This is Chen Zihua's first goal in this World Cup, and his fourth goal in three World Cups, and he has also become the third Chinese player to score in three consecutive World Cups after Zhang Shujie and Li Mu.

This precious penalty dragged the game into extra time, and neither side scored for 30 minutes, so the Chinese team took the penalty in the order of Xu Zhixin, Huang Yu, Tang Ling, Lin Li and Chen Zihua.

The first three players all scored penalties, but Argentina's top three did not make mistakes. Then Icardi, Argentina's fourth player, fired an anti-aircraft gun, and unfortunately, Lin Li, the fourth penalty taker of the Chinese team, also missed the ball. After four rounds, the two sides are still 3:3, and the game is 4:4.

Argentina's fifth appearance was Dybala, Dybala's penalty kick was unexpectedly hit to the middle, and Liao Dongyuan's body did not move completely sideways when he saved, and the moment he fell to the ground, he blocked the ball with his foot. Dybala did not score a penalty, so Chen Zihua, the last player of the Chinese team, pinned the hopes on more than one billion people in China!

Chen Zihua stood in front of the penalty spot, and it was his penalty that saved the Chinese team in regular time. Now, he's once again in the spotlight.

The referee's whistle sounded, Chen Zihua ran for a long distance, he tightened his arch, pushed the upper right corner of the goal, the goalkeeper made a mistake in judgment, and the ball flew steadily into Argentina's goal, 4:3, China defeated Argentina in the penalty shootout and advanced to the final with a total score of 5:4!

The Chinese team won this game extremely hard, the goal was extremely weak, and the absence of Zhang Shujie and Li Mu made it impossible for the Chinese team to score in the sports battle. If it weren't for Chen Zihua's inspiration, I'm afraid the Chinese team would have to compete with Brazil for the third place. Thanks to Chen Zihua's outstanding performance, the Chinese team was able to compete with Spain for the championship of this World Cup.

The trouble is that although the Chinese team advanced to the finals, Li Mu still can't play, and even if Zhang Shujie can play, he can only barely play, and his injury recovery is not particularly ideal.

Chen Hui wrote in the report: "The expression of the Chinese team in this cup is obvious to all, to be honest, it is not very good, it can be said that Chen Zihua carried the Chinese team into the final with one hand." Xu Zhixin, who has been a big player in Ligue 1, has been able to say that his performance at the World Cup can only be described as qualified, and he did create a lot of chances in attack, but he has scored too few goals, scoring only one goal so far, and in terms of overall performance, he is better at club than with the national team. ”

Some media pointed out that the problems of the Chinese team are not small, without Li Mu, the Chinese team is like a tiger without claws, although Zhang Shujie's "tiger teeth" are there, but this "tiger teeth" are injured, and they are not as invincible as before. What's more, Spain is currently in good form, Asensio, Isco, Vazquez and the group of Real Madrid have played particularly well, and the three have scored a total of nine goals for Spain, Asensio four, Isco three, Vazquez two, in addition to Morata has three goals. Whether the Chinese team, whose starting lineup is older, can withstand the impact of these four people in turn is still unknown for the time being.

And now more teams are also optimistic about Spain, which was unimaginable only four years ago, the famous "crow's mouth" Pele said: "If it was four years ago, I would definitely be optimistic about the Chinese team, but now, I think Spain will win the championship." ”

As soon as Pele said this, the whole of Spain couldn't sit still. It is said that an emergency meeting was held within the Spanish team, which was specifically aimed at Pele's "crow's mouth". Many Spanish fans even said: "Pele, although you are the king of the ball, how can you talk nonsense? What kind of grudge do we Spain have against you? You want to curse us like this?"

There are also many neutral fans who said: "Even Pele has begun to feed Spanish poisoned milk, and it seems that the Chinese team is going to win the World Cup for a second time." ”

Pele's crow's beak is indeed famous, but in the last World Cup, Pele predicted that the Chinese team would win the championship, and in the end, the Chinese team really won the championship. So sometimes, Bailey's crow's beak is quite accurate.

On the day of the final, Spain discharged the strongest team, and the Chinese team was missing Li Mu and was replaced by Liu Jianwei. In the game, Spain has a huge advantage, only Chen Zihua can hold the ball in the midfield of the Chinese team, and Xu Zhixin can only rely on speed to eat raw, but Spain does not leave much space, and Xu Zhixin's speed has no advantage at all.

In the twenty-ninth minute of the first half, Li Yongxuan tripped Morata in the penalty area, and the referee decisively blew a penalty, but Li Yongxuan thought that his actions were not enough to make Morata fall, so he stepped forward to reason with the referee, and other Chinese team players also surrounded the referee, Zhang Shujie, as the captain, naturally rushed to be the first. But the referee didn't listen at all, insisted on his penalty, and gave Zhang Shujie a yellow card.

An Rong was also very helpless on the sidelines, Li Yongxuan did have actions in the penalty area, but it was still a bit far-fetched to say fouls, in fact, the referee could turn to the video referee team, but the referee thought that his judgment was not wrong, so he didn't watch the replay screen.

An Rong was helpless, he could only hope that Liao Dongyuan could save the ball, or pin his hopes on Asensio's penalty miss. But Liao Dong was far from able to save the ball, and Asensio did not miss the penalty, and the ball hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced into the goal. Spain leads 1-0.

After this penalty, the Chinese players were a little out of control. They thought the referee's decision was debatable, but they couldn't take the referee off at them, so they took their anger out on the Spanish players. For a while, in the remaining ten minutes, the Chinese players' movements were a little too big, Chen Zihua and Tang Ling received yellow cards one after another, and even Zhang Shujie was verbally warned by the referee. You must know that Zhang Shujie already has a yellow card, and if he eats the card again, he can only play with a red card.

"The players of the Chinese team are not in a good mood right now, probably because of the impact of this penalty. Most of these players are people who have experienced storms and waves, and rarely react like this when they concede a goal. Maybe because it was the final, everyone understood the importance of scoring goals and the seriousness of conceding goals, plus their lineup was not in order, which caused their emotions to get out of control. ”

The first half ended with Spain leading 1-0. After a fifteen-minute break in the midfield, the mood of the Chinese players recovered, and the attack in the second half also improved a lot, Chen Zihua's organization in the midfield was much better than in the first half, Zhang Shujie got more opportunities, and Xu Zhixin was able to run on the side.

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