At the post-match press conference, Perrin explained why he was not allowed to start, which was similar to Liu Hong's guess. Considering that Gao Zheng had just returned from Madrid, he didn't have much time to work with the team, and there were also factors such as time difference, so he was not allowed to start.

He then praised Gao Zheng for his performance after he came on as a substitute.

In fact, it is not a big deal to let a player like Gao Zheng play as a substitute, and Perrin's explanations make completely sense.

But Chinese media and fans pay so much attention to and care about this matter.

He insisted on asking Perrin to give an explanation, as if it was a serious accident to prevent Gao Zheng from starting.

Although it was indeed because Gao Zheng did not start, the Chinese team was in a position in the first half and finally gave the opponent the lead.

But when it comes to football matches, how can there be a smooth sailing?

Isn’t it normal for the opponent to score a penalty kick?

But Chinese people don't think so.

However, Perlan did not dare to put Gao Zheng on the bench anymore. This time it can be explained that Gao Zheng had just returned and his physical condition had not recovered to his best after being exhausted.

What about the next game against Jordan? You can't use this excuse, right?

So no matter what Perlan thinks, he must put Gao Zheng on the starting list.

Jordan is indeed stronger than Kuwait, after all, it is the fourth-ranked team in Asia.

In this game, Perrin did not continue to use the 343 from the previous game, but replaced it with the 4231 who paid more attention to defense. Gao Zheng was at the forefront as the "1".

Seeing Gao Zheng start, the debate seemed to disappear overnight.

In the game against Jordan, the Chinese team adopted the tactic of defensive counterattack.

It has to be said that the Chinese team's defensive counterattack is quite good. After the backcourt players get the ball, they can think of finding Gao Zheng, the "bridgehead" in the front. On the premise that Gao Zheng can ensure that the football is controlled, Wu Lei and Yu Hanchao, the two fast side roads, can actively step forward, and form a counterattack and threaten Jordan's goal.

This is how the Chinese team's first goal came.

After Gao Zheng got the ball in the frontcourt, he distributed the football to Wu Lei who was inserted. Wu Lei dribbled into the penalty area and was tackled by the Jordanian defender. The referee decisively urged a penalty amid the cheers of Chinese fans.

And this penalty was not taken by Gao Zheng, but Gao Lin, who stuffed the football into Gao Lin's arms and signaled him to kick.

In the last game, Gao Lin also got a penalty kick but failed to hit the penalty. The Chinese team lost the ball at the last moment of the first half and laid the groundwork.

After the game, Gao Lin also apologized to the whole team in the locker room for failing to score a penalty.

Now Gao Zheng asked Gao Lin to take the penalty, obviously hoping that his family would get up from wherever they fell.

This time Gao Lin did not disappoint, he steadily kicked the football into the goal.

Gao Lin was very excited after scoring the goal. He hugged Gao Zheng hard and thanked him for the opportunity he gave him.

Other teammates also came up to hug them.

Cheers from Chinese fans rang out in the stands.

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Although he did a good job in counterattacking, the Chinese team's defense was not satisfactory.

Gao Zheng's joining has improved the Chinese team's attack power, but in terms of defense, what Gao Zheng can do is very limited.

Jordan's offensive tactics are actually not complicated. They have repeatedly used simple and direct play to break through the Chinese team's defense line. The Chinese team's players have been obviously at a disadvantage when defending one-on-one many times. If it weren't for the goalkeeper Zeng Cheng who started in this game, the Chinese team might not have been able to lead with one goal.

In addition to not having the advantage of one-on-one defense, the Chinese team also has problems such as not being tight in the sight of people and not being able to defend with a small scale.

Shortly after the second half, Jordan used a very simple offensive cooperation to penetrate the Chinese team's defense line and then sent the football into the Chinese team's football team. This time Zeng Cheng was also weak in his power.

If this were the previous Chinese team, many Chinese fans would probably sigh.

But the Chinese team is different now, they have Gao Zheng.

In the 78th minute, Gao Zheng took the free kick in the frontcourt that he won himself. After a beautiful curve ball, the football penetrated into the Jordan goal!

In the end, with Gao Zheng's goal, the Chinese team won Jordan 2:1 at home, winning two consecutive warm-up matches.

These two warm-up matches also made Perlan understand one thing. At present, this Chinese team is still inseparable from Gao Zheng. If he wants to achieve good results, he must rely fully on Gao Zheng.

When he gets along with Gao Zheng, he has to put himself in the right position. Although he is the head coach of this team, the most important person in this team is definitely not him...

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With two consecutive warm-up matches, Gao Zheng left China and flew back to Madrid after the match against Jordan.

There is a very, very important game waiting for him next.

That is the Madrid City Derby.

In fact, Madrid media is very concerned about the Chinese national team competition, because as the protagonist of Atletico Madrid's derby in the Madrid city, it is very important whether he can return from the national team competition in a healthy manner.

In the past, the Madrid media would not pay attention to the Chinese team's game at all. The Chinese team is far away from them and there is no match for them. They will not spend even a little energy on paying attention to the game of a small football country with a small football country that is thousands of miles away, unless the national team has a warm-up match with the Spanish national team.

But now it’s different. Because of Gao Zheng, Madrid’s media began to pay attention to the Chinese team’s game, and through their communication, more Madrid fans have also begun to understand the team of the most populous country in the world.

Next is the Madrid derby. Everyone is worried that Gao Zheng will be injured or consume too much physical fitness during the game.

So when Chinese fans and media were both dissatisfied with Perrin putting Gao Zheng on the bench, Atletico Madrid fans were very happy.

What made them feel relieved was that after two warm-up matches, Gao Zheng was not injured, and both games were not played in the whole game. He only made a substitute in the second half of the first game, and he was replaced in advance in the 80th minute of the second game.

The match between the Chinese team and Jordan is September 9, while the Madrid city derby is September 13, with four days left in between, but in fact, there is not much time left for Gao Zheng, because he still has to fly back to Spain from China, and it takes a whole day on the way.

After he finished the game with Jordan, he left the team early, rushing to Beijing, the only plane that usually flew to Beijing, and then rested in a hotel near the airport. He took a flight to Dubai at 7 o'clock in the morning of the 10th. After three hours of transit and waiting in Dubai, he took a plane from Dubai to Madrid. When he arrived in Madrid it was already eight o'clock in the evening. The tenth day spent all the time on the journey.

The flight time totaled seventeen hours, and even if you bought first class cabin, these seventeen hours would not be easy.

The impact of long-distance travel on the players' bodies cannot be ignored.

The next day, Gao Zheng, No. 11, had to train with the team, and he had no time to make him a jet lag or he had no time to recover slowly.

Because he only has two days to train with the team, the 13th is the match day.

Not only does he need to do this alone, but the international players in Atletico Madrid in South American countries are also doing the same, and the flight time is not much less than Gao Zheng.

Of course, this situation is relatively fair, because as a big international player, Real Madrid also has many international players who need to experience long-distance flights like Gao Zheng after the national team match day.

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ps, sorry, after watching Espanyol's game in the early morning, the automatic update was set, and the result was tomorrow as today, and the automatic update was set to tomorrow...

I went out to do business again in the morning, but now I've come home and find that I haven't updated...
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