The strongest winger

Chapter 1130 Ronaldo's Good Mood
The Chinese team's victory over Mexico did not cause anyone a surprise. On the contrary, the Chinese team conceded goals in two consecutive warm-up matches, which became the topic of media hype for the World Cup.

Fans who pay attention to the preparations of the World Cup teams know that the current Chinese team is full of offensive capabilities. Ai Luo is the best scorer in Europe, forward Gao Lin is the top scorer in the Bundesliga, Hao Junmin is Schalke 04's No. [-] scorer and top assist leader, Zhang Xizhe is Paris Saint-Germain's assist leader, and also contributed [-] goals in various competitions.

The attack line composed of these four players is enough to cause any team to panic, especially the excellent state of the captain Ai Luo, which made the three teams in Group G feel tremendous pressure.

A total of 10 goals were scored in the three warm-up matches before the World Cup, with an average of more than four per game. It is a very terrifying offensive ability, but such a team with a terrifying offensive ability for [-] minutes frequently had problems in the last two warm-up matches.

Compared with their scoring ability per game, maybe one conceded goal per game is not worthy of attention.

But don’t forget, this is the gluttonous feast every four years—the World Cup, which is a huge motivation for every fan who participates in the World Cup. They even want to play 120% of their abilities in every game, and any loopholes will be infinitely magnified.

Of course, when Guardiola mentioned this point to the media after the game, he was naturally avoiding the important ones. He didn't want the media to magnify the problems in the Chinese team's defense infinitely.

Although Guardiola evaded the important answer, he did not succeed in attracting the attention of the media. In the end, the media focused on the problems of the Chinese team.

In this regard, Guardiola has nothing to do. Who will make the current Chinese team the most competitive team in the World Cup under his training?

As an absolutely competitive team, it is naturally the focus of the media's attention. Otherwise, how can their selling points be accepted by fans?

How to make a profit then?

The next day, the media concerned about the World Cup analyzed and dissected the goals conceded by the Chinese team against England and Mexico.

Now the Chinese team's double midfielder combination is Huang Bowen and Wu Xi. They are the kind of organizational midfielders that focus on offense, and they both have a strong ability to penetrate from the back.

In this regard, the analysis of the English media is quite in place, because a similar situation occurred during the 2006 World Cup in the England national team-the double virtue problem of Gerrard and Lampard.

In fact, Guardiola once had an ideological struggle here. According to the combination of the midfielder in modern football, it is basically a combination of an organizational midfielder and a professional defensive midfielder. One is dedicated to organizing offense and the other is dedicated to defense. The latter escorts the former.

According to this way of thinking, it is undoubtedly the most sensible choice for Wu Xi to partner with Zhao Xuri.

But the problem is that Zhao Xuri's offensive scheduling ability is very poor, which is somewhat contrary to the tiki-taka tactics played by the Chinese team. Therefore, in terms of choice, Guardiola is more inclined to Huang Bowen's partner Wu Xi.

It’s just that this kind of choice will lead to the situation of the Chinese team in the first two warm-up matches of the World Cup. During the transition from offense to defense, the defensive attention was not enough.

Originally, Guardiola had decided to use Wu Xi + Huang Bowen's midfielder combination in the World Cup, but he hesitated under the overwhelming rewards from the media.

In addition, when Zhao Xuri was interviewed by the media, he expressed in a subtle way that he was qualified for the main position, which put more pressure on Guardiola...

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At the same time, Paulo Bento, head coach of the Portuguese team, who is preparing for the World Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina, looked at the newspaper in his hand and his eyes lit up. He seemed to see a chance to beat the Chinese team in the first match of the World Cup.

Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, so Paul Bento immediately called his assistant Pontes to his office to study the feasibility of the latest tactics.

In this regard, Paul Bento has adjusted today's training tasks and changed to fitness coach Ai Jones to lead the team for recovery training.

After nearly four hours of intense research, Paulo Bento and assistant coach Pontes came to an agreement.

He decided to strengthen his ability to control the midfielder in the first match against the Chinese team in the World Cup, that is, to remove a defensive midfielder and add an organizational midfielder.

Of course, this choice has certain risks, because the Chinese team’s midfield control ability is too strong. If Portugal fails to maintain a consistent defensive rhythm, it is very likely that the Chinese team’s offense will break through in the middle. At that time, it is very likely that the team will be defeated...

Despite the risks associated with it, Paulo Bento decided to make a tactical change.

Because on the football field, with a certain amount of risk, there is an equal chance of reaping unexpected joy.

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The 2014 World Cup in Brazil was held at six o'clock in the evening on NO.12 local time in Brazil. The two sides of the game were the host team Brazil and Croatia.

However, before that, the team that arrived in Brazil the latest attracted public attention. Portugal, which is in the same group as the Chinese team, arrived at 11:[-] p.m. local time in Brazil on No.

However, Portugal arrived in Brazil at the latest and there was not much dissatisfaction from all parties. After all, their first match with the Chinese team was at 16 o'clock in the afternoon on NO.

It is worth mentioning that the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo's appearance when he arrived at Campinas Airport, as a rare handsome star in today's world football, naturally became the focus of major media attention.

Wearing a baseball cap on his back, he walked off the plane lightly. Judging from his expression, he didn’t see any pressure at all. You must know that he and Ai Luo’s matches in various competitions ended in losses, so the media speculated that Cristiano Ronaldo was worried...

But it turned out they guessed wrong, and it was clear that Cristiano Ronaldo was in a great mood!

From time to time, I greeted the fans who took the opportunity...

Of course, there are certain reasons why Cristiano Ronaldo is in such a good mood.

And for this reason, we have to mention the tactical changes of Portuguese coach Paul Bento...

(End of this chapter)