Chapter 1235

Doha

the capital of Qatar, the largest city.

Here, the Chinese team has no good memory. It has no victory in the face of Qatar and has lost to Saudi Arabia, Iran and South Korea.

On November 9, the Chinese team came to Doha again. This time, they were faced with the powerful Western Asian team Iraq.

At home, due to Gao Xiaodong's absence, China lost 1-0 to Iraq.

At present, China, Iraq and Jordan are all three wins and one loss.

Jordan has no suspense against Singapore in this round. It's almost 100% to get three points.

In this way, the confrontation between Iraq and China has become a key battle for who will be promoted from the group.

Because of the civil war in Iraq, Iraq had to compete with China in Doha, Qatar. Before the game, it was seen as weakening Iraq's advantage. However, it turned out that this was only a beautiful fantasy of the Chinese people.

Previously, the Chinese team sent staff to Doha to book the Arabi stadium training ground for daily training. However, after the team arrived, the stadium suddenly informed the Chinese team that they could not use the Arabi stadium. The Iraqi side obtained the consent of the Qatar Football Association and obtained the right to use the training ground.

The technical committee stadium is far away from the Sheraton Hotel where the national football team is staying, and the turf quality is also poor, which has a certain negative impact on the training of the Chinese team.

Just because of the unfair treatment in the training ground, the Chinese team is not worried. What they are worried about is the referee. The Asian Football Association is basically controlled by the people of West Asia. Not to mention the Chinese team, even Japan and South Korea are often treated unfairly.

If the referee whistles at home, the game will be very dangerous for China.

Gao Xiaodong's return will certainly greatly enhance the strength of the Chinese team, but it is difficult to say whether it can offset the unfair judgment of the referee.

The Chinese are not paranoid of persecution. The poor performance of the Chinese team is their own fault, but the unfair treatment of the referee in the key game is not without it.

At 22:15 on November 11, the fourth round of group A in Brazil's World Cup Asian qualifier group 20 started, and the Chinese team challenged the Iraqi team at the Al Arabi stadium in Doha.

Iraq's starting lineup is basically the same as that of the previous round of Shenzhen away victory over China: 12 kaseed; 19 Hashim, 15 Hussein, 14 shaquill, 16 said; 4 Munir, 20 Khalid; 17 Abdel Zahar, 5 Akram, 9 Karim; 10 Younis.

Compared with the home game against Iraq, the Chinese team changed a lot of players in the first round, which was very similar to the game against Jordan. Only Li Feng, the centre back, was replaced by Du Wei.

Goalkeeper 22 - Yang Zhi; four guards are 3 - Sun Xiang, 4 - Du Wei, 6 - Feng Xiao, 13 - Liu Jian; four centers: 7 - Zhao Xu, 16 - Huang Bowen, 23 - Zheng Hua, 10 - Gao Xiaodong; forwards: 11 - Qu Bo, 9 - Yang Xu.

Green, the referee of the match, is only 31 years old from Australia.

Green only became an international referee five years ago. In the 2009 Asian Cup qualifier, the home match between Hong Kong and Japan is the first time that green has ever been involved in an international A-level competition.

Green's law enforcement game is relatively loose. In 57 games he executed, green showed 166 yellow cards in total, including 68 for the home team and 98 for the visiting team; six red cards were given to the visiting team, all of which were given to the visiting team; in addition, he awarded 10 penalties, six for the home team and four for the visiting team.

Judging from the data of Green's law enforcement, it's not that friendly to the visiting team.

The first to kick off was the visiting Chinese team.

Yang Xu reversed his foot and Qu Bo sent it back to Gao Xiaodong, and the Iraqi players quickly overcame the middle circle.

Before the game, the Iraqi players and coaches said that they would not ask for one point, but must get three points. The Iraqi team will never seek peace conservatively.

Judging from the momentum of Iraq at the beginning, they really hope to win the Chinese team in Doha and take the initiative to qualify.

In the face of forward Younis' fierce press, Gao Xiaodong didn't return the ball. When Younis was less than three meters in front of him, Gao Xiaodong suddenly smashed the ball horizontally.

Younis didn't expect that Gao Xiaodong didn't return. He didn't slow down and was ready to attack the central defender of the Chinese team. Gao Xiaodong made Younis almost fall to the ground.

There are a lot of players crossing the middle line in Iraq. Just after Younis was shaken, Karim rushed over again.

Gao Xiaodong made an effort to pass the ball across the court, then buckled the ball again and shook Karim away.

Gao Xiaodong made use of the misjudgment of the Iraqi players and made two same moves to beat the two players. This wonderful performance made the Chinese fans of the ten thousand li expedition very excited. They all applauded and exclaimed: Gao Xiaodong did a good job!

However, he Hui, China's commentator, disagrees with Gao Xiaodong's passing in his own half. "Xiaodong's passing is very beautiful, but it's unnecessary. If he is robbed, the defensive line will be in danger."

Of course, what he Hui said is reasonable, but he doesn't understand Gao Xiaodong's idea.Gao Xiaodong knew that the key battle of the Chinese national team was good. He hoped to use his own actions to boost the confidence of his teammates and make a good start for the game, so he passed in the beginning.

This is also the courage of Gao xiaodongyi. He is not worried that these second rate players in Iraq can break his ball. Even if they do, the Chinese team has three lines. He can return to defense, and Iraq will not create much threat.

Gao Xiaodong's two passes really inspired the players of the Chinese team. Seeing Gao Xiaodong's passing the middle circle with the ball, the players of the Chinese team quickly stepped forward to meet Gao Xiaodong.

Iraq's forward pressure was blocked. When he saw Gao Xiaodong crossing the middle circle, he immediately drew close to Gao Xiaodong and grabbed Gao Xiaodong from three sides.

At the moment, Zheng Hua in the middle is also in the middle. It's a safe choice for Gao Xiaodong to pass the ball back to him and then run. However, Gao Xiaodong didn't pass it to Zheng Hua. Instead, he split the ball between the players and passed it to Qu Bo.

This is a very unexpected pass, the pass line is too small, it's easy to be broken, but as long as the pass is good, because the winger went to win Gao Xiaodong.

After Qu Bo took the ball, he quickly walked along the side to the bottom line.

Iraqi bareheaded left back Abbas was suspended because of a red card, and his replacement was substitute full back Hashim.

Qu Bola to the right to receive the ball, is that Iraq's left back may be a weak link in Iraq.

Just at the beginning, Hashim has not yet entered the state, was forced to accept the opponent striker's single choice, which makes Hashim a little nervous.

Seeing that Qu Bo's speed at the bottom was very fast, Hashim quickly retreated to prevent Qu Bo from eating with speed.

Qu Bo's speed is slow as he grows older, but he has rich experience. Seeing Hashim's retreat, he takes the ball to the side of the penalty area and makes a straight curve to the penalty area.

Qu Bo's pass was good, but the forward players of the Chinese team had not caught up with him. In the restricted area, only forward Yang Xu was able to outflank him. The opponent's two centre backs, one card and one snatch point, cleared the ball.