Liu Haiyun, a journalist from Red Star, reported live in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in 2022.
However, after 90 minutes of competition, Saudi Arabia defeated Messi's team with two goals, breaking the first and possibly the biggest upset of this tournament! How did this world cup "tragic team" in the mouth of the fans beat the favorite Argentina team?
"West Asia Green Eagle" pecked "pampas Eagle"
It has long been predicted that Japan will take the lead in qualifying.
As a traditional team that won the Asian Cup three times, Saudi Arabia has excellent strength and achievements in Asia. However, when they came to the World Cup stage, they never had many opportunities to prove it. Whether 1998 0-4 lost to France, Germany in 2002-8, Ukraine in 2006-4, and Russia in 20 18-5, Saudi Arabia has been unable to recover from the tough World Cup. The "Tragedy Team" has always been a label that Saudi Arabia wants to tear off but has been with it ever since.
Liu Haiyun, a journalist from Red Star, reported live in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in 2022.
However, this "West Asia Green Eagle" broke the biggest upset of the first show of this World Cup! They took the lead in losing the ball in the first 8 minutes. In the case of being completely passive in the first half, they scored twice quickly in the second half to reverse the score. The performance of finally pecking down the "Pampas Eagle" made them excited beyond measure. You know, in the appearance of Asian teams before this World Cup, Qatar lost to Ecuador 0-2 and Iran beat England 2-6, which made the strength of Asian teams questioned.
Looking back on the promotion of this World Cup, Saudi Arabia beat Japan in the 12 match and took the lead in getting the seat in the main competition. In fact, it has long been proved that they have the opportunity to reverse people's stereotypes about them in this championship. I just didn't expect the surprise to come so quickly, but I still beat the powerful favorite Argentina team!
French coach leads Saudi Arabia to make the biggest upset.
Can dark horse Saudi Arabia relive his dream?
The head coach standing in front of the Saudi bench is Hervé Reina, a Frenchman. The 54-year-old Mesozoic coach has rich national team coaching experience, and his ability to lead the dark horse has been confirmed many times. Prior to this, he mainly coached in Africa and trained Zambia, the African Cup of Nations champion. In the last World Cup, he also led Morocco to win the race seat, which showed his extraordinary coaching ability.
From 20 19, Leonard took over as Saudi coach and quickly started his blood exchange plan. I have tapped many potential players from the national youth team and the national junior team, and have also helped the team win the proud record of 18 in various competitions! Before the start of this World Cup, he even shouted the slogan of revisiting the dream of 1994 World Cup, which seemed to be an idiotic dream at that time.
Liu Haiyun, a journalist from Red Star, reported live in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in 2022.
However, playing the World Cup in Qatar is almost "half home" for the Saudi team. They are located in West Asia with similar climate and culture as Qatar, and hardly need much time to get used to it. Although the vast majority of Argentina fans played against Argentina, the Saudi team played very steadily, and achieved excellent results in both offside tactics in the first half and starting tactics in the second half!
Can Saudi Arabia continue to create more miracles after beating Argentina to make a good start? Next, they will also play against Poland and Mexico in the same group, looking forward to seeing the "Light of Asia" continue to shine on the World Cup stage.
Red Star journalist Pei Han
Editor Ou Peng