host must win

Chapter 380 Entering the Final Four

At 70 minutes into the game, Alihan made a substitution. He first replaced Dong Fangzhuo with Li Yi, and 3 minutes later, Alihan replaced Wei Xing with Sun Jihai.

During this Asian Cup, the right back from Jiangzhou Jinfan performed very well, and has been pressing the original starting right back Sun Jihai, who played for Manchester City in the Premier League, to the bench.

Amidst the cheers of the crowd, Wei Xing left the field. He applauded three times in a row on the sidelines to thank the fans for their cheers and applause.

Alihan laughed and watched this scene, then he clapped Wei Xing's hands, rubbed his head, and said, "Nice job!"

Alihan didn't continue to stand on the sidelines and stare at the field. It was 2:0, and the game was basically won.

Leading by two goals, the Chinese team is playing high, while Iraq has some physical problems after being consumed by the Chinese team for most of the game. Now it has been beaten by the Chinese team twice in a row.

It is said that the defeat of the army was like a mountain, and Iraq, whose morale was declining, could not stop the pace of the Chinese team's attack.

In the 78th minute of the game, Sun Jihai made a bottom pass, and Li Yi scored a goal in front of the goal, 3:0!

After 5 minutes, Shao Jiayi and Yin Jun hit the wall and knocked horizontally. Sun Jihai missed the football. Yin Jun turned around and volleyed in the penalty area. The ball scored, 4:0!

Six minutes later, in the 6th minute of the game, the Chinese team won a free kick on the left side of the front court. Yin Jun's free kick caused chaos in front of Iraq's goal.

This is also the final score of the game. After 2 minutes, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. The Chinese team beat Iraq 5-0 in the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup!
At the moment when the whistle sounded, the players on the field began to run and cheer, and there was a huge sound wave in the stands, like a volcanic eruption. Alihan rushed out of the coach's bench, he raised his arms, rushed into the field, and was equally excited The players caught him alive, they picked him up, threw him in the air, caught him, threw him in the air, caught him again...

The cheers and thunderous applause in the stands.

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Although the Iraqi team lost the game, its head coach Adnan still looked normal and behaved decently in front of many reporters. He said at the press conference after the game: "This game is very difficult for us. Yes, our team had a chance (to score) in the first half, but the players failed to grasp it. When the Chinese team started to exert their strength in the second half, we had no resistance at all. I have to say that the Chinese team with Yin Jun is very strong. It is not something that our newly formed Iraqi team can match. The only thing that puzzles me is why Mr. Hahn was so conservative in the first half. But anyway, I would like to congratulate the Chinese team for winning the game and breaking into the half finals."

When Arihan brought team captain Yin Jun and central defender Zheng Zhi, who scored twice like Yin Jun today, to the press conference, there was a round of warm applause.

"Thank you for the applause." Alihan said with a smile, "I accept this applause on behalf of my players, because they performed really well today."

"It was a tough game. Our team performed very well in the first half, but I regret that they failed to score. In the second half, the Iraqi team played on us at one point, and our team was quite passive on the scene. However, after adjustments , Our team finally played better and better. Our victory is a reasonable and deserved result, this is a normal victory."

Ali Han's words made many reporters complain secretly: Nima, you let the Chinese team play so conservatively in the first half, you said that is a good performance?Also, at the beginning of the second half, the Chinese team played very passively. Isn't it also because your tactics are too conservative?

However, everyone believed that Alihan was very correct in saying that the Chinese team played better and better after making tactical adjustments.The score will not lie. When the Chinese team started to dominate the attack, they defeated Iraq in a devastating manner. The score also changed from 0:0 to 5:0 in half an hour!

When the reporter asked Alihan how he viewed the upcoming semi-finals, Alihan said: "The Asian Cup is a very difficult cup, and it will become more difficult as it goes on, but as long as we play at the level of the first half, we are not afraid of any opponents." .We played 20 good minutes against Bahrain, we played a good half-time tonight, our minutes are increasing and it shows we're improving."

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The Chinese team has successfully entered the semi-finals, completed the minimum indicators set by the Chinese Football Association for the national football team in this Asian Cup, and also reached the psychological bottom line acceptable to Chinese fans!
However, the head coach Ali Han avoided talking about the issue of winning the championship after the game. He only said that he would fly to Jinan on the 31st to watch another quarter-final match between the South Korean team and the Iranian team, to study and scout the next step of the national football team. opponent.

When a reporter asked Ali Han which opponent he was looking forward to meeting in the semi-finals, Ali Han avoided the question and said: "I don't expect anything, I just want to watch the game, then make an analysis, and then take Come up with our countermeasures. I know that now you are all waiting for what I have to say. I also know how Chinese fans feel about the historical confrontation between the Chinese and Korean teams. I also know that the Chinese team has not won in the past so many years. Iran. However, for this 1/4 finals, I don’t want to say anything more. Maybe more people hope that the Chinese team will meet the South Korean team in the semi-finals, but the opponent may be the Iranian team, because the Iranian team has some Like the Iraqi team, their physical fitness is very good, for the South Korean team, it will definitely be a tough game, even more difficult than our game."

The reporter turned to ask: "So, who would you like to meet?"

Ali Han replied: "I never talk about what is willing or not, because you don't know what will happen in the future. It's just a football game, do your job, enjoy your job, this feeling is very Fantastic! And I went just to enjoy the game!"

Afterwards, Ali Han said: "There are two more games in the future, and these two games will be more difficult than the other. If we play like we did in the first half of today, we can win a lot of games. But the game is not always Well, there's always a lot of weird stuff going on, like tomorrow will be yesterday, but tomorrow will come again, because it's an 2-player game. To play well, you need 2 people and make them all at the same time To be at your best, you also need to have a good feeling before the game, 'Oh, good, today's feeling good.' That way, our players in the game even if they miss the scoring opportunity, they believe that they can take the opportunity."

(End of this chapter)