Chapter 077: The women's football team lost, and Tang Zheng proposed

The 5,500-seat stadium was packed for the 2015 Women's World Cup final in Canada at the B.C. Stadium in downtown Vancouver, and it was surprising that there were far more Chinese fans in red shirts than American fans in white shirts.

Of course, what is even more surprising is that the Chinese women's football team can pass five hurdles and six to advance to the finals without being favored.

If you put it 16 years ago, the Chinese women's football team had the strength to compete for the absolute world championship, but 16 years later, it does not have that absolute strength.

However, this does not affect the support of Chinese fans for the Chinese women's football team, otherwise there would not be so many fans who traveled thousands of miles from China to Vancouver, Canada.

"CCTV, CCTV, the match that is now being broadcast for you is the live broadcast of the 7th FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada in 2015, the match between the Chinese women's football team wearing the red jersey and red pants and the United States women's football team wearing the white jersey and white ......"

The game has begun, and CCTV 5 commentator He Wei instinctively said CCTV's opening remarks.

As soon as the words fell, He Wei turned suddenly: "The game has begun, and now I ask Tang Zhengtang to analyze the possible trend of the next game for us." ”

Tang Zheng gave a roll of his eyes, obviously a little uncomfortable with the title of 'Tang Guide', but after thinking about it, hasn't it always been shouted like this in China?

So he smiled: "Maybe my next statement is not very good, but it is definitely from the bottom of my heart, this is a game with clear strengths and weaknesses, the current Chinese women's football team has not yet had the strength to challenge the world's top teams, but the outcome of the game is not divided according to the overall strength, our women's football girls also have the hope of defeating the American women's football team to the end, beating the England women's football team and the Japanese women's football team in the past, isn't it like this?"

The U.S. women's football team controls the pace of the game with the advantage of overall strength, and it is difficult for the Chinese women's football team to organize an effective attack under high pressure.

The powerful U.S. women's soccer team puts too much pressure on the players!

But as the captain, Zhao Lina played well, she made a high pounce to resist and try to keep the goal intact.

"Li Yue, look at Morgan!"

"Wang Yan, Wang Yan! The pursuit must be in place!"

"Concentrate on the game!

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Under tremendous pressure, Zhao Lina would shout at her teammates every time she made a successful save, reminding her teammates what to do and how to do it while releasing the pressure.

Tang Zheng, who was sitting in the on-site comment seat, looked at his girlfriend Zhao Lina, who was getting better, a little distressed, but thinking that this was his girlfriend Zhao Lina's dream, he continued He Wei's words: "The situation is very unfavorable to the women's football girls, but the score is still 0:0 after 20 minutes of the game, it is not difficult to see that they are very tenacious, I believe that this situation can continue until the end of the first half, the American women's football team will definitely be very anxious, at that time, as long as you grasp the opportunity to counterattack, the championship is not impossible!"

In the blink of an eye, half an hour after the game, the broadcaster gave the ball possession ratio of both sides.

The U.S. women's soccer team leads the Chinese women's football team with 75% absolute possession.

The number of shots on goal is an exaggerated 12:0, which means that in just half an hour, the US women's football team bombarded twelve shots on goal, while the Chinese women's football team has not yet shot.

In terms of shots, the U.S. women's football team also hit five times, but they were all rejected by Zhao Lina, and two of them must be saved.

So much so that the American ESPN commentator exaggeratedly said: "Oh-My-God! Is Zhao going to be a god in one battle? Single-handedly keep out all the shots of our national team that hit the goal! Is it ...... Will the Chinese women's football team really cause an upset?"

It wasn't until he looked at the comparison of the number of shots on the broadcast screen that he breathed a sigh of relief.

He Wei, the commentator of Central 5, and Tang Zheng, who was the guest commentator, sat in the on-site commentary seat and looked very nervous, for fear that the American women's football team, which had an absolute advantage, would suddenly score a goal in a certain period of time.

As we all know, the defense must be mixed with counter-attacks, otherwise the pressure on the female football players will become more and more intense.

Once there is a quantitative change to a qualitative change, it is a sure thing for the U.S. women's soccer team to score.

After all, the ability of most women to resist pressure cannot be compared with that of men, so it is inevitable that they will not collapse at a certain moment in a high-intensity competition.

"Whoa—"

The Chinese fans at BC Stadium were optimistic, and they launched wave after wave of loud cheers under the leadership of the 'Dragons Fan Club'.

He Wei and Tang Zheng, who were nervous in the frenzied atmosphere of the scene, gradually relaxed, and He Wei, as the main commentator, looked up at the game time displayed in the upper right corner of the broadcast screen, and said in a deep voice: "There is still one minute to enter the injury time of the first half, and the score is still 0:0, which is a very good ...... for us."

However, as soon as the words fell, Lloyd, the captain of the U.S. women's football team, made a gesture at the front of the penalty area to pass the ball to Morgan, who was inserted behind, but suddenly picked up his right foot and suddenly shot a cold arrow!

The football rolled to the lower left corner of the goal against the ground, and goalkeeper Zhao Lina's vision was disturbed by her teammates, and it was too late for her to make a save when she saw the football, after all, women's physical fitness could not be compared with men, and Lloyd's shooting angle was quite tricky, and the football grazed the inside edge of the left goal post and rolled into the net......

Yang 5 commentator He Wei's voice was sluggish, but his reaction was fast, and he sighed: "This is really not good news, the goal conceded at the end of the first half of the game is a huge blow to the women's football girl who has worked hard for almost the entire first half!"

In fact, there is no need for He Wei to explain, the Chinese fans sitting in front of the TV can also see the depression of the budding women's football girl.

Conceding the goal is an expected result for Tang Zheng, and it is about to enter the end of the first half, except for the lack of a shot on goal for the Chinese women's football team, the biggest problem is that there is no way to bring a threat to the back line of the American women's football team on the offensive end.

Coupled with a long period of passive defense, if it weren't for Zhao Lina's amazing performance, the women's football team would have lost the goal a long time ago......

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B.C. Stadium resounded with a tsunami of American fans, wave after wave.

After more than 40 minutes of attacking, he finally scored!

The third world championship in team history is just around the corner!

The momentum created by the Chinese fans in the situation of the women's football team was minimized, except for a few die-hard "Dragon Team Fan Club" fans who were still shouting loudly, and most chose to remain silent.

People are lucky, and when the Chinese women's football team advances to the World Cup final, there is a certain chance of winning the championship, but when the powerful American women's football team takes the lead, everything becomes real......

The strength of each other is very different, and the subjective consciousness has no way to change the objective facts.

Although the Chinese women's football team had the advantage of kicking off in the restarted game, it soon came to the feet of the American women's football players, so it had to enter the stage of switching from offense to defense.

Hao Wei, the head coach of the Chinese women's football team standing in the command area of the visiting team's coach, pinched his chin with his right hand and frowned, obviously not knowing how to solve the dilemma encountered by the Chinese women's football team.

Or rather, from the beginning of the game until now, he has not thought of a suitable solution.

In fact, in the final analysis, the overall strength is still poor, and the players also lack experience in international competitions, and they don't know what to do when they are 'lucky' to advance to the finals, which means that the problems of the Chinese women's football team are multifaceted.

Besides, Hao Wei is not an internationally renowned coach, and his ability to arrange troops and adapt on the spot needs to be strengthened.

Fortunately, the score did not change until the end of the first half, and the U.S. women's football team led the Chinese women's football team 1:0 into their respective locker rooms.

The fifteen-minute half-time break passed quickly, and players from both sides returned to the pitch one after another to prepare for the remaining 45 minutes.

"Beep~"

With the whistle of the referee on duty, the second half officially began.

The U.S. women's football team, which had the advantage of kick-off, did not have any foreshadowing, and directly launched a wave of attacks, and captain Lloyd once again picked up his right foot directly from outside the penalty area to complete a powerful long-range shot.

Zhao Lina, who had already prepared, kicked the ball into the air and slapped the ball off the crossbar with her right palm.

"Oh, oh, oh-"

At the same time, a burst of exclamations from Chinese fans rang out over the stadium.

The quality of the long-range shot by Lloyd, the captain of the U.S. women's football team, is very high, and the football flies to the goal from the gap in the human slit, and the Chinese fans are afraid that Lloyd's shot will break Zhao Lina's ten fingers again, and then expand the score......

Zhao Lina's excellent performance did not hit the American women's football players who were bound to win, but aroused their desire to expand the score!

In the 54th minute, the ninth minute of the second half, it was the captain of the United States, Lloyd, who received a corner kick from Rapinoe and completed a cushion shot in front of the goal, and the ball bounced into the net from the armpit of Zhao Lina, who fell to the ground.

2:0

With two goals behind, there is no way out for the Chinese women's football team, and no matter how they defend, there is no way to score!

Hao Wei, the head coach of the Chinese women's football team, has made continuous adjustments to strengthen the attack.

However, there was no goal in front of them, and the defense was the first to concede the goal.

In the 63rd minute, Heath crossed from the right, and Li Yue, a central defender known as the women's football team's 'Gao Yuanyuan', made a mistake in clearing the siege, and Hollydai scored with a right-footed volley without adjusting 7 meters, helping the U.S. women's football team expand the score to three goals.

The commentator of ESPN TV in the United States was in high spirits and shouted: "There is no doubt about it! There is no suspense in the game! We are the champions!"

Yang 5 commentator He Wei sighed, Tang Zheng shook his head and said, "Although I don't want to admit it, this is the gap." ”

Immediately, he added: "But it's not a bad thing for the Chinese women's football team, most of the players in the team are very young, and there is still a long way to go in the future, this game is a valuable asset, and it will be their real stage in four years!"

The Chinese women's football team fell behind by three goals, and head coach Hao Wei really realized that there was no hope of equalizing.

Therefore, in the remaining game time, the Chinese women's football team only had to save face, so in the next game, they actively participated in the attack while based on defense.

Perhaps the U.S. women's football team thinks that the overall situation has been decided, and the attitude towards Chinese women's football players is a little lazy, Wang Yan, who is only 20 years old this year, took the ball on the right side of the attack and fought a bloody way, and then entered the penalty area to score a low shot, saving face while ending the U.S. women's football team's record of not conceding a goal in 539 minutes in this World Cup.

3:1

And this goal was also the last goal of the game, and in the end, the Chinese women's football team lost 1:3 to the United States women's football team and became the runner-up.

The result has long been known to many media and fans, so it is not surprising, but it is difficult for the Chinese women's football team to accept the hard work of the Chinese women's football team, even if they have already thought about the result.

After all, it's just one step away from the championship.

The broadcast footage was given first to the winning American women's football players, and then to the Chinese women's football players.

In the blink of an eye, the broadcast picture was given to the goalkeeper Zhao Lina, who performed quite well in this game, and at this time, she had already cried into tears.

"For this women's football team, there is no failure in being young, as Director Tang Zheng Tang said, four years later will be their real stage, Director Tang, you ......"

He Wei, the central 5 commentator, handed over the right to speak to Tang Zheng, and then turned his head to look, but the seat next to him was empty, and then looked at Zhao Lina, who was hiding her face with her hands on the broadcast screen, He Wei seemed to have guessed something.

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Tang Zheng entered the stands from the passage with the work nameplate temporarily made by Yang 5, and then walked smoothly into the stadium, jogged to his girlfriend Zhao Lina, who was sitting in front of the goal and had been crying, and stretched out his right hand.

"It's not good to cry anymore. ”

When Zhao Lina heard the familiar voice, she was stunned for a moment, then stood up along Tang Zheng's outstretched right hand, stood on tiptoe, naturally wrapped her hands around Tang Zheng's neck, and cried even louder.

Tang Zheng didn't say anything more, but kept touching Zhao Lina's hair with his hand.

The on-site director's capture of the wonderful shots came to the point of perfection, and he soon found Tang Zheng who had entered the court.

As a result, the fans sitting in front of the TV can see an enviable couple in world football hugging each other, and Zhao Lina, who has been fighting for the Chinese women's football team for 90 minutes, has her whole head buried in Tang Zheng's arms, and Tang Zheng is doing what a qualified boyfriend should do.

After about half a minute, Zhao Lina's crying gradually became smaller, until she made sporadic sobbing, looked at Tang Zheng, pouted and said: "Brother Tang Zheng, I didn't keep the goal, I lived up to your expectations, woo~ I can't get your surprise!"

"I see your game, if it weren't for your amazing performance, I would definitely lose more if I were someone else, so... You're still the best!" Speaking of this, Tang Zheng put his hands on Zhao Lina's shoulders: "As for the surprise, whether you win or not, it's all yours." ”

Hearing what Tang Zheng said, Zhao Lina automatically ignored the first half of the sentence, changed her voice in a low tone, and hurriedly asked, "Really?"

"Pearls aren't so real!"

"What's that? If you don't satisfy me, I'll cry!" Zhao Lina said mischievously with a hint of crying.

Tang Zheng smiled and took two steps back, his left hand naturally touched his trouser pocket, and then under the close-up of the live director, his left foot stood still, his right foot took half a step back, and his center of gravity sank along his right knee until it was attached to the turf, and at the same time his right hand opened the delicate box taken out by his left hand......

He Wei, the central 5 commentator who was still commentating, looked at Tang Zheng who was kneeling on one knee, and subconsciously said, "This ...... Tang Zheng, are you proposing?"