64. Samba Fengyun (9)
The continuous attack of the Chinese Olympic team also made the Honduran coach Pinto a little unable to sit still, and a team could not always expect the goalkeeper to rely on the god to defend the goal, so he soon chose to make a substitution, replacing Banegas in the midfield with Espinal, and continued to ensure that the midfielder had sufficient physical energy to foul.
Pinto was right, and after Espinal came on the pitch, the Honduran side was still in danger.
In the 25th minute of the second half, Honduras had a rare opportunity to push the ball into the Chinese half, and their three attacking players in front of them were actively running to receive a pass from the midfield.
Honduran forward Benavides looked up with the ball to observe the position of his teammates, ready to distribute the ball, but after seeing that his teammates did not have too good chances, he chose to slow down and control the ball in the midfield for a while.
How could the players of the Chinese team give him such an opportunity, Xu Mingyu directly pasted over to grab the ball, Benavides turned around and wanted to carry Xu Mingyu behind him, but the ball was broken by Qin Minghao, who came back from defense, and the Chinese team took advantage of the opportunity to press the opponent out a little and counterattacked.
Espinal, who had just been replaced on the field, played a role at this time, he shoveled Qin Minghao to the ground with a ferocious tackle, and the referee saw that he had just come on the field, and only warned him a few words, and his subordinates showed mercy and did not play a card.
"It's not an exaggeration to have such a foul red card, but there is no card?" Hong Gang was so angry that he almost threw away the wheat, but there was no way, the referee's scale was like this, and he could only complain.
Next, the pressure on Honduras from the Chinese team is getting bigger and bigger, the latter's midfielders have been suppressed for a long time, and they are almost unable to bear it, and their captain Acosta really can't pull Qin Minghao's impact, and then pushed people down directly and ate a yellow card, and gradually Honduras's formation has been pressed very flat.
In the 37th minute of the second half, Pinto opted for another substitution, this time bringing on Acosta with Paz, which, judging by the list provided by Honduras, was a defender replacing a midfielder, which was already a back six.
Rick Link looked at his watch, even if the game was added to the stoppage time, there were only about ten minutes left, he chose to take a risk, and replaced Yan Xiaoyu, who had better skills at his feet, and had a certain ability to shoot and set pieces, and was replaced by central defender Ma Yongli, Rick Link did his best.
Yan Xiaoyu, who had just come on the field, almost gave a fatal blow, this time the Chinese Olympic team won a free kick in front, about 30 meters away, Yan Xiaoyu took the goal, his shot hit the post directly, and popped off the bottom line.
"Oops! Luck is not on the side of the Chinese team. Hong Gang looked regretful, but soon began to cheer up the Chinese team, "It doesn't matter." There is still time, we still have chances to score. โ
But then Rick Link found a bad problem, that is, the players of the Chinese team are generally not physically fit enough, and the previous two fierce battles and the bad results of rushing after the game are reflected.
At this time, Rick Link could only play the cards that he was supposed to play until stoppage time, and replaced Zhang Linpeng with Xiang Tiange.
The Honduran players started the final move - lying on the grass.
For four or five minutes in a row, four or five players in Honduras took turns falling on the turf, and there were many names that fell to the ground, either cramps, or a touch that meant I was injured, oops, oops, I was in so much pain.
With intermittent delays and stoppage time, Honduras' tactical goal was almost achieved.
By the ninetieth minute, the fourth official had raised the sign, and there was three minutes of stoppage time.
In stoppage time, Honduras began to make substitutions, and they used a third substitution, with Ellis, the scorer, replaced by Benavides, and a midfielder replaced the striker, which was the last defence.
In the 91st minute, Honduras had another chance to counter-attack, and their striker Lozano attacked the back two of Li Yun and Liming alone, and the ball was cut off by Li Yun.
When the Honduran players thought that Li Yun was going to drive a big foot to the front court and hand it to the front court, he burst forward with the ball.
The Honduran side didn't react, and the two players in the midfield failed to go up in time to press, allowing Li Yun to break into the attacking area of 30 meters, and then their two players went up to defend together, but Li Yun distributed the ball to the right side.
After receiving the ball, Xiang Tiange accelerated again, broke through all the way to the bottom line, and then passed the ball to the penalty area.
Zou Weijia also used his last bit of strength to jump high to head the ball, but Honduran goalkeeper Lopes performed even better, he rushed out of the small penalty area and jumped on Zou Weijia's head to knock the ball out of the box.
Because Li Yun attracted two defenders, Xiang Tiange's breakthrough on the side took away two more players, Nie Jiang and Zou Weijia in the penalty area also needed someone to defend, when Lopes hit the ball to the top of the arc in front of the penalty area, the diminutive Yan Xiaoyu had only one Honduran area to defend.
In the face of the incoming ball, Yan Xiaoyu, who played in the second half, was more explosive, his start was faster, and he directly hit the football with a volley without stopping, Lopez had lost his center of gravity because of the pressure on Zou Weijia, and when Yan Xiaoyu's ball came over, he couldn't save it anyway.
The ball crossed an arc into the top left corner of the goal, hit the lower edge of the crossbar, and went into the net, and the Chinese team finally scored again before the end of the game after attacking most of the half, which was a stunning goal.
"Xiang Tiange broke through, he was so fast, crossed, Zou Weijia. Hong Gang was also nervous at this time, and he also knew that the players of the Chinese team were even less physically fit, and they would definitely suffer in stoppage time, "The opposing goalkeeper came out and saved." โ
Yan Xiaoyu, he grabbed the second point and shot. Pretty, pretty. The goal went in, it was a lore, it was definitely a lore. Hong Gang, whose commentary style has always been restrained, roared hoarsely, "2:1, Yan Xiaoyu." Rick Link's magical substitution. The Chinese team extended the score again in the penultimate minute of the game. Beautiful!!"
"Yay, Haha, beautiful. Chen Jiangfeng called Yan Xiaoyu's nickname - because the style of play is similar to Conca, the fans of the Longteng team affectionately call him Yan Kongka, "This shot is so beautiful." Tell you to lie on the grass, haha, 2:1, cool!"
Dad Chen also got up from the sofa excitedly at this time, because he got up early, sat for a long time, and stood more violently, Dad Chen was a little dizzy, just stood up and sat back: "Kill, haha." We've won. โ
At this time, the Chinese fans who had been booing the Honduran players lying on the grass in the stands also jumped en masse, cheering throughout the football stadium, while the Honduran fans hugged their heads in pain, and some of them began to have red eyes.
After the goal, Yan Xiaoyu ran up frantically, and then slipped and knelt, drawing a clearly visible trace on the turf, all the Chinese players except the goalkeeper, even the substitute players on the bench were crazy to surround him, and everyone excitedly pressed Yan Xiaoyu under him to celebrate this hard-won goal.
Lรณpez, with a black face - though not recognizable as a black man - fished the ball out of the net and drove a big foot into the midfield.
Referee Pinto also came to intervene in the celebration of the Chinese team at this time, he asked the Chinese team's goal to return to the field quickly, the substitutes returned to the bench, and there was still more than a minute of the game to play.
After kicking off again, the Honduran players rushed out, but the attacking players in the front court were basically replaced, and there was only one striker Lozano on the field, and the rest were either midfielders or defenders, and they could only choose a big foot to Lozano.
Rick Link pressed down with his hands on the sidelines to keep the players calm, and Li Yun, as captain, did just that, jumping high to squeeze Lozano away and head the ball away.
Lozano fell to the ground and wanted to ask the referee for a set-piece, but this kind of confrontation is nothing in the eyes of the referee, he made a gesture of raising his hands to get him up, and then ran directly forward, signaling the Chinese team to attack normally.
At this time, there are only two defenders in the backfield of Honduras, and the Chinese team has three players, Nie Jiang, Zou Weijia and Ding Huaiyi.
Nie Jiang, who was already a one-on-one goal, faced the attacking goalkeeper Lopez with a light spoon shot, and the football passed the latter's raised hands and fell into the net accurately.
In the last minute, the Chinese team scored again, and the score became 3:1.
"Nie Jiang! 3๏ผ1.โ Hong Gang smiled happily, "Nie Jiang completely killed the game. There is no suspense anymore. The Chinese team has been confirmed to enter the semi-finals. โ
Chen Jiangfeng didn't expect the Chinese team to score again, and he was still in the afterglow of the celebration after Yan Xiaoyu's goal just now, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile: "It's still our Nie Jiang who is amazing, and it's done." 3:1, you can go catch up on sleep. โ
Chen's father, who had just finished celebrating and was about to smoke afterwards, pressed the lighter, and let go of his hand with a look of surprise: "This is okay?"
The two goals in the last two minutes of stoppage time, the Chinese fans were completely happy, and at the same time, they completely broke the Honduran team, and all the Chinese players began to surround Nie Jiang again, who had rushed to the stands of the Chinese fans, and everyone knew that the game was stable.
The Honduran players were completely gone, they were all slumped on the grass, and some of the players were already crying.
The referee wasted no more time, as soon as the ball came out, he blew the whistle for the end of the game.
All the players and coaches of the Chinese team rushed into the stadium to celebrate this hard-won victory.
On the day of the end of the game, the whole of China set off a football fever again, not only the highlights of the game with Honduras were once again on the news broadcast of the Central One, and the newspapers also reported the game on the front page, and on the Internet, this craze was even hotter, the hot search on Weibo that was originally popular with entertainment and current affairs was also replaced by the football tide, and Chinese football defeated all kinds of small fresh meat for the first time with a positive image, Internet celebrities, traffic stars, current affairs news, and also defeated other items of the Olympic Games appeared in the first hot search.
At this time, people from all walks of life, including celebrities, hot public accounts, etc., came to rub the traffic of the National Olympic team.
In reality, during the 2018 World Cup, people like Huang Xi, who don't know anything about football, used to disband the Chinese football national team to rub hot spots, and now all this garbage has shut up, but they make up all kinds of jokes to praise the American Olympic team from the side, such a public opinion environment is also a big news for Chinese football in China.
At this time, in the Chinese Olympic team, Rick Link is having a headache for the next game.
Although Zhang Linpeng's suspension is made up by Xiang Tiange, the gap between the two is still not small. Judging from the most intuitive system ability value, Zhang Linpeng's current ability value has reached more than 90 after training in Europe, while Xiang Tiange is 80 is still a little short, and the Chinese team's right attack and defense have been weakened very much.
In addition to the suspension, another issue that plagues Rick Link is injuries and fitness.
In the last game, because of the referee's leniency of the scale, although the young man of the Chinese Olympic team won the game, the frequent fouls still led to various hard injuries and dark injuries.
Among them, Qin Minghao's injury is the most troublesome, as the strongest and most famous player of the Chinese Olympic team - the offensive player is far more famous than the defensive player, so Qin Minghao is more famous than Li Yun - Qin Minghao was taken care of yesterday, and he was tackled on the field no less than three times.
At that time, in the game, the nerves were highly tense, Qin Minghao didn't feel the pain, and now that the game is over, the consequences are reflected. The next day, Qin Minghao had a few bruises on his calf, and his left ankle was slightly swollen, which was obviously the result of being kicked.
As for the other players, although they all have some hard injuries, they are recovering quickly.
Another thing that Rick Link couldn't solve was fitness.
In addition to the first game of the Chinese Olympic team against Fiji played very easily, Germany and Mexico behind are tough battles, originally thought that Honduras was weaker and could save some physical energy, but because of the light enemy, they had to work hard, and the players have not been able to relax.
Perhaps it is a problem with the schedule, the Chinese Olympic team has been constantly changing venues for these three consecutive games, even if the distance is not far, it is a kind of consumption.
You must know that the opponent in the next game is the Brazilian team, as the host, they are also the most vocal and powerful opponent in this Olympic football tournament, plus the home advantage, it is even more powerful.
The biggest name of this Brazilian Olympic team is Neymar, it can be said that anyone who knows a little bit about football knows that he exists, he is on a par with Messi, Ronaldo and other top players in the world, and his influence has long been beyond football.
And except for the inside, the other players are not far behind.