July 9 at 17 o'clock sharp, Atlético de São Paulo, Brazil.

World Cup semifinals, China vs. Argentina.

Before the game, Real Madrid officially announced that the honorary president of the club, Argentine star Di Stefano, died in Madrid at the age of 88 due to a heart attack.

Players from both China and Argentina wore black armbands and observed a moment of silence for Di Stefano before the game.

After the two teams lined up, everyone had a solemnity on their faces, especially Yang Yang.

He played for Real Madrid, and had a lot of dealings with Di Stefano, in recent years, the celebrity's physical condition has not been very good, when Real Madrid won the championship celebration before, he was already in a wheelchair to attend, and for his career, he also gave Yang Yang a lot of advice, which helped Yang Yang a lot.

His sudden death made Yang Yang's mood quite sad.

Football is ruthless, and professional football is even more brutal, but there are feelings between people.

It's as if he and Messi are rivals, enemies, but also friends.

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Argentina still has its own four-three-three formation, Messi is still in the forward position, Higuain is at the front, Ravic is on the left, Enzo Perez is on the right, the double back is Mascherano and Biglia, the back line is Rojo, Garay, Demichelis and Zabaleta from left to right, and the goalkeeper is Romero.

The Chinese team's lineup in this game was a bit surprising, and Queiroz discharged a five-three-two formation.

The goalkeeper is Wang Dalei, the back line is Ren Xing, Mei Fang, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng and Zhang Chengdong's five back configurations, the three players in the midfield are Zhou Haibin, Zheng Zhi and Chen Tao, and the front court is a combination of Yang Yang and Gao Lin.

Unlike the previous starting line-up, this time Queiroz took on a winger and replaced him with a defender.

This also made everyone realize that the Chinese team still had to continue to play defensive counterattacks this time.

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At the beginning of the game, Argentina took the lead in controlling the ball, but both sides were more cautious.

Argentina did not want to eat China directly as soon as it came up, but patiently controlled the ball and carefully tested it.

The first threatening attack of the whole game was in the fourth minute, after Messi won the ball in the middle of the midfield, he broke through with the ball himself, and after breaking through the bag of three defenders of the Chinese team in a row, he was intercepted and destroyed by Zheng Zhi on the periphery of the penalty area.

Then Argentina gradually gained the upper hand and firmly suppressed the Chinese team.

In the first ten minutes, the Chinese team could only devote themselves to defense, and it was difficult to grab the ball from Argentina's feet.

But every time, Yang Yang and Gao Lin will still actively run.

In the case of inferior skills, even if you want to attack, there is no way, at most you can only invest more troops on the offensive end, such as Queiroz arranging Gaolin to start.

The Premier League centre-forward is characterised by his tall and strong build, as well as his ability to handle and play the ball up front.

Queiroz arranged for him to start this game, obviously not only to play counter-attacks, but to allow him to create opportunities for Yang Yang.

The long pass after the Chinese team broke the ball was also intentionally or unintentionally looking for Gao Lin's point, but it was unsuccessful after the opening.

The lack of support in the front field of the two strikers is nothing, and they can only focus more on running and pressing the Argentine defence, and then patiently wait for the opportunity to arise.

In the thirteenth minute, Higuain returned a pass in front of Messi and a volley from the edge of the box went just wide, but it won applause from the audience, and it was clear that the fans were eager to see the star's wonderful individual performance.

A minute later, Feng Xiaoting fouled Ravic on the periphery of the penalty area and gave Argentina a free kick opportunity in front, Messi took the free kick and passed through the human wall, but the angle was too positive, and it was directly saved by goalkeeper Wang Dalei and did not create a threat.

Messi was also very excited tonight, creating frequent threats, which also made the field look quite unfavorable to China, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before he was scored.

Subsequently, Argentina won consecutive corner kick opportunities.

In terms of set-piece defense, the Chinese team did a good job, and Argentina was not good at it, so they couldn't get more chances, the only more threatening was Lavic's corner on the left, Garay grabbed the spot, and the header headed into the far corner, but it was high.

The time passed minute by minute, but the Chinese team has not yet played a shot on goal, and the scene is very embarrassing.

In this game, the São Paulo Arena attracted many overseas Chinese and Chinese fans who came to support the national team, with more than 10,000 people, and they kept cheering and cheering for the Chinese players on the field from the beginning of the game, but at the same time, they were all very anxious.

Everyone knows that if it continues like this, the Chinese team's goal will not be able to hold sooner or later.

The time entered twenty minutes, and Argentina attacked for a while, but failed to attack in one go, and temporarily slowed down the offensive.

But everyone understands that this slowdown is brewing the next wave of more aggressive offensives.

But in the 22nd minute, the Chinese team, which finally got a chance to breathe, Zhang Linpeng shoveled the ball passed to Ravitch and quickly passed it to Chen Tao.

Chen Tao protected the ball and passed it back to Zhang Chengdong on the side, who kicked it straight forward.

Golin quickly pulled to the right side, seized Rojo's forward assist, and was too late to return to the defense, grabbed the most advantageous position at the first time, stopped the ball with his chest, and quickly buckled back to the middle, turning to block Mascherano.

While Gao Lin was pulling the side to receive the ball, Yang Yang appeared in the middle and was ready to respond at any time.

When Gao Lin stopped the ball and turned around, Yang Yang started quickly and sprinted forward as fast as possible.

Mascherano was forced to pull to the wing to fill Rojo's position, but his attention never left Yang Yang, especially when he saw Yang Yang start, his first reaction was to call his teammates to pay attention.

"Watch out for his back plugging in and blocking him!"

Demichelis and Garay both noticed Yang Yang in unison, but Yang Yang's activation speed was very fast, and when they reacted, Yang Yang had already rushed over.

What's worse is that Gao Lin's pass was not directly passed to Yang Yang, but passed behind the two of them for Yang Yang to chase, which was quite unfavorable to Argentina's two central defenders.

Yang Yang sprinted at the fastest speed, rushed directly behind Garay, caught up with the ball on the periphery of the penalty area, and quickly stepped into the penalty area, but Demichelis's return speed was also very fast, and he leaned over as soon as he could, wanting to block Yang Yang.

The Argentine central defender tried to squeeze Yang Yang away with his body, but found that he was unsuccessful, Yang Yang just paused for a while, but still maintained the momentum of rushing forward, and rushed directly into the Argentine penalty area.

Demichelis followed closely all the way, but in the penalty area, he didn't dare to have the slightest violation, for fear that it would be a penalty kick if he was not careful, but Yang Yang suddenly stopped and buckled the ball after breaking into the penalty area, which scared Demichelis and Garay both thought that he was going to kick directly and quickly blocked it as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, after Yang Yang stopped suddenly, he quickly started to rush to the bottom line with the ball, and after throwing off half of Demichelis's body, he suddenly got up and hit the goal.

Argentine goalkeeper Romero stood a little outside, because he was standing near the small penalty area just now to direct the team's defense, but after Yang Yang quickly counterattacked, although he returned to the goal for the first time, he did not retreat very far.

Especially when he saw Yang Yang clash with the penalty area from the right side, he moved his position to the right side of the goal, wanting to block Yang Yang's shooting angle as much as possible, but when he directly faced Yang Yang's shot, he still couldn't make an accurate judgment.

When Yang Yang used the emergency stop to shake off Demichelis, quickly pulled away from the position, and created an opportunity to kick the goal, he didn't start immediately, because his incomparable experience told him that Romero's position was to block his angle.

With the Argentine goalkeeper's ability and his 1.92 meter stature, Romero can save no matter whether he plays the near or far corner, especially when a large part of the left angle is blocked by Demichelis.

Therefore, Yang Yang had a very inconspicuous pause in the rapid movement, and then took a small step forward, and then suddenly hit a powerful volley, directly pumping the ball from the gap between Romero's side and the right post of the goal to the goal.

Romero's attention was extremely concentrated, all of them were paying attention to Yang Yang's every move, but when he saw Yang Yang's movements stagnating, he instinctively thought that he was going to get up, and he also made preparations, but he didn't expect that this was indeed Yang Yang's false shot.

When Yang Yang hit the volley, Romero reacted quickly and tried to block it, but it was a little too slow and the ball passed under his hand and crashed into the goal behind him.

After scoring a shot, Yang Yang was also squeezed out of balance by Demichelis who was catching up from behind and fell to the ground, but after seeing the ball into the net, he quickly got up from the ground, waved his hands excitedly, and quickly rushed towards the stand area where the Chinese fans were on the sidelines.

At this moment, the Chinese fans in the stands also cheered wildly!

Scored!

It's Yang Yang's goal again!

The first shot of the Chinese team in the whole game, Yang Yang created the first goal!

The whole Argentine team was on the pitch, and they were all a little confused.

The situation was good just now, but as a result, I conceded a goal in the blink of an eye.

How the hell did you lose the ball?

Yang Yang picked two, and finally confused the goalkeeper, his personal ability really has nothing to say, but is Argentina's defense too fragile? Too big a bit?

Mascherano patted his cheek vigorously, and secretly helpless in his heart: I already knew, I already knew!

Looking at Messi again, the Argentine captain stood in place with his hands on his hips, looking unwilling, but his eyes were confused.

Obviously, he has a shadow on Yang Yang!

In his career, he has never defeated Yang Yang, never, even if it is just one game.

Just now, before this goal, he was also adamant that there was no suspense for Argentina to beat China, and he would beat Yang Yang for the first time in his career, and his teammates also supported him.

But now, he doubts!

At least, not so certain.

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