Chapter 1141: Dinghai Divine Needle
On January 25, at 7:15 p.m., the match between the Chinese team and Australia started on time.
In fact, as early as half an hour, or an hour ago, many Chinese fans sat in front of the TV, or even the whole family sat in front of the TV.
Tune in to watch the preview program of this game, and the CCTV rear studio has prepared a lot of programs to let everyone pay attention to this game.
Including the grievances between Chinese football and Australian football, including the training and team status of the two teams before the game, including the injury of players, including interviews with fans in Qatar.
According to the AFC, the number of spectators in this match may set a record for this Asian Cup, surpassing the previous game between China and Jordan.
After all, Jordan is not a strong team, Australia is a team that can participate in the World Cup, and in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers, Australia was also in a group with China, and everyone is obviously more familiar with this team than Jordan.
At that time, the Chinese team drew 0:0 at home to Australia, but when the Chinese team challenged Australia away, they had already been eliminated early, so even if they beat Australia 1:0, it didn't make much sense, and Zheng Zhi also missed a penalty in that game.
The semi-finals of the Asian Cup are also the first time that Australia have reached the semi-finals of the Asian Cup.
In 2007, when they participated in the Asian Cup for the first time, although they reached the quarterfinals, they were eliminated by Japan on penalties in the fourth of eight.
The benefits of Australia's choice to join the AFC have already been revealed, and their strength in Asia is indeed strong. Their addition also broke the original balance of power between West Asia and East Asia in Asian football.
So after Australia was eliminated by Italy in the World Cup in Germany, Huang Jianxiang, who was a CCTV commentator at the time, was very excited, and he explained why he was so excited, because he was indignant when he thought that Australia was going to come to Asia and the Chinese team to grab a qualifying place.
However, it turned out that he thought too much, and even without Australia, it would be difficult for the Chinese team to qualify from the Asian region. Australia is not a threat to China, but to traditional Asian soccer powers such as Japan, South Korea and Iran.
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In order to face the Chinese team, Australia sent the strongest team, led by the star Colwill, who used to play for Leeds United and Liverpool, as well as Cahill, a powerful player who is now in the Premier League, and the goalkeeper is also the famous Schwarzer.
After the start of the game, they frequently put pressure on the Chinese players with their excellent physical qualities, and their tackles always had some rushing effect, so that the Chinese players kept turning their backs on the court.
Although the Uzbek players have also used foul tactics in the game, on the one hand, they are aimed at Glory alone, and on the other hand, their foul tactics are too childish in front of the Australians.
The Aussies don't have to specifically foul tactics, it's already scary.
Their physique is indeed outstanding, and it can be said that they have completely exploded the Chinese team.
Because of Gao Hongbo's tactical problems, most of the players he selected in this Chinese team are thin and small players with excellent foot skills.
In terms of physical confrontation, this Chinese team is not the strongest ever.
They are better at solving problems with their foot technology.
Gao Hongbo forbade his players to use too many long passes, blindly crossing from the side, and then heading the ball to the top is relatively rare.
However, there is a downside to such a team that relies on technique at the feet, which is that it is difficult to organize an effective attack when facing a team that is strong, tough and has a very aggressive style of play.
Australia didn't do this against Rongguang alone, they did it against the entire Chinese team.
From this point, it can be seen that Australia's head coach Holger Osike has carefully studied the Chinese team, and the current Chinese team is obviously trying to play team football, so it is better to cut off their team contact.
With ferocious defense and collision, the players of the Chinese team could not hold the ball at all.
He has studied the Chinese team, and the Chinese team without glory can indeed play a lot of amazing cooperation in the warm-up game, but once they encounter tough opponents in the game and force them to encircle, they can't play these small-scale cooperation.
It's a team that can't handle pressure, and when it's pressed, they don't even get a tenth of what they practice in training.
In the end, you can only rely on Glory's personal ability.
Therefore, the most important thing in Australia's tactics is to score as much as possible after making the Chinese team unable to cooperate, as long as they can take a two-goal lead, the game will be stable.
Of course, they also expect Glory to come back later in the game.
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The Chinese players turned their backs for 15 minutes, and Australia gradually gained the advantage, and for a few minutes, the Chinese team's attack could not even enter Australia's 30-meter area.
There was no shot on goal.
Chinese commentator He Ping worriedly said that no matter how the Chinese team plays, the goal may be lost.
The players of the Chinese team did not take advantage of Australia's physical superiority at all, and they played really hard.
At this time, the Chinese team launched an attack, and the football was handed over to the feet of glory.
According to the previous table, Glory will pass the football to his teammates and then advance as a whole.
But this time, Glory turned around and took the football away!
And he didn't slow down, he was getting faster and faster!
He just went straight to the Australian goal!
At this time, the Australian talent reacted, and the glory is coming by itself!
They quickly moved closer to Glory, intending to stop Glory with fouls and physical advantage.
But how could the glory of the all-out sprint be so easy to hold up?
Facing Cahill who came up to defend him, Glory accelerated directly and ate Cahill raw.
Cahill slammed into Glory, trying to knock Glory out of the high-speed movement.
He and Glory have played against each other in the Premier League.
He plays at Everton and Glory at Manchester City, and they meet at least twice a year.
Just before coming to the Asian Cup, he had just played a game with Rong Guang in the Premier League.
So Cahill knows more about glory.
He knew that if he wanted to stop the glory, he must not hesitate, and he must foul when it is time to foul. If you want to get close to him while Glory is just starting, foul him, and can't wait for him to add up his speed completely before making a move, it will be too late!
So when he saw that the glory was changing direction and accelerating, he rushed forward.
He touched Glory, but he didn't knock Glory down, he just let Glory stumble, that's all.
He fell to the ground, and Glory staggered two steps to catch up with the football again, and continued to dribble the ball to the front court!
Cahill's foul tactics failed......
When Glory rushed to the 30-meter area, he raised his right foot and kicked the ball and made a move to shoot straight at the goal, deceiving the Australian player Holman who was in front of him to turn his back and try to stop his shot with his back.
But Glory is a feint, his right foot fell and did not kick the football, but used the sole of his foot to pull the football to the left, he turned to the left and broke through!
He was followed by Australia's centre-back Ognovski, who was once again raised with his right foot up and kicked towards the football.
Ognovsky stared at the football and Rongguang's right foot, and decided that Rongguang would definitely continue to pull the football to the left, so he lunged out and moved laterally to the left!
But at this time, Rongguang's right foot crossed the football, did not touch the football, and swiped from the outside of the football to the inside, and then the outside of his right foot gently flicked the football to the right side!
At the same time, the glory of the whole also changed direction and cut into the forbidden area!
Got between Ognowski and Hoffmann!
"Glory!!" He Ping excitedly stood up from the commentary seat.
Rongguang burst into the penalty area, what does it mean next, He Ping, who has commented countless games of the Rongguang Club, knows too well!
Sure enough, Rongguang, who had just rushed in, directly picked up his right foot, this time it was not a feint, shoot!
The football rushed towards the Australian goal like a cannonball.
Schwarzer made a save, but with such a close range and such a powerful shot from Glory, his save was just a façade......
The ball hit the net behind him before his hands could reach it!
The ball is in!
"The ball is in! The ball is in! Beautiful! Nice shot! Beautiful goal! All of them are beautiful and perfect! ”
He Ping couldn't care about reciting poetry at this time, and when he was most excited, he couldn't care about literature and art at all.
The ball of glory made the big stone in the hearts of all the Chinese people fall to the ground.
When Australia had suppressed the Chinese team and occupied the advantage, the Chinese team relied on Glory to take the lead and take the lead!
This is a timely rain for the Chinese team suppressed by Australia!
It was a goal that could release the pressure from the players, give them confidence and make them more comfortable facing Australia's pressing in the upcoming games.
Rongguang's role in the Chinese team is not only goals, assists, and organization, he is also the anchor of the Chinese team!
When the Chinese team was playing well, he hid himself in the whole team.
But when the Chinese team encounters a problem that cannot be solved by the team, Rongguang will step up and help the team solve the problem.
Any team wants to have someone like that in their team. Now, all Chinese people should be glad that he did not join the Brazilian national team when the Chinese team turned him away!
He was determined not to change his nationality at the beginning, as if he was waiting for this moment.