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Chapter 225 Even Worse

"It's hard work!"

When Yang Yang walked out of the Kuwait airport, he found that the leader of the national team, Zhu, had personally picked up his plane at the airport.

"It's okay, I fell asleep all the way here." Yang Yang laughed.

For others, long-distance travel is indeed a big problem, especially jet lag, but for Yang Yang, this is not a problem, because he can go to sleep directly, and wake up refreshed and full of state.

But his reaction made Team Leader Zhu even more ashamed and blamed himself, and felt that Yang Yang was trying to comfort them on purpose.

After all, it was their dereliction of duty with the Football Association that caused Yang Yang to rush here.

After leaving the airport, we took the shuttle bus arranged by the hotel directly and returned to the hotel all the way.

In the car, team leader Zhu told Yang Yang that Ali Han relied heavily on him, and when he heard that he could make it in time, he immediately put him in the 18-man roster, and no one in the team had the slightest objection to this.

"To be honest, everyone came here to win, and when they heard that you were coming, everyone became more confident."

Yang Yang smiled modestly, "I hope I can help."

"Yes, definitely." Leader Zhu was very sure, "You can come here, which is the biggest help in itself."

Sometimes it's really weird to think about it.

Yang Yang is the youngest player in the team, but he is the best player in the national team.

During the Asian Cup, everyone didn't feel it yet, but when they played Malaysia, everyone realized that the team played so hard without Yang Yang.

"Right now, I believe you know the domestic situation. It's very complicated. It's hard to say exactly what's going on, but one thing is certain, that is, everyone's starting point is to hope that Chinese football can once again go out of Asia and enter the World Cup."

Leader Zhu was obviously worried that Yang Yang had grudges and thoughts, so he took the initiative to persuade him.

"Maybe in terms of specific things, or some things, everyone has differences and misunderstandings, and even made mistakes, but because we have no experience at all before, it's like the last time we played in the World Cup. We were unprepared and didn't know how to prepare for the game. It was our first time."

Yang Yang nodded, "I can understand."

"The more critical the moment is, the more important it is for you international players studying abroad to play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army and keeping the last hope." Leader Zhu said sincerely.

"You know, we have experienced too many setbacks, we have gone through too many wrong roads, so that our media does not believe that we can succeed, our fans suspect that they are dreaming, and even our players do not know How to properly view everything in front of us."

Yang Yang understood Team Leader Zhu's meaning, thought for a while, and said lightly: "Then don't pay attention to other things. Although the distance is covered by fog and the direction and road cannot be seen clearly, then concentrate on grasping what is in front of you, and play every game down-to-earth."

"Yes." Leader Zhu sighed with mixed feelings, "Who knows what the future will look like? Many things are beyond our control. The only thing we can do is to play every game well, strive to continue the performance of the World Cup in [-], and once again rush into the World Cup."

"I really feel that if we play normally, we definitely have the strength." Yang Yang said.

Leader Zhu nodded in agreement, "But the fortress always starts to split from within, especially now, the public opinion environment is not conducive to the national team, but the more this time, the more we must persevere."

Yang Yang thought of the slogans shouted by some domestic media reporters that Chinese football does not deserve to win, and that dragons make dragons and phoenixes make phoenixes. He felt disgusted when he thought about it. Their faces were so ugly and ugly.

In Yang Yang's view, these media reporters are worse than Chinese football, rotten to the bone, rotten to the soul.

"Don't worry, I will do my best to prevent some people from getting what they want." Yang Yang said firmly.

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When Yang Yang arrived at the Sheraton Hotel where the national team stayed, many international footballers received the news and came to see him.

This time, the national team has contracted the [-]th to [-]th floors, which happen to be the top three floors of the hotel, and this is also to avoid the disturbance from the outside world.

Because Zheng Zhi, Yang Yang's former roommate, did not participate in this Western Expedition due to injury, Yang Yang was assigned to a separate room, and most of the international players just came to say hello and say hello.

Yang Yang also asked about Li Weifeng's injury with concern. The captain of the national team said that he was fine and could cope with the game.

Later, Alihan also came to visit Yang Yang.

After the arrival of the head coach of the national team, Yang Yang also felt the change in the atmosphere. Obviously, many contradictions within the team have also been exposed, such as Sun Jihai's position, and the contradictions between Alihan and the Chinese coaching staff.

In Yang Yang's view, this is also very normal. It is impossible for any team to be monolithic. The key is how to deal with it.

Alihan was very happy when he saw Yang Yang, and asked about his situation, and how he was in the moment.

Yang Yang answered categorically, and at the same time said that he is in very good condition, and there is no problem in starting the game.

Of course Alihan would not believe it. How could anyone be in such a state after traveling thousands of kilometers and sitting on a plane for more than 20 hours?
"You are a substitute for this game. If necessary, I will use you in the second half." Arihan explained his arrangement and showed a rare display of Dutch humor. "Of course, I hope you will sit on the bench for the entire game."

Yang Yang could understand what he meant, and said with a smile, "I also hope that I don't have to play."

That shows that the team won Kuwait without any risk.

If this is the case, then Yang Yang would be happy to sit on the bench for nine or ten minutes.

But actually...

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On the evening of October [-]th, Peace and Friendship Stadium in Kuwait City.

In the fifth round of Group D of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup qualifiers, China challenged Kuwait away.

When the game progressed to the second half 4 minutes, Shao Jiayi got the ball in the midfield and was intercepted, and Kuwait quickly counterattacked from the right.

When he was far away from the opposing player, Sun Xiang suddenly made an absurd sliding shoveling action. Instead of being able to shovel the ball, he was easily broken by the opponent. He went down to the bottom line and sent a cross with a very strange arc, passing through the defense of goalkeeper Liu Yunfei and the defense.

At the front of the small penalty area, Bashar headed back and Juma followed up with an angry shot, piercing the goal of the Chinese team.

At this moment, the whole stadium was fried.

The Kuwaiti fans cheered and shouted.

This goal allowed them to finally tie the Chinese team and gain an advantage by virtue of goal difference.

On the other hand, the Chinese players on the field were hit hard, and they all showed disbelief, seeming at a loss.

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Everything that happened in Kuwait was clearly included in the live broadcast of the game and presented on the live broadcast of the national TV station in China. Even the commentator of the game was very depressed and said that this ball hit the team very hard.

"It should be said that this is a stalemate in Chinese football. Every time we have problems at critical moments."

"Tonight, we can advance to the quarter-finals as long as we draw, but we made a mistake again."

"One team after another has brought us painful memories and disasters, which makes us have to reflect again and again. Is our team's strength only to this extent, or is it because of other reasons?"

"Before this game, we had an interview with national team coach Ali Han. He said unabashedly that Chinese players have two serious problems. One is that they don't have a deep understanding of football. To put it simply, they lack tactical literacy. This is not only reflected in the existing players, but also in the way we train players."

"Another point is that the players' mental quality is not strong enough, so that every critical moment, they bear a heavy psychological burden."

"Arihan is not the first head coach to raise this issue, but he has never been able to find an effective solution."

"Our players enter the game too slowly and lack a unified thinking. Only when we are forced by our opponents to retreat, everyone will unite. But not every game we have the strength to equalize and reverse."

"During the Asian Cup, we once thought that the team had gotten out of the predicament and found a solution to the problem, but we didn't expect that this situation would happen again when we played Malaysia and Kuwait tonight."

"The team played chaotically throughout the first half and was very embarrassed by Kuwait. The team did not have a unified game idea, which led to the team playing very loosely, without the integrity of the Asian Cup."

"There is no doubt that head coach Arihan should be held accountable for this."

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Yang Yang sat on the visiting team's bench and watched the game silently.

He found that after losing the ball, the Chinese players on the field unified their thinking and began to want to fight back.

Alihan's starting tactic in this game is defensive counterattack, because the Chinese team has a psychological advantage, a draw is acceptable, but Kuwait can't, they have to press out and play.

However, it is obvious that Alihan did not allow all players to understand his intentions and thinking clearly, which caused some players to think that he wanted to attack, but some players felt that he wanted to defend.

Eleven people on the court have eleven ideas, no matter how strong the team is, they will not be able to play their strength.

Not to mention, the head coach must take the blame for this.

In addition, the state of many players is indeed not exciting enough. On the one hand, it has something to do with Zheng Zhi's absence. After all, Zheng Zhi, as a central defender, plays a very obvious role in the midfield.

The absence of Zheng Zhi made it difficult for Shao Jiayi to stand alone in the middle of the midfield and failed to continue his outstanding performance in the Asian Cup.

Yan Song also sat on the bench in this game, with Xu Yunlong on the right and Yang Pu on the left.

In this game, the performances of the left forward Yang Pu and the left defender Sun Xiang were a little abnormal.

Of course, this has something to do with Kuwait being good at attacking from the right, that is, focusing on the left of the Chinese team.

On the contrary, Kuwait's left side, which is the right side of the Chinese team, did not play a threat in this game, which should not be. According to the information Yang Yang got, Xu Yunlong played with an injury.

In addition, Hao Dong and Li Jinyu on the front line, Li Weifeng and Zhang Yaokun on the defense line, these players are obviously not in good condition, and even the goalkeeper Liu Yunfei made several mistakes that should not have been made.

It can be said that the mentality of the national football players in this game is indeed a little out of balance, otherwise all of them would not have performed unsatisfactorily.

When everyone was in a hurry, Ali Han and De Yang whispered to each other for a while.

De Yang immediately turned around and shouted at Yang Yang.

"Yang, hurry up and warm up!"

(End of this chapter)