Chapter 331: The First Battle
Players from both sides stood in two rows on the pitch, which was playing the Uruguayan national anthem on the pitch, followed by the Chinese Olympic team. Chen Hui, the pen and fun www.biquge.info Chen Hui, held a telescope in the press gallery and looked at the expressions on the faces of the team members, and in the solemnity and seriousness, many team members also revealed a trace of nervousness.
After putting down the binoculars, Chen Hui sighed to Shen Hao: "These children are still too young. I just looked at it and a lot of the players are a little nervous, especially those who play in China. ”
Shen Hao smiled, and before he could speak, Wang Junsong on the side said: "It is inevitable that this Olympics is a big competition for them, and they have no experience before." ”
"Let's hope nothing goes wrong. ”
In the chatting of the full-time reporters of these returnees, the "March of the Volunteers" has also been played, and the players took a group photo, shook hands, and then dispersed and walked to their respective positions.
An Rong sat in the coach's seat, and Song Weifeng glanced at him beside him, trying to see something on his face, but he didn't see anything. Song Weifeng sighed secretly: An Zhi really never shows his joy, anger and sorrow on his face.
On the wide green field, Zhang Shujie stood outside the center circle and looked at the two Uruguayan players at the center line, who were Suarez and Cavani.
Suarez became famous in the World Cup in South Africa, and then transferred to Liverpool, Suarez experienced a transition period in the "Red Army" last season, although he failed to show 100% form, but his strength is outstanding, and the Chinese Olympic team must not underestimate him.
Needless to say, Cavani and Zhang Shujie have long been "old acquaintances". In the just-concluded Serie A, Cavani scored 23 goals, only one less than Zhang Shujie. His power is definitely no worse than Suarez, and even in form, he is a little better than Suarez.
But either way, these two people are not generals. This game will be an extreme test of the Chinese team's defense.
The referee was looking at his watch, and Huang Yu took the opportunity to get closer to Liang Xiran and asked, "Xiao Ran, what are you feeling now?"
Liang Xiran didn't understand what it meant, and was about to ask, but Huang Yu went on by himself: "Seriously, I'm a little nervous." ”
Liang Xiran frowned slightly, and before he could speak, he heard the referee blow the whistle.
The competition is officially on!
The formation of the Chinese Olympic team is 433, the goalkeeper is not much to say, it must be Ma Junqiang, the four defenders from left to right are Huang Yu, Liang Xiran, Yan Tao, Tang Ling, the three midfielders are Zhao Wenkang, Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi, and the three forwards are Zhang Shujie, Li Mu and Liu Jianwei.
An Rong asked Zhao Wenkang to play in the back, and now Zhao Wenkang is very comfortable with this position, it is not a problem at all, the "twins" are in the middle of the guard, Xu Ziyi is on the left, and Chen Zihua is on the right. Liu Jianwei is a sudden forward, that is, the most orthodox center, Li Mu and Zhang Shujie are separated from each other, slightly further back than Liu Jianwei, which is equivalent to the second striker.
There are relatively few people in the midfielder of this formation, so when necessary, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu also have to retreat to assist in defense. In the three years of Serie A, they have long since broken the bad habit of never returning to defense, and in the tactical concept of modern football, strikers also need certain defensive skills.
Uruguay adopts a 4312 formation, and among the starting eleven, only three members of the Chinese team know each other: Suarez, Cavani and Ramirez, and the rest are unknown, and occasionally some players have heard of the name, but they are not very familiar. Uruguay is the same for Chinese players, only knowing Zhang Shujie, Li Mu and Ma Junqiang, and only one or two other players have heard of it, and they don't know much.
Leandro Gelpi is Uruguay's starting goalkeeper, Ramón Arias is left-back, Matías Aguirregaray is right-back, Sebastián Coates and Diego Porenta are central defenders, midfielder Arévalo Ríos is at the back, Nicolás Lodeiro and Emiliano Arbin are left and right wing-backs respectively, Ramires is up front, and Cavani and Suarez are the team's two sharp knives.
After the start of the game, Uruguay did not press the Chinese team with its overall strength as people imagined, but patiently controlled the ball, perhaps because it was from South America and admired the technique of the feet. Several members of the Chinese Olympic team couldn't let go, I don't know if it was due to the atmosphere, or if they were really too nervous.
The first 10 minutes were all in order, with Uruguay having more time on the ball and the Chinese Olympic team conceding twice, but fortunately Uruguay did not get a chance to shoot on goal.
As the game progressed, the players in the national Olympic team who were still a little nervous gradually entered the state, from nervous to excited, more active, and more daring. In the fourteenth minute, he almost formed a shot, if Liu Jianwei hadn't run slower, maybe the short-range single knife passed to him by Chen Zihua would have scored.
The first to get a good chance was the Chinese Olympic team, which surprised Uruguayan coach Verzeri. However, after all, Uruguay is a frequent visitor to the Olympic Games, and it is not comparable to the stunned youth of the Chinese Olympic team. Even though China has a group of foreign players like Zhang Shujie, they are still not as experienced as Uruguay in international competitions, such as Cavani and Suarez, who have participated in the World Cup, and Coates also participated in last year's Copa America. Zhang Shujie and others have only participated in the Asian Cup, and in terms of influence, the Asian Cup is far inferior to the World Cup and the Copa America.
Therefore, after seeing that the Chinese team got the opportunity first, Uruguay finally couldn't stabilize anymore and attacked the backfield of the Chinese team.
Zhao Wenkang stared at Ramirez, Ramirez passed Lodeiro diagonally, and then bypassed Zhao Wenkang, Lodeiro passed the ball back. Ramirez squeezed Zhao Wenkang, who was grabbing back, with his body, and rubbed the ball past Suarez, Liang Xiran looked at it and immediately pasted it on Suarez.
Liang Xiran is at an obvious disadvantage in terms of strength and fame of the two people who attack and defend, and he is also very careful to defend the strong Uruguayan striker, not daring to be careless.
Suarez showed his superb foot skills at this moment, he gently knocked to the left, and quickly knocked the ball back, he has just stepped into the big penalty area, his two seemingly simple but full of spiritual movements, in front of Liang Xiran pulled a gap.
He was ready to shoot.
Ma Junqiang watched the ball at his feet with full attention, and the No. 1 goalkeeper of the Olympic team guessed that Suarez should hit the goal himself, and no matter where he looked, Suarez had no reason not to shoot.
Sure enough, as Ma Junqiang expected, Suarez volleyed with his left foot, hitting the goal directly, the power was very great, Ma Junqiang dared to slack off, flew and saved, and saved the ball from the bottom line.
Liang Xiran looked back at the ball that flew out of bounds, and then at Ma Junqiang, and then breathed a sigh of relief. He was a little puzzled by the moment when Suarez shook him away just now, he didn't see how complicated Suarez's passing actions were, if you only look at the movements, there is not much difference from ordinary ordinary players, but it is such an ordinary two shakes, which made Liang Xiran leak out of the gap, making Suarez successfully hit the goal.
Is this the gap between the stars and the players? Liang Xiran suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was very heavy!
Uruguay sent a corner kick, Ramirez took the penalty, Yan Tao and Liang Xiran were optimistic about Cavani and Suarez respectively, Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi stood at the front and rear posts, and the other players also stared at one by one, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu both returned to the front of the penalty area, and there was only one Liu Jianwei in front of him, responsible for attracting firepower.
The corner kick was taken, Ma Junqiang looked at the ball flying towards the penalty area, and roughly judged that the landing point of the ball should be in the small penalty area, he rushed out of the crowd, jumped up, stretched out his arms, and wanted to take the ball off. At that moment, he felt that he had been hit by someone, and this collision also made him unable to grasp the ball steadily, and the ball slipped out of his hand and landed on the turf.
"Damn!" Ma Junqiang scolded and fell from mid-air. He found out that the person who hit him was Cavani, and a thought flashed through his mind: Is this a goalkeeper collision?
He didn't hear the referee's whistle, which means the referee thinks it's a reasonable collision. The ball landed in front of goal, and Ma Junqiang was knocked to the ground by Cavani, and he could only hope that his teammates would grab the ball.
Unluckily, Suarez grabbed the ball first, and he stabbed the ball at the goal from four yards in front of the goal, so frightened that Ma Junqiang exclaimed: "Oh no!" Don't say it's him, even Liu Jianhong couldn't help shouting: "Danger, Chinese Olympic team!"
Suarez was ready to celebrate, but he didn't choose the angle when he stabbed the shot, and stabbed the ball directly to the place near the back post, Xu Ziyi has been standing here, and his stab also happened to stab the ball into Xu Ziyi's thigh and failed to stab the goal.
The ball bounced back into the penalty area, and Huang Yu rushed to the foot before Lodeiro and broke the ball out of the box. Liu Jianhong said for the rest of his life: "It was really dangerous just now, fortunately Xu Ziyi was standing in front of the goal, otherwise the Chinese Olympic team would probably lose the ball." ”
He Wei also said stupidly: "Indeed, the Chinese team can be regarded as having escaped." ”
Ma Junqiang didn't have time to thank Xu Ziyi, so he saw Xu Ziyi run out of the forbidden area. Huang Yu's kick kicked Zhang Shujie intentionally or unintentionally, and after Zhang Shujie unloaded the ball, he didn't delay for a moment and went straight to the front court with the ball.
The previous corner kick made most of the Uruguayan players press, the backfield was very empty, many players of the Chinese Olympic team were very fast, and at this opportunity, everyone wanted to play a wave of fast attack, so that the Uruguayans knew that the Chinese team was not a mermaid.
Zhang Shujie's speed is the first in the team, even if you look at world football, you can't find a few people who can run faster than him. It is conservatively estimated that his speed of 10.3 seconds can at least rank among the top three in today's football, but "Torino Sport" has revealed that his speed is the first in the world!
The fans in the audience and the fans in front of the TV saw an amazing scene, only to see Zhang Shujie rushing with the ball, and the joint encirclement of Rios and Arias was actually eaten raw by him at a speed! He saw that there was some emptiness in front of him, so he took the ball and jumped between the two, and then immediately accelerated, and the poor two Uruguayan midfielders were getting farther and farther away from him, and it was impossible to catch up with him anymore.
"Zhang Shujie's speed is very terrifying! This kind of fast attack requires speed, and personal skill has become secondary. At this moment, Zhang Shujie completely showed his speed advantage!"
He is not the only one in the National Olympic team, Huang Yu and Tang Ling's speed is also very fast, and Yan Tao is just Yan Tao who has to stay in the backcourt and does not attack. There is another person who cannot be ignored, that is Li Mu, the absolute speed of 12.5 seconds is not very fast, but the moment he starts is enough to throw most of the world's defenders out of a few streets.
Zhang Shujie ran wildly for more than 30 meters before slowly slowing down, and he saw that Tang Ling on the right side had been plugged in along the line, so he shouted: "Tang Ling, catch!" The ball flew towards Tang Ling.
This is another speed player. Tang Ling went straight into the Uruguayan backfield along the side, he looked up, Liu Jianwei was outflanked in the middle, on the left was Li Mu who was speeding up, and a little further left was Huang Yu who was inserted. Zhang Shujie also rushed up after passing the ball, and there were Twins and Zhao Wenkang behind him, and these three people were helping on the periphery, which also made Tang Ling have a lot of response points.
Tang Ling made a slight adjustment, and made a long pass to the penalty area on the right side, which was passed to Liu Jianwei. Liu Jianwei didn't expect that the team's first attack was likely to be completed by himself, and he didn't want to live up to his teammates' trust, he sprinted and jumped, flicked his head, and smashed the ball into the goal.
The ball was too upright, and Gelpi stood in the middle of the goal line, did not move, did not jump, and took Liu Jianwei's header into his arms.