The heavy snow, which was rare in a century at the end of last year, finally melted before March, and all the remaining snow returned to the earth. Zhongnan Mountain in the south of Xi'an is no longer mottled.
In March, everything revives. After the snow water melts, it nourishes the mountains, rivers and earth. The streams are gurgling. I also drink the wheat during the winter. It is said that this year will definitely be a bumper year.
The Saint Zhuque Stadium, located between Zhuque Street and Chang'an Road in Xi'an, was filled tonight again, and 65,000 people made the stadium burn.
But the atmosphere in the home team's locker room was not warm, and it was even a bit depressing. No one talked to the 22 players of the Chinese national football team, and they all lowered their heads and listened to head coach Sforza's usual talks on emphasizing the key points of tactics.
Today is the last round of the first phase of the group stage of the Asian region of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, and the situation of the Chinese team is not optimistic.
The competition system of this qualifier has changed a little. It was the top 20 and top 10 games before. After the 2018 qualifier qualifiers, 40 teams in Asia were divided into 8 groups to determine the last 12 games.
Divide into two groups and decide on the final 4.5 places to Russia.
Tonight is the last round of the Chinese team in the top 40 matches, and the opponent is Qatar, which firmly ranks first in the group.
In fact, the grouping of the top 40 matches is very beneficial to the Chinese team because it looks clear. China, Qatar, China Fishing Port, Bhutan, and Maldives, from paper, this group is actually the matter between the Chinese team and Qatar.
The other three can only focus on participating.
The Chinese team was the quarterfinals of the 2014 Brazil World Cup. At that time, the lower limit of strength was recognized by football as a second-rate European team, but football is a highly transparent sport under the high spotlight, so experts and senior media can see it clearly.
After leaving Zhuo Yang's Chinese team, the upper limit of strength is only Asian first-class.
The 2015 Australian Asian Cup defeat completely confirmed the inference of football, and the Chinese team lost its spirit.
Then Rijkald left the team, which even put the team in despair. The new coach Sforza could only do his best to fight the panic atmosphere first.
After two warm-up matches, the Chinese team drew inexplicable Palestinian and Haiti in a row, and the Chinese team started the top 40 matches in the Asian region in awkward situation.
There is nothing to say about Bhutan and the Maldives, and the Chinese team won two consecutive games. But then they scored 0:0 in Shenzhen, which is very unreasonable.
What team is the fishing port? Asian second-rate team is not considered a slightest. The Chinese team is so decadent that it has caused an uproar in the whole world. The fishing port's local buns are so excited.
In an important confrontation last October, the Chinese team lost 0:1 to Qatar, which is not the same as before, directly behind the opponent by 4 points. Algerian naturalized player Baudyav scored the final score.
Without Zhuo Yang, the Chinese team's lack is all-round, and the most obvious point is that it is weak in attack. In addition to being able to continue to abuse global football appetizers such as Bhutan and the Maldives, the rest of the rest are stable or determined to defend the Iron Barrel formation.
The Chinese team really doesn’t have many ways to do it.
Then in November last year, the Chinese team played against the fishing port again at 0:0 on the away game, and the forward was undoubtedly unable to show, and the draw seriously hit the team's already precarious psychological quality.
In fact, lack of psychological quality has always been a chronic disease of the Chinese team, but in those years, this shortcoming was hidden to the greatest extent because of Zhuo Yang, the backbone of the plug-in.
Now that Zhuo Yang is gone, he is tied by a despicable double-double at home and away. Chinese players are familiar with the panic caused by the mixed factors of fear of wolves in front and tigers in the back.
It was in this situation that the Chinese team ushered in the last decisive battle with Qatar today.
It was indeed a decisive battle.
Group C of the top 40 matches is clearly strong and weak. Qatar won 7 wins in the previous 7 games and 21 points, and the group was first securely ranked first in the group. The fishing port has finished 8 games, 4 draws and 2 losses in 4 games, 14 points, and the Chinese team won 4 wins and 2 wins in 7 games.
The draw and the loss also scored 14 points, but because it was still able to beat the game, there were a few more goals and ranked second in the group.
And even if I lose to Qatar today, as long as it is not a breaking sky, I will still be second.
However, 40 teams scored the top 12 in eight groups, and only 8 top-ranked groups and the 4 best-achieved second in each group were able to advance.
The Chinese team currently has 14 points, behind the UAE 16, Jordan 16, Syria 15, Iraq 17, and North Korea 16. These five groups are second, only in the sixth sequence.
Not to mention losing to Qatar, even if you draw, you will be eliminated. In the quarterfinals of the World Cup, you have fallen to the point where you will be eliminated in the preliminary round of the qualifiers.
The only news that has been good for the Chinese team in the past year is that fans and media across the country are more concerned about Zhuo Yang's safety and no longer care about the national team's performance, otherwise they would have been criticized to the end.
Zhuo Yang had already woken up, but what appeared before him was a piece of decayed flowers and defeated willows. The national team had no idea how to face him.
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Since the post-70s generation, China has basically popularized compulsory education, so China is now one of the countries that respect the most and believe in basic science in the world, and one of the countries that have the most scientific common sense and respect scientists.
In Zhuo Yang's medical team, there are senior nurses like Ye Zi and authoritative medical experts. They have absolute power in Zhuo Yang's physical recovery, and Zhuo Yang also believes in these scientists very much.
Chinese people who believe in science also believe in Zhuo Yang's medical team because everyone is not illiterate and not anti-intellectual, and believe in science.
So the medical team said that Zhuo Yang was not suitable for going out, so he would not go out.
Sheng Zhuque has not hosted a national team competition for a long time. Xi'an is Zhuo Yang's hometown. Today, the stadium stands are full of portraits of Zhuo Yang and banners of blessings and longing.
Perhaps the fans of Sheng Zhuque don't care whether the national team can win today, because there have been too many wins in the six years from 2008 to 2014. Chinese fans are actually very content. Those six years of glory can make the vast majority of them.
People will drink for the next life.
Zhuo Yang could survive from death and reborn from the foot of Zhongnan Mountain. Their fine wine could allow their sons and grandchildren to continue drinking, and they had nothing to ask for.
The fans sang the "Song of Zhuo Yang" over and over again in the stands, waving Zhuo Yang's flag and singing and dancing.
But the national team, from the coaching staff to the players, once they cannot defeat Qatar today, they will be unable to see Zhuo Yang again. The huge psychological pressure makes the atmosphere in the locker room very depressing.
The team's performance decline was expected by everyone, but it slipped so quickly, so thoroughly, and so back to its original state, so that the international players would want to die.
I agreed to go to Zhongnan Mountain to visit the captain early tomorrow morning, but now more than half of the people are afraid to see him.
Many people even became terrified before the battle, and had the intention of being afraid of playing games.
Chapter completed!