the same level as us also accumulated 9 points, they have to play against Qatar that has been out of the tournament in advance, this game Atletico Madrid must win, otherwise even the qualification to play the play-offs has been lost...... The game hasn't started yet, now let's go to Tokyo to see Duan Xuan and the fans of the expedition......"
At this moment, Duan Xuan is traveling through the Chinese fans, asking them how they feel about this game. Although the Chinese fans on the expedition were a little jealous of the team's skills and strength, when interviewed by reporters, the Chinese fans were full of confidence and never believed that they would not be able to break out of the World Cup. At the end of the interview, these fans also chanted that the Chinese team should come on, and the Chinese team will win.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the game officially began.
The Tokyo National Stadium, which can accommodate more than 60,000 fans, was packed, with Chinese supporters occupying nearly half of the stadium, and half of the stadium turned into red flames. Many of them bought tickets from scalpers.
In the VIP box, Yao Xiangyang also came to the National Arena, he is not a fan, but this game is related to the life and death of the Chinese team, even a figure like Yao Xiangyang is inevitably uneasy, he thought about it again and again and came to Tokyo to watch the performance of the Li national team in this game.
After the game started, reporters and fans found that Li Huan's arrangement was not completely consistent with the actual situation on the field, and the original front waist Yu Tong actually came to the back waist. Among the players who rotated, striker Zhang Dong behaved more like a diligent midfielder, he was able to keep an eye on the opponent's striker to his own penalty area, and he was also able to risk being slipped by the opponent to force the opponent's defender and goalkeeper.
The lineup and style of play of the Chinese team made Zaccheroni, who was standing on the side commanding, a little depressed, he did not expect the Chinese team to discharge a forwardless formation, and what made him even more depressed was that the team's attack was a mess under the opponent's crazy pressing, the game lasted for fifteen minutes, and the team's possession rate was very high, and the number of passes and success rates were also very high, but what shocked everyone was that they didn't even have a shot on goal, not because the team played patiently and carefully, but they didn't have a suitable chance to hit the goal.
What made everyone's eyes fall to the ground was that the national team led by Li Huan played very well in the face of Yueben, and in the first 15 minutes, they actually completed three shots on goal, and once hit the lintel, which scared the team into a cold sweat.
(To be continued)