Chapter 031: The final opponent host
"Whoa—"
The score of the 2015 Asian Cup semi-finals between the Chinese team and the Japanese team was still 0:1 for 80 minutes, and the Japanese team that drew the home team was in front and the Chinese team that drew the away team was behind, so the deafening chanting of Chinese fans continued to erupt over Newcastle Stadium.
The Japanese team, which is behind in the score, has worked hard during this time, but the Chinese team, as the team with the best defensive ability in this Asian Cup, has very concentrated defensive attention, and the head coach Lippi gives orders to the players on the field from time to time, the defense looks very tight, but it is actually very solid.
Yang 5 commentator He Wei couldn't help but say: " The Chinese team as the best team in defense of this Asian Cup, if it wins the game 1:0, we can try to impact the Asian Cup record of winning the championship without conceding six games, before the history of the Asian Cup, the Iranian team has had four consecutive games without conceding a goal to win the championship, but due to the age, the level of Asian teams is very different, there is not much reference value, and then look at the Asian teams encountered by the Chinese team, if they really create six consecutive wins and zero goals to win the championship, the Chinese team will become the first team in the history of the Asian Cup to win the championship in the real sense of zero goals!"
As soon as the words fell, He Wei changed his voice again and said: "Of course, this is not my character, knowing that the Chinese team has performed very well, it is reassuring, and it is not difficult for senior fans sitting in front of the TV to see that the Chinese team can be said to be the strongest Chinese team in history, even stronger than the Chinese team in the World Cup in Brazil last year......"
Between the words, a few more minutes passed in the game, and it came to the eighty-fifth minute, and the score still did not change at all, and the Chinese team led the Japanese team 1:0.
The close-up shots of the live broadcast switch between Aguirre and Lippi from time to time, the Japanese team has made all three substitution adjustments, and the Chinese team has only made two adjustments, and they are all alignment adjustments, and no adjustments have been made to the tactics.
From a tactical point of view, it is not difficult to see Lippi's total suppression of Aguirre.
The Japanese team, which made all three substitution adjustments, did not play the role it should have played except to increase the possession, which is equivalent to saying that Aguirre's three adjustments were a failure.
Of course, Aguirre doesn't think so, he thinks there is no problem with substitutions, what is wrong is the mentality and fighting spirit of the Japanese players.
As the game time became less and less, the Japanese players were impatient, and their fighting spirit also declined to a certain extent, completely losing the style of the Asian hegemon in the past.
Zhan Jun, the commentator of New Wolf Sports, smiled and said with a smile: "The three substitution adjustments of the Japanese team have all been made, and the Chinese team has another adjustment, if it is not too bad luck, it is only a matter of time before the Chinese team wins this game and advances to this Asian Cup, why? Look at the mental outlook of our players, and then look at the mental outlook of Japanese players? Although the mental outlook of the players cannot be proportional to the result of the game, at least we can see whether a team's desire to win is strong......
Even the commentator of Japan's J-Sports-2 TV station doubted that the Japanese team could equalize: "Sometimes I really don't understand, one goal behind, not two or three goals behind, why not fight? The Chinese team is not as strong as imagined, and they only have Tang Zhengjun, a player with superior strength, and we have a stronger overall ......."
However, at this moment, Shinji Kagawa received a cross pass from Keisuke Honda and found some space for a long-range shot, and he thought that instead of spending time organizing the attack, it would be more affordable to shoot from a distance.
To break through dense defenses, long-range shots are indeed a very important means, but many times in addition to players need to have a certain amount of technical skills, but also luck.
Shinji Kagawa himself has quite good foot skills, and often scores stunning long-range shots, but this time he has a problem with his mentality, and the right foot he picked up did not fully kick the real football, and he originally wanted to touch the ball with the instep of his foot and kicked it to the outside of his instep.
Cai Huikang, who was a little out of position, thought that he could only witness Shinji Kagawa complete a long shot, but he happened to see the football flying to his feet when he came from the side, and out of instinct, the instep of his right foot followed the forward flight trajectory of the football There was a movement to retract.
Cai Huikang's stopping skills are not particularly good, but they are not bad either, and the distance between his body and the sudden football stop is less than half a meter.
Immediately, Cai Huikang's knee-jerk reaction was to complete a kick to clear the siege, and suddenly he heard Tang Zheng shout: "Give it to me!"
Cai Huikang, who picked up his right foot, stopped the power and pushed the ball to Tang Zheng with the arch of his foot instead.
Because the action was too awkward, Cai Huikang, who completed the pass, was a little unstable in his center of gravity until he fell to the ground.
But at this time, obviously no one paid attention to Cai Huikang who fell to the ground, and everyone's attention was on Tang Zheng.
Including the commentator of Japan's J-Sports-1 TV station, who was still complaining about the players, he suddenly changed his voice and exclaimed, "Oops!!"
The Japanese players in the broadcast screen apparently thought that Shinji Kagawa's long-range shot, who had been given space for long-range shots, would at least pose a certain threat, so how did they know that there would be mistakes?
And also with almost no interference......
Therefore, when the football reached Tang Zheng's feet, there were no Japanese players around him who stepped forward to interfere......
When the ability reaches the level of Tang Zheng, it is a very dangerous thing to be unguarded.
In a flash of lightning, the head coach of the Japanese team, Aguirre, also realized something, he subconsciously took a step forward and shouted at the players on the field: "Foul!"
In fact, there is no need for Aguirre to remind them, and the players on the field know what they should do.
Captain Makoto Hasebe and Shibasaki Yue, who came on as a substitute in the second half, rushed to Tang Zheng who was facing the direction of his goal, but Tang Zheng had no intention of continuing to dribble the ball, and he directly used his right foot to complete a long pass of more than 40 meters.
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"Nice long pass!!"
He Wei, the commentator of Central 5, subconsciously shouted through the broadcast screen.
The football flew directly from the 35-meter area of the Chinese team's defense to the right rib of the Chinese team's attack, and according to the flight trajectory of the football, it can be seen that Sun Jingbo, who came on as a substitute in the second half, is following up at high speed towards the football landing point.
Left-back Nagatomo Yu gritted his teeth and did not keep up with Sun Jingbo, and even the two opened up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Ma Yoshida also had to follow Gao Lin's forward route to defend, so Mori Shigezhen shouldered the heavy responsibility of defending Sun Jingbo.
But Tang Zheng's long pass is very large in advance, and Sun Jingbo belongs to the kind of winger who runs faster and faster, and there is a forward acceleration after the football lands.
Mori Shige didn't seem to expect that there would be an acceleration after the football landed, Sun Jingbo was different, he realized that Tang Zheng would pass a long pass with a considerable amount of advance before the long pass, so he ran at full speed with the strength of drinking milk.
The initial misjudgment made it too late for Masato Morishige to catch up with Sun Jingbo, and all he could do was pin his hopes on goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima in the hope that he could save the whole team.
Also thinking the same thing were the Japanese fans in the stands, who pinned their hopes on the ethereal god at this moment.
Yang 5 commentator He Wei didn't expect that the Japanese central defender Mori Shigezhen would make such a serious judgment error, but his commentary experience is quite rich, he paused, and his voice suddenly rose an octave: "Single knife!"
In the blink of an eye, Sun Jingbo stretched out his feet to stop the ball forward in the high-speed run, and continued to run towards the Japanese team's penalty area without slowing down.
Goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima had the experience of Tang Zheng hanging the goal, this time he did not abandon the goal, but stood on the line of the small penalty area, and waited until Sun Jingbo came to the top of the arc of the big penalty area before lowering the center of gravity while abandoning the goal.
"Whoa—"
At the same time, the sky above Newcastle Stadium resounded with the huge chanting of Chinese fans like a tsunami.
Sun didn't feel any nervousness in this frenetic atmosphere, but was exceptionally clear-headed, and he picked up his right foot when Kawashima stepped out to take the spot.
Kawashima Eiji saw Sun Jingbo's movements and subconsciously froze in place, his center of gravity lowered, ready to make a save at any time.
Left?
Right?
Or above?
Just when Kawashima Eiji was thinking about which way Sun Jingbo should choose to shoot, Sun Jingbo, who stepped on the line of the big penalty area with his left foot, had already kicked the ball with his right foot.
The ball rolls against the turf towards the bottom right corner of the goal, which is the bottom left of Eiji Kawashima.
Eiji Kawashima realized this too late to make a save, because the ball ran very fast against the turf, and it took time for Eiji Kawashima to press his body to the ground.
But Kawashima's body hadn't fully pressed to the ground, the ball had already rolled over his coverable area against the turf, and then in Kawashima's desperate eyes, it grazed the inside edge of the right post of the goal and crashed into the snow-white net.
"Whoa—"
The loud cheers at Newcastle Stadium paused briefly as the ball hit the net, but resounded half a second later.
He Wei, the commentator of Yang 5, was particularly excited in the frenzied atmosphere of the scene, and he looked at Sun Jingbo, who was celebrating the goal with open arms, and was full of passion: "The ball is in! The ball is in! In the 87th minute of the game, Sun Jingbo received a long pass from Tang Zheng and broke through the goalkeeper Kawashima Eiji of the Japanese team to guard the goal! 2:0! In less than three minutes of regular time, it basically means that the Chinese team has advanced to the final of this Asian Cup ahead of schedule!"
"Long live the Chinese team! Long live the Chinese team! Long live the Chinese team!!"
"Let's listen to the surging voices of the Chinese fans from the sky above Newcastle Stadium! As He Wei said, counting more than five minutes of injury time, we can say that the victory is in our hands if we are leading by two goals!
Commentator Xu Yang shouted almost frantically.
Sun Jingbo, who scored the goal, excitedly finished his personal celebration, and his teammates also ran over, hugging each other and high-fived each other to vent the pressure brought by expanding the score.
Tang Zheng, who captained the team in this game, did not forget his duty, and after celebrating the goal with his teammates, he reminded his teammates not to be negligent in the next game, because the Japanese team is different from other opponents, they are very resilient, and have the strength to narrow the score, equalize the score, and even overtake the score.
Lippi, the head coach of the Chinese team in front of the coach's seat of the away team, hugged and celebrated with his assistants Madaloni and Li Tie after singing.
The players on the bench were even more excited to throw towels and jerseys, fully venting the excitement brought by expanding the score.
The Chinese fans in the stands were excited like children, dancing with their hands, even if the people next to them were not relatives and friends, or even friends, but at this time they forgot the so-called sense of distance and hugged each other excitedly.
Among these fans, there are also some fans of the opposite sex.
It wasn't until the excitement eased that they realized something......
To get back to the truth, while the Chinese players were walking towards their own half, Tang Zheng jogged in front of the away team's coach's box and gave a face-to-face lecture.
The on-site director just captured this picture, and the excited tone of the central 5 commentator He Wei changed, and he said tentatively: "Coach Lippi pulled Tang Zheng to explain some tactical changes, if I didn't guess wrong, I think the next game should be defended......"
Before the restart of the game, the live director gave close-ups of players such as Shinji Kagawa, Keisuke Honda, Makoto Hasebe, and Maya Yoshida pushed to their faces.
From the expressions on their faces, it is not difficult to see that the two-goal deficit is a bit of a blow to them, if one goal behind also means that there is still hope for an equalizer, then two goals behind can only be said to be hoping to score early.
Because the Chinese team is the best team in defense in this Asian Cup, it has not conceded a goal for nearly 450 minutes so far, and it is not ordinarily difficult to score a goal against the defense-solid Chinese team.
Otherwise, Japan would not have been able to score until the end of the game.
What's more, the Japanese players have completely lost confidence, and the next matches have also proved the lack of credibility of the Japanese players.
At the end of 90 minutes of regular time, the fourth official held up the electronic card for three minutes of stoppage time, and the Japanese team still did not score.
0:2
The Japanese team is in front, and the Chinese team is behind.
Taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, the Chinese team made the third substitution adjustment of the whole game to reasonably consume the game time.
In the face of the Chinese team's substitutions that delayed the game, the Japanese players did not react.
For them, it seems that they want the game to end sooner.
After completing the substitution adjustment, the injury time also came to two minutes, and the Chinese team still led the Japanese team by two goals.
The excitement of the Chinese fans in the stands became more and more excited as the game time became less and less, and Newcastle Stadium had completely become a sea of joy for Chinese fans.
Chinese fans sitting in front of the TV also seem to be affected by the frenzied atmosphere of the scene, dancing and venting loudly at home, bars, Internet cafes and other places to watch the game.
With the success of last year's World Cup in Brazil, the number of football-loving people in China is getting bigger and bigger, so it's rare to see that kind of incomprehension.
Compared with the sluggish ball market a few years ago, the current domestic ball market can be said to be ushering in spring.
"Beep~Beep~Beep~~"
With the three whistles of the referee on duty, Hassan, the first semi-final of the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia came to an end.
In the end, the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team bloodlessly with two goals from Tang Zheng and Sun Jingbo and took the lead in advancing to the Asian Cup finals.
A day later, hosts Australia defeated Iraq 2-0 at home to meet China in the final.