Chapter 401 Spain VS China
The warm-up match is not a formal match, and the opponent is relatively weak, so some young players in the Spanish team seemed a little careless.
It’s just the Chinese team, shouldn’t it be easy to defeat them?
Seeing them underestimate their opponents, the veteran players in the team couldn't stand it anymore.
"We have played against the Chinese team before. They have good defense but average offense. In the last friendly match, they hardly posed any threat to our goal. But if we underestimate them, we might be shut out by them!"
On the training ground, David Silva, who participated in the last warm-up match, spoke.
He was talking about the warm-up match three years ago. At that time, Spain was also preparing for the upcoming European Cup, so it chose two relatively weaker Asian teams - South Korea and China for warm-up matches.
In the warm-up match on May 31, Spain easily defeated South Korea with a score of 4:1.
Considering that the Chinese national team is weaker than the South Korean team, people in Spain feel that this game should be easier.
The odds offered by the outside world were that the Spanish team would give up two and a half goals, and almost everyone was optimistic that they would win a big victory.
However, the result of the game was astonishing. Spain, which had an absolute advantage throughout the game, could not score in the face of the Chinese national team's defense. They attacked for more than 80 minutes before David Silva finally scored a goal, and finally won a narrow victory over the Chinese national team 1:0.
This game left a deep impression on the Spanish team and made them fully aware of their own shortcomings, which is the lack of forward force.
However, the Spanish team was unable to resolve this problem, so much so that they struggled greatly in the World Cup qualifiers a year later, and couldn't even beat a weak team like Georgia.
Fortunately, Lin Quan's sudden emergence and Bosque's decision to recruit him into the Spanish team at the first opportunity finally solved this stubborn problem of Spain.
After they planned for Diego Costa, the outside world will no longer say that the Spanish team has no forward power when evaluating them.
After all, the whole world witnessed the fierce firepower of the Spanish team in last year's World Cup.
"Is this true? Is the Chinese national football team so good?"
Morata looked like he was saying, "I'm not well educated, so don't lie to me."
He was skeptical about what David Silva said: We have strikers like Lin and me in our team, so how can we not beat a third-rate team like the Chinese national team?
Just teasing me!
Young players such as Isco also came over curiously.
Their eyes all turned to Lin Quan. Lin Quan is a Chinese player, so he should have a better understanding of the strength of the Chinese team, right?
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Lin Quan coughed lightly and said:
“Don’t underestimate the Chinese national football team!”
"Why? I don't think their record is that good."
Morata scratched his head. The performance of the Asian teams in last year's World Cup was extremely poor. All the participating Asian teams did not win a single game and almost all of them were eliminated at the bottom.
And in such a large region, the Chinese national football team has missed three consecutive World Cups. This strength does not seem very strong at all! "Haha, haven't you heard of a saying?"
Lin Quan said with a smile: "The Chinese national football team can only be considered third-rate or even fourth-rate in the official competition, but in the warm-up match, the strength of the Chinese national football team can be improved to a higher level. The French team was defeated by them before."
Huh? The French team can't beat them?
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the Spanish players became much more serious.
Although France is no match for Spain, they are definitely a strong team in Europe.
If the Chinese national football team can defeat the French team, there is indeed a possibility that they will suffer a setback.
Facing such an opponent, the Spanish team, as the world's number one team, must definitely go all out.
If something goes wrong by accident, it would be so embarrassing if the news got out!
"Don't hold back in tomorrow's game, give it your all and try to score a goal!"
Seeing that everyone's expressions had become serious, Lin Quan spoke to Morata and a few other friends.
"Well, Brother Lin, we listen to you!"
Several people nodded heavily. They were all Lin Quan's followers, so naturally they obeyed Lin Quan's words.
The team is going through a painful period of transition from the old to the new, and during this period Bosque will give many young players opportunities.
However, whether they can gain a foothold in the national team depends on their own performance.
Under such circumstances, these young players who were called up are full of motivation and want to impress the coaching staff with their outstanding performance on the field and secure their status as international players.
Under the leadership of Lin Quan, these young players were extremely active and serious on the training ground.
This serious momentum and high morale made the coaches on the sidelines nod their heads in satisfaction: "Not bad, the young players are very motivated, there are no cheaters or those who don't train seriously!"
"Haha, it's mainly because Lin Quan took the lead!"
"Yeah, he's so strong, and he's still meticulous during training, even often giving himself extra training. How can others have the nerve to be lazy?"
Hearing the discussions of the coaching staff, Bosque was very satisfied.
I didn't expect that my arrangement to promote Lin Quan to deputy captain would bring such an effect. It was a bit unexpected.
But this is a good thing. Among the younger generation of Spanish players, few have the talent and ability to match international players such as Xavi and Iniesta.
If they still cannot train seriously and hard, the strength of the Spanish national team will definitely decline.
Now, with Lin Quan taking the lead, these players can be more modest and more prudent, recognize their own strengths more quickly, and make up for their lack of talent with more diligent training.
In this case, the future Spanish team may not be as good as this one in terms of upper limit, but the lower limit should not be too bad.
After all, with Lin Quan there, Spain will definitely be among the world's top teams.
As for whether they can still maintain their position as the world's number one team, it depends on the speed of the rise of other strong teams.
After realizing that this generation of players cannot compete with Spain, many European teams have accelerated the promotion of young players.
The one who did the fastest and best was the French team coach Didier Deschamps.
Bosque felt a lot of pressure when he thought about the French team that Deschamps was building.
"It seems that we need to arrange more young players to play and train in tomorrow's friendly match!"
Deschamps dares to promote and reuse young people, so why shouldn't Bosque dare to do the same? On the training ground, when Bosque announced the starting lineup for tomorrow, it immediately attracted cheers from the young players.
There are 8 players born after 1990 in tomorrow's starting lineup.
Among the old players, except Ramos and Lin Quan, all others were resting on the bench.
Of course, there is no limit on the number of substitutions in friendly matches, so these veteran players will most likely get a chance to play in the second half.
After all, with so many fans coming to watch the game, we can’t just let a bunch of substitutes play to fool people all the time! …
The Spanish team has many famous stars, and with the presence of Lin Quan, the number one player in the football world, their training ground attracted a large number of fans and reporters to watch.
Most of these reporters and fans came for Lin Quan.
So whenever they see Lin Quan making some wonderful dribbling, breakthroughs and shots on the training ground, they will scream and cheer, and the sound of cheering and encouragement is endless.
Some fans were still shouting things like "Lin Huang is awesome" and "Lin Huang score another goal".
The Spanish players didn't understand Chinese, so they didn't know what the people outside were shouting.
After hearing their cheers and encouragement, the veteran team members were more relaxed and in a relatively calm state of mind as they had seen such occasions many times.
But the young players couldn't control themselves. They were trying their best to show their strength in front of these fans. Even though it was an intra-team warm-up match, they took it as seriously as a formal game.
The old team members didn't take this kind of team training match seriously. They usually played with restraint when playing against young players so as not to go all out and cause psychological trauma to these younger players.
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But after these young players became serious, they had to follow suit.
After all, even if they didn't want to show off in front of these fans, they couldn't embarrass themselves in front of everyone! They were the main players after all. If they were abused by a group of substitutes, wouldn't it be embarrassing if it got out? So, the old players were forced to roll up with them.
The audience outside the stadium had no idea what was happening inside the stadium, they were just deeply attracted by the game!
"As expected of the world champions, the intensity of a training match within the Spanish team is so high!"
"Oh my god, the Spanish team is so strong. Not only are the main players extremely strong, but the substitutes are also very strong. I'm afraid the Chinese national team will be in trouble tomorrow!"
"Haha, what are you afraid of? The Chinese national football team will lose no matter who they play against. It's 3-0 anyway. I can play!"
"I don't think it will necessarily be 3:0. The Spanish team is so strong, there might be a tragedy!"
"Not necessarily? The Chinese national football team is still very strong in friendly matches. The last time they played against Spain, they almost drew with their opponents!"
Although fans of the Chinese national football team generally think that the team will lose, almost no one thinks that the team will win.
However, some people still hold a glimmer of hope in their hearts, thinking that if the Chinese national football team goes all out and parks the bus, they may be able to tie with Spain.
After all, this is their home ground, and the Chinese national team almost did it the last time they played against each other! While the Spanish team was preparing seriously, the Chinese national team was also busy.
The head coach of the Chinese national football team, Perrin, is arranging for the team to practice various defensive tactics.
Although Perrin is not very famous, at the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, he led the Chinese team to win all three group matches and won first place in the group.
Although they quickly lost to the champion Australia in the knockout stage, this result was very dazzling for the Chinese national football team which was in a slump.
If the Chinese national football team had been luckier and had not been drawn against Australia, the strongest second-place team in the group, they might have had a chance to advance to the semi-finals.
It is precisely because of the outstanding performance in the Asian Cup that the Football Association decided to renew the contract with Perrin.
Obviously, the Football Association has high hopes for Perrin, hoping that he can lead the national football team out of the trough and launch an attack on the next World Cup.
Although Perrin is not as famous as Camacho, he has one better point, that is, his work attitude is very serious.
When arranging tactics, we can base it on the characteristics of the national football players.
What are the characteristics of the Chinese national football team? Poor footwork, poor psychological quality, poor physical confrontation...
Anyway, I can't find any advantages.
Since everyone's footwork is so rough, Perrin simply selected a group of players with outstanding physical fitness and let them rely on physical confrontation to make up for the shortcomings of their lack of footwork.
The advantage of doing this is that at least the physical confrontation ability is improved, and there are not only weaknesses.
The downside is that the Chinese national football team cannot do anything fancy and their offensive means are limited. If the opponent strengthens their defense, it will be difficult for the Chinese national football team to score a goal.
However, this does not matter at all for tomorrow's game.
Because they are facing the world champion Spain team, no one thinks the Chinese national team can win tomorrow's game. Perrin and the players of the Chinese national team also think so.
Since we can't win, there's no need to worry about the offensive problem. Let's solve the defensive problem first.
The whole world knows that the Spanish team is famous for its footwork, but its physical confrontation ability is actually average.
In last year's World Cup final, they were suppressed by the German team in physical confrontation.
Of course, the Chinese national team’s physical confrontation ability cannot be compared with that of the German team.
But they don't need to pursue victory like the German team did. They just need to shrink their formation to their own half, or even to a small area in front of their own penalty area.
In this way, their defensive intensity can be greatly improved, and the space left for the Spanish team to thread the needle and penetrate on the ground will be greatly reduced.
In this case, increasing the intensity of physical confrontation is an excellent defensive strategy.
Thinking of this, Perrin determined the tactics for tomorrow.
…
Time passed quickly and soon it was the competition day.
Before the game started, the huge Bird's Nest was packed with more than 90,000 fans.
Although the Chinese national football team has a bad reputation and poor record.
However, there were still many fans wearing red jerseys to support the Chinese national football team. It was estimated that more than half of them were fans of the Chinese national football team.
They held up all kinds of slogans and banners, saying things like 'Chinese national football team should not be scared, just do it', 'Chinese national football team, stand up', 'Chinese national football team should beat Spain' and so on.
To be honest, the Chinese national football team’s record is somewhat unworthy of the support of these fans.
Because they were playing away, Spain did not wear red jerseys, but instead chose white jerseys for away games.
There are relatively few fans wearing white jerseys to support the Spanish team, mainly because they don't wear white uniforms very often. They also wear red uniforms in most games. However, the Chinese national team used red, so the Spanish team naturally had to change their uniforms.
But the white uniforms are still very nice. From a distance, I thought it was Real Madrid on the field! Before the game started, the national anthem was played, and all the fans stood up and sang the national anthem loudly, which was amazing.
When it was the Spanish team's turn, there was silence and even the Spanish players on the field did not speak.
The reason is that the Spanish national anthem has no lyrics...
(End of this chapter)