Chapter 128: A Call in a Surprise

In this round of major European leagues, the performance of several Chinese teenagers is very average. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Saint-Truiden lost 1:2 away to Standard Scorch, Ma Junqiang conceded two goals in 10 minutes, and Setúbal in the Portuguese Super League also failed to win, and was forced to draw 0:0 at home by relegation team Moreira, Zhao Wenkang was substituted in the 75th minute of the game, with two diagonal passes and no shots.

Yan Tao was even more sad, he had just been promoted to the first team, he was not even qualified to play, and sat on the bench for 90 minutes.

Gao Hongbo, the head coach of the Chinese team who knew the result, gloated: "I have long said that they are too young, and the performance of one or two games does not represent anything, look at their performance in the last round." ”

Gao Hongbo said the truth, and the media and fans who wanted to protect these teenagers also fell silent. Zhang Shujie and Li Mu are in Europe and don't know much about the situation in China, but they also learned some rumors from the Internet. Chen Hui went to the apartment alone to find them and told the two not to take these things to heart, and there was no shame in losing to Juventus.

Of course, the two of them didn't bother with this, and it wasn't that they hadn't encountered similar things before. Wang Shihan, who is far away in China, is always giving Zhang Shujie encouragement, and whether he wins or loses, this girl is his most loyal fan.

Always.

"You play in Italy and don't worry about domestic affairs, in fact, there is not much to do. The main thing is that Gao Hongbo is saying those useless words, don't be confused. ”

"I didn't bother, don't worry about me. ”

"Well, I'm always watching you. ”

"I won't let you down. ”

"I believe in you!"

The chat was brief, as two days later, Parma will face Livorno away on Sunday, and it is time for Parma, who have not tasted a win in five rounds, to win.

At 4 p.m. local time in Italy on Sunday, all 19 games of the 19th round of Serie A kicked off on time, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu both started the game, and in the 20th minute, Zhang Shujie received Palowski's header ferry, and a fish leap to the top was slightly higher. Five minutes later, Zhang Shujie made a comeback, Li Mu crossed diagonally from the left wing of the penalty area, Morrone headed a little, Zhang Shujie swept into the net three meters in front of the goal, and took a 1-0 lead for Parma with his sixth goal of the season.

But unfortunately, this round of CCTV5 broadcast AC Milan vs. Siena, and the Chinese audience did not see Zhang Shujie's goal for the first time. But when the subtitle "Livorno 0:1 Parma, 25′ Zhang Shujie" appeared in the lower left of the TV screen, many Chinese fans actually cheered.

This goal slapped Gao Hongbo hard.

The score in the first half has been fixed at 1:0, at the beginning of the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, in the 68th minute, Li Mu drove straight with the ball, after shaking four defenders of Livorno in a row, he was tripped in the penalty area, and Parma got a penalty. Captain Morrone personally took the penalty and hit it!2:0!

In the seventy-third minute, Zhang Shujie was replaced to rest, and it was Strassel who replaced him. In the 80th minute, Strassel broke the ball in the middle and passed to Li Mu, Li Mu was put by the opponent again when he controlled the ball, and Parma got a free kick 30 meters in front.

The ball was taken by Li Mu, who made an inward arc with his right foot, and Palowski flicked a header, and the ball changed direction and drilled into the goal from the top right corner.

3:0! This is also the final score of the game. Parma, who had not won five consecutive rounds, finally won.

The best player of the game was none other than Li Mu, although he did not score, he assisted once, planned an attack once, and also created a penalty, and the team's three goals were closely related to him. Li Mu, who is only nineteen years old in two months, is becoming more and more like the core.

At present, the Serie A league has been halfway through, and in the first 19 rounds, Zhang Shujie scored six goals and provided two assists, while Li Mu scored two goals and provided five assists. Most of the time they play the role of substitutes, and there are fewer opportunities to play as the main team, but they still handed over this report card in a limited time, and they can't ask too much for the two "first-year students" of Serie A.

The win lifted Parma up to 14th in the table, six points clear of the relegation zone, and they still have a tough task in the remaining half of the league.

On January 17, the last match of the Chinese team in the preliminary round of the Asian Cup ended, and the Chinese team defeated Vietnam 2-1 in Hanoi to qualify for the Asian Cup in Qatar next year.

Chinese fans were jubilant, no matter what the process was, the Chinese team finally qualified. No matter what the game of today's Chinese team, as long as it qualifies, it can make fans feel happy, which is actually a kind of sadness in Chinese football.

In the past, the Chinese team, which was second only to Japan, South Korea and Isa in Asia, has fallen to such a point.

The 20th round of Serie A also kicked off on the same day, with Parma hosting visiting Udinese. Udinese is a decent team in Italy, not very strong, but not a fish belly to be slaughtered. Especially with a goalscorer like Di Natale in the squad, Parma will have to be careful.

Di Natale was a late bloomer, and he only began to show himself at the age of twenty-seven. He has scored 15 league goals this season and is top of the scorers' charts, and Parma will have to keep their eyes on Di Natale if they want to win at home.

I thought it would be a tough race, but it was completely unexpected.

Zhang Shujie and Li Mu still appeared as the main force, and after the game started, Parma seized the opportunity and occupied the initiative on the field under the shouts of the fans. He had two shots in ten minutes, but unfortunately he was unlucky and couldn't score. Udinese, on the other hand, have yet to have a shot on goal.

In the fifteenth minute of the game, Zhang Shujie knocked on the middle of the penalty area after winning the ball, Li Mu successfully grabbed the point, and scored the third league goal of the season with his left foot in the middle of the small penalty area.

Li Mu and Zhang Shujie hugged and celebrated, and their teammates also stepped forward to congratulate. In two consecutive games, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu scored goals successively, and Chinese fans were a feast for their eyes.

Parma were the first to score, but Udinese were the better side, and in the last 20 minutes of the first half, under the leadership of Di Natale, Udinese launched several dangerous attacks and hit the post with two shots in the 30th and 39th minutes.

After two missed goals, Udinese had no threat to shoot in the first half, and in the second half, Udinese's attack was more violent, and in the 54th minute, Corradi tore apart Parma's defense with a clever pass, and Di Natale received the ball to form a single knife and easily scored the ball.

But before he could celebrate, the linesman raised the small flag in his hand, and the referee blew the whistle, indicating that it was an offside goal and the goal was invalidated. However, for this decision, the sharp-eyed goal felt that there was some controversy.

In fact, Di Natale only waved his left arm past the last defender, Panucci, at the moment of initiating the catch. Theoretically, this kind of ball can be judged offside, in other words, it is okay to judge this ball, and it is not wrong to judge it. When Milan striker Inzaghi was young, he scored a lot of goals with this kind of "confusing the referee" run, and he just seized the referee's hesitation for two or three seconds to constantly refresh his goal record.

To be fair, this is not an opportunistic approach. In fact, in world football, there are other strikers besides Inzaghi who have scored such goals. In football, the start of a striker is often only a split second, and it is sometimes difficult to determine the fleeting forward movement. The same is true for today's goal, even if the referee does not award offside, the Parma players may not be convinced.

Udinese's head coach Debicia was arguing with the referee that the goal was a misjudgment and that Di Natale was not offside at all. But the referee doesn't eat him, on the court, the referee is the one who decides right and wrong.

Debicia chattered endlessly, delaying the progress of the game, and the referee, annoyed, showed him a yellow card, and Debicia was honest. But his mouth was not idle, and he cursed quietly that the referee was blind.

The decision took a toll on Udinese's players, who did not have an effective attack for nearly ten minutes, but Parma counter-attacked. First of all, Zhang Shujie received a diagonal pass from Morrone and fired a volley in the big penalty area, which was a little high; a minute later, Paloski's header was saved by goalkeeper Handanovic; after four minutes, Li Mu and Mariga's two shots were blocked by the opposing defender, and after two minutes, it was Zhang Shujie who found an opportunity, but unfortunately, he seemed to have forgotten to wear shooting boots today.

It wasn't until the 70th minute that Udinese regrouped their attack. However, Di Natale seems to have encountered the same situation as Zhang Shujie, shooting very hard, but either missed, or played too right, or was blocked halfway by the defender. The league's top scorer also seems to have forgotten to put his shooting boot on his foot.

The two sides began to make frequent substitutions, and Guidolin replaced Zhang Shujie, Li Mu and Palowski in the 80th minute, and replaced three defenders, leaving 10 minutes to focus on defense. Udinese, on the other hand, made three substitutions and scored at least one goal in the few moments of time.

Today's game was not destined to belong to Udinese, let alone Di Natale, who did not score in the 84th minute in the face of an empty goal. Parma fans watched Di Natale hit the ball high, the ball flew into the sky, and then fell off the line, and it felt like a rollercoaster.

And the flight path of this ball is really a bit of a roller coaster.

The score of 1:0 remained until the end of the game, and Parma ushered in two consecutive wins. Guidolin and the players were in a good mood, and Li Mu once again dominated the game and became the hero of the team. Although Zhang Shujie had bad luck today and failed to score many shots, Li Mu's goal came from his cross.

In the last two games, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, two Chinese teenagers, have been involved in all four goals of Parma.

At the press conference after the game, Debicia was still very unconvinced after the loss, he thought that 1:0 was not a real score, at least it should be a draw! If it were not for the referee's "help", Parma would not have won the game at all! He spoke in a somewhat excited tone, and between his words, he pointed out that Parma is a veritable weak team, and it has long lived up to the courage of the "Seven Sisters of Serie A".

Guidolin was unhappy, he was very comfortable when he won the game, but Debicia's remarks made him unable to swallow this breath.

Taking a step back, even if Debicia is telling the truth, it should be tactful. Losing is a common thing, and no team is always undefeated. In the late '80s and early '90s, the Milanese dynasty swept across the continent and went unbeaten in 58 games.

Guidolin replied to Debysia: "Yes, we are indeed inferior to Udinese, but we are the winners in this game, and everyone knows the truth of winning and losing." As for the score, if Di Natale had scored with that empty goal, it would have been a draw!"

Guidolin did not discuss the issue of the referee amount too much, but simply said that "whether the ball is judged offside or not, the referee will inevitably be criticized".

The Udinese players and coach left the Tardini Stadium with a hint of frustration, while Parma's players could consider having a comfortable weekend, with two consecutive wins giving them back their confidence. Soon after Li Mu and Zhang Shujie returned to the apartment, they received a notice.

It was a call that surprised and delighted them.