football fight

Chapter 175 Gathering and Warming Up
"Maybe in the eyes of many people today's draw is a good result we can get," Chen Shixiong said after the game, "but I have to say something for my players, they are all very good players, they could have won Victory, but my changes affected the team and I am responsible for that."

"Xicheng Cavalry is a traditional strong team in the Super League. They really caused us a lot of trouble," he went on to say, "Kong Pengyu's goal gave us an opportunity. I chose to let the team strengthen their defense, but Unfortunately, we didn't get the result we wanted, maybe I should change the attack."

On the other side, the coach of Xicheng Iron Cavalry is also being interviewed.

"Our luck was not very good and we missed several good opportunities." He shrugged, "They have a player with a good breakthrough. I have to say that he performed very well today."

"I even want the team to buy him." It seems that he has a good impression of Kong Pengyu, and there are many compliments in his mouth.

"What do you think of the Chinese team?" A reporter's question didn't seem to be very relevant to today's game.

"Excuse me, what did you say?" He thought for a while, and then said, "Oh, do you want to talk about the situation on the next national team match day?"

"The lads of the national team have done a good job and worked hard." He said, "There will also be players in our team who will participate in the next games. I hope they can achieve good results..."

The reason why the time interval between the two rounds of the league is so short is entirely because of the upcoming international match day.

On this international match day, the Chinese team will have a warm-up match and a very serious World Cup qualifier.

In this round of World Cup qualifiers, the top two Japanese teams and the Iranian team will stage a strong dialogue, and the two tigers will have one injury when they compete, so this is a good opportunity for the Chinese team to chase points.

Even if the result of the two teams' fight is not life and death, even if it is a draw, it will be of great help to the Chinese team.

However, the opponent the Chinese team has to face is not simple. Their opponent in this round is the Saudi team, which is a traditional strong team in West Asia.

Although it is a home game, the Chinese team cannot take it lightly.

First of all, the Saudi team is ranked fourth in Group A, next to the third Chinese team. This game is equally important to them.

Secondly, the Saudi team's tactical play is also notoriously difficult, and the Chinese team must be fully prepared.

Before the game against the Saudi team, the Football Association arranged a warm-up match for the national football team, and the opponent was also the Bahrain team from West Asia.

After the end of the 25th round of the league, all the Super League players recruited by the national team rushed to Xi'an to assemble, and the players in foreign leagues also came at the same time, but their arrival time will be later.

Kong Pengyu and Xu Wenli have been continuously called up by the national team. They are now the two core members of the club, and they were also successfully selected this time.

At the same time, apart from the injured Bao Zihao of the Shanghai Red Owl team, the head coach of the national team, Cheng Youcheng, did not recruit Liu Yunsheng of Tianhe Sports.

Liu Yunsheng has always been one of the main players of the national team, but his loss this time did not surprise the fans, because his recent performance has suffered a serious decline.

It is normal for a player to be dropped from the national team squad due to poor form, but the media will always write something different.

In the media reports, some people said that in the previous national team game, Liu Yunsheng and Cheng Youcheng had conflicts in the locker room, and they were dissatisfied with Cheng Youcheng replacing him; Contradictions led to disharmony in the locker room.

Of course, the reporters who worked hard were those reporters who went deep into the past. Immediately after the list was announced, they integrated the situation of Liu Yunsheng they collected before and some anecdotes they learned recently, and came to the conclusion that Liu Yunsheng and Xu Wenli's "discord" statement.

"Please check to see if anyone in my ancestors has played as a striker." For this reason, Cheng Youcheng said this to reporters before the warm-up match against Bahrain.

Regarding the ability of the reporters to fabricate facts, he could not find any words to describe it, and it would be powerless to ignore it. It would be better to satirize those philistines.

A few days later, in the warm-up match against Bahrain, Cheng Youcheng tried a different starting lineup. He used most of the substitute players to start, including Xu Wenli and Kong Pengyu.

Different from the general warm-up match, the purpose of Cheng Youcheng's warm-up match is to test the ability of the players. He needs to know the strength of the group he has selected.

He has watched a lot of games, game materials, game videos, etc., which is the basis for his decision to select players every time, but the actual game can better reflect the actual ability of the players.

Even if it is an opponent that has been studied before the game, that does not mean that the opponent will play that way in the game; even if you have watched hundreds of games of a player, that player will change in the next game.

In the first half of the warm-up match, this substitute lineup looked very excited facing the main team of Bahrain. They understood the purpose of Cheng Cheng, so they worked hard to show themselves.

They pressed aggressively, defended aggressively, attacked aggressively, everything positive, but it didn't bring them positive results.

The pressing and defense are still in place, but this is only because of the weak strength of the Bahrain team; the offense seems to be disorderly, relying more on personal ability, and it is difficult to play decent cooperation in the frontcourt.

The player's outstanding personal ability created many good opportunities, but none of these good opportunities were converted into goals in the end.

The most threatening opportunity in the first half came from Kong Pengyu. After he received a pass from his club teammate Xu Wenli, he played a good show with three players in a row.

Xu Wenli took the ball in the middle circle, and the ball passed the Bahrain player who was rushing up, and passed the ball to the right rib area, allowing Kong Pengyu to catch it.

Kong Pengyu leaned on the full-back to catch the ball, with his back to the goal, and at the same time there was a central defender on the right side to help defend.

He broke away from the full-back and advanced on the penalty area line. Before running a few steps, he dunked the ball with his left foot and entered the penalty area between the two defenders.

Kong Pengyu put on a shooting posture, and the last central defender to meet him stretched his legs to block, but Kong Pengyu's shot was just a false shot. The shot's right foot pulled the ball and switched to his left foot to shoot.

The central defender who made a blocking action interfered with him, and Kong Pengyu pushed the far corner based on his intuition.

However, the ball finally slid out of the baseline against the goal post, causing the fans on the scene to sigh and marvel.

At the beginning of the second half, Cheng Youcheng made substitution adjustments. Except for Kong Pengyu and Xu Wenli, everyone was replaced, even the goalkeeper.

After the substitution, the offensive effect changed significantly.

With the strong support of his midfield teammates, Xu Wenli can easily organize the team's offense; on the offensive side, when one person breaks through, others will attract the attention of the defense. Passed to the feet of other teammates.

The backcourt defense is also tougher. After a successful interception, the ball can be quickly delivered to the frontcourt, allowing teammates to organize offenses or help launch counterattacks.

They played the tactics that Cheng Youcheng always wanted to play, and even became a little fresh because of the existence of two unconventional players.

Kong Pengyu and Xu Wenli have the conditions to start.Cheng Youcheng thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)