Super Marshal

With the return of forward Huang Heecan, who plays for the Austrian Red Bull Salzburg team, the Korean team can finally conduct a complete training session after arriving in Changsha, and Stillik can also inspect the player's status up close.

Although he traveled a long distance, Huang Xican still seemed to be in a high state.

The South Korean international just came on as a substitute for half an hour in the Austrian league and scored twice, showing his excellent competitive form and making head coach Stillik very satisfied.

Other international players who have studied abroad have basically adjusted, and everyone is looking forward to the game against the Chinese team with high spirits.

In the past few decades, Korean football has always trampled Chinese football under its feet. They will not allow it in any case. In their generation, they have allowed Chinese football to turn around, whether it is for the honor of Korean football or to enter the World Cup. Next They must win this battle.

Stillik is very satisfied with the team's fighting spirit.

The overall strength of the Korean team is higher than that of the Chinese team. As long as the players' belief in winning is strong enough, I believe the possibility of winning the game is still very high, even in Changsha, China.

Returning to the Kempinski Hotel where he was staying from the training ground, Stillik quickly received information from the Korean coaching staff.

"Domestic public opinion has exploded, and the Football Association is also under great pressure. This round, Uzbekistan is challenging Syria away from home and has a high possibility of winning. Iran is playing Qatar away from home and should also be able to win. Therefore, if we cannot win against China, it will be very difficult for us to win. We may not be able to keep third place in the group."

According to the rules of the top 12, the top two teams in the group qualify directly, and the third place players in the two groups participate in the play-offs.

In other words, if the Korean team wants to qualify, it must at least finish third.

"Domestic public opinion is still too exaggerated. The Chinese team is not as weak as they imagined, especially after Gao Han coached." Stillik said with a frown and a grimace.

He did make mistakes. He underestimated the difficulty of the top 12 matches, especially the rise of the Chinese team. He made serious misjudgments, which caused the Korean team to lose points in the first two rounds. But to qualify , he is still very confident.

But the overall strength of the Chinese team is not weak, especially after Gao Han took over, in a short period of time, the team's defense was very tight, and the offense was well organized, especially in the past three games. In the matches between Syria, Uzbekistan and Qatar, it is obvious that the Chinese team adopted two different strategies compared with South Korea and Iran.

Against South Korea and Iran, China used defensive counterattacks, but against other teams, the Chinese team was obviously more willing to attack.

This is Gao Han's strategy, very pragmatic and very smart.

Facing such an opponent, Stillik really couldn't come up with a good solution and could only attack by force. But at this time, public opinion in South Korea was so optimistic. How should he deal with it?

Not to mention him, I'm afraid even the national football team will be affected.

But the question is, can he stand up and oppose it? Can he tell fans that the Chinese team has improved enough to compete with the South Korean team?

The answer is, no.

South Korea has had an advantage over China for decades. He has only one choice at this time, and that is to do his best to win.

"How has the Chinese team's recent training been?" Stillik asked with concern.

"It's not very clear. Gao Han held a closed training camp in Changsha and declined all interviews. It is said that even the leaders of the Football Association were not allowed to attend, and they were not even allowed to go to the hotel. He said it was to avoid adding pressure to the national football team, so we did not Any relevant news can be obtained.”

After hearing this, Stillik suddenly envied Gao Han.

The world's top coach has such preferential treatment. Not only does the Football Association fully cooperate, but even the media and public opinion have to pamper him.

"However, judging from the information we have gathered from various sources, as well as some photos and intelligence released by the national team, the focus should be on practicing defense. It is said that Gao Han also specially practices set-piece tactics every day."

Defense and set pieces?

Stillik couldn't help but have a headache, because this basically confirmed his guess that Gao Han would take a defensive stance.

Since Gao Han took over, the Chinese team's set pieces have gradually become an important means of scoring. Several international players are very capable, which is very troublesome.

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Relax! Relax! ! Still relax! ! !

These are the three things Gao Han emphasized the most during the national team's training camp in Changsha.

The training intensity has been reduced, and there are more game-like training programs on the field. The national team has also arranged many relaxing entertainment programs off the field. Even the pre-game preparation meeting that Gao Han originally attached great importance to, he tried his best to shorten the time.

Externally, Gao Han said that the battle between China and South Korea was just an ordinary national team game. Internally, Gao Han even jokingly said that this game would not affect his qualifying plan at all.

Closed training isolates the national team from inside and outside.

No one outside can know the situation within the national team, and the coaching staff headed by Gao Han is also making every effort to relax the tight strings of the national players as much as possible.

As a result, psychology expert Steve Peters became the busiest person in the national team training.

Team leader Li Tie is the person who can best feel this change, and after feeling the atmosphere of the national team training camp, the first thing that came to his mind was Milu's happy football.

Back then, Milu relied on this method to bring the Chinese team into the World Cup.

Now, it's obvious that Gao Han also plans to use this method to relieve the pressure on the national team.

In the past decade or so, the more important the national team is, the easier it is for them to miss out. The more expectations the fans have, the easier it is for the national team to make mistakes. This has led to many domestic fans joking that when will the fans no longer If you have hope for the national team, then Chinese football will be saved.

As a core figure of the national team, Li Tie felt that these words were not just a joke, but told some kind of truth.

Are the levels of Chinese players poor?

It is true that it is not as good as South Korea, Japan, Iran and other Asian strong teams, but the Chinese team is not so bad that it cannot fight.

It is not difficult to see from club games that Chinese players can also compete with South Korea and Japan.

So why can’t it work in the national team?

The answer is simple, stress.

Li Tie felt this most deeply.

Before Gao Han took over, the national team's situation in the top 40 was precarious. At that time, the pressure from the outside world was very high, but the pressure within the national team was far greater than the outside world. It was jointly created by the outside world, the Football Association, the coaching staff and the players themselves. The pressure was so great that it made the internal atmosphere very tense, making the atmosphere of the entire team somewhat distorted and overly depressing.

Everyone knows that the more important it is before a major competition, the easier it is to go into battle. But everyone knows the truth, but how many can do it?

Li Tie watched with his own eyes the entire process from Gao Han taking over the national team to the present. He witnessed with his own eyes how Gao Han had brought leaps and bounds to the technical and tactical level of the national team. Almost every player had been improved and improved under Gao Han. , especially several young players, the progress is particularly obvious.

But the most critical thing is the psychological change.

Years of weakness in the past have caused the Football Association and the national team to always have a weak mentality. They dare not take responsibility and are afraid of giving hope to the outside world, because once hope is given, corresponding results must be achieved. They are unwilling to bear this responsibility, so It is always instilled that we are weak.

But after Gao Han came, he pointed out the key point, pointing out that the performance of the players in the national team and the club could not be equated at all. He believed that the main problem was at the psychological level, and his approach was to constantly instill a belief in everyone. We are a strong team, our club can win the AFC Champions League, and our national team will definitely be able to compete with the top teams in Asia.

Outside, he bears all the pressure alone. He is like a towering mountain, supporting the world of the national team. He dares to challenge all media and public opinion. He also dares to make large rotations and arrange a large number of substitutes. Played against Syria with a young lineup.

If you are not a member of the national team, you will not be able to see that behind the victories one after another, it is the national players who are rebuilding their confidence step by step, following Gao Han step by step, and rising to the difficulties.

What is a strong person?

Mount Tai collapsed in front of him but his appearance remained unchanged!

Many people feel that the biggest change brought by the high cold to the national team is performance, skills and tactics, but as the leader of the national team, Li Tie feels that the biggest change brought by the high cold is the psychological quality and the overall temperament of the team.

It can be said that China has finally begun to look like a strong team.

The most obvious manifestation is that on the training ground, in the face of a powerful enemy, they still let go and play. They can walk monkeys on the training ground and sing loudly in the recreation room.

Gao Han even asked the Football Association, the General Administration of Sports, and the leaders of the provinces and cities where the home stadium is located, hoping that they will not disturb the national football team before the game, not make any game-related remarks, and avoid putting any unnecessary pressure on the national football team.

What touched Li Tie very much was that he was chatting with an international player before, and he actually jokingly said that there was no pressure at all to play against the Korean team. Why?

"Please, brother Li Tie, we are now ranked first in the group, and they are third in the group. They can't get three points in this game. They are worse than us. The head coach is about to fire, and the qualifying situation is in jeopardy. There is really pressure. That means they are under a lot of pressure, okay? What do we have to worry about?"

These words sounded heartless, but it was hard for Li Tie to imagine that he came from the mouth of a national football player.

This means that they have little pressure and no psychological burden, and can truly travel lightly.

On the other hand, the Korean team is under too much pressure in this game. It is an away game, it is a qualifying situation, and it is Korean phobia. They are burdened with too many things.

The international player is absolutely right. If there is really pressure, then South Korea is under a lot of pressure.

The world's top coaching team, the world's top medical team, coupled with complete and appropriate logistics work, all allow the national team to concentrate on preparing for the game, and have also contributed to the transformation of the national team in the past year.

But Li Tie always insisted that even with the same team, it would be difficult to achieve Gao Han's level, because his existence itself is the strongest guarantee, and he is born to be the kind of person who can bring confidence to people. super coach.

The game hasn't started yet, but Li Tie has already noticed the reversal of the situation between China and South Korea.

Perhaps, the emergence of high cold will not only help China break its embarrassing Korean phobia, but may even bring nightmares to the Korean team, causing them to suffer from Sinophobia.

With the current internal and external situation, and the current environment faced by the two national teams, who dares to say that this is not possible?