football fight

Chapter 150 Another Key Battle

Chapter 150 Another Key Battle

The opponent of the Chinese team in this game is the Iraqi team, which was once their sufferer in the Asian arena.

This time they gathered again at the Ludao team training center in Xiamen. After three days of training here, they will fly away.

Some players came here to join the team as early as the end of the last round of the league, and the four teams with the task of the FA Cup arrived here the night the game ended.

As for players who play in foreign leagues, they will have to come back here later to participate in joint training.

In order to ensure the victory of this game, the head coach of the national team, Cheng Youcheng, used the full main lineup to go to the away game.

Regarding the selection of the three newcomers Kong Pengyu, Meng Hezhou and Bai Liqing, although the outside world is skeptical, Cheng Youcheng said that these three players are very suitable for the current situation of the national team.

Compared with the other two, Kong Pengyu is slightly older. The other two are not yet 20 years old, but they have already entered the first team squad in the recent rounds of their respective teams, and they have also received some support. playing time.

In the national team, there are some young players themselves, but compared with them, the national team experience of these three is just a previous friendly match.

Such an experience will naturally be questioned by the outside world. This is a problem that every young player will face.

"I have enough confidence in the players I chose. I don't agree with your so-called abandonment of other outstanding players." Cheng Youcheng was made things difficult by the media when he announced the list of personnel a few days ago, " In our country, there are indeed many excellent players playing at home and abroad, but they may not match the style of the current team, or their state may have declined recently, and other reasons made me give up on them. "

"Before selecting players, we made a deep consideration and made many comparisons before deciding to choose these players." He shrugged when he said this, "We didn't choose this time, and we may not choose them next time." on, but if a player does qualify, he will be called up."

"Playing for the country is the wish of every Chinese player, there is no doubt about it, but it is impossible for everyone to play for the country, right?" Cheng Youcheng said again, "For the players who got this opportunity, I would I hope they maintain the seriousness of the club's game, train hard and work hard, and for the players who are not selected, you just continue to work hard."

After saying this, there are far fewer reporters who want to continue this kind of question, and the next question is about their opponent.

The Iraqi men's football team has met the Chinese team in all levels of competition, and there have been many matches between different age groups.

The national turmoil at the beginning of this century and the raging wars have caused serious damage to the entire Iraq, and the performance of men's football has also been affected.

They used to be one of the first teams in West Asia to enter the World Cup finals. As early as 1986, they had entered the World Cup finals.

The first round match between the two sides ended in a draw, and in Group A, their record against the Chinese team in the first round was the same as that of Japan and Iran.

Now the Chinese team is ranked third in the standings, while the Iraqi team is ranked fifth. The difference between the two sides is four points, and the gap is not too big.

Although the situation in Iraq has been relatively stable in recent years, due to security considerations, this match was scheduled to be held in Turkey, which is adjacent to Iraq.

The Inani Stadium, home of the Turkish Super League team Besiktas, will be the host stadium for this match.

This is another special "home" game for Iraq, who have played "home" games abroad for many years.

Although the two countries had some political conflicts before, the Turkish Football Association generously accepted Iraq's request to play games in their own country.

"At any time, any team we face is strong. There is no distinction between weak and strong. Going all out is my minimum requirement for players." Cheng Youcheng answered the question, "All along, It is often the attitude of the players that determines whether a game is good or bad, even if it is doomed to lose at the end of the game, I will not allow any player to relax, and the loss cannot be too ugly."

"Of course, we have absolute confidence that we will give the fans a satisfactory answer in the upcoming games."

"Coach Cheng, I would like to ask you, in the past, when the men's football team participated in the world preliminaries, they would encounter similar problems in the first half and decline in the second half. Do you think this kind of problem will happen again?" a reporter asked.

"Halfway down? The last game we played was the North Korean team. Did we win?" Cheng Youcheng asked rhetorically.

"Won."

"Yes, I won." Cheng Youcheng paused, and then asked again: "In the last game of the first half, we also played against the North Korean team, and we also won, right?"

"Yes." The reporter's tone weakened.

"I won the opponent in two rounds. Is this considered a decline?" Cheng Youcheng stopped the reporter from asking this question, and he didn't know how to answer him.

"The Chinese team used to have a lot of problems, but after continuous hard work and continuous mistakes, we gradually found the right direction in the mistakes." He took a sip of water, "Many people may be very interested in China. The team has prejudices, including me before, and I often think that I may play better than them when I go up."

"But I believe that everyone should have seen the changes in the Chinese team from the recent games. We have the ability to become better. Please rest assured."

There was bursts of applause in the press room, and Cheng Youcheng's words were more convincing to those present.

"Coach Cheng, I have a question!" A young reporter sat in the back rows, raised his hands high, and said loudly. Judging by his appearance, he should have just graduated.

"Please speak." Cheng Youcheng made a gesture of invitation.

"Are you worried about the safety of the team this time?" The reporter asked a question that didn't have much to do with football.

"What did you say?" Cheng Youcheng didn't hear what he said, but he didn't understand what he meant.

"The safety of the team means can the safety of our expedition be guaranteed?" The reporter explained what he meant.

"Oh, you asked this." Cheng Youcheng was a little surprised. There are relatively few sports journalists who ask such questions. "For safety issues, please rest assured that the governments of both sides will guarantee our safety during this expedition. , is perfectly fine.”

After asking this question, this press conference is almost over. This is just a simple press conference after the list is announced, and the questions asked are enough for Cheng Cheng to think about.

What he should think about is the team's tactical issues. In view of this aspect, he has three sets of formations for the players recruited this time.

But Cheng Youcheng will stick to the basic style of play, and the other two formations are only based on different situations to ensure the team's victory.

(End of this chapter)