super storm

Chapter 651 National Hero
When the European transfer market is still confusing, the Chinese team has quietly started an expedition to the Middle East.

Throughout June, the Chinese team will play four World Cup qualifiers, the first of which is going to Doha to challenge Qatar away.

This is the first time for Yang Yang to participate in a national team game after the Asian Cup last year, and it was his first appearance since he won the World Footballer and the European Ballon d'Or, which attracted the attention of the whole country.

Many domestic fans even went to Doha one after another, just hoping to see the debut of the World Footballer's national team.

It has been six years since he coached China, and Alihan has already left a deep mark on this team.

Especially in recent years, as Chinese players have gradually gained a foothold in the European arena, the overall strength of the Chinese team has also improved a lot.

Chen Tao's performance in Anderlecht is very eye-catching. At present, he has begun to attract the attention of the four major league teams. It is more difficult to join the upstream team, but there is still a chance to gain a foothold in the middle and lower teams.

The same situation also applies to Feng Xiaoting, Gao Lin and Zhou Haibin. They are all the best performers among overseas Chinese footballers. Although they are not playing in the top league, they have all shown good strength and made gratifying progress.

The reason why the two games and two draws in the first two rounds is that the team's defense is very good, but the offensive end has never been able to make a difference.

This also makes the national team and domestic fans look forward to Yang Yang's return.

The game still consisted of Yang Yang, Gao Lin and Chen Tao forming the front trident, Zhao Junzhe, Zheng Zhi and Zhou Haibin in the middle, Sun Xiang, Li Weifeng, Feng Xiaoting and Sun Jihai in the defense, and the goalkeeper was Song Zhenyu.

The summer in Doha is very hot and the temperature is very high, but both sides played a fast pace from the beginning.

But only 2 minutes into the game, Yang Yang was fouled by a Qatari player when he took the ball from the left, and got a free kick on the left side of the penalty area, about 30 meters away from the goal.

Yang Yang did his part and took the free kick himself.

It may be because the distance is a bit far and the position is a bit biased. Qatar felt that the possibility of hitting the goal directly was not very high, so the human wall did not pay much attention to it, but this also just gave Yang Yang a chance.

After heaving a sigh of relief, Yang Yang stepped forward quickly, stepping on familiar steps, and after standing still with his left foot, he tilted his body and kicked out his right foot quickly. The football flew over the wall like a shell fired from its chamber, and after drawing an arc, it turned into Qatar's goal, one to zero!

This goal not only stunned the players in Qatar, but even the players of the national football team were dumbfounded.

Many of them hadn't played against Yang Yang for a year, and what surprised them was that although they had seen Yang Yang from the media, newspapers, and TV, they knew that he had improved rapidly and his strength had improved rapidly, but they never knew that he had already reached this level.

A direct free kick from 30 meters, especially to the left, was accomplished overnight!

This is the strength of the World Footballer!

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After being taken the lead by Yang Yang, Qatar panicked completely.

Subsequently, the Chinese team began to retreat, and Qatar aggressively pressed forward.

No. In the 14th minute, the Chinese team launched a counterattack. With continuous kicks from the right and the center, Sun Jihai made a low and flat pass to the back of the penalty area.

Two to zero!
Not only did Qatar's morale plummet, but the Chinese team was greatly encouraged.

During Yang Yang's absence, the team's difficulty in scoring goals has always been a problem, but now that Yang Yang is back, they all find that it is not difficult at all, it is so easy.

So what do they have to worry about?
After changing sides in the second half, the two-goal leading Chinese team patiently turned their feet in the midfield and suddenly got a chance. Sun Xiang made a diagonal pass from the left behind the defense line. Yang Yang quickly slanted into the penalty area.

This is an opportunity where the difficulty of not scoring a goal is far greater than the difficulty of scoring. Gao Lin blocked the ball into the goal with almost no effort, three to zero!
It is estimated that even Qatar itself did not expect that with Yang Yang, the overall strength of the Chinese team would improve so much.

When the winning ticket was in hand, Ali Han decisively replaced Yang Yang, and kept the [-]-[-] score until the end of the game.

In the end, with Yang Yang's brace and an assist, the Chinese team defeated Qatar [-]-[-] away.

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After the war in Qatar ended, it aroused huge repercussions in the country.

Fans all over the country are celebrating this hard-won victory, and everyone is clearly aware of the importance of Yang Yang to the current national team. Everyone believes that as long as Yang Yang is there, the Chinese team will definitely be able to enter the World Cup again.

Alihan also said in an interview with the Chinese media after the game that it is a very happy thing to have a player like Yang Yang. The head coach only needs to focus on defense, organize the team's offense and create opportunities, and he can turn them into goals.

"I have watched him grow from a rookie to the world's top superstar today. I think he will become the most dazzling star in Chinese football, and even the history of world football, and will also bring historic changes to Chinese football."

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Four days later, Tianjin, China.

In the fourth round of World Cup qualifiers, China played against Qatar at home.

In the first attack in the opening game, the Chinese team quickly played a threatening offensive. After consecutive backcourt kicks, a long pass was sent into Qatar's penalty area. Under Gao Lin's active fight, the Qatari defender made a hasty clearance, but the ball did not fly very far.

Yang Yang appeared on the outside of the penalty area like a ghost, faced the landing football, volleyed directly, broke through Qatar's goal again, and opened the scoring for the Chinese team.

Not long after that, the Chinese team planned an offensive from the right. Chen Tao cooperated with Zheng Zhi, who came in from behind, and made a pass from the right to the back point. Yang Yang rushed to the goal and easily scored.

Two to zero!
Although in the No.13 minute, Li Weifeng's foul gave the opponent a chance for a penalty kick, but in the end the game was still [-]-[-]. The Chinese team defeated Qatar at home and ushered in a two-game winning streak.

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They won both games. Under the leadership of Yang Yang, the Chinese team played an astonishing offensive power, and at the same time greatly shocked the other teams in the same group. All opponents knew that the Chinese team with Yang Yang was the real Chinese team.

A week later, I was still in Tianjin.

The Chinese team ushered in Iraq.

The two sides had fought in the final of the Asian Cup before. Iraq was very aware of the strength of the Chinese team, so this game adopted a defensive counterattack tactic. In the first 10 minutes, it was almost impenetrable and did not give the Chinese team the slightest chance.

Iraq even arranged for two players to follow Yang Yang like a shadow.

But even so, Yang Yang still got a chance at No. 30 two minutes.

It was an indirect free kick from the Chinese team.

In other words, it must be the second touch of the ball to form a shot.

Zheng Zhi cooperated with Yang Yang. The former made a light sideways move, and Yang Yang volleyed vigorously with his left foot. He hit a curve ball, crossed the wall, and got into the goal. One to zero!

But before the end of the first half, Iraq successfully equalized the score. Sun Jihai's defensive error on the right gave the opponent a chance, and the two sides finally ended the first half [-]-[-].

After changing sides and fighting again in the second half, Iraq still performed extremely tenaciously. While restricting Yang Yang, it used strict defense to freeze the Chinese team's attack, and at the same time waited for an opportunity to fight back.

This set of tactics worked again in No.605 minutes.

Iraq took advantage of a quick counterattack to break through the goal of the Chinese team again.

Subsequently, Iraq even had a chance to use a corner kick and almost scored.

But after 10 and 2 minutes, the Chinese team was first ferryed by Gao Lin with a header. Yang Yang made a pass to the back point. Chen Tao made a calm push and hit the score to tie the score. After [-] minutes, after Gao Lin responded from the left, Yang Yang got the ball and crossed the penalty area.

Facing the tenacious Iraq, the Chinese team won a narrow victory.

And this game also aroused the internal reflection of the coaching staff and players of the national team, that is, when the opponent is strictly defending against Yang Yang, how the team should create opportunities for him, and at the same time, how the team's defense should be organized more tightly.

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A week after the narrow victory over Iraq, the Chinese team ushered in the last opponent in the group stage, Australia.

The game is held in Sydney.

The team was lucky in the first half. The Chinese team took the lead. Sun Xiang shot through the Australian goal with a long shot from the outside of the penalty area.

In the second half, after changing sides and fighting again, Chen Tao went forward from the right, made a pass from the bottom line to the back point, and Yang Yang pushed in front of the goal and scored.

Then Yang Yang and Sun Xiang got chances on the left. Gao Lin created a penalty kick in the penalty area, and Zheng Zhi calmly took the penalty to expand the score to [-]-[-].

This score was finally maintained until the end of the game.

The number one star in the Australian team is Kewell. He is a former Liverpool player, but he was forced to leave the team because he never got a chance in Liverpool. Before the game, Kewell also repeatedly advised the national team to be careful of Yang Yang, but he still lost.

Australia swallowed three goals and handed over the title of the first group.

Although the Chinese team had two consecutive draws in the first two rounds, after Yang Yang returned, they quickly ushered in a four-game winning streak, and finally qualified as the top of the group and successfully advanced to the top ten.

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When the news spread back to the country, it once again sparked joy throughout the country.

During the previous two consecutive draws, everyone was very worried about the future of the national football team, but now, they can rest assured.

After Yang Yang returned, he scored six goals in four rounds and provided three assists. His performance was quite eye-catching. He was the key figure in the four-game winning streak of the national football team and became a hero in the eyes of the people of the country. His status in the country was once again raised to a new height.

Whether he won the World Footballer or the European Ballon d'Or, or Yang Yang scored 52 goals in a single season in the Premier League, how well he performed, and how foreign media praised him, but for Chinese fans, it is far less than the response he caused by wearing this national team jersey and playing these four games.

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After finishing the World Cup qualifiers, the time has come to late June.

There have been some new changes in the European football transfer market.

After Yang Yang returned to Beijing from Sydney, he received a call from Europe.

(End of this chapter)