Chapter 816: The Only Team That Hasn't Conceded a Ball!
A draw with Brazil?
This is simply a fantasy, something that I can't dream of, and the Chinese team's score is too unexpected.
There were two reactions from both sides after the game, with the Chinese fans rejoicing and none of the Brazilian fans believing that Brazil would only get a draw with such a huge advantage.
In an interview with Brazil's "Global Sports" reporter after the game, the Brazilian fan said fruitfully: "This is simply impossible, we have more than 20 shots on goal, and there is not a single goal, but we have an alien Ronaldo on the front line, and the Brazilian ace Rivaldo!" And Ronaldinho, Kaka, Adriano, these guys didn't even score a goal? I have to suspect that this is a match-fixing! Say yes before the game! Compared to the 1998 final, this match is even more doubtful! ”
Another Brazilian fan shouted directly, "Match-fixing! ”
"These guys played a match-fixing game!"
"I lost $3,000 for the spent! Unforgivable! ”
The whole of Brazil blew up, only this time the criticism was not as dissatisfied with the performance of the Brazilian team as in the World Cup qualifiers, but only with the lack of a goal from Brazil. Both the media and the fans are quite unhappy with Brazil's forward line.
After the game, Brazilian reporters flocked to the mixed area, trying to stop the Brazilian players for interviews, but none of the players had the face to be interviewed, and they all hid in the locker room at the first time, which was completely different from the performance of the Chinese players.
The Brazilian players have no face, but the Chinese players have a face.
All the Chinese internationals interviewed thought that the team was lucky and that Brazil deserved the final victory.
Fan Zhiyi: "The Brazilian team is too strong, but luck is on our side. ”
Li Weifeng: "If you play again, I think we will definitely lose. ”
Li Yin: "I didn't expect it to be a draw, although I hit the post, they shot at least four times as many as us, right?" ”
Sun Jihai: "I didn't guard against Carlos at all, but their luck was too bad. ”
Yang Chen: "I didn't perform well today, but I didn't expect their strikers to perform even worse, which is perhaps the biggest reason for the draw?" ”
Acchulian: "I made a couple of good saves, but I think the Brazilian strikers played really badly today. ”
Even Zheng Zhi bluntly said, "It's really unexpected to get a draw, I think the score should be around 2:4 is more reasonable." But this one point will not help us much, and we will have to fight Turkey to the death in the last game. ”
Judging from the statistics after the game, the Brazilian team's possession rate and other statistics are much higher than China's, but they were still forced to draw by the Chinese team. The Chinese international will naturally not be presumptuous, and really think that he has drawn the Brazilian team through absolute strength.
Head coach Horton also thinks Brazil are strong, "We defended well, but I don't think it was enough for us to get a draw, Brazil wasted too many chances, you know, they have the best attackers in the world. But that's football, we give and then we get something back...... The draw also made Group C confusing......"
Brazil coach Scolari could only cry without tears, thinking that the team could qualify early, but ended up playing a game of embarrassment, he said of the game, "I am shocked, shocked that we could not beat China. I don't really know how many chances we squandered and if it was in the knockout rounds we would have been punished for sure, but we have to calm down now and I think it's too early to say anything. Our players are young and talented and we need to learn from the experience and get everything back on track. ”
But Scolari's embarrassed expression was still like saying: I'm sorry for putting on a show of......
Originally, he still wanted to bring Ronaldo to the press conference, but he was worried that Ronaldo would be squirted out, so he finally appeared at the press conference alone.
"Forget this night,"
"We now have to win Costa Rica in the last game."
Costa Rica must be depressed, so why should they take us by a big score? Are we soft persimmons?
Subsequently, Costa Rica proved that they were not soft persimmons, and in the battle with Turkey, they drew 1-1 with Turkey.
Turkey should be the most depressed team, originally Brazil and China drawn, for them is the best news, but they themselves did not fight, did not get 3 points from Costa Rica, which means that in the last game, they not only have to win the Chinese team, but also win the Chinese team by a big score, they have hope to win the right to advance.
How hard is it? There are two scenarios.
First, the Brazilian team wins, and Turkey must at least beat the Chinese team 4:0. But they couldn't even win Costa Rica, so how could they kill the Chinese team 4:0?
Or maybe Brazil loses to Costa Rica and they win 2-0 against China, but Brazil loses to Costa Rica? That seems even more unlikely......
Turkey is too hard!
In turn, Turkey's draw was lucky for the Chinese team, which means that the Chinese team does not need to win to advance to the round of 16, as long as there are no big surprises.
On this day, not only the Chinese team received good news, but the Japanese team in Asia also played at a high level and ushered in a victory, they defeated Russia 1-0, also got 4 points, and it seems that advancing to the round of 16 is not a fool's dream.
Then the South Korean team played and finally drew 1:1 with the Japanese team after falling behind 0:1, and also got 4 points.
In the top four in Asia, in addition to Saudi Arabia's two consecutive defeats and early exit, China, Japan and South Korea all got four points and saw the hope of advancing to the round of 16 of the knockout round.
After the battle with Brazil, the Chinese team immediately rushed to Seoul and began to prepare for the third round of the group, with only three days to rest, and the event was still very compact.
The next day, the third round of the World Cup group stage began.
Defending champions France lost 2-0 to Denmark at the Mumunhak Stadium in Incheon, becoming the first defending champion in World Cup history to fail to qualify in the first stage and not score a goal. Although Zinedine Zidane made a timely comeback in the final round and became France's top performer, it could not stop the French team from packing up and going home with Uruguay, Denmark and Senegal in Group A.
The favourites are all home, so it's no surprise that anything else is happening. However, Group E was relatively stable, with Germany and Ireland advancing together and Saudi Arabia and Cameroon being eliminated.
1 day later, Group F ushered in bad news, the god of war Batistuta shed tears on the bench, Argentina was eliminated, England and Sweden advanced to the round of 16 together, the second favorite Argentina was also eliminated, the madman Bielsa led Argentina in the World Cup South American qualifiers, Buddha blocked and killed Buddha, but knelt down after the World Cup finals.
On the same day, Paraguay and Spain in Group B also advanced to the round of 16, with Spain winning all three of their matches.
On the 13th, it was the turn of Group C again, with the Chinese team facing Turkey at the Seoul Stadium and Brazil facing Costa Rica at the Suwon Stadium.
China and Brazil have the best hope of qualifying, but they are not without the possibility of elimination, and if China loses to Turkey by a large score, they are also in danger of being eliminated.
Turkey is sharpening its knives and vowing to slaughter the Chinese team!
In order to prepare for this life-and-death battle, Turkey conducted closed training yesterday, and Güneš kicked all the reporters out of the training ground, as if he really wanted to practice some big moves. Compared to Turkey, Horton continues to train openly and copes with ease.
The Turkish team currently has two games, one draw and one loss, and the results are not ideal, but coach Güneş has not given up, claiming that although the Turkish team's World Cup journey is bumpy, it will not be eliminated here, and they will learn from the first two games, and the game against the Chinese team is a good time to save the Turkish team.
At noon on the day of the game, Turkish coach Güneş was still full of confidence when he attended the press conference:
Güneş said: "Now it is the most critical moment for the Turkish team, we have no way out, only a big victory over the Chinese team can win the dawn." “
"4:0 is not an impossible task, as long as we are united in everything, anything is possible."
On the Chinese team's side, Horton said in a low-key manner: "The strength of the Turkish team is stronger than ours, but they are under a lot of pressure now. If they play a little bit more and we get the first goal in the first place, that's the best result. ”
"Brazil are stronger than Turkey, but they are used to playing with the ball and holding the game firmly, so they are not very aggressive. The Turkish team is different, they play in a European style of play and are certainly much more ferocious in terms of pressing. Turkey will have to win this game to qualify, so they will definitely attack very hard. This is indeed a difficult test for our Chinese team. But what if we do get the worst? Then we ourselves will be embarrassed to return home. ”
Both teams do not need to be mobilized, both are fighting for promotion, and even the result of the other game can be ignored.
At 14:30 on June 13, Beijing time, the 2 matches of the 3rd round of Group C of the World Cup started at the same time, at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, the Chinese team VS the Turkish team.
Turkey lined up a formation of 352: goalkeeper Rustu; defenders Emre Asik, Fatih, Brent; Midfielders Yumit Dawala, Tugayi, Hakan Yunsar, Basturk, Emre; Forwards Hassan, Hakan Suker.
On the Chinese team's side, Horton did not dare to slack off, and still played with the main force, goalkeeper Ou Chuliang; defenders Sun Jihai, Li Weifeng, Fan Zhiyi, Sun Xiang; midfielders Li Yin, Zheng Zhi, Shao Jiayi, Qu Peng; Forwards Yang Chen and Su Maozhen.
Compared with the previous game, only Su Maozhen replaced Qi Hong, and the formation became 442. Horton, of course, did not believe that Turkey could play China 4:0, and even dared to send two strikers to fight Turkey.
The temperature of the stadium is 23 degrees Celsius, the humidity is 69%, and the wind speed is 3 meters per second.
Turkey tees off first.
In just 2 minutes of the opening game, Turkey created a threat, Turkey's high school striker Hakan Suker grabbed the landing point in front of the Chinese team's big penalty area, and gave the ball to his partner Hassan, fortunately, Li Weifeng kicked the ball out of the bottom line first, and when the corner kick was opened, Fan Zhiyi and Li Weifeng pinched Hakan Suke at the same time, but they were still grabbed by Suke to the landing point, but they failed to top the strength, and the ball was finally confiscated by Ou Chuliang.
The Chinese team then immediately launched a counterattack, Sun Jihai sent a direct pass to Qu Peng in the backfield, Qu Peng squeezed the ball diagonally to the front, Yang Chen carried Turkish defender Fatih into the penalty area, but was intercepted by another central defender Brent and lost the ball, but soon Li Yin snatched the ball back in the front court and handed it to Zheng Zhi, the former Bayer Leverkusen teammate Basturk pulled down Zheng Zhi from behind, giving the Chinese team a chance to take a set-piece in the front court, Zheng Zhi chose to hit the upper left corner of the goal with a curved ball, and the ball was slightly out of the goal.
Turkey's offensive rhythm continued to speed up, after three passes to send the ball to the Chinese team's big penalty area, Hakan Suker's high-altitude ball advantage was too great, even Fan Zhi was a little embarrassed to defend, Suke once again gave the ball to his teammate Hassan, fortunately Sun Jihai retracted the middle in time, forcing Hassan to take the ball to the middle, and then forced a kick at the top of the arc of the penalty area, but lost the shooting crosshair, and the ball flew high into the stands.
The goal was not scored here, but in the other game, Ronaldo had already opened the scoring for the Brazilian team, and after recovering his shooting boots, Ronaldo finally found the feeling of shooting.
The Brazilian team is ahead, and Turkey has no choice but to defeat the Chinese team by a big score.
The Chinese team played a counterattack with peace of mind.
In the 9th minute, they created the best chance of the game, Basturk's left-footed shot from the edge of the box was blocked, Turkey drove a tactical corner from the left, Hassan took the ball to the back post, Brent still jumped up and headed into the far corner under the attack of Li Yin and Li Weifeng, but Ou Chuliang lifted the ball out with one palm and refused the goal.
The Chinese team immediately launched a counterattack, Sun Xiang sent a long pass in the backfield, the landing point was quite good, Su Maozhen pulled to the middle, so that Yang Chen rushed into the Turkish penalty area, and directly volleyed with his left foot, but the Turkish goalkeeper Rustu blocked the angle and slapped the ball out, but after the ball rolled out of the penalty area, Shao Jiayi rushed up and passed the ball back to the feet of Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi easily stuffed the ball to the right, this time it was Su Maozhen's turn to lean on the opponent's central defender and forcibly hit the goal, Rustu despite being interfered with by Yang Chen, But he still got the ball firmly on the goal line.
Subsequently, the two sides attacked and defended each other, although Turkey's attack was impressive, but the counterattack of the Chinese team was also fatal.
In the 15th minute, Hakan Yunsar cut into the penalty area from the left and shot from a small angle, and the ball was collected by Ou Chuliang. Launched a counterattack in the backfield again, this time it was Zheng Zhi who sent the ball to the right side, Qu Peng took the ball and immediately obliquely blocked Turkey's big penalty area, Su Maozhen unloaded the ball with the outside of his right foot, and did it back to Yang Chen, and then Yang Chen was put down by Tugaj, the Chinese team got a chance to take a set-piece in the front court, Zheng Zhi took a free kick 23 meters in front of the goal, and the free kick was blocked by the human wall, and the Chinese team was sent to the right side after the counter-robbery, and Qu Peng knocked back near the bottom line!
Li Yin volleyed sideways from 16 meters in front of the goal......
"This ......"
"The Turkish and Chinese teams are half a catty."
"Neither side took advantage of anything, and I feel that the Chinese team is still relatively relaxed, not as much pressure as the Brazilian team."
Turkey finally realized the true strength of the Chinese team and wanted to win the Chinese team by a big score? It's tantamount to a fool's dream.
Twenty minutes passed quickly, and neither side achieved anything. The Chinese team is not in a hurry, but the Turkish team is in a hurry, the more anxious it is, the more problems will arise!
In the 28th minute, the Turkish players who were eager to attack made a mistake in passing the ball near the midfield, Li Yin ran a wide range to intercept the ball, and immediately handed it to Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi found Shao Jiayi on the left side of the long pass near the middle circle, Shao Jiayi crossed after breaking through, Yang Chen, who was inserted at high speed, grabbed in front of the defender, and volleyed with the outside of his right foot 10 meters from the goal!
duang!
The ball hit the left post and missed a great chance, which was also the third time that the Chinese team hit the post in this tournament......
Two small misfortunes followed, Sun Xiang pulled down Emre while defending and was yellow carded, and he will not be able to participate in the 1/8 finals due to the accumulation of two yellow cards. Soon after, Li Yin fouled Hakan Yunsar and gave Turkey a set-piece in front, but Hassan's free-kick was not a threat.
Bad luck can't only happen to the Chinese team, in the 36th minute, Zheng Zhi suddenly kicked an elevator ball outside the 35-meter goal, although the angle is not very tricky, but the Turkish goalkeeper seems to be unprepared? After knocking the ball out of the line with both fists, he signaled for a substitution.
It looked like a hand injury during the save, which was a fatal blow for Turkey, and the injured Turkish goalkeeper Rustu was replaced by Omar, who is less than 1.80m tall.
"Zheng Zhi injured the opponent's goalkeeper again."
"Omar, a player, is not as tall as Ou Chuliang, this is Turkey's biggest hit, and the Chinese team can appropriately strengthen long-range shots."
Huang Jianxiang saw that the opponent's main goalkeeper was down, and he thought that the substitute goalkeeper was easy to bully.
As a result, they saved Su Maozhen's two headers in the 43rd and 46th minutes in a row, and they performed beautifully.
In the end, the first half was played 0:0, and neither side achieved anything. At this time, Brazil had already led Costa Rica 3-0, Ronaldo scored twice, and Rivaldo added the icing on the cake, and the Brazilian national team successfully started the slaughter mode.
The Chinese team and the Turkish team are still difficult to find a goal.
In the CCBV live broadcast room, Huang Jianxiang suddenly patted his head and said:
"Suddenly found a problem,"
"Since the World Cup, the Chinese team has not conceded a single goal?"
"Seems like the only team that hasn't conceded a goal?"
"Hehe, see Xiang, if you don't say it, I really didn't expect it! You're right, we're the only national team that hasn't conceded a goal! ”