The "Aztec Stadium" is a plateau stadium where some teams from the plains play, although it is not as exaggerated as the strong altitude sickness, after all, it is only 2,200 meters above sea level.

However, such an environment will definitely have some impact on the physical consumption of players, and at the same time, the sluggishness caused by lack of oxygen will definitely have a great impact in high-level matchups.

In addition, it is also necessary to consider that the air resistance of the football in the altitude air is relatively small, and the difference in air pressure around the ball caused by the rotation of the ball is small, which will lead to a change in the speed of the ball, as well as a change in the flight trajectory of the ball, and eventually lead to a large number of strange flight paths.

But these problems are not too much for the Chinese team, because their main training base is located in Yunnan, where the altitude is not much different from that here, and the environment is almost seamless.

Chinese players even joked that if they have the opportunity to host the World Cup in the future, they must set up the venue in Lhasa when they play the knockout round, and it is best to play a game on Mount Everest.

Of course, this is a joke, but it's not all a joke, it's impossible to climb Mount Everest to play, but playing in Lhasa is not against the rules set by FIFA.

Even if you take a step back and find an area at an altitude of 2,500-3,000 meters above sea level, it will not be a problem at all, but it will definitely leave many teams with a serious lack of oxygen after half the game.

"Wu, I'm so glad to see you!"

When the players of the two teams were preparing to play in the passage, the veteran Falcao took the initiative to come over and say hello to Wu Jie.

The top four kings of the Brazilian midfielder are no longer playing in the starting line-up at the moment, and they have not played in this World Cup.

Now Falcao is more of a spiritual leader + assistant coach in the role of connecting young players in Brazil with the coaching staff.

"It was indeed a season to remember, dear old fellow!"

Wu Jie's translation voice sounds a little awkward, but he still has a lot of respect for the Brazilian superstar, including many young players in this team, and he also secretly instructed Arsenal's trading department to act.

There are a lot of new stars who are qualified to be his assistants at this World Cup, and even if Arsenal doesn't have an urgent need, they always have to raise the price.

At this time, the Chinese players were also trying to communicate with the Brazilian players in simple English, originally they thought that the Brazilians' English should be better than them, but when they communicated, they found that there were few people in the Brazilian team who could speak English.

Chen Haonan, Lin Yaodong, Gu Guangming and others can barely communicate with these Brazilian players, these Brazilians all speak Portuguese, but Portuguese and Spanish are very close, although they don't speak Spanish very well, but most of them can understand it.

"Man, did you know I'm the number one goalkeeper in the world?" Lin Yaodong is also trying to communicate with the goalkeeper opposite, but he is a little underplayed.

"You're not, you still need to improve!" Carlos Gallo can not only understand Spanish, but he can also speak, and he is very polite in the face of the yin and yang Lin Yaodong.

"I have a strong premonition that I can score today!"

"No, I'll stop you!"

"No, you won't!"

"No, I will!"

"No, you won't!"

"No, I will!"

Lin Yaodong snapped forward at this time, and quickly, and then gave a thumbs up, but he still had a very polite smile on his face, and said: "My dick, you stink!" ”

Regardless of the content of the conversation, this scene seems to be very harmonious.

The official film crew of the World Cup captured the two teams getting along with each other, and the players of both teams were talking and gesturing to communicate with each other in French, English, French, and Italian.

But when it was time to play, the players on both sides immediately stopped chatting, as if the friendly scene was just an illusion.

Inside the stadium, the "Aztec Stadium" today poured into 115,000 fans, a scale that cannot be compared even with the "Workers' Stadium" in China, especially the "Workers' Stadium" after a large-scale renovation for the Asian Games, and the capacity will drop to about 70,000 in the future.

As soon as Wu Jie and his teammates entered this magnificent stadium, they were greeted by a wave of heat and a sound that caused the eardrums to vibrate.

At this moment, the three of them had similar thoughts, and now there is no such professional football stadium in China that can accommodate more than 100,000 people, and for a team that has entered the knockout round of the World Cup for two consecutive years, is this good? Of course it's not good!

"When will our fans be able to occupy half of the World Cup?"

Chen Haonan looked at the yellow-green that filled the stadium, and then looked at the reds that were only a few inlaid in the audience seats at most, and finally could only sigh.

"Since the domestic economic conditions are not good, why don't we pay for fanatical fans, as well as their employees, and their families to buy tickets, how much can 20,000 or 30,000 tickets cost?"

Lin Yaodong came up with a bad idea, but after quickly calculating it in his heart, he stopped mentioning it.

If it's just a ticket, it's really nothing.

But what about the reimbursement of tickets, as well as room and board?

If you really reimburse 20,000 or 30,000 people for tickets, accommodation, and air tickets during the World Cup, all the expenses will be a painful expense for even the richest man in the world.

By the time the domestic broadcast was broadcast to the live signal, the local time had reached 20:20, and the game was about to start.

Many veteran fans can estimate to a certain extent what tactics to play on both sides through the starting lineup.

This kind of thing is even more obvious for the managers of both teams, at this time the coaches of both sides are observing the opponent's starting lineup and guessing the opponent's style of play today.

China's starters:

Frontcourt: Wu Jie (99), Wang Dongning (84)

Midfielders: Ren Zhihui (85), Chen Haonan (99), Zhen Aiguo (84), Gu Guangming (86)

Backcourt: Jiang Wei (84), Cui Yonghua (83), Jia Xiuquan (84), Li Junwei (85)

Goalkeeper: Lin Yaodong (99)

Brazil starters:

Front: Carreca (94), Muller (89)

Midfielders: Júnior (88), Cerezo (89), Socrates (91), Josimar (87).

Backfield: Blanco (89), Cesar Julio (86), Alemand (87), Jurkingho (87)

Goalkeeper: Gallo (88)

The Chinese team's starting start was obviously unexpected by the Brazilians, including the Chinese fans, who did not guess that they would play in a 4-4-2 formation?

Can Wang Dongning, an Asian tank who has always performed mediocre on the world stage, really rush against the Brazilians?

Also, will their four defenders be able to withstand the Brazilian's world-leading attack?

"No. 1 in the world?"

Wu Jie feels that this year's Brazil is far from being the first in the world, otherwise it would not have lost to the French team in a head-to-head duel.

The embarrassment of Brazil this time can be glimpsed from their ability, Socrates and Júnior, these veterans, were all about 95 in the last session, and this session has already declined a lot.

As for the young post-60s waves such as Blanco, Alemão, Cerezo, and Jurkinho, the ability value of the next World Cup is basically above 90, which will be their peak, and now they are just fledgling stars.

The Brazilians didn't guess the Chinese team's start, their start was guessed by the Chinese team.

Today, the Samba Army is indeed dominated by me, even if there will be some worries about the Chinese team, but they will never change their playing style in order to limit the Chinese team.

China's lineup is not really 4-4-2, Wang Dongning's role is not to score, he is actually a defensive striker today.

If Wu Jie is also counted, then the Chinese team will use a "double defensive forward" arrangement in this game, and they can completely change the formation to 4-6-0 when needed, and they will not fight the Brazilians at all!

"Central People's Radio, CCTV, listeners, viewers, Hong Kong and Taiwan compatriots, overseas Chinese, today is a World Cup 16-8 knockout match, the two sides are familiar to us with the Chinese national men's football team, on the other side is the world's top team that has won the World Cup three times, the Brazilian national men's football team."

By the time Song Shixiong's voice reached the ears of the Chinese fans, the kick-off had already been completed, and the Brazilian, who had won the coin guessing session, decided to attack first.

There were about 80,000 Brazilian fans at the scene today, and the remaining 40,000 fans were half of them supporters of the Chinese team from Tiannan and Haibei, and the other half were naturally neutral fans.

This left the Brazilians in a completely home atmosphere, and their attacking attributes, which were almost engraved into their DNA, were quickly stimulated, and after kick-off, they just kicked the ball back and started to attack.

The Chinese defence was interesting, they did not start intercepting in the middle of the field, and the whole middle formed a chain to prevent the opponent from breaking through vertically, and began to retreat neatly.

Socrates didn't feel much pressure after winning the ball in midfield, and after observing it, he tried to pass to Careca in the front line, but the latter was cut off by the Chinese defenders as soon as he moved.

At the same time, the second defensive chain of the Chinese team adopts the defensive method of creating offside, and does not close to this top striker who is at the peak, but moves up collectively with tacit understanding.

Socrates saw that the pass to Carreca was either truncated or offside, and had to give the ball to Josimal on the wing.

Today, the Chinese team's defensive strength on the side is not strong, especially as the Brazilian team advances to the front, the second defensive chain of the Chinese team begins to turn, but it does not mean to move to the side, but forms a forward chain, close to the first defensive chain in the midfield, and compresses the offensive space in the middle of the field.

As soon as Brazil advances from the middle, the two defensive chains will get closer and closer, and once they reach the 40-meter range in front of the goal, they will unfold and close, forming countless diamond-shaped strangulation formations.

The Brazilian players have never seen this kind of defence before, but they can see the flaws in this defence on the flanks and the loss of control in midfield, especially in the early stages, when there is a big gap behind them, and it only takes a successful through ball to create a one-on-one ball for the striker to face the goalkeeper.

It is clear that the Chinese team intends to give up the control of the midfield today, and then carry out extreme compression on the frontal battlefield of 30-40 meters in front of the goal.

As for the side and the vacancy behind him at the beginning, it will be handed over to Lin Yaodong to make up for it.

Brazil's attack went smoothly on the wing, if Simal, a rising star born in the 60s, is not well-known, but his breakthrough on the side is very lethal, especially after cutting inside the threat is very big, Jiang Wei was easily shaken away and got rid of.

At this time, the Chinese team's response was very interesting, Jiang Wei was not immediately chased back, but ran directly to the back of the defensive area, and his position was filled by teammates who shrunk into a dense formation in the middle.

After the simanese cut into the ambush of Chen Haonan and Cui Yonghua, he did not rush into the encirclement, but suddenly opened fire more than 30 meters away from the goal before entering the heavy defense area.

The Chinese fans in front of the TV were shocked, if Simal's shot was far away and the position was also in the right front of the penalty area, it was not strictly a reasonable shot option.

But the ball he shot was like a cannonball into the top left corner of the goal, and the Brazilian actually pressed down such a difficult shot?

The Brazilian fans in front of the TV saw the speed and flight trajectory of the football, and naturally stood up with a "snap", and many people were ready to cheer for the goal that was less than a minute after the opening......

But someone moved faster than them, I saw Lin Yaodong move two steps and fly up, unparalleled explosiveness and bounce, with outstanding height and arm span, he actually lifted the ball out of the goal range with one hand, and the ball almost flew out of the post in the upper left corner of the goal.

Lin Yaodong made a handsome roll when he landed, and after standing up, he first slapped his palms twice hard, and encouraged his teammates: "Continue to stay calm, let me come."

Then, naturally, he taunted the Brazilian players, only to see him yelling at the Brazilian players very viciously: "Boys, come to Daddy!" ”

This sentence is indeed vicious, and the Brazilian players are very much like teaching this arrogant guy a lesson.

But soon they were even more angry, because the corner kick sent by Lin Yaodong was directly confiscated.

The nervous hearts of the Chinese players were a little loosened at this time, and of course they knew that the "chain defense version 2.0" had several major flaws this time.

But they still regard this defensive system as a killer feature, because Lin Yaodong can use his personal ability to fill these shortcomings.

His world-class save put everyone at ease, if the Brazilian can even be stopped by Lin Yaodong with such a shot, then what is there to be afraid of?

The Chinese team got the ball back, Lin Yaodong did not open his foot as before, but threw the ball to Cui Yonghua, and the Chinese team began to slowly look for opportunities in the backcourt.

This kind of backward foot in the backfield is naturally not aggressive, and when it finally reached the feet of Chen Haonan in the midfield, he saw that there was no good opportunity, so he stopped passing forward.

After the Chinese team's attack reaches the midfield, unless a good opportunity is found, it can be crossed, and if it can't be crossed, it will be passed back, and in the end, it will be directly returned to Lin Yaodong.

At this time, Lin Yaodong's first choice was not to open a big foot, or to try to pass to a defender or a retreating mid player, and he would only open a big foot if there was really no point to the ball.

The Chinese team made more than 20 passes in this attack, and the Brazilian couldn't help but start grabbing after 10 passes.

At this time, Wu Jie was relieved that under the pressure of the Brazilians, they were still able to pour more than ten kicks back and forth in the midfield and backfield, and there was no rush.

What does this mean?

This shows that the basic skills of the Chinese team in front of them are very solid, so solid that they can even reverse the ball back and forth without making mistakes when facing Brazil.

The Brazilian felt that Lin Yaodong's long pass, which was forced to be helpless, should be able to put an end to the Chinese team's dull and negative attack.

They are ready to get the ball back and let these shameless Chinese taste it.

"Poof!"

But something happened that made it difficult for Brazilian fans and Brazilian players to spit out a mouthful of old blood, only to see Wu Jie easily compete for the top in the front court in the face of Cesar and Cerezo's bag, and actually returned the ball to his teammates.

The Chinese team didn't find a good opportunity after getting the football, so they naturally started an infinite horizontal pass + return pass, and after another back and forth pass of nearly 20 feet, Lin Yaodong kicked the ball to the front court again.

"It's so shameless, I've never seen such an ugly style of play?"

"It's not utilitarian football anymore, it's ugly football that deserves hell!"

"The Chinese are more shameless, negative, and ugly than the Italians!"

“……”

Brazilian fans can't stand it after watching it for a while, this extremely ugly football is the most despicable form of football that should be banned in their eyes and should not exist in the world.

But soon, these Brazilian fans, who were scolding, were left with only fear.

Lin Yaodong's big foot passed to Wu Jie again, but this time it was not as simple as winning the battle, because Cerezo, who was originally defending him with Cesar, had gone to the frontcourt.

Wu Jie stopped the ball directly with Cesar, who is 187cm tall and weighs 80 kg, in a one-on-one situation, and then completed the breakthrough with a clever turn.

At this time, Cesar showed the awareness of a top defender, and he lost his balance and kept people with a move that could have tackled Wu Jie.

Today's referee, who is from Greece, did not show Cesar a yellow card, but only blew the whistle to award a free kick to the Chinese team.

Seeing this, Wu Jie angrily stepped forward to fight with the referee, of course this action will not let him eat the cards, after all, he is recognized as the first person in the contemporary era, and no referee dares to play cards to him like this.

He also had a good grasp of the scale of his protests, which were mainly to put pressure on the referee, and he didn't want to be cared for in such hurtful actions for the whole game without the opponent being punished too much.

This time he naturally planned to take the free kick himself, but this position was too far away from the goal, more than 40 meters.

He had the quality to score the ball in that position and this time he hit the woodwork.

However, against a prepared Gallo, the ball was confiscated by the goalkeeper, who is one of the top five in Brazil's history.

But that's not the point, what really matters is that the Chinese team can still pose a threat to the Brazilians by relying on this style of play.

"Don't give him the slightest chance, entangle him, two people up, watch him die!"

Brazil coach Santana, who was on the sidelines, was shouting at his own players in a state of heart overload.

He was really taken aback, and immediately after shouting, he waved at Cerezo to sign something.

The Brazilian defender hurriedly made an apology gesture, his task today is to guard Wu Jie with his own defender, but he still couldn't help pressing it just now, which made Cesar face Wu Jie alone.

Now it seems that a person really can't guard against this alien!

Santana also didn't want to be separated from one person to guard Wu Jie, but he knew that he had to respect aliens in the face of them, otherwise the ending would definitely be tragic!

However, dividing a midfielder to take care of Wu Jie will inevitably make the attack power in the middle weak.

At this time, considering the targeted defense of the Chinese team in the front, Santana could only signal the team to attack the side with all its might.

But this is not forced to be helpless, their main attack direction today has long been decided on the wing, which is why there are four wing combinations that can play as wingers.

The Brazilian took possession of the ball and soon attacked again from the wing.

The two defensive chains of the Chinese team also swung again, but in the face of the attack on the side, they still did not press up to cover the clamp, and as long as the two fullbacks were broken, they immediately went to the back defense area.

Brazil's wide attack will not be cut, blocked, and strangled unless it cuts inside into the danger zone.

As for the opponent's shot on the flank, it was still handed over to Lin Yaodong to deal with.

As long as he can keep all the shots from both wings blocked, the impenetrable defense of the frontal field will not give the Brazilian a chance.

Of course, it can also be said that they are forcing the Brazilians to shoot on the wings.

The Brazilian also really dared to shoot from the wings, this time by Brazilian left-back Blanco.

This is another defender with a knife, Blanco is best known for a pair of powerful Donkey Kong legs, which can be called a representative of Brazil's violent fullback before Carlos' debut.

Brazil failed to attack from the right this time, and the right-back, who is also an attacking player, saw that there was still no chance after inserting, and directly transferred the ball to the left.

Júnior didn't get a chance either, but the ball wasn't passed to him, only to see Blanco, who was cut in from the back, get the ball and cut inside and finally burst into the area close to the middle.

It's no wonder that the Chinese team doesn't have a strong defense, and any team that faces such four unreasonable wings doesn't dare to say that it can take care of it.

Blanco finished the shot before Chen Haonan made up the defense, which was a shot about 30 meters from the goal, slightly to the left outside the penalty area, both in distance and position, better than Joosimal's shot just now.

But this time, Lin Yaodong saved faster, and he directly took Blanco's powerful heavy cannon in his arms.

"They can't break my goal, don't be impatient, don't worry, just play with them like in training!"

After Lin Yaodong took a few breaths of relief on the ground, he rushed to the penalty area again with the football in his arms, and shouted loudly at his teammates in pain.

At this moment, Lin Yaodong finally showed the taste of a leader.