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At the post-match press conference, Pei Lan explained the reason why Gao Zheng was not allowed to start, which was similar to what Liu Hong had guessed. Considering that Gao Zheng had just returned from Madrid, he didn’t have much time to get in touch with the team, and there was still time difference, etc. Factors, so he was not allowed to start.

Then he also praised Gao Zheng's performance after coming off the bench.

In fact, it is not a big deal to let a comment player like Gao Zheng play as a substitute, and Perrin's explanations are completely reasonable.

But the Chinese media and fans are so concerned and concerned about this matter.

He insisted on asking Peilan to give an explanation, as if not letting Gao Zheng start was a very serious accident.

Although it was true that Gao Zheng was not allowed to start, the Chinese team won the first half and failed to score, and finally let the opponent take the lead.

But football games, how can there be a smooth sailing time?

Isn't it normal to miss a penalty kick and be scored by the opponent?

But the Chinese don't see it that way.

However, Peilan did not dare to put Gao Zheng on the bench anymore. This time it could be explained that Gao Zheng had just returned, and his physical condition had not yet returned to his best after a tiring journey.

What about the next game against Jordan? You can't still use this excuse, can you?

So no matter what Peilan thought, he had to put Gao Zheng in the starting list.

Jordan's strength is indeed stronger than that of Kuwait, after all, it is the fourth-ranked team in Asia.

In this game, Perrin did not continue to use 343 from the previous game, but replaced it with a more defensive 4231. Gao Zheng was at the forefront as the "1".

Seeing Gao Zheng starting the game, the debate seemed to disappear overnight.

In the game against Jordan, the Chinese team adopted a defensive counterattack tactic.

It has to be said that the Chinese team's defensive counterattack is still in place. After the backcourt players get the ball, they can think of looking for the "bridgehead" Gao Zheng in the front. The two wingers Wu Lei and Yu Hanchao actively advance forward, and they can form a counterattack, threatening Jordan's goal.

This is how the Chinese team scored their first goal.

After Gao Zheng got the ball in the frontcourt, he distributed the football to Wu Lei who inserted in the back.

Wu Lei dribbled the ball into the penalty area, but was tackled to the ground by the Jordanian defender. The referee decisively called a penalty amidst the cheers of the Chinese fans.

And this penalty was not taken by Gao Zheng, but by Gao Lin—Gao Zheng stuffed the football into Gao Lin's arms and motioned him to kick it.

In the last game, Gao Lin also got a penalty kick, but he missed it. The Chinese team conceded a goal at the end of the first half and laid the groundwork.

After the game, Gao Lin also apologized to the team in the locker room because he failed to score a penalty kick.

And now Gao Zheng asked Gao Lin to take the kick, obviously hoping that his family would get up from wherever he fell.

This time Gao Lin did not disappoint, he kicked the football into the goal steadily.

Gao Lin was very excited after scoring the goal. He hugged Gao Zheng hard and thanked him for this opportunity.

Other teammates also came up to hug them both.

The cheers of the Chinese fans sounded from the stands.

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Although they did a good job in counterattack, the Chinese team's defense was not flattering.

The addition of Gao Zheng has improved the offensive power of the Chinese team, but in terms of defense, what Gao Zheng can do is very limited.

The offensive tactics of the Jordan team are actually not complicated. They used simple and direct tactics to penetrate the defense of the Chinese team many times. If the starting goalkeeper Zeng Cheng performs well, the Chinese team may not be able to lead by one goal.

In addition to the fact that the Chinese team does not have an advantage in one-on-one defense, the Chinese team also has problems such as lack of man-marking, and a lack of defensive awareness in a small area.

Soon after the start of the second half, Jordan used a very simple offensive coordination to penetrate the Chinese team's defense, and then sent the football into the Chinese team's balls. Zeng Cheng was also weak this time.

If this was the Chinese team in the past, I am afraid that many Chinese fans will sigh.

But today's Chinese team is different, they have Gao Zheng.

In the 78th minute, Gao Zheng took a free kick in the frontcourt that he had won. After a beautiful arc kick, the football went into the Jordan team's goal!

In the end, with Gao Zheng's goal, the Chinese team won Jordan 2:1 at home, winning two consecutive warm-up matches.

These two warm-up matches also made Pei Lan understand a truth, the current Chinese team is still inseparable from Gao Zheng, if he wants to achieve good results, he must fully rely on Gao Zheng.

In getting along with Gao Zheng, he had to put himself in the right place. Although he is the head coach of this team, the most important person in this team is definitely not him...

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With victories in two consecutive warm-up matches, Gao Zheng left China and flew back to Madrid after the match against Jordan.

There is still a very, very important game waiting for him.

That is the Madrid city derby.

In fact, the Madrid media is very concerned about the Chinese national team's game, because Gao Zheng, as the protagonist of the Madrid derby Atletico Madrid, is very important whether he can return from the national team game in good health.

In the past, the Madrid media would not pay attention to the Chinese team's games at all. They will not spend even a sliver of energy to pay attention to the national team of a weak football country thousands of miles away, unless the national team has a warm-up match with the Spanish national team.

But it is different now, because of Gao Zheng, the Madrid media began to pay attention to the Chinese team's games, and through their dissemination, more Madrid fans also began to understand the representative team of the most populous country in the world.

Next is the Madrid Derby. Everyone is worried that Gao Zheng will be injured in the game or consume too much energy.

So when the Chinese fans and the media were dissatisfied that Perrin put Gao Zheng on the bench, the Atletico Madrid fans were very happy.

What reassured them was that after the two warm-up matches, Gao Zheng was not injured, and the two games did not play the whole game. In the first game, he came off the bench in the second half, and in the second game, he was replaced early in the 80th minute.

The match between the Chinese team and Jordan is on September 9th, while the Madrid derby is on September 13th. There are still four days in between, but in fact, there is not much time left for Gao Zheng, because he still has to fly from China. Back to Spain, it will take a whole day on the road.

After the match against Jordan, he left the team early and caught the only normal flight to Beijing at that time to fly to Beijing. Then he rested in a hotel near the airport and flew to Dubai at 7:00 am on the tenth. After waiting for a flight in Dubai for three hours, he took a plane from Dubai to Madrid. By the time he arrived in Madrid, it was already 8:00 pm local time. The whole day on the 10th was spent on traveling.

The flight time added up to 17 hours. Even if you bought first class, these 17 hours would not be easy.

The impact of long-distance travel on a player's body really cannot be ignored.

The next day, on the 11th, Gao Zheng was going to train with the team, and there was no time for him to recover from jet lag or recover slowly.

Because he can only train with the team for two days, and the 13th is the match day.

Not only did he need to make such a toss alone, but the international players in the South American country in the Atletico Madrid team also had to toss, and the flight time was not much less than Gao Zheng.

Of course, this situation is relatively fair, because Real Madrid, as a big player in international football, also has many international players who need to experience long-distance flights like Gao Zheng after the national team match day.

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PS, sorry, the automatic update was set after watching the Spaniard's game early this morning, but it turned tomorrow into today, and the automatic update was set to tomorrow...

I went out again in the morning to run errands, and now I come home and find that I haven't updated...

Make it up quickly, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!