Golden Greenery

The ten rounds of the Asian World Cup qualifiers have been ‘expanded’ and have become the top 12. The ten rounds of the competition will be stretched for a whole year, from September this year to September next year.

After being lucky enough to qualify from the forty round, the Chinese team encountered South Korea, Iran, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Syria in Group A. There were no accidents and no fuel-efficient lights.

This is also the first match of the national team after Zhuo Yang's comeback, but whether he can play is still a big unknown.

The jerky feeling of the ball can only dig holes for teammates on the court is one aspect, unreasonable and inadequate technical moves can easily cause injuries in confrontation is the most fundamental reason for caution.

After a fantasy comeback, the 31-year-old Zhuo Yang made the Chinese team no longer able to afford to lose him. There will always be competitions, but Zhuo Yang has only one.

However, after returning to the national team again after two years, the Chinese team was finally able to fill up with 23 people. Last summer, without seeing Zhuo Yang regaining any hope, the national team resolutely announced that no matter what games in the future, only Zhuo Yang + 22 players will be registered until the day Zhuo Yang officially quit.

So Zhuo Yang has not left the national team in the past two years. He has always been on the list of injuries registered for the Chinese national team.

Today, the captain returns.

The first away game of the top 12 matches South Korea. After flying directly to Seoul from Europe, Zhuo Yang and head coach Siriaco Sforza had a detailed discussion, and finally made the decision to stand by on the bench.

If you can't, don't make it first, don't cheat your teammates. The Manchester City Derby had good luck in five minutes, but luck cannot always be counted on to solve the problem.

For example, Zheng Zhi, his luck is very bad.

The 36-year-old Zheng Zhi also returned to the national team. He had been away for half a year due to injury and missed the key battles of the last two rounds of the top 40.

31-year-old Zhuo Yang and 36-year-old Zheng Zhi are the only two 30+ players in the national team today, and the rest are under 30. This phenomenon is not because young players develop gratifyingly and quickly, but the speed at which veterans are declining.

Whether it is because of the physique of the yellow race, or other reasons for confusion, Chinese players are over 30 years old, and they are rare in the limelight. Therefore, Zhuo Yang's comeback has always been considered to be mainly due to commercial factors, and Manchester City was also an abacus at the beginning.

Zheng Zhi is a strange thing among Chinese players, and also reflects too many helpless phenomena.

In the Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul, it was also Zheng Zhi's first match of this year's national team. A match and two captains, Zhuo Yang nestled on the bench, Zheng Zhi wore an armband to pick up the burden.

But his luck is really bad.

Because of Zhang Chendong’s ankle injury in La Liga, the Chinese team only had 3 overseas players starting today, while South Korea removed the Chinese Super League and the J-League, and there were as many as seven players in Europe in the starting line.

The most famous and the most popular right now is obviously the winger Sun Xingmin who played for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League. Compared with him, the center of the Bundesliga Augsburg, Chi Dongyuan, has a much lower body.

The 25-year-old Chi Dongyuan landed in the Premier League Sunderland when he was 19 years old, but he didn't mix well afterwards, and he never played a major role anywhere. In the 2014-14 season, he even went to Dortmund to be trained by Uncle Zack for a year.

Now in Augsburg, Chi Dongyuan is also inferior to the national team teammate Koo Zizhe and Japanese Uzami Takashi. They are the main players and the rotation, and he is still a dead substitute.

Everyone's eyes are on Zhuo Yang on the bench and Sun Xingmin on the court, but in the Seoul World Cup stadium, Ji Dongyuan became the most popular person.

Zhang Linpeng was the first to deflate. After the 2014 World Cup, Zhang Tiedan moved to Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga. The two years have basically been the main rotation state.

In the 17th minute of the game, South Korean midfielder Goo Zi-chul passed straight through the ribs, and full-back Oh Jae-suk overtook Jang Tiedan on the outside road, his position and footwork suppressed him.

In desperation, Tie Dan had to knock down Wu Jae Suk outside the corner of the big penalty area. To be wiped in by him is to force Zheng Zhi, who kicked the central defender today, to the sword mountain.

But it was Tiedan who got the yellow card, and Zheng Zhi could not escape the bad luck.

Sun Xingmin swung the free kick to the front of the goal, Chi Dongyuan stood out among the crowd, threw his head violently, and directly pushed the football toward the goal post without hesitation.

Relief? Undercover?

The football hit the head of Zheng Zhi, who was caught off guard, and then got into the far corner. Yan Junlin looked at Lao Zheng pitifully.

The Chinese team scored an own goal and the South Korean led 1-0 at home.

In fact, Sforza's tactical arrangement is better than South Korean coach Uli Stillik.

Former German international Stillik and Rummenigge are contemporaries. The most glorious experience of the player era was playing for Real Madrid for 8 seasons. However, Stillik, who served as a coach after retiring, is far less beautiful than his career as a player, and there is nothing to mention about the spirit of traveling around the world.

After the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Stillik replaced Hong Mingfu as the new coach of South Korea.

Sforza is very aware that the national team lacking Zhuo Yang is not as skilled as others, and today arranged the tactics of compressing the midfield and tightening the wings. This is the most preferred on paper, but the flaws are still in the ribs, and it is the best Zhang Tiedan on the back line.

All tactics are executed by the players, and the coach is not as good as it is to break the sun.

Sforza asked Zhang Tiedan to play the right back today in order to contain Sun Xingmin on the left of the South Korean team, but Tiedan is obviously very difficult. However, in the subsequent games, he blocked Gu Zizhe's breakthrough shot twice, which was considered to have saved a lot of face.

The only commendable place for the Chinese team is tenacity.

In the 28th minute, Zheng Zhi intercepted the ball in the backcourt, and Zhang Xizhe directly launched a long pass from the sideline to counterattack. Wu Lei formed a single shot after receiving the ball in the frontcourt.

The moment he broke into the penalty area and shot, the football was shoveled out of the baseline by Hong Zheng.

Wu Lei: "..." He smiled awkwardly.

Two years later, Leizi's shooting ability does not seem to improve, and he is still suppressed by foreign players in the Super League's scorer list.

In the 40th minute of the first half, the Korean gave a big gift. After right back Zhang Xiuxian molested Yu Hai in the backcourt, UU reading www. uukanshu.com kicked the ball back to the center, but gave it to Huang Bowen.

Xiao Huang unceremoniously pushed to the alert Wu Lei, facing South Korean goalkeeper Zheng Chenglong in an empty penalty area.

Resolutely can't be called "Zhuzhu"! Because Wu Lei's shot is at least 5 meters away from the goal post, it is essentially a relief.

Zhuo Yang: "..."

Wu Lei smiled shyly.

As for the opening of the second half, the Chinese team used the opportunity of the frontcourt sideline. Wu Lei shot himself in the penalty area, and finally flew into the air to hit the goal. It was indeed a real win. Zhuo Yang applauded him.

However, even if you grabbed this opportunity, but you just flew in the small penalty area, is it still a bit unreasonable?

In an unusually passive situation, all the only three opportunities were wasted by Wu Lei. Are you injurious?

Wu Lei was left with a wry smile.

Next, the Koreans took only three minutes to beat Zhuo Yang to his feet.