Chapter 197: Hope in a Desperate Situation

As early as the 1981 World Cup qualifiers, Chinese football for the first time shouted the slogan of "rushing out of Asia and going to the world." At that time, the Chinese team was a veritable strong team! The team had a number of famous players such as Rong Zhixing, Zuo Shusheng, and Gu Guangming. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeใ€‚ infoIn the match between Kuala Lumpur and Saudi Arabia, the Chinese team fell behind 0:2, and Rong Zhixing, Zuo Shusheng, Chen Jingang and Huang Xiangdong scored four goals in a row to achieve a big reversal. Then the Chinese team won easily 2:0 in the second leg and almost got a ticket to Spain, but Saudi Arabia released water against New Zealand and blocked the Chinese team from the World Cup.

If this defeat is regarded as the opponent's "secret calculation", then the 1989 World Preliminary Tournament was completely the "self-inflicted" of the Chinese team! And in this qualifier, a special word closely related to the Chinese men's football team was born, which is the infamous "black three minutes"!

On October 17, 1989, the Chinese team faced the United Arab Emirates, the Chinese team's 1:0 lead lasted until the eighty-fifth minute, head coach Gao Fengwen replaced Dong Liqiang, but unfortunately, it was Dong Liqiang who made two fatal mistakes in a row in the last three minutes, and the UAE seized the opportunity to score two goals, and finally the Chinese team 1On October 28, the Chinese team played Qatar in the last group game, Marin scored a goal before the end, but then Qatar penetrated the door twice, and the Chinese team also regrettably lost again.

After losing the same 1:2 in two consecutive games, the Chinese team completely missed the World Cup. The media described it as "just one step away from Rome"! And the "black three minutes" became a lingering shadow for the Chinese team in the following ten years. After the defeat in the World Cup, head coach Gao Fengwen had gray hair overnight! It can be seen how much the blows of these two games have had a great impact on him.

Later, in the 1993 and 1997 World Preliminaries, the Chinese team suffered varying degrees of reversal, most of which were uncompromising. Until October 2001, the Chinese team entered the World Cup finals for the first time under the leadership of the magical coach Milu, but since then, Chinese football has slowly declined, since 2004 won the Asian Cup runner-up, in the next few years slumped, all kinds of big and small competitions were won by opponents. It wasn't until last year that the national football team ushered in Gao Hongbo's coaching, and the situation improved.

When many people are about to forget the "black three minutes" of the year, and when the Chinese team can qualify after a draw today, Chinese fans can't help but think of those unbearable memories of many years ago, which is heartbreaking!

There are still 45 minutes left in today's game, and in one and a half minutes, it will decide the life and death of the Chinese team.

However, God seemed to intend to oppose the Chinese team, and only seven minutes after the opening of the second half, the other stadium came to the report again, Qatar led Kuwait 2:0, and the Chinese team still 0:1 Uzbekistan.

Chinese fans are becoming more and more worried, fearing that the Chinese team will repeat the mistakes of the past.

Zhang Shujie did not work the court, he first ran 30 meters with the ball in the 59th minute, shook off three defenders in a row, but the last shot was saved by the goalkeeper. He rushed up and tried to shoot again, but the opposing defender took the first step to destroy the ball.

In the 61st minute, he also had a left-footed lob on the right side of the penalty area, the ball went past the goalkeeper and all the defenders, but hit the crossbar, bounced off the post and finally bounced into Nesterov's arms.

Six minutes later, Zhang Shujie passed a good ball to Deng Zhuoxiang, Deng Zhuoxiang was already facing the goalkeeper alone, but he suddenly fell down for some reason when he shot, and he didn't hit the power, and Nesteroff easily confiscated the ball.

and Li Mu also wasted an opportunity, Zhang Shujie received a long diagonal pass from Zhao Wenkang, and the header was a little bit to Li Mu. Li Mu **** stopped the ball and made a volley, in the face of this shot, Nesterov had already surrendered, but Andreyev, a defender guarding the goal line, instinctively stretched out his leg and kicked the ball out.

In just 15 minutes, the Chinese team missed four good chances. During this period, the camera focused on Gao Hongbo on the sidelines four times, and the coach also made the same action four times in the camera, all sighing and shaking his arms.

There are still 20 minutes left in the game, and the score is already 3:0 on the Qatari side, but the Chinese team has not yet scored. The situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for the Chinese team, as long as they hold on to the disadvantage of this goal, the national football team can enter the quarterfinals with one more goal, but this expectation seems to have become a luxury.

Another five minutes passed, and the Chinese team still did not score. The fans were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and some female fans folded their hands and closed their eyes to pray for the Chinese team.

So far in the second half, the two sides have each used two substitutions, and the Chinese team replaced Qu Bo and Li Guobin with Yu Dahai and Liu Jianqiang respectively, and the two counterparts were replaced. Uzbekistan replaced a midfielder and a defender with two defenders, and they were ready to defend.

In this game, the two newcomers of the national team, Xu Ziyi and Yan Tao, were corrected by Gao Hongbo because of their outstanding performance in the previous round, but at this moment, under this invisible pressure, they did not play 100% of the level, whether it was offensive or defensive, they were all decent, and there were no mistakes and no meritorious service.

This kind of flawless performance is embarrassing, especially for the two newcomers, neither advance nor retreat.

Uzbekistan is in possession of the ball, Jeparov's long shot from outside the penalty area was saved by Ma Junqiang, Heinrich made up the shot, but due to the problem of the field, the ball did not bounce up after bouncing on the ground, but somewhat biased to the right, Heinrich also kicked a little staggered, it was originally a non-threatening shot, but Heinrich kicked the ball to Du Peng's hand by mistake.

Handball in the box, that's a penalty!

The referee gave Du Peng a yellow card and pointed to the penalty spot, the Chinese team members had a lot of opinions, surrounded the referees, Du Peng said loudly: "I didn't mean it, this is an unintentional handball, they kicked the ball into my hands!"

But Jepalov pushed him away: "Your hand has been raised, it's a penalty!"

Du Peng couldn't understand his language, so he bypassed him and went to the referee to reason. Yan Tao said to the referee: "This can also award a penalty?

Zhang Shujie and Li Mu also returned to the backcourt and interceded one after another, China can't concede any more goals at this time, otherwise everything will be over.

The referee insisted on the original decision, and the yellow card given to Du Peng was to consider that he did not intend to handball, otherwise he would have given a red card. Du Peng was still reluctantly opening his mouth to the referee, the referee was a little angry, reached out and touched his pocket, Liu Jianqiang saw that this was wrong, and immediately pulled Du Peng away.

Du Peng just got a yellow card, if he angered the referee, the consequence would be directly sent off.

The team members argued for a while, but to no avail, they could only disperse in all directions. Yan Tao also scolded: "The referee of ****, damn!"

Ma Junqiang looked at Zhang Shujie and Li Mu and said, "You two, go to the front." โ€

The two nodded, and Zhang Shujie also said: "It's up to you, if we can hold on, we still have hope." After speaking, he walked with Li Mu to the vicinity of the middle circle.

Gao Hongbo looked at Ma Junqiang, and now he pinned all his hopes on the goalkeeper. Not only him, but also the fans in the stands, Chen Hui in the press gallery, and a group of Chinese reporters are counting on Ma Junqiang.

The penalty was taken by Jepalov, and Ma Junqiang stretched out his arms and was ready.

Liu Jianhong's voice became slightly hoarse: "Uzbekistan got a penalty, and Ma Junqiang is facing a severe test. Against Qatar, he didn't save Ahmed's penalty to see if he could pull off a miracle this time. โ€

Liu Jianhong used the word "miracle" to describe Uzbekistan's penalty opportunities, but it is conceivable that he did not have much hope in his heart.

Depalov heard the referee's whistle, he pushed the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal after a short run, Ma Junqiang was quick and flew out!

The ball slammed into the palm of his left hand, and at that moment, he clearly saw the ball bounce back into the box on the goal line!

"Ma Junqiang saved the ball! He left a ray of life for the Chinese team!"

Shatskich rushed up to make up for it, but Yan Tao was quicker than him, controlled the ball and leaned him behind him. Ma Junqiang hurriedly got up from the ground, and did not forget to shout: "Yan Tao, you must guard against him!"

Yan Tao didn't hear what Ma Junqiang was shouting, he used his strong body to squeeze Shatskikh away almost brutally. Shatskich fell to the ground and tried to ask the referee for a penalty, but in general, the referee is unlikely to give two penalties to a team in less than a minute.

Yan Tao ran out of the penalty area with the ball, Xu Ziyi was asking for the ball, Yan Tao gave the ball to him, behind him was Kapatze, Kapadze pressed him tightly and did not let him pass the ball calmly, it seems that Uzbekistan wants to suppress the Chinese team in the backfield.

Xu Ziyi, who was not very brilliant in the whole game, had a flash of inspiration at this moment, only to see him step on the ball with his right foot, suddenly turn around and pull, and at the same time change his left foot to step on it, and then pull the ball back to his side, without waiting for Capazer to react, he flicked the ball lightly, and Capazer was shaken behind him.

"Beautiful! Xu Ziyi's turning and pulling the ball is very exciting! Very mastery! Capazer didn't react at all!"

After Xu Ziyi successfully passed, there was no sticky ball, and Zhao Wenkang shouted: "Pass it over!"

Xu Ziyi passed Zhao Wenkang diagonally, and Kapaze still wanted to fight back, but the ball had already arrived at Zhao Wenkang.

The Chinese team as a whole has gradually moved forward, in order to prevent delays in the attack, Zhao Wenkang did not stop the ball, when the ball was still rolling on the lawn, he picked up his right leg and passed to the front court with a big foot.

He didn't pass it to Zhang Shujie, at this moment Zhang Shujie was stared at by the other party very closely, he passed the ball to the gap in the 30-meter area of the back field of Uzbekistan, where Li Mu had already run up and unloaded the ball steadily.

After winning the ball, Li Mu chose to rush forward with the ball by himself, and the Uzbek defender Murajalov, who had just come on the field, squeezed his dribbling space on the right side, Li Mu took the ball and accelerated forward, and Murajalov couldn't catch up with him.

Li Mu's short-range acceleration is not bragging, but after all, Murajalov has not been on the field for a long time, and he is full of physical strength, he is running with all his strength, and he is approaching Li Mu with the ball step by step.

Li Mu stepped into the penalty area, he was at the edge of the penalty area, and the shot was a little reluctant. He saw that Zhang Shujie had already flanked towards the middle, and when Murajalov did not fully catch up, he took a left-footed cross, and the ball rose off the ground in a parabola and fell again at the penalty spot.

Zhang Shujie, who was running at high speed, jumped up with the power of sprinting, jumped very high, and had a volley in the air. The two guards around him, Andreyev and Akhmedov, also jumped, but their starting height was significantly shorter than Zhang Shujie's, and in terms of bounce power, China's No. 9 won the game.

The ball fell, Zhang Shujie's head was deflected, and a powerful header attack was struck, Nesterov tried his best to save, but the ball had an arc in the air, and he could only be out of reach.

gooooooooal!Zhang Shujie!

The Chinese fans at the Khalifa Stadium were boiling! The Chinese fans in front of the television were boiling! Wang Shihan screamed excitedly and suddenly got up from the sofa, so that Zhao Huizhen almost spilled the water in the cup on the ground.

"Shihan, what are you doing, do you want to be so excited?"

"Mom!" Wang Shihan threw herself into her mother's arms. Her boyfriend and future husband scored such a crucial goal, and she was not excited, it was fake.

Zhang Shujie was also a little crazy, he wanted to celebrate the goal with the fans, but before he could run out of the penalty area, he was knocked to the ground by the oncoming Zhao Wenkang, and then the Chinese players pounced one by one, stacking Arhats.

Liu Jianhong changed his previous attitude, and his voice became extremely loud: "Zhang Shujie equalized the score with a wonderful header! Now the game time has reached the 77th minute, and the Chinese team is likely to enter the knockout round!"

After trembling in fear for so long, Gao Hongbo could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but it was only a sigh of relief. The game is not over yet, and there are at least 15 minutes left to include injury time.

Chen Hui looked at Shen Hao strangely, this thing was clenching his fists, and he shouted in his mouth: "yesโ€”โ€”" as if the ball was scored by him.

"Hey, Shen Hao, wake up, don't dream. Chen Hui reminded.

Shen Hao let go of his fist: "What are you doing?

Look at Wang Junsong and Zheng Dawei. It's good to have fun with this kind of thing. โ€

Shen Hao glanced at the two of them, and sure enough, the two of them were sitting upright on the chairs, their eyes fixed on the court.

Zhang Shujie was slowly walking back to the half court with his teammates with a smile, and from a distance, he saw Ma Junqiang kneeling on the ground, raising his head and raising his arms high.

Speaking of which this goal is also indispensable to Ma Junqiang's credit, from his saving a penalty to Zhang Shujie's goal, the Chinese team only passed through four feet in total.

On the other field, at the Al-Garafah Stadium, Qatar, which led Kuwait 3-0, also knew the score of the Chinese team, which was not good news for them.