Chapter Twenty-Five: Not Acting at All (Part I)
Wu Jie's goal made the Kuwait team lose his temper, his speed was beyond the reach of opponents, and of course, his dribbling speed was a little slower than running empty.
At this moment, countless scouts in the stands are piling up as many words of praise as possible on their reports, and if you can take everyone's scouting reports and take a look, you will find that Wu Jie's name is marked with four or five small dots behind it.
This is a common practice for scouts in Europe, who will add a small dot to their name if they are consistently performing well over a long period of time, but usually within three.
If there are four small dots, it means that a real genius has appeared.
Five small points naturally means that you must be coaxed, there are not many new stars in the world with this evaluation, in recent years, only a few geniuses such as Maradona, Rossi, Lineker, Gullit, Mateus and so on have received such an evaluation.
In addition to Wu Jie, these scouts also wrote Gu Guangming's name on the report, but there are only one or two points after his name, which shows that Wu Jie and his teammates are not on the same level at all in the eyes of these scouts.
Wu Jie was celebrating on the field at this time, and everyone thought that he would use the "machine gun shooting" action again after scoring in the final, but he just lowered his head and kissed the national flag on his chest after scoring the goal, with a small expression that was quite serious.
Wu Zhengsong waved his hand fiercely in front of the TV, shouted "Well done", and then came directly to the living room to kneel!
Of course, he knew that the old man must be watching the game in front of the TV at this time, this is a real fanatical fan, CCTV can try to broadcast the World Cup in 78, in fact, it is the old man's request.
After the Chinese team played South Korea 7:0 in the preliminary round, the old man was a little unhappy when he heard that CCTV had no broadcast plan for the group stage, so CCTV urgently advanced the broadcast plan to the group stage.
Wu Jie's performance has been excellent later, and the old man even asked the secretary to call and praise Wu Zhengsong, saying that he had cultivated a good son for the country.
Wu Zhengsong couldn't help but kneel in his office at that time, and his knees hurt a little today.
Now this act of kissing the national flag has undoubtedly helped the two fathers and sons fight for a lot of political capital.
Wu Zhengsong has always wanted to progress very much, and Wu Jie will also want to improve after retiring in the future, so this kind of patriotic celebration must of course come from time to time.
The chairman of the Kuwait Football Association, Prince Fahd, had anger and embarrassment on his face, the former emotion because the team conceded less than ten minutes into the opening game with such a huge home advantage. The latter sentiment was due to Prince Hamad sitting on the sidelines, the future king who was full of praise for the goal of the opponent's core.
Prince Hamad, as a big fan of Wu Jie, is indeed a bit crooked now.
He didn't care if Fahd was embarrassed or not, this prince was an insignificant role for the second prince, who had already been identified as the crown prince and minister of defense.
But like to like, Prince Hamad also hopes that his team can win, but unfortunately his idol comrades are too strong, not to mention that the Kuwaiti players can't stop this goal, and he thinks that the French team may not be able to stop this long-distance run.
France's main central defenders, Maxim and Tresor, will definitely not think so, so they will not let Wu Jie complete the ball so easily, this is simply the Kuwaiti defender is too vegetable.
After the game resumed, two rookie defenders from Kuwait followed Wu Jie closely again.
They knew that if Wu Jie scored this kind of goal again, their sports career might end early.
The Kuwaiti football team has a lot of welfare, and they don't want to be swept away.
The Chinese team did not shrink the defense line after scoring a goal, everyone knows that a goal is very unsafe, it is best to take the opportunity to score another goal, otherwise the Soviet referee will be powerful, and they are still prone to tragedy.
This caution was necessary, and the two teams have since been locked in a tug-of-war.
Wu Jie frequently returned to the midfield to participate in the organization, he knew that there were many Kuwaiti midfielders, and it was difficult for him to get opportunities to stay in front, so it was better to organize the attack himself.
Since the group stage, he has shown more and more of his ability to organise and pass the ball, especially the ability to pass straight balls.
This is naturally due to a lot of high-level game experience, Wu Jie has long learned to rely on ball control skills to find teammates to find gaps, long pass footwork and short distance through the plug are very good, and the ability to grasp the timing of gaps is also stronger than Maradona, who is more accustomed to solving problems with personal ability during this period.
In the 21st minute of the first half, Wu Jie and Rong Zhixing and Zuo Shusheng in the midfield carried out continuous running and passing cooperation.
The Kuwaiti player couldn't even figure out when his position was at the back of the three, and Zuo Shusheng and Rong Zhixing rushed to the vicinity of the penalty area instead.
At this time, the two Kuwaiti players were hesitating whether to split one person to fill the defense in the penalty area, but Wu Jie did not give them a chance to think, and when he received the back pass of Lin Lefeng who was inserted with his back, he seemed to have expected the running position of his teammates, and after half turning, he directly passed a straight kick that was just right, instantly breaking through the defense of the Kuwait team.
Rong Zhixing plugged in at high speed, and the ball had already arrived first, and he only needed to lie forward to catch up with the ball, forming a single ball in the penalty area facing the goalkeeper.
"Toot!"
The linesman did not hesitate to raise the flag diagonally upwards and awarded the goal for offside.
Rong Zhixing had calmly pushed the dead corner at this time, and easily scored this single goal.
The Chinese fans in front of the TV and the radio, including the Chinese players on the field, were already excited to celebrate, who would have thought that the referee would blow away this goal that even the fake fans could see as a good goal.
"When Zhixing receives the ball, he is at least two positions behind Kuwait's fullback, is this referee cross-eyed?"
Gu Guangming and Shen Xiangfu were also in front just now, and they saw it most clearly, none of the three of them were offside in this ball, because Wu Jie's ball was worn too suddenly, and the Kuwaiti player didn't expect that he could pass such a through ball immediately after receiving the ball with his back, and the quality of the pass was so high, and the two Kuwaiti fullbacks were obviously standing in front of them at that time.
"Where is the fairness of such a miscalculation? What is the principle of heaven? ”
Su Yongshun and his assistant coach tried to rush into the stadium to reason with the referee, but were stopped by the security personnel, so they shouted loudly, regardless of whether people could understand it or not.
Wu Jie was clear about his teammates' runs and the opponent's pressing before touching the ball, which allowed him to pass a fatal through ball. This time there was finally a replay in front, and we can see that Wu Jie anticipated his teammate's running position before receiving a cross from his teammate, and he did not stop the ball and directly pushed the middle straight plug successfully. Unfortunately, the replay did not give a more intuitive picture of offside, but from an oblique angle, it can be seen that the ball was not offside. Because the Kuwaiti defenders hurriedly turned around and defended in the direction of Rong Zhixing, we can conclude that this was an obvious miscalculation. ”
Song Shixiong is commenting on the wonderful goal that was ruled invalid, and the Kuwaiti side still did not give an intuitive replay picture, but it can already be seen that the goal is definitely not offside.
"Turtle son!"
This is the evaluation of an old man in front of the TV, although there are only three words, but it is concise and to the point, and the words are clever, which shows its cultivation culture.
Wu Jie didn't react much, he applauded his teammates, and walked back calmly.
He didn't believe the referee could keep making such a decision, otherwise Kuwait would not have been able to appeal after the game.