Rebirth Football Simulator

Chapter 173 Looking Up
After the 11th round of the Premier League, there will be another two weeks of international competitions.

The Chinese team will continue to participate in the World Cup qualifiers, so Zhang Chaoqiang will naturally return to China to compete.

In view of his mother's nagging, Zhang Chaoqiang took Annie back to China and asked her to accept the influence of Chinese culture.

On November 11, the Chinese team ushered in the challenge of Qatar at home in Kunming.

Relying on the home court advantage, the Chinese team has a small advantage on the scene, but has been unable to break the deadlock.

It wasn't until 80 minutes later that Zhang Chaoqiang won the bonus of Mr. Key, and finally broke through from the side and sent a beautiful cross, which assisted Wu Lei with a header to win the game. Only then did he win the game 1-0 without any risk.

In other games of this round of qualifiers, South Korea beat Uzbekistan 2:1 at home, and Iran drew Syria 0:0 away.

Therefore, in the half-way standings of the top twelve, Iran continued to rank first with 11 points, South Korea rose to second with 10 points after winning, Uzbekistan fell to third with 9 points after losing, and China fell to 7 Ranked fourth.

The remaining two teams are Qatar with 3 points and Syria with 2 points.

Whether the Chinese team can enter the top three or even the top two depends on the remaining five rounds of qualifiers next year.

By the way, in the standings of another group in the Top 10, the top three after five rounds are Japan and Saudi Arabia with 9 points, and Australia with [-] points.

Due to the obvious faults in the group, the high probability of the final ranking in the top three is still these three teams.

If the Chinese team finally ranks third in the group, it will need to play two rounds of play-offs with the third in the group of another group. The winner will then go to the final showdown with the fourth in the North American qualifiers, and the winner will get the World Cup spot.

The Asian region has [-] World Cup places, so there is this competition system.

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During his return to China to participate in the national team competition, Zhang Chaoqiang also received an invitation letter from the AFC, inviting him to participate in the 2016 AFC Awards Ceremony.

There is no doubt that Zhang Chaoqiang is the number one candidate for the best overseas player of the AFC this year.

In fact, at the AFC Awards Ceremony in 2015, Zhang Chaoqiang had already won an award with many honors such as the Ligue [-] champion and Europa League champion.

But he did not come to accept the award in person, because the time of the AFC awards ceremony was not suitable, and he had to focus on the game in the European arena.

This can be regarded as the practice of the best overseas players in the AFC. The award-winning players will basically not be present to receive the award in person. This is the case with Shinji Kagawa and Sun Xingmin who won the award before.

Speaking of which, this is one of the reasons why the AFC specially created the Best Overseas Player Award.

According to the previous selection rules, the Asian Footballer basically belongs to the European players, but the European players have not attended the awards for a long time.

So every time the AFC awards ceremony, the player who won the final award was not present to receive the award.

So the AFC made a divide and conquer, the players in the Asian League and the players in the European League were selected separately, and the Asian Footballer was only awarded to the players in the Asian League.

This year, like last year, the AFC awards ceremony has not yet started, but everyone already knows that the award for the best overseas player is none other than Zhang Chaoqiang.

The other two shortlisted are Tottenham and Sun Xingmin and Shinji Okazaki of Leicester City.

Sun Xingmin can't compete with Zhang Chaoqiang in all aspects. Okazaki Shinji has a bonus for the Premier League championship, but his tactical status in the team is extremely low. Last season, Leicester City won the championship. He only scored 5 goals as a starting striker , also can not be compared with Zhang Chaoqiang.

It is foreseeable that in the next few years, as long as there are no major accidents, Zhang Chaoqiang will always win the AFC Best Overseas Player award.

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After returning to Manchester, Zhang Chaoqiang quickly entered the game.

On November 11th, in the 19th round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Crystal Palace away.

The biggest concern of this game is that Yaya Toure finally came back and started.

Yaya Toure was blocked by Guardiola from September to November due to previous conflicts with the coach.

It may be that seeing that Manchester City is still playing well without him, Toure finally couldn't sit still, and publicly apologized during this national team match.

After all, Toure is a meritorious player and has won two Premier League titles for the team, so Manchester City's management stepped up to smooth things over, and Guardiola took advantage of the downhill donkey to give Toure a chance.

But even if he gets a chance, it will be difficult for Toure to compete for the team's main position in the future.

The midfield trio of De Bruyne, David Silva and Fernandinho worked so well together that it was impossible for Toure to compete with any of them.

At Schehurst Park in Crystal Palace, Yaya Toure was very active and obviously wanted to prove himself with practical actions.

After all, being banned by Guardiola for so long, I really took a long breath.

More than ten minutes into the game, Toure opened the scoring for Manchester City with a long shot.

Before the end of the first half, Zhang Chaoqiang also seized the opportunity to break into the penalty area and score the goal, extending the score to 2:0.

"Beautiful shot, this is the first time Zhang Chaoqiang has scored in the Premier League after four rounds since scoring a penalty against Everton in the 8th round."

"Zhang Chaoqiang's Premier League goals have reached 11 goals, and he continues to secure his top scorer position..."

As soon as Zhang Chaoqiang scored a goal, the domestic commentator immediately became excited.

However, the second half of the game inexplicably became Toure's performance time.

This guy wants to shoot as soon as he has the ball, he plays more forward than striker.

He may be trying to "prove himself" with a hat-trick.

This led to a sharp drop in the chances of the striker trident getting shots.

Under Toure's nonsense, Crystal Palace found an opportunity instead. Zaha quickly countered and sent an assist. The traditional virtue of Benteke scored with a header, and Crystal Palace pulled back a victory.

Guardiola has no intention of replacing Toure for some reason.

Fortunately, there are more shots, and one can always be caught.

In the 78th minute, Toure's long-range shot had a refraction effect, and finally pierced the Crystal Palace goal again, and at the same time sealed the victory for Manchester City.

For the rest of the game, the Ivorian kept shooting, but he still failed to complete the cap.

In this way, relying on Yaya Toure's double ring and Zhang Chaoqiang's contribution, Manchester City won the Crystal Palace 3:1 away and continued to stabilize the top position in the Premier League.

At the end of the game, South Korean player Li Qinglong, who represented Crystal Palace as a substitute, approached him and wanted to exchange jerseys with Zhang Chaoqiang.

Zhang Chaoqiang didn't know this guy at all, but seeing the other party's cautious look, he thought about it and agreed.

Before he knew it, Zhang Chaoqiang was already in a position that other Asian players could only look up to.

本轮英超其他比赛中，切尔西1:0小胜米德尔斯堡，热刺3:2绝杀西汉姆联，利物浦0:0闷平南安普顿，曼联则是强强大战中1:1遭阿森纳绝平。

Therefore, in the Premier League standings, Manchester City continued to occupy the top spot with 30 points, and Chelsea rose to No.28 with 2 points.

Since losing to Arsenal in the London derby, Chelsea have won six consecutive victories in the Premier League, and the momentum of chasing points is quite fierce.

Behind Chelsea are Liverpool with 27 points, Arsenal with 25 points, Tottenham with 24 points and Manchester United with 19 points.

At the same time, in the Premier League scorer list, Zhang Chaoqiang ranked first with 11 goals, and Diego Costa ranked second with 9 goals.

For now, the duo appear to be real contenders for the Premier League Golden Boot this season.

(End of this chapter)