After all the group stages were played, the Huaguo team became the biggest dark horse.

It's not that the Huaguo team has become a dark horse by qualifying first in the group, because of the existence of Cheng Hai, the Huaguo team will qualify first in the group is expected by everyone.

Before the Olympics even started, everyone predicted this. Even if it is not 100% for the Chinese team to qualify for the first place in the group, it is a high probability event.

After all, Cheng Hai's strength, at the U23 level, is too buggy.

Even if the Chinese team is a weak team in Asia, the Olympics is a world-class competition, Mexico is strong, and Switzerland is also a European team, but Cheng Hai's strength alone is enough to raise the strength of the Chinese team at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends by several levels, and then beat Mexico and Switzerland.

Therefore, the Chinese team qualified first in the group, which is not a dark horse, which is not enough to shock.

What is shocking is that the Chinese team played 3-0, 5-0, and 5-0 in all three games, scoring a total of 13 goals and not conceding a single goal.

It's terrifying.

You must know that in addition to the Chinese team, even Brazil, which scored the most goals in the group stage, only scored a total of 9 goals in three games, and conceded 3 goals, with a goal difference of only 6.

This is already the most goal difference among the other 15 teams in the group stage except for the Chinese national team.

With the background of five-star Brazil, it is normal to score the most goals and have the most goal difference.

In addition, apart from Huaguo, Japan is the second team in the group stage not to concede a goal.

The Chinese team, which did not concede a goal, scored 13 goals, but Japan scored only 2 goals in total, relying on two 1-0 games and one 0-0 to qualify for the top of the group, which is not worth mentioning compared to the performance of the Chinese team.

The Hua Guo team's shocking goal efficiency, as well as its watertight defense, shocked the media and fans.

"The Olympic men's football group stage is over, the Chinese team scored 13 goals and conceded 0 goals, accumulating 9 points, and the first place in the group! 》

"Cheng Haijin scored 8 goals and assisted 3 goals, led the Huaguo team to win all three games and advanced to the knockout round with the first place in the group! 》

"Scored 13 goals and conceded only 0 goals, the Huaguo team became the strongest offensive team and conceded the fewest goals in the Olympic Games!" 》

"Under the leadership of Cheng Hai, the Huaguo team scored 13 goals and conceded 0 goals in the three group games, becoming the favorites to win the championship! 》

Yes, after the group stage, the Huaguo team, which scored 13 goals and did not concede a goal, became the favorite to win the championship!

Prior to the London Olympics, the odds to win the tournament were sixth out of 16 teams, which was not a bad but not a big favourite.

Because the other players and backgrounds of the Huaguo team have lowered the odds of the Huaguo team winning the championship, the Huaguo team can rank sixth almost completely supported by Cheng Hai alone.

After the group stage, the Chinese team, which was extremely terrifying at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, suddenly soared to second place in the odds of winning the championship in Eurobet, second only to the Brazilian team that also won all three games and has Neymar, who is known as the "successor of Pele".

Although the offensive and defensive ends of the group stage were not as dazzling as the performance of the Chinese team, the Brazilian team's heritage still allowed them to firmly occupy the position of the first favorite to win the championship.

Even if the Huaguo team scores more goals than Brazil, concedes fewer goals than Brazil, and has Cheng Hai, the world's number one superstar, but the Huaguo team, which lacks the background of the World Series, is still not as likely to win the championship as Brazil in the eyes of Bo'cai.

But even so, it was enough to make the Chinese media and fans ecstatic.

The first place in the group itself has created a new history of Chinese football. And then get the recognition of the company, become the favorite to win the championship, naturally let everyone extremely excited.

Many people originally held the mentality that they could qualify and enter the top four, but now they have also developed the hope that the Chinese team will win the championship.

The World Cup champion is not delusional for the time being, but the Olympic champion, with Cheng Hai's dominance at both offensive and defensive ends, can still think about it.

After all, even Europeans and Americans have lined up Huaguo as the favorite to win the championship, and the Chinese media and fans cannot be presumptuous.

In the expectation of the Chinese media and fans for the national Olympic team, at 14:00 on the afternoon of August 4, with the whistle of England referee Clattenburg, the 2012 London Olympic Games quarterfinals Chinese Olympic team VS Senegal national Olympic team match officially began at Wembley Stadium in London.

The offensive and defensive ability shown by the Huaguo team in the group stage, Cheng Hai's performance of scoring 8 goals and assisting 3 goals like a ball king made this quarter-final attract the attention of countless people.

Wembley Stadium, which can accommodate 90,000 people, in addition to thousands of Senegalese fans, the other more than 80,000 seats are occupied by Chinese fans, more than 50,000 people, and the remaining more than 20,000 seats are also occupied by London citizens who like Cheng Hai.

If it weren't for the attraction of Cheng Hai and the passion for football of Chinese fans, Wembley Stadium, which is enough to accommodate 90,000 people, would definitely not be satisfied.

After all, it's only the quarterfinals, not the final that will decide who the championship will be.

The confidence of the fans on both sides in the outcome of the match was evident in the number of spectators: many Senegalese fans themselves did not believe they could beat the Chinese team, so they only came to cheer on Senegal.

The Chinese fans believe that Cheng Hai can at least lead the team to defeat Senegal and advance to the semifinals, so more than 50,000 Chinese fans from overseas Chinese in England and China flew thousands of miles to London.

The entire Wembley Stadium was rendered into a sea of red, and the stands were full of fluttering red flags, as well as Cheng Hai's portrait and banners, cheering for the Chinese team.

After the start of the game, the Senegal Olympic team with a formation of 541 retreated as a whole, except for the single striker who stayed in the front court to put pressure on the back line of the Chinese national team, everyone else retracted to the 30-meter area of the goal to defend it.

It's really too much deterrent for the Huaguo team and Cheng Hai, not to mention the attack, Senegal doesn't even dare to counterattack, so they can only carefully shrink in the backfield from the beginning of the game, deploy heavy troops to defend, hoping to hold the goal.

If you can keep not conceding a goal and then the lone striker scores a counter-attacking goal, that's the ideal outcome.

If it is unfortunate to keep the score 0-0 to penalties, it is also an acceptable victory.

The attack is certainly worse than that of Cheng Hai and Hua Guo, so Senegal will be hoping to defend and stall for time.

At the beginning of the game, Senegal's morale was very high, the running was active, the scramble was fierce, and the personnel were piled up in the backfield, even Cheng Hai didn't have much to do, so more than 20 minutes passed, and the Chinese team had not yet scored.

During this period, Senegal had already given Cheng Hai a free kick in a good position because of a foul on Cheng Hai who broke through with the ball, but unfortunately Cheng Hai failed to send the ball into the goal in the end.

But after this example, Cheng Hai deliberately strengthened the dribbling breakthrough in the subsequent games, striving to create the opponent's fouls and free kicks.

His various dribbling and breakthrough skills make it difficult for him to concede even if he can't break through. And once you break into the penalty area, it is a great threat.

Therefore, Senegal guarded Cheng Hai strictly, and did not allow him to drive straight into the penalty area and complete the shot.

Cheng Hai has undoubtedly become the Chinese player with the most fouls on the field.

To the dissatisfaction of Chinese players and Chinese fans, the English referee Clattenburg in this game was quite soft in the penalty scale for Senegal's foul.

Or rather, his decision was somewhat biased in Senegal's favor.

Judging from the process of other events in the Olympic Games during this period, the Chinese delegation suffered a lot of unfair punishments in this Olympic Games.

The first three group games were not obvious, but in this quarter-final, the referee was English, and the unfair punishment received by the Chinese team was quite obvious.

Especially for Cheng Hai's fouls, Cheng Hai never faked falls, so many fouls caused Clattenberg to blow when the ball changed hands.

And once the Chinese team controlled the ball and continued to attack, Clattenburg would blow for Senegal's foul.

This is not favoritism for the Chinese national team, but deliberately interrupting the offensive rhythm of the Chinese national team, so that Senegal can prepare for defense in an orderly manner.

And for more serious foul actions, even if Cheng Hai was pushed, pulled down, and knocked down, Clattenburg did not show a yellow card, just an ordinary foul, and let the Chinese team take a free kick.

This is also one of the reasons why it has been more than 20 minutes since the start of the game, and the Chinese team has not yet scored.

It was the referee Clattenburg who was too biased towards Senegal, making them more and more unscrupulous to use tactical fouls to block the Chinese team's attack, without risking too many cards and free kicks.

However, there is one thing that Clattenburg and the Senegalese players did not expect.

That is, Cheng Hai is different from other football players, he never seems to get hurt, no matter how the opponent rushes him, at most he can only pull him down and trip, but he can't get injured off the field.

On the contrary, if the opponent is not careful, he will be injured in the collision.

Because Cheng Hai's physique is too strong, with the blessing of the system, he is definitely the first in the world that no one else can achieve. Whether it is the stiffness of the bones, the density of the muscles, or the ability to resist impacts, they are all unique.

So, after more than 20 minutes of hard defense in Senegal, in the 28th minute, Cheng Hai first broke through one of the opponent's players through his personal skills, and then passed the opponent's second player by colliding with his teammates.

Seeing that Cheng Hai was about to receive the ball from his teammates hitting the wall at the front of the penalty area and was about to kill the penalty area, Senegalese defender Sith rushed over from the side and made a flying tackle, wanting to destroy the ball.

Because of Clattenberg's previous law enforcement problems, Sith's flying shovel action was quite fierce and resolute.

As a result, Cheng Hai's movements were faster than him, and he flicked the ball forward first, and then Sith failed to touch the ball, but shoveled Cheng Hai to the ground.

Although Cheng Hai is full of physique, he is not a robot or tumbler, and his opponent's fierce shovel will still hurt and fall when he shovels him.

It's just that, for now, he won't be seriously injured.

This time, Cheng Hai was shoveled by the Sith on the ankle of his left foot that was supported on the ground, and the whole person suddenly lost his center of gravity and fell down.

Moreover, the flying shovel from the side of the Sith was quite ruthless, and although Cheng Hai was not shoveled and his leg was broken, he also felt a burst of pain.

Therefore, in the process of falling, Cheng Hai didn't have time to care about whether he would press people, but in the process of falling to the ground, he covered his feet and pressed his whole body on Sith's body.

Unfortunately, Cheng Hai, who fell, hit his elbow on the forehead of the Sith who slid under Cheng Hai with a flying shovel.

Both Sith and Cheng Hai suddenly screamed.

Cheng Hai was holding his left ankle and screaming in pain, while Sith was holding his head and rolling endlessly.

But it was always the Sith who fouled, and it looked menacing, as if he was going to cut off Cheng Hai's legs.

Therefore, at the moment when Cheng Hai fell down and hugged his ankle and screamed in pain, the fans at the scene and in front of the TV where would they care about the Sith was hit on the forehead by Cheng Hai with an elbow, and they angrily scolded the Sith who was flying in the shovel.

The players of the Chinese team on the field were even more excited, and some rushed to the referee and signaled that the Sith had committed a serious foul; Someone rushed up to the Sith and glared at him angrily, as if they were going to take revenge on him in the next second.

The Senegalese players hurriedly protected the Sith, and some players felt that Cheng Hai elbowed the Sith and quarreled with the Chinese players, and the group fight was about to break out.

Fortunately, the referee team was quite decisive, not only the referee Clattenburg, but also the two linesmen immediately rushed into the field to assist the referee in maintaining order.

Cheng Hai lay on the ground for a while, and after being summoned into the field by the team doctor rubbed it for a while and sprayed some sprays to clear dredging and reduce swelling, he stood up.

And the Sith, who was flying to shovel Cheng Hai, was hit by Cheng Hai and his eyebrow bones were cracked and bloodied, and he could no longer hold on to the game, so he could only be carried down on a stretcher.

But his flying shovel this time was too serious, and in full view, even if he was injured and looked more innocent, it could not clear the fact that he had committed a malicious foul.

Therefore, Clattenburg still had to show him a yellow card before he was taken off on a stretcher.

Senegal were forced to use up a substitution in the 28th minute of the first half and gifted a free-kick from a well-placed front.

The free-kick was placed on the right side of the box about 24 metres from the goal, both at the top of the penalty area and from the angle, making it ideal for a direct hit.

In particular, Cheng Hai's shooting skills and arc skills made Senegal goalkeeper Mane quite nervous, and he sent a five-man wall lineup, sealing the near corner tightly, and he himself stood outside the middle of the goal line, ready to save the ball.

Ma has a guess in his heart, and Cheng Hai should most likely use his arc technique to hit the near corner.

Therefore, although Mane stood at the far end of the midpoint, he was actually ready to pounce on the near end immediately when he saw Cheng Hai get up.

Cheng Hai's shooting skills are so good, most of the shots go straight to the dead corner, and it is difficult to save if you don't predict the displacement in advance.

When Mane nervously commanded his teammates to line up the wall, the Chinese audience at the scene and in front of the TV stared nervously at Cheng Hai in front of the penalty spot, praying that he would get the ball in.

Everyone can see that the referee Clattenburg in this game is more biased towards Senegal, resulting in Cheng Hai and the Huaguo team not scoring until this time.

And this free kick, which is about 24 meters away from the goal and has a good position, is a great opportunity for Cheng Hai to score.

If they can score the ball and take the lead, then Senegal will not be able to hold on.

Because this is a winner-or-lose quarter-final, no matter how good and good Senegal's defense is, if the score of 1-0 is maintained until the end, it will be Cheng Hai who will advance.

Therefore, this free-kick opportunity is quite rare.

Cheng Hai naturally knows this.

What's more, the referee's penalty scale in this game also made him quite dissatisfied, and he held back a lot of anger in his heart.

But he knew that his responsibility was to lead the national Olympic team to the final and win the championship, rather than arguing with the referee.

The referee was originally biased towards Senegal, and if Cheng Hai went to confront the referee again, Clattenburg might directly send him off with a red card.

This is the end of the Olympic journey of the Chinese Olympic team.

Therefore, although Cheng Hai has always been angry about Clattenburg's penalty, he did not break out, but forced himself to calm down and look for opportunities to shoot.

Scoring goals and winning is the biggest response to Clattenberg's biased law enforcement.

This free-kick was a rare opportunity.