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The Chinese team got a corner, which was also the first corner of the game.

Zhao Wenkang walked to the corner kick area, and the tall players of the Chinese team thought that all the goalkeepers had come to the penalty area, and Liang Xiran must have been there. Outside the penalty area stood a Xiao Feng and a Huang Yu, two players who are not known for their headers and are fast, guarding the perimeter to prevent the corner kick from being pushed by Costa Rica and thus being counterattacked.

Zhao Wenkang took a corner kick, the first point was pushed out by Dias, Ruiz grabbed the second drop point outside the penalty area, he looked up and looked ahead, the Chinese team had ten players past half, only one Ma Junqiang was behind, so he passed the ball to the side and gave it to Bolaños.

Costa Rica is starting to fight back!

Liu Jianhong raised his voice: "Look at this formation, Costa Rica is going to prepare for a counterattack, we said before the game, Costa Rica relies on this counterattack to go all the way to the top 16, and there will definitely be in the game with the Chinese team, I didn't expect it to come so soon!"

The Chinese team is quickly returning to defense, Tang Ling and Zhao Wenkang retreated from the right side one after another, Yan Tao and Liang Xiran in the middle, Huang Yu and Xiao Feng on the left are also rushing back, and Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi are also retreating from the midfield.

Tang Ling's speed was very fast, and he was about to catch up with Bolaños who was carrying the ball in front, only to see Bolaños give the ball to Campbell in the middle, Yan Tao pasted it, and Campbell sent the ball to the left front, Bolaños, who had already been caught up by Tang Ling, took advantage of Tang Ling's attention to divert his attention, and overtook it again.

With a few simple passes, Costa Rica hit the backcourt of the Chinese team, and the offensive efficiency can be said to be very high. Bolaños was watching the position of his teammate in the middle with the ball, and he found that Campbell, who had rushed to the front, was followed by a Yan Tao.

He knew that Yan Tao, a defender, was very fast, and it only took less than eleven seconds to run a hundred meters, and Campbell, who was at the front, could be regarded as a defense that attracted him, and then looked at other teammates, Ruiz was targeted by Liang Xiran, Tejeda and Borges were watched by Xu Ziyi and Chen Zihua, and there was Huang Yu standing around Gamboa on the side, and several players inserted by Costa Rica in this attack were all defended by the Chinese team.

In fact, the most critical part of this is Yan Tao's stare at Campbell, as a forward striker, if Yan Tao can't keep up with him, then his role will be infinitely amplified in counterattacks, whether it is charging as an arrow figure, or covering his teammates behind him, he can execute in place. Of course, as long as he is restricted, Costa Rica's offense will be reduced a lot, although there are still players in the back who can come up, but as a defense-oriented team, these players have withdrawn relatively deep, and if the fulcrum in front of them loses their effect, these players who are inserted back will also be affected.

Pinto on the sidelines also felt that something was wrong, the Chinese team's return defense speed was very fast, and the formation was generally relatively complete, although there were some flaws, but it had little impact on the whole, unless the attacking side was super capable, otherwise such a retreat would probably not be too comfortable for Costa Rica's attack.

However, it cannot be ruled out that the Chinese team's defense will make mistakes, and Pinto is waiting for this. I think that Italy and Uruguay made mistakes themselves in a seemingly strong and impeccable backline, and Costa Rica seized the opportunity.

Pinto believes that the Chinese defenders will also make mistakes.

Bolaños passed the ball to the middle, he passed Campbell, Yan Tao pushed it up, pushed the ball away from the penalty area, Tejeda came up with a pick-up pass, directly to the penalty area, wanted to hit one of the defenders of the Chinese team, Ma Junqiang took a look, the ball was a little far away from the goal, and Liang Xiran had already come back to fight for the ball.

Liang Xiran turned around and kicked in the air, but he didn't kick too far, the ball just flew out of the penalty area, Bolaños rushed up and raised his leg to shoot, Xu Ziyi blocked with his back, but he didn't feel the ball hit him, looking back, Bolaños didn't shoot at all, he volleyed the ball obliquely, and opened a gap in front of Xu Ziyi.

Now Bolaños has to really shoot.

"Bolaños is about to shoot, this position is very dangerous!" Liu Jianhong's words revealed a lot of worry.

Bolaños's shot was very powerful, the ball was fast, but the angle was not enough, Ma Junqiang basically jumped on the spot and saved the ball out of the bottom line with one hand.

Costa Rica had their first shot of the game and switched to a corner. It was the second corner of the game and the first for Costa Rica.

The ball drove directly to the penalty area, Xu Ziyi pushed the ball out, Xiao Feng took another kick and kicked it to Li Mu, Li Mu returned to Chen Zihua, and Chen Zihua handed it to Xiao Feng. Huang Yuzheng rushed up from Xiao Feng's side, Xiao Feng stuffed the ball in front, Huang Yu's left foot, and then suddenly sent a long diagonal pass to Li Mu.

Huang Yu's pass was beautiful, and the Chinese team's attack was also a counterattack. If you want to talk about the tactic of "defense and counterattack", An Rong is a person with a lot of experience, and he likes to use this tactic when he was in middle school. Therefore, it is not only Costa Rica that will play this game, but the Chinese team can also play this game, and China is more threatening in counterattacks than Costa Rica.

Because a lot of the players in the Chinese team are very fast.

Li Mu relied on his instantaneous activation ability to burst out at this moment, and he threw down Duarte, but Duarte was very bold and grabbed Li Mu's clothes, wanting to use this method to stop him from rushing.

Chen Zihua followed behind the two, and after seeing Duarte's action, he raised his arm and complained loudly to the referee: "Referee, look, they deliberately pulled people!"

The referee saw it very clearly, and when he was about to blow the whistle, he saw Li Mu's right arm flicked fiercely, and he was stunned to leave Duart, but Li Mu was also too big because of this action, and he was already a little unbalanced in the pulling before, which caused him to stumble a little with the ball for double reasons.

Football is good for the attacker, the referee saw that Li Mu was still in control of the ball, and the Chinese team was also continuing to attack, so he did not whistle, but Li Mu wanted to burst into the penalty area to shoot because of his staggering pace with the ball.

He glanced at the middle of the road, Zhang Shujie, Chen Zihua, and Xu Ziyi attacked in an orderly manner, Zhao Wenkang at the far end, Yan Tao and Tang Ling at the back, and Xiao Feng answered Li Mu on the far left.

Li Mu passed the ball to the middle, Zhang Shujie grabbed the ball next to Gonzalez, at this moment he was in the penalty area, the opponent's three defenders came over, Zhang Shujie did not take risks at will, knocked the ball back to Xu Ziyi, Xu Ziyi picked and passed to Li Mu, did not pass over, was pushed out by Borges, fortunately it landed here in Chen Zihua, and the ball still belonged to the Chinese team.

Chen Zihua took a look at the goalkeeper's position, picked up his right foot and shot from four places outside the box, he was in a far corner, and if he controlled it well, he could bypass Navas's hands and circle the goal.

The ball didn't fly into the Costa Rica goal, and just after flying into the box, the ball touched Umana's raised left hand!

(End of chapter)

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