On January 12, the Chinese team, after four days of rest, welcomed its second opponent.

Host Qatar.

Compared with the audience of less than 7,000 people in the first group match, the number of spectators in this game has doubled, and more than 30,000 Qatari fans flocked to the stadium. Although Chinese staff have tried their best to promote and give away tickets for free, there are only about 1,000 Chinese supporters present.

Long Shute, who is familiar with history, may be the clearest, and the ending of this game is 0-2.

There are many reasons for failure: away games, fans' pressure, and unfair referees...

But the biggest slaughter should be borne by head coach Gao Hongbo or the leadership team.

Because when they were playing against the host, they actually used a half-rotating lineup!

Deng Zhuoxiang is still the core, Gao Lin, who has a poor shooting skills, replaced Yang Xu, Yu Tao, who is a forward, replaced Zhao Xuri, who is in good health, became a midfielder, Zhao Peng replaced Feng Xiaoting, and formed an unreliable central defender duo with Dewey, and even the goalkeeper has been replaced...

Most of the people he reused took the blame: Deng Zhuoxiang's role was to take a soft and weak long shot when taking a free kick; Gao Lin was replaced by Yang Xu in the 41st minute, and Yu Tao also ended 10 minutes later in the second half. Zhao Peng was even more miserable. He was hit and injured in the 70th minute and had to leave the field for treatment, but because Gao Hongbo used up the substitution quota early, the Chinese team could only play more with less in the last 20 minutes, and the passiveness of the scene can be imagined.

Fortunately, Gao Hongbo in this time and space seemed to be still rational. Facing Zheng Zhi, Li Weifeng, Zhao Junzhe and Long Shute, he finally did not dare to adjust the lineup significantly, but only asked veteran Qu Bo to replace Yu Hai, and another goalkeeper who was rotated was a little-affected goalkeeper.

This is a "disadvantage" of recruiting big names to join the team, because the head coach cannot hold them all healthy on the bench, especially when they performed very well in the last game and almost no one made a mistake, this will definitely cause chaos.

If you put the ready-made Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe, don’t use you, Yu Tao, as a striker, to play the midfield?

Li Weifeng, who has been in charge of many years of captaining, doesn’t need to use you, Zhao Peng, to play the starting guard?

Although Deng Zhuoxiang is the main force of Shandong Luneng, the 2010 Chinese Super League champion, compared with the Dutch Eredivisie champion, how is the midfield core of Ajax in the Champions League quarter-finals?

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"Click, crack, crack!"

The turf of the Caliphate Stadium was rubbed quickly by a pair of ball boots.

Under the gaze of more than 30,000 viewers, Long Shute completed a wonderful counter-offside.

Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe joined forces to block Qatar's advancement, and Hao Junmin's right-road cross completely penetrated the opponent's defense line.

The rest of them... was to watch Long Shute's performance in the middle circle!

The young Chinese captain has runaway. He received a football from the right side of the Qatar penalty area and broke through the goal guarded by Qatar goalkeeper Buer Khan with a light push!

The entire stadium was a little quiet, and some unwilling home fans booed.

Only a few bright red flags were dancing in the wind in the stands.

"Just 5 minutes into the game, the Chinese team won the first goal!"

Duan Yixuan, a commentator on CCTV, couldn't wait to announce that the Chinese team took the lead.

The guest Zhang Lu praised the other team members by the way:

"Although the goal scorer is the young player Long Shit, it cannot be ignored that the two veterans also played a huge role in this counterattack! Alas? This ball doesn't count?!"

When Long Shute, Hao Junmin, Zheng Zhi and others were celebrating each other with high-fives, the referee Kim Dongjin blew the whistle with a serious look on his face.

The international referee from South Korea crossed his arms and waved his arms, then pointed to the penalty area line, indicating that this was Qatar's free kick.

"Offside?" Duan Yixuan raised questions.

Zhang Lu was also a little hesitant: "We may need to take a look at slow motion..."

The slow motion was quickly given. The moment Hao Junmin took the ball and passed it, Long Shute was almost at a horizontal position with Qatar's last defender, but from the naked eye, there was no sign of offside.

But the referee on the court was the biggest. Since Kim Dongjin had made a penalty, no one could let him take it back.

Although Long Shute felt a little regretful, he could only accept it. For him who was as fast as lightning, it was common to be blown offside once a while.

More importantly, he believed that just now was not the last chance.

As he thought, the Chinese team then launched another offensive.

Just one minute later, Qatar made a mistake in passing the ball in the backcourt, and Long Shute made an interception near the center circle, giving Qu Bo the left side a diagonally. The latter dribbled the ball down the bottom but was blocked by the Qatar full-back. He could only knock back to Rong Hao who was plugged in to the contact.

Rong Hao passed the penalty area without saying a word. Yang Xu jumped high to form an attack, but did not shoot out the strength or angle, and was easily held in his arms by Qatar goalkeeper Buerhan.

With Long Shute, Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe as the core of offense and defense, the Chinese team then took over the rhythm of the game. Due to the existence of the two big shots, Long Shute's position has also been provided with appropriate premises. He can free himself from the defensive interception work and devote more energy to the offensive end. If it were Yu Tao and Yang Hao's midfielder, he would definitely not be relieved.

After being a season-and-a-half under Suarez, although Long Shute still couldn't reach the level of being a master who was most defenders, his physical fitness and speed were better. He was an offensive midfielder who ran all over the field and was everywhere. Qatar's midfield and backcourt also had a headache, and he made several low-level mistakes in succession.

The Chinese team's goal finally came first: in the 27th minute, Zhao Junzhe and Zheng Zhi joined forces to intercept the ball, and they quickly handed over the ball to Long Shute.

After rushing along the right side road, the Chinese captain still did not cut in, but chose an inverted triangle pass near the bottom line.

Yang Xu, who was slow, missed the opportunity to surround the front point. Qu Bo, who caught up from the left, wanted to shoot but had to choose to pass the ball because he rushed too hard. Zhao Junzhe, who was strode from the middle, shot angrily. The ball passed through many players in the penalty area and smashed into the goal!

The hosts who were behind with one goal became panic because they lost to the strong Uzbekistan in the first round. If they lost another game, they would definitely miss the knockout stage, so they had to strengthen their offensive.

Qatar strengthened its offense, while the Chinese team strengthened its pressing, and at the same time retreated. Hao Junmin and Qu Bo directly contracted to become sidelines and midfielders.

After fifteen minutes of attack, Qatar finally got out of breath, but the Chinese team made a counterattack before the end of the first half: Long Shute completed the 70-meter raid in ten seconds, and he threw away all the Qatar players who were chasing back and gently pushed the ball against Buhrhan!

This time, the referee Kim Dongjin didn't say anything anymore, because Long Shute made it all by himself from intercepting the ball to shooting, and there was no possibility of offside at all!

He didn't even have obvious physical contact with any Qatari player. Even if Kim Dongjin wanted to foul the Qatari player... he wouldn't have a chance!

2-0!
Chapter completed!