Chapter 288: The Olympic Journey (11)

At present, the most outstanding position of the Chinese delegation is naturally the shooting team, and the performance of the weightlifting team and swimming team is also outstanding, but these events exceed the men's volleyball and women's volleyball teams in terms of influence at most, and they are still far from the men's and women's basketball teams, and they cannot be compared with China's first sport "football".

However, the influence of basketball has risen rapidly recently, especially the emergence of women's basketball team, which has attracted a large number of fans around the world, although most of these fans are aimed at Wang Xiaoqian.

But now that the men's basketball team has joined hands with the women's basketball team, it can indeed make the influence of basketball increase rapidly and narrow the gap with football.

Wu Jie was also a basketball player in his last life, and he knew that although this sport was not close to the people on the career path, as a recreational or fitness sport, it was actually easier to popularize than football, because basketball is not harsh on the needs of the field, and the difficulty of an ordinary person wanting to play basketball is definitely much easier than playing football.

In terms of spectacle, basketball games are more inclined to heroism, the pace of the game is more tight, and if the quality and quantity of stars are high enough and the number of stars is high enough, basketball games will not be inferior to football in terms of attractiveness.

This is a good thing for Wu Jie, he does not want more than a billion Chinese to love football alone, but wants a hundred flowers to bloom.

In fact, he is not a football lover, but a sports lover.

He personally doesn't know if it's because he likes to fight and win, but he likes all real-time competitive sports, such as football, basketball, mixed martial arts, boxing, tennis, racing, table tennis, badminton, swimming, track and field, diving, volleyball, and most of these sports have commercial potential.

But at present, football is still the only national sport in the world, especially in China.

Tonight's group stage against Belgium is naturally the focus of attention of the whole Chinese.

The starting lineup sent by the Chinese team tonight did not change much, except that Jiang Wei was promoted to the starting left wing-back and replaced Wang Dongning, who had no physical advantage in the face of European players.

Belgian football in the 80s was at the end of the first gear, the goalkeeper of a first-class team, and if you can beat Belgium, you can loudly declare yourself a first-class team.

Belgium has been in the top 10 in the world rankings for nearly a decade, but has never won the European Championship or World Cup.

If it is against the Belgian first team, now the Chinese team can only rely on the performance of three superstars, and the victory or defeat is about five or five.

But now it's a team playing a second team, so it's naturally much easier.

Many teams are strong when they are strong, and weak when they are weak.

Of course, there are teams that are weak when they are strong and strong when they are weak.

But this Chinese team is strong when it is strong, and stronger when it is weak!

When the Chinese team faces opponents who are weaker than themselves, what they are best at is to use a little advantage to snowball, and finally comprehensively crush and overturn the opponent, in a word: the strong team is not afraid, and the abuse is ruthless!

Isn't this kind of national football team unfamiliar?

But on this plane, up to the People's Liberation Army, down to the three major balls, it is this cannibalistic style to fight.

However, the Chinese team is still mainly defensive counterattack in this battle, although they can have the upper hand in the attack, but the chain defense system has been practiced for two years, and it can't be hidden all the time, right?

If many things are hidden and not used, it will not be possible to test the effect with actual combat, find deficiencies, and find problems to correct, which will do far more harm than good.

Therefore, after the start of this game, the Chinese team has been luring young Belgian players to attack on the defensive end, and European teams basically choose young players to go to the Olympic Games, these players are not bad in talent, and their athleticism is also very good, but they have serious deficiencies in experience and awareness.

Especially in the face of the Chinese team's defense full of traps, it is often strangled by the extremely layered and flexible defensive chain when it is plunged.

These Belgian young players are excellent in terms of technique and athleticism, but after the Chinese team's defensive chain swings, forcing Belgium's attack to only run before the first defensive chain, once the football penetrates, or passes forward, it will be strangled back and forth by the two chains that swing!

In fact, this is not the complete form of chain defense in Wu Jie's mind, because the current chain defense of the Chinese team only has the ability to prevent the opponent's football from breaking forward or passing the ball forward.

But if the opponent's midfielder can charge forward, or if the team is good at using the width of the pitch to transfer and dispatch in a wide area, it is easy to make the chain swing and strangulation loopholes, and the so-called whip is beyond the reach of this means.

Therefore, the teams that use chain defense in 30 years will almost always combine the characteristics of zone defense to make up for the shortcomings, so that the defense has both "cutting ability" and "blocking ability".

But this puts forward harsh requirements for the ability of the players who implement the tactics, so whether any tactics are good or ×not, it depends on the ability of the players, otherwise you can't play the simplest tactics.

There were very few teams in the 80s that possessed these two abilities, and even if they did, they needed an attacking system that brought them into play, as well as proficiency in execution.

The current Brazilian team has this ability, but they can't even crack Italy, which only had a prototype of chain defense two years ago.

Now this set is almost ninety percent complete, and there is a chain defense of Wu Jie and Chen Haonan pressing the formation, and it is almost impossible for any team to crack it in three or five years.

In the face of this defensive chain of layers of interception and rapid strangulation, the attack of the Belgian second team was quickly seized by the Chinese team after the mistake and used Wu Jie's speed to complete a fatal counterattack.

Wu Jie did not score in the last game, but scored a goal in the opening 15 minutes of today's game with efficient counter-attack.

This goal also made the Belgian players completely lose control of the game, and the rhythm of the field was firmly in the hands of the Chinese team.

Ten minutes later, Chen Haonan instigated a very ornamental team attack in midfield.

The star-studded frontcourt lineup of the Chinese team started from Chen Haonan's attack until Wu Jie used a header in the penalty area to complete the goal, and completed a total of 13 consecutive forward passes before and after, each pass made the Belgian defense tired, and finally revealed a fatal gap.

Wu Jie celebrated with Chen Haonan for the first time after scoring the goal, although he completed the fatal blow in this attack, but Chen Haonan contributed 3 of the most critical passes in the whole cooperation process.

The Chinese team can now play this kind of continuous offensive cooperation, in addition to the progress of Gu Guangming, Zhao Dayu, Zhen Aiguo, and Liu Haiguang, the most important thing is Chen Haonan's strategic metronome and engine.

Without his scheduling and tandem, the Chinese team could only rely on Wu Jie's individual ability on the offensive end.

Of course, Wu Jie can also be qualified for this position, but if he is allowed to retreat to take on the task of organization and scheduling, the lethality of the front line will be greatly reduced.

What the Chinese team lacks most now is a top striker, whether it is a winger, a striker, or a center forward.

In this way, Wu Jie can return to his most comfortable position as a free agent, and no matter how the opponent's defense is arranged, Wu Jie can appear in the position that makes the opponent the most uncomfortable, so that his threat can be fully played.

China's coaching staff also knew what they were missing, so after taking a two-goal lead in the first half, they switched directly to Ren Zhihui as a winger in the second half.

At this time, the formation of the Chinese team actually became 4-5-1, Wu Jie and Gu Guangming were slightly left and right in the middle, Zhen Aiguo stayed behind the two and was responsible for dirty work, and Ren Zhihui and Gu Guangming attacked the opponent's hinterland along the side at every opportunity.

The Belgian team faced such a three-dimensional offensive, especially Wu Jie and Chen Haonan, who could directly pass and cut after the distance was shortened, in fact, the linkage of these two people alone was unstoppable.

The midfield combination of Wu Jie and Chen Haonan is not even a twin star anymore, it is simply a "double-bomb combination" of the king and the small king, no matter which aspect is much stronger than Iniesta and Xavi of Barcelona at the peak of the original plane.

If Barcelona at that time was two 2 with a big king, then the current Chinese team is a big king with two A's.

In the 51st minute of the second half, Gu Guangming received a long pass from Wu Jie from the left side, and found an offensive opportunity to attack Huanglong.

At this moment, no one knew how Wu Jie was able to penetrate the entire Belgian back line horizontally from outside the line of the penalty area on the left side, and used an accurate long pass to Gu Guangming who was inserted from outside the penalty area on the right side.

When Gu Guangming received the ball, Belgium's defensive formation had already been transferred to the left by Wu Jie and Chen Haonan.

As long as he scored 80 points on the stoppage, it was a short unguarded empty goal.

Even if the stop ball is only 70 points, it is an unguarded one-on-one opportunity.

If it is a Chinese player from the original plane, this goal is estimated to have a great chance of becoming an embarrassing situation where a defensive player returns to the defensive position, and the goalkeeper has time to adjust his position.

However, Gu Guangming achieved 90 points in the ball stoppage, he unloaded the football to the front and back of his body without delay, and immediately pushed a ball into the bottom left corner of the goal with the instep of his left foot, and the football bounced into the goal on the inside of the post before the Belgian goalkeeper could save it.

Wu Jie finally smiled at this time, Gu Guangming's goal looked easy, but even if it was replaced by ordinary La Liga players, they might not be able to do a good job in the two links of "stopping the ball" and "shooting".

As long as one of these two links is not handled well enough, it is likely that in the end, his "Flying Immortal Level" second transmission will be useless.

This is football, no matter how strong one person is, it can only make a difference, but a good team can make players and fans enjoy the unparalleled charm that football brings.

The Chinese team is celebrating collectively at this moment, and the Chinese team, which has been cultivated since four years ago, has finally become a world-class powerhouse.

The mentality of the Belgian players has naturally changed, and the Chinese team's attack has made them always tired, but no matter how hard they try, they can't keep up with the rhythm of the opponent and can't find the direction to win.

However, this is only a defensive torment, and Belgium are truly helpless in attack.

The Chinese team's lineup made Belgium feel a deep sense of powerlessness, because Wu Jie and Chen Haonan could not only withdraw together to help defend after getting closer, but also swept a large area in the middle like two pincers, plus there was a Zhen Aiguo in the back who was constantly doing dirty work and tired, and even occasionally played the role of a butcher.

This even fills in the lack of depth in the chain defense, while extending the defensive range to a level that can be called untouchable, and is simply an unavoidable Maginot line.

Even if the Belgians slapped themselves twice at this time, they could only look at this line of defense and sigh.

They didn't resist either, and at the beginning they really planned to learn from Germany to bypass the middle to play two wings, or directly behind the Chinese team.

But first of all, it is definitely useless to play behind, the chain defense of the Chinese team is to pay attention to the vertical, coupled with their anti-offside tactics in today's football world that has just begun to pay attention to "anti-offside", whether it is the tacit understanding of the back line or the timing of offside, including Lin Yaodong, who commanded in front of the goal, this is an incomparable advantage of other teams.

In addition, taking the air route and playing high-altitude bombing tactics, you still have to face Lin Yaodong, a goalkeeper with animal dominance ability, Belgium does not have an excellent center forward and passer to execute, so the happiest person to play is Lin Yaodong, who is about to fall asleep.

So it seems feasible to bypass Wu Jie and Chen Haonan from the two wings, but this will be a lot better than two years ago, Li Junwei, the main full-back of Kaiserslautern, is the best at dealing with speedy wingers, only Jiang Wei, who started today, is more offensive than defensive, which looks like a loophole.

But this is the only loophole that is not a problem at all in the face of the Chinese team's chain defence, because the Chinese team, who play 4-4-2, can deploy two positional defenders on each wing at any time.

In addition, the chain defense does not need to worry too much about the reduction of the thickness of the middle due to the allocation of more troops to the wings, because the chain is spread horizontally rather than vertically, so it is enough to put only one defender in the middle of each defensive chain, so that they can occupy two complementary and important positions.

To put it bluntly, the two chains of the Chinese team are like a retractable whip section by section, as long as the position is not chaotic, it is not a big problem, it can still be retracted, waved, and strangled.

Superstars such as Wu Jie, Maradona, and Chen Haonan certainly have the ability to tear off this chain by their personal ability, but the success rate will definitely be pitiful.

Besides, once it is strangled by the chain of the Chinese team, it is likely to be a fatal mistake, and if you want to break the formation with your personal ability, it will definitely be a big advantage for the Chinese team.

Today's Belgium is the first time to taste the chain defense of the Chinese team, no matter which point they attack will face a layered and deep defense, the Belgian players in the defense will have a sense of powerlessness surrounded by layers of people, and even the timely ball will be intercepted by the Chinese players who have already been ambushed.

In the 68th minute of the second half, the Chinese team completed a break on the left side of their home.

Jiang Wei, the fullback, did not pass the ball after taking the ball, he directly took the ball to launch a counterattack, and actually dragged the side to kill alone.

Seeing this, Ren Zhihui naturally cut into the middle and gave up his position to help him take the defenders away.

The Belgian players couldn't defend and could only send one person to stop Jiang Wei, but the latter was in a state of high-speed dribbling, and a change of direction was clean.

At this time, Belgium's already disordered defense line was completely fried, and Wu Jie, who was also inserted into the penalty area at high speed, had only one person around him to follow the defense, and he was stuck behind him without even looking at it, and he didn't even know when Wu Jie received Jiang Wei's pass.

Wu Jie's goal was extremely easy, he just used his strong body to jam the defender, and then only 10 meters away from the goal, he used his thick right leg to whip the football on the spot.

The Belgian goalkeeper judged the right direction, but in the face of this shot with almost no clear flight path, he could only watch in despair as the football flew into the goal for the fourth time.

At this time, the most desperate thing was actually the Belgian defender who was stuck behind Wu Jie, how much he wanted to sweep Wu Jie to the ground with a sweeping leg just now.

But not only will you be given a penalty, you will receive a red card, you will also be 100% banned after the game, and you will also be shot by a fanatical psychotic fan wearing an alien mask.

The Chinese team began to make substitutions after scoring again, and today has scored a hat-trick, Wu Jie, who is at the center of the European football transfer market, was replaced, replaced by central defender Cui Yonghua.

Ren Zhihui, Jiang Wei, and Cui Yonghua are the young generation that the Chinese team most needs them to grow up with, so this Olympic Games will inevitably give them a lot of playing time to exercise, hoping that they can shoulder the heavy responsibility before the 86 World Cup.

Today's performance of these three people is good, Jiang Wei is not a crotch on the defensive end, but he gave the Belgian team a lot of pressure on the offensive end, and also performed a long-distance run of more than 50 meters in the second half, and finally assisted Wu Jie to complete the goal, and the nickname of "defender with a knife" is estimated to be arranged for him soon.

Cui Yonghua's performance after playing is also very stable, these three people want to talk about the overall situation, psychological quality, and leadership ability, this Cui Yonghua is the best, this is a mid-to-upper level of athleticism and defensive ability, but the mental attributes are extremely high leadership type guards.

Ren Zhihui's state today is a little average, although there were a few highlight moments in the second half, but on the whole, it was not as impactful as the first game.

Wu Jie was very happy, because he could see that Ren Zhihui had definitely summed up his problems after the last game.

But this kind of summary can easily backfire in a short period of time, for example, he is too much to seek cooperation with his teammates today, too much to pursue more efficient attacks, but seems too hesitant and loses his own characteristics.

Of course, this kind of labor pain will not last forever, as long as he can keep reflecting and correcting, coupled with Chen Haonan's guidance, this four-and-a-half-star genius will soon get real progress.

The final score was 4:0, and the Chinese team mainly defended solidly after Wu Jie went off, and then looked for opportunities to counterattack through two wings.

But Wu Qunli, who replaced Chen Haonan, was a little nervous, this late-blooming Guangdong midfielder had never played a game of this level, although there were no mistakes after playing, but there was no highlight performance, and his performance was relatively decent.

Gu Guangming began to save his strength for the next games, the Olympic schedule is too dense, and he will naturally not waste his physical strength in this kind of game where the winner or defeat is divided.

Ren Zhihui kept attacking with the ball, but unfortunately his performance today was not as good as the last game, and his teammates did not give him much help, and in the end he failed to help the team score again.

Head coach Nian Weisi is naturally extremely satisfied with this result, and this big win means that the Chinese team has qualified ahead of schedule, and they can send a semi-main squad to save their strength for the knockout stage in the next game.

Lin Yaodong is the most unhappy person in the team, because he still has no chance to perform today, and the only few saves in front of the goal are the kind that are not difficult for him.

But this is the helplessness of the goalkeeper of the strong team, and he has no chance to show himself until the knockout round.

In the second half of this game, Lin Yaodong even wanted to release water to let Belgium score one, do you say angry?