June 15 at 22 p.m. sharp, at the Estadio Nambuco in Recife, Brazil.

In the second match of the first round of the group C group stage of the World Cup in Brazil, China played against Ivory Coast.

After the opening, the Chinese team took the lead in penetrating through a quick pass in the front court and creating a corner kick opportunity, but failed to form a shot and create danger, but became a little passive in the subsequent game.

Instead of having the heart of Drogba in the Ivory Coast starting line-up, Swansea plays with Wilfried Boney, a striker who scored 17 goals in 34 Premier League games last season.

Not only that, but in the 12-13 season, Bony played for Vitesse in the Eredivisie, scoring 31 goals in 30 games.

From his career, it's easy to see that this is a very efficient scorer and one of the key players in Queiroz's pre-match defensive focus.

From the start of the game, Ivory Coast played very positively.

African teams have an advantage in terms of physical strength, and Ivory Coast is not a traditional impression of a power-based style of play, and the players in the team are also quite good at their feet, even if they are like Boni, they are very active at their feet, which makes the Chinese team appear more passive after the opening.

In the first ten minutes, the Chinese team failed to form a single shot, but only scored 40% in terms of possession, which was very passive.

But there is one thing that the Chinese team has done well, and that is defense.

Queiroz has been coaching the Chinese team for four years, and has been focusing on the whole and defense, before this World Cup, he has repeatedly practiced defense, and the three warm-up games are all about defense, and this game against Ivory Coast, the targeted defense he formulated before the game is also more effective.

This made Ivory Coast have the advantage in the first 15 minutes, getting 60% of the possession, but in fact there is no real threat of attack, once the ball enters the Chinese team's half, there are frequent mistakes.

A very important point is the personal interference of the Chinese team, which Queiroz told before the game.

Of course, there is also a reason that Ivory Coast did not start Drogba for unknown reasons, which greatly relieved the pressure on the Chinese team's backline, but it was also a potential threat.

After stabilizing the defense, the Chinese team began to spare strength and actively engaged in counterattacks.

In the 23rd minute, after Feng Xiaoting broke the ball in the backfield, Zheng Zhi instigated a counterattack, and Chen Tao took the ball and sent a direct pass.

Yang Yang retreated to respond, and Jokola behind him followed him inch by inch, but Yang Yang chose to stop the ball to the left, that is, his right side, and suddenly turned to the right, accelerated diagonally, and directly got rid of Jokola's defense.

After catching up with the ball, Yang Yang glanced at the penalty area in front of him, and shot angrily without thinking!

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"Yang Yang shot directly from a distance!!"

"The ball is in!!!!"

"The Chinese team has scored a goal!!!"

"Yang Yang!! Yang Yang!! ”

"World !!!"

"In the twenty-third minute, the first shot of the Chinese team in the game came from Yang Yang's left foot!"

"It's a very powerful long-range shot, it's an absolute reflection of the ability of the world's top scorer!"

"Jokola looked very depressed and helpless behind Yang Yang, he had tried his best, but Yang Yang's speed was very fast, stopping the ball and turning around in one go, not giving him any time to react at all, and when the Ivorian defenders wanted to come up to help defend, Yang Yang suddenly pulled out his legs and played."

"A long shot from twenty-four meters away, this is definitely a proof of Yang Yang's personal ability!"

"We have to be convinced that there are players who are always different, who are always creating incredible results and achieving impressive results, and Yang Yang is such a player."

"We should feel fortunate that we have a great legend like Yang Yang in China!"

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After Yang Yang scored, the whole person quickly rushed out of the stadium, ran all the way, pulled up the national flag emblem on his chest on the way, kissed it hard, and rushed straight to the chairman's stand on the sidelines, and saluted to the supreme leader in the stands, and did not put it down for a long time.

He could see that the leaders on the rostrum were also standing up with excitement and applauding him vigorously.

On the stage of the World Cup, Yang Yang has never only represented himself, he is also representing the motherland!

Soon, the surrounding Chinese players also gathered around, all celebrating the goal with Yang Yang.

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"Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay."

"Chen Tao's direct pass is very good, but Yang Yang's stopping and subsequent processing are more critical, he seems to have seen that the position of the Ivorian goalkeeper is a little off, so after stopping the ball and turning, he played directly, very resolute."

"This should be the most exciting goal since the start of this World Cup, the No. 11 player from the Chinese team, Yang Yang!"

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Although Yang Yang took the lead in the first city for the Chinese team, the subsequent game process seemed to tell everyone that it was just a personal flash of a superstar, like an accident.

Because after taking the lead, Ivory Coast played more fiercely, and the situation of the Chinese team was more passive.

But in this case, the defensive quality that Queiroz took four years to catch shows the foundation.

After repeated run-ins, the Portuguese adjusted the center-back combination, allowing Mei Fang, who plays for Belgium, to partner with Feng Xiaoting, who plays in the Premier League, and the 33-year-old veteran Zheng Zhi was pushed to the midfield position.

The midfield is a combination of Zhou Haibin, Zheng Zhi and Chen Tao, the wings are Hao Junmin who plays in the Bundesliga and Wu Lei who plays for Ajax, and the two full-backs are Jiang Zhipeng, who is preparing to stay in the Eredivisie this summer, and Zhang Linpeng, who is currently playing in the French Ligue 1.

The goalkeeper is Wang Dalei, the current main goalkeeper of AZ Alkmaar.

In addition, on the bench there are also Gao Lin, Yu Dabao, Zhao Xuri, Zhang Chengdong and Zhang Xizhe and other foreign international players.

It can be said that the current Chinese team is almost all composed of foreign legions, and the overall strength is also very good in Asia, especially after having Yang Yang.

So much so that there is a saying in Asia that the Chinese team playing the World Cup is two completely different teams from the Chinese team playing the Asian Cup and the East Asian Cup, because the Chinese team playing the World Cup has a player named Yang Yang.

As for the Asian Cup, due to the change of the schedule, it was adjusted to January, which seriously conflicted with the league schedule, so Yang Yang and Feng Xiaoting and other foreign internationals who had already played the main team did not return to China to compete, so the performance was not ideal.

But from Queiroz's formation, the results of his four years of coaching are still obvious.

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After being led by the Chinese team, Ivory Coast launched a frenzied counterattack, especially in the second half.

In the 53rd minute, Yaya Toure suddenly took the ball from the backfield, single-handedly took the ball and forced the pass, breaking through the three defenders of the Chinese team alone, and finally under the block of Feng Xiaoting, he failed to create a threat by hitting the goal, but also earned a corner kick.

For this kind of player with outstanding individual ability, the Chinese team's defense still does not have much to do.

It's as if Ivory Coast couldn't block Yang Yang's long-range shot just now.

Ivory Coast seemed to have seized on the loophole of the Chinese team in the second half, that is, Jiang Zhipeng on the left side was active in attack, but the defense was very problematic, so Ivory Coast has been attacking the right side.

In the 60th minute, Drogba was substituted, which brought huge psychological pressure to the defenders of the Chinese team.

Just two minutes later, it was a precise cross from the right side, Drogba pulled Feng Xiaoting away at the back point, so that Mei Fang and Bony in the middle formed a one-on-one, but Mei Fang failed to grab Bony when he grabbed the position, and was seized by the opponent and hit the goal with a header to equalize the score, 1-1.

This immediately made Queiroz smell danger.

Soon, the Chinese team also made substitution adjustments, replacing Jiang Zhipeng with Ren Xing, a defender with stronger defensive ability.

Ren Xing is a defender who was dug out of Queiroz in the domestic league and focused on training and training, with good defensive ability and versatile ability, who can be qualified for the central defender and left wing-back position, and this time he was placed on the field to defend the left side.

But soon, Queiroz replaced Hao Junmin with Gao Lin, and the team changed to 442, pushing Gao Lin to the front line to partner with Yang Yang, Chen Tao was changed to the left side, and Zhou Haibin and Zheng Zhi partnered with the double back in the middle, and Wu Lei was still on the right side.

Obviously, Queiroz also realised that Yang Yang was too passive as a lone striker up front, and he didn't get any support from his team-mates in the midfield, which made him have very few opportunities.

In this case, when stabilizing the defense, Yang Yang needs a partner by his side, and center Gao Lin is undoubtedly the most suitable.

Chen Tao is a substitute at Borussia Dortmund, can play in multiple positions, in the past year, the defensive level has also improved a lot, playing on the left side is still competent, and can entangle the right wing-back of Ivory Coast who is good at inserting back, and currently plays for Oriel Toulouse in Ligue 1.

After successive substitutions, the Chinese team was able to stabilize its position, especially after changing to 442, the three lines remained compact.

And because of Gao Linding at the front, carrying the central defender of Ivory Coast, Yang Yang got more free space.

The game scene is still dominated by Côte d'Ivoire, pressing the Chinese team to organize and plan the attack, but it is difficult to penetrate the hinterland of the Chinese team, and the Chinese team is patiently waiting for the opportunity to attack.

Yang Yang has gained more freedom, and he is also running non-stop, constantly trying and looking for opportunities.

But just as the Chinese team attaches importance to Drogba, Ivory Coast attaches more importance to Yang Yang and does a better job of his targeted defense, which makes Yang Yang the focus of the opponent's defense wherever he goes.

After realizing this, Yang Yang also began to consider changing his own functions and trying to create space and opportunities for his teammates.

In the seventy-second minute, Yang Yang took advantage of an unsuccessful attack to kill the ball, and when he walked back, he suddenly called Chen Tao, Gao Lin and Wu Lei over.

"Next, we pay attention to attacking the left side, and then hand the ball to me, Gao Lin try to pull the central defender to the middle or the left side, Wu Lei from the right rib diagonally into the penalty area, to be fast."

After hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up, which means that Yang Yang saw the other party's loopholes and thought of a way.

But the most important problem is, how to move the ball from the left side to the right side of the penalty area?

"I'll take care of it!" Yang Yang said confidently.