Chapter 245

Apart from the discussion among fans and the media, this friendly match also had a relatively large impact within the Chinese national team.

First of all, Jiang Xiaolin's status has changed from being intimidated by his previous foreign achievements to being the most popular choice.

You know, although Jiang Xiaolin has achieved remarkable success in the Eredivisie, he is still young and even a minor in China.

The Chinese national football team is full of big men in their twenties and thirties, and there are even big men who participated in the 2002 World Cup.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin wearing the No. 9 jersey and building new tactics around Jiang Xiaolin, etc., can't actually convince everyone.

After all, Jiang Xiaolin has just joined the team and has no qualifications or achievements in the national football team.

But this friendly match suppressed all doubts, not only in person, but also behind the scenes. No one questioned Jiang Xiaolin anymore, and everyone was convinced.

Jiang Xiaolin had only joined the team for a few days and had no tacit understanding with his teammates. In the first game, he was able to score four goals in a single game. What level can Jiang Xiaolin achieve after he cooperates with his teammates?

As the commentator said, will there be 5, 6, 7, 8 goals in a single game in the future?

Everyone began to look forward to the prospect of Jiang Xiaolin leading them out of Asia and into the World Cup.

No matter how the fans scold, the national football players can't help wanting to enter the World Cup!

How much benefit can the surge in fame and value bring?

Therefore, this friendly match with four goals in a row has completely consolidated Jiang Xiaolin's position as the core of the national football team.

Secondly, teammates have a clearer understanding of Jiang Xiaolin's strength through official matches.

Many things cannot be shown in training, such as running without the ball, grabbing points, etc., which are difficult to see in training.

But in official matches, everyone can have a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of Jiang Xiaolin's strength, and can cooperate with Jiang Xiaolin more accurately in the future.

Finally, the 4231 tactical formation has been completely consolidated.

Before this game, both the coach and the players were a little nervous about this temporary change of formation, fearing that everyone would not be able to adapt to the new formation and play a bad game.

The result was unexpected. Jiang Xiaolin was better than the two forwards, and the two back midfielders in the backcourt also played a huge defensive role, making it difficult for the Jordanian team to enter the Chinese team's penalty area and threaten the goal. The strength of both offense and defense has been greatly improved.

Now it is basically certain that as long as Jiang Xiaolin is on the field, the Chinese team can play the 4231 formation with confidence without worrying about whether everyone can adapt or not.

On the second day of the friendly match, because it was a training period, there was no holiday, but the training intensity was not high. The coach only arranged some light training to maintain physical condition.

Jiang Xiaolin wanted high-intensity training but no one cooperated with him, so the training effect can be imagined.

In the end, after this day of training, Jiang Xiaolin only got a qualified training rating and only 200 basic training experience points.

On the 27th, the rating was also only qualified, because after half a day of training in the morning, it rained heavily in the afternoon and the training was cancelled. Naturally, the system could not give Jiang Xiaolin a good or excellent rating for training performance.

Fortunately, the weather was normal in the next two days. The team trained well for two days, which made everyone's understanding of the new formation and cooperation with Jiang Xiaolin more proficient and tacit.

In the evening of May 29, the entire national football team left Kunshan and went to Hucheng Airport to fly directly to Doha, Qatar.

Everyone is a frequent flyer, so there is nothing to adapt to. After a good sleep on the plane, we arrived in Qatar.

However, when getting off the plane, the climate in Qatar really surprised everyone in the Chinese football team: it was too hot!

Moreover, when we arrived in Doha, it was still past 5 a.m. local time. It was still dark, and the air was so hot that it felt like we couldn't breathe.

According to airport staff, the local outdoor temperature at noon may even be as high as more than 40 degrees, which is hot at that time.

Including Jiang Xiaolin, the players all changed their faces when they heard it.

On the surface, the Chinese team with Jiang Xiaolin should be stronger than Qatar. But it is hard to say how much strength the Chinese team can still exert in such a hot away game.

Even if Jiang Xiaolin has a system plug-in, he is a little lacking in confidence.

Fortunately, the scheduled game time is in the evening, when the sun has set, it should be slightly cooler, which is much better than playing in the sun.

Even so, the temperature is expected to be as high as 35 degrees during the game.

At such a temperature, just standing will make you sweat profusely, not to mention the high-intensity World Cup qualifiers that have to be played for 90 minutes.Qatar is playing at home, and the players live there, so it may be much better. For the Chinese team, this test is more severe.

I don’t know how much condition everyone will have left during the game.

When leaving the airport, there were hundreds of Chinese fans and reporters to meet them, but the players were not very happy. They could only force themselves to smile and try not to show negative emotions to the fans.

After resting for a day at the hotel, they started adaptive training in the evening to adapt to the local climate.

Even though the training was in the evening, everyone was sweating profusely, and they experienced the hot weather in Qatar firsthand.

After a few days of adaptive training, on the evening of June 2, 2008, local time, the Doha Stadium in Qatar was packed, and the third round of the Group A of the South Africa World Cup Asian Qualifiers Qatar VS China was about to begin.

Before the game started, Jiang Xiaolin spent 2 attribute points as usual to increase his "arc" and "back hook shot" to 12 points, with a balance of 38 attribute points.

Then, Jiang Xiaolin opened the "Team Aura" icon in the package, and an interface popped up, showing that the Chinese team's on-the-spot status for this game was 68%.

This status is really too low.

Jiang Xiaolin wondered if the Chinese team would be slaughtered by Qatar after playing this game.

Whether to use attribute points to increase the team aura and increase the on-the-spot status of the Chinese team is a question.

Just when Jiang Xiaolin was hesitant, he looked up and found that the opponent's forward raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, stuck out his tongue and blew a breath, and his face also had an expression of being uncomfortable with high temperature.

Jiang Xiaolin suddenly thought: Could it be that this weather has a great impact on the players of the Qatar team?

After thinking carefully, Qatar is a human being, not a god after all. Although they have lived here all year round and may be more heat-resistant than the Chinese team players, this heat resistance is not unlimited.

Today's temperature may not be very comfortable for Qatari players: they will also feel the heat and unbearable, and their status will also be greatly affected.

There are a total of 6 group matches, and there are still three more after this one. Even if they lose this one, they still have a chance to make up for it.

So Jiang Xiaolin finally gave up the idea of ​​adding points to the team's aura and prepared to compete with Qatar based on real strength.