Chapter 198: The Quarterfinals

At the Khalifa Stadium, standing outside the stadium was the head coach of the Qatar team, Metsu, who frowned and felt very uneasy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Just a minute ago, he saw the Chinese team score from the LCD screen, and if the Chinese team kept this score until the end of the game, then Qatar would be eliminated.

As a host, if you say goodbye to the Asian Cup after playing in the group stage, then Metrosu's position may not be retained.

He is now desperate for Uzbekistan to score another goal, so that it will be difficult for China to come back in the little time left. Metsu never imagined that in a tournament held on home soil, the fate of his team would be in the hands of others, which is not too small to say, which is not too ironic.

Every ten seconds, Metsu has to look at the screen, he is not looking at the score of Qatar, it is no big deal for Qatar to win this game, the key is to see if there will be a score between China and Uzbekistan under the screen, if it does not appear before the game, it means that the battle between China and Ukraine is a draw, and it also means that Qatar can wave goodbye to the fans.

Metsu couldn't remember how many times he had watched the big screen, but when he looked back and looked back, he finally saw a goal report displayed at the bottom of the screen.

China 2:1 Uzbekistan! The scorer was Li Mu, and the goal time was the 80th minute.

Metsu was dumbfounded!

In three minutes, the Chinese team penetrated the opponent's goal twice in three minutes! This means that if Qatar wants to qualify, it must count on Uzbekistan to score two goals in the remaining ten minutes!

Most people on the Qatari side saw this subtitle, and it is self-evident what the mood of the fans is, and some of the substitutes even sat on the sidelines with their faces full of despair.

Qatar absolutely knows what the strength of this Chinese team is, and they only played each other four days ago. Maybe the current Chinese team is not the top in Asia, but compared to a few years ago, this young Chinese team is more tenacious, from the last round of the game can be seen, two goals behind, ten people fighting, still and the host played 2:2, today is in three minutes, relying on two Parma star stars, scored two goals in a row!

If this group of teenagers can grow up smoothly and maintain their condition, it will not be long before Chinese football will surely return to the top of Asia!

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Li Mu waved his hand to the stands, his goal just now came from Xu Ziyi's midfield, Yu Dahai quickly inserted a cross on the left, Li Mu scored his second goal in the Asian Cup, and Zhang Shujie tied for the team's top scorer.

He walked side by side with Zhang Shujie to the center circle and waited for Uzbekistan to kick off. Chinese fans have been screaming wildly, and even Chen Hui, who has always been calm, couldn't help but roar a few times.

At a time when people have no confidence in the national football team, the Chinese team only took three minutes to break through the haze and have already stepped into the quarterfinals with one foot!

For this reason, Chen Hui has already thought of the title of the new issue of the report in advance, which is called "The Golden Three Minutes"! As long as the Chinese team can successfully advance into the top eight, this topic will definitely attract the attention of many fans.

It's just that Chen Hui didn't expect that the surprise of the Chinese team to fans was not only this reversal!

Uzbekistan's attack ended in front of the Chinese team's penalty area, and Xu Ziyi played an excellent role in the past ten minutes, omnipotent in attack and defense, showing people what an all-round midfielder is! Yan Tao also stared at the opponent's striker Shatskikh, and Shatskih was helpless in the face of this strong defender.

Only Heinrich can take a slight advantage of Du Peng, but he can't stir up any big storms alone, not to mention that Ma Junqiang is not for decoration.

Xu Ziyi passed the ball to Li Mu, but Tursalov stopped in front of him and didn't let him pass. Li Mu's body center of gravity shifted to the right, and after deceiving Tulsalov's movement, he flicked his ankle, and a beautiful "oxtail passer" successfully slapped Tulsalov's defense.

Chinese fans screamed again, this signature trick belonging to the Brazilian king is the second time Li Mu has shown it in the Asian Cup.

Although Li Mu's footwork is gorgeous, he will not stick to the ball for no reason, so as not to delay the team's attack. He passed the ball to Zhang Shujie in front, Zhang Shujie took the ball and looked up, good guy, what about the two defenders in front.

Li Mu and Deng Zhuoxiang stepped forward one after another, leading the two defenders of the opposing team to run, and Uzbekistan also began to return to the defense. Zhang Shujie looked at the space around him and didn't pass the ball.

He was in the middle circle of the opposition half, more than 40 metres from goal, but he observed the movement of his opponent and team-mates and thought he could carry the ball forward on his own.

Andreyev was the first to pounce, Zhang Shujie flicked the ball with his right foot, so that Andreyev pounced; Kapaze came to make up for the defense, Zhang Shujie lightly buckled with his right foot, and Kapaze was deducted behind him, but unfortunately Andreyev was about to step forward to grab it, but he accidentally collided with Kapaze, and hit him full of arms.

After shaking the two people, there was a small open space in front of him, and Zhang Shujie ran with the ball like a fly. His speed with the ball is no less than running without the ball! Because the Chinese team is wearing a red jersey today, the fans in the stands and in front of the TV only see a red figure like a flame straight into the hinterland of Uzbekistan.

"Zhang Shujie's speed is very fast! The Uzbek players can't catch up with him at all! He is approaching the penalty area step by step, what will he do next? Will he pass the ball?"

Zhang Shujie approached the big penalty area, about three or four meters apart, Ismailov went up, Zhang Shujie glanced at Li Mu, Ismailov thought he was going to pass the ball, so he had an extra heart, who knew that Zhang Shujie was just striking, he shook his body, pulled the ball with his left foot, and shook Ismailov over.

Ismailov was already the last defender in front of goal, and it was dangerous to let Zhang Shujie face the goalkeeper alone, so he turned back and chased back, but Zhang Shujie accelerated forward, and Ismailov was thrown out of several positions. In desperation, Ismailov reached out to pull it, but only touched a few drops of sweat.

Zhang Shujie has been one-on-one with the goalkeeper, Nesteroff abandoned the goal to block the angle, it seems that the blockade is perfect, but Zhang Shujie has other ways to deal with it.

I saw him bend his legs slightly, the center of gravity of his body downward, his left foot took a step in front of the ball, and then immediately changed to his right foot, so that his feet rotated, and he continued to circle the ball in front of the ball, deceiving Nesterov into being dizzy.

There was an exclamation in the stands, this is "passing people around the ball under the crotch"!

This method of excellence was created in Brazil, but it is not officially recorded who created it. But there is a person who has carried this trick to the next level: Denilson, a Brazilian who is known as "dancing on stamps".

People who can play this technique are usually not too tall, for example, Denelson is only 176cm, Robinho is less than 1.8 meters, and Xiao Luo is just 180cm! A tall pitch like Zinedine Zidane (186cm) can't go around the ball too much, usually only once or twice, and if there are too many times, the center of gravity will be unstable, and it will be difficult to control the ball again.

The same is true for Li Mu, a new generation of Chinese technical players, whose skills are gorgeous at 1.85 meters, but when he goes around the ball, his feet can't go around too much, not more than twice.

Of course, Ronaldo is one of them, his body center of gravity can be pressed very low, so that his height of 1.83 meters looks like a person of 1.73 meters when circling the ball, and there is another person, this person is the Portuguese king Ronaldo (186cm), but Ronaldo can't lower the center of gravity when he wraps around the ball, giving people the feeling that he is "standing" around the ball. But Ronaldo is particularly physical, even if he is "standing" around, it is difficult for opponents to stop him.

In addition to the above two, the third player who is more than 1.8 meters tall and can complete several passes around the ball is Zhang Shujie of the Chinese team.

In this action, Zhang Shujie and Ronaldo are somewhat similar, although his height has reached 185cm, two centimeters taller than "Luo Tianwang", but Zhang Shujie's passing around the ball does not have any stiffness. The most important point is that he can do the same thing as Ronaldo: lower the center of gravity of his body!

Some things are innate, and he has had them since he came into the world. For example, speed, which has a lot to do with talent, although diligence can make up for clumsiness, but "speed" is mostly innate, no matter how hard you work the day after tomorrow, it is difficult to have a significant improvement.

The same is true for the shift of the body's center of gravity. God created Zhang Shujie, and seemed to feel that he was not perfect enough, so he gave him this unique advantage.

At this moment, he faced Nesterov's block, and after four consecutive rounds of the ball, the fifth touch of his left foot was lightly flicked, and Nesterov, who had already fallen to the ground, was unable to block it anymore, and could only watch him face the empty goal.

The arch of the left foot is tense, and the ball is pushed towards the goal, and the score on the field becomes 3:1!

The game has reached the eighty-seventh minute, and the Chinese team has completely locked up the victory!" Liu Jianhong began to get excited: "Zhang Shujie's solo breakthrough is really wonderful! It can be listed as the best goal in this Asian Cup, there is no one!"

The fans started cheering, they didn't think Uzbekistan could score three goals in a row and pull it back. And Uzbekistan doesn't have the energy to spend it in this game, if you lose, you lose, anyway, it has already qualified in advance. As for the opponents of the knockout round...... There are still two games left in Group B, and the Japanese team is sure to qualify, and the remaining team should be one of Syria and Jordan, which is conservatively estimated to be more likely.

Three minutes of stoppage time had arrived, and at the end of the game, the Chinese team defeated Uzbekistan 3-1, ranking first in the group with two wins and one draw, and advancing to the quarterfinals; Uzbekistan won two wins and one loss, and advanced as the second in the group; Qatar and Kuwait were eliminated.

The players of the two teams were quite friendly, after all, they were all in the knockout round, Nesteroff found Zhang Shujie, exchanged jerseys with him, and the head coaches of the two teams also shook hands. The big screen outside the stadium played the last goal of the game repeatedly, and every time it was played, the Chinese fans would scream.

Chen Hui looked at the LCD screen and muttered, "He's really a genius." ”

Wang Junsong reminded: "Don't say it, go and interview the players, you see that Shen Hao and Zheng Dawei have gone down." ”

Only then did Chen Hui react and rushed to the court with Wang Junsong.

The players of the Chinese team were surrounded by reporters, Shen Hao wanted to look for Zhang Shujie, but he didn't find it for a while, and when he saw Li Mu walking out of the reporter group, he stepped forward to stop him. With the relationship between the two, Li Mu did not refuse Shen Hao's interview request.

Chen Hui arrived later, his luck was better, he saw Zhang Shujie at a glance, at this moment Zhang Shujie had just finished an interview and was about to leave, Chen Hui didn't catch up, for fear that other colleagues would snatch Zhang Shujie away. No matter how fast he moved, other reporters still rushed over.

"Zhang Shujie, how do you feel after winning this game?" Most of the reporters' questions were the same, and Chen Hui was no exception, and it could even be more direct, because they had long been good friends.

Zhang Shujie smiled: "I am very happy to be able to win and advance. The last time the Chinese team advanced to the quarterfinals was seven years ago. ”

"Last time, the Chinese team not only reached the quarterfinals, but also reached the final, do you have that idea this time?" asked Chen Hui smartly, wondering how the Chinese striker from Parma would cope.

Zhang Shujie said: "I don't dare to say this. Every opponent in the knockout rounds is not easy to play against, and there are strong teams like Japan and Australia, but I will try to help my team and I hope that I and my teammates can go to the end. ”

Chen Hui nodded and said: "Your second goal is very exciting, and it can basically be regarded as the best goal in this Cup." It's still playing back on the screen, what do you think? Aren't you excited?"

'For me, it's just another goal. I'm a striker, it's my duty to score goals, I won't be too intoxicated, if I am intoxicated every time I score a goal, then how many times will I be intoxicated in my life?" Zhang Shujie smiled, and the reporters around him also laughed.

After fans in China heard Zhang Shujie's words in front of the TV, many people also laughed. This is very reasonable, but some so-called "domestic big names" have never understood.

Wang Shihan looked at Zhang Shujie with a shallow smile on his face, and said to his parents: "See, this is your future son-in-law, how powerful!"

Wang Qingzhe patted his daughter's head: "I know, I know, you hurry up and go to bed, it's so late." ”

"Wait a while, Zhang Shujie's footage is still ....."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Shujie's interview ended, followed by an interview with head coach Gao Hongbo. Wang Qingzhe said: "No, can you go to sleep now?"

Wang Shihan pursed his lips, threw the pillow on the sofa, and went upstairs alone.

She also heard Liu Jianhong's voice on the TV: "The Chinese team lived up to expectations and successfully qualified, Chinese fans can sleep well tonight, today's live broadcast is here, audience friends, goodbye!"