"Haha! When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Chen Jiangfeng cheered happily.

At the same time, Chinese fans from all over the country who followed the game were also happy to celebrate the historic entry of the Chinese Olympic team into the knockout stage of the Olympic Games.

The players of the Chinese team on the field are celebrating wildly, and in the broadcast camera, the Mexican Olympic team has become the background of the winners, reminiscent of the unanimous optimism of the outside world about Mexico before the game, which seems to be particularly different at this time.

After the game, the news of the Chinese Olympic team's victory filled the entire domestic media, and even the Central One also reported it in the news broadcast, and also replayed the whole process of Qin Minghao's goal.

Following the last game Nie Jiang scored twice, this game Qin Minghao has become another "hero" of Chinese football, CCTV reporters interviewed Qin Minghao's parents the next day, and his magical experience excavated by Zhang Sheng in Brazil was once again widely advertised, unlike the previous reports in sports news, this time Qin Minghao appeared in a more influential social plate, and the layout also came to the cover from the inner version.

It can be said that this is Qin Minghao's highly influential positive promotion of Chinese football in China, so that the majority of parents know that football is not a plaything, nor is it the dirty circle in their impression, and the outstanding talents of Chinese football can also be respected.

In fact, this is also the effect that Zhang Sheng has always dreamed of.

This optimistic atmosphere not only exists in China, but also surrounds the entire national Olympic team.

In another match in Group C that ended at the same time, the German Olympic team swept the Fiji team 10:0, which made them surpass the Chinese Olympic team in terms of goal difference, but the Chinese team's two wins and one draw accumulated 7 points better than Germany's 1 win, 2 draws and 5 points, which made the German team expect China and Mexico to draw, and their desire to qualify for the first place in the group was completely shattered.

The Chinese Olympic team has also become a big dark horse, beating the senior team of world champions Germany and defending champion Mexico to finish first in the group, and they will next meet another dark horse team - Honduras Olympic team who eliminated Argentina in Group D.

In the group stage, the Chinese team's strength on paper was weaker than that of Germany and Mexico, but now in the knockout round, the Chinese team's luck has improved, because from the perspective of the strength of the two teams of China and Honduras, the Chinese team obviously has the upper hand.

Honduras is a small country in Central and North America, and nine out of ten Chinese who are not familiar with geography do not know the existence of this country; as one of the least developed countries in Latin America, it is one of the few countries that has not established diplomatic relations with China, but has "established diplomatic relations" with Taiwan.

Although the country has not established diplomatic relations with China, the relationship between the two countries in football is not the same, since China began the professional reform of football, Honduras players have not been many players who have come to play in China, and the number and quality of these players who have come to play in China are not bad.

Compared with foreign aid from other countries, Honduras' foreign aid is generally not high, the salary is low, and most of the players play very hard, and they are also very practical, these advantages are so that some teams are all Honduran players - for example, in the 2012 season, the four foreign players in Hunan Xiangtao in the Chinese League are all Hondurans.

Among these players, there are Martinez and Ramirez, who have won the Chinese Super League (A) goalscorer king, and countless players who have helped the team relegate and win the championship, and what is more commendable is that in 2008 and 2009, the Chinese footballer of the year for two consecutive years was Honduran, they were Martinez of Shanghai Shenhua and Caballero of Changchun Yatai.

It's just that with the improvement of the level of the Chinese Super League, the competition is becoming more and more fierce, and there are gradually fewer Honduran players who are lacking in personal ability.

Specific to the opponent of the Chinese team, most of the players of the Honduran Olympic team play in their own country, and the highest value of the team on the transfer market is only 800,000 euros. The most expensive player is Honduras centre-forward Joco Lozano, who is one of the few players in the Honduras squad to play abroad, having played for La Liga side Tenerife last season, scoring 10 goals and providing three assists in 32 league appearances.

Not to mention that compared with several Chinese players who play in Europe, they are less valuable than most of the main players of the Chinese Super League.

However, the team's low value does not mean that they are underperforming, and in the qualifying stage of the Olympic Games, they beat the powerful United States Olympic team and Mexico to enter the Olympic finals.

In the group stage of the final stage, they beat the star-slugging Argentine Olympic team and the North African powerhouse Algeria to finish second in the group and become another dark horse in this Olympic football tournament.

This quarter-final battle has also become a test battle to verify which of the two dark horses is blacker.

After the end of the game in Mexico, the Chinese Olympic team came from Brasilia to the Belo Horizonte Mineiro Stadium in Minas Gerais, fortunately it is not far from Brasilia, otherwise Honduras, which played here in the last game, would have a clear advantage.

Even so, Rick Link was full of apprehension.

The Chinese Olympic team is the youngest of the Olympic football teams on average, and Nie Jiang, a player born in 1998, is the youngest of all Olympic football players.

Compared with other teams, which are generally players in the 1993-1995 age group, the Chinese Olympic team is mostly in the 1995-1997 age group, except for a few players who played in Europe.

In the group stage, the Chinese Olympic team continued to talk to opponents such as Germany and Mexico, who were stronger than themselves, and the players paid more running and physical strength.

The Olympics are typical of tournament competitions, with competitions every three days, and by now, several players of the Chinese Olympic team have reached their physical limit.

After consulting with the coaching staff, Rick Link made adjustments to the personnel and formation, 3-5-2 became 3-6-1, Nie Jiang was put on the bench, Tao Wentao replaced him, and Du Zhenyu, who had two yellow cards on the back line, was suspended and Li Ming was replaced.

At 6 a.m. on August 14, Beijing time, the match between the Chinese Olympic team and the Honduras Olympic team officially began.

More than 57,000 fans watched the game, which was even more than the previous match between Portugal and Germany, but slightly less than the game of the host Brazil, and the game was also the largest number of TV viewers since the start of the Olympic Games, according to domestic real-time ratings statistics, it reached 3%, and the number of viewers exceeded 110 million, which shows the importance that Chinese fans attach to this game.

After the start of the game, most of the Chinese fans who did not pay attention to the starting list were also surprised, that is, Nie Jiang, who did not have any injury rumors, was placed on the bench.

However, from the starting of the Chinese Olympic team, Tao Wentao was put on the starting lineup and did not have Xiong Jian, who performed well as a substitute in the last game, it can be seen that Rick Link chose to focus on attack, compared to the 3-6-1 offensive formation of the Chinese Olympic team, the Honduran side is a 5-4-1 formation, which is clearly defense-oriented.

And the situation on the field is indeed like this, as soon as the Chinese Olympic team launched a fierce attack, the two wingbacks Ding Huaiyi and Zhang Linpeng rushed extremely high, put the two Honduran fullbacks behind them, and handed them over to the midfielders and defenders to deal with.

In the full ten minutes after the opening kick-off, the Chinese Olympic team had completed three shots on goal, while Honduras had no shots on goal.

The Chinese fans in the stands kept cheering for the boys on the field, hoping that they would be able to break through the opponent's door with one kick.

But the reality is cruel, those fans who watch the game in front of the TV, especially those who understand the game, can see more clearly, although the Chinese team is very fierce, but there is no absolute good opportunity.

More of the Chinese team's shots were from outside the penalty area, and they were all helpless lottery-style shots after failing to enter the penalty area.

In response to the impact of the two wingers of the Chinese team, Honduras definitely made special arrangements before the game, and the purpose of the five defenders is to limit the impact of the Chinese team's wingers, and to prevent them from easily going down or cutting horizontally with the double defense of fullbacks and full-backs.

Therefore, the Chinese team played lively, but in fact, there were not many absolute opportunities.

Compared with the Chinese Olympic team, in addition to the special arrangement of the five defenders, there are two points that are also implemented well, that is, the two fullbacks are very resolute to press, specializing in the combination between the Chinese team's side midfielder and central defenders, and the other two players in the midfield at the same time adopt foul killing tactics and resolutely prevent the Chinese team from putting the ball upside down in the midfield.

Another positive point for Honduras is that the referee of this match, Roddy Zambrano from Ecuador, seemed to blow the scale of punishment, and he ignored many fouls, the most representative of which was a foul in the thirteenth minute of the first half.

This time it was Honduras' attack failure to play in the front, and after Li Yun got the ball, he transferred the ball to Zhang Linpeng, who picked up speed immediately after receiving the pass on the right side, but Honduran midfielder No. 15 Banegas brought Zhang Linpeng down with a ferocious tackle.

Hong Gang, who was in charge of commenting the game, hurriedly said: "This is going to eat cards." Although he went to the ball, not only did he light up the soles of his shoes, but at the same time, there was an incidental action after he didn't shovel the ball, which brought Zhang Linpeng down. ”

As a result, referee Roddy Sambrano just ran over to warn Banegas and gave the Chinese team a free kick at the back.

"Damn!" Chen Jiangfeng's eyes widened, "Nima!

"Black whistle!" Dad Chen also became an old angry young man at this time, "It's not that Zhang Linpeng is alert, he was injured in minutes, and he won't be given a yellow card?"

As the captain on the field, Li Yun also came to interfere with the referee, but the referee was completely unmoved.

The referee's decision gave a very bad start, and then the midfielders of both sides frequently fouled to interrupt the opponent's attack, and the referee still did not blow.

Such a penalty scale is very beneficial to Honduras, anyway, they don't need to have too much passing and organization in the midfield, more is the backfield to kick off the players in the front, the midfield is a transitional place, but the Chinese team plays the ground ball, to be a pass and cut to cooperate, the offense is interrupted by a foul, and the midfield is a place that must be managed well.

For this reason, the Chinese team had to strengthen the manpower in the midfield, let Tao Wentao also come back, narrow the distance between the teams, speed up the pass, and let the opponent foul too late.

With the recovery of the frontcourt players, the offensive formation of the Chinese team has also retracted accordingly, and Honduras can finally press out the formation.

"It's too ugly. Chen Jiangfeng looked unhappy, "It's just a non-stop fall in the midfield, it's interesting." ”

The Chinese fans in the stands also kept booing, protesting against the referee's ignorance of various fouls, just kept warning this player, warning that the player was not played, and the atmosphere of the game became extremely strange for a while.

The only cheers came when Honduras didn't have a chance to shoot from beyond the box to show their determination to score.

Gradually, the Chinese team also figured out the routine, no longer insisted on walking on the ground, and began to use Li Yun and Ma Yongli to have a certain ability to play the ball, directly looking for two wingers or simply looking for center forward Zou Weijia, anyway, Zou Weijia's height is still guaranteed.

In the twenty-ninth minute of the first half, Ding Huaiyi and Xu Mingyu had a two-on-two cooperation on the left side, and then Ding Huaiyi's personal ability was brought into play, and his final catch accelerated and changed direction to directly break through Honduras' right-back Alvarez and burst into the penalty area.

This is the first time that the Chinese Olympic team has burned the flames of war into the penalty area of Honduras.

Next, Ding Huaiyi's pass accurately found Zou Weijia in the penalty area, the latter rubbed the ball, the ball came to the back point, Tao Wentao, who was ambushed at the back point, shot directly, but unfortunately the ball flew out of the bottom line over the crossbar.

Ding Huaiyi's breakthrough can be regarded as another way to provide the Chinese team with an attack, that is, to rely on the player's personal ability to make a single-point breakthrough.

Now on the field, whether it is Qin Minghao, Ding Huaiyi or Xu Mingyu, they all have a certain breakthrough ability and can be fully utilized.

In the 37th minute of the first half, the Chinese team once again relied on individual breakthroughs to get a chance.

It was Qin Minghao who created this opportunity, he took advantage of Zou Weijia's opportunity to bring the opponent out of the penalty area, and an overhead pass found Tao Wentao, who had a tacit understanding with Zou Weijia.

Honduran centre-back Palacios turned too slowly and was squeezed behind by Tao Wentao, who had to directly use a takedown defense to knock Tao down.

Even the referee couldn't stand this foul without the ball, and he finally took out his long-cherished yellow card and gave it to Palacios, and the Chinese Olympic team also won a free-kick in an excellent position in the frontcourt.