Chapter 175: Is Such a Double Standard Okay?
England's change of formation quickly paid off, at least in attack.
Wu Jie no longer dared to go to the side to assist in defense at will, and this task was handed over to Chen Haonan to carry out.
But one Chen Haonan can't save two legs, Cunningham and Graham are the top wingers of this era, and there are not many people in the world who can limit them.
In the past two years, Bayern has met Real Madrid in the Champions League, and there are no good restrictions on Cunningham's breakthrough, and the pressure on the Chinese team's backline can be imagined.
In the 52nd minute of the second half, Cunningham faced Li Junwei, who was likely to be faster than him, and used a change of speed to get rid of it, but completed the inside cut more easily.
This is what Wu Jie is most afraid of seeing, although Li Junwei's speed is faster than Cunningham, who has been seriously injured twice, but he has too little experience, and once he encounters feints and speed changes, he is more likely to give in vain.
Cunningham cut inside and quickly entered the penalty area, and Wu Jie and Zhu Bo surrounded him.
But they didn't dare to get down easily, for fear that this guy would take the opportunity to fall to the ground.
The referee's bias towards England in this game is already obvious, and they know that rash kicks are likely to get a red card + penalty package.
But he didn't dare to make a move, and Cunningham completed the pass in the box.
Lineker's sense of grabbing points is outstanding, and he uses his excellent explosiveness to grab the position in front of Jia Xiuquan.
Lim was also in a good position, accurately judging where the danger was, and successfully standing in a position where he could block most of the angles before Lineker's shot.
Lineker still opted for a shot on goal, and it was a close-range volley.
Lin Yaodong's eyes could barely see the rapidly flying football, but his reaction was amazingly fast, and he almost subconsciously stretched out his right hand when he fell to the ground to save, and just blocked the football with the base of his palm.
However, the danger of the Chinese team is still not over, no one knows when Brian Robson rushed to the goal, there is no Chinese team defender by his side, but the blocked football just fell at his feet, and at this moment there is only an empty goal left in front of the "magic captain".
Lin Yaodong scrambled to get up and wanted to return to the defensive position, but Robson had already completed the follow-up shot in front of the empty goal.
There was no suspense at this time, and England finally scored through a wide attack in the 52nd minute of the second half and equalized.
Wu Jie came to Li Junwei's side for the first time amid the cheers of the English fans in the stadium, and comforted his teammate who had only played for less than ten minutes.
He now regrets letting Li Junwei play, and the pressure generated by this kind of game does not seem to be something that Li Junwei can resist now.
These real-life players are not like his tool man, who has hundreds of World Cup-level games on his debut, just look at the 22-year-old Lineker's failure to become England's starting striker.
But now that he is on it, he can only try to encourage this rookie and not let his self-confidence be completely crushed.
In the second half, the English equalized as soon as they came up, and naturally their morale was like a rainbow, and they were ready to make persistent efforts to completely defeat the hateful Chinese team in one go!
At this time, do you defend solidly, or do you attack?
Wu Jie quickly chose the second plan, because he knew that if he continued to choose defensive counterattack in this situation, it was estimated that he would not be able to defend it, and there was no way to talk about counterattack.
This is different from his game at Bayern, when his teammates were no worse than any opponent, so it makes sense to attack and defend back.
Now on the contrary, the overall strength gap between the two sides is too large.
Even if he and Chen Haonan go all out to retract the defense, at most they will play the turtle tactics with the team, basically just making up for their teammates will consume all their energy, and if they lose the ball again, it will be basically GG.
So he decided to put the burden on Lin Yaodong, and he and Chen Haonan had to find a way to return the color on the offensive end, and only one more goal could guarantee at least a draw.
This opportunity came quickly, and after England replaced Kevin Keegan and Lineker, the offensive end was certainly full of firepower, but the ability to defend actually dropped a lot, which is why he chose to attack.
In the 62nd minute of the second half, England passed the ball forward in front of the field continuously, and finally moved to the side to attack.
Graham got rid of Lu Hongxiang with the ball, but the final pass into the penalty area was intercepted by Jia Xiuquan, who performed well today.
The defender, who did not mix well in Italy, is one of the few people in the Chinese team who did not pull his hips today.
Chen Haonan got the pass, first dribbled past Kevin Keegan by himself, burst into the midfield and handed the ball to Wu Jie.
Wu Jie was quickly marked by two English players and immediately moved the ball to the wing.
Shen Xiangfu still couldn't break through Viv Anderson's defense after getting the ball, but this time Lu Hongxiang got Wu Jie's instructions and simply attacked boldly.
It's a very risky move and the full-backs are likely to not come back.
But now that neither of China's two full-backs can penetrate England's defence, they will have to risk increasing the number of attackers.
Lv Hongxiang's insertion of offense has a unique skill, Graham didn't expect that Lu Hongxiang, who had been beaten by him all the time, actually had good offensive skills, and was almost shaken down by a feint when he was careless.
Shen Xiangfu had already moved to the middle at this time, and Lu Hongxiang was unexpected, dribbling the ball all the way to the left penalty area and successfully kicked the ball to the middle.
Wu Jie and Zhao Dayu were both outflanked in the penalty area, but Liverpool's veteran defender Phil Thompson stepped up at a crucial moment and blocked the pass in time, and the Chinese team only won one corner.
"Look at him!"
Hilton pointed at Wu Jie and loudly signaled to Terry Butcher to take care of this dangerous person.
"Don't worry, I won't let him touch the ball!"
Terry immediately ran to Wu Jie's side and assured Hilton in English.
"Just kidding, if I go to a corner, how can you not let me touch the ball? You can't stop me even if I shoot! ”
Wu Jie sneered, this was not a small sound, and after speaking, he was ready to go to the corner flag area to take a corner kick.
"This bastard is not joking, he can really shoot straight at the goal and stand behind the goal."
Phil Thompson's face changed when he heard this, but the Liverpool he played for was scored by Wu Jie, and immediately signaled his teammates to go to the back of the goal to defend.
Hilton also hurriedly instructed his teammates to re-position, not daring to despise Wu Jie at all.
They are confident to beat the Chinese team today, but the only variable is this guy, and they have to cheer him up with 100,000 spirits.
Wu Jie was walking to the corner flag area at this time, and raised his hand to signal to Chen Haonan as he walked, and this time he would take the corner kick.
Chen Haonan nodded and immediately walked to the stadium, looking like he was ready to grab points in the penalty area.
The England players didn't care, and were still taking positions under the command of Hilton and Phil Thompson.
But they forgot one thing, Chen Haonan's English is very poor, and there are not many people in the Chinese team who can speak English, so how can the Chinese team communicate in English?
The Englishman did not think of this crucial point, but under the influence of Wu Jie, he was in a state of relaxation before the tension, and everyone was preoccupied with choosing a defensive position in order to deal with the upcoming corner.
But when Wu Jie just walked out of the penalty area, Chen Haonan suddenly turned around and rushed to the corner flag area, and directly passed the ball to Wu Jie, who was also running back.
The England players had not reacted until this point, and many were still thinking about how to deal with the corner, unaware that the attack had already begun.
Wu Jie easily received a pass in the penalty area, and then used a Bergkamp move to complete the turn in style.
At this time, the lax England players finally reacted, but they had no time to stop Wu Jie's shot.
Not only that, but all the English players, including goalkeeper Hilton, have yet to move into a defensive position.
When Wu Jie completed the shot quickly, they were still standing in the penalty area, out of order.
Hilton didn't even have time to make a save because he was still outside the six-yard box when Wu Jie shot.
All the England players had a bewildered expression, watching Wu Jie make a ball on the left side of the penalty area with an arc that was not fast, but the arc was extremely large, and easily shot the football into the upper left side of the goal.
The weirdest thing is that during the whole process, the English players have been standing there in such a daze that they can't react at all.
"FXXK, they fouled!"
"It's so cunning, can you play like a knight?"
"I didn't hear the whistle, the ball should be disallowed!"
When the English players saw that they had been teased again, everyone had an angry expression, and after reacting, they all chased the referee to protest, hoping to disallow the goal.
"Damn, don't the Chinese have any other way to score goals than to use this kind of indiscriminate means?"
"Mean, really mean!"
"The Chinese are all cowards, they are not qualified to play in the World Cup at all!"
"The Chinese will only deceive and dare not compete with us head-on, they are the sick men of East Asia!"
The England fans at the scene even scolded that they had never seen such a cunning and shameless team, and this was the second time that they had used intrigue to sneak attack.
At this time, the Israeli referee looked at the Chinese players in celebration, and secretly shouted "cunning" in his heart!
But this time he didn't hesitate and made a gesture to score effectively.
Because Chen Haonan had asked him "if there is a corner kick" just now, the reply he gave was "sure".
Then according to the rules, Chen Haonan can kick off at any time.
Unless the referee thinks that the players of the two teams in the penalty area have excessive physical conflict and takes the initiative to stop the game first, then Chen Haonan needs to get his signal to kick off.
But there was no conflict between the players of the two teams just now, so Chen Haonan could serve at any time, and there was not even a half-point violation in this ball.
As for Wu Jie pretending to go over to take a corner kick, it has nothing to do with this serve, and people can go as they like.
This goal can only be said that the Chinese team is too cunning, and they completely deceived the England team.
But Wu Jie, the hero of this goal, did not celebrate, because this kind of goal does have a taste of "stealing chicken" in his eyes.
But it would be too much to say that "victory is not martial".
In fact, both of his goals were "tactical goals" that would be regarded as classics by fans around the world in the future.
So why do foreigners use this kind of "tactical goal" to say that they are "smart", "spiritual", "creative", "creative", "Einstein on the football field", "the best corner kick in history", and so on.
But as soon as it was the turn of the Chinese to play like this, it immediately became "despicable", "shameless", "stealing chickens", "winning without force"?
Is this kind of "double standard" really shameless?