15. Time is running out for the Korean team

"Zengcheng!" "Zengcheng!" At the end of the first half of stoppage time, Li Yun and Zheng Zhi continued to sacrifice themselves to block the eye-catching, blocking the South Korean team's shot from the bottom line, giving the South Korean team a corner kick, and Ji Dongyuan's header jumped high in the penalty area almost broke through the door of the Chinese team.

"It's too dangerous. How can the South Korean team get the ball so easily in the penalty area. Xu Yang was also taken aback, "You have to concentrate." ”

The mistakes of the Chinese team's defense in the penalty area made Lippi's roar on the sidelines clearly audible.

Fortunately, in the next corner kick, Zengcheng jumped high and hugged the ball in the penalty area, and then he held the ball and lay on the ground, twisting his head to look left and right, expressing his determination to delay time.

When Zengcheng slowly got up from the ground, and slowly drove the ball N far away, the referee also blew the whistle for the end of the first half of the game.

"Leading 1-0 is an advantage, but it's not safe, and the second half can't be the same as it was before the end of the first half. He Wei still seemed to have palpitations.

"I think Coach Lippi will have arrangements in midfield. Xu Yang believes in Lippi very much.

The two commentators were not wrong, and although the team was 1-0 up, Lippi did not show any satisfaction.

"I don't know what you've been thinking in those last few minutes!" Lippi grimaced, as if the team was falling behind, "Is it because you can't keep up? ”

Lippi asked such a question, and no player dared to answer. Seeing the silent players, Lippi said solemnly: "It's not a matter of physical fitness, it's a matter of mentality." It's just a goal, where do you get so many ideas. ”

"I've mentioned it countless times, you have to have self-confidence, you have to keep your mind. The way the South Korean team attacked was actually the most dangerous, as a mature team, if we could have played a successful counterattack at that time, maybe the score would not be 1:0, but 2:0. Lippi did look farther than most, "A 1-0 score is the least safe scoreline, and that's something I've been emphasizing. ”

After the players calmed down with bated breath, Lippi's stormy criticism was achieved.

'In the second half we will make some tactical adjustments. After adjusting the mentality of the players, Lippi began to make tactical arrangements, "We are already one goal ahead, and the opponent is more anxious than us, so we can play more calmly." Xu Mingyu, the defensive distance between you and Zheng Zhi is shortened, and you can play double backs; Qin Minghao goes to the middle to play the front midfield, Ding Huaiyi and Wu Lei take back to play the side guard, and it is enough to put Nie Jiang alone on the front line. ”

Lippi's adjustment basically turned 4-3-3 into 4-2-3-1, which is a very safe choice with a one-goal lead.

Fifteen minutes of half-time went by and soon the two teams were back on the pitch.

"We didn't make any substitutions, as for the tactical adjustments, we'll see when the game starts. But the South Korean team seems to have made a substitution. He Wei quickly glanced at the field and introduced, "Their high school striker Jin Xinyu came on the field and replaced Li Tingxie. ”

"Kim Shin Wook's look is a bit eye-catching. Xu Yang joked with a smile, "This green hair is too conspicuous on the field." However, Lee Ting-hyung is a striker for the Korean National League, that is, the K2 League team, and the controversy over his selection for the South Korean national team has not stopped, and judging from his performance in the first half, he seems too quiet. ”

"The second half began. The Chinese team's position on the field has been adjusted. He Wei was very keen to find the change in the tactics of the Chinese team, "This is to strengthen the defense of the midfield, at the end of the first half, we couldn't hold the ball in the midfield, and we were very suppressed." ”

"A cross from the South Korean team. He Wei was still guessing the intention of Lippi's tactical adjustment, and Xu Yang tacitly took over the task of commenting on the field, "Li Yun pushed the ball out, Zheng Zhi got the ball, South Korea's side retreated quickly, we can also control the ball appropriately." ”

As soon as the second half began, the South Korean team that kicked off was a very direct 45-degree oblique hanging penalty area, allowing Kim Shinyu, who is 1.96 meters tall, to grab the header.

Simply comparing the midfield of the South Korean team and the Chinese team, the strength of the South Korean team, which is dominated by players from the top five European leagues, is higher than that of the Chinese team, and the Chinese team did not have any advantage in the midfield in the first half, and the attack also benefited from the wonderful play of the wing and forward players.

Especially at the end of the first half, after Nam Tae-hee and Ji Dong-won returned to the midfield, the South Korean team completely mastered the midfield, and the Chinese team played extremely embarrassed.

Lippi's adjustment is to see the extremely dangerous problem of weak defensive strength in the back area of the game in the first half. After the adjustment, the responsibility of the Chinese team's midfield area defense is clearer, the conduction and cutting of the South Korean team's midfield is more successful, and the control of its own offense and defense is more free.

The tactical arrangement of both sides is based on a precondition - Son Heung-min cannot play.

In the last round of the game, Sun Xingmin basically crushed the right side of the Chinese team, if he was on the field, ** Peng, who participated in the attack of the first half goal in this game, basically could not have such an opportunity.

And this time, in the first half, Stillik continued his basic tactics since he coached the South Korean team - side breakthrough and middle penetration, Son Heung-min was not there, and left full-back Kim Jin-so desperately assisted, trying to achieve the side crushing of ** Peng again.

As a result, judging from the actual situation, Stillik thought too much, but it was Kim Jin-so who stepped forward too much and scored a goal for the Chinese team's counterattack.

In the second half, Stillik staged the pre-match offensive tactics in advance, and all the transmission and transfer of the midfield was to complete the cross aimed at high school striker Kim Shin Wook. With Kim Shin-wook as the attacking bridgehead, Stillik pinned his hopes on his disciple to find a good opportunity to score in the second-penalty scramble.

If you want to say who is most familiar with this tactic, Jang Sheng, who is watching the game in front of the TV at this time, has the most say - this is the tactic encountered by the Longteng team, who just experienced a two-round match with Jeonbuk Hyundai last year.

Seeing the South Korean team's attacks again and again on the field, Zhang Sheng was completely relieved, and complained silently in his heart: "This kind of attack is simply a tyrannical thing." With one of the best midfield configurations in Asia, not playing pass control, not playing the combination of side and center, just go straight to the point, do you use Kim Shin Wook better than Choi Kang-hee? ”

Facts have proved that Zhang Sheng's reassurance is right, Stillik prematurely simplified the offensive tactics in the second half, one is to let the South Korean team give up the ground offensive, the overall advantage of the midfield was completely wasted, and the other is that Lippi has specially strengthened the defense of Kim Shin Yu in the tactics early on, and the situation that Stirlick expected Kim Shin Yu to stir up the Chinese team's penalty area did not happen, leaving the South Korean team to shoot only with a long shot outside the penalty area.

South Korea pressed the siege on all fronts and failed to score, but their own defense was hit again.

In the twenty-fifth minute of the second half, Ji Chengyong's long-range shot from outside the penalty area was saved by Zengcheng.

In this game, Zengcheng paid great attention to his hand shape when he pounced, and Lippi, who was very confident in his defense line before the game, predicted that the South Korean team would frequently use long-range shots to attack the goal, and deliberately emphasized the way Zengcheng saved - to hit the ball on both sides of the penalty area, rather than save the bottom line, rather than give the opponent a second chance to shoot from the penalty area.

Zengcheng's save this time was to block the ball to the right side of the penalty area, Li Yun had already grabbed the second point before the players of the South Korean team, and then he accurately passed the ball to ** Peng, who had been inserted at high speed on the side.

The Chinese team had another chance to fight back.

**Peng did not slow down after the ball, rushed forward along the side, Wu Lei on the right side is very familiar with the little friend who played football together as a child, and he quickly came to answer.

Wu Lei's retreat response also made ** Peng understand, after he handed the ball to Wu Lei, he continued to go to the bottom line, attracting Kim Jin-so's defensive attention, and at this time, one of the South Korean team's backs, Ji Chengyong, had not rushed back, and when Xu Mingyu also stepped forward at the same time, Gao Mingzhen, another back of the South Korean team, was a little out of position.

Wu Lei, who got the ball, took the opportunity to hand over the ball to Xu Mingyu, who was inserted diagonally to the side, who attracted Gao Mingzhen to the side after getting the ball.

Xu Mingyu didn't think about it and returned the ball to the front of the big penalty area, and after Nie Jiang, who went out of the penalty area, ran into place, pulled the central defender of the South Korean team out, and quickly knocked the ball horizontally to Qin Minghao, who was inserted at high speed in the middle.

After this series of quick passes, the defense of the South Korean team that had just finished an attack was completely dispersed, several defenders were temporarily to fill the position, and the previous tight defense line revealed a great gap, when Qin Minghao took the ball on the line of the big penalty area, there was no one around him who was defending, and there was only one central defender in the penalty area to block the line of the shot, which was simply a godsend.

"**Peng, Wu Lei is responding, Xu Mingyu is at the bottom, the cooperation between the three people, Xu Mingyu's inverted triangle pass, Nie Jiang responds, the middle lane is empty, and the horizontal push gives Qin Minghao, a good opportunity, Qin Minghao shoots !!" He Wei shouted excitedly, "It's in, the ball is in." The Chinese team scored a goal again, good ball, beautiful!"

He Wei was roaring, and Xu Yang was also roaring: "This series of quick shots, the final shot is too beautiful, there are no fancy feints, but it is also deadly." That's the power of overall football, technical football. ”

"2:0, this is also Qin Minghao's second goal in the top 12. It's hard to imagine that we will lead South Korea by two goals in a match like the Round of 12. As a veteran of Chinese football, He Wei has an expression of a long drought and a rainy day.

"The South Korean team is not playing well in this game. Xu Yang even began to triumphantly arrange his opponent.

Qin Minghao's goal once again ignited all the Chinese fans, the deafening applause in the stands, the happy and forgetful cheers in front of the TV, and the mobile phones that were almost thrown off by the owner were all the results of being suppressed by the South Korean team for a long time.

CCTV's broadcast camera was also aimed at Qin Minghao at this time, the latter was bowing to the stands, and the director was also very good at things, and as soon as the camera turned to the VIP room, a middle-aged couple who were applauding appeared in front of all the fans watching the game.

He Wei, who had obtained the information before the game, hurriedly gave an explanation: "This is Qin Minghao's parents. They made a special trip from Brazil to watch the national team's game, and Qin Minghao did not live up to their expectations. ”

"The talent that Coach Zhang Sheng brought back from Brazil has really helped the Chinese team a lot. Xu Yang also sighed.

With a two-goal lead, Lippi's expression on the sidelines at this time was completely different from before, when the first goal was scored, the assistant coach came over to celebrate wildly, and he was still very calm to prepare for the post-goal arrangement, this time he was very relaxed and happily hugged with the coaching team.

Stillik, on the other hand, had a black face on the sidelines, turned his head and spoke to the assistant coach – the South Korean team had to adjust again.

"The Korean team made another substitution, Gao Mingzhen went down, and Huang Hee-chan went up. Replace a midfielder, replace a striker, it's going to be a fight. He Wei then introduced, "Huang Xican and Ding Huaiyi are teammates, both of whom are from the Red Bull Salzburg team. It is said that after Qin Minghao left, he specially bought it to fill this position. ”

After Hwang Hee-chan came on the field, the South Korean team's offense was even more crazy, Ji Chengyong's list of backs, basically stood in the middle circle arc position in the scheduling, the two wings kept going down to Kim Shin-wook to cross, Hwang Hee-chan and Gu Zi-chul just grabbed the second point to shoot.

It's a completely all-or-nothing way to play.

In order to cope with the opponent's high-altitude bombing, Lippi quickly made adjustments, Qi Ming replaced Xu Mingyu, the header was better, and the physically stronger Qi Ming increased the defensive intensity in the penalty area for the Chinese team.

The combination of Li Yun and Qi Ming completely stifled Kim Shinyu's header advantage, and the South Korean team became more and more impatient.

In the 35th minute of the second half, Zheng Zhi and Gu Zizhe grabbed the high point in the midfield, and the latter hit Zheng Zhi directly in the back of the head with his elbow in the air in order to get the ball, and got the ball.

However, the referee was aware of everything, came over and blew Gu Zizhe's foul, and awarded the ball to the Chinese team.

"The Korean team is in a bit of a hurry. He Wei was very unhappy with Gu Jizhe's foul, "South Korea's domestic media has been critical of this South Korean team, the players are under pressure, and coach Stillik has been repeatedly dismissed, but fouls on the court cannot solve these problems." ”

"It can't be helped, because there is not much time left for the Korean team. Xu Yang said Liu Jianhong's enduring famous words, "If the game really ends with this score, the criticism in South Korea will bury these players and Stillik." ”8)