Chapter 246 The Whale of the Sky
At the beginning of the game, everyone discovered what the tactics of this game in Jordan were.
Either you defend and counterattack or shrink defense, you can only let go and no counterattack.
At the beginning of the game, the entire Jordan team retreated to their half. When the Chinese team attacked, they were even overwhelmed within 30 meters.
Obviously, Jordan's tactic is to defend the game to the end of the 90-minute game and then to the end of the 120-minute game.
Then drag the game into a penalty kick.
The reason they use this tactic is that only in the penalty shootout can the personal ability of Glory be minimized.
No matter how strong he is, he can only score one goal, which is only one point in the penalty shootout, but the penalty shootout is in five rounds.
In addition, one of the Jordanian relied on is their goalkeeper Shafi.
This goalkeeper can be said to be the biggest star in Jordan and the strongest.
He represented Jordan in the Asian Cup for the first time at the age of 22, and it was also the first time that the Jordanian national team participated in the Asian Cup.
With his outstanding performance, Jordan team made it to the quarterfinals and was eventually eliminated by Japan using very despicable means.
This is his second time participating in the Asian Cup, and he met his old enemy Japan in the first game of the group stage.
The goal he guarded was not broken by the Japanese team until the 91st minute, and finally tied with the Japanese team. He was unable to take revenge, but the performance of Jordan's Japanese team, which was able to tie Shinji Kagawa, Yuto Nagato, Makoto Hasegawa, Keiyuki Honda, Hondo Hondo, Atsuto Uchida, Shinji Okazaki and other stars, was still very surprising.
Shafei has a nickname called "Sky Whale", which describes his action of jumping into the air is like a whale leaping out of the sea and rushing into the sky.
Because of his huge size, it is appropriate to describe him as a whale.
He may be the only person in this game who can pose a threat to the Chinese team.
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Although Jordan adopted such a tactic, the Chinese team did not take this opponent seriously.
Among the quarterfinals, Jordan's strength may be the weakest. Inspired by Gao Hongbo's words, the Chinese players were thinking about the semi-finals.
According to the matchup arrangement, after the Chinese team enters the semi-finals, they will face the winners of Australia and Iraq. Chinese players hope to meet Iraq because Iraq has just defeated in the Asian Cup warm-up match. If they can meet Iraq, it means they have a great hope of entering the finals.
Faced with the shrinking Jordan, the Chinese team was bombarded with bombardment.
After the game began, Rongguang continued his last game against Uzbekistan, hiding himself behind the scenes, passing the ball to his teammates more and running to create opportunities for his teammates, rather than shooting himself.
Since the opponent is not too strong, then treat this game as a warm-up match for training the team.
Now, the running-in of every game is crucial, because they can't run to the finals to run-in the team, right?
The eighth minute, the Chinese team got a good opportunity. The straight pass of glory penetrated Jordan's defense line. Gao Lin successfully counterattacked and received the ball behind the defense line. Then he directly shot.
The Chinese fans in the stands couldn't wait to cheer, and the Chinese fans in front of the TV and in front of the computer also shouted out in advance.
However, the football shot by Gao Lin was blocked by Sha Fei, who blocked the shooting angle with her toes, and the football eventually missed the goal goal.
"Gao Lin's shot, Sha Fei" Liu Hong hugged his head with both hands and shouted in annoyance.
At that time, the Chinese players had not taken Shafei's save too seriously. The game had just begun anyway, so there was still time.
Gao Lin just looked up at the sky.
The Chinese team then continued to besiege Jordan's goal.
But as the game time passed, they gradually discovered that Jordanian goalkeeper Shafei had become an insurmountable wall for them...
Whether it was Gao Lin, Deng Zhuoxiang, or other Chinese players, their shots were all in front of Sha Fei and failed again and again.
Shafei received high and low blocks and frequently attacked, turning the entire penalty area into his defensive area. The Chinese team was very uncomfortable with Shafei's performance.
As a result, until the end of the first half, the score on the big screen did not change, and it was still 00.
Technical statistics: In the first half, the Chinese team had ten shots, and six of these ten shots hit the goal frame range, but none of them went in.
At the same time, in Jordan's end statistics, Shafei made six saves, while the Chinese goalkeeper Zeng Chengcai made two saves.
The gap is obvious.
When the first half ended, Liu Hong was still a little unbelievable that the Chinese team had such a fierce offensive that there was no goal... He thought that any chance of it seemed like a must-scoring goal.
The overall performance of the Chinese team in this game is much better than the first half against Uzbekistan. The players cooperate tacitly and can often play a wonderful and exquisite cooperation that is amazing.
But these cooperation cannot help the Chinese team break through Jordan's goal.
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During the halftime break, Gao Hongbo did not rush to adjust his tactics because he didn't score in the first half and let Rongguang be the main attacker. He asked the team to continue to play according to the tactics of the first half.
Rongguang did not object.
The two of them have the same idea. In this Asian Cup, in the subsequent World Cup qualifiers, this situation will definitely happen frequently, especially as the Chinese team performs better and better in the Asian Cup, there will definitely be some teams who will choose to defend the Chinese team instead of playing against the Chinese team. How should they play when the Chinese team lacks space and time inside and outside the opponent's penalty area?
So this game against Jordan is a good opportunity to train the Chinese team and increase everyone's experience in dealing with this situation.
Of course, they can solve the problem quickly, but that will lose the meaning of training the team. They still have to train special training from the beginning, and Yu Qian let Rongguang finish the Asian Cup alone.
The change in mentality has made Gao Hongbo less utilitarian now.
And in the locker room on the other side, Jordan's head coach Adnan Hamad is also encouraging his players.
"You did a good job in the first half or should be said to be very beautiful, but don't forget that football matches are divided into two halves, and the outstanding performance in the first half may also be ruined by the slack mistakes in the second half. We must continue to maintain this state in the second half, defend until overtime, and then until penalty kick."
Before this game, Jordan team specially practiced penalty kicks. He believed that he would definitely be more than the Chinese team in preparation for the final penalty shootout.
The Chinese team must rely on their glory and think that the battle can definitely be resolved within 90 minutes. Maybe they have never prepared for a penalty kick at all.
After the halftime break and came out of the locker room, Shafei held his own gloves in her hand. He was also very satisfied with his performance in the first half. He felt that his condition in this game was the best since he participated. He was confident that he would block anyone's shot. Even if Rong Guang shot himself, he would dare to let the opponent return in vain.
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After the second half of the game began, neither side made any adjustments.
It is normal for Jordan team to not adjust. They played this tactic very successfully in the first half, so there is no need to change the tactics.
But the Chinese team didn't adjust, so it made people unable to understand.
Everyone knows that the Chinese team wants to make them look more like a team, but that is in no danger. In the last game, didn’t Rongguang do this after helping the team score a goal?
And now, what else can you do when you have to advance? Will you be suspected of playing with fire?
Isn't it too much?
At this time, shouldn’t it be that Rongguang quickly solved the problem and then played slowly?
When will the Chinese team be qualified and capable of taking the knockout stage seriously?
These people can't figure it out, but it's actually very simple.
After Rong Guang scored the goal, Jordan's tactics would definitely not be like this now, and then it would lose the meaning of training the team in a specific environment, and the opponent Jordan lost its value.
So neither Gao Hongbo nor Rongguang wanted to exert force in the second half, so they still played step by step according to the original tactics.
However, Gao Hongbo did not tell his players about this kind of consideration, nor did Rongguang reveal it to them.
Just like military training, if they are told that this is just an exercise, it will definitely not die, and then they will never be able to adapt to real war. Only by not telling them that this is an exercise, but a practical battle, can they gain experience from it and their abilities grow.
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In the second half, the Chinese team increased their offense and simply bombarded Jordan in the first half.
However, Shafei's performance was also better, and she tried her best to ensure that the door was not lost.
He seems to be the kind of goalkeeper who performs well the more pressure the more you perform. The stronger your attack, the better his performance will be.
The 55th minute, the score is 00
The sixty-fifth minute, the score is still 00
At the 70th minute, the score was still 00
Seeing that the Chinese players were unable to break Jordan's goal for a long time, they began to become a little impatient.
And Jordan seems to be getting closer to their penalty goal.
At this moment, Glory decided to end all this.
The exercise is about to end.
Chapter completed!