After finishing the Champions League group stage, Dortmund lost to Hannover 96 in the league 1: 2 away. But in the seventh round of the league, they beat Mainz 2-1 away.

After seven rounds of the league, Dortmund four wins and three losses, with twelve points, ranked fifth.

The start of the league is not very good. You know that Dortmund lost only four games last season, and now Dortmund has lost three.

The road to defending the league champion is not easy.

However, their performance in the Champions League is still quite good. In the second round of the Champions League group stage, Dortmund challenged Marseille on the road, defeating Marseille with a score of 2:1 and won two consecutive victories in the group stage.

Also ranked first in the group with six points.

Back in the league, Dortmund's also found a state, defeating the newly promoted Augsburg at home 4:0. Zhou Yi sent an assist and a goal.

After playing this game is the national team match day.

Zhou Yi left the club and returned to China.

For the Chinese national team, only this game in October, but it is very critical.

Their opponent is the Asian powerhouse Iraqi team.

The Chinese team now has four points with Jordan, but only ranked first in the group by virtue of their goal difference.

Before the start of the top 20 group stage, there was media analysis in China. If the Chinese team wants to qualify from the group, it is necessary to win two home courts for Jordan and Iraq, otherwise the hope of qualifying will become very slim. .

And the game that split the ball at 8:15 pm Beijing time on October 11th is the first home game that must be won.

The Iraqi national team unexpectedly won the Asian Cup in 2007. The national team that was born in the war at that time won the respect of the whole world.

Many Chinese fans also compared Iraq with the Chinese team, saying that the homeland of the Iraqi national team was caught in the flames of war. The team did not even have a normal training venue and could only train abroad. The family of each player risked Danger to life.

In this way, they also won the Asian Cup champion.

The Chinese team's domestic conditions are so good, the society is stable, and the economy is prosperous, but the Chinese team has always seemed to be unable to help the wall.

Because of the chaos in Iraq, Chinese fans seem to preconceive that the strength of the Iraqi national team is not good, so the Chinese team should be stronger than the Iraqi team.

But this is actually a misunderstanding.

The Iraqi national team has always been a representative of Western Asian football that cannot be ignored. Their nickname is "Mesopotamia Lions". They won the Arab Cup four times in 1964, 1966, 1985 and 1988. In 1979, 1984, He won the Gulf Cup three times in 1988 and won the gold medal in the 1982 Olympic football. And in the 1986 World Cup finals, it was the first team in the Middle East to reach the World Cup finals. You must know that there were only two seats in Asia at that time, that is to say, Iraq at that time was the best two **** in Asia. One of the teams.

The Chinese team was still struggling to find a place in the World Cup finals until 2002.

So in terms of historical results, Iraq is stronger than the Chinese team.

Iraqi football is not bad.

It's just that after the Gulf War, Iraq has been in turmoil, and people will be taken for granted that their national strength is weak, which is equivalent to football strength.

Indeed, Iraqi football has a trough after the golden age of the 1980s. However, symbolized by the fourth place in the 2004 Olympic Games football, Iraqi football ushered in a new golden generation, and eventually won the Asian Cup in 2007.

Since entering the 21st century, the Chinese team and Iraq have played a total of seven times in various competitions. The Chinese team has three wins, two draws and two losses. From this point of view, the Chinese team has the upper hand.

However, if you carefully analyze these seven games, you will find that the Chinese team does not have any advantages as you think.

Of the seven games, the Chinese team won three of them, two of them were friendly matches, and one was the 2000 invitational match. The Chinese team defeated Iraq 4-1. The other was the warm-up match before the Asian Cup earlier this year. The Chinese team defeated Iraq 3:2.

The only game the Chinese team defeated Iraq in the official game was the Asian Cup held in 2004 in the home country. The Chinese team defeated Iraq 3-0 in the eight-for-four game.

There are two Asian Cup qualifiers and two World Cup qualifiers.

Is the warm-up win important or the qualifier win important?

it goes without saying.

So in fact, the Chinese team has absolutely no advantage over Iraq in the real game.

From the perspective of the entire historical record, it is also dominated by Iraq-since the first confrontation between the two teams in the 1974 Asian Games group match, the Chinese team and Iraq have fought a total of 16 games, and Iraq has won seven, three and six , Scoring 20 goals, losing 19 goals, a slight advantage.

Coupled with the fact that this Iraq is the golden generation who won the Asian Cup in 2007, they are at the peak.

It is not easy for the Chinese team to beat them.

So from the beginning, the two sides were in a stalemate.

It is difficult for anyone to take advantage and overwhelm each other.

There were no goals in the first half.

However, the game changed suddenly in the second half. Just one minute after the second half, Iraqi striker, captain, and representative of Iraq’s golden generation of football, Younis Mahmoud, finally broke through the ten-point barrier of Chinese goalkeeper Yang Zhi and took the lead for Iraq. !

"Ah!" Liu Hong shouted regretfully. "The advanced team turned out to be the Iraqi team! Younis!"

From the scene point of view, the Chinese team playing at home has no advantage. Despite Zhou Yi, it has not suppressed Iraq. Because the Iraqi side is also like a giant, after all, it is the golden age of a whole generation of Iraq, and the Chinese team? Although the runner-up at the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, everyone knows who is the biggest hero of that runner-up.

Without Zhou Yi, the strength of this national team is still worrying.

If Iraq is the golden generation, then the golden generation of the Chinese team has not yet arrived...

So there is nothing wrong with giving this Iraqi team behind at home.

The key is what to do after falling behind.

Everyone looked at Zhou Yi, including the camera lens of the live broadcast of the game, which gave Zhou Yi a close-up.

Although Zhou Yi is very young, only twenty years old, but it seems to be the core of this national team.

Here I must also thank the head coach Gao Hongbo who loves young people and does not like veterans. If it is not that he firmly excludes those senior players from the national team's gate, Zhou Yi wants to be the core of the national team? Have you ever visited the pier? Have you recognized Big Brother? None of the above? What is the core of that?

Now this kind of problem does not exist anymore. The national internal hilltopism has been effectively contained, the faction disputes are gone, and everyone is unprecedentedly united, so Zhou Yi can easily become the core.

Coupled with the excellent performance of the Asian Cup, Zhou Yi has conquered everyone's heart. He has shown his skills more than once in a crisis.

So this time?

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This time it was not so easy.

Iraq has a very strict defense against Zhou Yi, and they are quite aggressive against Zhou Yi's defense.

This Iraq and the Iraqi team encountered during the warm-up before the Asian Cup early this year were almost judged to be two. This is also the biggest difference between the warm-up and the official game-the input level of the opponent is not the same.

When Iraq launched a hunt for Zhou Yi, the Chinese team's midfield did not run smoothly enough.

"Zhou Yi needs helpers..." Liu Hong can see that if the Chinese team relies on Zhou Yi alone, he can still be caught off guard in the Asian Cup, but when they got the Asian Cup runner-up and Zhou Yi performed extremely well , Opponents can no longer ignore Zhou Yi.

By that time, what should the Chinese team relying solely on Zhou Yi do?

Some teams think that the World Cup qualifiers are heavier than the Asian Cup, and they may not be as desperate as the World Cup qualifiers. After all, the Asian Cup is to play in Asia, but if you can enter the World Cup finals, it is an opportunity to show your face in front of people all over the world.

Gao Hongbo apparently saw this too, so he started substitutions, replacing Deng Zhuoxiang and replacing a forward Yu Dabao. It seems to be weakening the offensive force.

However, Deng Zhuoxiang can enhance the control of the midfield after playing, and Zhou Yi can also have a helper. After all, before Zhou Yi joined the national team~lightnovelpub.net~The main front of the Chinese team is Deng Zhuoxiang.

After Deng Zhuoxiang came on the court, Zhou Yi faced much less pressure.

The Chinese team finally equalized in the 63rd minute.

This goal was precisely because Zhou Yi assigned the football to Deng Zhuoxiang, and after Deng Zhuoxiang attracted part of the defensive attention, he received the ball back from Deng Zhuoxiang, then stuffed the football to Gao Lin, and Gao Lin scored the goal. .

When Gao Lin equalized the score, the stadium shouted with joy.

"The goal has been scored! The Chinese team equalized the score! Beautiful!!!" Liu Hong shouted excitedly. "The Chinese team did it! Zhou Yi's assist!!"

Gao Lin, who scored a goal, turned to Zhou Yi and hugged to celebrate the goal.

The other Chinese players swarmed and surrounded them.

The Chinese fans in the stands cheered and cheered. This was just the beginning. While they evened the score, they began to look forward to overtaking the score! (To be continued.)