Chapter 494: Alexander, the pressure is great
Cameroon coach Otto Pfist still has some confidence in defending Zhen Shaolong, he does not ask for a complete restriction of Zhen Shaolong, as long as he does not let him score crazy goals, Cameroon has a chance to win the game.
Cameroon have a strong backline, which can be described as a star squad compared to the rest of the lineup, with their two centre-backs being Andrew Bikay and Alexander Song.
Andrew Bikaij was born in La Liga club Espanyol, started his career with Hinlik in the Russian league and later joined Russian Premier League giants Lokomotiv Moscow.
Bikaie excelled at Lokomotiv Moscow, but was often racially discriminated against by opposing fans during the game.
In the summer of 2006, Bikay decided to leave Moscow to join Premier League club Reading for a pre-season trial in Sweden and was offered a one-year loan contract.
The following year he officially joined Reading for a transfer fee of more than £1 million.
Alexander Song is also quite a strong player, having played for French club Bastia, during which he attracted the attention of many big clubs such as Inter Milan, Manchester United, Lyon, and eventually won the favor of manager Arsene Wenger during his trial at Arsenal.
After Alexander Song joined Arsenal, because the initial performance was not stable, he was loaned to Charlton Athletic in the Premier League, and became the team's main midfielder in the second half of the season.
So Alexander Song is the player who mainly targets Zhen Shaolong.
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After the end of the group stage, it turned to the quarterfinals, and the national Olympic team only trained in the capital for two days before ushering in the competition.
The venue for the competition is the Capital Workers Stadium.
On the morning of the game, the area around the Workers' Stadium was already crowded with fans, and several nearby streets, traffic was affected by the flow of people.
Many fans who don't have tickets are looking around for places where they can buy tickets.
Scalper tickets have become very popular.
Two hours before the start of the game, the price of scalper tickets peaked, and some fans bought tickets for the last row, all spending more than 2,000 yuan.
The ticket price is very impressive.
The ticket prices for some front-row seats have even been hyped to more than 10,000 yuan.
When the Workers' Stadium was officially opened, fans frantically poured into the stadium, and the spectator seats were packed in a short time, and most of the fans found a good position, and they could see in the stadium that the stands were densely packed around, and it was difficult to find an empty seat, and there were many fans standing in the back row, and they probably only bought standing tickets.
Just by looking at the number of fans who came to watch the game, you can also see how much attention the game received.
A large number of fans want to watch this game, because the Chinese Olympic team has a very strong record, qualifying for the quarterfinals in two games in the group, and also meeting Cameroon, who may be defeated.
In addition, many fans also came to support Zhen Shaolong.
Zhen Shaolong's performance was too good, scoring nine goals in two games in the group, and in front of his goal figures, stars such as Messi, Ronaldinho, and Riquelme seemed to become unimportant.
Two days ago, Zhen Shaolong and Kobe Bryant's comparison video, watched the enthusiasm of fans to watch the game, and they hoped to see Zhen Shaolong show his power and help the Chinese team defeat Cameroon and get a ticket to the Olympic football semifinals.
That would be historic!
With the cheers of the fans, the game on the field soon began.
Zhen Shaolong started unexpectedly, and his partner was Hao Lin, who performed well in the group stage.
The two have a clear division of labor.
Zhen Shaolong plays as a free center, he is very closely guarded by the opponent, and it is impossible to play other positions.
Hao Lin is an important firepower point.
As soon as the game began, Zhen Shaolong realized that the African team's defense was strong.
Ordinary running, fighting, every time you have to fight with the other party, every time you feel that the opponent's muscles are like iron, and every collision hurts.
This is also the effect of "Golden Body" after relieving the pain.
Zhen Shaolong can't imagine how to fight hard with the other party without the skills of "Golden Body".
For example, other teammates.
Zhen Shaolong also noticed the situation of other teammates, they also collided with each other, but every time it was a teammate who suffered, and the teammates took the initiative to fight, they would become the grinning side.
The other side is different.
There was an unknown midfielder on the other side, who ran fast and raised his legs to grab points, fell to the ground without controlling his center of gravity, rolled twice in a row, and touched his head after standing up, nothing happened, and continued to start the game again.
"They're not human......"
Zhen Shaolong really didn't want to say this, but he still complained, "A group of animals!" ”
All right!
I'm sorry!
That's not kind!
Zhen Shaolong felt that he should not evaluate the other party with abusive words because the other party was powerful.
In the process of the game, Zhen Shaolong found that it was very difficult to find opportunities, the two central defenders of the other side were very aimed at themselves, especially the guy with a bunch of braids next to him, and it was just a matter of personal defense.
"Once!"
"Twice!"
"Three ......"
Knocked to the ground for the third time, Zhen Shaolong stood up and gritted his teeth, and said to Alexander Song, "You have already hit me three times!" ”
Alexander Song looked up haughtily, "So what? I didn't foul. ”
"Good! You're good! ”
Zhen Shaolong is still a little angry, anyone who is knocked to the ground in a row and eats a mouthful of grass clippings can't be in a good mood, but if he is knocked down continuously, he can also accumulate the number of times to activate skills.
He just waited for that moment.
The Chinese team as a whole is not at a disadvantage, and their disadvantage is only scrambling, and the cooperation is no worse than Cameroon.
This is also normal.
In the eyes of the outside media, Cameroon is only a little stronger than China, and when Zhen Shaolong is still counted as an ordinary star, in terms of the real game, many people think that the Chinese team has a higher winning rate.
First, Zhen Shaolong's goal efficiency is high.
Second, the general strength of Chinese players is not much worse than that of Cameroon.
Cameroon has a lot of players playing in African leagues, and most of the leagues in Africa can't talk about the level at all, and even the top stars among them are difficult to have a place in Europe.
Chinese players are generally not famous, but the level of the Chinese Super League is much better than that of the African League.
The advantage of the Chinese team lies in technology and cooperation.
Duisevic's so-called coordination is not good, and the object of comparison is the top team, but their overall coordination is better than Cameroon's, and the technique and coordination make up for the lack of body.
So the two sides are evenly matched.
Cameroon's straight attack is difficult to threaten the defense of the Chinese team's backfield; Zhen Shaolong in the front court was very tightly defended, and the Chinese team did not find a good opportunity.
This situation has continued.
Perhaps because both sides attach great importance to defense, they do not invest many troops in attack.
When it is difficult for both sides to find opportunities, no matter how fierce the scramble on the field is, don't make people look very irritated, after all, football is a sports for scoring, there is no possibility of scoring, and there is no point in fighting fiercely.
The camera is also frequently pointed at the focus --
Zhen Shaolong.
In the 27th minute of the game, Zhen Shaolong was put to the ground again.
This time, he took the initiative to retreat to get the ball, and when his teammates passed the ball, Alexander Song competed with him, and the two ran very fast, resulting in a body collision with an unstable center of gravity.
Zhen Shaolong almost fell and chewed.
Alexander Song was no better, he slid more than half a meter with his foot poked, and fell to the ground and froze there.
"Hurt?"
The attention of the audience was suddenly focused on Alexander Song, only to see Alexander Song sitting on the ground, taking off his sneakers and examining it carefully, he looked left and right with a sad expression on his face.
"It's just that the shoes are broken!"
The game commentator said amusedly, "These are probably his cherished sneakers, look at the pain on his face...... But fortunately, there were no injuries. ”
Alexander Song fiddled with his sneakers for a long time before he went to the sidelines to change a pair of shoes at the urging of the referee.
When he returned to the arena, his expression was visibly sad.
Zhen Shaolong almost fell a, and his mood was not very good, and when he found Alexander-Song's expression, he immediately complained, "Isn't it just a pair of sneakers!" As for it! ”
"You know what!"
"Do you speak English?" Zhen Shaolong discovered something surprising.
'Of course, I've been in the Premier League for more than two years and I spoke to you the last time Arsenal played Newcastle United.
“……”
Zhen Shaolong felt very sorry.
He forgot.
So we had to change the subject, "Is there any commemorative significance for the sneakers just now?" Was it sent by your girlfriend? ”
"No, just regular sneakers."
"Huh?"
"But it's expensive! The sponsoring companies provide limited sneakers, and many of them have to be bought. ”
"Huh?"
"Sneakers are expensive!"
Zhen Shaolong was stunned when he heard it, it was the first time he had seen a Premier League-level star, and he would feel sorry for the broken pair of sneakers, "This guy is too stingy, right?" ”
In the spare time of the game, Zhen Shaolong talked a few words with Song, and he also knew the reason why Song was stingy--
Stressful!
Born in Cameroon, Alexander Song has a family of 28 siblings, 11 brothers and 17 sisters, and has plenty to do to build a football team.
When Song was only two years old, his father died, leaving behind five wives and a dozen siblings to grow up in a difficult environment.
It is the custom of Africans that after a person gets rich, all relatives and friends will come to eat a big family, counting their respective family members, Song alone has to raise a hundred family members, which is definitely worthy of his name - Alexander.
"It's really stressful......"
Zhen Shaolong couldn't help but burst out laughing when he thought about Song's name and the pressure he was facing, and found that he was suspected of gloating by doing so, so he immediately put on a correct posture to comfort Song, "Otherwise, I'll accompany you with these sneakers on my feet, anyway, my sneakers are from sponsors." ”
"Your sneakers?"
Song glanced down and grinned, it was the first time he had heard that someone would be shameless enough to give the sneakers they wore on their feet to others.
Zhen Shaolong also found that it was not good, and immediately remedied it and said, "In this way, when the game is over, I will sign my name on it." You can take it to auction then, I think...... It should be worth a lot of money, right? ”
Song was stunned.
When he thought about it, it was really like that.
The star in front of him is Zhen Shaolong, who is considered to be the best football player in China, with huge influence in the world, and his shoes for the Olympic quarterfinals will definitely be worth a lot of money if he signs his name.
Song immediately nodded, "You're really a good person......
"Of course."
Zhen Shaolong began to talk about experience, "In fact, there are many ways to make money, not necessarily just by salary, if you can exchange the shoes of the opponent's stars every game, and by the way, find the other party's name and trade all of them, maybe you can make a lot of money......"
Song's eyes were shining with gold, and he found that the other party was so smart that he could think of such a wonderful method, "Why didn't I think of it?" ”
"How did he come up with it, it's so clever!"
Song consciously found the Cotai Strip, and couldn't help but excitedly hug Zhen Shaolong's shoulders, looking like he was hooking his shoulders and back, looking like a close partner, and added by the way, "Thank you!" But now it's the competition, and I'm still going to be serious! ”
"It's okay! Of course. ”
Zhen Shaolong didn't care, he felt that he had done a good job.
Sidelines.
When Otto Pfist saw this scene, he suddenly thought with some suspicion, "Alexander and Zhen know each other...... It's not surprising, but the game is still going on, how did they show such intimacy? ”
"This guy...... It can't be a problem, right? ”