June 4, 2002, World Cup Stadium in Gwangju, South Korea. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Chinese players stepped into the stadium with a strange mood, but the cheers that suddenly sounded in the stadium made them a little less nervous, after all, it was a game at home, and the stands on the stadium had many more supporters of the Chinese team than their opponents, and because of Liu Han, the Chinese team also had a lot of supporters in South Korea.

"Audience friends, the game is about to start, this is the first performance of Chinese football on the World Cup stage, let's wait and see what the result will be."

In the sandy playground of a school in a small northern town, a lot of high school students are huddled together in the corner, and the boy in the middle holds a small radio that broadcasts the World Cup match between China and Costa Rica.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, the more you can't hear it."

Because of the small size of the radio, the sound was also smaller, and the two dozen or so older boys huddled together and could not hear clearly.

"What is Da Liu's position? Did Da Liu kick the striker? ”

At the outskirts of the crowd, a shorter boy asked loudly.

", Da Liu must be a midfielder in the national team, if he plays as a striker, no one will pass the ball to him."

The boy's classmates immediately criticized their friend.

"Don't make noise, I can't hear you."

It was 2:30 p.m., which was the time of the school's first class in the afternoon, although the national team's participation in the World Cup was watched by all the Chinese people, but the students still did not have the opportunity to watch the live broadcast.

In the economically underdeveloped northern towns, football can only be regarded as a game played by children who do not study well.

(The author listened to the game in the playground back then, so he skipped a class, but as a result, a group of young men scolded the national football team for half a year)

The game officially began after the referee's whistle, and the Chinese team attacked first.

On the front line, Hao Haixi passed the ball allocated to him by Zhao Junzhe to the feet of midfielder Liu Han, and the Chinese team unfolded and launched an attack on the Costa Rican team.

Because the game has just begun, the Chinese team does not know much about the strength of the opponent, although the formation is conservative, but it is still necessary to properly test the attack.

Liu Han did not pass the ball after receiving the ball in the midfield, but carried the ball forward by himself, and only passed the ball to the feet of Li Xiaopeng on the right side after easily passing the striker Wanchope who came up from the Costa Rican team.

Li Xiaopeng took two steps and then met the opposing midfielder Carlos? Castro's pressing, but at this time Liu Han had already received the answer, and Li Xiaopeng still calmly passed the ball to Liu Han's feet.

The Chinese team started with a more cautious start, but the Costa Rica team was much stronger, their formation was 352, and the pressing in the midfield was particularly urgent.

Liu Han tried to force the opponent through his personal ability and then create opportunities for the Chinese team players, but the Costa Rican players moved very big, Liu Han was directly put to the ground by the opponent just after the center circle, and the players' movements were no longer so restrained in the World Cup game.

After that, the Chinese team sent a free kick to the front of the Costa Rica penalty area through Liu Han's pass, but Zhao Junzhe's shot was ridiculously high, and the physical condition of the Chinese team players was still very tight.

After the first contact, Liu Han felt the characteristics of the other party, the physical fitness of the Costa Rican players is much higher than that of the Chinese team players, and the foot skills are also quite good, if you really talk about strength, the other party is actually better than the Chinese team.

Next, the Costa Rican team used their physical advantage to frequently find confrontation with the Chinese team, their players are very fast, even if they do not work with their feet, they can easily break through the Chinese team's players, so the defense of the Chinese team is very difficult, and the players have to foul to stop the surprise of the Costa Rican players.

In the tenth minute of the game, the Costa Rica team completed the first threatening goal of the game by Wanchope through a corner kick opportunity, and Wanchope's header hit the crossbar of the Chinese team and bounced off the bottom line, and the Chinese team escaped.

Although fortunately the opponent did not score, the Costa Rican team's suppression of the Chinese team still made all the supporters of the Chinese team break out in a cold sweat.

Faced with such a situation, Liu Han had to retreat to the backfield to participate in the defense, and he asked Li Gang to mark the opponent's midfield No. 10 core Sentino, while Liu Han himself frequently checked and filled in the gaps in the Chinese team's defense.

With the help of Liu Han, the Chinese team's defense began to stabilize, and the players gradually adapted to the rhythm of the game, and Horton's two wide players Sun Chenghai and Wu Chengying, who were specially arranged for the Chinese team, gradually began to launch counterattacks towards the Costa Rica team's backfield.

However, in the fifteenth minute of the first half, the Chinese team suffered an unexpected situation, Sun Chenghai attacked along the right side with the ball in the counterattack, and he was defeated by Costa Rica midfielder Carlos? Castro shoveled directly to the ground, and then Sun Chenghai wailed in pain, and he seemed to be injured a lot.

The Chinese team doctor rushed on the field, and after a brief examination, he made a substitution gesture to the head coach Horton, and the Chinese team lost the big player at the beginning, and Sun Chenghai was a sharp knife on the right side of the Chinese team.

The referee though finally to the Costa Rica team Carlos? Castro showed a yellow card, but this did not make up for the loss of the Chinese team.

Faced with the situation of having to make substitutions, Horton simply replaced the forward Zhang Xiaorui, and Liu Han Horton was not worried about the defense, so it was necessary to strengthen the Chinese team's ability to hold the ball in the midfield.

Sun Chenghai's departure has made a subtle change in the mentality of the Chinese team's players, originally they were still nervous about the World Cup game, but now the injury of teammates and the wanton behavior of the opposing players have aroused the fighting spirit of the Chinese team players.

The players of the Chinese team, who were no longer nervous, gradually began to push the defense line outward, and at the same time, under the long pass of Liu Han's backfield, the Chinese team also launched several good attacks, although in the end there was not much effect, but it still made the Costa Rica team dare not press too much.

Costa Rican players although the physical fitness and foot skills are quite good, but their attitude towards the game is much looser than the Chinese team, in the face of Liu Han's defense, the Costa Rican players who have suffered a lot of losses before began to organize attacks around Liu Han, which makes their offensive efficiency drop a lot, after all, as long as Liu Han is in the penalty area, it is difficult for the Costa Rican team to attack.

After two or three hard encounters with Liu Han in the front court, Wanchope began to dare to rush too far forward, and Liu Han's defense left a big shadow on the player who played for Manchester City. (To be continued.) )