In the third round of Group C of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Colombia led China 1-0 thanks to a penalty kick from James Rodriguez at the Pantanal Stadium.

In the other match at the Stadio Castellau, Greece took a 1-0 lead over Ivory Coast thanks to a break in front of the field and a goal from substitute Samaris.

In other words, the Chinese team and the Greek team are currently on the same score, and the Chinese team is two ahead of Greece in terms of goal difference, so it is temporarily ranked second.

But with seventy minutes to go, anything can happen.

Colombia's overall strength is significantly stronger than that of China, and another goal is a very likely result.

At present, the morale of the Greek team is greatly boosted, and it is also possible to score in the face of the battered Ivory Coast, which means that Colombia and Greece score again, then the goal difference of the Chinese team will become '-1', and the goal difference of the Greek team will also become '-1'.

According to the rules related to the same number of points in the group stage of the World Cup, in the case of the same goal difference, it is to see who of the two teams to score more goals.

Of course, the Chinese team is still higher than Greece in this regard, but once there is still time left in the game, there is no guarantee that the Greek team will score again, and the Chinese team has always been used to dropping the chain at critical times.

If that time really comes, those pessimistic fans will definitely say goodbye in four years.

In fact, many Chinese fans sitting in front of their televisions have already begun to think about it.

The benefits of starting both games at the same time are clear, and the disadvantages are equally obvious.

Especially in the two games, the goal time of the Chinese team is almost the same, which feels like a heavenly arrangement.

Although the Chinese players on the field did not know that the Greek team in the other field had taken the lead over Ivory Coast, the backward Chinese team still consciously strengthened its attack in the next game.

The score was behind, and I was a little uneasy.

However, Tang Zheng played very calmly and did not follow the rhythm of his teammates to speed up the pass, because he knew that the current overall strength of the Chinese team was not enough to play a smooth continuous cooperation.

Without solid fundamentals, it is easy to make mistakes in a quick pass, and it is even very likely that Colombia will score a second goal in a short period of time.

Players such as James Rodriguez, Jackson, Martinez, Adrian Ramos and Guarin are all effective players at the top and should not be underestimated.

Standing on the sidelines, the head coach of the Chinese team, Lippi, who was still a little worried, breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the coach's seat.

As long as Tang Zheng is not affected by the score behind, the Chinese team's offensive and defensive conversion will not have much problem.

Unless, unexpectedly.

Feng Xiaoting's sending points is unavoidable, as a central defender, his body is not strong enough, and he can only rely on his consciousness to deal with this kind of ball.

It's just that he doesn't know that Ramos can stretch his feet faster!

With James Rodriguez scoring his fourth goal of the tournament, his confidence gradually rose, and the number of times he picked up the ball in front of him gradually increased, Tang Zheng had to pay more attention to James Rodriguez.

Tang Zheng clearly felt that James Rodriguez had improved significantly in the past 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 seasons, especially in terms of physical fitness, playing awareness and scoring ability.

In order to completely suppress the offensive launched by Colombia in the middle, Tang Zheng had no time to participate in the attack, even the captain Zheng Zhi.

In other words, the Chinese team's offense can only rely on four offensive players in the front court, not that Tang Zheng does not participate in the attack, it can only be said that Tang Zheng directly participates in the attack a limited number of times, and he becomes a transit station when the team is attacking.

In addition, Jiang Zhipeng and Zhang Linpeng were under so much pressure on the side that they didn't dare to rely too high.

This is the World Cup that the world is watching, and a slight mistake is likely to cause the national team to be out!

The defender has always been a backstabber.

And they don't want to be the backstabber!

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The backward Chinese team has never been able to pose a threat to Ospina's goal, and Yang 5 commentator He Wei is a little worried: "The Chinese team's continued passive defense was thought of before the game, but the offensive end cannot bring a direct threat to the Colombian backline, so it is not a good thing to continue to defend the Chinese team." ”

"There's no way around it. Commentator Xu Yang sighed: "Tang Zheng's attention is completely on J Ronaldo, and the offense does not dare to rely too high, after all, we can still qualify for the promotion at the end of the game according to the current score...... Now he's a midfielder and not a midfielder. ”

The game continued, and Colombia, who had the absolute advantage, still controlled the tempo of the game and made frequent kills.

The Chinese team could only rely on a limited attack to test the Colombian defenders, but did not create a threat until half an hour Ospina held the goal.

Immediately, the broadcaster gives a set of data.

The Chinese team had only 36% possession, while Colombia had 64%.

Shot comparison: 2vs. 9

Shot Ratio: 0VS5

When the game came to the 30th minute, Tang Zheng realized that it was impossible for the situation to continue like this, because continuous defense was easy to cause the defenders to lack concentration, especially since only Zhang Linpeng played in the European League in his own backline.

Jiang Zhipeng, Li Xuepeng and Feng Xiaoting are all Chinese Super League level defenders, and Colombia's offensive combination may not be the world's top, but at least it can be regarded as first-class, so the Chinese Super League level has to resist the world's first-class offensive line for the whole game.

The difficulty coefficient is not generally high.

Of course, Tang Zheng did not blindly choose to move forward to participate in the attack, because he had a clear mind and knew that there was still time for the game, and it was not time to break the boat.

If you attack too early, there is a good chance that you will not score in front and concede first.

In order to avoid this embarrassing situation, Tang Zheng has been deliberately controlling the rhythm of his own attack, unless there is a large gap between the forward line and the midfield line, the general situation is not too forward.

However, as long as there is an opportunity, Tang Zheng's decisiveness to participate in the attack is extremely strong.

In the 34th minute, Tang Zheng saw a good opportunity to move forward and attack, and his sudden forward penetration also caused panic in the Colombian backline.

Just at the back of the guard, was not in position, the two central defenders Valdés and Barranta did not dare to step forward to block Tang Zheng, so when the Colombian defenders fought and retreated, Tang Zheng got the opportunity to shoot from the top of the arc of the big penalty area.

The ball took off with a furious whistling sound and flew between Valdés and Barranta towards the top right corner of the goal.

James Rodríguez, who has never been active enough in defense, chuckled as he watched the flying football, and like the Colombian fans in the stands, his heart hung in his throat and he couldn't take his eyes off it, while giving hope to his brother-in-law Ospina.

Goalkeeper Ospina is content, although his height is not tall among goalkeepers, or even short, but his reaction speed, saving ability and quick movement are his characteristics, which make up for his lack of height.

Despite this, Ospina did not touch the soccer ball even though his body was flying to the end.

"Oh, oh, oh-"

Just as the Colombian fans let out a loud exclamation, they heard a crisp 'bang'!!

Suddenly, ecstatic!

Yang 5 commentator He Wei looked at the football that bounced back into the penalty area, holding his head with both hands, and felt extremely sorry: "It's a pity! Tang Zheng's long-range shot at the top of the arc of the big penalty area hit the left post of the goal! Otherwise, we would have equalized!!"

Centre-back Valdés reacted quickly and scrambled to push the ball off the line before Gao Lin could make a follow-up shot, clearing the ball before goalkeeper Ospina could get up.

Commentator Xu Yang spread his hands helplessly: "In this World Cup, Tang Zheng has been unlucky except for scoring in the first game against Ivory Coast, and the reason why the Chinese team will draw with Greece in the second round is that Tang Zheng is too unlucky, and the same is true for this game......! Now we've equalised!"

"Colombia escaped!"

This is a common line of many on-site commentators.

Andy Gray, the British Sky commentator, sighed: "Tang is really unlucky! If I am not mistaken, this is his third goalpost in this World Cup, which is really typical of bad luck! If his luck is a little better, I think the current Chinese team has already qualified early." ”

"yes, my old fellow. Commentator Martin Taylor shrugged his shoulders and said: "Maybe scoring the first goal of the World Cup for the Chinese team has exhausted his luck." But ......"

Speaking of this, Martin Taylor's voice changed: "But I believe in Don, he is a man who is good at miracles!

Looking at his incomparably persistent old partner, Andy Gray shook his head and smiled bitterly.

As an old partner, he even knows Martin Taylor's character better than Martin Taylor's wife.

Stubborn, nine cows can't pull it back!

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James Rodriguez had a very good view of his own goal, just in time to see Tang Zheng's long-range shot route.

When he saw his brother-in-law Ospina flying to the end without touching the football, his heart was hanging in his throat, but fortunately, the sound of the heavenly goalpost made him feel like a spring breeze and refreshed.

Although the overall strength of Colombia is stronger than that of the Chinese team, there is no guarantee that the Chinese team will not be upset!

Costa Rica, who are considered the 'belly team' in Group D of this World Cup, taught the world a good lesson, beating Uruguay and Italy in quick succession to qualify for the group early, and even won the group.

If Tang Zheng can use a long-range shot to equalize the score, with James Rodriguez's understanding of Tang Zheng, Tang Zheng will definitely be more confident, and the overall momentum of the Chinese team will definitely increase a lot by that time.

Then it is not completely impossible for the Chinese team to upset under the leadership of Tang Zheng!

Meanwhile, Colombia head coach Pekerman made a tactical gesture towards Guarín as Hao Junmin jogged to the left corner flag area.

Lippi, who was not far away in front of the home team's coach's box, watched it, but he didn't know the specific meaning of Pekerman's gesture, but he could roughly guess it, and the specific tactical content could only be revealed when the game went deeper.

Hao Junmin took a corner kick, Tang Zheng failed to exert power under the interference of Jackson Martinez and Valdés, and the football was easily held by goalkeeper Ospina.

Instead of rushing to counter-attack, Colombia waited for the players from both sides to run some distance before throwing the ball to central defender Barranta, who slowly passed it forward.

It didn't take long for Lippi to realise what Pekerman had made to make adjustments.

In fact, it is very simple, in order to avoid Tang Zheng's play, the range of Guarin's forward penetration is limited to a certain extent, and he has changed from the original central midfielder to the current defensive midfielder.

Guarin is not obvious in the current national team, but there is no need to say much about his important nature, and he can defend it well, otherwise he will not be selected by a giant team like Inter Milan.

But Guarin's ability is more reflected in the offensive end, and if he is made as a pure defensive midfielder, it is tantamount to saying that ordinary martial arts are wasted.

As a result, Colombia's frontcourt offense gradually became monotonous without Guarin's involvement, and the Chinese team's defense began to become lighter.

The pressure on the defense was greatly reduced, and the offense slowly began.

Lippi was confident in the home coaching area, believing that if the team continued like this, it was very likely that the equaliser would be equalised!

However, at this moment, the assistant Maddaloni brought very bad news!

Greece expands the score and leads Ivory Coast 2:0!

In other words, the goal difference of the Chinese team is now '0', and the Greek team has become '-1'.

The difference was one goal difference, but there were still a few minutes left in the second half and the first half.

The morale-boosting Greek team has a good chance of creating a miracle!

Just like the 2004 European Championship in Portugal!

Fortunately, the players on the field do not know the situation of the other stadium yet, otherwise it will be difficult to overcome the psychological quality of the current batch of Chinese Super League alienation.

But then again, several players of Guangzhou Evergrande, Lippi, are not worried, and he is most worried about left-back Jiang Zhipeng.

Jiang Zhipeng's ability is second to none in the Chinese Super League, but his psychological quality is somewhat immeasurable.

Not only this game, but the first two games against Ivory Coast and Greece were both nervous.

Li Xuepeng can play at the left-back position, but Ren Hang in the center-back position is really difficult to reassure.

Right-back Zhang Linpeng can certainly play central defender, but the result is an imbalance between attack and defense on the right side.

Considering many factors, Lippi finally chose Jiang Zhipeng to play left-back, Li Xuepeng partnered with Feng Xiaoting, and Zhang Linpeng served as right-back.

Guarin consciously paid attention to Tang Zheng's area of activity, and the attack was definitely not able to devote himself wholeheartedly, which is equivalent to saying that the central offensive organization completely fell on James Rodriguez.

The Chinese team has more defensive time than offensive time, and Tang Zheng is worried about defense, and his position has been relatively backward, so his contribution to the offense is limited.

Coupled with the fact that there was not much time left in the first half, players on both sides paid more attention to defense under the reminder of their respective coaches, so it became more difficult for the opposing team to penetrate the attack.

Until the end of the first half, the score did not change in any way, and Colombia ended the first half with a 1-0 lead over the Chinese team.

On the other side, Greece leads Ivory Coast 2-0.

It is equivalent to saying that at halftime, the total goal difference of the Greek team is only one less than that of the Chinese team.

With forty-five minutes left in the second half, anything is possible.

The prospect of the Chinese team qualifying has become extremely simple and vague.