Chapter 248

After 20 minutes of strong attack, the physical fitness and state of Qatari players have indeed declined seriously, and they can only start to slow down the attack and take a breath.

However, they want to take a breath, but the Chinese team does not allow it.

When Qatar's attack slowed down, it was the turn of the Chinese team to attack.

A one-goal lead is not safe, not to mention it is an away game, so the Chinese team is not satisfied with the 1:0 lead, they still want to attack and want to score another goal.

Of course, the Chinese team, which is in the lead, will not take risks, so the three forwards and Jiang Xiaolin, the striker, will participate in the attack.

Although due to the hot weather, the technical movements and physical fitness of forwards such as Huang Bowen have been greatly affected, and they cannot provide much support to Jiang Xiaolin.

But even if they run in the frontcourt, they can also involve the energy of the opponent's back line, and they can still pass the ball as a transit station, which is much better than Jiang Xiaolin facing the entire back line of the opponent alone.

Therefore, after Qatar slowed down its attack, the Chinese team still made several good attacks, but in the end, no shots were made.

Until the 78th minute, Jiang Xiaolin dribbled the ball himself, broke through a defender of the opponent at the front of Qatar's penalty area and broke into the penalty area. Then, facing the double-teaming of two defenders of the opponent, Jiang Xiaolin did not force his own breakthrough, but passed the ball horizontally to the ribs of the penalty area.

Jiang Xiaolin's short pass technique was full, and the pass was still very accurate.

The winger Hao Junmin, who cut in from outside the penalty area, received Jiang Xiaolin's pass and kicked the ball towards the goal without any adjustment.

This shot was not bad and went straight to the goal. But the luck was a bit bad, and it was saved by Qatar's goalkeeper Mohammed at the bottom line, causing countless Chinese fans in the stands and in front of the TV to sigh.

If this ball had been scored, the Chinese team would have led 2-0, and the away three points would have been stable.

However, even if the ball did not go in, the Chinese team's attack did not stop, because the opponent's goalkeeper saved the ball and the Chinese team had another chance to attack from a corner kick.

Qatari players naturally knew the threat of Jiang Xiaolin, after all, Jiang Xiaolin scored the first goal with a header.

Therefore, when Jiang Xiaolin stood in the penalty area and prepared to compete for a header, Qatar had two defenders closely guarding him, ready to interfere with his header.

At the same time, other Qatari defenders not far from him were also paying attention to him at any time, ready to keep an eye on his movements, in case Jiang Xiaolin suddenly changed direction and ran without the ball to successfully grab a point and head the ball like the first goal.

Anyway, this time it was a set-piece opportunity, and all the Qataris withdrew to the backcourt to participate in the defense, and would not give Jiang Xiaolin the opportunity to run without the ball to take advantage of the loophole. No matter where he ran, someone would be watching him.

Everyone pushed and shoved in the penalty area, all wanting to grab a favorable position, and finally the referee blew the whistle twice in a row to remind everyone to pay attention to their movements and not to foul.

In the end, the referee was too lazy to care about the shoving in the penalty area and directly let Du Zhenyu of the Chinese team serve.

Du Zhenyu was naturally looking for Jiang Xiaolin, who was the best header player in the Chinese team.

If the ball could be passed to Jiang Xiaolin's head, the chance of creating a threat or even scoring a goal would naturally be the greatest.

However, there was a little deviation, that is, the footwork of the player serving the ball was the same as the first goal. In fact, Sun Jihai was going to pass the ball to the middle point, but he didn't expect to pass it to the back point.

If it weren't for Jiang Xiaolin's ability to grab points and run without the ball, he would have judged the flight path and landing point of the ball as soon as Sun Jihai passed the ball, and perhaps Jiang Xiaolin would not have grabbed Sun Jihai's cross.

This time was the same. Du Zhenyu's landing point should have been in the middle of the small penalty area line.

Jiang Xiaolin standing in that position made the Qatari goalkeeper very uncomfortable.

If he attacked, the risk was a bit high. If he didn't attack, the distance was too close. If Jiang Xiaolin hit the ball, the probability of scoring a goal was very high.

As a result, Du Zhenyu had a good idea, but his pass was biased. Although his pass was not too strong or too weak, and did not fall to the front or back point, it was a little biased and did not fall to the small penalty area line, but fell to the position near the penalty spot in the large penalty area.

Jiang Xiaolin was naturally the first to easily determine the landing point of the ball, and wanted to retreat to the penalty spot and then head the ball.

As a result, the Qatari defender kept paying attention to Jiang Xiaolin's movements. When Jiang Xiaolin wanted to retreat to the penalty spot, he was directly grabbed by a defender.

Jiang Xiaolin failed to get rid of the opponent's pull in the first time, and under the opponent's pull, Jiang Xiaolin half turned his body to face the penalty area and his back to the goal..

When Jiang Xiaolin regained his balance, the ball was about to fall.

If he rushed out to head the ball at this time, it would be difficult to head the ball into the goal unless he used the back of his head and was very accurate.

And even if he headed the ball, the power would not be enough and would not pose much threat to Qatar's goal.

A Qatari midfielder was already standing at the point where the ball landed, ready to head the ball out of the penalty area.

At this moment, Jiang Xiaolin had a flash of inspiration and thought of his skill of hooking the ball. Although it only had an attribute value of 12 points, it was not impossible to try it.

In a flash, Jiang Xiaolin did not hesitate too much. Whether he could succeed or not, he had to give it a try. As soon as he thought of this, he immediately took action.

Jiang Xiaolin did not break free from the Qatari defender who was pulling him from behind. Instead, he fell backwards, his whole body soared into the air, fully stretched, and raised his right foot high, higher than the head of the Qatari midfielder who was preparing to clear the ball. He met Du Zhenyu's pass with his instep and kicked the ball towards the goal behind him with a fierce hook shot.

This was the first time Jiang Xiaolin made a hook shot on the court. In addition, his hook shot attribute was only 12 points, so this hook was not kicked accurately or well.

The ball kicked by Jiang Xiaolin suddenly changed direction and flew towards the goal, but it did not hit the door frame. Instead, it hit the crossbar a little higher, which scared the Qatari players and fans into a cold sweat, and also made the Chinese fans at the scene and in front of the TV sigh deeply.

There is no doubt that if this hook shot had been scored, it would have been a very exciting goal. Unexpectedly, it hit the crossbar and bounced out, and did not go in.

However, just as the Qatari fans were rejoicing and the Chinese fans were sighing in frustration, they saw that the ball bounced off the crossbar was not cleared by the Qatari defender, but happened to fall in front of Huang Bowen, the front midfielder in the penalty area.

Huang Bowen reflexively poked it with his foot, but it hit the leg of a defender of the opponent and bounced back.

At this time, several players had already rushed to Huang Bowen's position, and everyone wanted to grab the ball.

However, Huang Bowen was still the one with the best position and the fastest reaction. He raised his foot and shot the second time before others cleared the ball.

Of course, he did not make any full preparations, nor did he make any strong volleys. He directly poked it towards the goal with his toes.

As a result, Huang Bowen was very lucky this time and poked the ball in from the goalkeeper's feet.

In the second half, the Chinese team created chaos in the penalty area through Jiang Xiaolin's hook shot. Huang Bowen kicked the ball into the goal in the melee, allowing the Chinese team to score the second goal and take a 2:0 lead.

Suddenly, all the Chinese fans in the stands and in front of the TV celebrated excitedly. Huang Bowen on the court also rushed to the penalty spot and hugged Jiang Xiaolin who had just climbed up to celebrate excitedly.

Then other teammates rushed up and hugged the two to celebrate the goal happily.

In such hot weather, with a 2:0 lead, this away victory is basically stable.

Head coach Dujkovic had the same idea. After the celebration, he quickly made substitutions, replacing Huang Bowen and Hao Junmin, who had consumed too much physical energy, with two defensive fresh forces to stabilize the defense.

In the next 10 minutes, Qatar, playing at home, launched a crazy attack. The head coach also replaced three new players in a row to sprint against the Chinese team's defense line.

But the Chinese team was united and did not let Qatar's attack break through the defense line.

Qatar's closest attack to a goal came in the 88th minute, but the pass that finally entered the penalty area was kicked high into the stands by Qatar's striker Yasser, wasting this good opportunity to shoot in the penalty area.

After 90 minutes of regular time, the referee gave three minutes of stoppage time, but Qatar still did not score.

After three minutes of stoppage time, the referee finally blew the whistle to end the game. With a header from Jiang Xiaolin and a supplementary shot from Huang Bowen, the Chinese team defeated Qatar 2:0 away and won the World Cup qualifiers.

When the referee's whistle sounded, Chinese fans in the stands and in front of the TV were so excited that they could not help themselves.

You know, this is the first victory of the Chinese team in the top 20 World Cup qualifiers this year.

After this round of games, Australia ranked first in Group A with 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses, and 7 points, while the Chinese team ranked first with 1 win, 2 draws and 0 losses, and 5 points.Ranked second in the group, it entered the group stage.

The Asian Top 20 Tournament is divided into 5 groups, and the top two in each group advance to the top 10.

So if the Chinese team wants to qualify, they can only strive for the top two.

Now ranking second in the group is a good phenomenon.

Therefore, everyone is very excited, whether it is players, coaches or fans, they celebrated excitedly inside and outside the court.

And Jiang Xiaolin also received the experience reward of this game when the referee blew the final whistle.