Chapter 52: The End of Arrogance

The possibility of scoring at any time stimulated the players of the South Korean team to be more enthusiastic, not only did the two full-backs cross the halfway line to assist, but the two central defenders were also a little eager to try.

If it weren't for Cheng Hai's fame, I'm afraid they would have really rushed to the front to participate in the assist.

However, even so, the two central defenders Kim Young-kwan and Hong Zhengzheng were not very focused, and they didn't care much about Cheng Hai, who didn't seem to be a big threat, but stared at the attack in the frontcourt, probably wanting to see their teammates' shots and goals for the first time!

But to their dismay, the South Korean team seemed to be unlucky today and kept scoreless. Despite several shots in the opening ten minutes, not a single goal was scored.

In the 18th minute, the players of the South Korean team passed the ball all the way back to the feet of central defender Hong Jeong-jeong under the pressure of the Chinese team.

Cheng Hai jogged over and did a robbery, Hong just smashed the ball, and shook Cheng Hai to the side, and then went to the front with a smile and participated in the attack.

Hong just felt that he was very proud that he could pass Cheng Hai, who was famous in Europe, by smashing the ball, so his desire to show was surged, so he took the ball to the half of the Chinese team.

The rest of the South Korean team didn't care, but another central defender, Kim Young-kwon, approached Cheng Hai a little and made a close marker, but he didn't actually pay full attention to Cheng Hai.

In the first ten minutes, the South Korean team pressed the attack, and it was difficult for the Chinese team to counterattack.

Occasionally grabbed the ball, and the passing skills of the Huaguo players were not good, and they failed to counterattack.

Therefore, Cheng Hai seems to be walking in front most of the time, neither contributing much to the counterattack, nor withdrawing his own penalty area to participate in the defense, as if he is a superfluous person.

In the eyes of Koreans who pay attention to not running to death, this is a sign of incompetence.

From the Korean's point of view, since you don't have a chance to attack, then let me go back to the backcourt to participate in the defense!

Anyway, you have to fight hard.

Coupled with the history of the confrontation between China and South Korea in history, Hong just didn't care about Cheng Hai after smashing the ball, and felt that it was not a big deal for him to cross the middle line to participate in the assist.

Anyway, Cheng Hai didn't get a chance to fight back, and he looked no threat.

Jin Yingquan also has the same psychology, although he made a close stare at Cheng Hai, but in fact, his mind is not on Cheng Hai, but on the front court, looking forward to the teammates in the front court to score quickly.

However, there is a saying that the sky is unpredictable.

Probably Hong just didn't dream that it was his rash forward this time that just gave the Huaguo team a counterattack opportunity that had never appeared before.

After smashing the ball away from Cheng Hai, taking the ball across the half court, and passing it to the feet of his teammates, Hong Zheng did not rush back to his own half and mark Cheng Hai, but stood in the half of the Huaguo team, ready to participate in the attack.

As a result, it was the ball he passed this time, only after two teammates passed it, there was a mistake, and the ball was passed a little crooked.

Then, the back of the Huaguo team, Lu Peng, made a keen forward insertion, broke the ball halfway, and then after looking at the front court, he raised his leg with a big foot and kicked the ball to the front.

When his teammates made a mistake in passing the ball and was cut off by Lu Peng, Hong just didn't realize the danger.

But when he saw Lu Peng kicking the ball towards his own half with a big kick, he seemed to suddenly remember that the Huaguo team still had a striker in his own half!

At this time, when he crossed the middle line to participate in the attack, only Jin Yingquan was left alone in his half to mark the Huaguo striker Cheng Hai!

No matter how arrogant he is, Cheng Hai is the top scorer in the Bundesliga after all, and he also scored 8 goals in the first three group games of the Asian Games.

As a result, when he turned his head to look at his half, he found that Cheng Hai had already successfully countered offside and rushed towards his team's penalty area, and Jin Yingquan was left two or three meters behind by Cheng Hai.

Although Jin Yingquan was desperately trying to return to the defense, he obviously did not follow Cheng Hai in time when he started the anti-offside position, and was thrown away by Cheng Hai.

At this time, although Jin Yingquan's speed is faster than Cheng Hai's, and the distance between the two sides is narrowing, looking at Cheng Hai's speed and the direction of the ball flying in the sky, Jin Yingquan obviously can't grab the ball faster than Cheng Hai.

I just hope that Cheng Hai's ball will not stop!

Hong just thought about it as he threw off his arms and rushed to his forbidden area.

Whether he can catch up or not, as a central defender, he has to look like he has to defend back.

In case Cheng Hai didn't park the ball well, delayed time, and was entangled by Kim Yingquan, then he might be able to catch up.

With such expectations, Hong just tried his best to return to the defense in time to catch up with the defense of Cheng Hai.

However, in Hong Zheng's shocked gaze while returning to the defense, I saw that Cheng Hai, who rushed to about 10 meters in front of the big penalty area, stretched out his right foot while running, and easily unloaded Lu Peng's long-distance backfield aerial foot.

The just right unloading made Hong involuntarily think of the football elf Ronaldinho.

Ronaldo Diño's stop is so awesome.

But who is Ronaldinho?

He is the World Cup winner, the World Footballer, the Champions League champion, the Golden Ball, and the favorite football elf of fans all over the world!

How can Cheng Hai compare to Ronaldinho's stopping skills?

How can Cheng Hai compare to Ronaldinho's stopping skills?

In fact, the problem that Hong just didn't face up to was that Cheng Hai's stopping skills were not as good as Ronaldinho's, but more perfect and pinnacle than Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho has no problem stopping the ball when he occupies the ball and is stationary, but it is difficult for Cheng Hai to unload the ball as well as Cheng Hai when he is running.

This is because Cheng Hai's stopping technique is added to 20 when the system opens the plug-in, while Ronaldinho can only reach 19 at the highest, never to 20, and it will fluctuate with the state.

The technology added by Cheng Hai with the system is much more stable.

Therefore, Cheng Hai often does this kind of unloading high-altitude balls in the run, but Hong just doesn't know it.

Then, under Hong Zheng's desperate gaze, Cheng Hai, who successfully unloaded the ball, was caught up by Kim Young-kwan behind him, although he delayed a little effort.

But Jin Yingquan couldn't catch up with Cheng Hai in front of him to stop Cheng Hai, so he could only stretch out his hand to pull Cheng Hai on the side. But Cheng Hai's height of 178cm and weight of 71kg, combined with the perfect physique of full value, is no longer only 74kg Jin Yingquan can pull it.

Cheng Hai reached out to stop Kim Young-kwon, stuck him behind the side, and prevented him from stretching out his foot to stab the ball, while dribbling the ball to the penalty area.

The dribbling at 19 o'clock did not make any mistakes in the process of Cheng Hai's dribbling, did not go too far and sent the ball directly to the attacking goalkeeper Jin Chengkui, nor did he get too close to the ball and slow down his speed.

When Hong happened to chase Cheng Hai four or five meters behind, Cheng Hai had already come to the top of the arc of the big forbidden area.

Facing the goalkeeper Kim Sung-kui, who had already attacked into the big penalty area, Cheng Hai did not try to dribble into the penalty area again, but directly stabilized his body and resisted Jin Yingquan, who was pushing around him, and shot directly with his feet.

The ball flew off the ground, flew over the palm of the jumping goalkeeper Kim Sung-kyu, cut a parabola, and fell against the crossbar into the South Korean goal.

In the 19th minute, when the South Korean team was aggressively pressuring the attack, the Huaguo team relied on a backfield big foot assist from Lu Peng and Cheng Hai to form a single-knife hanging shot to break the goal with an anti-offside position in the front, and the score was rewritten to 1-0.

The Huaguo team, which was at a disadvantage in the situation, scored the first goal and took the lead.

Suddenly, the 50,000 Chinese fans in the stands, who had been holding back for more than ten minutes, instantly cheered and screamed, suppressing the boos of the thousands of South Korean fans to the point that they could hardly be heard.

On the court, Cheng Hai also hugged and high-fived his teammates who rushed up to celebrate.

The players of the South Korean team are all mournful.

Especially Hong Zhenghao, looking at Cheng Hai, who was celebrating with his teammates, felt unprecedented shame.

He knew that it was his contempt for Cheng Hai that led to the loss of the goal.

If he hadn't smashed the ball past Cheng Hai before, his self-confidence swelled, and he dribbled to the opponent's half to participate in the attack, and he would not have let Cheng Hai score so easily after receiving the ball in an offside position.

Hong just gritted his teeth and secretly made up his mind that he would never step forward to participate in the attack again, he wanted to work with Jin Yingquan to completely stare Cheng Hai to death, and no longer give Cheng Hai any chance to shoot.

However, after the game restarted, the Huaguo team, which scored the goal, was greatly boosted, as if it had suddenly changed as a team, both offensively and defensively, playing much better than before.

Perhaps this is where self-confidence comes in.

Although the strength of the Huaguo team is not as good as that of South Korea, the pressure on the back line of the Huaguo team has been greatly reduced when Cheng Hai suppressed two or three defenders of the opponent and made them dare not rashly participate in the attack.

Coupled with the increase in everyone's confidence, whether it is technical actions or defensive cooperation, they have become much more organized, and the scene of the Korean team pressing the Chinese team to bomb indiscriminately at the beginning of the game is gone.

The two sides began to engage in back-and-forth attacks.

However, in terms of overall strength, it is always the South Korean team that has the advantage. Although the back line has scruples about Cheng Hai and does not dare to rush into the attack, the front court of the South Korean team is gorgeous enough compared to the Chinese team.

In particular, forward Kim Jong-woo and forward Park Joo-yong are the main players of the national team who have participated in the World Cup in South Africa, and they came to participate in this Asian Games as overage players in order to win gold medals and obtain exemptions from military service.

Now that the South Korean team is behind in the score, these two people naturally have to show the strength and style of their big brother of the national Olympic team to equalize and reverse the score, and retain their qualification to attack the final and gold medal.

After Cheng Hai scored a goal, boosted the morale of the Chinese team, and fought evenly with the South Korean team for more than ten minutes, the South Korean team gradually gained the advantage again, and once again pushed the battle line around the big penalty area of the Chinese team, and it seemed that the scene of the South Korean team pressing the Chinese team was about to be repeated.

The South Korean fans in the stands came alive again, and it seemed that they saw the team about to score a goal, equalize the score, and then overtake the score.

However, the idea is beautiful, and the reality is cruel.

Just when Kim Jong-woo and Park Joo-young had yet to equalize for South Korea, Cheng Hae gave the South Koreans another fatal blow.

In the 36th minute, the South Korean team's wing attack was destroyed by the Chinese team's defenders and the ball was broken out of the sideline, and the South Korean team's front field was throw-in.

The throw-in was sent, but before the South Korean team could attack, the player who had just received the ball was tackled by the defender of the Chinese team, Mai Tijiang, and the ball was shoveled away, and there was no foul.

The ball passed by Maitijiang fell right at the feet of the forward Wu Xi, who first smashed the ball to avoid the Korean players who grabbed it, and then raised his foot to pass the ball to the Korean team's half.

This time, Hong Zheng and Jin Yingquan were quite concentrated, and they immediately retreated the moment Maitijiang tackled the ball, and did not let Cheng Hai succeed in anti-offside.

After Cheng Hai received the ball, he needed to face the interception of Hong Zheng and Kim Young-kwon.

Hong just thought that this time there would be no more problems.

After he shouted to Kim Young-kwon, the two stopped retreating at the same time, and at the same time grabbed up, trying to make a double grab and poke the ball away from Cheng Hai's feet.

Or let Cheng Hai lose control of the ball.

Anyway, there are other teammates who are returning to defense, they just need to let Cheng Hai pass the ball and stop Cheng Hai, and the ball will definitely be intercepted by their teammates.

However, they underestimated Cheng Hai's control of the ball.

Cheng Hai's 19-point dribbling and Matthews feints, in the Asian U23-level Asian Games, the success rate of one-on-one breakthroughs may reach 8'90%. One-to-two, there is also a probability of breaking through, although the probability may not be large.

But this one-to-two breakthrough was succeeded by Cheng Hai.

Of course, it is also because Hong Zheng still has a little arrogant mentality, and thinks that he and Jin Yingquan will definitely be able to stop Cheng Hai.

As a result, Cheng Hai first made the appearance of breaking through to the outside of Jin Yingquan, and Jin Yingquan involuntarily moved to the outside, but Hong just didn't follow.

Then a large gap appeared between the two.

Cheng Hai used Matthews feints to deceive Jin Yingquan, slipped the ball out of the gap between the two, and then squeezed through the two of them with a sudden force.

By the time Hong happened to and Kim Young-kwan discovered Cheng Hai's intentions, and the two closed the door to the middle together, it was too late.

Cheng Hai, like Ronaldo in the past, used his powerful physique to directly bump into Hong Zheng and Jin Yingquan, and walked away.

Although Cheng Hai's speed is not full value, it is not as fast as Hong Zhenghao and Jin Yingquan.

But when the two were hit by Cheng Hai and lost their center of gravity, regained their footing, and then started to chase back, it was too late.

Cheng Hai caught up with the ball he had just come out on the line of the big penalty area, faced the attacking goalkeeper Jin Chengkui, and used a skillful Matthews feint to shake Jin Chengkui to the point that he lost his center of gravity and exposed a gap, Cheng Hai directly hit the goal.

The ball flew under Kim Sung-kyu's armpit and drilled into the South Korean goal against the far post.

In the 36th minute of the first half, Cheng Hai scored a brace to help the Chinese team take a 2-0 lead.

In fact, when Cheng Hai stumbled out of the closed-door defense of Hong Zhenghao and Kim Yingquan, the Chinese fans in the stands had already stood up.

When Cheng Hai shook off Kim Chengkui, shot successfully, and the ball flew into the net, the Chinese fans in the audience were completely blocked.

The deafening applause, cheers, shouts, and screams resounded in the Tianhe Stadium and resounded in the sky.

On the commentary seat, the commentator of CCTV-5 excitedly shouted in his loudest voice:

"The ball went in, it went in, it went ......"

"Cheng Hai broke through South Korea's closed-door defense against the two central defenders and formed a single goal, Cheng Hai scored another brace, and the Chinese team led 2-0."

"In the case that the Chinese national team was at an extreme disadvantage, it was Cheng Hai who stepped forward twice and dealt a heavy blow to the South Korean team."

"With a two-goal lead, the Olympic team has the potential to break the history of South Korea's winless streak and usher in the first victory with the South Korean Olympic team."

All over the country, there are also countless fans who use computers and mobile phones to express their admiration for Cheng Hai:

"Ahh

"Yes! It's so exciting! ”

"Another brace, Cheng Hai's total goals have reached 10, and it only took 4 games to almost lock the position of the top scorer in the tournament in advance."

"What if the Korean team is stronger than the national Olympic team? It's enough for us to have Cheng Hai! Cheng Hai alone is enough to defeat the Korean team! ”

"Yes! The South Korean team must be eliminated today and they will be able to go home. ”

"Team Huaguo! Win! ”

At the scene, after shouting and screaming in chaos for a while, some fans began to shout Cheng Hai's name.

As more and more people echoed, the scene of more than 50,000 Chinese fans chanting Cheng Hai's name in unison in the end deeply shocked everyone inside and outside the stadium.

South Korean players and fans have just woken up to realize what a mistake they made for Cheng Hai in their previous contempt.

Whether it is the first ball or the second goal, in fact, the root of the conceding goal comes from their arrogance and self-righteousness.

If they leave enough people in the backfield, with Cheng Hai's slow speed, they won't be able to form a single goal!

It's a pity that I only reacted at this time, and it was too late to regret it!

They are already two goals down.

To recover the two-goal deficit and let Cheng Hai stop scoring, the situation has become very serious for the South Korean team.

But no matter what, the game has to go on.

It is impossible for them to surrender and admit defeat.

There is no option in the Korean dictionary to surrender and admit defeat.

They can only keep fighting.

However, there was too little time left for them in the first half.

Both wanted to attack, but also worried about Cheng Hai's terrifying counterattack, which led to the South Korean team not being able to fully devote itself to attacking in the last few minutes, and naturally there was no effect.

One minute 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 2-0, with the host team China leading by two goals.