The most forgetful audience in China wasted decades of youth on them

In the final round of Group A of the 2024 Asian Cup group match, the Chinese men's football team lost 1-0 to the host Qatar, and finally ranked third in the group. No win, no goal, just a little useless Mangyong, no life. Frankly speaking, the performance of the Chinese men's football team in this Asian Cup is worse than that in the past 12.
In 2002, the Chinese team participated in the World Cup for the first time, and the classic "one goal, one point, and one win" three-step move was still in the ear. Twenty two years later, in Asia, where the overall level is much lower, this team once had the power to compete for the championship, but even "one goal" has become an impossible task.

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Another stable play

Ironically, even if the game is played like this, there is still a very weak possibility for the national football team to qualify:
Palestine in Group C must draw with Hong Kong, China, and Syria in Group B must draw 0-0 with India and get at least two yellow cards.
It's complicated enough, just like everyone's mood when watching the national football.
When the familiar links of calculating points, goals and goal difference, the relationship between victory and defeat, discipline points and the fate of others arrive, the person who is still watching the ball will say:
Hey, how about that? forget it.

Former international Feng Xiaoting said that every Asian Cup in history

At least one goal. But this session of the National Football League said,

History is used to break. (Picture/Feng Xiaoting's microblog)

Such calculations and calculations are like a shot filled with the helpless pain of the family, just to ease the suffering of watching death. The patients who were sent to the ICU said: Oh, the overall level of Asia has improved, but we have not. We played too badly. We have to face up to our problems.
In fact, this sports team, which is alive every year, is not unattended. Although the classic crotch pulling story has been repeated, people who love Chinese football are the most forgetful people in the world: the match between the national football team and Qatar ended at 1:00 a.m., the audience rating of the whole game broke 1% in CCTV5, and even approached 1.2% at the peak, which does not include fans watching the game on the platform of online games.
It is particularly regrettable that for the Chinese team, the grouping of the Asian Cup cannot be more friendly.
Holding the leg of the host Qatar, the opponent in the same group cannot be very strong. One is Tajikistan, an inexperienced youth army, and the other is Lebanon, which is weaker than Tajikistan.
While the Chinese team could not find a flaw in Qatar, who was almost a substitute, and was teased by the main force replaced by Qatar, the three armed forces of Tajikistan, which had no way to retreat, fought against Lebanon and won the second place in the group.
The moment of killing Lebanon, the crazy celebration of Tajik people moved people. This is the original sincere charm of football, and it is also the blood spirit that countless people want to see when they watch the football in Qatar.
In contrast, the Chinese team, with its steady play, made the fans who still care about its fate break off their illusory thoughts, and their hearts were as cold as the night when the south suddenly cooled down.

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Chinese fans,
When will you wake up?

Before meeting Qatar, the Chinese team did not win Tajikistan and Lebanon, which seemed to be weaker than themselves. Both games were tied 0-0, and the fans were stuck in their throats.
The content of these two games is like the score, which is too flat to comment: when the other side plays defense and counterattack, it cannot attack hard; When the other party is full of holes, it cannot seize the opportunity; If Yan Junling and the gatepost were not supernatural, it would be reasonable to lose.
Before the final game, Qatar, the defending champion of the 2019 Asian Cup and having won twice in a row and gone out ahead of schedule, rotated nine main players, even replaced the third goalkeeper in the middle of the game, played with the Chinese team for 65 minutes with almost all the backup lineup, saving face and operating space.

Substitute for the captain of Qatar in the 67th minute of the game

Heydos received a corner kick from Afiff to assist and hit the World Wave. (Figure/CFP)

This is the most tacit and friendly signal within the rules, which was unimaginable in the past. Qatar's move is a mixture of favoritism (leaving the Chinese team means leaving more attention) and absolute contempt (playing all the substitutes in China can also ensure that nothing goes wrong), and the Chinese team has no choice in the face of such obvious handouts. Like many pre match comments, they hope to draw or even win the game, and seek a place for qualification with tacit understanding - the other side is like this, you can't do that, can you?
But in competitive sports, food is the original sin. A good situation has nothing to do with a good result.
Qatar conceded 65 minutes and gave up a lot of opportunities, but the Chinese team did not grasp them. Later, the core main force of Qatar, Afif, came on as a substitute together with Haidos. More dramatically, the third goalkeeper in Qatar's starting line-up was injured, and the first goalkeeper came on as a substitute.
Then, the corner kick from Afeev drifted to the outside of the forbidden area where no one was watching, and Heydos volleyed into the net.
As a result, the Chinese team became the backboard of the best candidate for the Asian Cup goal, and basically threw away the tickets for the top 16 from Qatar.
The last 30 seconds of the game is a heartbreaking moment, which also condenses the dilemma of Chinese football.
Afif and his teammates pass each other skillfully, which is as easy as training to grab the circle. The Chinese team is still struggling in a daze, unable to touch the ball.
The gap between the technical and tactical level of Chinese football and higher level teams, and the lack of ability to reasonably pass and receive the ball, organize defense and hard solve problems. The more so, the more unrealistic the expectations and efforts of Chinese football are.
Zhan Junke, the commentator, kept his professionalism and remained rational in the final commentary, saying that there was still time for the national football team.
The commentator beside him, Feng Xiaoting, the former national football captain who played in the last Asian Cup, has stopped talking. At the conclusion after the game, Feng Xiaoting reddened his eyes and muttered that he could not accept it.

Two draws and one loss, one goal missed,

In the group with weak overall strength,

This is the 2024 Chinese men's football

The first answer for the fans.

How should the next World Cup qualifier continue? (Figure/CFP)

Feng Xiaoting was criticized by fans for his defensive problems in the last Asian Cup. It is ironic that the failed international players of the last session hated their iron and steel against the failed international players of this session. Fan Zhiyi, Sun Jihai and Li Yi have also become famous players in various platforms. They have all been criticized for the loss of the national football team, but now the poor Chinese fans can't find and wait for such players.
So, will the next session of Wu Lei and Wu Xi also sit in the studio and sigh at the next session of players?
The referee whistled on time in the 10th minute of the long extra time. The game is over again.
In the end, behind the fact that "there is only a very small probability of qualification" is the "probability of failure" formed by various diseases.
What is worse than the results is the sad environment, which is the reality of the collapse of the will and skills of football in the context of another round of anti-corruption and anti mafia in Chinese football.
When one dream wakes up, another will begin.
Between half dreams and half awakes, between impassioned slogans and habitual failures, between watching or not watching the ball, decades of youth, so ran away.

Checked by: Yang Chao, operated by: Ono, typeset by: Tan Xin