Or Zhao Wenkang came to punish this corner kick, after the referee's whistle, Zhao Wenkang drove the ball to the penalty area, he passed the ball a little closer to the goal, Romero attacked, jumped up and took the ball off. The corner kick failed to form an effective attack, and the Chinese team began to retreat, Romero signaled his team-mate to hurry forward, and then he kicked the big foot.

The ball landed in the center circle and the players of both teams began to fight in the midfield. Unlike the previous goal kicks, this time the ball rolled back and forth at the feet of the players of both teams, but it did not stay for long, and neither China nor Argentina could control the ball for a long time.

Xu Yang smiled: "What is the situation now? Why did the two teams suddenly start to press in the midfield?"

He Wei said: "The main thing is that the Argentine team wants to block the Chinese team's possession of the ball in the midfield in a tight way, after all, several midfielders of the Chinese team have strong organizational ability and breakthrough ability, and Argentina does not want the Chinese team to get the ball smoothly." ”

Zhao Wenkang shoveled the ball off the touchline at Dybala's feet and Argentina threw the throw-in. Correa stood on the sidelines with the ball in his hands, he looked at the positions of his teammates on the field, they were not too good, everyone was accompanied by Chinese players, and finally he decided to hand the ball to Messi.

Messi unloaded the ball with his left foot, Zhao Wenkang forced from his side, after Messi pulled the ball and turned around, Zhao Wenkang also got closer to him, at this time Messi pushed the ball to the left with his left foot, Zhao Wenkang also moved over, but Messi immediately changed the direction of the dribble, buckled the ball with his left foot, and passed the ball from the other side of Zhao Wenkang.

Zhao Wenkang's body center of gravity has changed a little, and he admires Messi's passing frequency so quickly. However, this has a lot to do with Messi's size, if he is ten centimeters taller, he will not be so flexible.

In order to stop Messi, Zhao Wenkang instinctively stretched out his left leg, and when he realized that he couldn't stop it, he wanted to retract the leg, but unfortunately it was a little late, he kicked Messi's calf and kicked Messi to the ground.

"Beep!" the referee immediately blew the whistle, he walked up to Zhao Wenkang, and pulled out a yellow card from his pocket. This ball was indeed a foul by Zhao Wenkang, and the referee's decision was not a problem at all, and his teammates couldn't say something nice for him.

He Wei said: "Zhao Wenkang kicked down Messi. Messi is indeed very distinctive, and his passing method is really very different from Zhang Shujie, Li Mu, and Neymar. In fact, Messi is the worst to watch, he mainly relies on the rapid change of pace under his feet, and the defenders are not easy to defend. ”

Xu Yang also said: "Yes." A 181cm tall man like Zhao Wenkang is tall in front of Messi, and it is indeed not so easy to stop Messi's ball after he moves. ”

Zhao Wenkang's yellow card was also the first yellow card of the game. Now the Argentine team will take the free kick, this ball is on the right side of the Chinese team, about 40 meters away from the goal in a straight line, and it is still very far from the goal, and a direct shot will definitely not work. Although Argentina has a free-kick master like Messi, Mei Tianwang is not a player who can do miracles vigorously, and free-kicks that are too far away are not his forte.

This kind of free kick that is very biased towards the goal, the human wall does not need too many people, the Chinese team only arranged Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi to stand ten yards away, and Paredes stood diagonally in front of the ball, ready to take the free kick.

Almost all of Argentina's tall players have gone up to the Chinese team's penalty area, and the team's three central defenders must come up, players like Fazio, who is 1.95 meters tall, are four centimeters taller than Ma Junqiang, the tallest player in the Chinese team, and have a great advantage when competing for the header. Even Otamendi is 1.83 meters tall.

Zhang Shujie and Li Mu returned to the forbidden area. Although Zhang Shujie has absolute non-defensive power, his 185cm height and super bounce power still help the team a lot when taking set-pieces.

Messi stands at the top of the penalty area, it's not that he doesn't want to enter the penalty area, it's just that his height of less than 1.7 meters is really limited in this regard, so it is better to let him stay near the penalty area as the team's second point of attack.

After the referee blew the whistle, Paredes drove the ball to the penalty area, Zhang Shujie used his super bounce to fight for the first point, but he couldn't push the ball too far, the ball was rubbed behind by him, and fell to the outside of the penalty area, Correa stepped forward to receive the ball, and Huang Yu went up to defend.

Correa thought about Huang Yu, but Huang Yu was not fooled by two consecutive feints, so he knocked the ball to Mascherano, who looked in the penalty area and found that Fazio had not yet withdrawn, so he crossed directly with his feet at 45 degrees and passed to the top of Fazio's head.

The ball fell from above Tang Ling to behind him, in the gap between him and Yan Tao, Fazio jumped high to head the goal, but the angle was not good, and it hit Ma Junqiang's heart. Even so, Chinese fans were still taken aback, if the ball was a little more off, everything would be difficult to say.

This is a defensive leak in the back line of the Chinese team, Ma Junqiang told his teammates, pointed to Fazio, and said: "Don't miss people, he is so tall, if the header is out of the angle, it will be troublesome." ”

An Rong also saw it clearly from the sidelines, but he didn't say anything. Seeing Ma Junqiang's body movements and facial expressions, he could guess that the captain must be telling his teammates to stop being sloppy in defense.

Ma Junqiang waited for everyone to retreat before driving the ball out, and Icardi headed it off in the center circle. Twenty-five minutes into the first half, both teams had a lot of shots on goal, almost one shot for every attack, but Icardi was very few on target. As Argentina's arrowhead, he was not seen for the rest of the game except for the header at the beginning of the game, which made people wonder if he was still on the pitch.

However, that doesn't mean Icardi didn't play well, that's his style of play. Icardi, nicknamed "The Tin Man", never asks his teammates for the ball far from the penalty area, but once he arrives in the box, even if the player is Messi, he will boldly wave Messi for the ball. He may only make a single digit number of passes in a game, but he can score two goals, and the point is that he can only be seen when he needs to shoot in the box, and he is usually not seen. It's like this time, after he gave the ball to Messi, he disappeared again.

Messi controlled the ball, he passed the ball to Dybala, ran diagonally to the front, Dybala made the ball back to him, and inadvertently, Messi came to the weakest right side of the Chinese team.

(End of chapter)