The green devil

Chapter 252 Highlights of Round 7

After the match against Athletic Bilbao, Zhao Yang rushed back to China early the next morning to prepare for the World Cup qualifier against the Maldives.

The match between the Espanyol and Athletic Bilbao is at 20 o'clock local time on the 7th, and at 21 o'clock in the morning on the [-]st, China time.

The match between the Hua Guo team and the Maldives will be at 24:7 pm on the 35th.

This also means that Zhao Yang arrived in Huaguo, less than two days before the match.

Zhao Yang didn't have time to go home and take a look, so he got off the plane and rushed directly to the venue of the World Cup qualifiers, Jiangcheng, the capital of Goose Province.

Maldives is famous in the tourism circle, but in the football circle, it is a nobody.

The Maldives ranks only 153 in the world, and it is a typical fishy team.

Even with such a team, the Huaguo team does not dare to be careless. They have already stood on the edge of the cliff. If they want to maintain the hope of being the first in the group, they must ensure that they win this game and win more points. The ball, and then wait for the Qataris to make mistakes.

Because of this, during the critical period when the Spaniards competed for the Champions League seat, the Chinese Football Association still called Zhao Yang back.

It cannot be said that the Chinese Football Association is too careful. Judging from the historical record, the Maldives are not a team that can be ravaged by others, and they still have a certain combat effectiveness.

From the perspective of historical confrontation, the national football team and the Maldives have played against each other four times, winning all four games, scoring 14 goals and only conceding one goal. In the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup qualifiers, the national football team beat Maldives 10-1 at home and 1-0 away.

In the 2006 World Cup qualifiers in Germany, the South Korean national team, which had played all the main players, was tied 0-0 by the Maldives in an away game.

In this world preliminaries, the performance of Maldives is not bad.

Qatar, ranked first in Group C, played against the Maldives, and it was only with the help of the referee that they won the away game with difficulty.

After the game, the Qatari players also suffered tremendous pressure from public opinion.

However, because there was no hope of qualifying, the Hua Guo team was extremely vigorous after Zhao Yang's return. The Maldives was basically about to give up the away game against the Hua Guo team.

There is only one professional defender Ali in the Maldives team.

But because he was dissatisfied with the coach Herbert's formation, Ali was abandoned when he came to China to play in the qualifiers.

In addition, captain Ashfak, striker Abdullah, and main goalkeeper Imran did not come to China with the team and were unable to participate in the world preliminaries on the 24th.

Originally, the strength of the Maldives was far weaker than that of the Huaguo team, and if there were four main players who would not come,

It can even be said that there is no suspense for the Hua Guo team to win. The only thing the fans care about is how many goals the Hua Guo team can win in this game.

The highlight of this round of World Cup qualifiers in Group C is not Hua Guo vs. Maldives, but another game in this group, Qatar vs. Hong Kong.

Qatar played well in the second round of group matches in the Asian region of the World Cup qualifiers. After defeating Bhutan in the last round, the team is currently leading Group C with six victories, ahead of the No.2 Hua Guo team five points.

As long as the Qatar team draws with the Hong Kong team at home in this game, they can qualify for the promotion one round ahead of schedule.

Qatar has planned a group of players with African descent, such as Cazorla, Abukar and Aaron, which has made Qatar's combat effectiveness rapidly improved. This year, there are a total of 7 home games in various competitions. Qatar won 6 games and faced a long distance Coming from Hong Kong, China, Qatar won 7 consecutive victories without much suspense.

Of course, the Chinese provincial and Hong Kong teams are not big fish.

The performance of the provincial and Hong Kong team in this World Cup qualifier can even be described as eye-catching.

After 7 rounds of group matches, the Hong Kong team temporarily ranked third in Group C with 4 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. They still have a chance to compete for No.2 in the group with the best results, provided that they win Qatar in this game away.

However, in the case of losing at home in the first round, the prospect of the Chinese Hong Kong team's expedition is not optimistic. After all, the reason why they were able to score a point against the national team in the two rounds of the group stage depends more on the whole team. The team shrunk down the defense like an iron barrel.

When Zhao Yang returned, the national football team had a strong front line. The defense line of the national football team in the first round of the draw immediately collapsed like an avalanche, conceding 8 goals that broke history.

Qatar scored 27 goals and only conceded 2 goals in the first six rounds. Both offensive and defensive ends played well, and the team currently has 11 different players who have scored goals. The offensive end has shown a multi-point blooming feature.

Qatar's offensive power is so strong, and Hong Kong, China can only maintain the possibility of advancing in this game, and the game will be played very openly. In this way, the defense line of the Hong Kong team with average personal ability will inevitably expose its weaknesses. If you want to keep the goal without losing too hard.

In the last round, the Hua Guo team and the Hong Kong team were still life and death enemies, and even scored a historic score, but this round, the two teams became brothers again.

Just arrived in the competition area, Zhao Yang said in an interview with reporters that he is a fan of the Hong Kong team in this round, and he fully supports the Hong Kong team's victory over Qatar.

The players of the national football team also expressed that they are all fans of the Hong Kong team today and they firmly support the Hong Kong team.

On Internet forums, domestic fans also launched a relay action to support the Hong Kong team's victory over Qatar.

In order for the national football team to qualify, on this day, all Hua Guo fans are fans of the Hong Kong team.

The national football team, the Hong Kong team, and Qatar are all racking their brains to qualify for the group stage. At this time, the Maldives has become a tourist team and a fan team.

Before Zhao Yang arrived in Jiangcheng, the Maldives had been sightseeing nearby. After Zhao Yang arrived, the Maldives players who lived in the Xinda Hotel on Hangkong Road turned into groupies. They couldn’t wait for the game and took a taxi directly to the National Football Team to stay. The Sheraton Hotel, asked Zhao Yang for an autographed photo. .seven

Of course, there are more Huaguo fans looking for Zhao Yang to take a photo. Huaguo fans don’t know Maldives players. They thought they were Zhao Yang’s foreign fans. The players happily gave them the opportunity, and told them to be careful not to hurt their idols.

The coaching staff of the Huaguo team did not expect Zhao Yang to have such a strong influence in Asia. Even the opponent's players asked him to sign and take photos with him, and even thought that the Maldives were here to spy on the military situation.

Zhao Yang was also very surprised, but after enjoying the enthusiasm of the opponent, Zhao Yang felt that facing such a well-informed opponent, there was no need for this match to be as ruthless as they were against Bhutan, after all, they already had enough Much goal difference.