Chapter 433 The key battle of the national team
After Atletico Madrid won the La Liga championship with a record 106 points, Zhang Huasong's 2012/2013 season all ended.
However, he couldn't rest.
Because, the club's game has ended, but the national team's life-and-death battle has not ended yet.
In the top ten Asian qualifiers in the 2014 Brazil World Cup, the Chinese team was divided into Group B and the same group as Australia, Japan, Jordan and Oman.
There are a total of ten rounds of competitions in the top ten. After the first seven rounds, the Japanese team ranked first in Group B with 13 points, the Chinese team ranked second with 10 points, Jordan ranked third with 6 points, Oman ranked fourth with 5 points, and Australia ranked fifth with 4 points.
As the highest-ranked team in FIFA Asia, after seven rounds of the top ten games, Australia ranked last in Group B, which can be said to have fallen below everyone's glasses.
Even Australia cannot get out of the line, which also proves the argument that the media believes that Group B is the Death Group after the lottery ceremony.
However, whether Australia qualifies for the Chinese team or not is not related to the Chinese team. The Chinese team is now ranked second. Just need to play the remaining three rounds of the top ten games, and it is very likely that it will directly advance to the World Cup as second in Group B, and there is no need to even play the playoffs.
Such a prospect naturally makes Chinese fans extremely excited!
Zhang Huasong's continued highlight performance in Europe, Champions League, four-time champion, more than 100 goals in the season, etc., have made many Chinese fans who once loved football and left disappointed later sit on TV and computers and start watching football games and paying attention to football news.
Zhang Huasong's performance in Europe with the gods blocking the gods and the Buddhas blocking the Buddhas naturally made everyone look forward to his national team performance.
Previously, Zhang Huasong participated in two national team games, performed two hat tricks in a row, and had an assist.
Fans have every reason to look forward to it, hoping that Zhang Huasong will lead the Chinese team to successfully enter the World Cup and achieve excellent results in the World Cup, rather than playing soy sauce like in 2002.
The last round of the league on June 1st, and the club players and staff had a dinner with them on June 2nd, and flew to Oman on June 3rd, and the eighth round of the top ten matches of the Chinese team away against Oman on June 4th.
In the eighth round of the top ten, Oman vs. China, Japan vs. Australia, and Jordan teams were bye.
At 10 a.m. local time on June 4, Oman's home vs. China team officially began.
Although Zhang Huasong had just participated in the last round of the league, Zhang Huasong actually played very easily in the next two rounds of the league.
Without the pressure to win the championship, you will have a lot of relaxation in your mind and physical fitness. With Zhang Huasong's physical strength, sports doctor and divine physical therapy skills, even after a long-distance flight from Spain to Oman, there is no problem dealing with the 90-minute race.
Jordan team is bye in this round. If China wins away against Oman, it will lead Jordan 7 points and Oman 8 points.
With two rounds left in the game, even if the Chinese team lost in the last two rounds, Jordan and Oman team won, they could not surpass the Chinese team's points.
This means that as long as the Chinese team wins, the Chinese team can at least ensure third place.
Australia, which ranked fifth, only had 4 points. Even if he won against the Japanese team in this round, he only had 7 points, and was still 6 points behind the Chinese team.
In the last two rounds, the Chinese team will lose all the time, and Australia will win all the way to catch up to a squad, and the rankings of second and third places will be determined through goal difference.
If Australia draws or loses against Japan in this round, then if the Chinese team wins, they can at least lock in second place in Group B and advance to the Brazil World Cup two rounds ahead of schedule.
In this case, Zhang Huasong's own physical strength is fine.
Therefore, after communication with head coach Rehager, Otto the Great put Zhang Huasong on the list of this game.
There were countless fans, even non-fans, on-site and at home, paying attention to this game.
After the game began, under the pressure of defeating the Chinese team, Oman team had to launch an active attack on the Chinese team.
It seems that they used two midfielders to defend Zhang Huasong, but Zhang Huasong's dribbling and breakthrough ability are unsolvable in Europe, not to mention the level of Asian teams.
Therefore, in the 5th minute of the game, Zhang Huasong used a fancy bicycle to pass the first midfielder of Oman, and then used a Marseille to pass the second one.
If the pass-through ball had not been wasted by the forward, the Chinese team would have scored in the fifth minute of the game.
In the 8th minute, Zhang Huasong almost scored the goal with another lightning counterattack, but Zhang Huasong's shot hit the post and bounced out of the baseline.
Zhang Huasong's active performance made the Oman team's head coach very anxious and shouted anxiously off the court: "Defend him, guard against him!"
As a result, another midfielder came around Zhang Huasong, trying to defend Zhang Huasong strictly.
However, there were only so many people on the court. Three people came to defend Zhang Huasong, so naturally no one defended the other Chinese players.
Although the abilities of Chinese players have been criticized, they are professional players after all, and they can pass the ball, dribble, or shoot without defense.
So, in the 17th minute, the Chinese team passed a pass from Zhang Huasong without passing the ball, and the forward Yu Dabao sent the ball into the Oman team's goal.
The players of Oman team were nervously defending Zhang Huasong, but unexpectedly, Zhang Huasong was sent into his own goal without even touching the ball.
The Oman team players were stunned and didn't know what to play next!
Defending Zhang Huasong, other Chinese players can score goals even if the pressure is greatly reduced. However, when the troops are divided to defend other Chinese players, the strength of defending Zhang Huasong will naturally decline.
Facing Zhang Huasong, who is known as the goal-scoring machine and scores goals in European arenas, what's the use of one or two defending one or two people?
Both the coach and the player of the Oman team are in a dilemma.
In fact, this is what made Atletico Madrid unsolvable last season. Now it is the Chinese national team opponents' turn to "enjoy".
The Chinese team wants to qualify by themselves, so naturally they will not consider the feelings of the Omani people.
At the Omani's home court, the Chinese team continued to play the tactic of defensive counterattack. Because the Omani team was already behind, they had to attack, and the Chinese team's defensive counterattack hit more smoothly.
During the counterattack, Zhang Huasong's speed was even more unpredictable.
In the 31st minute, Zhang Huasong finally scored a goal. He scored a long-distance run over 40 meters and scored a goal. The Chinese team led Oman team 2-0 away.
In the 41st minute, Zhang Huasong's free kick hit the goal post, allowing the Omani to escape and avoid the misfortune of ending the game in the first half.
However, their good luck did not last long.
Just the second minute of the second half, Zhang Huasong scored a goal with a long-distance counterattack with a lightning speed. Zhang Huasong scored twice, and the Chinese team led 3-0.
After falling behind 0-3, Oman team lost confidence in equalizing or even winning, and became listless.
They themselves no longer believe that they can defeat the Chinese team with Zhang Huasong.
Finally, in the 76th minute, Zhang Huasong scored another free kick and scored a hat-trick.
With such a score, Oman team completely lost their belief! As soon as the 90 minutes arrived, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, and Zhang Huasong led the Chinese team to defeat Oman team 4-0 away.
Now, we are waiting for the result of another match between Group B that will be played at the same time.
As long as Australia does not beat Japan, the Chinese team will be able to qualify in advance.
Chapter completed!