Fast forward to the 80th minute, and as is customary in football, it's time for the leading side to go on defensively. After Loew scored the second goal of the Chinese team, he also saw the real attacking power of the Chinese team, so he no longer regarded defense as a top priority, but tried his best to maintain a balance between attack and defense. But now, Loew thinks this is the time when he can focus on defense, so he decided to use the last substitution. But not now, wait until the next dead ball, because that's when Germany is attacking.

Kimmich threw a throw-in, he threw it at Kroos, but before Kroos could receive the ball, Xu Zhixin stepped forward to stop the ball on his chest, broke the ball, he passed to Huang Yu, but Muller snatched the ball back from behind Huang Yu. The Germans still held the ball.

Muller called the ball to Kroos, Kroos shifted to it, but Chen Zihua's pressing made him unable to pass an accurate long pass smoothly, so he chose to hand the ball to Werner in front, Werner leaned on Yan Tao, Yan Tao also pressed him, and neither of them let anyone. Werner couldn't break through Yan Tao's defense, so he gave the ball to Gomez, and Zhao Wenkang temporarily put up the position of Liang Xiran to mark Gomez. Gomez gave the ball to Reuss on the right, Xu Ziyi leaned over, and Reuss passed the ball to Gundogan.

No matter how the Chinese team arranges the defense, there is one less person in the midfield after all, and after Gundogan won the ball, he looked at the position of his teammates. It was from his point of view that Li Mu, who had not returned to the defense in front of him, came back this time.

An Rong let Li Mu and Zhang Shujie not have to participate in the defense in the second half, which was out of offensive considerations, and An Rong needed the two top scorers to form a suppression of the German backfield every minute and second. But no one can predict the situation on the field, it is changing at any time, and sometimes players also need to make some self-adjustments, just like Li Mu now.

Li Mu appeared behind Gundogan, he stretched out his leg when Gundogan pulled the ball, just poked the ball away, and then he ran two more steps to snatch the ball back. Gundogan was also quick to react and immediately rushed forward to fight for this half goal. As a result, the two inevitably bumped into each other, and neither got the ball.

Boateng didn't know when he rushed over, probably because he saw Li Mu coming up, so he also came over. The ball rolled right in front of him, he glanced at the goal, picked up his leg twenty-four meters from the goal and fired a long-range shot that was too high and flew off the crossbar.

Loew started to make substitutions, he replaced Timo Werner and brought on Mustafi. He Wei said: "The German team used up the last substitution, the defender replaced the striker, and Loew finally decided to defend in an all-round way. The Chinese team currently has two places left, and An Rong has not yet been activated. It seems that he doesn't seem to have any ideas to use, and of course, judging from the performance of these ten players on the field of the Chinese team, it is indeed not easy to decide who to replace. ”

Xu Yang said: "The time may only be ten minutes after the injury time, the Chinese team is still 2:3 behind, there is really little time, we must seize the time to attack." ”

After Mustafi came on the field, the referee signaled for Ma Junqiang to kick the goal kick, this time Ma Junqiang did not kick forward, but passed to Yan Tao, Yan Tao and then to Huang Yu, and the overall formation of the Chinese team slowly moved forward.

The German team wanted to stop the Chinese team's attack in the midfield, but whether it was Kroos or Gundogan, although they had comprehensive skills, they were not defense-oriented midfielders, and the two faced top attacking midfielders like Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi, which were not so easy to stop.

"Twins" made a small range of two-over-one in the middle, first passed Gundogan, Kroos forced Chen Zihua with the ball, Chen Zihua gave the ball to Xu Zhixin, and then Xu Zhixin passed Li Mu again, Li Mu gently did a back, and the ball was returned to Chen Zihua, and Chen Zihua had come to the German team's backfield forty meters area.

"The midfield coordination of the Chinese team is really smooth, it is not ruled out that this is related to the defensive strength of the German team's midfield, Gundogan, Kroos These players are not without defensive ability, but the area covered when defending is not very large, and the scramble is not very positive. Saying this, some Kroos and Gundogan fans may not be very happy in their hearts, in fact, to make a comparison, Casemiro. Just look at Kroos and Casemiro at Real Madrid, the defensive strength of the two is really completely different. ”

However, after the Chinese team arrived at this place, there was also a problem, that is, it was difficult to take a step forward. Now the German team is almost the whole team shrinking into defense, forming an iron bucket formation, and the Chinese team can only fall on the periphery.

It seems inconceivable that the Chinese team can hold the German team in the second half without one man. Although this is also related to the German team's initiative to shrink, it must be admitted that the offensive momentum of the Chinese team is indeed stronger than that of Germany, after all, the Chinese team was sent off by a defender, the midfield remained intact, and the offensive firepower was not affected.

Li Mu returned to the forward position, Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi also pressed up, Zhao Wenkang and Xu Zhixin were at both ends of the penalty area, Huang Yu and Tang Ling were about to become wingers, and only one Yan Tao was left behind. If he hadn't been a centre-back now, he would have gone up.

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Xu Zhixin hit a long shot from outside the penalty area, which was blocked by Kroos with his body, and then Mustafi kicked the ball forward, at this time Gomez had already retreated deeply, resulting in no one in front, Yan Tao stopped the ball and handed it to Tang Ling.

Tang Ling gave the ball to Zhao Wenkang again, and Zhao Wenkang glanced at the penalty area and hoisted the ball backwards. Although his over-the-top passing skills are superb, no one can guarantee that every cross will fall to the heads of his teammates, not even David Beckham, and the German team is full of people in the penalty area and the defense is very tight.

Hummels pushed out his pass, Tang Ling took the ball, and tried another cross, this time Neuer knocked the ball out, not too far, Xu Ziyi caught the ball at the top of the arc of the penalty area, and passed it to Zhang Shujie, Zhang Shujie now don't show his foot skills at will, the safest and most secure way at present, or to give the ball to his teammates is the best.

Zhao Wenkang also made a long shot in the penalty area, Muller blocked the ball, Chen Zihua followed up with another kick, this kick finally penetrated the crowd, but because he played too right, he was saved by Neuer, the ball fell in the penalty area, Zhang Shujie went to grab a point to make up for the shot, and was kicked out of the penalty area by Boateng first.

Time passed minute by minute, and the time had reached the eighty-fifth minute, and the Chinese team was still gathered outside the German team's iron bucket formation, looking for opportunities to score.

(End of chapter)