On June 18, 2002, the penultimate matchup of the quarterfinals of this World Cup began, and the two sides were China and Japan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The head coach of this Japanese team is still the "white wizard" Troussier, under the creation of the Frenchman, the Japanese team holds high the banner of attack, while emphasizing team cooperation and technology, is a team with its own characteristics and ideas, in the group stage, they drew with the European "Red Devils" Belgium team, defeated Russia and Tunisia, although the team's forward line lacks dominant players, but the Japanese team's midfield is full of talent, Nakata Hidetoshi, Inamoto Junichi, Shunsuke Nakamura and Shinji Ono and other players are outstanding, although only one player in the team, Hidetoshi Nakata, plays for Parma in Serie A, but I have to admit that the midfield strength of this Japanese team is still very strong.

In the face of the Chinese team, Trussier did not use a more special style of play, but still used the midfield diamond position 442 lineup in the group stage, Trussier hopes to use the advantage of the midfield to control the rhythm of the game, and at the same time suppress the attack of the Chinese team, but Trussier still made a special arrangement for Liu Han, he did not use a fullback with strong assist ability, but let the excellent defense Naoki Matsuda and Ryuzo Morioka serve as fullbacks, so as to pinch Liu Han when necessary, so to speak, Troussier put his hopes in the midfield for this game, after all, their forward line is really not good, although Takahara Naotai has good strength but is extremely brainless, while the other forwards lack enough impact to threaten the Chinese team's defense.

There are a lot of changes in Horton on the Chinese team, first of all, the lineup uses 352, Yang Pu and Wu Chengying's position mentions the full-back position, Liu Han is still in the center, the back is Li Tie, the front is Zhang Xiaorui, and the front line is Hao Haixi and Zhang Yuning's partner, this lineup completely replicates the routine of the Brazilian team, and the combination of the old and the new on the front line is to restrain the defense of the Japanese team through impact, after all, the air defense ability of the Japanese team's back line is average.

Liu Han wore the captain's armband at the front of the team, and behind him were the Chinese team players with a determined face and the Japanese team players who were not without envy, many people in the Japanese team regarded Liu Han as an idol, they not only envied Liu Han's natural physical fitness, but also envied Liu Han's legendary life experience, comparable to the general comic book protagonist Liu Han has many supporters in Japan.

When the Chinese team wore the traditional red jersey and walked into the Sendai World Cup Stadium, there was a lot of cheers in the stadium, which came from the Chinese and Chinese living in Japan on the one hand, and many Liu Han supporters on the other hand.

With a whistle from the German referee Frijns, the game officially began.

The Japanese team kicked off first, they passed the ball back to the back, and then slowly advanced through the pass in the midfield, and as the hosts, they played quite cautiously.

Compared with the Japanese team, the Chinese team is much more proactive, after the formation was expanded, the players of the Chinese team quickly ran into place, and the players in the midfield began to press the Japanese team on the spot, compared to the Japanese team, the Chinese team group stage ended on June 14, so it was necessary to rest one more day than the Japanese team.

Although the Chinese team is very active, I have to admit that the cooperation of the Japanese team is really tacit, and the players' foot skills are also very good.

The players of this Japanese team were basically born when Japan's economy was rising, so their living conditions were good since childhood, and Japan has been actively learning football from Brazil since the 80s, so their players have received professional football training and football training that is biased towards technology since they were young, which makes the players of the Japanese team appear more calm in the face of the Chinese team's pressing.

Liu Han did not rush to the front court immediately after the start of the game, but has been hovering around the center circle, he feels that this Japanese team and the Sydney Olympics that year of the Japanese Olympic team has a huge difference, compared to the national Olympic team, the Japanese team players are much stronger in physical fitness and game experience, in the one-on-one with the Chinese team players, the Japanese team players do not fall behind, and even slightly have the upper hand.

As the game progressed, the Japanese team's attack began to be bold, although Nakata Hidetoshi completely disappeared under Liu Han's deliberate defense, but the Japanese team's two full-backs Nakamura Shunsuke and Ono Shinji were extremely active.

In the seventh minute of the game, the Japanese team organized a wave of relatively good offense, Inamoto Jun broke through Zhang Xiaorui with the ball and then approached the right side of the Chinese team, Shinji Ono also immediately went straight to the right side of the Chinese team, and the Chinese team's defense began to move to his left side, at this time, Inamoto Junichi with the ball suddenly made a long diagonal pass to find Nakamura Shunsuke on the left side, the latter suddenly cut inside after receiving the ball, Yangpu made a tackle but caused Nakamura Shunsuke to fall to the ground, the German referee immediately whistled, in fact, this ball Yangpu first touched the ball, But after all, it is the home stadium of the Japanese team, and the referee's whistle can also be recognized.

However, just when Yang Pu got up and was about to retreat to the defense, the referee took out a yellow card to Yang Pu, which was a bit too much anyway, after all, the game had only started for less than ten minutes, and Yang Pu's tackle action was not big.

"Sir, the decision was inaccurate, our players touched the football first."

As the captain of the team, Liu Han came to the referee to protest after stopping his teammates who rushed up to reason with the referee.

"Liu, I don't think there is a problem with my decision, please go back to the game, otherwise I will think that you are deliberately delaying the game."

What Liu Han didn't expect was that the referee's attitude was unusually tough, and even threatened Liu Han, with Liu Han's status in world football, few referees dared to be so tough now.

Liu Han realized that something was wrong, the Japanese showed good intentions before the game, and their "warm and thoughtful" made the Chinese team a little paralyzed, as the host of this World Cup, the Japanese team naturally has a huge advantage, but no one would have thought that the Japanese would do the same "shameless" as the South Koreans.

Liu Han, who protested to no avail and received threats, chose to compromise on the surface, but in his heart he began to calm down, and at the same time thought about how to deal with the next situation in his mind, Yang Pu was very bad for the Chinese team with a yellow card on his back, not only the attack on the right side would be limited, but also Yang Pu had to pay attention to his actions in defense.

Japan's next free kick did not hit the goal directly, Shunsuke Nakamura passed the ball into the Chinese team's penalty area, causing some chaos, and Li Weifeng cleared the ball out of the penalty area with a big foot.

Although they did not concede a goal, the yellow card in the opening ten minutes still cast a shadow on the situation of the Chinese team, and anyone with a discerning eye can see the dilemma that the Chinese team will face next. (To be continued.) )