Chapter 188: Unbelievable Score
In the 14th minute, Marcelo put on a good performance on the wing.
He drove the ball all the way on the side, connecting Cao Yunding and Wu Xi, and then crossed the bottom, ready to see the team's top scorer in the middle, Damion, to grab the goal.
Damion's performance at this Olympics is very eye-catching, he has scored six goals in the first five games, and is the top scorer in the Brazilian team, and he is the second highest scorer in this Olympic team under Cheng Hai.
Therefore, Marcelo will be hoping that the ball from his cross will be snatched by Damian to complete the goal.
As a result, Marcelo's own pass was not high enough, and before he flew to the middle of the penalty area where Damiang was, he fell in front of the point, and was grabbed by the defender of the Chinese national team, Li Jianbin, who pushed the ball out of the penalty area before Neymar cleared.
is not only clearing, except for Neymar, there is no one else around Li Jianbin, Neymar is not tall enough and his body is not strong, so Li Jianbin is very well prepared when he clears the ball, aiming at the running direction of his teammates and pushing the ball out.
And Cheng Hai, who was seven or eight meters away in front, was more prepared.
His full-value off-ball running, vision, and ability to grab points make him better at judging where the ball will land than Marcelo, a passer.
Therefore, the moment after Marcelo passed the ball, Cheng Hai had a hunch that his ball was likely to be pushed out by his teammate Li Jianbin at the front point.
So Cheng Hai immediately threw off the Brazilian players around him and ran into the gap on the right side.
Sure enough, Marcelo's pass was immediately pushed out by Li Jianbin, and Cheng Hai's full-value stopping skills allowed him to unload the ball smoothly during the run, and then went to the direction of the Brazilian half and launched a quick counterattack.
At this time, Marcelo desperately returned to the defense as if he had just woken up from a dream, but where could he still catch up with Cheng Hai.
The world's No. 1 speed and full-value dribbling ability make Cheng Hai faster than Marcelo's return defense speed even if he runs with the ball.
Marcelo, who boldly stepped forward to assist the baseline, paid the price for the defensive holes behind him.
Cheng Hai rushed forward with the ball, and only met the central defender Juan who hurriedly came over in the middle at the halfway line.
Juan was menacing, threw the whole person out the moment he approached, and made a flying shovel action, with a posture of blocking Cheng Hai even if he fouled.
However, Cheng Hai's dribbling ability and judgment are stronger than Juan's.
At the moment when Juan flew over, Cheng Hai, who was running with the ball, made a Marseille maneuver like a cloud.
Juan, who flew to shovel and shoot, opened his mouth wide, slid in front of Cheng Hai, and rolled out of the sideline.
Cheng Hai turned 360 degrees, then rushed to the Brazilian penalty area with the ball, and cut diagonally while rushing, aiming at the goal.
Marcelo, who had used Cheng Hai to do Marseille slalom and had already chased behind Cheng Hai, was thrown away by Cheng Hai again.
Thiago Silva, another Brazilian central defender who was on the same level as Cheng Hai in the middle and was originally guarding Dong Xuesheng, although he had already thrown Dong Xuesheng and made up for Cheng Hai diagonally, trying to stop Cheng Hai.
But Cheng Hai's speed was too fast.
Silva can't stop Cheng Hai, and Cheng Hai has formed a de facto single knife.
Sure enough, when he advanced more than ten meters with the ball and came to the outside of the big penalty area, Silva, who came over to make up for the defense, failed to reach Cheng Hai, and was more than a meter behind Cheng Hai, and he couldn't even foul.
Cheng Hai's single blade will appear.
Countless Chinese fans in the stands and in front of the TV have already stood up, holding their breath, waiting for Cheng Hai's one-knife shot.
The commentators on the commentary seat widened their eyes and watched the results of Cheng Hai's single-knife counterattack.
The fans of the Brazilian team naturally booed loudly, hoping to interfere with Cheng Hai and let him knock the ball away.
But Cheng Hai's archery skills are really desperate.
The angle occupied by the goalkeeper couldn't block the route of Cheng Hai's shot at all.
Facing the goalkeeper Gabriel, who had already attacked into the big penalty area, Cheng Hai kicked the near corner fiercely.
It was certainly too late to save with his hands, and Gabriel reflexively sat down, trying to block the ball with his feet.
However, Cheng Hai's shooting skills were too good, and the ball flew more than ten centimeters away from the tip of his toe, and then grazed the near post and drilled into the goal.
In the 14th minute of the first half, the Huaguo team took advantage of the gap left by the Brazilian fullback Marcelo to assist, and Cheng Hai played a long-distance counterattack goal of more than 60 meters, and scored a brace to help the Huaguo team take a 2-0 lead.
The entire Cardiff Millennium Stadium was boiling in an instant, and the Chinese fans and Cheng Hai's fans in the audience suddenly broke out into huge applause and cheers, and countless people shouted Cheng Hai's name and bowed to him.
In less than 15 minutes, he scored twice, and the Huaguo team led 2-0, both Cheng Hai's performance and the score on the field shocked everyone.
Even the most optimistic Chinese fans did not expect them to take a 2-0 lead over five-star Brazil in the opening 15 minutes.
As for the commentators who themselves are more optimistic about Brazil, they are even more incredulous.
The goal conceded in the first 6 seconds can be seen as a sneak attack by the Chinese, but this attack is completely caused by Marcelo's own defensive leakage after the assist, and no one is to blame.
It was a perfect long-distance run and a quick counter-attack.
The Brazilian commentator said incredulously:
"Oh my God, we've lost the ball again!"
"It's Cheng Hai's goal again!"
"Cheng Hai scored a brace and scored two goals in the opening 15 minutes, leaving us two goals behind!"
"Shame, absolute shame!"
"The biggest responsibility for this conceded goal lies with Marcelo!" "He thought he was handsome to stage a one-stop breakthrough on the side, but in fact, he exposed the vast loopholes left behind him to Cheng Hai."
"If he had passed the ball past the first player, Cao Yunding, and then returned to his position to defend, there would have been no such conceded goal."
'Marcelo's style of play, which always wanted to step up and assist, became the culprit for us to be two goals down.
"Of course, even as an opponent, I still have to praise Cheng Hai, he is too strong."
"Whether it's the goal in the opening six seconds or the long run in this counter-attack, it's pretty beautiful."
"Especially the Marseille maneuver in the middle of the way, and the accurate shot that went straight to the dead corner at the end, all showed Cheng Hai's superb skills and marksmanship."
"There is also Cheng Hai's physical defense in the midfield and backfield, which is also an important reason why the Huaguo team has not conceded a goal."
"Even if Dortmund offered Cheng Hai the highest salary in the world, I still think: Dortmund has made a lot of money."
"Cheng Hai's return to Dortmund next season will definitely far exceed this salary."
Cheng Hai's counterattack goal not only excited the Chinese fans and shocked the commentators, but the players of the Brazilian team were also a little dumbfounded.
As some commentators said, the goal lost in the first 6 seconds can be said to have been attacked by the Chinese team and caught off guard, but this second goal should not have been scored by the Chinese team's counterattack.
The most important thing is that now they have conceded two goals.
It's not a group stage, it's a final, a winner-or-loser.
The difference between the two goals, in football, is already huge. It's really not easy to come back from two goals down.
Especially in the case that the Chinese team still has Cheng Hai, a counterattack artifact, the Brazilian team, which is two goals behind, will inevitably face the threat of Cheng Hai's counterattack if it wants to attack aggressively.
The Brazilian players, who thought that the overall strength of the Chinese team was not good and they could easily win, had a somewhat collapsed mentality.
However, after the start of the game, the Brazilian team no longer dared to press the attack as aggressively as before.
Marcelo, in particular, even if his coaching teammates didn't blame him, he didn't dare to assist too deeply, at most he was involved in the backcourt.
It was really Cheng Hai's counterattack that scared them.
It is two goals behind, and if it concedes another goal, then the Brazilian team can directly admit defeat.
Therefore, under the reminder of the head coach, the Brazilian players did not press the attack vigorously after the restart, but first defended their own defense and then attacked slowly.
The manager is sober that Brazil must not concede any more goals. As long as you lose the ball again, you will definitely die.
The wise decision of the Brazilian coach saved the team for the time being, and there was no threat from the Chinese team in the following period.
Because of the huge threat of the Brazilian team, Cheng Hai did not dare to go forward, and he had to assist in defending and preventing the Brazilian team's attack.
The rest of the Chinese team is the same, in the case of a two-goal lead, it is natural to focus on defense and try to maintain the two-goal lead until the end of the game.
What's more, with the offensive ability of Cao Yunding, Rao Weihui, and Dong Xuesheng, without Cheng Hai's help, even if they attack, most of them are a waste of the ball.
After the game slowed down for about ten minutes, and after more than 30 minutes, the Brazilian team adjusted its mentality and started attacking again.
However, the attacking point is mainly the players in the midfield, the back and the back line, and they basically do not cross the midline to participate in the attack.
Even so, the Brazilian players' individual skills and passing and cutting coordination still made the Chinese team's defense look very embarrassed.
Especially Neymar, his speed and breakthrough skills made the players of the Huaguo team feel a little powerless, and the Huaguo players finally felt the powerlessness of other opponents when facing Cheng Hai.
Although Neymar's comprehensive strength is definitely far inferior to Cheng Hai, it is definitely more than enough to deal with the Asian U23-level defenders of the Chinese national team.
Fortunately, the Chinese team's defense line was withdrawn very deeply, and there was a numerical advantage, and the players in the midfield and backfield of the Brazilian team did not dare to press too forward under the deterrence of Cheng Hai's counterattack, so that Neymar had less support, and finally failed to score in the first half.
The most threatening of all was when Neymar cut inside after breaking down the flank, curling the ball into the far corner.
The ball successfully bypassed the ten fingers of goalkeeper Wang Dalei, but the ball finally hit the far post and bounced back.
Then, the bounced ball landed right in front of Brazilian centre-forward Damiang, who rushed into the six-yard box.
may not have expected such a good opportunity to appear suddenly, in the face of goalkeeper Wang Dalei has fallen to the ground after the formation of the big empty goal, Damion in front of the goal 4 meters reflexively shot a cushion, unexpectedly high off the crossbar.
The Brazilian fans, who had already stood up to celebrate the goal, suddenly let out a loud sigh of mourning.
Damion in front of the goal also knelt on the grass in front of the goal with a "poof" in disbelief, looking at the ball flying behind the goal, holding his head in his hands and showing an expression of disbelief.
The audience was left with the applause and cheers of the Chinese fans for the rest of their lives.
Whether it was Neymar's in-cut shot or Darmian's supplementary shot, it made the Chinese players and fans break out in a cold sweat.
Fortunately, this was Brazil's best chance to score in the first half. After missing that opportunity, Brazil were unable to make a threatening shot in front of the Chinese team's bucket bus formation.
One minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, and the two sides went into the break with a score of 2-0, and the Chinese team led Brazil with Cheng Hai's brace and two goals.
After a 15-minute break, both China and Brazil made substitutions.
Brazil removed a midfielder and replaced it with a more attacking attacking player.
The Huaguo team withdrew Cao Yunding, who was stronger in attack than in defense, and replaced Jiang Jiajun, who had better defensive ability, to strengthen the defense.
The aim of both sides was clear, the two-goal deficit Brazil team stepped up their attack, while the Chinese team tried to maintain the two-goal lead until the end of the game.
After the start of the second half, although the Brazilian team often maintained a defensive force of three or four people at the back, the front court was seriously understaffed.
But the players of the Brazilian team also worked hard, frequently staged one-on-one breakthroughs.
In particular, Neymar even used cycling and smashing the ball, Matthews feints, etc., to connect four people in a small space near the big penalty area like a Ling Bo microstep in the 52nd minute, and finally completed the goal.
Fortunately, at the moment of hitting the goal, Neymar was interfered by Zhang Linpeng, and the touch part was not accurate, and finally kicked the ball out of the bottom line by grazing the post.
The Chinese team escaped.
However, when the Brazilian team was attacking aggressively, the Chinese team was not idle.
Cheng Hai, in particular, has always maintained the mentality of sprinting and counterattacking at any time. If there is no chance, once the opportunity arises, he will try to score another goal to completely seal the victory and get the title in his hands.
Finally, when the clock came to the 72nd minute, the opportunity presented itself.
When the Brazilian team's attack in the front court made a passing error under the joint pressure of the Chinese players, and the ball was cut off by the Chinese team, Cheng Hai found that the Brazilian goalkeeper Gabriel was standing a little forward and stood on the line of the big penalty area.
Maybe it was the long-term lag that made him a little anxious, a little eager to try, and wanted to be closer to the frontcourt.
But his position allowed Cheng Hai to find a good opportunity to take advantage of.
At the moment when Maitijiang intercepted the ball that the opponent had mispassed, Cheng Hai ran there while pointing to the gap of four or five meters on the side.
Maitijiang understood in his heart, although he didn't know what Cheng Hai was going to do, he still cooperated and pushed the ball to the gap of Cheng Hai's fingers.
Then, everyone at the scene and in front of the TV saw that Cheng Hai picked up his big legs during the run, and at a distance of more than 50 meters from the Brazilian team's goal, he kicked the ball directly in the direction of the Brazilian team's goal.
When Cheng Hai ran in the direction of Maitijiang's pass, Gabriel didn't realize what Cheng Hai was going to do, thinking that Cheng Hai would just catch the ball and run for a long time!
As a result, he only took two steps back slowly and didn't get back to the goal line in time.
By the time he saw Cheng Hai shoot, it was too late.
Although Cheng Hai's shot was far away, Cheng Hai's full value of shooting power made him kick this shot not a drifting high-altitude ball, but a half-high ball, with very great power and very fast speed.
And Cheng Hai's shooting skills also played perfectly in this ultra-long-range hanging shot, and he did not miss the goal.
The ball flew across the pitch and over his head and into the net just as Gabriel stepped back to the six-yard line.
Gabriel barely managed to get up and down the ball as he retreated, and then watched as the ball fell in front of him and into the back of the net.
Cheng Hai took advantage of the mistake of the Brazilian team's goalkeeper standing in the front position, scored an earth-shattering ultra-long-range hanging shot, and scored a hat trick to help the Chinese team lead Brazil 3-0 and completely seal the victory.
Suddenly, the Chinese fans at the scene and in front of the TV were screaming and cheering excitedly.
Everybody knows what this ball means.
Even Cheng Hai himself couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and rushed to the sidelines and hugged the coaches and players on the bench.
All the team, including goalkeeper Wang Dalei, as well as the coaches, substitutes, team doctors, etc., on the sidelines, all threw themselves together excitedly and frantically celebrated the goal that sealed the victory.
The commentators on the commentary table also explained in disbelief:
“Gooooooooooooooooooal……”
"Hat-trick!"
"Cheng Hai scored a hat-trick in the Olympic final!"
"It's unbelievable that the Chinese team, under the leadership of Cheng Hai, actually beat the Brazilian team 3-0 !!"
"The Chinese team is about to win the men's football title at the London 2012 Olympics against Brazil."
"This is something that no one expected before the game!"
"Some people may have guessed that the Huaguo team could win the championship and Cheng Hai could score, but no one would guess the score of 3-0, right?"
"The Brazilian team was poured three goals by the Chinese team when they had the advantage of the field, but they didn't score a goal!"
"This doesn't prove that the Brazilian team's offense is not good, or the defense of the Chinese team is leaky, it can only prove that Cheng Hai's personal strength is too strong!"
"Although his defense is not as conspicuous as his hat-trick in attack, we can see how much Cheng Hai has contributed to the defense from the distance that Cheng Hai has run far beyond the others."
"Originally, the number of attackers in the Brazilian team was not large, and under Cheng Hai's crazy sweeping and defense, the fluency of individual breakthroughs and passing and cutting coordination was greatly affected."
"As a result, Brazil has not scored a single goal until now."
"It can be said that Cheng Hai's strength and contribution at both offensive and defensive ends are the top in the world."
"And Cheng Hai, with the respect of the world's No. 1 superstar, came to play in the U23 Olympic Games, which is indeed a bit of a feeling of chopping melons and vegetables, even if the five-star Brazil can't withstand it."
"Perhaps, only by looking at the super giants such as Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Italy of the senior team in the World Cup, can they curb Cheng Hai's crazy performance."