Chapter Ninety-Four: Koala Hugs the Tree
Wu Jie's solo break completely conquered the neutral fans at Camp Nou, and the local fans in Barcelona were shouting loudly, raising their arms to cheer for the magical goal.
The Italian players on the scene, including the momentum of the fans, were cut off several layers by Wu Jie at this moment.
Fortunately, the first half of the game ended after Wu Jie's goal, otherwise the morale of the Chinese team with the help of this goal is likely to enter the fifth layer in one go.
At halftime, commentators from all over the world were still reminiscing about the goal.
"Putting this kind of goal on someone else may be a capital to show off for a lifetime, but for the alien, this is just one of his many excellent works."
"The Italians have reached the limit of their defense, but the limit of aliens is always on the next level!"
"This action should be forbidden, because the moment he jumps, it is easy to step on the opponent and cause the opponent to be injured."
"There are also alien spins and seal-like dribbles, which are humiliating and provocative gestures that can easily be retaliated against by opposing players."
Although this goal amazed the world, it also made many people see the signs that the Chinese team may reach the semifinals.
Some people began to worry that the Chinese team would be blacked out, and although they could not stop anything, the words in their mouths began to taste bad.
After Wu Jie returned to the locker room, he didn't care about being happy, and went up first to encourage his teammates one by one.
There is no morale problem with the Chinese players, but there is a bit of a problem with their fitness.
They didn't recover from it, and although they spent most of the first half today, they were on the defensive, but it was also a very strenuous job.
Except for Wu Jie and the two tool men, as well as Zhen Aiguo and Li Junwei, who did not play against Germany, many of the rest of the players will find it difficult to stick to the whole game.
Wu Jie could only keep staring at the state of the team displayed by the system, and whoever had physical fitness below the danger line in the second half could only replace him.
So what's going on in Italy?
Wu Jie is too lazy to take care of other people's affairs, and he can't worry about his own troubles.
The Chinese team had physical problems, and Wu Jie naturally hesitated to take advantage of everyone's strength and simply let the formation press up to fight for a goal in the early part of the second half.
If you don't fight when you have the strength, then when you don't have the strength, I'm afraid you won't have a chance to fight.
But what if you press it and get your ass stolen?
That's where he struggles!
Now there are only two options -
The first is to press the formation up, which can increase the chances of breaking through the Italian defence, and he will not be able to use his individual ability to break through the Italian team's heavy defense to score goals in a row.
The second is to continue to swing the bus and then let him go alone and try to score the second goal.
Both of these options are flawed, and both have gambling elements.
But at least maintaining the style of play in the first half can reduce the chance of being scored by Italy, Wu Jie decided to keep the tactics of the first half unchanged after a long time, and they should at least give the Italian defensive counterattack at least respect.
In the second half, the Italians also gave Wu Jie enough respect, not only did the two fullbacks return to defense faster, but even only retained Rossi as a striker, and replaced Anthony Oli, who had a balanced attack and defense, to increase the control of the midfield.
The Italians didn't have the same idea as the Chinese team, and they only needed a draw for this game.
At that time, even if the German team did not give face, the Germans, who had already been out of the game early, might not be able to fight them with their strength in the final battle.
So there is no need to risk today, a draw is enough.
This utilitarian idea made the Italians completely give up the initiative to attack, such an ugly performance made many Italian fans feel too ugly, and neutral fans felt that the Italian team had no strong team style, let alone ornamentation, so it was better to let the Chinese team enter the semi-finals.
But the Italians were unmoved, and in the second half the two teams launched offensive and defensive drills in the midfield.
However, no matter which side wins in midfield, it is difficult to create a good chance once they are deep behind the enemy, and the most you can do is to see luck with long-range shots.
Wu Jie's long-range shot today is not bad, but in addition to the decline in athleticism and reaction speed, the 40-year-old Zoff's defensive prediction and positioning in front of goal are even older than Lin Yaodong, who has undergone two dream trainings, and this kind of long-range shot from 30 meters away is hardly a real threat to him.
Lin Yaodong is obviously more balanced, his current experience is completely sufficient, but his reflexes and physical fitness are as outstanding as a cat, and this long-range shot is less of a threat to him.
The fierce battle between the two sides lasted for 30 minutes, and the Chinese team began to have players cramping on the field.
Zhu Bo, who has been the starter, has bottomed out, and Wu Jie can only replace him with Chi Shangbin.
Soon after, Gu Guangming, who needed to make a lot of offensive and defensive conversions, also ran out of physical strength and had to be replaced.
"It's the last ten minutes, let's press it!"
Wu Jie glanced at the time and glanced at Chen Haonan.
At this time, the Italians' physical strength is almost exhausted, a draw is of little use to the Chinese team, and they can't take the risk before because they are worried that Italy will succeed in counterattacking, and now everyone's physical strength is not much, and the two strikers are replaced by one, and it is time for them to make a final fight.
Chen Haonan's first pressure was very sudden, and the Italians were caught off guard.
Wu Jie first broke through on the left side of the ball, attracted the attention of the Italian player, and then transferred the ball to the weak side with a pass without looking at people.
Chen Haonan took the ball and shook it past Oriali, and the Italians were unprepared and almost smashed into the right side of the penalty area, only to be tackled by Sirea in front of the big penalty area.
The foul allowed Cirea to receive a yellow card, and the Chinese team got a well-placed free kick.
The Italians didn't dare to be careless, except for Rossi, who all returned to defend at the back.
At this time, Sirea performed a commotion in front of the goal that made Wu Jie stunned, he actually climbed to the top like a koala holding the far goalpost, and then hung his whole body on the goalpost, ready to wait for Wu Jie to shoot the ball out when he shot at this position.
"Referee, doesn't he foul like that?"
Wu Jie is really stupid, in his last life, he had seen the strange scene of stepping on the crossbar of the goal when defending a free kick in "Football Player", but he never thought that in reality, someone would defend like a koala climbing a tree.
"You can make free throws!"
The referee also saw his eyelids jump, if the Chinese team did this, he might blow the violation.
But forget about the Italians, although this kind of defense is a sideline ball, the existing rules really don't say that this can't be done, just like Wu Jie scored a throw-in in England and shot directly, doesn't it also use the rules.
Camp Nou fans were amused by the move, this kind of koala-style defense has never been seen before.
And I have to say that this action is so joyful, not only like a koala, but also a bit like a monkey.
Wu Jie was also a little unstable by this action, and this time he originally wanted to kick a curve with his left foot to hit the far end of the goal.
Now he had to temporarily switch to other positions, but the force around the wall was slightly stronger, and the ball flew off the bottom line by grazing the crossbar in the middle of the goal.
"It's all grass!"
Wu Jie was so angry that he was a little angry, how could he not foul if he held the goal post like this?
The Chinese players also feel that it is too much to defend free kicks in this way, if this is okay, then one person climbs up on each side of the post, and a few people are arranged to lie down on the crossbar of the goal.
The neutral fans at Camp Nou laughed before booing the Italian team.
Today's Italian team is too ugly and completely devoid of the demeanor of a strong team.
Now most of the neutral fans have changed to support the Chinese team, at least the Chinese team can put on a wonderful individual performance.
At this time, even the Italian fans couldn't hold their own faces, because this action of using both hands and feet and clinging to the goalpost was too cute!
The Italian players were also a little embarrassed, but who made Wu Jie's free kick in this position too deadly, they had to do everything, otherwise they would be eliminated if they scored a goal at the end of the game?
This time, Chen Haonan's sudden insertion also attracted the attention of the Italian team, and then this little man was also surrounded by the Italians with heavy troops.
If you don't look at the scoreboard in this scene, you think that Italy is ahead of the Chinese team.
But this kind of turtle defense was indeed very effective, Wu Jie and Chen Haonan fired a total of five shots on goal in the next ten minutes, but they were either saved by Zoff or blocked by the dense Italian defenders.
In the 88th minute, Wu Jie made another long-range shot after passing two people in a row, and was once again saved by Zoff, who was in an excellent position.
At this time, the Chinese players did not notice, and after Zoff completed the save, he quickly got up and took the goal kick.
This ball was kicked high and far by him, and it fell directly on the half of the Chinese team.
Chi Shangbin made a serious mistake at this time, he made a mistake in prediction after jumping, and he didn't hit the football.
At this time, Rossi flexibly bypassed from his side, stopped the falling football behind Zhen Aiguo, and then accelerated to overtake and catch up with the football, and in a blink of an eye, the person and the ball were already approaching the penalty area.
Jia Xiuquan was still on the other side of the penalty area at the moment, but fortunately, Lin Yaodong attacked decisively and broke the ball with one kick outside the big penalty area.
Wu Jie sighed in front of the court, and the referee had already given two minutes of stoppage time.
The Italians still felt as if they were leading the way, and even in the final stages of the game, the guys were still fully focused and didn't give them a chance.
The solo ride in the first half was not the norm after all.
No matter how good his technique is, it will be too difficult to play this kind of anti-heaven fairy ball twice in one game.
Eventually, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match, the Italian players either clenched their fists and waved their arms, while others smiled and crossed their chests......
This scene, coupled with the cheers of the 80,000 Italian fans in the audience, made it seem as if Italy had really won.
But on the other hand, the Chinese players, none of them showed smiling faces, but many of them sat on the ground in disappointment.
Wu Jie didn't smile either, and Lin Yaodong even kicked the turf a few times, causing the turf in front of the door to splash.
Seeing this, the Barcelona fans immediately shouted: "Lin, you have destroyed our expensive natural turf, and you don't want to lose money to come here to play." ”