After scoring a goal to boost their morale, the Dragon Country team continued to launch a fierce attack on Qatar's position.
Qatar was obviously a little stunned.
In their plan, the goal of this game is to stabilize at the beginning and then counterattack from the Dragon Country team.
But now that a goal has been scored so quickly, how can we execute such a strategy and tactics?
Before they could fully react, the Long Guo team seized another opportunity, and Zhang Linpeng quickly launched an attack along the right.
This time Qatar finally understood that the main direction of the Dragon Kingdom's attack was this side, and quickly mobilized more troops to defend.
But Zhang Linpeng made a large-scale transfer and gave the ball to the left.
This is also a trick often used in one-side overload tactics, which is to attract opponents to your strong side, and then develop the ball to the weak side, which in turn creates a lot of openings for your side.
At this time, left back Jiang Zhipeng got the ball, took two steps and passed from the left.
This choice is not very good, because at this time Zhang Yuning is already surrounded by two Qatari central defenders defending closely.
Sure enough, the ball was pushed out.
Wu Xi, who came in from the back row, grabbed the first spot and followed up with a direct shot. However, the ball was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper as if with divine help.
Lin Liangming on the right quickly followed up, stopped when the ball was coming, and immediately stepped out to hit again!
This was a fast and urgent shot. Although the Qatar goalkeeper had already stood up, his sight was blocked by his defender. He only heard a muffled sound through the air. By the time he reacted, the ball had already hit the ball. hit the goal next to him.
Two to zero!
The scene once again burst into overwhelming cheers.
Tens of thousands of Dragon Country fans shouted wildly.
In just five minutes, the Dragon Country team created several shooting opportunities in a row, beat Qatar hard, and scored another goal!
Two to zero, although this score is still not safe enough, it already means that the Dragon Country team has a very high possibility of winning the game.
More importantly, the momentum displayed by the Dragon Kingdom team from the start of the game was something I had never seen before!
It definitely feels like a rebirth!
The 4-3-3 formation arranged by Lippi's coaching team has fully demonstrated its power at least on the offensive line.
The fulcrum role of Zhang Yuning in the middle, the firepower of Wu Lei and Lin Liangming on both sides, including the assists from the two fullbacks, were all displayed incisively and vividly in these 15 minutes.
"This is simply unbelievable. Is this still the Dragon Country team we are familiar with?"
"Lin Liangming is only 19 years old this year. This is his first game on behalf of the Dragon Kingdom national team, and he was very active after being switched to the right. Now, he has also scored his first goal on behalf of the national football team. A goal, let's congratulate him!"
"Lin Liangming played for Real Madrid's Castilla team before this year and was preparing to participate in the Spanish League C. Pan Yi brought him to York City and made him the absolute main force of this new English League One team."
"The training in League One has greatly improved this youngster's self-confidence. I saw that he was not afraid at all when facing Qatar's defense today. He dared to make moves and shoot."
"It can be said that after Wu Lei, Pan Yi has brought another star of hope to our Longguo football... No, he has brought another explosive point on the front line!"
"Although Zhang Yuning has never worked under Pan Yi, he was also inspired by Wu Lei, so he embarked on the road of studying abroad and established a firm foothold in the Eredivisie."
"Today's set of overseas tridents really showed their ability to be better than their teammates! This also tells us how important it is to go abroad to play football to improve the level of the national football team!"
"Of course, Lippi's trust in Pan Yi and these players is also very important, and he also showed his belief in winning."
"When we were leading by one goal, we were all still thinking about whether we should stabilize the lead first, but in the end, he boldly asked the team to take the initiative, and as expected, he won another victory! Now, we are in sight of victory. Now! We won’t be eliminated early!”
"Thank you Lippi! Thank you Pan Yi! Thank you to these national football players who are fighting hard on the field!"
The commentators were excited, and the fans were even more excited.
It can be said that as Lin Liangming expanded the score, the entire Tuodong Stadium went completely crazy.
Tens of thousands of fans stood up from their seats and sang the war song extremely loudly and loudly. Such a large-scale chorus demonstrated the majestic momentum and deeply affected everyone in the stadium.
Either explode under pressure or die under pressure!
And the national football team chose to explode!
Lippi was also very excited on the sidelines, shaking hands with the assistants on the sidelines to celebrate. When he held Pan Yi, he pulled him over and the two hugged tightly.
Today's tactics were proposed by Pan Yi and were carefully discussed and refined with Lippi.
Even for these two goals, the style of play was designed to target Qatar's defensive loopholes, and the offensive routines were all practiced before the game.
Obviously, under such a tactical system, the national football team's offense is smoother, and the characteristics of the players are also brought out.
In particular, let Wu Lei play as the left inside forward and Lin Liangming as the right inside forward.
Because both of these players need teammates in the center position to defend him, and they also need players on both sides or in the midfield to create opportunities for him and pass threatening balls.
Only by giving the task of "carrying monsters" to the tall and powerful Zhang Yuning, while Wu Lei and Lin Liangming hide behind or on both sides of him, and then wait for opportunities to move and shoot, can the team's firepower be maximized.
It can be said that the most important thing about the current two-goal lead lies in the reform of tactics.
In terms of the design of this tactic, it is obvious that Pan Yi made the first contribution!
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After taking a two-goal lead, the Long Guo team began to use a more balanced playing style, no longer pressing and pressing from a high position, and investing relatively less in the offensive end.
This is not to say that Lippi will give up if he wants to see good things. This is actually limited by the abilities of national football players.
After all, the high-intensity full-court press used to start the game is a great test for the players' tactical execution, cooperation, and physical fitness.
Even the world's top teams cannot maintain pressure for a long time, let alone the national football players who have just been exposed to such advanced tactics.
That is to say, the current frontcourt trident of the national football team has been influenced by excellent foreign tactics. Otherwise, just these ten or twenty minutes of pressing, I don’t know if someone else can execute it well.
As soon as the national football team was recovered, Qatar got a chance to breathe, and its performance on the field began to improve.
Although they were already two goals behind, which was a huge blow to Qatar's morale, they also understood how much this game would affect their qualifying situation, so they still regained their spirits and started to counterattack.
Throughout the second half of the first half, Qatar began to frequently put pressure on Dragon Kingdom's goal, while the national football players temporarily focused on defense.
At this time, the team's understanding of Pan Yi's tactical intentions was fully tested. Although it is not yet proficient, it is at least somewhat capable. This also makes it difficult for Qatar to create opportunities and can only use long shots to do so. Threaten the goal.
The Dragon Kingdom team used the speed on the front line to create counterattack opportunities.
Before the end of the first half, Qatar made an attack. They quickly advanced along the wing, and Lin Liangming chased back from the front court to the middle line. Together with his teammate Huang Bowen, they simultaneously attacked Qatar's left player.
After intercepting the ball, Lin Liangming launched a counterattack with the ball and passed the ball overhead, sending the ball into the penalty area, where it landed just behind the Qatar defense.
Zhang Yuning understood the situation and entered the penalty area against offside. On one side, he blocked the defender with his body, and on the other side, he used his body to stop the ball. He turned around and took a shot. Unfortunately, the shot failed to hit the target and was confiscated by the opponent's goalkeeper.
However, Lippi and Pan Yi on the sidelines applauded this attack.
That's the effect they want.
This kind of defensive counterattack can not only preserve the victory, but also keep the pressure on Qatar, and it will not consume a lot of physical energy of the players. It can be said to be a very economical way of playing.
If Zhang Yuning had seized the opportunity just now, this goal would have been scored again.
Of course, they will not be too demanding on the national football team. After all, the national football team's personal abilities are there.
If he could score every shot, wouldn't he become Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi?
Well, even Melo cannot give such a guarantee.
Therefore, in the locker room at halftime, Lippi focused on this counterattack and praised three players, Lin Liangming, Huang Bowen and Zhang Yuning, believing that they achieved what he wanted in this tactical cooperation. .
As for Wu Lei, who opened the scoring in the first half, Lippi was also generous in his praise.
Returning to the locker room with a 2:0 lead, everyone on the team was full of confidence in victory, and their mentality improved a lot.
In his motivational session, Pan Yi on the one hand praised the tenacious fighting spirit and devotion to the game shown by the national players in the first half, but at the same time reminded everyone that a two-goal lead does not mean the final victory.
“A Chinese sage named Lu once said that you must dare to face things squarely, only then can you dare to think, speak, do and act.”
"We did play well in the first half, but we must also see that Qatar did not admit defeat and they fought back hard."
"So in the second half, we need to continue our performance in the first half, suppress their counterattack, score more goals, and then kill the game with all our strength. I believe you will not let me down!"
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After changing sides in the second half, Qatar launched a counterattack as Pan Yi expected.
However, the Dragon Country team was well prepared and still responded with a steady counterattack. This made Qatar's counterattack at the beginning of the second half ineffective.
On the contrary, after playing for more than ten minutes, Qatar's offensive "strengthened, then weakened, and finally exhausted."
When they were unable to score quickly and their morale gradually declined, the Dragon Country team took advantage of the situation and pressed forward again.
At this time, the physical fitness of the Dragon Kingdom team also began to gain the upper hand!
As the saying goes, "this goes down, the other goes up." This is the truth.
The Long Guo team once again invested a lot of troops. Both full-backs often pressed past the center line, especially in the midfield and frontcourt. They were obviously more confident and dared to take the ball and control the ball, which helped the national football team once again form a suppression on the scene.
And Qatar once again fell into passivity.
In the 70th minute, Zhang Linpeng once again stepped in to receive the ball and participate in the attack on the right. He was followed by a Qatar defender on the right and immediately passed the ball to Lin Liangming, who was retreating to support. The latter did not stop the ball and directly kicked back. .
Huang Bowen took the ball head-on and passed it crosswise to Zheng Zhi in the middle.
Facing the defensive player, Zheng Zhi passed the ball low and straight to the feet of center Zhang Yuning in the frontcourt.
Zhang Yuning leaned against the defensive player, passed Zheng Zhi's through ball to Wu Lei, who was running from the left, then turned around and rushed towards the penalty area.
Seeing an opportunity, Wu Lei took advantage of the situation and shot into the far corner with his right foot!
But Qatar's goalkeeper reacted very quickly, jumped in and blocked the ball.
However, Wu Lei's shot was sudden and fast. He failed to catch the ball. After blocking, the ball bounced back into the penalty area.
When Qatar's goalkeeper stood up to pounce again, he saw a red figure passing by.
When he looked again, he found that the ball was already rolling in the net behind him.
Then, the tall forward of the Dragon Kingdom with a slippery hairstyle rushed to the side of the court with open arms and started celebrating.
And the fans in the stadium cheered again.
"The ball goes in again!!!!!!"
"In the 70th minute, Zhang Yuning made a missed shot in front of the goal!"
"This is the third goal of the Dragon Country team in this game, from center Zhang Yuning, No. 9! All three tridents have scored!"
"Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay of this goal. The Long Guo team's consecutive kicks are very pleasing to the eye. Such offensive coordination is extremely rare in previous national team games."
"Starting from Zhang Linpeng, the ball passed through the cooperation of Lin Liangming, Huang Bowen, Zheng Zhi, and Zhang Yuning, and then formed Wu Lei's shot..."
"The continuous cooperation of these offensive players in the national team's frontcourt directly tore apart Qatar's defense, and Wu Lei's shot caused the Qatar goalkeeper to let go. Zhang Yuning fired in front of the goal and penetrated Qatar's goal again. Three Better than zero!”
"Tonight, in this life-and-death battle, the national team played a wave of offensive, which is unbelievable! They withstood the pressure and played the best game in recent years!"
"And this last goal has a very strong flavor of Pan Yi's tactical style. We have to admit that Pan Yi has begun to leave his mark on this national team."
"We are really going to win today's game!"
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The referee finally blew the whistle to end the game.
The scoreboard of the stadium showed an exciting score: three to zero!
The Dragon Country team relied on the goals of the striker trident to defeat Qatar with three goals at home.
Although everyone knows that winning this game does not mean much. After all, it only accumulated four points, surpassing Qatar with three points, and rose to the bottom two position in the group;
However, after losing to Syria and Uzbekistan in a row, and just as we were about to prepare for the 2022 World Cup, we were able to defeat Qatar, which is not weak, with three goals. Why can't this make everyone who cares about the national football team excited?
When the game ended, tens of thousands of fans in the entire stadium stood up from their seats and sang "Ode to the Motherland" in unison.
The live broadcast camera scanned the fans in the stands, and many people couldn't help crying.
They have been waiting for such a hearty victory today for too long.
From the "glory despite defeat" in the first two games against South Korea and Iran, to the embarrassment of two consecutive losses, and then to the scenery of this game, the national football team is like a roller coaster, allowing national football fans to experience a heart-pounding feeling.
After only scoring one point in four rounds, most fans had completely lost confidence and hope in advancing. However, the coaching change at the critical moment and the addition of Pan Yi made everything turn around again.
There is really hope for them!
On the field, the international players also hugged each other and said words of congratulations and encouragement to each other.
I'm afraid even they themselves can't imagine that today they kicked Qatar so hard that they were completely unable to fight back!
This was really unthinkable before.
With the ability of national football players in Asia, even if they can win, they often rely on defense and then the forwards steal one.
But today, it can be said to be a "technical knockout" and a complete victory!
On the sidelines, the coaching staff of the Dragon National Team also shook hands with the coaching staff of Qatar, then walked into the stadium, hugged the international players one by one, and asked captain Zheng Zhi to lead the international players to the stands to thank the fans.
The game is over, but the fans in the stands are still singing loudly, and they will not stop or leave for a long time.
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“I’m very happy, it’s a great win today and all of us are very proud of tonight’s game.”
Captain Zheng Zhi spoke on behalf of the national team players when being interviewed by domestic media reporters in the interview area after the game.
He first expressed his gratitude to the fans who came to the scene to support the national football team. He also said that everyone in the national team is doing their best to play every game well.
"I think, at this moment, what we should be most grateful to is of course our coaching staff, especially Mr. Lippi. Although he has only been here for a short time, he has brought a strong ideological impact to each of us. "
"Of course I also want to thank Pan Yi for his guidance. He made all of us feel what the world's advanced football concepts are like, and we learned a lot from it."
"Including Lin Liangming, who he recommended to join the team, we have all seen how much energy this young guy has."
"I have also studied abroad, and to be honest, I feel the huge gap between us and the European football system. Fortunately, we now have players who studied abroad like Lin Liangming, Wu Lei, and Zhang Yuning in our team."
"Not only have their abilities been improved, but more importantly, their acceptance of advanced tactics is much better than our domestic players."
"So, what Pan Yi said before is correct. Our young players should not lie in their comfort zone, but should bravely step out. Only in this way can we truly improve the overall level of Longguo's football!"
"As for the next games... we still need to fight one game at a time. We are still behind by many points, but I believe that as long as we adhere to the tactical guidelines guided by Mr. Lippi and Pan Yi and put our own things into good use Kick it out, there is still hope for everything!"
At the post-match press conference, national football coach Lippi also expressed cautious optimism about the upcoming games.
He praised the players for their outstanding performance in today's game and believed that everyone deserves the greatest credit for the team's ability to win this crucial game, but he also warned everyone that the real test has just begun.
"There are strong teams like Iran and South Korea in this group. If you want to qualify, you have to pull one of the teams into the water. This is undoubtedly a very difficult thing."
"Yes, I know that the third place in the group can also qualify, but first we have to play the play-offs with the third place in Group B. At present, whether it is Japan, Saudi Arabia or Australia, they are not easy teams to deal with. "
"And even if we break through the Asian play-offs, we have to face a team from CONCACAF in the play-offs. At this time, we don't know whether it is the United States, Mexico or Costa Rica, and it is even more difficult."
"So, I hope I can still strive to get the top two in Group A... It is difficult, but not impossible - as long as we can perform as well as we did today in the subsequent games."
"Fortunately, after today's game, the next game against South Korea will be in March next year. This means that we will have enough time to further refine the lineup and improve the game. The technical and tactical level of the team.”
"During this period, my coaching staff, including my advisor Pan Yi, will help me improve the team's strength. And I sincerely hope that everyone can continue to support me like this game and create opportunities for us. A nicer, more relaxed environment.”
At the end of the press conference, Lippi said jokingly:
"During this process, Pan Yi was very important to me. I just hope that he won't forget us right away after returning to York City..." (End of Chapter)
