In the third round of the World Preliminaries Asian Top 12, which ended early on the 8th, Beijing time, with Wu Lei's lore, the Chinese team narrowly defeated Vietnam 3:2.

The country was able to obtain the first victory of this year's top 12 in an extremely exciting way.

After the game, Wu Lei was named the best player of the game.

Image source: Official blog of the Chinese football team.

　　For the national football team, the battle with Vietnam is a life-and-death situation.

Both sides of the two losing streaks at the beginning want to defeat their opponents, while holding the "bottom line", while retaining the hope of hitting the group's third place, and then gaining a place in the play-offs.

　　After a "roller coaster" type of fierce battle, the winner of this life-and-death situation is the national football team.

　　Exactly 20 years ago this morning, it was the sleepless night when countless fans celebrated that the national football team entered the World Cup for the first time.

This is the best moment of Chinese football so far.

The national football team defeated Vietnam 3:2 and won the first win of the top 12 matches.

Image source: Chinese football team.

　　On the surface, it seems that the National Football Team won Vietnam as "reasonable". After all, the National Football Team ranks 75th in the world, while Vietnam ranks 95th and is the sixth-tier team in the group.

　　In terms of team value, the national football team’s 23.3 million euros is much higher than Vietnam (4.68 million euros).

In the past 9 matches, the national football team has also shown a crushing trend and won a complete victory.

　　But today is different from the past. With the opponent's continuous improvement, the national football team does not have many advantages against Vietnam.

Coupled with a two-game losing streak at the start, the national football team faces such a "golden generation" Vietnam team, which is somewhat unreliable.

　　In addition to the above data, the national football's other advantages are nothing more than physical fitness and experience in the top 12 games.

National Football Team Vietnam's starting lineup.

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　　Judging from the formation of troops, the Chinese coach Li Tie really wants to take advantage of these few advantages.

　　Compared with the previous game against Japan, high center forward Guo Tianyu and veteran Dabao entered the 23-man roster, and removed Wu Xinghan and Yin Hongbo, two wingers who did not have much physical and technical advantages when facing Vietnam. And midfielders.

　　In terms of the starting lineup, the national football team also made adjustments and sent a 4-2-3-1 formation with Zhang Yuning as the center.

　　In midfield, Exxon was behind Zhang Yuning, Wu Lei played the right wing, Liu Binbin, who was more experienced, replaced Wu Xinghan as the left midfielder, and Zhang Xizhe and Wu Xi partnered as the midfielder.

The back line is Wang Shenchao, Jiang Guangtai, Zhang Linpeng and Wang Gang, and the goalkeeper is Yan Junling.

　　On the whole, the national football team tends to take the initiative to attack and focus on the frontcourt.

In the first game against Australia, the national football team took the initiative to attack and press for the first time.

Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency

　　In the opening stage, the national football team had a period of offensive and got a good opportunity to score in the first minute.

Liu Binbin passed the pass from the left, and Zhang Yuning shot slightly wide with his heel in front of the door.

　　In the 3rd minute, Zhang Xizhe made a corner kick and Wu Lei's shot was confiscated by the Vietnam goalkeeper.

　　But then the offense of the national football fell into silence, there was not much effective cooperation, but at the end of the first half there was a lack of physical fitness, giving the opponent a lot of shooting opportunities, but fortunately did not lose the ball.

　　Entering the second half, the national football team got a counterattack opportunity in the 52nd minute. Wu Lei was single-handedly attacked and Zhang Yuning scored a supplementary shot to help the national football team take the lead.

　　Since then, the national football team has changed three players, Hao Junmin, Alan and Wei Shihao replaced Zhang Xizhe, Exon and Liu Binbin.

　　In the 74th minute, Wu Lei scored a header in the penalty area to expand the score.

But 5 minutes later, Hu Jincai volleyed a goal in the penalty area to get a goal back for the Vietnam team.

　　The climax of the game has just begun.

　　In the 89th minute, Ruan Jinling pushed into the penalty area and scored the goal. The national football team was evened 2:2 by the Vietnam team.

　　In the 94th minute, Wu Lei took a shovel shot from Wang Shenchao's pass in the restricted area to complete the lore, and the national football team was 3:2 in Vietnam!

(Wu Lei said after the game that he might not have touched the ball at the time)

Data map: Wu Lei celebrated his goal in the game.

Image source: Visual China

　　Judging from the overall progress of the game, the national football team and Vietnam's first round and the top 40 stage of the second round against the Philippines are somewhat similar. Of course, the "plot" is not so thrilling.

　　The similarity is that the national football team was unable to break through the opponent's goal in the first half. As the game progressed, it failed to show much effective offensive cooperation, but fortunately, the national football team seized a limited opportunity in the second half and scored a goal.

　　In terms of the scene, it may not be satisfactory, but the result is satisfactory.

　　After all, the battle with the Philippines at that time was a turning point in the top 40 stage. It was the victory over the Philippines that allowed the national football team to keep the hope of qualifying in the top 40.

　　This campaign against Vietnam is a turning point for the national football team in the top 12 stage.

In such a game, the result is more important than the process.

　　In any case, after scoring the precious 3 points, the National Football team kept the hope of continuing to hit the third place in the group and get a place in the play-offs.

Zhang Yuning (first from left) played in this field, which was a bit surprising.

Picture source: IC photo

　　Both Zhang Yuning and Wu Lei, who scored key goals in this game, have both overseas experience, which once again proves that Chinese football still has to go out firmly.

　　What is also gratifying is that despite the two-game losing streak and long-term overseas closed training, the players have been under great pressure, but they have minimized the impact as much as possible and maintained a peaceful mentality. This is also the national football can win. One of the important factors of the opponent.

After the Japanese team lost 0:1 to Saudi Arabia, they are currently 1 win and 2 losses with the national football team, accumulating 3 points.

Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency.

　　After winning this victory, the national football team won 1 win and 2 losses in 3 matches, with the Japanese team accumulating 3 points and temporarily ranking fifth in the group.

　　Five days later, the national football team will play away against Saudi Arabia, which has won all three games.

　　This is also a crucial battle concerning fate.

In the face of opponents whose strength and condition are better, the national football team needs to do their best to score points.

　　I hope that the national football team can also achieve an ideal result by then, Chinese football come on!

(Author Bian Liqun)