After the second round of the group stage, Cheng Hai staged the news of the big four and the Chinese team's 4-1 victory over Kyrgyzstan became popular all over the country.

"In the men's football group stage of the Asian Games, the National Olympic Games defeated Kyrgyzstan 4-1, and Cheng Hai staged a big four! 》

"Asian Games Cheng Hai started for the first time in his career and wore the armband of the captain of the national Olympic team, and staged a big four to lead the national Olympic team to a 4-1 victory over Kyrgyzstan. 》

"Cheng Hai, the new captain of the National Olympic team, was full of firepower, and staged a big four to lead the National Olympic team to defeat Kyrgyzstan 4-1 and win the first victory in the Asian Games. 》

Even in Europe, there are media reports on Cheng Hai's performance in the Asian Games.

"Supernova Cheng Hai staged a big four happiness in the Asian Games and led the Chinese Olympic team to defeat the opponent 4-1. 》

"Cheng Hai, the top scorer in the Bundesliga, abused vegetables at the Asian Games, scoring 6 goals in two group games and almost locking the top scorer of the tournament in advance! 》

"Cheng Hai served as the captain of the Chinese Olympic team and played 70 minutes of the game for the first time, and staged the first big four in the official game of his career! 》

Of course, in the eyes of Europeans, it is only natural for a player who can be at the top of the Bundesliga scorer to score six goals in two games at the Asian Under-23 level.

This is the pride of their world football hub.

Therefore, although there are some media reports on Cheng Hai in Europe, there are not many, and none of them are blockbuster reports, just two sentences in the corner of the football section.

Chinese fans don't care so much, they only know that Cheng Hai staged a big four, the National Olympic team won 4-1, and Cheng Hai can play 70 minutes in a game......

All of this shows that Huaguo football may be about to usher in a period of bottoming out because of the emergence of Cheng Hai.

Of course, one game can't say much about it, and we have to wait and see. However, I finally saw hope!

After a day's rest, on the evening of November 12, the Yangcheng Asian Games officially opened, with more than 9,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions in Asia competing for gold medals in 42 major events and 476 small events.

As the host, the Chinese team sent nearly 1,000 athletes, accounting for one-tenth of the total number of athletes, and ranked first in both the gold medal table and the medal table.

After the grand opening ceremony, the competitions of each event officially began.

At 19:00 on the evening of November 13, the national Olympic team also ushered in the third round of the group stage with Malaysia U23.

Malaysia have already beaten Kyrgyzstan in the first round of the group stage, earning three points and having a high probability of finishing third in the group with the best four results.

Therefore, in this game, Malaysia did not plan to fight with the Chinese team at all, but sent a 541 formation to play defensive counterattacks.

Even the strikers often return to the edge of the box to participate in the defense.

For Malaysia, a loss in this game will also have a high probability of advancing to the knockout round. And once you keep a draw, it will be even more profitable, and you will be promoted steadily.

Therefore, Malaysia has focused on defense, more bluntly, on how to prevent Cheng Hai's running, breaking, and shooting.

And they don't have to think about attacking while defending like Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia can defend without distractions, and there are a lot of people near the penalty area.

This caused Cheng Hai to shoot a little hard.

Although his shooting skills are very accurate, even if he shoots from outside the box, he is likely to hit the woodwork.

But for the shot outside the penalty area, Cheng Hai did not draw the shooting power, long shot, arc and other skills, resulting in his shooting without arc, and the power and speed are not fast, the goalkeeper can have sufficient time to save, and the probability of Cheng Hai's long-range goal is relatively low.

Although his full physique makes his shooting power much higher than when he played in the Grand Football League, it is not high enough to be a professional long-range shooter.

Therefore, most of Cheng Hai's goals were still in the penalty area.

However, under Malaysia's strict defense, it is difficult for Cheng Hai to run out of the gap in the penalty area, and sometimes his teammates may not be able to cooperate well and cannot pass the ball over.

In the 11th minute, Cheng Hai made a long-range shot about 25 meters from the goal outside the penalty area. Although the ball hit the frame of the goal and the angle was okay, it was not fast and was saved by goalkeeper Xie Mi.

In the 18th minute, Cheng Hai ran out of a short gap in the penalty area, and Wu Xi also passed the ball over, but unfortunately the pass was a little crooked, so that Cheng Hai had to adjust his pace.

It was a short adjustment that allowed the opposing defender to block Cheng Hai's shooting route, and Cheng Hai's final shot was stretched out of the penalty area.

In the 25th minute, Cheng Hai took the ball from outside the penalty area to break through two players in a row and entered the penalty area to shoot, but because the speed was not fast, he was still shoveled away by a defender who rushed over from the side.

Although Cheng Hai fell in the penalty area, the opponent's tackle was clean and clean, and there was no foul, so there was no penalty.

However, although half an hour has passed, Cheng Hai and the Chinese team have not yet scored, but in order to defend Cheng Hai, who has various perfect or near-perfect skills such as physique, running without the ball, grabbing points, dribbling, and Matthews feints, the Malaysian backline has also paid a heavy price for two yellow cards.

But that's not the climax.

Even more staggering happened in the 35th minute.

In the 35th minute, the right wing-back Jasuli, who had already received a yellow card for the Malaysian team, kicked away the ball that the Chinese team was about to serve quickly when there was a throw-in, trying to delay time.

The result was discovered by the referee, who immediately showed a second yellow card, two yellows turned into one red, and Jasuli was sent off the field.

The Chinese fans in the audience immediately burst into warm applause.

In the cheers of the Chinese fans, Malaysia's captain Rahim was probably quite dissatisfied with Jasuli's dismissal, and scolded the referee behind his back: "Stupid 'B referee, black whistle!" ”

The tragedy is that his low scolding was still heard by the referee in the noisy stadium.

The referee, who had just pulled out a red card for Jasuli, rushed to Rahim, flashed the red card at him, and expelled Rahim directly from the field.

At this moment, even the players and fans of the Huaguo team who made a profit were stunned.

The commentator of CCTV-5 was stunned and said:

"Ah, what's going on? The referee showed the Malaysian captain a red card directly. ”

"Rahim was kicked off the field by the referee!"

"What happened?"

"Oh, let's see the replay. When Jassouli was sent off the field with two yellows and one red just now, Rahim turned his back to the referee and muttered something in his mouth, which was probably a curse, which was heard by the referee. ”

The guest commented: "It must have been a curse, and the referee heard it, so he was directly sent off the field with a red card." Otherwise, Raheem would not be so obedient, it must have been that he also knew that he was in the wrong and deserved it, and without even a little justification, he handed over the captain's armband to his teammates, and then went straight off the field. ”

With Raheem's departure, the Chinese fans, who were stunned for a while, immediately applauded in the stands, cheering for the referee's wise decision and Malaysia's death.

This time, the Huaguo team played 9 11 and won steadily.

Malaysia was already weaker than the Chinese national team, and this time there were suddenly two fewer people, even though the head coach immediately made a substitution, replacing the forwards and replacing the defenders to defend to the end, but they still failed to hold out until the end of the first half.

In the 42nd minute, the Chinese team, which played two more people, finally broke through Malaysia's goal.

It was Cheng Hai who scored.

Malaysia, which has two fewer people, has a huge hole in the defensive line, and Cheng Hai ran out of a gap from the side diagonally into the corner of the small penalty area, Wu Xi on the line of the big penalty area assisted, and Cheng Hai volleyed from a small angle.

The Chinese team finally broke the deadlock and rewrote the score to 1-0.

After breaking the deadlock, the offensive of the Huaguo team slowed down a little, after all, it was already ahead, and the opponent had two fewer people to fight, not even a striker, and the Huaguo team almost won.

Two minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and the two sides went into the break with a score of 1-0, with the host Huaguo Olympic team leading by one goal.

At halftime, Cheng Hai continued to sleep in the locker room for ten minutes, and woke up energetic again, much to the surprise of the coach and teammates.

Wu Xi asked curiously: "Cheng Hai, at your level, will you be able to fall asleep instantly on the battlefield, and no one can wake you up, only you wake up?" ”

Cheng Hai smiled and said, "Almost! ”

Wu Xi and his teammates immediately gave a thumbs up and said, "Awesome! ”

This skill is simply too enviable, much happier than many players who are so excited that they can't sleep the night before the game and end up with insomnia, resulting in a listless game the next day.

But everyone can only envy and can't learn at all.

Someone tried to lie down and sleep, but it turned out that they couldn't even lie down quietly, let alone fall asleep.

After the start of the second half of the game, although the offensive of the Huaguo team was not strong, because Malaysia had two fewer people to fight, it felt that there were loopholes everywhere, and the Huaguo team played how to play.

In the 52nd minute, the eye-catching Cheng Hai pulled laterally in the penalty area and took away two defenders.

There were already two people missing, and now they were taken away by Cheng Hai, and Malaysia's middle lane was suddenly empty.

Park Cheng, who was originally breaking through with the ball on the right side, saw that he decisively stopped his personal breakthrough and sent the ball to the top of the arc of the big penalty area.

Zhang Linpeng, who was inserted in the back row, first received the ball and walked to the side, avoiding a Malaysian defender who rushed over from the side and hurriedly grabbed it, and then the opponent's middle was really empty.

Zhang Linpeng did not hesitate, and volleyed on the line of the big penalty area, and the angle was also good.

Although goalkeeper Xie Mi made a save, Zhang Linpeng's shot was good in terms of power, speed and angle, and finally the ball flew into the lower right corner of the goal against Xie Mi's fingertips.

The Huaguo Olympic team led 2-0 and almost sealed the victory.

However, this is not over yet, because Cheng Hai is still on the field!

Despite the lack of deliberate bombardment, Malaysia, with two fewer men and a somewhat stretched backline, could not escape Cheng Hai's second goal.

Because of the lack of manpower, there is only one defender who defends Cheng Hai, and there are others to assist in the defense.

However, Cheng Hai's dribbling attribute and Matthews' feint attribute are both very high, and they are already close to full value.

So, in the 66th minute, Cheng Hai received the ball outside the penalty area and used his Matthews feint to connect two people into the penalty area, and kicked the ball into the bottom left corner of the Malaysian goal with a low shot before the defender on the side blocked the shooting route.

Cheng Hai scored twice again, bringing the total number of goals in the three group games to eight, five goals ahead of the second-place scorer in the list.

There is no suspense about the top scorer of the men's football team in this Asian Games.

Of course, there is no suspense in this game.

The Chinese team is already 3-0 ahead, and Malaysia has two fewer players to fight, and even the strikers have been replaced, and they are simply powerless to fight back.

Therefore, even if Cheng Hai was substituted in the 72nd minute, Malaysia still did not score a single face-saving goal in the rest of the time.

On the contrary, the Huaguo team, after Cheng Hai went off the field, and in a corner kick attack in the 82nd minute, substitute center Li Kaiding scored a powerful header to rewrite the score to 4-0.

This kind of game makes the fans very happy, and it is even more enjoyable than the last game.

All the goals in the last game were scored by Cheng Hai alone, but in this game, two goals were scored by other players, which shows that the other players are not completely waste!

Under the leadership of captain Cheng Hai, the national Olympic team may still be able to save it!

Perhaps, Cheng Hai, a lion with a flock of sheep, can also make a difference!

Of course, for Cheng Hai, he scored two goals and became the best on the spot in the system.

With the goal award and winning award, Cheng Hai's total experience has risen to level 20 755,800/1 million.

The Huaguo team ranked second in the group with six points from three games, two wins and one loss, and advanced to the round of 16.

However, unfortunately, the opponent of the Chinese national team in the knockout round was South Korea U23.

South Korean football is the bitter master of the national team at all levels of Chinese football, and after 32 years of Koreanophobia, it was only in February 2010 that Gao Hongbo's national team defeated South Korea 3-0 in the East Asian semifinals.

But this is just a flash in the pan.

Most of the time, it is the Chinese team that is invincible, no matter what level.

For example, at the U23 level of the National Olympic Games, in the past 9 meetings between the two sides, the Chinese National Olympic Games have drawn three and lost six without a win.

What is even more different from Japan's U23 team is that they not only send all the main players of the right age, but also several overage players who have played in the World Cup in South Africa.

The reason is South Korea's military service system, which makes military service mandatory for all adult men, even if you are a world superstar.

In the field of sports, there are some conditions for exemption from military service, and the football gold medal in the Asian Games is one of the conditions for exemption from military service.

Therefore, the Korean Football Association sent the strongest team to try to win the championship and exempt these Korean players from military service.

At the same time, these Korean players will also work very hard when they are playing, rather than taking it as a training exercise for young players.

The group stage against Japan is nothing, because it is not a battle of life and death after all.

The quarter-finals against South Korea U23 are the real battle of life and death, because not only can the winner advance to the next round, but the opponent will not be the slightest negligent and will only play with the Chinese team.

For Chinese football to rise, it is necessary to prove that it is no longer what it used to be, and South Korea's U23 is the real whetstone.

The real test for Cheng Hai to be the captain of the national Olympic team is this game.

As soon as the knockout match table came out, the Chinese media began to analyze, compare and discuss South Korea's U23, study South Korea's U23's lineup and tactics, and make a reference for the National Olympic team.

Fans also gave advice on various forums, post bars, and QQ groups to discuss how the Chinese team can defeat South Korea's U23, end the history of the national Olympic team not beating South Korea for many years, and advance to the next round.

The Chinese Olympic team also had a heavy atmosphere and was facing a big enemy, and on November 14, they conducted a full day of targeted training.

Of course, South Korea's U23 is indeed a big enemy, and everyone must take it seriously.

Before the match against South Korea, Cheng Hai's weight increased by another 1kg to 71kg, and his confrontation ability continued to rise.

It's good news before the game starts.

On November 15, after a day of rest and no training during the day, at 19:00 on the evening of November 15, 2010, the Huaguo team continued to sit at Tianhe Stadium to start the one-eighth final of the Yangcheng Asian Games with South Korea U23.

Cheng Hai continued to wear the captain's armband to start the game, and the South Korean team was also the main force, so they must defeat Huaguo and continue to give Huaguo Koreanophobia, they must also continue to advance to the finals and championships.

Perhaps influenced by South Korea's thinking of "cosmic power", the South Korean media expressed their disdain for Cheng Hai before the game, saying that Cheng Hai was only new to Germany, and the opponent didn't know enough about him, so he scored so many goals, in fact, Cheng Hai's strength was not as high as the media boasted.

South Korea's U23 players may have been subjected to this kind of discussion in their domestic media, and they also felt that Cheng Hai's strength was not so outrageous. Even if it is better than the average Chinese player, it is not strong to the point of being the top in the world.

Therefore, they did not send heavy troops to guard Cheng Hai, but just an ordinary person to guard and others to assist in defense according to the situation.

The main focus of the South Korean team is on attack.

From the very beginning of the game, the South Korean team launched a series of offensives.

Bottom crosses, corner kicks, free kicks, long-range shots, etc., all of them made the Huaguo team scramble for a while.

The addition of Cheng Hai only increased the strength of the Huaguo team in attack, and did not contribute much to the defense of the Huaguo team.

Not to mention that Cheng Hai can't defend, even if he can, his physical fitness also makes him dare not run back and forth and cover the whole field.

Therefore, when the South Koreans did not take Cheng Hai's counterattack threat to heart and the whole team pressed on the attack, the Chinese team seemed to be overwhelmed and in a hurry.

In the 4th minute, South Korean full-back Cho Yong-cheol made a cross, causing chaos in the Chinese team's penalty area, but fortunately, the ball was destroyed by Li Jianbin out of the penalty area.

In the 7th minute, South Korea won a corner kick and played a tactical corner, and finally Park Joo-young from outside the box completed a high-quality long-range shot that went just over the crossbar.

In the 10th minute, in order to stop the opponent's attack, the defender of the Chinese team fouled and gave the opponent a free kick.

Park Joo-young's free-kick went over the wall and flew towards the Hwakook goal.

Fortunately, the angle of the ball was slightly correct and was saved by goalkeeper Wang Dalei. Otherwise, the free-kick could have been scored.

In the 13th minute, South Korea's cross-cutting run compressed most of the Chinese team into the box, but they turned the ball into the box with an inverted triangle pass to the outside of the box, and Kim Jong-woo completed a high-quality long-range shot, which was only slightly wide of the post.

All of a sudden, the Chinese team's penalty area was full of rumors, and it looked like they were going to lose the ball at any time.

Thousands of South Korean fans in the stands excitedly shouted slogans and cheered for the South Korean team, hoping that the South Korean team would break the deadlock as soon as possible.

In the backfield of the South Korean team, Cheng Hai walked casually between the two central defenders of the opposing team, seemingly without threat.

The two central defenders did not pay attention to Cheng Hai, but paid attention to the attack in front of them, eager to try, as if they wanted to rush up to participate in the attack.