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After the game against Sporting Gijon, Simeone admitted that the Champions League rotation had a negative impact on the team's state, but fortunately: "We won the game in the end, fortunately we have high..."

Everyone agrees with his statement.

Fortunately, Atletico Madrid has Gao Zheng.

Otherwise, if this game is not done well, it may really capsize in the gutter.

Gao Zheng saved Atletico Madrid again and made the headlines of the major media the next day, but this is no longer a rare thing for Gao Zheng.

He has long been used to the media and fans touting him in various ways.

What he values ​​more is that Atletico Madrid scored three points, can continue to maintain the pressure on Barcelona, ​​and retain the hope of winning the championship.

After the game against Sporting Gijon, he left Madrid and returned home to prepare for the final forty against the Maldives.

At present, the top 40 is coming to an end. The Chinese team has played six games and maintained a complete victory. With 18 points, there are two games left.

Their rival Qatar also has six games, five wins and one loss, with fifteen points. There are also two games left, and there is also an away game against the Chinese team.

The Chinese team has great hopes of advancing to the top 12, as long as they don't lose to Qatar at home.

Some optimistic Chinese fans can't help but look forward to the Top 12 match.

It was the final stage of the World Cup Asian Qualifiers. The twelve teams were divided into two groups. The top two teams in each group directly qualified for the finals of the World Cup in Russia, and the third places in the two groups played two additional matches. , the winning team cannot directly participate in the World Cup finals, but has to compete with Oceania for the last World Cup spot-after Australia switched to the AFC, the team in Oceania is likely to be New Zealand.

Tickets to the World Cup can only be won by beating New Zealand in the play-offs.

For the top 12, this Chinese team is extremely unfamiliar - none of the team has participated in the final stage of the World Cup qualifiers.

Zheng Zhi, the oldest member of the team, also missed the top ten match in 2001. Since then, the Chinese team has never entered the final stage of the World Cup qualifiers. It was called the top ten match before, but now it is called the top twelve match.

Three consecutive World Cup qualifiers, a full twelve years.

During this period, all the old players who had participated in the top ten games retired completely.

Even most of the staff within the Football Association have no experience in participating in the top twelve games-those who have experience are basically caught in.

Football matches put a lot of emphasis on experience, and lack of experience means that you don't know how to prepare for the top 12.

We must know that the top twelve games are not as simple as ten games.

There are many things involved in this, from logistical guarantees, to warm-up opponent selection, from training arrangements to competitions...they are interlinked, and if there is a problem with one link, it may affect the overall situation.

Without experience, it means that you don't know how to do these things and what to do.

This is the disadvantage of the Chinese team.

Many people are worried that the inexperienced Chinese team will fail in the top 12 and will not be able to participate in the World Cup in the end.

But there are not only disadvantages. Gao Zheng and Wu Lei, two La Liga forwards, can at least solve the problem of the Chinese team's weakness.

In the final analysis, football is to score more goals than anyone else. As long as they can score goals, the Chinese team is not without hope of qualifying for the Russian World Cup finals.

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On March 24, at their home court, the Chinese team defeated the Maldives 4-0. Gao Zheng scored twice and also contributed an assist.

This score is exactly the same as the previous "away" victory over the Maldives.

But winning a few goals at this time is actually meaningless.

There is only the last match against Qatar. The Chinese team scored 37 goals, conceded 1 goal, and the goal difference was 36.

On the same day, Qatar defeated Hong Kong, China 2-0 at home. Together they scored 29 goals, conceded four and had a goal difference of 25.

Whether it is the number of goals or goal difference, the Chinese team is far ahead of Qatar. In the last game against Qatar, as long as the Chinese team does not lose 11 goals to Qatar at home, they will definitely advance to the top 12.

But no matter how bad the Chinese team is, no matter how they are scolded as "mud can't support the wall", how can they lose by double digits at home?

So after the match against the Maldives, some Chinese fans couldn't wait to celebrate the return of the Chinese team to the Top 12 after 14 years.

Even the mainstream media is unanimously optimistic about the Chinese team's entry into the top 12, and the media is full of expectations and analysis of the next top 12.

Few people have paid attention to the Chinese team's home game against Qatar five days later.

The Chinese don't pay much attention, but Qatar does. Because this determines whether they can participate in the top twelve.

According to the rules of the AFC on the Asian qualifiers for the 2018 Russia World Cup, in the top forty stage, the first place in each group will directly advance to the top twelve. The two advanced to the next stage of the competition, and formed the top twelve with the first eight groups.

With the last round of matches remaining, Qatar accumulated 18 points and became the second best group among the eight groups with Syria.

But this is not safe, because there are three other teams that may threaten Qatar's position.

On the premise that Qatar lost to the Chinese team:

The United Arab Emirates in Group A currently have 16 points. If they beat Saudi Arabia at home in the last game, they can surpass Qatar with 19 points and 18 points.

Jordan in Group B also has 16 points. If they win Australia in the last away game, they will also have 19 points.

The North Korean team in Group H currently has 16 points and will challenge the Philippines in the last away game.

In fact, looking at it this way, if Qatar is to be eliminated, the conditions required are very harsh.

Qatar must be eliminated if the above three teams win at the same time.

But even if there is a theoretical possibility of being out, Qatar has to guard against it.

They can't control the games of the other three opponents. They can only hope that the Chinese team will show their hands high and not kill them at home.

After arriving in China, Qatar's head coach Daniel Carreno kept touting the Chinese team and Gao Zheng in front of the media as if he was obedient and free of money, just like Gao Zheng's fanboy.

At the same time, he also paid attention to various reports about the Chinese team in the media.

From the news such as "The national football team is preparing for the Qatar game, the players are laughing and laughing during training. They are very relaxed after advancing to the top 12 in advance..." He found that the Chinese team is really relaxed, and it seems that they have no control over the situation. Take this game to heart.

That makes Carreno happy... that's right! Just don't take us to heart! Go and celebrate your qualifications for the top 12, the score between us will be settled after we enter the top 12!

The reason why his team is so embarrassed depends on the face of the Chinese team in the end. It is entirely because they did not win the Chinese team at home. So in Carreno's heart, this account must always be kept in mind until he leads the team to complete revenge.

In order to have a chance of revenge, he now has to compromise, hoping to please the Chinese team and let his team survive in the World Cup qualifiers.