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Gao Zheng was really speechless about the pre-match preparations of the Chinese Football Association.

He flew directly from Madrid to Doha, Qatar, because his national team teammates had already arrived in Doha ahead of schedule.

In order to prepare for the match against Qatar and adapt to the hot local climate in advance, the Chinese team came to Doha a week earlier this time.

Every day, I wait until the sun sets in the evening and the weather is a little cooler before I go outside for training, and I choose to do physical training in the gym during the day.

What's wrong with such preparations?

One week in advance to adapt to the climate and venue, and carefully prepared the team chef.

It looks very attentive.

But when the players of the Chinese team stepped onto the turf of the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, where the game was held, to prepare for the last warm-up before the game, the Chinese players in short-sleeved shorts couldn't help it Shivered—they felt cold!

We must know that for other countries in the temperate zone, the temperature has begun to cool down at this time, and the temperature is gradually cooling. But for Doha, a country in the Middle East, the average temperature is still in the thirties, and the highest can even be close to forty degrees.

It is precisely because the local temperature is very scary that the Chinese team came to Doha one week in advance to prepare for the game, just to let the players adapt to the temperature in advance.

Even if this game is played at night, the ground that has been exposed to the sun for a day will still continue to emit heat, which makes people feel hot.

Angwanli was emptied on the day of the competition, and the temperature was around 36 degrees.

How could such a temperature make people feel cold?

But the first reaction of every Chinese player who walked out of the player tunnel and came to the court was to fold his arms and use the temperature of his palms to make himself feel warmer...

cold.

This is their first feeling.

Very counterintuitive, but true.

Many players looked up strangely. The Hamad Stadium has no closed roof and is connected to the outside world. So why is the temperature here completely different from the outside temperature?

They still remember the scene of taking the bus to the sports field at the hotel,

From the hotel lobby to the bus parked outside, the distance is only a dozen meters, but when they walked out of the fully air-conditioned hotel lobby, the oncoming heat wave almost caused them to stumble... Everyone stood aside" Oh yo" while trotting and quickly got on the bus with the air conditioner on, I felt like I came back to life.

It felt like a fish out of water...

But now the stadium feels like an air-conditioned hotel lobby.

Turn on the air conditioner?

What a joke!

How could this stadium be fully air-conditioned?

But the sharp-eyed Gao Zheng pointed to the densely packed circular holes in the stadium stands and said to everyone, "Are those air-conditioning outlets?"

Everyone looked and found that the round holes were spraying white smoke, but it might not be smoke, but because the surrounding hot air met the cold air blown out of the holes, and the condensation produced water vapor, like It's like a person in winter breathing outdoors...

And until this time, the staff of the Chinese Football Association on the rostrum also discovered this-the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Qatar turned out to be air-conditioned!

Someone recalled that after confirming that they won the right to host the 2022 World Cup, Qatar made some upgrades to their stadium, which seems to include the installation of air conditioners...

At this time, some players found the current temperature in the stadium on the big screen of the stadium - 20 degrees Celsius above zero!

Twenty degrees? !

Gao Zheng felt like he was a dog.

The temperature of 20 degrees should wear long-sleeved jerseys to play in the league. The coaching staff should remind the players to keep their body temperature. Why is it that when watching the live broadcast of the European League, even in April and May, you can see the players on the bench wearing thick coats? It is they who need insulation more, otherwise they are very vulnerable to injury after the body cools down.

As a result, the players of the Chinese team are now wearing jerseys with short sleeves and shorts, and they just ran directly onto the field.

This shows that the staff of the Chinese Football Association did not understand enough information at all before the game.

Is it a secret that the Hamad Stadium has air conditioning?

Not necessarily, as long as someone is interested in looking through the news, they will probably know about it, but the players of the Chinese team only found out about it when the game was about to start.

This completely caught the Chinese team by surprise.

The game temperature was 20 degrees, which means that the hot weather that the Chinese team came to Doha a week in advance to adapt to the hot weather disappeared, and the one-week preparation became a joke.

Reminiscent of the previous stadium arrangements against Hong Kong and the Maldives, Gao Zheng couldn't help but sigh—what a bunch of pig teammates.

But at this time, cursing won't solve any problems.

Gao Zheng said to the confused teammates around him: "Everyone should be more active than usual when warming up. You must move your body and don't let your body cool down."

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Despite Gao Zheng's reminder, the players of the Chinese team also worked hard to warm up.

But the temperature of 20 degrees is really too low.

After warming up, everyone returned to the dressing room where the air conditioner was more fully turned on, and everyone hurriedly put on everything they could wear on their bodies, including thin coats, blankets, and towels without exception.

But the effect is still very limited.

The thin layer of cloth jacket couldn't stop the cold air blown from the air conditioner from penetrating the gaps between the fibers and blowing onto the person's body.

After all, no one would bring a down jacket when coming to such a hot place as Doha.

The temperature in the stadium is 20 degrees, but the stadium is so big, so that the average temperature should reach 20 degrees, think about how many degrees should the cold wind blowing from the air outlet of the air conditioner be?

In such a small place in the locker room, one can imagine how low the temperature is...

Some players of the Chinese team even wondered whether Qatar deliberately adjusted the temperature of the air conditioner in the visiting team's locker room to a particularly low level.

Such a low temperature makes the hot shots of the Chinese players almost useless, and even makes many Chinese players want to go back to the court immediately. At least the 20-degree stadium should be warmer than the locker room...

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In this way, the Chinese players on the field were obviously not as adaptable as the Qatari players, and their movements were still a little stiff.

Qatar, on the other hand, took the opportunity to launch a fierce offensive, constantly attacking the goal of the Chinese team.

In the seventh minute, Sebastian received a through pass from his teammate on the right side of the penalty area. When he broke through to the corner of the small penalty area, he shot and the football hit the side net. But it scared the Chinese fans enough, because from the perspective of the live TV broadcast, it looked like a football had entered the goal.

Then Musa broke through from the right and forcibly broke through the bottom pass, which was resolved by the Chinese goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei.

In the ninth minute, Hassan's shot from the left was blocked by Zhang Linpeng again.

In the twelfth minute, Qatar got a free kick opportunity. Hu He shot directly, hit Mei Yuan's head and had a refraction, flew to the goal, and was pushed out of the baseline by Wang Xiaolei with a single palm.

At this time, the ball possession rate of the two sides was shown on the live TV screen, Qatar was as high as 73%, and the Chinese team was only a poor 27%...

Such a big gap in the scene really made the Chinese fans in front of the TV couldn't help worrying that they would not be able to withstand such a fierce offensive from Qatar.