Fox in the Penalty Area

Chapter 1745 Another purpose of the warm-up match

The morale of the Chinese team, which equalized the score, was greatly boosted and launched a fierce offensive towards Serbia's goal.

At this time, Dillon began to make substitutions and adjustments, using Guo Junfu to play, replacing Ou Yangjin, and adjusting back to the original midfield configuration.

After Guo Junfu came on the field, the Chinese team's offense became more layered. It no longer just looked for two sides from behind through Xia Xiaoyu's long pass.

The Chinese fans who watched it during that time were very happy, because the Chinese team actually played against Serbia, a traditional European team.

For a while, many Chinese fans felt that either Serbia was too hip, or that our Chinese team was already at the average level in Europe.

They have begun to look forward to the Chinese team beating Serbia away.

But that changed after Jorge Dillon made personnel changes in the second half.

The offensive threat of the Chinese team suddenly became smaller, and there was no way to suppress Serbia, which in turn gave Serbia the upper hand.

In order to avoid losing the ball, the Chinese team can only shrink the defense.

However, when Dillon made a substitution before, he adjusted the three midfielders back to the double midfielders. The defensive hardness of the Chinese team has declined, so they conceded another goal in the 62nd minute.

Although at halftime, Dillon replaced most of the starters.

But everyone knows that the main reason for the stark contrast is that he replaced Hu Lai.

After replacing Hu Lai, the pressure on Serbia on the front line of the Chinese team immediately decreased a lot.

Although the replaced Zhou Zijing is also a main player in the Premier League, he is still far behind Hu Lai in terms of scoring ability.

He puts much less pressure on the Serbian defenders than Hu Lai.

This is really not a sham, but the true feeling of every Serbian defensive player.

Fang Hu Lai really couldn't lose his mind for a second, and when Hu Lai left the field, all of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Facing Zhou Zijing again, I feel... just an ordinary opponent, with much less psychological pressure.

Hu Lai's "bad reputation" will of course put more pressure on defensive players.

As for Zhou Zijing, his physical fitness is really good, and he can be said to be the "number one strong man" in the Chinese national team, but in front of the Serbian internationals, he is just like that.

No matter how strong the power is, it is not strong enough to break through the limits of human beings, so it is still preventable.

The Serbian commentator said: "Dillon may be testing the performance of the Chinese team without Hu... Facts have proved that the level of the Chinese team without Hu will drop a level..."

As he said this, the telecast gave Jorge Dillon a close-up.

In the camera, Dillon is expressionless, showing no expression to the current situation of being pressed and beaten and losing the ball.

Then there was a shot of translator Yu Jintao covering his mouth and turning his head towards Dillon. The Serbian commentator joked again: "I guess he must be asking Dillon: 'What should I do next?' Ha!"

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Yu Jintao covered his mouth and moved closer to Dillon and said, "I guess at this time someone must say that you are experimenting with how to kick without Hu Lai..."

Still expressionless, Dillon snorted softly: "This still needs to be tested? If there is no nonsense, it will not work at all!"

It was really joyful for him to say these words in a serious manner, and Yu Jintao, who was covering his mouth, was amused.

But he immediately realized that the Chinese team is still lagging behind, and the TV cameras may have scanned the coaching bench of the Chinese team, so it is better not to let his eyes bend with a smile and cause unnecessary trouble for himself...

Thinking of this, he quickly straightened his face again.

Dillon continued: "Through this game, I believe our players must have a deeper understanding of the level of European teams. Serbia did not even enter the World Cup finals, but we played well without Hu Lai. It’s so difficult. It’s really going to the World Cup. If all the players still think that the Chinese team has entered the World Cup twice in a row, it will definitely be able to play better than the last World Cup... Then it’s a big mistake.”

"So that's why you went to Serbia to warm up? Because Serbia didn't even make it to the World Cup finals."

Dillon admitted that he did have such a careful thought: "If we lose to France, Germany, and Spain, I am afraid they will take it for granted that they lost to these strong teams, and the real problem will be covered up."

The outside world will speculate that Dillon wants to test the team's contingency strategy after losing Hou Lai, but Dillon has no such idea at all.

Of course he has to test different tactics and staffing.

But the premise is that Hu Lai must be on the court, such a test is meaningful.

A player with Hu Lai's ability is indispensable no matter whether he is in the Chinese team or in the European and American teams. Without him, the team can't play.

So there's no need to test his absence—if he's not there, it's off.

The main goal of this game is to educate other Chinese team players and kill the optimism from the team and the external environment.

He told team leader Hong Renjie that he would open the world's eyes and re-understand Chinese football in next year's World Cup.

At the same time, he is also very clear how difficult it is to achieve this.

He doesn't allow anyone to think that winning the World Cup is an easy thing.

Don't you always say how powerful Hu Lai is?

Okay, then I will replace Hu Lai and let you see how the Chinese team without Hu Lai is doing.

No matter how powerful Hu Lai is, he has only one person, and the Chinese team is a whole. And the overall strength is still at a relatively weak level.

Don't look at Xia Xiaoyu, Zhang Qinghuan, Chen Xingyi, and Luo Kai, who seem to have performed well in their respective clubs, but we must also consider the difference in the level of club teammates and national team teammates.

Overall, the club must be stronger.

In Dillon's vision, if the Chinese team wants to achieve good results in the World Cup, they must do their best and treat every game as a World Cup final.

Only by achieving this step can one be qualified to expect the favor of the goddess of luck—if one is unlucky, even if one tries one's best, one may still return home after three group matches.

But if you want to be qualified to talk about how much luck plays a role in the game, you must at least try your best first...

In short, the World Cup is definitely not as easy to play as some optimistic people imagine.

It seems that if all the Chinese overseas players are sent to the field, and the entire strongest lineup comes out, it will be sure that the group will appear.

How is it actually possible?

How many traditional Asian teams like Japan and South Korea have participated in the World Cup finals, but how many times have they been able to reach the knockout round?

In the last World Cup, four Asian teams participated, and only the Japanese team made it to the top 16.

This shows how difficult and difficult it is for a team to reach the knockout round.

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Serbia also began to make constant substitutions and adjustments with half an hour left in the game.

The team's core Vukovic was replaced, and Serbia's offensive efforts also slowed down.

Dillon replaced Zhang Qinghuan with the last fifteen minutes left in the game.

However, the Chinese team's offense has not been improved.

In the end, neither the Chinese team nor Serbia scored again, and the score was fixed at 2:1.

The home team Serbia beat the Chinese team by one goal.

The Chinese team, which entered the World Cup, lost to Serbia, which hadn't even scored in the World Cup, and from the perspective of the scene, it was not dominant. If it wasn't for the stable performance of the defense line, it might be more than one goal behind.

Such a result certainly cannot satisfy the Chinese fans and reporters.

At the post-match press conference, Dillon was asked why he made such a drastic change to the lineup. He replied: "Isn't that the purpose of the warm-up match?"

The reporter who asked the question in one sentence had nothing to say.

Dillon then further explained: "Testing and testing the team's different personnel and tactical configurations, not in the warm-up match, do we have to wait until the World Cup? Although we lost, I am very satisfied with the team's overall performance. Yes, I think we have fully demonstrated our characteristics and abilities..."

After Yu Jintao translated the words, he stared at the Chinese reporters present and observed their expressions.

Obviously, the reporters didn't quite understand why Dillon said that.

Yu Jintao remembered what Dillon said to himself, and then looked at the performance of the reporters, he complained in his heart:

This bad old man is very bad!

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After losing to Serbia, the Chinese team packed their bags and left, and flew to the next destination—Switzerland.

For this warm-up match, Dillon did not completely disrupt the staffing and tactical arrangements as he did against Serbia.

It's just that he still didn't deploy the full main lineup, but a mix of half the main team and half the substitutes.

The first and second halves each changed a set.

Hu Lai came off the bench again in the second half this time.

He failed to score.

In the end, the Chinese team lost to the Swiss team 1:3.

The only player who scored a goal for the Chinese team was Zhou Zijing.

Although they still lost the game, and also lost two goals, this time the scene was much better than the last one. Facing the Swiss team, which also entered next year's World Cup, the players of the Chinese team can still play something of their own on the court.

After the two warm-up matches, the overseas players bid farewell to the national team in Switzerland and returned to their respective clubs, while the remaining national team players returned to China.

Dillon and Yu Jintao did not go~www.novelmt.com~ They want to stay in Europe to observe the performance of overseas players. The first stop is Germany to inspect the performance of Lin Zhiyuan and Qin Qi in their respective clubs.

In addition, in the two warm-up matches in November, the Chinese team will also come to Europe for training and training, and the opponents will still be European teams.

Next year's World Cup will be held in Europe, and European teams will play at home and perform better.

By training and competing in Europe, the Chinese team can adapt to the feeling of playing in Europe as soon as possible, and at the same time establish a more intuitive impression of European teams-because the results of the World Cup group draw have not yet come out, so there is no need to choose for the group results. Sexual warm-up opponents.

The European training and warm-up matches are Dillon's opinions, and the Chinese Football Association also follow them.

The opinions on this world famous coach are almost all accepted.

Although it will cost the Football Association more money to train and play in Europe, this is not a problem.

As long as it can really achieve results in the World Cup next year, the Football Association is willing to pay no matter how much money it has.

This is actually a... "gamble" for the Chinese Football Association.

(end of this chapter)