Chapter 372: Scheming
"The genocidal gangs of slave owners in North America must be exterminated!"
Lin Yaodong hesitated when he got off the bus, but he still didn't say this sentence in front of the whole world.
But after entering the locker room, in front of the CCTV camera, he still shouted this slogan that was destined to be pinched out and could not be broadcast on TV until forty years later!
Today is June 21st, and their final match of the group stage against Gamara will be played at the "Jalisco Stadium".
This time, the venue finally has a bit of a World Cup flavor, and the "Jalisco Stadium" can reach a maximum capacity of 62,000 people when only 10,000 seats are reserved.
The scale was enough to create a fiery atmosphere, but it was the same old problem that embarrassed the Chinese players.
Their supporters today are still less than 20,000 people, including a large number of Asian fans.
However, the Canadian fans crowded in a full 40,000 people, which made today's game a proper away game for the Chinese team.
In addition, there is not good news, the last match between the Soviet Union and West Germany has been played yesterday, and the two sides have tacitly ended in a 1-1 draw.
This means that the situation in Group A has been decided, with West Germany winning two and drawing one to secure the top spot in the group, and the Soviet Union to secure second place in the group with one win and two draws.
Even if the Chinese team defeated Canada today, their results of 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss can only be relegated to the third place in the group.
But it is not without good news, as the match between China and Canada is the last of all groups, with most of the other groups having completed all three matches.
This means they can calculate from the third-placed finishers in the other groups how much goal difference they need to secure a third-place finish in the group.
Now the third place in Group B has been confirmed by Spain, who have 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss; The third place in Group C is Algeria with 1 win and 2 losses; Third place in Group D is yet to be determined, with England's match against Uruguay an hour and a half ahead of them; The third place in Group E is Belgium, who also have 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss; Portugal, who finished third in Group F, have a record of 2 draws and 1 defeat.
This arithmetic problem is easy to do, and now only the results of China and England are still undecided, and if they can both win, it means that Algeria and Portugal will be eliminated directly, and even the goal difference will not be counted.
This is naturally good news, the Chinese team does not need to get a big win to qualify, and the difficulty of the game has dropped a lot.
As for today's opponents, Canada, today they are destined to be eliminated regardless of whether they win or lose, who made them too bad in terms of the number of goals conceded.
Therefore, the mood of the Canadian sick man when the two sides entered the stadium was very low, including the Canadian fans at the scene, they simply hoped that their country's team could win a game, and at least score a goal, right?
Now Canada hasn't scored a single goal, if it leaves with such a result, won't it become the laughing stock of the world?
At this point, all the Chinese players were happy to make it happen with their own hands, except for Wu Jie, who was not going to use the tactics that had already been determined today.
As long as there are no accidents in this game, their tactics after entering the knockout round will regain the defense and counterattack of the previous session, that is, through the interception of layers starting from the midfield, using chain defense to consume the opponent's offensive, and finally naturally looking for opportunities to use Wu Jie's inhuman counterattack ability to solve the scoring problem.
In the first two games, they played an all-out attack and defense, with a more controlling style of play, which is naturally invincible against Asian teams, and is a good example of winning while winning.
But with their current strength, they can cope with the third-tier team at most, and it will be unpredictable to face the second-tier team, and against a first-tier team like West Germany, they are suspected of self-defeating.
Of course, today against a team like Canada, who are below the level in the fourth tier, they don't need to be so passive.
The key is in grand strategy, they need a big win to build momentum for the knockout round.
Today's Chinese team's starters are different from the last game, Zhen Aiguo was suspended due to the red card, his position was replaced by Wu Qunli, and the 11 starters were-
Frontcourt: Wu Jie (99), Zhao Dayu (85)
Midfielders: Ren Zhihui (86), Wu Qunli (83), Chen Haonan (98), Gu Guangming (85).
Backcourt: Jiang Wei (84), Jia Xiuquan (85), Cui Yonghua (83), Li Junwei (86).
Goalkeeper: Lin Yaodong (98).
The state of Chinese players today is obviously not the same as the last game, and they are basically in a state of explosion that has risen across the board.
This also shows in disguise that the personal ability of Canadian players is indeed a lot worse, and the ability of several players in the Chinese team has even increased by 3 values, which is already a state of explosion.
Of course, there is also the reason why Wu Jie quietly used the card to improve the status.
In China's first two games against the Soviet Union and West Germany, Wu Jie did not use any cards to improve his status.
Of course, there is a hidden hand here, and he really doesn't want to let the team explode in the group stage.
But today, against the Canadian team, he used almost more than 20,000 cards.
It's not about having money and nowhere to spend, it's about borrowing Canada to start building momentum and deceiving their next adversary.
He didn't want to deliberately create a "slow heat", to be precise, to be "preemptive".
In fact, there are pros and cons to "preemptive" and "preemptive", but under the group stage + knockout system, no matter how you look at it, the group stage is slow and clumsy.
Especially in the World Cup, if a team wants to win the championship, as long as it can qualify for the group stage, does it really matter how the results are?
This time, the three group winners in the second half of the division are all South American teams that are not disciplined enough and can easily collapse once the sneak attack is successful.
The team that Wu Jie hopes to play in the knockout round is actually a South American team from the beginning.
So they are only now starting to exert their strength, which is obviously more in line with the goal of "winning the championship".
Today's starting lineup of the Chinese team is also very deceptive, it is still not a defense-oriented formation, on the contrary, the combat policy is very aggressive, no matter how you look at it, it is more like a South American team!
Combined with the courage to show their swords against the Soviet Union and West Germany in the first two games, it will be difficult for the opponents in the knockout rounds to guess that they will adopt diametrically opposite tactics.
Canada, on the other hand, were intimidated from the start, and their 4-5-1 formation was clearly dominated by counter-attacks.
But it's a pity that the defensive counterattack is not so easy to play, otherwise there would not be so few cases of the weak beating the strong.
The Canadian team in North America is also not a defensive one, and the best of their squad are also offensive players.
This is a lot of pain, and the Canadian team, which started to defend as soon as it came up today, expecting to find opportunities through defensive counterattacks, soon found that there were not many opportunities to even possess the ball.
The Chinese team even pressed the four defenders to the position close to the midfield, leaving a large coveted open space behind them, but the Canadian players could only watch the greed.
In the 6th minute of the first half, Wu Jie used a pass without looking at people to assist Zhao Dayu, who was successful in anti-offside, to complete the goal, which made the mentality of the Canadians crack on the spot!
Wu Jie was a little sympathetic to the Canadian team at this moment, they were not so miserable in the original plane, although it was also an embarrassing ending of losing all three games and not scoring a goal, but at that time, they only lost one goal against the French team, and the number of goals conceded was not so exaggerated.
But the Canadian team on this plane is facing a more brutal opponent who has no intention of showing mercy.
Wu Jie is not playing the center position on the offensive end today, but a more advanced libero role.
But no matter what position he plays, Canada's defensive focus is still mostly on him, even if Wu Jie doesn't take the ball, there are at least two heels around him, and when he gets the ball, he can often see four Canadian players approaching him, forming an encirclement that is extremely rare in football.
This gave the rest of the Chinese team a lot of room to play, especially when Wu Jie didn't have much desire to score goals.
Wu Jie really doesn't have much desire to score goals today, he has scored three goals in the first two games, and the three goals scored by the Chinese team in the first two games were all contributed by him.
That would be at the top of the scoring charts, with him tied for first place with Lineker, and that was after Lineker scored again half an hour earlier.
But even if he didn't have a strong desire to score, the opportunity to score came quickly. Beanie boxes
In the 18th minute of the first half, Ren Zhihui, who had been average in two consecutive games, finally played the level of his three-man at Ajax today, and a wing attack that passed two people not only pierced Canada's wide corridor, but also allowed him to create a well-placed free kick outside the big box on the left side.
Wu Jie, as the team's unyielding penalty taker for free kicks and penalty kicks, waved his hand to the back at this time, and then saw Lin Yaodong running over.
"Boss, this position is more suitable for you, do you really want to punish me?"
Lin Yaodong is a little embarrassed, what he is best at is a free kick in the middle, the position of this ball is slightly on the side, and it is more suitable to use a curved ball to hit the goal directly.
"Nonsense, this position is obviously more suitable for me, but you can pass the ball to me first, and then I will make it the middle for you!"
Chen Haonan leaned over and muttered at this time, Lin Yaodong's eyes immediately lit up, and he didn't say anything more.
The Canadians are very entangled at this time, the Chinese team has three top free kick masters, they really don't know how to put the human wall, let alone who to focus on?
Needless to say, Wu Jie and Lin Yaodong, although Chen Haonan's reputation in free kicks is not so high, in fact, his free kick success rate is also ridiculously high, and he also has a unique "full moon scimitar" in the world.
This trick is actually the real unique skill at present, because the "elevator ball" Lin Yaodong can also kick it, but the "Full Moon Scimitar" is only mastered and used by Chen Haonan alone, although others can also kick free kicks with a large arc, but including Wu Jie, they are not as exaggerated as Chen Haonan.
The Canadians grinded and chirped for a long time, and Lin Yaodong impatiently asked the referee, can he serve directly?
Today's referee is from South Africa, I don't know if he had a mission before the game, but even if there is a mission, the Chinese team doesn't care, no matter how black it is, it can be darker than the Koreans?
The referee signaled that he could send it directly, and Lin Yaodong could shoot directly at this time, but he didn't shoot in the most comfortable position, which always felt a little worse, so he still kicked the ball to Chen Haonan next to him according to the plan.
The Canadian players will also focus most of their energy on Wu Jie, who can't be pulled by two people in the penalty area, and this time he stood directly in the penalty area, how dare the Canadian players not pay attention to him.
At this time, seeing that the Chinese team used a tactical serve, some Canadian players still focused on Wu Jie, and some of them pounced on Lin Yaodong, who received the turn.
At this time, Zhao Dayu and Ren Zhihui in the penalty area both threw out opportunities to get the ball, and Wu Qunli on the other side of the penalty area was in a state of being empty.
Lin Yaodong naturally saw that his teammates were in the vacant position, which made him hesitate for a moment, but after a moment, he still decisively passed the ball to Wu Qunli, who was unguarded outside the big penalty area on the right side.
This action was not even expected by Wu Jie and Chen Haonan, and even less by the Canadian players.
Wu Qunli was not stunned after taking the ball, and took two steps into the penalty area, causing the frightened Canadian players to rush towards him and then pick the ball to the small penalty area on the left side.
This successive transfer of the ball made the Canadian players completely confused, Ren Zhihui rushed to the left side of the small penalty area, and easily scored the ball into the empty goal with a cushion shot.
After the goalkeeper of Canada scored the ball, he had just rushed over from the direction of blocking Wu Qunli, and he didn't even have time to make a save.
"Why did you play so easily today?"
After seeing the goal scored so quickly, many Chinese fans felt that the Chinese team in today's game was like two teams in the previous two games.
These role players, who have disappeared for two games, are suddenly back in place today!
Wu Jie didn't think there was any surprise in this, it was still related to the strength of the opponent.
The strongest state of the Chinese team, everyone knows that the three of them performed well at the same time, driving the role players to play well.
But there must be a premise for this state, that is, they have the ability to form a one-on-one advantage in one-on-one and supplementary defense, so as to take advantage of the containment of Wu Jie and Chen Haonan to get the opportunity to threaten the opponent's goal.
In the first game against the Soviet Union, these role players actually played a certain amount of play, so they were able to gain the upper hand.
But in the second game against West Germany, almost all of these role players were at least one notch better than themselves, and it was difficult to expect them to stand up at that time, even if Wu Jie and Chen Haonan still attracted a lot of defense, it was still difficult to drive the offensive efficiency of the whole team, and the problem was even more serious on the defensive end.
Canada, for their part, once again felt the fear of domination, conceding two goals in less than 20 minutes of the first half, adding to their already low morale.
But it wasn't the defense that completely crumbled Canada today, it was on the offensive end.
In the 26th minute of the first half, the Chinese team, which had been pressing hard, finally made a mistake.
This attack was too high in the backline, and after the ball was cut off in front, the Canadian striker finally got a one-on-one chance.
All the Canadian fans watched with wide eyes, could this be their first goal at the World Cup?
Lin Yaodong was naturally scolding his mother in his heart, although the opponent's forward level was not high, he would not take advantage of the single knife ball, and he was not sure to stop this kind of ball.
But I don't know if the pressure he brought to the opponent was too strong, or the opponent had never seen a big scene, and his psychological quality was not strong, of course, it could also be that the meaning of this goal was too great.
In short, this once-in-a-lifetime one-shot opportunity, in the face of Lin Yaodong, who did not rush out of the penalty area, the Canadian striker did not have the confidence to dribble him past him, but wanted to use feints to deceive him into losing his center of gravity.
Lin Yaodong is not afraid of this move, and the opponent's feints are too fake, and the result is that he waited until the breakthrough and the angle of the shot were almost blocked by him, and the Canadian striker hurriedly tried to break Lin Yaodong's ten fingers with a low flat shot.
But the Canadian fans in front of the TV, and his teammates behind him, soon saw a scene of despair.
I saw that Lin Yaodong quickly stretched out his arms at the moment when the opponent shot, and his long legs also opened in the direction of the shot, accurately blocking the football with his thighs.
The Canadian striker immediately stepped forward to make up the shot, but Lin Yaodong's technical movements and secondary reactions were too fast, and he immediately relied on his feelings and experience to lean the ball towards himself and the ground after blocking the football, and used his body and ground to control the ball firmly in his arms like a textbook, not giving the opponent a chance to make up the shot at all.
At this moment, the Canadian striker's psychology must be full of despair and frustration, and he didn't control the action of making up the shot, and kicked Lin Yaodong on the shoulder.
"Toot!"
The referee's sharp whistle sounded immediately, and even if he had a task on his body, even if it was the stick team playing against the Chinese team, such an action of violating the goalkeeper in broad daylight would not be able to escape the punishment of the ruby card.
The Canadian striker didn't have any idea of leaving anything to chance, and fell to his knees on the spot, burying his head deep in the turf.
At this moment, even primary school students know what greets him, as long as the goalkeeper controls the ball with his hands in the big penalty area, then kicking the goalkeeper is the easiest and most foolproof way to get a red card, and 100% will face the punishment of ban.
"I'm fine, he's already reinstated!"
Just when the Chinese players were all furious and ready to come up and surround the culprit, the most painful scene appeared.
saw the referee whistle all the way to the front and back of the Canadian striker, Lin Yaodong actually stood up first to help the other party take the initiative to exonerate, and then showed the referee that the part he was kicked was not injured.
"Okay, this good guy made him really amazing!"
Wu Jie and Chen Haonan, as well as nearby Chinese players, rushed to the scene, all in a state of bewilderment.
In this case, the drill in their training, isn't that the case?
Wu Jie quickly thought of why Lin Yaodong didn't roll on the ground according to the instructions in training, but made such a virgin-like move.
The reason is very simple, whether the opponent receives this move or not, it is destined to eat a red card, and Canada is likely to be an opponent they will never meet again in their lives.
At this time, Lin Yaodong chose to show off his moral character as a show of His Virgin Mary, and after the game, he could properly gain praise from public opinion all over the world, and it would become a model for preaching "fair play" in the future.
This generation of Canadian fans will be extremely impressed by him, and at this time, the Virgin Mary is really good for him to take advantage of.
So, where is this Virgin!
This is a scheming!
But the beauty of this thing is that even if you know that he is playing tricks, you still have to praise everyone for his actions.