Because after the second half of the game began, Gao Zheng would always pass the ball to his teammates, and in the last game against Indonesia, Gao Zheng completed the assist hat trick. Saudi Arabia has studied this game, so they are also very clear about Gao Zheng's assist ability.

When Gao Zheng passed the ball out, the defensive Saudi Arabian players temporarily shifted their attention from Gao Zheng to Wu Lei.

Forgot to stare at Gao Zheng for a moment.

As a result, when Wu Lei made a mistake in the shooting, Gao Zheng, who was inserted into the penalty area, picked up a head-on.

Gao Zheng's shot was also very decisive and did not drag it out at all.

There are already fans on the Internet who cheered and asked Wu Lei to learn hard and see what an excellent striker should do when seizing the opportunity.

Everyone is a forward, and Wu Lei performed well in the club. Why did he perform so poorly when he joined the national team?

However, Gao Zheng did not have that sense of superiority on the field. After scoring the goal, he took the initiative to hug Wu Lei, which was also a comfort to Wu Lei, who had not scored.

The Chinese team broke the deadlock, which finally made the big stone in everyone's heart fall to the ground.

Both the players and the fans' tension and worries are gone.

Even if Saudi Arabia scores a goal now, it will be a draw. And we still have Gao Zheng, it is not certain who scores and who scores!

Once the mentality is relaxed, the Chinese players can also perform at a normal level.

Especially when they are determined to hold on to the lead of this goal.

Saudi Arabia does not have enough desire to score goals.

They have already advanced in advance, so it is logical that there is no need to work too hard in this game. I thought about helping the Siya brothers before, but I just did it. If they were asked to help Iraq desperately, no matter how deep the brotherly friendship was, it would not work. For Iraq and fighting with the Chinese team, what if the players on their side were injured? Anyway, the top two in the group participated in the Asian Cup, the first or second place were the same, and there would be no worse draws for the second place.

So when the Chinese team took the lead, Saudi Arabia's counterattack was not as fierce as Chinese fans were worried.

In fact, Saudi Arabia's offensive was not really fierce until the last five minutes of the game.

But at this time, it is not enough time for Saudi Arabia... no, it is because there is not much time left for Iraq.

In the end, Saudi Arabia failed to break through the Chinese team's goal.

The Chinese team defeated Saudi Arabia 1-0 at home.

"The game is over! The Chinese team has qualified for the Asian Cup one round ahead of schedule!" commentator Duan Xin announced excitedly.

The Chinese team, with four wins and one loss in five games, has twelve points, Saudi Arabia has also four wins and one loss, and the two teams have twelve points together. Although Iraq defeated Indonesia 2-0 in another game, two wins and three losses have 6 points, with one round left in the group stage, both Chinese and Saudi Arabia qualifying ahead of schedule.

Iraq can only compete for the third place in the best-achieving group.

In the last round of group stage, their opponent was the Chinese team.

This may be good news for them. The Chinese team that qualifies in advance may not send a self-strengthening lineup to the away game. If they can beat the Chinese team at their doorstep and earn nine points, there is still a glimmer of hope to advance to the Asian Cup held in Australia in 2015 as the third in the group with the best results.

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All the Chinese team players who advanced early lined up after the game to thank the enthusiastic fans on the scene. They circled around the city, waved their arms at the stands and applauded.

The fans also responded to them with the warmest cheers.

At the end, the uniform singing of "Singing the Motherland" sounded over the court.

It was really appropriate to accompany the huge national flag that was pulled and passed on by fans in the stands.

Gao Zheng kept waving to the stands and applauding in the crowd, watching the national flag moving with them, wherever they went, he was very touched.

The word "winning glory for the country and serving the country" was too illusory before this, because "country" was a big concept that would be so big that it would be unconsciously ignored in the lives of ordinary people.

Chinese football has a bad reputation, the Chinese team has a poor image, and the Chinese Football Association has countless black history. People have always rumored that Chinese football is a big dye vat. Once it is related to it, its image will become dirty.

There is also a voice that even let Gao Zheng play football abroad and not come back to China.

But look at the 50,000 enthusiastic fans in the Shaanxi Provincial Stadium.

No matter what the image, history, or reputation of Chinese football, at least these fans who insist on shouting for Chinese football in the darkest time and travel thousands of miles to cheer for the Chinese team are innocent.

If victory can be used to bring them victory, why not?

In order to cherish their feathers, I abandon these cute fans and ignore them?

They have paid so much for Chinese football, why shouldn’t they be happy?

What does it mean to serve the country? What does it mean to bring glory to the country?

Playing football for these fans, bringing them happiness, and making them proud of the national flag they wave, is probably the best way to serve the country and bring glory to the country!

For this reason, Gao Zheng didn't think it was so hard and unworthy to fly tens of thousands of kilometers back and forth every time, just to play one or two games.

"...The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, how loud the song of victory is! Singing our dear motherland, from now onwards to prosperity and strength!"

Listening to such a song, Gao Zheng unconsciously started singing along.

This song is called the "Second National Anthem", and you can imagine how widely it is sung. Maybe not everyone can sing the whole song word by word, but the most important sentences must be done by opening their mouths.

Under his leadership, players from other national teams also started singing.

A chorus was formed on and off the court.

“…singing our dear motherland, from now onwards prosperity and strength!”

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Gao Zheng had already left China by plane and flew to Italy again.

But the craze for the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup is still stimulating in China.

It's just the Asian Cup, so you shouldn't be so happy.

After all, the Chinese team has never missed this event since participating in the Asian Cup for the first time in 1976.

But what makes Chinese fans happy and excited is not only the Chinese team won the Asian Cup, but also what changes will happen to a Chinese team with Gao Zheng in these three qualifiers.

Gao Zheng's performance made them look forward to the 2015 Asian Cup.

At that time, how much happiness and expectations will Gao Zheng, who participated in the Intercontinental Competition for the first time, bring them?

This is the happiest and most exciting thing for Chinese fans.

Don’t think about the Asian Cup champions for now. At least we can expect the Chinese team to be in the semi-finals under Gao Zheng’s leadership?
Chapter completed!