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Doha

The capital of Qatar, the largest city.

Here, the Chinese team has no good memories. It has no victory against Qatar, and it has also lost against Saudi Arabia, Iran, and South Korea.

On November 9th, the Chinese National Team came to Doha again, this time they faced the strong team of West Asia in Iraq.

At home, due to Gao Xiaodong's absence, the Chinese team lost to Iraq 0:1.

At present, the Chinese national team, Iraq and Jordan are all three wins and one loss.

In this round of the game, Jordan had no suspense against Singapore, and it was almost 100% to get three points.

In this way, the duel between Iraq and the Chinese national team has become the key battle for who advances from the group.

Due to the civil war in Iraq, Iraq had to play against the Chinese team in Doha, a neutral country, Qatar. This was seen as weakening Iraq’s advantage before the game. However, the facts proved that this was just a beautiful fantasy of the Chinese people.

Prior to this, the Chinese national team sent staff to Doha and booked the Arabi Stadium training ground for daily training. But after the team arrived, the stadium suddenly notified the Chinese team that they could not use the Arabi Stadium. The Iraqi side obtained the cooperation of the Qatar football team and obtained the right to use this training ground.

The Chinese National Team’s protest was invalid and had to change the training to the Technical Committee Stadium. The Technical Committee Stadium is farther away from the Sheraton Hotel where the National Football Team is staying. The turf quality is also poor, which has a certain negative impact on the Chinese National Team’s training.

The Chinese team is not worried about the unfair treatment of the training ground only. What they worry about is the referee. The AFC is basically controlled by West Asians. Not to mention the Chinese team, even Japan and South Korea are often unfairly treated.

If the referee blows the home whistle, the Chinese team will be very dangerous in this game.

Gao Xiaodong's return has definitely greatly improved the strength of the Hua National team, but it is difficult to say whether it can offset the referee's unfair penalties.

The Chinese are not delusional of persecution. Although the poor performance of the Chinese team is too good for themselves, it is not uncommon for them to receive unfair treatment by referees in key games.

At 22:15 on November 11, the fourth round of Group A of Brazil's World Cup Asian qualifiers of the top 20 kicked off. The Chinese national team challenged the Iraqi team at the Al Arabi Stadium in Doha.

The Iraqi team’s starting base copy last round of Shenzhen’s away win over China’s starting lineup: 12-Kasde; 19-Hashim, 15-Hussein, 14-Shakir, 16-Sayed; 4-Mu Neal, 20-Khalid; 17-Abduzhael, 5-Akram, 9-Karim; 10-Younis.

Compared with the home game against Iraq, the Hua Guo team changed a lot of players, and it was very similar to that against Jordan, only replacing central defender Li Feng with Du Wei.

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

The referee Green of this game is from Australia and is only 31 years old.

Green only became an international referee five years ago. In the 2009 Asian Cup qualifiers, the Hong Kong team's home game against the Japanese team was Green's first international class A match.

Green's law enforcement game is relatively loose. In the 57 games he has enforced, Green showed a total of 166 yellow cards, including 68 for the home team and 98 for the away team; 6 red cards were shown, all for the away team; 10 penalty kicks were awarded. 6 for the home team and 4 for the away team.

Judging from this data, Green's law enforcement is fairly fair and not particularly unfriendly to the visiting team.

The first kick-off is the visiting team Hua Guo team.

Yang Xu fell and Qu Bo passed back to Gao Xiaodong, and the Iraqi players quickly overwhelmed the middle circle and pressed for it.

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

Judging from the momentum of Iraq in the opening game, they really hope to win the Chinese national team in Doha and have the initiative to qualify.

Faced with the fierce pressing of striker Younis, Gao Xiaodong did not pass back. When Younis rushed to him less than three meters, Gao Xiaodong suddenly dunked the ball horizontally.

Younis did not expect that Gao Xiaodong would not pass back, his speed did not decrease, and he was ready to directly force the central defender of the Chinese national team. Gao Xiaodong's buckle directly caused Younis to almost fall to the ground.

There are a lot of players in Iraq who have crossed the center line to force. Younis has just been swayed, and Karim rushed over again.

Gao Xiaodong made a cross pass, then dunked the ball again, and shook Karim over.

Gao Xiaodong used the error of judgment of the Iraqi players to sway the two players with the same action. This wonderful performance made the Chinese fans of the Wanli Expedition very excited. They all applauded and shouted: Gao Xiaodong did a beautiful job!

But Hua Guo’s commentator, He Hui, did not agree with Gao Xiaodong’s passing in his own half. “Xiaodong’s excellence is very beautiful, but it’s not necessary. He won’t be a threat if he passes. If he is intercepted, he will defend the line. Is in danger."

Of course what He Hui said made sense, but he didn't understand Gao Xiaodong's thoughts.

Gao Xiaodong knows that the Hua Guo team has lost the chain in a key battle. He hopes to use his actions to boost the confidence of his teammates and make a good start for the game. That's why he passed the game at the beginning.

This is also Gao Xiaodong’s boldness. He is not worried that these second-rate Iraqi players can break his ball. Even if it breaks, the Chinese team is on all three lines. He can return to defense, and Iraq can't make it. What a threat.

Gao Xiaodong's two passes really inspired the players of the Hua Guo team. Seeing Gao Xiaodong dribbling the ball across the middle circle, the Hua Guo team players quickly jumped in to meet Gao Xiaodong.

Iraq’s forward pressure was blocked. He saw Gao Xiaodong cross the middle circle and immediately moved closer to Gao Xiaodong, encircling Gao Xiaodong from three sides.

At this moment, Zheng Hua in the middle of the road was also inserted. Gao Xiaodong passed back to him to move again is a very safe choice, but Gao Xiaodong did not pass to Zheng Hua, but split the ball in the gap and passed it to Qu. wave.

This is a very unexpected pass. The passing line is too small and it is easy to be interrupted, but as long as the pass is passed, it is a good ball, because the winger went to grab Gao Xiaodong.

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

Iraqi bald left-back Abbas was suspended due to a red card, and his replacement was full-back Hashim.

Qu Pola went to the right to catch the ball because he felt that Iraq's left-back might be Iraq's weak link.

At the beginning of the game, Hashim was forced to accept a heads-up challenge from the opponent's forward before Hashim entered the state, which made Hashim a little nervous.

Seeing that Qu Bo was moving quickly, Hashim quickly retreated to prevent Qu Bo from using his speed to force him.

As Qu Bo got older, his speed slowed down, but he was more experienced. Seeing Hashem retired, he took the ball to the side of the penalty area and directly curved the ball to the penalty area.

Qu Bo passed well, but the players of the Hua Guo team had not caught up. Only the forward Yang Xu outflanked the penalty area. The opponent's two central defenders had a card slot and a grab point, and the ball was cleared.