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Volume 4 1997 Volume 4 Chapter 202 Seizing the Throat of Fate

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    With a strong momentum, they beat Qatar 3-0 at home and ranked first with eight points from four games, two wins, two draws. The following teams, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and China, all had three games with one win, one draw and one loss and tied for second place with four points.  Qatar is at the bottom with only one point, and this point was obtained by the Chinese team.

    In the fourth round, the Iranian team has a bye, the Chinese team will go to Kuwait City to challenge the Kuwait team, and Saudi Arabia will face Qatar at home. For these four teams, winning this game is inevitable.

    The Chinese team, which won its first victory, had no time to celebrate. It immediately chartered a flight to Kuwait City on the second day after the game. It is said that the Football Association has made a big move in this World Cup. The round-robin schedule of one home and one away made the Chinese team  Having to travel back and forth, from this point of view, it is really not a wise move to set the Chinese team's home court in Dalian in the north. If the home court is placed in the Chengdu Stadium in the southwest, the Chinese team's journey will be much shorter.

    After three rounds of games, the strength of each team has basically been reflected. Although the Iranian team is coming fiercely, it may not be outstanding in strength. Consecutive draws with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait show that this popular team is not impeccable, and Kuwait blocks it.  Iran's actions also illustrate that the four brothers in West Asia are not necessarily monolithic.

    After the Chinese team set off to Kuwait, the Chinese media became lively again. They began to continuously calculate the scores and began to discuss how many points they need to get to qualify as the first in the group - although in Pei Wei's view, this is really not possible.  Meaning, but discussing these is much better than discussing the national team's tactics.

    For a game like the top ten games, calculating points is meaningless. You will never know what opportunity you missed until the end is fatal. With the five teams having limited strength differences, there have been quite a few  In the case of a draw, sometimes one point can determine the final result.

    The away game against Kuwait is the last game of the first cycle. If it can win this game, the Chinese team will occupy the second position in the standings anyway - even if the Saudi team wins the game, according to the mutual differences  Regardless of victory or defeat, the Chinese team can also overwhelm its opponents.

    After arriving in Kuwait City, Benitez and Pei Wei received good news. Hao Dong, who had been plagued by fever since the beginning of the Top Ten Tournament, finally got rid of the illness and began to appear on the training ground with a relaxed look.

    This news is indeed good news. Benitez and Pei Wei both know very well what a healthy Hao Dong means to the national team. It is not unreasonable for the former Marshal Qi to change the formation to 4-5-1. With Hao Dong¡¯s performance  The technical characteristics, explosive power and scoring ability are very suitable to serve as the "one" of the single arrow. It can be said that there is no forward in China who can surpass Dong in terms of comprehensive ability.

    Li Bing is too thick, Yao Xia is not strong in scoring ability, Yu Genwei is full of energy, but a little immature. Gao Feng is probably the only domestic forward who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Hao Dong, but his scoring ability and direct threat to the goal  Obviously not as prominent as Hao Dong.

    After the first victory, the national football team began to gradually accept Benitez as a coach. After all, he led the team to a victory as soon as he came. There is only one criterion for evaluating the quality of a football coach - winning is hard work.  reason.

    "When we play against Kuwait, they will definitely take the initiative to attack." Before the game, Benitez said to the players: "First, they are at home, second, they need points, and third, they will have two consecutive games.  After a home game and two consecutive away games, they definitely don¡¯t want to be faced with a situation where they have to win at the last minute, so they have to keep scoring points at home, so they will definitely press forward in this game.¡±

    While Pei Wei was translating for him, he thought to himself: "Is it necessary to play defensive counterattack?"

    Not only him, but almost all the players were thinking this way, but then Benitez immediately changed the subject: "So, at the beginning, we have to take the initiative to attack! Attack from the beginning and catch them off guard! Then again  Retract to defend and save energy, and we will give them a fatal blow after their physical strength is reduced! Among the five teams in our group, their physical strength is the worst, and we have an advantage in this regard!"

    "After seeing the last game, they will definitely be wary of our offense from the wing. After all, most of our offense in the last game was initiated from the wing. We can attack at the beginning  Playing on the wing, when they shift their focus of defense to the wing, we focus on putting the ball at the feet of Hao Dong and Gao Feng, and let them complete the final blow. Remember, in the game, we must put the ball in the hands of Hao Dong and Gao Feng.  The rhythm is in your own hands!¡±

    In the game against Kuwait, the lineup did not change at all compared to the previous game, which made the international players a little strange. You must know that although among the players, there are Hao Dong and Sun Cheng.?The two are Benitez¡¯s standard ¡°direct descendants¡±, but these two became very different when they were under Marshal Qi.

    After Benitez took office, the other two players from Yunjia Tianyu and Yang Tian were still firmly placed on the bench. Those who were promoted by him to play the main force were players from other clubs, such as Xie Feng, such as  Wu Jiying, another example is Gao Feng.

    In fact, it's not that Benitez doesn't want to use Nie Fei. In fact, he thinks that Nie Fei is the best candidate to make up for the lack of speed and creativity in the Chinese team's midfield. However, he has to consider one fact - he is different from other international players.  This is the first time Nie Fei has been selected for the national team. Except for a few teammates who are also from Yunjia Tianyu, the other players are not familiar with him at all, and Nie Fei's playing style is relatively casual and full of aura.  Except for the players with whom he has already established a tacit understanding of passing the ball, it is difficult for anyone to realize that it took Hao Dong several months to establish a tacit cooperation with Fei after he transferred.  It is definitely unrealistic to be able to integrate into the team.

    Another problem is that Fei's defensive ability is almost zero. The reason why Fei played so well in Yunjia Tianyu is inseparable from the strong backing of Dunga and Ballack behind him. However, in the national team, there is no such thing.  player of.

    Benitez believes that the current Chinese team has a big problem. They do not lack good defenders, good forwards, and even midfielders with an overall view. However, they lack one who can run, jump, defend well, and can stabilize the situation.  He can play as a midfielder, otherwise he would not be wronged by Sun Chenghai giving up his best right back position and playing as a defensive midfielder. Although Sun Chenghai is good at defending as a defensive midfielder, his body is relatively thin and cannot be regarded as a midfielder.  A qualified midfielder.

    This is also the reason why Benitez is most dissatisfied with the current Chinese team. As long as there is an excellent midfielder, even a pure engineering midfielder, he dares to use Nie Fei with confidence and boldness.  The waist is not a problem at all.

    But now, he can only form such a formation.

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    Benitez's tactics were very successful, and the defensive counterattack tactics drills he arranged in the public training before the game also confused the Kuwaiti people so well that when the Chinese team launched a fierce attack in the beginning, the Kuwaiti players seemed to be a little bit confused.  Come to your senses.

    This moment of confusion was fatal. The Chinese team quickly pushed the ball into the frontcourt. Wu Jiying pretended to break through to the side, and then passed the ball to General Fan in the middle. General Fan sent the ball to the feet of Hao Dong in front. Hao Dong  Dong picked up the ball at the top of the penalty area with his back to the penalty area. He suddenly turned around and used the power of his turn to hit the ball hard with his right foot before the opponent's defender could come forward!

    The ball flew straight to the lower left corner of the goal, and then had a bounce as it flew into the small penalty area. It bounced from the hands of the Kuwaiti goalkeeper into the net!

    At this time, only two minutes of the first half have passed.

    No one expected that the Chinese team could take the lead so quickly. Even Benitez, who arranged this tactic, did not expect that his original intention was just to use the opening attack to disrupt the opponent's arrangement and gain victory for the subsequent defense.  Time, after the opponent has exhausted his energy due to being unable to attack for a long time, he then uses offense to kill the opponent - but he just scores a goal!

    The next game was much easier to play. After tenaciously holding on for the rest of the first half, Benitez replaced the Limin midfielder with Peng Weiguo. His ball control ability is second to none in the national team. As long as  If you can hold the ball in the midfield, the opponent will have to expend more energy to press.

    In the 67th minute of the game, Peng Weiguo's seemingly careless through ball in the middle created an opportunity for Hao Dong, who had been hanging around behind the opponent's defense. His advantage in explosive power was fully demonstrated, and he rushed in at high speed to catch up.  The ball formed a single goal, and the next thing was simple. Facing the attacking goalkeeper, Hao Dong easily hit the corner and scored twice.

    Although the Kuwait team's top forward Houwadi recovered a goal ten minutes later, Sun Chenghai, who stepped in at the end, passed the ball directly to Gao Feng in front, and then continued to move forward. His running attracted the opponent's defender  Gao Feng's attention also helped Gao Feng create opportunities. After dribbling the ball horizontally, Gao Feng suddenly took a long shot, and the ball hit the dead center and hit the net!

    Three to one!  The Chinese team won this game. After the first cycle, they accumulated seven points and successfully suppressed the Saudi team, which also won. They occupied a relatively favorable position before the start of the second cycle.

    At the press conference after the game, Pei Wei quoted a famous saying that resonated with the Chinese reporters present: "We have grasped the throat of fate, and it will never let us surrender!"
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