Chapter 134: The Reversal Between Strength and Weakness
When the World Cup group draw first came out, grandpa Mertesacker handed Zhuo Yang a small note.
Grandpa said: "You should still have a little impression of Nelson Valdés, he is still the same as he was back then, his speed and skills are good, his passing makes people want to hammer him, and he is not enough to see the threat to the goal." However, you naturally don't need to take him in your eyes, but it's okay for him to let your teammates drink a pot. Barrios, you really have to be careful, this kid is very strong. ”
Today, Paraguay's starting double strikers Barrios and Nelson Valdés both play for Borussia Dortmund, and now they are both big players under Uncle Scum. When Choyang was still in Madiburg, Neba was at Werder Bremen, and he was a substitute for Klose and Krasnic. In the summer when Zhuo Yang left for AC Milan, Neba joined Dortmund on a free transfer.
Barrios joined Dort from South America for 4.2 million last summer, he is different from Neba, Neba belongs to the former dynasty, Barrios is Klopp's approved reinforcement, how can Uncle Scum be eyed?
In his first season in the Bundesliga, Barrios scored 19 goals, and was the top scorer in the last season of the Season Dort, ranking third in the Bundesliga. 2008 was a year of explosion in Serie A, when he scored 63 goals in all competitions for the club and topped the list of top scorers in the world's top league by the International Football History and Statistics Association (IFFHS) in '08. And in second place on this list is Barrios, who plays for Chile's Colo Collo, with 49 goals.
The value of the whole Paraguayan team is naturally not as good as the Chinese team, after all, Zhuo Yang alone is 100 million, even if most of their players play in the five major leagues and Brazil and Argentina, the total value cannot exceed 110 million, right!
Paraguay's head coach, Argentine Martino, is not as valuable as Rijkaard, and only Capello is more expensive than Jay in South Africa's top 32. Martino's coaching resume is also nowhere near as good as that of Jaco, although he has also been in charge of Barcelona.
It's not Barcelona, it's Ecuador, there's also a team called Barcelona. But today, Zhuo Yang never imagined that one day in the future, this wide-faced middle-aged man on the sidelines would really palm Barcelona.
Messi secretly said to Zhuo Yang: Among today's Argentine coaches, the most competent level is definitely not Maradona, but Gerrardo Martino.
Regarding the tongue chewed behind Messi's back, Zhuo Yang thought that the first half of his sentence was very reasonable, and the second half of the sentence was ......, Zhuo Yang felt that Messi was still young and had never seen anything.
Faced with the dilemma of falling behind 0:1 at the beginning, Martino did not panic at all, he only groaned for a minute, and then instructed the players on the field to temporarily shrink the formation to avoid being stabbed again by the Chinese team.
Martino's decision proved to be very wise.
The ice-breaking move of scoring the first goal of the World Cup turned all the players of the Chinese team into howling little tigers. In the next 20 minutes, Zhuo Yang led his teammates to launch wave after wave of attacks on Paraguay's goal, and the Chinese fans in front of the TV and in the stands were full of blood.
In the 5th minute, Zhuo Yang Dengping crossed the water, drifted sideways in front of the penalty area, and then moved the flowers and trees, and pulled out his feet and volleyed after kneading a gap in the crowd. Swift football put Bilal to the test, and he still had palpitations after clenching his fists over the crossbar.
In the 7th minute, Shao Jiayi passed, Li Jinyu dodged from the penalty area and jumped to the top, and the football flew out of the bottom line by grazing the corner of the post.
In the 11th minute, Sun Hai's assist to go forward with a hundred steps through Yang was just a fraction of a second; In the 15th minute, Zhuo Yang's shot from the corner of the penalty area fell on the crossbar, making a heart-wrenching crashing sound.
In the 18th minute, Li Jinyu and Deng Bangxiang were blocked by Paraguayan defenders in successive stabs in the penalty area, and Zhuo Yang shoveled again, and finally stopped the football with his body after Bilal fell to the ground.
In the 22nd minute, Zhuo Yang's free-kick from 30 meters away stirred up the most thrilling heartbeat for this wave of heartbeat, and Bilal's fingertips made the ball crash into the post and bounce back into his arms.
In this series of exuberant saturation blows, the Chinese team is like a world powerhouse, and Paraguay is crumbling under the strong wind. But the Chinese team was crazy and fruitless, and Paraguay wanted to fall but did not fall.
In these 20 minutes, Coach Martino's careful choice has made the team through the crisis, the rich experience of the Paraguayan players in international competitions has allowed them to carry the blood boiling Chinese, and the football background of the Paraguayans, who have qualified from the South American qualifiers of the World Cup for four consecutive years, will not be shocked.
Three drums and exhaustion! Even with a bug-level figure like Zhuo Yang, the Chinese team is still a young new army with almost no World Cup experience, even if the average age is several years older than Paraguay, but the Chinese team is still a rookie in the World Cup.
The boiling blood gradually cooled down, but the eagerness to succeed in the first battle did not subside. Including Zhuo Yang, the Chinese team showed a contradiction in behavior at this time, eager to continue the siege, but did not have the capital to stay nostalgic in terms of strength.
At a time of such hesitation, the cunning Paraguayans seized the opportunity.
In the 25th minute, Sun Hai inserted an assist along the side, and there was an overlap with Sun Xiang, who was also interspersed on this side, and the two and other attacking players were not in a reasonable receiving position. Hai tried to force his way through the bottom line with his personal ability, but this is not Asia, and he is not Sun Hai eight years ago.
Aureliano Torres and full-back Morel teamed up to intercept Sun Hai's wishful thinking, and he couldn't even reach for La Morel to stop Paraguay from playing a counter-attack. When Morel bypassed Sun Xiang in the next second and kicked the ball forward like a bayonet, everyone realized that something was wrong.
The three central defenders of the Chinese team are all near the Paraguayan penalty area, leaving only the old and serious Li in the backfield, and the Paraguayan double strikers Barrios and Nelson Valdés double ghost slapping the goal, making Li Tie look so clumsy left and right.
Grandpa reminded him that everything in Neba is average, but his speed and passing ability are top-notch.
Neba didn't need to get past Lee, because with his speed, even at his peak, he could only kneel and kneel. And Neba is still a good person, he didn't have greed for merit in the face of Wang Dalei who attacked, and pushed it to Barrios on the other side, making him easily eat an empty goal.
Before Zhuo Yang could catch up with the center circle, the ball had already rolled over the goal line in a soothing manner. Just like the goal of the big fish in the opening game, Zhuo Yang couldn't believe that he had lost the ball like this at this time. Instead of stopping, he continued to lunge towards the rear, as if thinking that running back would still prevent it from rolling into the net.
Running to the line of his own big forbidden area, Zhuo Yang stopped, and he woke up from the assumptions he had given himself.
In his eight-year career, he has scored countless goals and conceded countless goals against his team, but this goal can make him so unbelievable. Zhuo Yang said: This is the World Cup.
He didn't pay attention to the peaceful football in the net, Zhuo Yang approached and pulled up Wang Dalei, who was so angry on the ground.