The fundamental reason why the Chinese team played an international A-level friendly match with the Gabon national team at the Shanghai Hongkou Professional Football Stadium was to adapt to the African team's style of play, because one of the Chinese team's opponents in Group G was the Ghana national team.
It is similar to the Gabon national team.
It is a targeted friendly match.
Because although the Chinese team is one of the most promising teams in this World Cup, head coach Guardiola did not appear to be in high spirits.
Instead, he paid great attention to the three group matches at the beginning of the group stage.
Moreover, this international A-level friendly match has two meanings.
One is to determine the fate of those marginal players, and the other is to adapt to the playing style of African teams.
Of course, the Chinese team did not only have one warm-up match with the Gabon national team before the start of the World Cup.
After playing the Gabon national team, they immediately flew directly to Rio de Janeiro at Pudong International Airport, where the Chinese team had two warm-up matches, respectively.
It was against England and Mexico.
Similarly, these two warm-up matches are also full of pertinence.
But before that, both the Chinese national team and the Chinese media focused their attention on the international A-level competition at the Shanghai Hongkou Professional Football Stadium.
The Shanghai Hongkou Stadium, which originally could only accommodate 30,000 fans, has been expanded and can now accommodate 50,000 fans.
This international friendly match before heading to Brazil was full of seats.
What's even more exaggerated is that ordinary far-end game tickets are priced at 2,000 yuan, but they are still priced but not available.
This shows how popular China's football market is now.
Speaking of this, we have to talk about the current Chinese Super League.
What should be mentioned is the Changsha Star City Football Club, which is 100% owned by Ai Luo himself.
With huge financial support from Ai Luo and Emirates Airline, it is now a part of the Chinese Super League.
A super strong team, they won the Chinese Super League championship that season as a newly promoted team in 2012, and even won the AFC Champions League in 2013.
In addition, I have to say that the youth training level of Changsha Star City Football Club is very high.
The team already has some players born after 1995 who can play in the game.
The most eye-catching ones are Zhang Xiuwei and Zhang Xiuwei who were selected into the 30-man roster this time.
Wei Shihao.
Closer to home, the Chinese team playing at home did not have a main lineup.
Players Ai Luo, Zhang Linpeng and Wang Xiaolei who participated in the Champions League final at the Stadium of Light were all rested, and their replacements were 19-year-old Wei Shihao, Zhang Chengdong and Yan Junling respectively.
Although the Chinese team does not have the strongest lineup, it still has a great advantage against the Gabon national team.
The Chinese national team, which now takes a technical route, is very experienced in controlling the ball.
Especially under the guidance of Guardiola, the Chinese team's passing and controlling football has reached its peak.
Last year, the Chinese team was able to beat Brazil and Spain to win the Confederation.
The cup championship is the best proof.
Wei Shihao, the young player who took Ai Luo's turn in this game, performed very well.
He used his personal ability to create a penalty kick in the first half, and the main attacking midfielder Zhang Xizhe took it in a pinch.
Then Gao Lin showed the superb qualities of a world-class forward.
He scored with a header from a corner kick.
Since this was an international A-level friendly match, both sides had seven substitutions, so at the beginning of the second half, Guardiola made some adjustments to the lineup.
Zhang Yunian, a 17-year-old boy who was selected for the national team for the first time, replaced Gao Lin.
Get on the field.
I don’t know if he was a little nervous playing for the national team for the first time.
He made some mistakes at the beginning and was almost hit by Feng Xiaoting’s Dortmund teammate Aubameyang for a quick counterattack.
However, Zhang Yunian made quick personal adjustments.
After the mistake just now, he got into the proper state of the game.
He was able to use his good physical fitness to compete with African players without falling behind, and he also showed that he could pass the ball.
The talent you can bring.
Watching Zhang Yuneng getting better, Guardiola, who was watching the game from the sidelines, nodded with satisfaction.
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In the 13th minute of the second half, Zhang Yunian, who was getting better and better, relied on his good physical fitness to resist the main defender of the Gabon national team, and then accurately headed the ball back to find the core organizer Wu Xi, who made an unreasonable kick.
The world wave helped the Chinese team take a three-goal lead.
Liverpool's midfield core showed his strongest side.
At this time, the atmosphere at Shanghai Hongkou Professional Football Stadium has reached its peak, and the cheers are getting louder and louder.
Afterwards, the fans also played in the crowd, which seemed very enjoyable.
Because the national team's performance is better than they imagined, if they participate in the World Cup group stage according to their current status, they have great confidence that the national team will become the only team in Group G that can determine the qualification of the group.
Listening to the huge cheers from all directions, Gabon's top star Aubameyang shook his head repeatedly.
His ability is outstanding in the national team, but he is not among the top five in this game because of the personal strength of the Chinese team players.
It's really too strong Although he is very fast and has comprehensive skills, he is always timid when facing club teammate and captain Feng Xiaoting.
Therefore, even if the Gabonese team had a good chance, they could not break the goal guarded by Yan Junling.
Next, the Chinese team made continuous substitution adjustments, and the players selected by Guardiola got opportunities to play.
Aiello, as captain, only got a chance to play ten minutes before the end of the game.
However, no one expressed any dissatisfaction with this.
You must know that throughout the 20132014 season, Ai Luo participated in more than 60 battles, large and small, and participated in such a major event as the Champions League final a week ago.
There was no such thing.
The reason for starting in this meaningless international A-level competition.
In other words, the strength of the Gabon national team has not reached the point where Guardiola can take it seriously.
In the end, the Chinese team defeated Gabon 5-0 at home.
The last two goals were scored by captain Ai Luo and the outstanding 17-year-old Zhang Yunian.
The next day, media from various countries who are paying attention to the dynamics of the Chinese national team are reporting on the current situation of the Chinese team, especially the two young players Wei Shihao and Zhang Yunian who performed well in the warm-up match.
Many media believe that these young players will ride on the team.
The last train from Brazil.
The media are not fools.
On the contrary, they are very smart.
They already have rough players in their minds.
There are only two or three positions that are somewhat undecided.
I don't know what Guardiola, who likes to train young players, will choose.
However, as Wei Shihao and Zhang Yunian performed well in this warm-up match, the media is basically certain that at least one of them will get on the last train to Brazil.
However, some media revealed that although captain Aiello, who was given ten minutes of game time, was in good condition, he also showed signs of fatigue: