1989 was Gao Fengwen's third year in charge of the national football team. In the past two years, Gao Fengwen led the national football team to the final stage of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, achieving a breakthrough in China's adult men's football rushing out of Asia to the world. At the 9th Asian Cup in the same year, in the absence of Jia Xiuquan and Liu Haiguang, two offensive and defensive cores, he still achieved a good result of fourth place. Now, Gao Fengwen has ushered in the biggest exam of his coaching career, the World Cup qualifiers.
In this World Preliminary Round, the national football team encountered a strong Iranian team in the first stage, and the other two opponents in the same group were Thailand and Bangladesh, and the game used a home-and-away double round robin, and the first in the group could qualify.
In the first three games of the first stage of the World Preliminary Round, the national football team defeated Bangladesh twice 2-0 home and away, and at the same time defeated Thailand 3-0 away from home, and a wave of three consecutive wins ushered in a good start.
On July 15, the national football team sat at the Shenyang People's Stadium at home to meet the strongest opponent of the group, Iran. At eight o'clock in the morning, there was a long queue at the entrance of Shenyang People's Stadium, and even some fans began to wait outside the ticket window a day in advance, just to buy a ticket for the national football team.
At 19:45, the match between the national football team and Iran officially began, and the two sides exchanged blanks 0-0 in the first half. Yi Bian fought again, Zhu Bo made two full moon curved knives on the right side of the road, assisted Liu Haiguang and Zhang Xiaowen to break the net with his headers, and finally the national football team defeated Iran 2-0 and won this key victory.
A week later, the national football team visited Tehran to challenge iran, Iran's Azadi Stadium is the famous home of the devil, and a total of 90,000 spectators came to cheer for the Iranian team on the day of the match. In this game, Iran not only has to fight for the win, but also to get as many goal differences as possible to qualify for the group.
The Iranian team, which occupies the right time and place, has finally shown the true colors of the Persian iron horse, and in less than 50 minutes of the game, it has scored three goals in a row. The national football team, which has no way back, finally woke up like a dream at this time. Liu Haiguang made a point Mai Chao hit, Marin's head hammer broke the goal, and finally the national football team chased two goals in a row to lose 2-3 to the opponent. Although the game was lost, two goals were crucial.
On July 29, the national football team easily defeated Thailand 2-0 at home in Shenyang, and pushed Iran to advance to the Quarterfinals of the World Preliminary Round of the Asian Region with the advantage of goal difference.
On October 8, the national football team went to Singapore to participate in the final round of the Asian region and the final round of the World Preliminary Tournament, the final round of the Asian region, the round of six, before the leadership of team leader Nian Weisi and head coach Gao Fengwen. The Tournament of the Quarter-Finals is held in Singapore and is played in a single round robin format, with the top two qualifying for Rome.
The 18-man roster of the national football team participating in the top six has also been slightly adjusted, and in the goalkeeper position, Fu Yubin of liaoning team replaced Shi Lianzhi of Tianjin team.
In this round of six, the other five competitors of the national football team are Saudi Arabia, South Korea, North Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. According to the assessment of the coaching staff of the national football team at that time, it was believed that in the top six matches, South Korea and Saudi Arabia were stronger, and the other four teams were basically on the same level, and the victory and defeat were five or five.
On October 12, the national football team faced Saudi Arabia, the first opponent of the semifinals, at the Kallang Stadium in Singapore.
In the 24th minute of the first half of the game, the Saudi team won a penalty, although Fu Yubin judged the right direction, but the Saudi player shot from a too sharp angle, the ball hit the upright and bounced into the net, and the Saudi team took a 1-0 lead. Then Saudi Arabia's top star Majid has won three one-handed chances, but all of them were saved by Fu Yubin, who was in a brave state.
At the end of the half, the national football team was lucky to fall behind with only one goal, and Fu Yubin, the most individual goalkeeper in the history of the national football team, can be described as indispensable.
Fu Yubin's performance in this game was later evaluated by netizens as: Majid was almost suspicious of life by Fu Yubin.
Yi Bian fought again, and the national football team finally lifted its spirits again. Wu Qunli burst into the penalty area to create a stable penalty for Mai Chao, followed by Mai Chao's small angle to break the goal, and finally the national football team reversed Saudi Arabia 2-1.
On October 17, the national football team faced the second opponent, the United Arab Emirates. In the 61st minute of the second half, Tang Yaodong, a tiger from Liaoning, shot a wonderful world wave from outside the penalty area, piercing through the uae team's gate and helping the national football team to take a 1-0 lead.
However, after taking the lead, the national football team began to retreat across the board, intending to preserve this victory. In the 82nd minute, Gao Fengwen replaced Xie Yuxin with Dong Liqiang. It was this substitution that became the turning point of this game.
In the 87th minute, Dong Liqiang, who had just played, made a mistake in passing the ball at the back and gave the opponent a corner kick opportunity, and it was this corner kick that the UAE team scored to make the score 1-1. After the goal, UAE coach Brazilian Zagallo danced on the sidelines and celebrated.
Just 1 minute later, Dong Liqiang, as a central defender, inexplicably led the ball into the front court to prepare for the pass, but was snatched by the opposing player and quickly counterattacked, and passed Guo Yijun in front of the penalty area, a low shot to break the goal, and finally the national football team lost this game that should not have been lost 1-2.
On October 20, the national football team played against the South Korean team, and was scored by the opponent's number one star Kim Zhucheng, losing to the opponent 0-1, and the national football team suffered two consecutive defeats.
On October 24, the national football team faced the North Korean team, and the only way to win the national football team that wanted to win the right to qualify. However, at the beginning of the game, the national football team was still in a sluggish state, but the opponent North Korea's attack was in a tidal wave, thanks to the brave performance of the starting goalkeeper Zhang Huikang in this game, who repeatedly saved the opponent's must-score and tried to save the goal.
In the 82nd minute, substitute Xie Yuxin established Qigong, he received Marin's header in the penalty area, a powerful shot to break the goal, the national football team finally beat North Korea 1-0.
After this battle, the opportunity for the national football team to qualify re-emerged, provided that the final battle against Qatar must be won.
On October 28, the national football team played against Qatar at the Kallang Stadium in Singapore, and in order to ensure the fairness of the match, the AFC temporarily adjusted the schedule and changed the last round of three matches to be played simultaneously.
In the 76th minute of the game, Duan Ju hoisted the ball into the penalty area, Wu Qunli struggled to grab the ball and knock it back, Ma Lin understood it, followed up and pushed into the net, and the national football team took a 1-0 lead.
At this time, the other side of the South Korean team against the United Arab Emirates match score of 1-1, if the national football team can maintain this score, and the South Korean team does not lose to the United Arab Emirates in the end, the national football team will get the right to qualify in the second place.
However, the national football team once again suffered a heavy blow. In the 86th minute, Qatar's cross from the right, the national football team leaked in the back point of the penalty area, the Qatari player stopped the ball in his chest, and Zhang Xiaowen, who shook the defense, shot through the goal, 1-1.
In the 89th minute, Qatar's cross from the left, the national football team in the middle of the road again leaked, Mafota stabbed the ball out of the goal, and finally the national football team lost the game 1-2, the duck that was originally on the mouth, flew!
Let's take a look at the final standings.
South Korea is 5-3 wins and 2 draws at the top of the list, while the UAE's second-place record is 1 win and 4 draws, if the national football team can win 1-0 in the final match against Qatar, the national football team and the United Arab Emirates will accumulate 6 points, but the national football team will qualify with the advantage of scoring more goals. In addition, if the national football team wins the match against the United Arab Emirates, or even draws 1-1, even if the national football team loses 1-2 to Qatar, then the last to qualify is also the national football team.
After the game, the British "Football World" commented: The Chinese team is only six minutes away from qualifying.
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