Xinshuiyuan Stadium can accommodate 55,000 fans, and the official data given before the game is that there are about 20,000 Chinese fans who have successfully purchased tickets, but judging from the close-up shots given by the live director, there must be more than 20,000.

The red sea of joy formed by the Chinese fans completely suppressed the orange sea formed by the Dutch fans, so the momentum of the outbreak was also overwhelming.

The Chinese players on the pitch performed very well in the cheers and cheers of the Chinese fans, and they played their best at all.

Therefore, the Dutch team, which gradually increased its offensive, never found a good opportunity, and the score was still 0:0.

Sneijder, the heart of the Dutch midfield, became more and more impatient as the game wore on, as Robben's playmaking responsibilities became more onerous before he tried to break through, and he had to increase his range of runs to find gaps in China's defence.

Soon, Sneijder ushered in the opportunity to directly confront Tang Zheng.

As the attacking player closest to the forward line in the midfield, Sneijder has many opportunities to contact with defensive midfielder Tang Zheng, but in the first five minutes, according to the idea of manager Louis van Gaal, the attack is mainly tentative, and the number of people involved in the attack is limited, and his position is not so high.

Now it's different, with head coach Louis van Gaal releasing a signal to strengthen the attack on the sidelines, Sneijder finally ushered in a one-on-one opportunity with Tang Zheng.

Sneijder's technique at his feet is delicate, but he is not a typical midfielder, who can pass a few people and deliver a scalpel-like through ball with his superior foot skills, and he relies more on running passes and organising the team's midfield attack.

In addition, Sneijder's set-piece skills are very good, his feet are also very hard, and his long-range shooting ability is extremely strong, and he has a part of the credit for the 1/8 final victory over Mexico.

Facing Tang Zheng, who is more than 1.9 meters tall, Sneijder, who is only 1.7 meters tall, wanted to use his short height and low center of gravity to shake Tang Zheng, but Sneijder's upper body had just finished shaking, and he disappeared before he had time to push the ball away......

Tang Zheng's prediction was quite accurate, and he stretched forward with his long right leg and poked the ball between Sneijder's legs.

Fortunately, Wijnaldum chose a good position, and he was just in the direction of Tang Zheng's stabbing ball, so he was not counterattacked by the Chinese team.

The Dutch team organized an attack again, and the red-faced Sneijder did not try to break through Tang Zheng again, after all, breaking through is not the offensive method he is good at.

Sneijder can be recognized as the best player in world football in 2010, and his mental adjustment ability must be very good, so he organizes the team to attack according to the way he has played in the past.

In the 10th minute of the game, the Dutch fans in the stands erupted unabated, especially when the football came to Robben's feet, and the sound reached the highest note since the start of the game.

Kuyt's forward insertion took away Lu Liang's defensive attention, Tang Zheng had not yet run in place, Robben suddenly had the idea of accelerating the breakthrough in the shouts of his own fans, and he didn't pay attention to Tang Zheng's coming to help defend.

Li Xuepeng's speed can be said to be outstanding at the level of the Super League, but it is not enough to look at the whole world, especially when he faces the speed madman Robben.

Defenders all over the world know the purpose of Robben's right cut inside and know how to defend, but there are very few defenders who can keep up with his breakthrough rhythm, at least Li Xuepeng is not in this range.

Li Xuepeng is also self-aware, and he fights and retreats.

However, at this moment, Robben buckled the ball to the bottom line on the inside of his left foot, and at the same time the center of gravity of his upper body leaned forward, with a posture of accelerating the breakthrough from the bottom line.

As a result, Robben slammed the ball to the left with the outside of his left instep, started on the spot, and cut in!

By the time Li Xuepeng realized that it was too late, he could only watch Robben break through horizontally along the inner line.

But within a second, he was relieved......

Robben Yuguang saw Tang Zheng coming over, and he didn't know if he was affected by the extremely low success rate of the breakthrough in the past, so he didn't choose to accelerate the breakthrough, but used the outside of his left foot to pass the ball to Sneijder, who stepped forward to respond.

Tang Zheng didn't get up to speed in the process of helping Robben defend, but Sneijder found a little space to shoot from distance, so he didn't hesitate to choose to shoot angrily.

“Boom~”

There was a muffled sound between the soccer ball and Sneijder's right foot.

But Tang Zheng is tall and has long legs, stretches his foot to block, and the football hits Tang Zheng's right foot on the upper of his foot to produce a huge parabola, jumps high, and then falls, out of the bottom line.

Dutch corner.

Corner kick attack is one of the important means of the Dutch team in this World Cup, but the Chinese team coach Lippi made targeted deployment before the game, and the players' attention was very concentrated, coupled with the goalkeeper Yan Junling's hot state, the Dutch team's corner kick attack has never played an ideal role.

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The game time passed quickly, and it came to 20 minutes in a blink of an eye, and the scene was still dominated by the Dutch team, which was dominated by the attack, and the Chinese team was passively defending.

Of course, this is not far from what the media and football people predicted before the game.

It is very normal for the gap in overall strength to form an extreme offensive and defensive extreme, because the overall technical content of the weak side is definitely not as good as that of the strong side, and if the weak side and the strong side choose to play against each other, then the game will be no suspense.

If the weaker side can consolidate the defensive advantage and wait patiently for the opportunity, there is a high probability of an upset.

Looking at world football, there are countless cases of the weak defeating the strong.

The Chinese team, which is recognized as the weakest team in the quarterfinals, is not necessarily the final loser!

Therefore, when the head coach of the Dutch team, Van Gaal, realized that the team's attack could not bring an actual threat to the grim Lin guarding goal, he signaled the team's offensive speed to slow down and retreat a little as a whole, forcing the Chinese team to defend the premise and give the team more attacking space.

Whether it is Robben or the youngster Depay, they need a certain amount of space to sprint, otherwise it is difficult to maximize the power.

It wasn't until the twenty-fifth minute that the Netherlands created a great chance.

The Chinese team won the ball and quickly counterattacked, Tang Zheng connected Sneijder and Wijnaldum without direct passing space, and then made a long pass to find Lu Liang who was inserted at high speed on the left side, who saw Gao Lin forward and passed an imaginative through pass, but Gao Lin, who received the ball, thought too much, and then was cut off by the central defender Indi, who was in place.

The Dutch team played a quick counterattack from the Chinese team, and two or three passes came to the feet of Kuyt, who had not had time to return to the defense, who sent a wide range of transfer balls, and Depay stopped the ball on the left and hit the goal directly.

Depay, who is in hot form in this World Cup, has great shooting power and a tricky angle, but fortunately, the goalkeeper of the Chinese team, Yan Junling, is very focused, and he flew sideways and stretched out his right hand to block the ball from the bottom line.

"Oh, oh, oh-"

In this regard, the Chinese fans in the stands breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that the Dutch team's quick counterattack was simple, direct and efficient, Lippi, the head coach of the Chinese team, hurriedly ran to the sidelines and made a few tactical change gestures towards Tang Zheng.

Blind ran to take a corner kick, and Tang Zheng tapped his chin to show that he understood.

The opportunity to quickly counterattack just now was rare, and several players failed to resist the restlessness in their hearts and actively participate in the counterattack, including Tang Zheng, and the rapid counterattack after the rapid counterattack was extremely dangerous, so Tang Zheng was also afraid and decided to be careful in the next game.

Of course, the Chinese team is not without creating absolute opportunities, and it can only be said that the forward line has greatly reduced its performance under the influence of defensive pressure.

However, the Chinese team's pre-match tactics did not pursue goals, but tried to keep the goal intact.

The best result of the game was that the goal of the home side conceded zero goals, because the overall strength of the obviously weak Chinese team can only pursue victory without losing.

And this victory is not about scoring to win the game, but about dragging the game to a penalty shootout.

Defending may be a little ugly, but the pursuit of victory is about unscrupulousness, and modern football is more about winning than about process.

No matter how hearty the process is, the final loss will still be criticized and criticized.

It's different to win, even if you defend passively for 89 minutes, but score in the last minute, the tactics are reasonable.

This...... It's reality!

Besides, there is no shame in defense, but there is a shame in losing.

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The Chinese team continued to defend passively, and the Chinese fans in the stands did not give up shouting and cheering because of this, but became more and more excited as the game progressed, and the cheers rose higher and higher.

Even if their shouting policy was more than 80 meters away from the Chinese team's defensive half, they didn't care.

The Dutch fans who came to the scene were not far behind, and the cheers were deafening.

But the results they want to see have not changed for a long time, and they are reluctant.

The Chinese team's defensive line, which retreated to the half-court defense, was solid, and the goalkeeper Yan Junling was in a brave state, which made people helpless.

The close-up of the live director began to take care of Dutch coach Louis van Gaal frequently, and the meaning of the message was very obvious - should the team's tactics be changed?

Van Gaal actually laid out a lot of plans before the game, but because the Chinese team's defensive attention was very concentrated, exposing a variety of skills and tactics too early was not conducive to the team's more threatening attack.

Coupled with the fact that Robben does not seem to be in the best form, many tactics are difficult to play.

During the period when Robben was not in good shape, Sneijder's offensive organization pressure was very high, and Depay, one of the biggest discoveries of the Dutch team in this World Cup, was under great pressure from Zhang Linpeng on the offensive end and could not surprise the team's attack.

So Sky Commentator Andy Grey quipped: "Memphis Depay seemed to lose all his magic under Zhang's defence, except for a long-range shot from a quick counter-attack that tested Yan, and at other times it was almost like sleepwalking." ”

The implication is that he was very surprised by Zhang Linpeng's defense.

Depay has been so impressive in the last four games that manager Louis van Gaal has included him in the starting line-up.

However, Zhang Linpeng was in excellent condition in this game, meticulous in defense, and he could still run when the Chinese team was attacking.

In the first 30 minutes of the game, in addition to Tang Zheng and Yan Junling's impressive performances, Zhang Linpeng's performance was also the same.

Robben and Sneijder were under invisible pressure from Tang Zheng, and Depay was limited by Zhang Linpeng, which means that Van Persie, who was at the forefront of the front line, was isolated.

The three players who are very important in the three-four-three formation offensive system of the Dutch team are closely marked to varying degrees, and the offense cannot function normally, and as time slowly passes, the Dutch players on the field become more and more impatient, and begin to choose blind long-range shots.

Sneijder and Robben have a certain long-range shooting ability, and it is understandable that they will try to shoot from a distance, but it is not normal for Wijnaldum, Blind, Kuyt and other players to also try long-range shots.

Head coach Louis van Gaal is keenly aware of the change in the mentality of the players, but he did not run to the sidelines to stop the players, but let them play, anyway, now that the team has an absolute advantage, the Chinese team has no way to launch an attack that threatens Cillessen to guard the goal.

The Dutch team's shot numbers began to increase slowly, and Robben, who had been unable to do so, seemed to be finding his form, and his in-cut long-range shot or pass could cause an exclamation over the new water source stadium.

Of course, the exclamations were only for the Chinese fans, and the Dutch fans were excited, dancing and waiting for the goal to come.

However, the goalkeeper of the Chinese team, Yan Junling, was in hot condition, making high saves and low blocks to protect the goal.

During this time, the head coach of the Chinese team, Lippi, frequently appeared on the broadcast screen.

Lippi in the broadcast screen looks very nervous, rushing to the sideline from time to time to give orders to the players on the field, signaling the players to focus on the game.

As Robben returned to his state, the pressure Tang Zheng felt became more and more intense, giving him a headache.

He Wei, the central 5 commentator in the on-site commentary seat, was hoarse and obviously worried: "The game is about to come to the 40th minute, and the Dutch team's attack seems to be getting closer and closer to the goal, I don't know if our boys can withstand the pressure and stick to the score of 0:0 until the end of the first half......"

Before the words fell, the commentator Xu Yang said in a deep voice: "Whether you can enter the halftime break with a score of 0:0 depends not only on the maintenance of Yan Junling's state, but also on Tang Zheng's two-fist opponent who can beat the four punches of the Dutch team." ”

Tang Zheng once again blocked Sneijder's long-range shot at the front of the penalty area, kicked the sideline for Feng Xiaoting in the refracted football cup, and the on-site director deliberately gave Tang Zheng a close-up shot of retreating to his face.

The difference from the previous waves is that Tang Zheng's brows are furrowed deeply, and the word 'Chuan' in the center of his eyebrows is very obvious, so that the Chinese fans sitting in front of the TV are extremely worried, especially female fans.

The Chinese fans at Xinshuiyuan Stadium were also worried, but fortunately, the 'Dragon Team Fan Club' was quite professional, and they did not stop chanting because the Chinese team was always at a disadvantage, but broke out more and more loudly.

Perhaps it was the relentless shouting and cheering of the Chinese fans at the scene that brought about an additional increase in attributes, and the passive Chinese team kept the score of 0:0 until the end of the first half.

British Sky commentator Andy Grey said seriously: "If the Chinese team can maintain resilience in the second half, it may not draw with the Netherlands at full time, drag the game into extra time, and may even enter a penalty shootout!