With the forward Huang Xican, who played for the Red Bulls in Salzburg, Austria, returning to the team, the South Korean team finally had a complete training class after arriving in Changsha, and Stilik was able to examine the players' status at close range.

Although it was a long journey, Huang Xican still looks quite excited.

The South Korean international just played for half an hour in the Austrian league, but scored twice, showing his outstanding competitive state and also satisfied head coach Stilik.

Other international players who studied abroad have basically adjusted their goals, and everyone is waiting for the game against the Chinese team with high spirits.

Over the past few decades, Korean football has been trampling Chinese football on its feet, and they will not allow it no matter what. In their generation, they have made Chinese football turn over. Whether it is for the honor of Korean football or to enter the World Cup, they must win the next battle.

Stilek was very satisfied with the team's fighting spirit.

The overall strength of the South Korean team is above the Chinese team. As long as the players have a strong belief in winning, I believe that the possibility of winning is still very high, even in Changsha, China.

Returning to the Kempinski Hotel where he was staying from the training ground, Stilik soon received information from the Korean coaching staff.

"Domestic public opinion exploded, and the Football Association is under great pressure. In this round, Uzbekistan challenged Syria away, and there is a high possibility of winning. Iran is playing away from Qatar, so we should be able to win, so if we can't beat China, we may not be able to keep the third in the group."

According to the rules of the top 12 matches, the top two in the group will qualify directly, and the third in the two groups will participate in the play-offs.

In other words, if the Korean team wants to qualify, they must at least get third place.

"The domestic public opinion is still too exaggerated and arrogant. The Chinese team is not as weak as they imagined, especially after Gao Han coached." Stilik frowned and said with a bitter face.

He did make mistakes and insufficient estimates of the difficulty of the top 12 matches, especially the rise of the Chinese team, which caused the South Korean team to lose points in the first two rounds, but he was still very confident to say that the line was qualifying.

But the overall strength of the Chinese team is not weak, especially after Gao Han took over, the team's defense was tightly controlled and the offense was organized well in a short period of time, especially in the past three games against Syria, Uzbekistan and Qatar. It is obvious that the Chinese team has adopted two different strategies against South Korea and Iran.

For South Korea and Iran, China is a defensive counterattack, but against other teams, the Chinese team is obviously more willing to invest in the offense.

This is Gao Han’s strategy, very pragmatic and smart.

Faced with such an opponent, Stilik really couldn't come up with a good solution, so he could only attack. But at this time, the public opinion in South Korea was so optimistic. How did he deal with it?

If you don’t talk about him, I’m afraid even the international players will be affected.

But the question is, can he stand up and oppose it? Can he tell the fans that the Chinese team has improved enough to compete with the South Korean team?

The answer is, no.

South Korea has had its advantage over China for decades, and he had only one choice at this time, that is, to do his best to win.

"How is the Chinese team's training in recent times?" Stilik asked with concern.

"I'm not sure, Gao Han took a closed training camp in Changsha and refused all interviews. It is said that even the leaders of the Football Association were not allowed to attend, and even the hotel was not allowed to go there. It was said that it was to avoid adding pressure to the international players, so we did not get any relevant news."

After hearing this, Stilik suddenly envied Gao Han.

The world's top famous coaches have such preferential treatment. Not only the Football Association cooperates with him, but even the media and public opinion are favored by him.

"However, judging from the news we inquired from from multiple sources and some photos and intelligence released by the national team, the focus should be on practicing defense. It is said that Gao Han also specially practiced set pieces tactics every day."

Defensive and set pieces?

Stilik couldn't help but have a headache because this basically confirmed his speculation that Gao Han would take the defensive position.

Since Gao Han took over, the Chinese team's set pieces have gradually become an important scoring method. Several international players are very capable, which is very troublesome.

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Relax! Relax! Or relax!!!

These are the three things that Gao Han emphasized the most during the national team's training camp in Changsha.

The training intensity has been reduced, but there are more training programs on the field with game nature. The national team has arranged a lot of relaxing entertainment programs off the field. Even Gao Han originally attached great importance to the pre-match preparation meeting, he shortened the time as much as possible.

Externally, Gao Han said that the Sino-South Korea battle was just an ordinary national team game. Internally, Gao Han even joked that this game would not affect his qualifying plan at all.

Closed training will isolate the national team inside and outside.

No one outside can know the situation in the national team, and the coaching team led by Gao Han is also doing everything possible to relax the tight string of the national players as much as possible.

As a result, psychology expert Steve Peters became the busiest person in the national team training camp.

The team leader Li Tie is the one who can feel this change the most. After he felt the atmosphere of the national team training, the first thing that came to his mind was Milu's Happy Football.

Back then, Milu relied on this trick to bring the Chinese team into the World Cup.

Now, it is obvious that Gao Han also plans to use this set to relieve pressure on the national team.

In the past decade, the more important the national team has been, the more likely it is to lose its chains. The more fans have given expectations, the more likely the national players to make mistakes. This has led many domestic fans to joke that when, fans no longer have hope for the national team, Chinese football will be saved.

As the core figure of the national team, Li Tie felt that this was not just a joke, but a truth was revealed.

Are the Chinese players poor?

It is indeed not as good as Asian strong teams such as South Korea, Japan, Iran, etc., but the Chinese team is not as bad as not to have the power to fight.

It is not difficult to see from the club's game that Chinese players can also compete with South Korea and Japan.

Then why can't it be in the national team?

The answer is simple, stress.

Li Tie was the most touched by this point.

Before Gao Han took over, the situation of the national team in the top 40s was in danger. At that time, the pressure from the outside world was very high, but the pressure inside the national team was far greater than that from the outside world. It was the pressure created by the outside world, the Football Association, the coaching team and the players themselves. The pressure was even so great that it made the internal atmosphere very tense, making the atmosphere of the entire team a little distorted and overly depressed.

Everyone knows that the more critical the competition is, the easier it should be to go on the stage, but everyone knows the truth, how many can it be done?

Li Tie has watched Gao Han take over the national team with his own eyes. He has witnessed Gao Han bringing leap forward to the national team's technical and tactical level with his own eyes. Almost every player has been improved and improved under Gao Han, especially a few young players, and the progress has been particularly obvious.

But the most important thing is a psychological change.

The weakening of the past years has always made the Football Association and the national team have always had a weak mentality, and they dare not take responsibility, for fear of giving hope to the outside world, because once hope is given, they will achieve corresponding results. They are unwilling to bear this responsibility, so they are always instilling that we are the weak.

But after Gao Han came, he pointed out directly that the players' performance in the national team and club cannot be equated. He believed that the main reason was that there were problems at the psychological level. His approach was to constantly instill a belief in everyone that we are a strong team, our club can win the AFC Champions League, and our national team will definitely compete with the top Asian teams.

Outside, he took on all the pressure alone. He was like a towering mountain, supporting the national team's world. He dared to challenge all media and public opinion, and he dared to rotate significantly, arranging a large number of substitutes and young lineups to play in Syria.

If it weren't for the national team, it would be impossible to see it. Behind the victories after game, the national players gradually rebuild their confidence, following the high cold step by step, facing difficulties.

What is a strong man?

Mountain Tai collapsed before it remained unchanged!

Many people think that Gao Han has the biggest change to the national team is results and skills. However, as the leader of the national team, Li Tie feels that Gao Han has the biggest change to the national team is psychological quality and the overall temperament of the team.

It can be said that China is finally beginning to have the atmosphere of a strong team.

The most obvious manifestation is that in the training ground, when the enemy is in front of them, they still let go of their arms to play. They can walk monkeys on the training ground and sing loudly in the entertainment room.

Gao Han even did his work to the Football Association, the General Administration of Sports and the provincial and municipal leaders of the home venue. He hoped that they would not disturb the international players before the game, and would not make any comments related to the game, so as to avoid any unnecessary pressure on the international players.

What made Li Tie very touched was that he had chatted with an international player before, and he actually joked that there was no pressure to play against the Korean team. Why?

"Please, Brother Li Tie, we are now ranked first in the group, and they are ranked third in the group. If we don't get three points in this game, they are even worse than us. The head coach is going to be dismissed and the qualifying situation is in danger. If there is really pressure, then they are under a lot of pressure, okay? What should we worry about?"

This sounds heartless, but Li Tie is hard to imagine that he comes from an international player.

This means that they don’t have much pressure or psychological burden, and they can truly go into battle with lightweight equipment.

On the other hand, the Korean team has too much pressure in this game. They are away games, qualifying situations, and fear of Korea. They have too many things on their backs.

This international player is not wrong at all. If there is pressure, it will be a lot of pressure in South Korea.

The world's top coaching team, the world's top medical team, and the perfect and proper logistics work, everything allows the national team to prepare for the battle without distraction, and has also created the transformation of the national team over the past year.

But Li Tie always insisted that even with the same team, it would be difficult to reach the level of Gao Han, because his existence itself is the strongest and strong guarantee. He is born as a super coach who can bring people confidence.

The game has not started yet, but Li Tie has already noticed the reversal of the situation in China and South Korea.

Perhaps, the emergence of Gao Han not only helped China break the embarrassing Korean phobia, but may even in turn bring nightmares to the Korean team and cause them to suffer from MS.

With the current internal and external situation and the current environment facing the two national teams, who dares to say that there is no such possibility?
Chapter completed!