Chapter 769: True Strength
The first half ended with South Korea leading 2-1. When the South Korean players walked down the pitch to the locker room, there were huge cheers from the fans on both sides, but when the Chinese players returned to the locker room, the South Korean fans were booed.
An Rong did not criticize the players in the locker room, he knew very well that the Chinese team had been controlling the pace of the game until Son Heung-min scored the penalty, and the key was after the penalty, and the huge boos from the South Korean fans caused a certain burden on the Chinese players. Don't underestimate these boos, when Real Madrid player Drenthe was booed by his own fans and did not dare to play at the Bernabeu, which once led to mental abnormalities; and Messi Ronaldo and other superstars, who were also forced to scold by the boos; and Maldini, in the last season of Milan, was booed by some fans in the South Stand, and also gave them a middle finger.
It can be seen how much impact the boos of the fans can have on the psychology and emotions of the players. People from all walks of life have likened the fans outside the stadium to the "twelfth man of the team", and there is a good reason.
What An Rong has to do is to unite the players again, which is not very difficult for the current Chinese team, after all, everyone is very familiar with each other, and the relationship between them is also very good, it depends on whether the head coach has the courage. In fact, although An Rong has never played in a professional league, these players are still very convinced of him, thinking that when he first coached the National Olympic team, many of these players had not yet become famous, and they were not even the main force in China, it was An Rong who excavated them, as for Zhang Shujie, Li Mu and others, who were already famous at that time, they had already known An Rong when they were students.
Therefore, no matter how big a name these players are, they are all convinced of An Rong! An Rong believes that the Chinese team can regroup in the second half, isn't it just a goal behind? Not to mention anything else, if they can guarantee that they will not concede a goal, then Zhang Shujie and Li Mu can score one goal each.
In the second half, the two sides exchanged venues and changed sides to fight again. The cheers of the South Korean fans have not stopped, and at the same time, the boos for the Chinese players have not stopped.
In the 54th minute, Zhang Shujie scored a goal, but it was ruled offside and the goal was invalid. However, just one hundred and twenty seconds later, the Chinese team relied on Xu Ziyi's long-range shot from 24 yards away to make the score 2:2!
Then the game gradually entered the time of the Chinese team, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, a pair of "big and small kings", constantly threatened the goal of the South Korean team, which shocked the Korean fans, but they never scored, and the two of them had four shots in four minutes, all of which were grazed by the goalpost. It's not a good set, and if there are too many of them, it proves that the player is likely to forget to wear shooting boots in this game.
In the 60th minute, there was another turn, Gu Zizhe volleyed at the top of the penalty area, the ball hit Xu Zhixin's leg with a broken line, causing Ma Junqiang to go from the right way to the wrong way, the ball flew into the door of the Chinese team, and South Korea exceeded the score for the second time.
Stillik was overjoyed, but An Rong shook his head again and again. He is not blaming Xu Zhixin, in fact, any player will play in that situation. This can only blame Xu Zhixin's bad luck and help Ma Junqiang a disservice.
With 30 minutes left in the game, the score was 3:2, and South Korea led at home. Perhaps they realized that it was not a smart thing to do to defend with all their might, because the Chinese team has a strong attack and the best thing to do is to score another goal. In the past, it was always said that the back direction of the Chinese team is not only the top in Asia, but also one of the best lines of defense in the world. Huang Yu and Tang Ling have participated in the Champions League final as the absolute main force in Juventus and Atletico Madrid respectively, although they have only won the runner-up; Yan Tao and Liang Xiran are also the main force of the two giants, such a defense line is difficult to find in the national teams around the world, but they do not seem to be in the best condition in this game. It also gave the South Koreans confidence that they could score more goals.
However, in the following games, the Koreans may not even dream of what will happen. The Chinese team seems to have been completely "beaten" by this ball, coupled with An Rong's on-the-spot scheduling and command, so that the Chinese team's defense line is not leaky, and the South Korean team cannot pass the ball to the Chinese team's penalty area in any other way except for passing the high-altitude ball.
The South Korean team attacked a little fiercely, the space in the backfield was a little large, Zhang Shujie after receiving Tang Ling's pass, burst into the penalty area with the ball, and after Kim Ki-hee and Zhang Hyun-so attracted their side, they knocked Li Mu horizontally, Li Mu faced half of the empty goal, calmly pushed and shot, and pulled the score to 3:3.
The score came to a draw for the third time, and the morale of the Chinese team gradually soared, but the South Korean team was a little flustered for some reason, they didn't seem to hear the cheers of the home team fans, and there were several mistakes on the pitch, and one of them was enough to kill.
Ji Chengyong's pass to Han Rong inexplicably passed to Chen Zihua's feet, Chen Zihua immediately split the side, Tang Ling got the ball to the bottom, and passed to the penalty area after breaking through Zhang Xianxiu, Zhang Shujie scored six meters in front of the goal, 4:3!
It was his fourth shot of the game, and after the first three deflected wide of goal, this time he finally sent the ball into the door of the South Korean team, and it was a goal that overtook the score.
The Korean fans were stunned, and Stillik was also a little blindsided, only An Rong sat calmly in the coach's seat. He looked at the time, there were still sixteen minutes, and he had a hunch that the Chinese team would still score.
The Chinese team will definitely want to score, but they will never allow the South Korean team to score again. They deliberately shrank the defensive line to lure the South Korean team out, and the South Korean team, who was eager to win at home, pressed on the team, which was quite a bit of a broken momentum, but if they couldn't attack and didn't have the ball in the front court, then the backfield would be dangerous.
Sun Xingmin's shot was saved by Ma Junqiang, Liang Xiran got the ball and handed it to Xu Ziyi, Xu Ziyi knocked it to Huang Yu, the Chinese team counterattacked, Huang Yu used his speed advantage to rush through the half court with the ball all the way, and passed to Xu Zhixin in front, Xu Zhixin passed Huang Yu in front of him, Huang Yu knocked the ball back into the penalty area near the bottom line, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu in front of him took away the entire defense of the South Korean team, Chen Zihua rubbed the ball into the goal with the outside of his right foot in the big penalty area, 5:3!
But is that the end of it? Apparently not. The Chinese team is playing more and more smoothly, the game has reached the seventy-eighth minute, An Rong also began to change, he first replaced Huang Yu with Yang Wei, and two minutes later replaced Tang Ling with Yuan Chengye. On the Korean side, Stillik also replaced Gu Zizhe with Hwang Chan-hee, and then replaced Lee Qinglong with Lee Jae-sung.
In the 86th minute, Yang Wei, who had not been on the field for a long time, assisted Xu Zhixin to score another goal, and the score became 6:3. Xu Zhixin's goal completely defeated the South Korean team, which did not have much fighting spirit, and An Rong's last substitution was also used on him, and Liu Jianwei replaced Xu Zhixin, who scored the last goal.
(End of chapter)