As Zhou Yi said, no matter how many extra moves you have before the game or how many verbal battles you have, it is actually useless. ≥≧

The outcome of a football match is mainly determined by the game.

Of course, off-track moves and verbal battles may affect the players' performance on the field.

For example, if Qatar's adjustment to the Chinese team's hotel can make the Chinese team's players more tired, then they will not be able to achieve 100% in the game.

However, Qatar seems to really not want the Chinese team to live in their lucky hotel. The hotel they arranged for the Chinese team to stay is actually better than the previous one in terms of conditions and geographical location...

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The match between the Chinese team and Singapore was at 10:15 pm on November 11, Beijing time. For domestic fans, this is a not too late kick-off time. They can watch the game without staying up late. After watching it, it is almost midnight, and they can go to bed directly.

Of course, how many people will have the heart to sleep at that time is another matter.

At 10 o'clock in the evening of Beijing time, it is 7 o'clock in the evening of Qatar local time, and there is a five-hour time difference between the two places.

For Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries with tropical desert climates, except for the milder winter climate between December and February, the temperature during the day is very high, which can rise to more than 40 degrees, and the air humidity is very high, which is very stuffy in summer. So football matches will not be scheduled to be held in the afternoon at this time.

Like Ying, there is a situation where the kick-off is at around 1:00 noon, which is almost impossible in the Qatar League.

The only benefit of this place is that although the temperature is very high during the day, the surface is mainly sand and gravel, so the temperature difference between day and night is very cool, and the sea breeze blows, so the body temperature is not high.

This match between the Chinese team and Iraq was arranged during this period.

There are some red glows near the horizon in the west sky, but it is already the last ray of the sunset.

Seabirds flew over the court from time to time.

There were many fans wearing white gauze robes unique to Arabs sitting in the stands. Not many of these people were truly Iraqi, and many of them were actually Qataris.

Zhou Yi is not unfamiliar with this scene. During his Asian Cup, almost every game was like this.

In addition to the fans of Qatar and Iraq, there are many Chinese people wearing red clothes holding five-star red flags in the south stands. It is hard to say that they are all fans, but they are all Chinese, they are all employees and international students of Chinese-funded companies in Qatargo. Many of these people may not watch football at all, but they are not here to watch football. They are to support the Chinese team. When abroad, sports can represent the motherland to some extent.

After the game began, Iraq launched a fierce offensive against the Chinese team's goal, hoping to score early.

They almost won the Chinese team away. When they returned to home, they would definitely win.

In response to Iraq's idea, Gao Hongbo formulated a defensive counterattack strategy.

In the first half, Gao Hongbo's tactics were half successful because Iraq did not score.

However, the Chinese team has not been able to threaten Iraq's goal.

The two sides tied up with o:o.

During the halftime break, Gong Lei, a commentator in the Chinese studio, analyzed the performance of the Chinese team in the first half, believing that they put too much energy into defense, resulting in a slight lack of investment in offense. However, this is not a big problem. After all, it would be good if the Chinese team can finally get a draw away in the away game.

"...If you can win, of course it's better, but I think for the Chinese team, the most important thing is not to think too much now. What I'm afraid of is thinking too much. Once you have too many ideas, you won't know how to play football..."

Gong Lei’s statement was agreed by the essayist Liu Hong.

"Yes, we always thought too much before. In fact, football is easier than it is better..."

“Yes, unity of thought.”

Liu Hong thought about it, but felt that it was not right: "Hey, Teacher Gong. But we also have too many precedents of wanting to draw and losing, and in the end they really lost. If this game is too conservative, will it lose again in the end?"

Gong Lei seemed to be stabilized. After a few ums, he finally thought about what to say: "That's right... The Chinese team is not just defending, but there will still be counterattacks. But it is definitely mainly defense. Unless there is a good opportunity to counterattack, the Chinese team will not push the attack at will. As for the timing of this counterattack... I think Zhou Yi will definitely seize it very well."

Liu Hong also echoed: "That's true, I believe Zhou Yi will not disappoint us. When will he let us down?"

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In fact, Gong Lei said it well. During the half-time break, Gao Hongbo was indeed emphasizing the Chinese team that he should still play a defensive counterattack in the second half and not easily pressed up to attack, otherwise the gap behind him would be easily exploited by his opponents.

But when should we fight back?

But he didn't say it in detail, but said to all the players: "Zhou Yi decided."

He fully believes that Zhou Yi’s judgment of the situation is also a kind of delegation. In fact, the head coaches on the sidelines will never know more about what is happening on the court, but the head coaches have an advantage, that is, they can see the overall situation deep on the sidelines and observe the game from a macro perspective, so although they are not on the front line, they can command the game. Although the players are on the front line, they cannot understand the comprehensive situation because they are "in the mountains".

However, such a problem does not exist in Zhou Yi at all, because he even has an observation angle from the head coach's perspective, and he has a "God's perspective"! So he can not only understand the situation on the front line, but also experience the changes in the game situation at the first time, but also have a more overall perspective than the head coach.

So when he makes decisions on the court, he is actually better than the head coach making decisions. The main head coach is willing to delegate power.

Gao Hongbo was willing to delegate power. In fact, he didn't think of doing this at the beginning, but after observing Zhou Yi's training and game up close, he found that Zhou Yi knew the situation on the court, and even reached a terrible level. Everyone knew that the game format was changing rapidly, and the twenty-two players were constantly changing every minute and every second.

But Zhou Yi can master it.

After seeing Zhou Yi's characteristics, Gao Hongbo felt that Zhou Yi could be a moving command hub on the court, and there was no need for him to yell at the sidelines to direct the game.

In this way, he gradually delegated power, and the Chinese players gradually got used to what was happening on the court and listened to Zhou Yi's arrangements.

Zhou Yi actually likes the arrangement of the head coach. Because this will make things simple, it is not easy to simplify the complex. If you do it well, you can get huge results. Although other players in the national team are not as strong as Dortmund's teammates, Zhou Yi did not think playing football in the national team is a very painful thing, because he has such privileges in the national team, but he does not.

Because Dortmund's head coach Klopp will not do what Gao Hongbo did. He wants to keep everything in his hands and only allows players to swing freely within the scope he stipulates, rather than completely freely.

This is also the result of different systems.

Of course, this approach actually has high requirements for the players' sense of responsibility and self-confidence.

People who have no sense of responsibility are unwilling to bear such responsibilities because this is also a huge pressure. When something goes wrong, the head coach was responsible, but now the players who make the decisions are responsible.

People with insufficient confidence cannot be competent for such a job. People without confidence will doubt themselves and hesitate, thus wasting great opportunities and may even bring danger to their team.

And just so happens that Zhou Yi is a person who has both sense of responsibility and self-confidence.

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In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, Iraq still made a fierce attack towards the Chinese team's goal, even more fierce than the first half. Because they knew that there were only 45 minutes left for them.

Faced with the aggressive Iraq, the Chinese team played very calmly under the leadership of Zhou Yi and was not in a hurry at all, as if they really wanted to get a draw back away.

Even when they were under their feet, they were not in a hurry to pass the ball, but instead were turning their feet back and forth, slowly pushing forward, allowing Iraqi players to fight back desperately, as if they couldn't see it at all.

Duan Xin was quite sorry for the Chinese team missing out on counterattack again and again at first, but later she stopped talking.

After sprinting and returning to defense several times, the Chinese team wanted to fight back quickly. They passed the ball leisurely, but they were exhausted from desperately returning to defense. This was really unhappy.

So when the Chinese team got the ball again, they were not in a hurry to run back, but stayed in the midfield first and tried to intercept the ball to fight back on the spot.

But when the Iraqi team did this, Zhou Yi suddenly passed the ball with a long diagonal pass to Hao Junmin, who was on the wing!
Chapter completed!