Perhaps Cahill's words and arrogant attitude will make Chinese fans very upset - everyone can hear his implicit voices - but Cahill is not wrong. The Chinese team's strength is indeed not strong enough. This is what makes everyone the most unhappy, that is, even though you know that the other party is humiliating you, you still can't argue because what he said is right...

This feeling is really unpleasant.

Five minutes after the semi-finals began, Harry Cowell scored the first record for Australia.

Kowell is one year older than the current star of Australia, but he is much earlier than Cahill. When the white-clothed Leeds Youth Army set off a youth guard storm in England football and Europe, Cahill, Viduca and Rio Ferdinand in the team were highly respected, and Kowell also entered the vision of Chinese fans.

Later at Liverpool, he won the Champions League with the team, and he was also the first Australian-born player to win the championship in this event.

However, with the impact of injuries, his performance started high and ended low, and now he has left the mainstream vision of European football. Now he plays for the Turkish team Galatasaray, which is obviously not the center of European football.

Although Cowell has been suffering from injuries, his level is still there.

This can be seen from his goal just now.

With a beautiful left-footed arc shot, the football broke through Yang Zhi's ten fingers and flew into the Chinese team's goal.

It was a huge blow to the Chinese team after falling behind by just five minutes of the game.

Many players held their heads in Australia when they scored goals, showing extremely disappointed expressions.

Zhou Yi looked calm.

They felt pain and disappointment because of accidents, and did not expect Australia to score so early.

However, Zhou Yi has already simulated many scenes in the virtual world, and he has also experienced such situations.

With Australia's strength, it's no surprise that it can do this.

Anyway, in those simulated games, the Chinese team lost more and won less when they compete against Australia.

Although Cahill's words were a bit unpleasant, he did tell the truth.

The overall strength of the Chinese team is indeed not strong.

However, Zhou Yi believes that strength is not absolutely proportional to the outcome of the game.

The key is to look at the on-the-spot performance.

It's actually okay to lose the ball early. At least the Chinese team will have a lot of time to equalize the score. If the game is over with five minutes left, then we should cry.

Now, it is mainly because Australia cannot score consecutive goals in a short period of time, which will be a devastating blow to the morale and confidence of the Chinese team.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yi raised his hands and then slapped hard. He kept slapping until more and more teammates raised their heads and looked at him.

"We have 85 minutes to do something, so it's no big deal to conceal the ball now. Next, we need to be vigilant. They will definitely take advantage of the situation and attack hard. We must hold it at that time. Don't panic when dealing with the ball. It's OK to be decisive and just be more decisive. If you don't know where to pass the ball... just pass it to me!"

In a somewhat noisy environment, Zhou Yi's voice reached the ears of every Chinese player.

Although Zhou Yi is the youngest in this national team, when he said this, no one would question or oppose him, but would listen to him involuntarily and feel at ease that he could stand up and speak.

It was as if I was at a loss and suddenly knew what to do.

Because Zhou Yi didn't just say some nice scenes, he finally gave a very practical solution - if he didn't know where to pass the ball, pass it to him!

Gao Hongbo, who was anxious after losing the ball, also planned to shout something to the players on the sidelines, but when he saw Zhou Yi talking in the crowd, he gave up the idea.

Although he didn't hear what Zhou Yi said at all, he could see the performance of other players. They stared at Zhou Yi intently, forgetting the anxiety and nervousness after losing the ball.

In fact, what he said on the sidelines was to make the players feel nervous and not take this ball to heart.

Now that Zhou Yi has completed his work, why are he wasting his saliva?

So he turned around and sat back.

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When the game started again, as Zhou Yi said, Australia, who was one goal ahead, launched a fierce offensive against the Chinese team's goal.

If the Chinese team is still immersed in the frustration and annoyance after conceding the ball, it is inevitable that there will be inattention during the fierce competition.

It is easy to lose the ball at this time.

This is common in football games.

Australia also intends to use this opportunity to expand its lead.

But unexpectedly, Zhou Yi's words would calm the Chinese team's players. Faced with Australia's aggressive offensive, they handled the ball very decisively. If they didn't work, just play in front of the ball with a big foot net, as long as they don't let the football stay in the backcourt for too long.

But what if you have a ball under your feet but are facing Australia's siege and are at a loss?

They would think of Zhou Yi's words - "Transfer the ball to me!"

So they passed the football to Zhou Yi.

And it is indeed amazing, because no matter where the player takes the ball, he doesn't need to work hard to find Zhou Yi, and there is a relatively easy pass route between him.

Zhou Yi seemed to be everywhere on the court.

Those who play football on the court will be shocked, but this level of shock is probably not as good as that of those bystanders.

Whether it is the live audience, the coaches on the coach's seat, the reporters on the media, the commentators on the commentators on the seat, or the audience in front of the TV, they can all see that in the Australian offensive, Zhou Yi is the most active person in the Chinese team, and he is running non-stop.

Sometimes he was sprinting, but most of the time he was jogging. Anyway, he didn't see him stopping and putting his hands on the hips to watch the show on the court.

It is precisely his tireless and completely unstoppable running that he always appears in time where he should appear, then catch the ball, and then transfer the football out of the dangerous area. If he can organize the attack, he will organize it. If he cannot organize it, just send the football directly to the front with a long pass to harass Australia and let them not press the attack unscrupulously.

Not to mention, this approach works quite well.

Faced with Australia's aggressive offensive, the Chinese team's pass-and-control style is like a dense and tough net. After Australia's fist is swung up, it is trapped by the net. The soft net looks less solid than the wall, but it can dissolve the power of the fist, making the person who swings the fist feel like a rock sinking into the sea and unable to emit it at all.

As a midfielder, Zhou Yi is indeed not a defensive midfielder who can break the opponent's ball in one-on-one and make beautiful and accurate tackles in defense.

Zhou Yi himself once thought that he could not defend because he never participated in defense when he played as a striker.

However, after coming to Dortmund, especially after being promoted to the first team, defense is also a very important part of the training, and Klopp still attaches great importance to it, so he also began to learn to defend. However, he always thinks that his defense is more about being a good person. In order to show his correct and positive attitude towards the head coach, it cannot really play a defensive role.

But this season, Zhou Yi has a different view on this.

Especially after a few games when he got out, the team lost the ball.

If you don’t have a defense, you will change to a defensive midfielder. Logically speaking, the team’s defense should have improved, so why did you concede the ball?

Zhou Yi began to re-understand the concept of "defense".

It is not like before. It simply believes that defense is what the defender and the midfielder do, and defense is tackle, steal, close-fitting and positioning.

In fact, defense does not specifically refer to certain technical actions, but a concept of tactics.

In one-on-one, it is considered as defense. However, using the overall advantage to control the football on his own team and not giving the opponent more and better offensive opportunities, Zhou Yi believes that it is also a kind of defense.

Retracting in your thirty-meter area is naturally considered defense, and the formation expands and pushes the football around and prevents the football from falling to the opponent's feet. Isn't it defense?

Zhou Yi believes that it is also defense.

Moreover, such defense is active defense compared to being compressed by the opponent in a 30-meter area. The initiative is in your own hands. If there is no chance, or if the opportunity is bad, it is defense. Once a good opportunity appears, it can be immediately transformed into a fatal offense, directly killing the opponent, and completely ending this defensive situation.

However, the premise of doing this is that the team must have one or several clear-headed core players, and the whole team must have good passes and reception skills. If you stop ten meters away as soon as the ball is stopped, then any tactics will be useless.

Thanks to Gao Hongbo's blessing, the Chinese team can barely meet such requirements at present.

Because Gao Hongbo's coaching philosophy is mainly based on passing and controlling. Some people say that he is a copycat Barcelona, ​​but Barcelona is now the most successful club in the world. Spain uses Barcelona football as its team and won the European Cup and World Cup championships, so there is no problem with copycat Barcelona.

The key is that the head coach is clear-headed and knows what tactics to play, so when selecting people, he will naturally choose players with ability in this regard. In terms of passing and receiving skills, the players in this national team are already considered top in China.

Coupled with the various passes and receiving cooperation that Gao Hongbo emphasized during training, it is often seen that Gao Jiajun's Chinese team can play coherent and smooth passes in the midfield and frontcourt, and various triangular passes.

With such a pass and receiving basis, coupled with a Zhou Yi with a ninety-nine-eye vision... they can really pass thirty consecutive balls without being cut off.

In team training, "Canying the Monkey" is actually a training to pass quickly under pressing. Barcelona and Spanish national team players love to carry out such an entertainment-oriented training. Gao Jiajun, who emphasizes passing, cutting and running as a cooperation, naturally cannot practice frequently.

With Zhou Yi's connection everywhere, the Chinese team's pass and control plays very smoothly, so Australia soon found that the situation was different from what they imagined.

As long as the possession of the ball falls under the Chinese team, it will be difficult to grab it unless it is a foul, and the Chinese team still has the strength to counterattack.

Australia knows that if it continues to play like this, let alone score another one, maybe they are still at risk of losing the ball.

So they also adjusted their tactics, slowed down the pace, and no longer pursued continuous goals in a short period of time.
Chapter completed!