For the past two years, we've always said that the weaknesses of the national soccer team have been addressed because we've come to rely on the center position. When some of the centers could be the fulcrum and stand up, our offense was tough and even Wu Lei exploded. Our center forward position relies on Zhang Yuning. Being 185, physically strong, with Dutch study abroad experience, can be the fulcrum and also has the ability to retreat and hold the ball, but can also help organize the attack in the midfield is perfect.
But Zhang Yuning has one drawback that has caused a lot of headaches for many people. Namely, he is always plagued by injuries. Several national youth teams have been eliminated because of injuries, and the national team hasn't even had an offense in recent games because of injuries. Without a pivot up front to draw the defense in, Wu Lei is poor at seizing opportunities.
However, to everyone's delight, during Zhang Yuning's injury, another clay gun broke out, which eased the pressure on our front line. This clay cannon used to be a striker for Beijing Guoan. He is 27 year old clay cannon Barton, currently playing for Tianjin Jinmen Tigers. Recently, Barton has exploded in the national brand and the league, scoring all sorts of goals that are simply unbeatable.
In the recently concluded 13th round of the Chinese Super League, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers hosted Qingdao Sea Cowboys. I thought Tianjin Jinmen Tigers would beat their opponents effortlessly, but I didn't expect them to concede first. After going down 0-1 at home, many fans were scared and were wondering if the Jinmen Tigers' first loss of the season would come at the end of the break. But at this crucial moment, Barton stood up and created a penalty that helped Tianjin Jinmen Tigers turn the world around.
It was the 38th minute of the match when Barton was kicked down in the box and the referee took a penalty kick after the replay to give Merida a 1-1 equalizer. After the goal, Tianjin Jinmen Tigers launched a big comeback and eventually turned the game around 3-2. Barton's penalty kick was the turning point of the game.
Before the start of the league, Barton as a super player played two warm-up matches with the National Football Asian Games against South Korea. The National Football Asian Games lost 3-1 in the first match. However, in the second match, National Football Asian Games defeated South Korea 1-0. It was Barton who gave the assist, he got the ball and an inverted triangle directly to Sun Chin Han for the assist.
Barton was also selected for the national team prior to this game, in the national soccer team's away game against New Zealand, where the national soccer team was weak up front, and Wu Lei was dud again. In the second game, Barton came on as a second half substitute and then took over a pass from Sun Guo Wen in the last minute of the game. Not only did he score his first career goal, but he also scored Yankovic's first goal in charge of the national soccer team.
In this way, Barton has been in really good form this year, both on the national brand and in the music department, and it seems that his games represent goals. So if Barton continues to be this crazy, then Zhang Yuning can really have a quiet recovery because Barton is there and you can score goals!
