Tony Clarke looked at the crowd outside Santa Lucia Stadium and turned to his companion Matt Dawn, "Didn't you say you couldn't sit down every game?" I think that's pretty much the end of a Championship game......"

"Today is a do-or-die battle between the two teams." Matt Dawn said.

"Argentine fans probably don't see it that way." Tony pointed to the elated Argentine fans in the distance, one of whom was holding a sign with a few words written in English:

"We can't play table tennis, but we can do football! You can do table tennis, but you can't do football! ”

Matt also noticed the slogan, grinning and not commenting.

"But there are a lot of Chinese fans, and it's the first time I've seen so many Chinese gathered together, and I bet I've never seen so many Chinese in Chinatown." Tony looked in the other direction, where there were all black-haired and yellow-skinned Chinese fans, and in addition to their own physical characteristics, there was also a sign that made them particularly recognizable was that they were basically wearing red shirts, if not the Chinese team's jersey, but also red T-shirts.

"Maybe all the Chinese in Europe are gathered here......" Matt muttered, too, shocked by the scene before him.

Although he had seen two Olympic matches of the Chinese team, it was the first time he had seen such a scene, and compared to the number of Chinese fans he saw outside the stadium in the past few days, today was probably the sum of those two games......

He thought to himself, are these fans here to witness the Chinese team's qualification?

I'm afraid not, right?

Maybe a lot of them actually came to see Melly Banega play?

It should not come as a surprise that Melly's fame has a large following in distant China.

After all, even my little nephew loves Melly......

While Tony was looking around and Matt was thinking, they were caught by a pair of interviewers from China.

"Hello, we are reporters from China Central Television, can I interview you?"

The reporter with the microphone asked with a smile in fluent English.

Matt and Tony were surprised: "Why did you interview us?" ”

The reporter explained why, pointing to Matt's Chinese jersey: "To be honest, it's so rare to see a Chinese fan here...... Are you a fan of the Chinese team? ”

Matt nodded repeatedly: "Of course, of course, I am, I'm a fan of Hu." ”

With that, he also turned around and showed the number and name on the back of his jersey to the camera.

"That's great. Uh, can I know your name? The reporter asked.

"Matt." After speaking, Matt pointed to Tony Clark standing next to him, "Tony, my friend." ”

Tony Clarke smiled at the camera lens, but didn't speak.

The reporter just nodded to Tony Clarke, and locked his eyes on Matt: "Matt, you know what? In fact, you are already a celebrity on the Internet in China! ”

"Celebrities?" Matt's eyes widened, and Tony next to him gave him a surprised look.

"Yes, like I just said, after all, a foreigner wearing a Chinese jersey is too rare...... Can you tell us how you became a fan of the Chinese team? ”

"Ah, that's a long story!" Matt coughed and began to tell Chinese reporters his story with Lai Hu and Hu Lai.

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"That's it for the live report we sent back outside Santa Lucia Stadium......"

After the reporter in front said this, the TV broadcast cut to the studio in the back, and the two hosts still had surprised expressions on their faces.

"I really didn't expect that such a foreigner fan would have such a relationship with our Hulai and be connected through a football game...... This is fate! ”

"It's a fantastic feeling that I was a character in a game, but now I'm in reality! Oops, I got goosebumps......" The hostess showed her arms to her partner.

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"Aha, Tony. Did you just hear what the reporter said? I'm a household name in China, and now I'm a celebrity! Matt said happily to Tony.

"I became famous before you, Matt. Maybe every Chinese family will have a little statue of me! "Not to be outdone, Tony is not to be outdone.

"That's not for sure, Tony. None of us have ever been to China, so maybe we don't have a little statue of yours. ”

The two of them were bickering as they walked towards the court.

On the road, Matt, who was wearing a Chinese jersey, was very eye-catching, and after walking for a while, they were stopped by a group of Chinese fans, who strongly asked to take a photo with Matt.

After the photo shoot, Matt triumphantly showed off to Tony, "What did you say about me?" I'm a celebrity! ”

Tony snorted, "You're just a light with a beard." As the reporter said, a foreign fan wearing a Chinese jersey is all too rare. ”

"Huh." Matt rolled his eyes at his friend, then turned to give a thumbs up to the Chinese fans who were watching them, shouting, "A!! ”

Then, unsurprisingly, he won a full house.

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"You don't have to stay up late to watch today's game." Xie Lan said as she put the braised vegetables she bought from the vegetable market on the coffee table. "The first two games were in the second half of the night, so I couldn't stay up......"

Hu Lixin suddenly said: "Then you don't plan to watch the women's football game in the second half of the night?" ”

Xie Lan was stunned for a moment, showing a painful expression, as if he was struggling inside, and finally said, "Forget it...... The women's football team has qualified ahead of schedule, and Qingqing will definitely not play in this last game...... Don't look at it, don't look at it. ”

Hu Lixin was amused by his wife's tangled appearance, and he shook his head: "You are really a shaved head-hot head." I don't know the real situation, so I'm thinking about it here, and I'm not afraid of wasting my feelings. ”

"What emotion can be wasted? People and the media have said that our son and Qingqing are high school classmates. ”

"High school classmates are high school classmates, will every high school classmate come together?"

"Oh, what do you know about a big man?" Sheeran didn't bother to tell her husband.

"You...... Now start worrying about his other half, is he going to worry about when they will get married after he finds a girlfriend? When you get married, you have to worry about when they will have children, right? I gave birth to a second child and ...... worry about it."

"Go, go, go." Xie Lan waved his hand in disgust. "I don't have to worry about having a baby. How can women's football players play football when they have children so early? Give up your career? That's not good, it must be waiting for Qingqing to retire before talking about having children. ”

"After retirement? How old are they? Hu Lixin was taken aback.

Seeing that he was so surprised, Xie Lan asked rhetorically, "Hey, why are you worried about it?" ”

Hu Lixin had a constipated expression on his face.

Xie Lan covered her mouth and smiled happily.

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When Li Qingqing followed Xu Wen into the conference room, the TV in the conference room had been turned on, and the TV was playing the picture of the two teams warming up on the court.

The Spanish narrator was babbling something, but most people didn't understand it.

Li Qingqing played football in France for a year and could barely understand the general meaning of some words.

The narrator seems to be talking about Hulai, perhaps complimenting him, as he seems to have said something "very important".

Maybe Hulai is important to the Chinese team?

In the last game of the group stage, will the national Olympic team go home?

Although Xu Wen has analyzed the situation for her, it is already very good for Hu Lai and the National Olympic team to have the current performance. But Li Qingqing was still a little unwilling in her heart.

said that they would meet at the Olympics, but it turned out that they had never really met, and they had to separate......

Li Qingqing was unhappy in her heart.

How can this be

She has been looking forward to this Olympics since the beginning of the year.

The television broadcast showed a close-up of Hulai warming up, and he was playing a warm-up game with his teammates to grab a lap.

Are you not reconciled, Hulai?

Li Qingqing looked at the figure on the TV screen and asked in her heart.

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After the warm-up was over, the players cut back to the back studio, where the host and commentators sat behind the table facing the camera.

"Okay, that's the warm-up from the two sides earlier. Now they are back in their dressing rooms and are making final preparations for the start of the game. So what do you think of this game? The host is a guest commentator who is less old next to him, Zhang Rang, a famous domestic football critic.

Seventy-year-old Zhang Rang's face is full of wrinkles, gray hair, and huge eye bags look like he hasn't slept well.

But he is a TV critic who is very familiar to many Chinese fans, and has been in charge of being a commentator on the CCTV platform for more than 30 years.

After being asked, Zhang Rang nodded first, and then said: "There is a huge difference in strength between the two sides, but I think the Chinese team is not without a chance." Although the back three formation is conducive to Argentina's wide attack, it frees up the players on both flanks and allows them to devote more to the attack. But if we can play a little more aggressively on the flanks, maybe we can press Argentina's two wing-backs back, so that we can have a numerical advantage in midfield...... In addition, Argentina's defence has a problem, and their left-sided centre-back Sandiego Sweeni has a strong temper, is impulsive and often makes some inexplicable mistakes, which he showed when he played at the club......

After Zhang Rang talked eloquently, he finally came to a conclusion: "I think the Chinese team should defend the counterattack after the opening, first resist Argentina's offensive after the opening, and at the same time wear down the morale of the opponent." Then wait for the opportunity to counterattack, relying on the speed of the two wings and the efficiency of Hulai in the middle, and it may not be that there is no ability to fight with Argentina. ”

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In the dressing room of the Chinese team, Shi Wuyun said to his players with a serious expression: "Argentina must want to get enough clean sheets on us, so it is completely expected that they will launch a rapid attack on us after the game starts." In this case, there will be a lot of space behind them, and that's the opportunity we can take advantage of. If the timing is right, you must fight back resolutely. At the same time, when we are counterattacking, Du Wanqing has to take it back to protect the back line. ”

Du Wanqing, the back who was named by name, replied with his head held high: "Understood, Shi Gui!" ”

As a substitute back for the National Olympic team, Du Wanqing was able to start in such an important game because in the last game of the Chinese team against Belgium, the original main defender Zeng Chi was injured, and the results of the post-game examination were not optimistic, and he would be out for a month due to injury, which was an early farewell to the Olympic Games.

In Hu Lai's systematic vision, a chain of light had already appeared above Du Wanqing's head.

The last [Spirit Rhino Card] in the Owen bundle was used on him, and the other two were used in the last match.

In the last game, Shi Wuyun Shi made adjustments to the team's starting lineup, and Hu Lai used up two [Spirit Rhino Cards] at that time.

Shi Wuyun saw that Du Wanqing did not show nervousness, and nodded with satisfaction.

He turned his head to the other players.

In short, the tactics of the Chinese team after the opening game can be summed up in two words: counterattack

It is impossible for Argentina to deal with the Chinese team slowly, on the one hand, they are stronger than the Chinese team in terms of strength, and the players naturally cannot have that kind of mentality. On the other hand, they need more goal difference, and they don't have time to play any foreplay with the Chinese team. In this way, when they pressed the attack, the Chinese team hit them right behind, after all, the Chinese team has a speed advantage on the side, whether it is Luo Kai or Chen Xingyi, the speed is not slow.

After the tactical part, he looked around the dressing room, his gaze passing over the faces of each of the Olympic team players in turn.

Under his watchful eye, everyone looked at their manager very quietly.

After just looking around, Shi Wuyun said: "In a few minutes, our last group game at the Olympics will start, but I don't want this to be our last game at the Olympics." When the results first came out, both the media and the fans were very pessimistic about our future at the Olympics. But I don't see it that way, and I'm very happy with the results of this grouping. What are we here for the Olympics? Are you here for a tour? Of course not, we are here to be able to play against the world's top opponents on the Olympic stage. Some of these opponents may not even be able to be invited by us for money, and even if they do, can the warm-up matches be compared to the Olympic competitions? So, to be in a group with three strong teams is really lucky for us. ”

Speaking of this, Shi Wuyun spread his hands: "Through the first two games, I have seen your progress, and I believe that you can also feel the gains." This harvest will definitely help you in your future career. There's another game ahead against Argentina, a world powerhouse, and I think it's a good opportunity for us to learn from them as well. So in the next game, do your best and see how many pounds and taels we have in front of the world-class team! ”