Chapter 781 Feelings of sadness
Even those who are worried about the national football team must admit when they see Wang Guangwei's goal that there should be no great suspense for the Chinese team to break out of the Asian qualifying play-offs.
They may not say these words out loud, but they can't help but think so in their hearts.
They will also start looking forward to the two-leg match against Paraguay. Paraguay is better than Uzbekistan. How can the Chinese team defeat this powerful opponent?
At this point in the qualifiers, many Chinese fans are no longer satisfied with stopping there, nor are they satisfied with a "glorious failure" - this was a popular argument on the Internet before, saying that the Chinese team's World Cup qualifiers Playing so well, even if they failed to reach the World Cup in the end, through the changes before and after the top 12, everyone saw the hope for the future of Chinese football, which can be regarded as "a glorious failure."
At that time, many people still supported this argument. After all, at that time, it seemed that the Chinese team's hope of qualifying for the World Cup was very slim.
Trying to find some light in the darkness to comfort themselves is a routine operation for Chinese fans.
As a result, things developed a bit beyond everyone's expectations - the Chinese team actually qualified for the Asian qualifying play-offs as the third place in the group!
Now the ambitions in many people's hearts are beginning to "get ready to move".
But more people still dare not admit this.
Even if the Chinese team defeated Uzbekistan 2-0 at home in the first round, they would not dare to think about it.
Until now, Uzbekistan is three goals behind at home, and the Chinese team has two away goals, which means that if they want to make a comeback, they have to score four goals in a row with less than thirty minutes left... …
But even if the Chinese team collapses, it will be difficult to collapse like this.
Not to mention judging from the performance of the Chinese team in this game, how could they suddenly collapse?
Whether looking at this game from an emotional or rational perspective, there is no suspense anymore.
But on the sidelines, Chinese team head coach Shi Wuyin still made a gesture to the players when they finished celebrating and returned to halftime - pointing to their temples - to remind them to stay calm and not get carried away.
Even if you lead by three goals, it's not safe!
As long as the final whistle doesn't sound, no score is guaranteed!
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The Chinese team took the lead again thanks to Wang Guangwei's goal. The players' morale was high and they were full of confidence.
In turn, Uzbekistan was dejected by the blow.
This is their home court, and it is a game they cannot afford to lose. They are fighting with their backs against the wall, so it stands to reason that they should burst out with stronger energy.
In fact, they did break out, but...but every time the momentum just started, they were interrupted by the Chinese team's goals.
First it was Hu Lai, and now it's Wang Guangwei.
If you can withstand it once, who can bear it again?
It's really demoralizing.
It's like telling them that no matter how hard they try, it will all be in vain.
So after the game restarted, Uzbekistan's performance was obviously not as good as before the goal was lost.
The players played very anxiously, attacking simply and directly, but when defending, they were not united. Except for the defenders who were defending, everyone else was waiting in the frontcourt to attack...
It was very uncomfortable to play this ball.
The Uzbek fans in the stands continued to cheer for the team at first, but their voices became quieter and quieter later on.
It's not that they are dissatisfied with the team's performance, but that they feel a little desperate about the current situation.
The hope of qualifying for the World Cup is getting slimmer. Under such a blow, how many people can continue to express their enthusiasm and wave the flag in the stands?
The Chinese reporters in the media gallery couldn't help but sigh when they saw this scene - once upon a time, we Chinese fans were like this in the stands, watching our opponents celebrate under our noses, and watching our opponents become more and more competitive as they played. Confidence, watching the time passing by, but there is no sign of the Chinese team winning...
This scene is so familiar because we have all experienced it.
Therefore, these reporters are particularly able to understand the feelings of the Uzbek fans in the stands.
Seeing this, they even suddenly lost some interest in being happy for the Chinese team.
Because of the sadness in my heart, I dare not smile too happily, for fear that I will become the clown I hate in the blink of an eye.
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After leading by three goals in the total score, the Chinese team slowed down and slowly dealt with Uzbekistan.
At the same time, Shi Wuyin also began to make substitutions and adjustments, becoming more conservative in tactics and no longer aggressively attacking in pursuit of goals.
The players were inevitably a little relaxed, so in the 82nd minute, Uzbekistan scored another goal.
The goal was still scored by their captain Faruk Namozov, and the way he scored was still the same powerful long shot.
This is the way Namozov is best at scoring.
He has scored many important goals in this way, such as the goal that helped the Uzbekistan national team reach the Asian Cup finals. It was a highlight moment in the history of Uzbekistan national team football.
But this time Namozov was unable to save the national team with his best goal.
After this goal, neither side scored again.
Until the referee blows the whistle for the end of the game.
The Tashkent Stadium suddenly fell silent.
Uzbekistan fans looked at the stadium blankly, their dreams of the World Cup were once again shattered.
The Chinese team players ran wildly on the court to celebrate their victory.
One country's World Cup dream is shattered, but another country's World Cup dream continues.
Namozov found Hulay who was celebrating the victory with his teammates. The latter thought he was going to exchange jerseys with him, but Namozov shook his head: "I just wanted to come and say a few words to you. You should listen." You have to understand the language of our country, right?”
Hu Lai nodded. Although he didn't know how the other party knew, he did understand.
"That's good..." Namozov said, "I hope you can beat Paraguay and participate in the World Cup."
Hu Lai was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he would get the blessing of his opponent. This doesn't happen often...
"Why did you come to me specifically to tell me this?" he asked in Uzbek.
"We are all Asian teams. Of course we hope that more Asian teams can appear in the World Cup. Maybe Asia will be allocated more places next time." Namozov said seriously. "Of course there is another reason. If you lose to Paraguay and don't go to the World Cup, then I will be very unhappy about losing to you today - since you can't seize such an opportunity, you might as well do it today. Lose to us, let us try.”
"You may not be able to beat Paraguay if you try." Hulay told the truth.
"That's at least our own problem."
Hu Lai shook his head: "But you didn't even win against us."
The implication is that you didn't even win against us, but you still want to win against Paraguay?
Namozov was stunned for a moment and realized this. He just said those words to Hu Lai out of emotion. Because he was really unhappy about being eliminated.
There was anger in his heart that he wanted to vent.
As a result, he found his opponent and said such stupid things.
Thinking of this, Namozov was also a little ashamed. He apologized to Hulay: "I'm sorry. Congratulations, come on!"
After saying that, he turned around and walked away without even shaking hands with Hu Lai.
Looking at his back, Hu Lai couldn't help but think of what Wang Guangwei said before the first round.
It really looks like Brother Lin...
When Lin Ge had no choice but to bid farewell to the national team, he might have been just as helpless and unwilling as Namozov is today.
So Hulay actually understood why Namozov came to him and said those unkind words. He didn't feel offended, let alone unhappy.
A country's football hero can only fight through children's bickering and angry words in the end. I have to say that this is actually a kind of sadness.
Hu Lai thought again of the time and space he traveled through, the big boss who had a similar personality to Brother Qin Linlin. When he left the national team, he was not even qualified to say angry words. He could only choke up and apologize to fans across the country...
How sad is it that the only face of national football has to apologize to the fans?
But fortunately...this situation did not happen to the Chinese team today!
We have given all the treatment that only Chinese football can enjoy to our opponents before. We don’t need to say harsh words to our opponents to show our fighting spirit, because we can continue to fight!
Hu Lai did not feel sorry for others for too long. He turned around and ran towards his teammates, hugged and cheered with them with open arms.
The Chinese team has passed another level. Next, before the World Cup, a new stage, only the fifth place in South America, Paraguay, is left.
That will be in a month.
Whether the Chinese team can create history will be known in a month! (End of chapter)