The Chinese team advanced to the World Cup quarterfinals, in fact, had psychological expectations from the outside world before the group stage ended, so it would not cause a sensation. Their real sensation was after defeating Nigeria in the first two rounds and tied with Belgium.

After dealing with the post-match interview, Situ Yunbing led the team back to the hotel, and then sat with Alonzo in the hotel restaurant, ordered some special dishes and a bottle of fine wine, and the two smiled and raised their glasses at each other.

Alonzo has led Liverpool in recent years and has lost only one league championship in four seasons, won one championship in the Champions League, and fell in the semi-finals three times.

Two of them were the team's wounded soldiers all over the camp, either no one was available on the front line, and could only rely on young player Sancho and veteran Bale, or the midfield defense line was completely pieced together.

The invincible lineup created by Situ Yunbing has indeed had a significant impact on the team's performance due to injuries in recent years.

After the Ironman Van Dijk is absent, Liverpool's back line will be downshifted. If Kanter cannot play, then the whole world will know who supports the Liverpool's midfield defense. If Casemiro is injured again, then Liverpool's midfield defense will become very mediocre. If Mbappe, Lewandowski and Sane are unable to play at the same time on the front line, then Liverpool's forward strength will be greatly reduced. Among them, Lewandowski is another very important link, but he cannot withstand the impact of injuries.

Alonzo is just slightly inferior in coaching than Situ Yunbing at that time. One is his decisive response on the spot. In the final analysis, whether he can fight for his life with ideas and whether he will hesitate to retreat when he should put everything in. At this point, looking back at the key battles that Liverpool lost in the past four years, there is already an answer. The second point is the team's renewal. Liverpool also tried to sign players to supplement the lineup, but the effect was not very good. In the past four years, there have also appeared one or two Red Army players who were labeled as parallel to the Fleet Street.

However, overall, looking at the Reds' record in the Premier League is still difficult for other teams to surpass.

So Alonzo's position as coach is still very stable.

After all, there is no coach in European football at present who is generally recognized as being able to do better than him.

Alonzo came to Qatar this time to pay attention to the Chinese team's game, and also to inspect some candidates on-site signing players.

In addition to congratulating the achievements of the Chinese team, the two recalled the glorious years of the past. Then Alonzo said to Situ Yunbing: "Boss, I am very optimistic about Guo Xuantu. I hope to bring him to Liverpool next summer. What do you think?"

When Situ Yunbing took Guo Xuantu to Monaco, the entire European football scouting system would list Guo Xuantu as a key observation target.

There is Zhao Fenghua in front, Luo Cheng and Luo Xin behind. In addition to the emergence of Chinese players in European football, the club is full of commercial market ambitions behind the players.

Situ Yunbing smiled and said, "If you can guarantee that you will stay in Liverpool for at least 5 years, then I would recommend him to go to Liverpool, but if you can't make a guarantee, I don't think that going to Liverpool is a good choice. My plan was to play in Monaco for at least three years. Whether it is technical and experience growth, or his personal stable development, I hope he can lay a solid foundation in the early stage and see where he can go when he is 21 years old. Bundesliga or La Liga is the first choice. Premier League? I never recommend Chinese players to go to the Premier League. Although they can hone their confrontation, the improvement they can get at the technical and tactical level is very limited, unless they can go to Manchester City or Liverpool."

Alonzo fell into deep thought and smiled bitterly after a moment: "I can't make a guarantee. To be honest, I suddenly had an idea in the past year. I hope to start coaching again from a young team, such as the mid-range team in the Bundesliga or La Liga, just like the Hamburg we went to together back then."

Situ Yunbing nodded and said, "This idea is very good. I guess it's your failed experience in recent years that you realize that you have no challenges in Liverpool most of the time, but when the test comes, you will lack confidence. However, mid-range teams are different. They are almost every game. They must be able to win against weak teams. When playing with strong teams, they must learn to survive in the cracks. The most important thing is that they cannot retain core players. You also have to cultivate fresh blood for the team yourself. These are things that you find difficult to have the opportunity to experience and face in Liverpool."

Alonzo nodded deeply in agreement, and Situ Yunbing said the key points.

Situ Yunbing can actually understand Alonzo's situation. When Liverpool is smooth sailing, winning the championship is just a natural thing.

However, once a team that is too smooth encounters a crisis, then responding to the crisis is not a temporary intention, but definitely requires experience and ability!

Alonzo's coaching career started well, but his starting point was too high, which often made him less experience from the bottom up process.

After Guo Xuantu's affairs were finished, Alonzo was no longer at ease. After a long talk with Situ Yunbing, he also made up his mind to leave Liverpool next summer and coach a mid-range team to continue learning and accumulate experience.

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In addition to celebrating the team's advancement to the World Cup, Chinese fans will start to pay more attention to the situation in Group D. The situation in Group D is a bit chaotic, and before the final game, there are three teams who have hope of qualifying.

Spain, Mexico, Sweden.

The Chinese team will play against the second place in the group in the knockout round.

If we start from the perspective of selecting opponents, then Chinese fans will cheer for Spain and hope that Spain can win the top spot in the group.

As for Mexico or Sweden, it is much better than Spain qualifying for the second place.

I'm afraid Belgium is thinking about it, and they hope that Spain will not get the second place, either the top spot in the group, or just go home.

The next night, all Chinese team members watched the final game of Group D in the hotel.

Situ Yunbing also watched the game very seriously. When the Chinese team reached the top 16 of the World Cup, his game challenge mission was only the last level!

As long as he leads the Chinese team to the quarterfinals of the World Cup, he will be freed from this survival game that has lasted for more than ten years!

For the first time, the players saw Situ Yunbing holding a notebook while watching the game, which made everyone's mentality of watching the game more serious. They lowered their voices and were very serious when communicating with each other, for fear of disturbing Situ Yunbing's work.

Generally, Situ Yunbing works like this only when he is in his office or alone, but he must buy time.

The screen on the big screen is divided into two areas, and the two games are being played at the same time, and the Chinese team is also watching two games at the same time.

Situ Yunbing was not distracted at all, and his vision switched back and forth in the two games.

It seems to be a one-pointed and dedicated person, but his thinking is very clear.

Record the usual lines and styles of play during offense, the role of core players, deployment adjustments during defense, and players who can play freely and may bring unexpected impacts.

Before going to the World Cup, the Chinese team conducted detailed investigations on the three teams in Group D, from personnel to play and game research. Therefore, Situ Yunbing was not confused under the premise of doing enough homework. He had a comprehensive understanding of the players on the court through information.

When the game ended, Situ Yunbing had already written all a thick notebook. He would go back and summarize it and reorganize the useful information.

In the end, Spain won the top spot in the group, Sweden was eliminated, and Mexico ranked second in the group.

In this way, it would be useless for Situ Yunbing to record information about Sweden tonight, but he did not feel that he wasted his energy and time at all.

And the information from Spain may not be available now, but what if it will be useful in the future?

As for Mexico, it will be the opponent of the Chinese team, so first-hand information is worth a thousand gold.

All the Chinese players also know that they will be in the next quarter-finals. They can't say they are relieved because they avoided Spain, but at least they have reduced some pressure and become more full of fighting spirit!

Now every step forward will be a new history of Chinese football!

The advantage of the Chinese team is to rest one more day more than Mexico, and the Chinese team can prepare for the game and understand the opponent earlier than Mexico.

It can be imagined that Mexico cannot consider who to play in the 1/8 final before the group stage ends.

When they advanced to the top 16, they went back to study the Chinese team, and they were also behind the Chinese team in time.

Researching opponents is to prepare for better battles, but the Chinese team has more time to prepare for battles!

Without Situ Yunbing's reminder, the coaching staff asked the players to go back to their rooms to rest.

Situ Yunbing continued to work after returning to the room, sorting out the information, and asked Feng Kuoyang to bring the Mexican information he had prepared before, as well as videos of Mexico's two games in the group stage.

Feng Kuoyang saw that it was getting late, so he reminded Situ Yunbing to rest early, but Situ Yunbing smiled at him and shook his head, saying, "I have a lot of time to rest after the World Cup."

Feng Kuoyang seemed to realize something, so he stayed in Situ Yunbing's room to provide assistance to Situ Yunbing.

Once upon a time, Situ Yunbing and Alonzo also worked day and night in the hotel. He rarely did this in recent years. After all, time is unforgiving, and men should pay attention to physical care even after they are over thirty.

However, it is the World Cup now, and after the group stage, the preparation time is very tight, so Situ Yunbing started working overtime again.

The next day, during training, the players saw Situ Yunbing standing on the sidelines holding a coffee cup. The coaching staff compiled many targeted plans for the next game, and then let each player remember it. The players didn't have to think about it and knew that this was the result of Situ Yunbing's almost staying up late.

They will not be moved, they will only have higher respect.
Chapter completed!