Chapter 47: The first goal of the National Olympic team

Shortly after Japan scored the third goal, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half one minute after one minute of stoppage time, and the two sides went into the break with a score of 0-3, with the host Hua Guoao team trailing by three goals.

When they left the field, they were greeted by overwhelming boos and scolding, and some people even threw lighters, water bottles and other miscellaneous items at the entrance of the players' tunnel.

The score of 0-3 in the first half was so disappointing to the more than 50,000 fans who came with great expectations.

Now, even if Cheng Hai plays in the second half, I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up.

After 15 minutes of halftime, the two sides changed sides and fought again, and the Huaguo team made a substitution, No. 9 Cheng Hai replaced No. 18 Li Kai.

To Cheng Hai and his parents, he was not booed by the fans when he came on the field, and the fans also gave a burst of applause, and some people even shouted his name and told him to cheer.

Perhaps, Cheng Hai has become the only fig leaf for the national Olympic team.

However, it also depends on Cheng Hai's performance after the game.

Originally, less than half of the attendance rate of the game, because of Cheng Hai's joining, attracted fans from all over the country to come to the scene to support, filling the Tianhe Stadium with more than 50,000 seats, and there were many fans outside who could not buy tickets and could not enter.

If Cheng Hai doesn't perform at all in the end, I'm afraid it will be not the same as the treatment of those teammates in the first half.

After seeing Cheng Hai come on as a substitute, the Japanese team immediately retreated in formation, played a defensive counterattack, and no longer pressed the offense.

In addition, the Japanese team also took advantage of the dead ball to immediately remove a striker and replace it with a defensive midfielder to strengthen the defense.

The front midfielders, full-backs, etc., have also retreated to participate in the defense.

The three-goal lead still gives them a lot of confidence. Even if they don't attack in the second half, they are confident that they can hold on until the end of the game.

The Huaguo team finally took a breath and calmly organized the attack.

And Cheng Hai's super personal strength was also vividly displayed within a few minutes of his play.

Although the Japanese team adopted a dense defense with a contraction of the formation, making it difficult for Cheng Hai's off-ball running and point-grabbing ability to play a role, Cheng Hai still has skills such as physique, balance, dribbling, and Matthews feints to use.

Unable to run out of the gap in the penalty area to receive the ball and score, Cheng Hai withdrew to the outside of the penalty area to get the ball and then broke through to the penalty area to shoot.

In the case of one-on-one, Cheng Hai's 19-point dribbling and Matthews feints not to mention the breakthrough rate of 100%, 780% still exists.

After all, even if the other party reacted in time, Cheng Hai was able to resist with a full physique and block the opponent behind the side.

Because of the relationship between height and weight, Cheng Hai's physique cannot occupy an absolute advantage in Europe, but in the face of these Asian U23-level yellow players, the advantage is still very obvious, even the central defender of the Japanese team cannot touch him.

In the 48th minute, Cheng Hai received the ball and broke through a midfielder on the other side first, and after entering the penalty area, he faced the Japanese team's central defender Yusuke Higa, although he failed to completely break through, but he dodged a space to shoot.

Then Cheng Hai immediately got up and shot at the goal.

It's a pity that at the moment when Cheng Hai got up, although Yusuke Higa was stopped by Cheng Hai's hand behind the side, he suddenly fell to the ground from behind, stretched his legs, and kicked Cheng Hai's right foot of the shot, causing Cheng Hai's last shot to touch the ball with a little deviation, and the ball failed to hit the angle Cheng Hai wanted, but the angle was slightly correct.

However, even so, the shooting power brought by Cheng Hai's full physique was still very good, forcing Junsuke Ando to not dare to receive the ball, and could only save the ball from the bottom line with a side pounce.

Hua Guo won a corner.

Although the goal was not scored, it still looked quite threatening. Therefore, although the Chinese fans in the stands felt pity, they still gave Cheng Hai a round of applause and encouragement.

However, Cheng Hai's breakthrough and shooting caused the Japanese team to be more vigilant.

One-on-one, although Cheng Hai does not have many breakthrough skills, just 19 points of basic dribbling skills can make him invincible, even if he can't break through, it is difficult to be snatched away by the opponent.

What's more, with the physical advantage, the other party basically only has the life of being stuck behind Cheng Hai.

But Cheng Hai's breakthrough and shot just now made the Japanese team more aware of his threat.

In Europe, the opponent is generally one person who is closely guarding Cheng Hai, and the other person is great to help defend.

Because the threat of Dortmund's other players is also quite huge, it is impossible for the opponent to completely give up the defense of those players and all of them to mark Cheng Hai alone.

But now it's a different story.

The other players of the Chinese Olympic team, compared to Cheng Hailai, are not a threat at all in the eyes of the Japanese players. What's more, they are now three goals ahead, and it will work not to attack and concentrate on defense.

As a result, the Japanese team sent two defenders to keep an eye on Cheng Hai at any time, and the other players assisted in defense at any time according to Cheng Hai's running position, anyway, they didn't let Cheng Hai easily take the ball, and they didn't let him break through easily to complete the shot.

This made Cheng Hai a little uncomfortable.

Although he is ahead of his opponents in both body and technique, he cannot reach the realm of being in the middle of thousands of flowers and not touching a single leaf.

He can take advantage of one person, and it will be more difficult for two people to guard closely.

Plus there are people to help defend, sometimes three people rush up at the same time to besiege him, even with his 19-point dribble, he will lose the ball.

And the cooperation with his teammates is almost completely absent.

If the full value of 20 is also used to represent the team's tacit understanding, the tacit understanding between Cheng Hai and his teammates in the National Olympic team may only be five or six points.

It's okay to play the college amateur league like this, but it's really unsightly to play the Asian Games.

Fans in the stands often see that Cheng Hai occasionally rushes into the penalty area to resist defenders with his physique and occupies a favorable position, but the teammates with the ball either don't notice Cheng Hai's running, or find it but the pass time is late or early, or the ball passed out is too far away and is cut off by the opponent.

This situation makes everyone uncomfortable to death.

Cheng Songquan watched his son rush left and right in the Japanese team's penalty area from the stands, occasionally showing a good opportunity, but he couldn't get the ball and couldn't shoot in time, and suddenly beat his chest and complained.

The reaction of other fans was similar, and many of them jumped to their feet in a hurry, and began to scold the players of the National Olympic Games in a fit of anxiety.

"Silly 'B, pass!"

"You're blind, Cheng Hai is in such a good position, why don't you pass the ball?"

"Damn, what kind of ball is this? It's too outrageous, isn't it? Why don't you pass it to the stands? ”

The Japanese team's strict defense of Cheng Hai, coupled with the technical and coordination problems of his teammates, led to the fact that even with Cheng Hai's ability, he did not score a goal after 20 minutes on the field.

Despite having two shots on goal, the Japanese team's defense against Cheng Hai was too tight.

Cheng Hai's two shots, one was saved by the goalkeeper before, and the other was blocked by the opponent's defender who flew in time to block the gun's eye.

Fortunately, Cheng Hai still has results during this time.

In order to prevent Cheng Hai from death and not give him a chance to shoot, the Japanese team paid the price of yellow cards for two players in these 20 minutes, one of which was central defender Jun Ashida.

After receiving the yellow card, the central defender was a little timid in the face of Cheng Hai and did not dare to make too many moves.

This is the home stadium of the Huaguo team, and he is afraid that if he fouls again, he will be directly punished by the referee with a red card.

Originally, Cheng Hai's physique had already taken advantage of it, and the other party didn't dare to make any moves, so Cheng Hai finally had room to play.

Although the Japanese team is also trying to avoid the yellow card of Jun Yasuda and Cheng Hai, but the football game is fluid, sometimes the central defenders will rush into the penalty area to participate in the attack, and the striker and defender are facing each other, which is too normal.

Under Cheng Hai's conscious running, in the 68th minute, he finally got another chance to play against Jun Yasuda.

Cheng Hai temporarily shook off the players who were closely marking him through the running position and the dismantling of his teammates, and received a pass from the forward Wu Xi on the left side of the arc of the big penalty area, and the one standing on the line of the big penalty area and blocking in front of Cheng Hai happened to be Shun Ya Tian.

This time, Wu Xi finally passed a good ball, the route, strength, and timing were just right, so that Cheng Hai didn't have to stop the ball to adjust, and he directly made a Matthews feint during the run to make a breakthrough to Shun Yata.

The last yellow card for Jun Yasuda was eaten by a shovel when Cheng Hai was about to break through to the penalty area.

If there was no previous yellow card on Shun Yada, he would definitely let go of the shovel this time, even if he ate the card, he would have to keep Cheng Hai outside the penalty area.

Because of the previous running and interspersing of Cheng Hai and his teammates, there is no one behind Jun Yasuda for the time being.

Cheng Hai only needs to break through him, and he can enter the penalty area and complete the shot.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, Jun Yasuda can make tactical fouls outside the penalty area, even if he can't tackle the ball, it doesn't matter if Cheng Hai is left outside the penalty area, he gets a yellow card and sends a free kick.

The Huaguo team does not have a free kick master, and it is so close that it is impossible to score.

However, this time Atsuya hesitated.

Because he had previously released a yellow card to prevent Cheng Hai from entering the penalty area, he was also likely to get a yellow card this time.

Cheng Hai's 19-point dribble and Matthews feints, it is still difficult for Asian U23-level players to destroy the ball directly.

If he eats a yellow card again, Jun Yasuda will not only have to turn two yellows into one red in this game, causing the team to play one less person, but as the main defender, he will also face suspension in the next game.

Whether to put the shovel or not is a difficult problem!

In fact, Jun Yasuda may not have hesitated for even a second, and then he resolutely shoveled down.

As a defender, his first task is to stop the breakthrough of the opposing striker, leaving the rest to the manager.

However, in the face of a striker like Cheng Hai, who is the top in Europe, there is too much to do in a second.

If it's a sprint, everyone runs seven or eight meters in a second.

Although Cheng Hai was not so fast, he had already completed an instantaneous breakthrough by using the second of Shun Ya Tian's hesitation.

Although Jun's shovel hit Cheng Hai and made him lose his center of gravity, his balance ability of 19 points also made Cheng Hai not fall down after all, but staggered and rushed into the penalty area with the ball.

There are defenders in the middle who have already started to come over to fill in when they saw Wu Xi passing the ball to Cheng Hai and Cheng Hai preparing to break through to Shun Yasuda.

But Cheng Hai broke through directly without stopping the ball, and Jun Ya Tian hesitated for a second, causing Cheng Hai to enter the penalty area too quickly.

Before the defender who was in charge could block the route of Cheng Hai's shot, Cheng Hai, who was stumbling, stabbed directly with a toe and stabbed the ball towards the goal.

Cheng Hai, whose shooting skills are in perfect condition at 20, did not wait for himself to stand firm and fully adjust his posture before shooting.

He is sure that even when he stumbles on his toes, he is very accurate.

After all, this time he had completely broken through Jun Yata, and no one was around him to interfere. Even if he doesn't fully stand up and can't volley with the instep of his foot, he is sure that the ball won't go too far.

What's more, time didn't allow him to stand up and adjust, and the opponent's defenders were already rushing in front of him.

Cheng Hai's timely stab received the best effect.

The defender who rushed from the middle to intercept Cheng Hai's shot was unable to catch up, and the ball flew past him on tiptoe and flew towards the goal on turf.

Goalkeeper Junsuke Ando half-crouched, trying to block Cheng Hai's shot.

But Cheng Hai's sudden toe poke in the middle of a stumble was beyond his expectations.

By the time he realized that Cheng Hai had already completed the shot, something was wrong, and he hurried to close his legs, it was too late.

The ball passed between his half-crouched legs and rolled into the goal behind him.

In the 68th minute of the second half, Cheng Hai finally scored his first goal for the Chinese Olympic team, helping the national Olympic team to recover a point 1-3.

There was finally no more boos and scolding in the stands, but enthusiastic applause and cheers from the fans.

And, while applauding, everyone was talking:

"Haha, finally scored."

"I'll just say, with Cheng Hai's ability, even if he is not familiar with his teammates, it is no problem to score one or two goals against the Japanese team."

"That's it! Even the teams in the five major leagues can't stop him, let alone the players of Japan's U23s? ”

"It's a pity that the National Olympic team dragged him back, and it wasn't until now that Wu Xi passed a good ball, allowing him to break through Shun Yasuda directly without stopping the ball, and then hit the goal successfully."

"This ball was mainly created by Cheng Hai himself, especially when he was already tackled by the Japanese defender, he didn't go down, but continued to maintain his balance and complete the shot."

"That's it! If it weren't for Cheng Hai playing, let alone scoring goals, it would have been lucky not to have been forced by the Japanese team to continue to score and expand the score like in the first half. ”

The fans were discussing, and the Huaguo commentator on the commentary seat also said excitedly:

"The ball is in!"

"Cheng Hai finally scored his first goal for the National Olympic team and helped the National Olympic team get a point back."

"Cheng Hai's physique, breakthrough, archery, balance, etc., compared with Asian players, is indeed very advantageous."

"Now the Olympic team is only two goals behind, and we still have a chance."

The Japanese commentator said sourly:

"The Chinese people are so lucky that there is a genius like Cheng Hai."

"When we look at this ball, whether it is Cheng Hai's erratic running position before receiving the ball, or the breakthrough after receiving the ball, and the accurate stab in the stumbling, it is the world's top."

"If it weren't for Cheng Hai's existence, the Huaguo team would not have been able to score, and we could even continue to expand the score."

"I just hope that the players on the field will not be hit by Cheng Hai's ball, continue to strengthen the defense, and don't let Cheng Hai continue to score."

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In the midst of everyone's discussion, Cheng Hai, who scored the first goal of the National Olympic team on the field, did not celebrate warmly, but rushed to the goal, picked up the ball and ran to the middle line while high-fiveing his teammates.

After running to the middle circle, Cheng Hai put the ball on the halfway line, and then retreated to his own half.

Cheng Hai's meaning is very simple, he hopes that the Japanese team will quickly open the middle circle and not waste time. After all, now the Chinese team is still two goals behind.

In addition to the honor of the country, from Cheng Hai himself, he also hopes to continue to score goals.

Because, the goal award he received after scoring the first goal was exactly the same as he guessed, and it was the same as the goal award in the League Cup, which was 50,000 experience for a goal.

For an Asian Games-level competition, that's a pretty good experience. Therefore, Cheng Hai is also very excited.

Of course, objectively, Cheng Hai's behavior of not celebrating when the score is behind and hoping that the game will start soon, has won him the hearts of more Chinese fans.

After the game restarted, the main striker Wu Xi seemed to have gained some understanding of Cheng Hai's cooperation from the assist of this goal, and the passing threat gradually increased.

Moreover, he didn't just pass the ball to Cheng Hai.

Because it is easy for the opponent to guess the intention, it is not conducive to the diversification of offensive means.

So, when Cheng Hai scored a goal and attracted more defensive attention from the Japanese team, Wu Xi would occasionally send a wonderful pass to other teammates.

Others didn't enjoy Cheng Hai's tight defense, so they had a good chance to get an unmarked shot.

For example, in the 74th minute, Wu Xi took advantage of Cheng Hai's lateral movement in the penalty area to take away two defenders, and sent the ball to the feet of Lu Wenjun, who was inserted into the penalty area on the side.

Lu Wenjun can play both wingback and winger, and he still has some skills at his feet.

Therefore, this time Lu Wenjun's shot was quite threatening, hitting the range of the goal frame, and the angle of power was also good.

It's a pity that Japanese goalkeeper Junsuke Ando was even more powerful and made a very wonderful save, which saved Lu Wenjun's shot from the bottom line in a millimeter.

Although Lu Wenjun's shot did not cause a goal, it also sounded the alarm for the Japanese team: that is, Cheng Hai cannot be just stared at, and the other players of the Huaguo team are not completely waste, and they may threaten their goal.

Therefore, they must ensure a complete defense line, and they can't all swarm to defend Cheng Hai.

Between Wu Xi's use of passing to move back and forth, it is impossible for the Japanese team's defense to be truly leaky.

And Cheng Hai's full-value off-ball run finally played a role again in the 82nd minute.