Chapter 149 The first chance, the first attack, the first goal

"The most critical battle, win over Iraq, and enter the top ten with half a foot!"

This is a news report released by the state media on October 10.

Before the game, the domestic media made various predictions, both optimistic and not optimistic, but there is one point of view that both sides agree on, that is, if this game against Iraq can be completely won, then the national football team will basically have half a foot in the game.

Made it to the top ten.

After the official media spoke out, the unfavorable media quickly changed their tone and cheered for the national team.

But the members of the national team, who are currently in closed training, have no intention of paying attention to outside public opinion.

In the previous players' meeting, Li Mo took the initiative to speak, which deeply touched the hearts of both new and old players.

"If we win the game, we can win everything. Competitive sports have always been about performance. We don't care about what happened in the past. Now we want to get to where we should be and change the reputation of the national team. Just one word, fight!"

Regardless of whether we are stronger than our opponents or weaker than them, I have one expectation for our team, fight to the end! In the end, no one can stand on the court between our opponents and us, which proves that we

Try your best!

It’s not terrible to lose if you try your best, we will do it again, but if anyone doesn’t work hard, then I will no longer have the concept of brothers and seniors in my eyes. If it’s time to criticize me, I will directly criticize you. I also ask all brothers and seniors to think about it carefully.

Why did you join the national team in the first place? After being scolded for so many years and being a coward for almost ten years, it’s time to grit your teeth and fight hard!!!”

It was the first time that Li Mo said such serious words, but no one dared to express dissatisfaction in front of him regarding seniority. Now several big players in the team are on Li Mo's side, and what Li Mo said also spoke to their hearts.

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Nowadays, the starters in the national team are basically young people. Who doesn’t want to win after joining the national team?

Although some of them have only played for the national team for one or two years, it stands to reason that in the past, it was not their turn to take the blame for the national team, but now that they are in the same team, their worth has increased, and they have their names, then naturally

We should also take up the dark history of the past.

It has been almost ten years since the last time we entered the World Cup, and the national team has also been weak for ten years. It is time to work hard again!

After gathering morale, everyone consciously stopped paying attention to outside news, trained hard, and fought for positions. On October 11, they were liberated from the completely closed state.

Director Gao led the coaching staff to formulate tactics for several days. Although he felt mentally tired, his heart was open at the moment.

The construction of the team is now in charge of Li Mo and several old players. He is responsible for the adjustment of tactics. When playing in Jordan before, Li Mo's simple tactics proved to be very practical in the Asian competition. He is only here now.

Add something new to a simple tactic.

For example, strengthen the combination of wing and center, emphasize the use of full-backs, and design several fixed sets of midfield and backcourt passes to find Li Mo's routine.

It's not that he doesn't want to play more tactics. Although the current group of players are all good, except for a few of them, the tactical thinking that the coach instilled in them since they were young is very simple. If it becomes complicated, it will be easy to mess up.

Before Li Mo joined the national team, he was almost fired after leading the Asian Cup. He couldn't achieve what he wanted, so he might as well just be more simple and just make ends meet.

Protect Hao Junmin's ball in the backcourt and play around Li Mo in the frontcourt. Even if other teams know this tactic, they can't crack it because the personal strength of Li Mo and Hao Junmin no longer belongs to the Asian level.

Crush with strength, it's that simple.

On the evening of October 11th.

Shenzhen Sports Center Stadium.

This new stadium, which just hosted the Universiade, welcomed more than 50,000 fans.

The recovery of the national team's condition and Li Mo's performance have brought football craze to this land again.

Countless fans who didn't get tickets are gathered outside the venue at this moment, wearing fiery red national team jerseys, holding national flags or cheering signs, waiting for the game to start.

There are many complaints among them. There is no way, there are only so many tickets. When the tickets were released before, they were sold out almost instantly. The fans in Shenzhen are really too enthusiastic, and there are already a lot of Premier League fans in Guangdong. Everyone

Everyone wanted to see Li Mo up close, but 50,000 votes were really not enough.

Fortunately, the staff set up multiple large screens outside the stadium, so you can still watch the game live. Just bear with it this time!

As the game approached, the atmosphere at the scene gradually increased. When the two teams came out to warm up, the fans in the audience instantly cheered passionately.

This momentum shocked the Iraqi players. There were more than 50,000 people in the stadium, and the crowd was actually 70,000 or 80,000. It was simply a living Asian version of the Westfalenstadion. For the visiting team players,

The pressure is too much!

The Chinese team feels full of confidence. With such a home atmosphere, what else is there to say? Let’s fight!

Li Mo gave a thumbs up to the fans in the stands while jogging.

So awesome!

After the warm-up was completed and the two teams returned to the locker room, Coach Gao emphasized the tactics again, asking the players not to panic and to play calmly on the court.

Seeing that the time was approaching, Li Weifeng put on the captain's armband and called all the players over. After his routine speech, he asked Li Mo to say a few more words.

Seeing this, Li Mo gave a thumbs up, leaned down and looked at the surrounding teammates and said: "After this game, there can only be one result, and that is that we sit first in Group A.

Go! Stay focused, increase your running, believe in your teammates, Iraq, we are going to get it! Let them know where this is! Let them know who we are! If there is a team that is destined to win, today, it must be us! Do it

Crush them!!!”

“Fuck, fuck, fuck!!!”

"Fight!!!"

"Come on come on!!!"

After roaring and cheering each other up, Li Weifeng took the lead and everyone walked out of the locker room. The aggressive look made the Iraqi players directly feel the pressure.

They originally wanted to try their best to defend Li Mo, and if they couldn't defend, they would try to score as many goals as possible for the Chinese team and try to score points. But looking at the players of the Chinese team, it seemed that it would not be easy to score goals today.

After reaching the point, the two teams walked out of the tunnel. With one side determined to win the game and the other worried, after playing the national anthem to each other, the game quickly started at the Shenzhen Sports Center.

Today's official commentator was still Liu Jianhong, and the guest was replaced by Xu Yang. The two quickly introduced the starting players of the two teams to the fans.

"Today, Director Gao still arranged a 4231 formation. Li Mo advanced alone, Yu Hai was on the left, Yu Hanchao was on the right, the front midfielder was Shao Jiayi, and the double midfielders were still partnered by Zheng Zhi and Hao Junmin.

On the back line from left to right are Sun Xiang, Li Weifeng, Feng Xiaoting and Zhang Linpeng, and goalkeeper Yang Zhi."

After Liu Jianhong introduced the formation and players of the Chinese national team, Xu Yang continued: "This formation worked very well when we played in Jordan last time. Two full-backs with outstanding personal abilities can create many opportunities for Li Mo, and

There are enough people in the midfield, Xiao Hao can control the field, and the double midfielders protect the back line well. There is no problem in continuing to play like this.

The weather is very cool today, there was some light rain during the day, and the competition venue is completely fine. I hope the boys of the national team can perform well!"

"You still need to pay more attention to Iraq's captain Younis. This forward has relatively strong personal abilities. Don't be careless. Come on!"

Accompanied by the two voices, under the gaze of countless fans and the cheers of the fans at the scene, the players of the Chinese team began to press the players of the Iraqi team who kicked off first the moment the whistle sounded!

The player holding the ball in the backcourt of the Iraqi team tentatively took a big kick forward, hoping to directly find Younis for a fast break. However, Li Weifeng decisively pressed outside the penalty area, competed with Younis for the top, and decisively pushed the football

Back near the center circle.

The players of the Chinese team directly started a battle for the ball with the Iraqi team in the midfield.

After playing for a while, many fans discovered that Li Mo rarely retreated today and always stood in front of Iraq's two defensive midfielders, waiting for his teammates to advance the attack with the ball.

Many fans are worried about the Chinese team's midfield ball control problem.

After all, when confronting opponents in the midfield before, Hua Guo team players would always suffer technical losses, but after just a few minutes, after seeing the continuous movement of Hao Junmin and Shao Jiayi,

Finally, the ball was always firmly controlled by the Chinese team, and the fans felt relieved.

"It seems that Director Gao is going to let Li Mo offload his burden today and only be responsible for completing the final blow. Xu Yang, what do you think of this change?"

"It's hard to say now, but we can see that Xiao Hao and Jia Yi responded very calmly to the pressing pressure of the Iraqi players, and Zheng Zhi was also stable with the ball. If we can maintain this kind of performance and continue to take possession of the ball,

If it is successfully transferred to the frontcourt, then Li Mo will have no problem spending all his energy on offense. Then it will depend on how the frontcourt players pass the ball to Li Mo."

Xu Yang analyzed it, and the midfielders of the Huaguo team also told the fans with their performance that they are worthy of trust today.

After losing the ball, they immediately started pressing on the spot, running actively, cooperating with each other to intercept, and after getting the ball, they also actively responded to the player holding the ball, showing a completely different style from before.

When playing Jordan, Li Mo kept retreating, doing the work of three people in the frontcourt. Although the scene was smooth, it did consume a lot of his energy.

Li Mo just stayed in front today. Although he didn't get any shooting opportunities in the first ten minutes, if he continued playing like this, the Chinese team gained control of the midfield and gradually pressed forward and started passing threatening balls into the Iraqi penalty area.

It is a foreseeable situation.

By then, Li Mo, who has barely used up his physical strength, will be the nightmare of the Iraqi team!

"Xiao Hao dribbled the ball forward! This is Xiao Hao's characteristic. Although he is now retreating, Hao Junmin's technical advantage is enough to support him to quickly advance with the ball and pass! Pass, beautiful, Yu Hanchao

He ran behind the Iraqi team!"

In Liu Jianhong's excited commentary, in the 16th minute of the first half, Hao Junmin took the cross pass from Shao Jiayi and directly dribbled the ball forward, passed the Iraqi midfielder, and suddenly passed the ball straight to the right.

Yu Hanchao has started at high speed, far behind Iraq's advanced left-back. This is the Chinese team's best chance since the beginning!

In the past, when Yu Hanchao played on the left wing, he was good at cutting in and shooting. But today, playing as a right midfielder, Yu Hanchao knew what he should do.

He increased his speed and did not give the Iraqi full-back any chance to catch up with him. When he brought the ball to the right side of the Iraqi penalty area, he directly kicked the ball in and made a pass!

Li Mo kept pressing the Iraqi backline to avoid being offside. The moment Yu Hanchao passed the ball, he quickly moved forward. Both Iraq's central defenders knew that the only target of Yu Hanchao's cross was Li Mo.

But they can't stop it!

The ball was passed relatively high, but the landing point was very good. There were two Iraqi center backs guarding Li Mo, but so what?

The last kick was all-out kick, and then Li Mo jumped up high. At this time, whoever dared to make a small move to pull him would be awarded a penalty kick. The two Iraqi central defenders had no choice but to take off with all their strength, trying to interfere with Li Mo's

Header goal.
To be continued...