The Australian team, which conceded a goal first, immediately began to launch a counterattack against the hinterland of the Chinese team. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info However, in the face of Fu Bo's highly targeted defense, their counterattack did not take any advantage.

Because the tall and strong Australian players are more adept at straight punching and hanging style in attack. Therefore, Fu Bo deliberately pulled Zhang Linpeng, who served as the team's right fullback in the first two rounds, back to the middle, and formed the central defender combination of the Chinese team together with Du Wei, who is good at heading over.

Although Zhang Linpeng is slightly inferior to the other centre-backs in the team in terms of height, he has the physical strength to be as good as that of European players, as well as excellent bounce power, which is enough to make him not fall behind when it comes to physical contact with Australian players.

In addition, in the personnel arrangement of the midfield back position, Fu Bo also made corresponding adjustments. In the first two games, he partnered with Zheng Zhi and served as the team's starting technical back Huang Wenbo, who was put on the bench by Fu Bo. And to fill the vacancy left by it, Zhao Xu, who is tall and strong, is better at fighting.

Although this may weaken the Chinese team's midfield organization ability, it will play a big role in defending the impact play of the Australians. After all, with Zhao Xu behind him to "escort", Zheng Zhi can devote more energy to attacking.

At the same time, due to the pressure exerted by Feng Quan and Wu Lei, the two counter-attacking swords, in the front field, the pressure of the Australian's midfield players was not too aggressive.

After all, once Feng Quan gets the opportunity to get the ball in the front court, even the two defenders of the Australian team will be difficult to help him break through. What's more, Wu Lei, who is active on the right side of the front court, is also not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Therefore, the comeback after the Australian team conceded a goal, although it seemed very ferocious on the surface. However, out of fear of the Chinese team's rapid counterattack, coupled with Fu Bo's "right medicine" in the middle defense, it is always difficult for their offense to really threaten the Chinese team's goal.

After withstanding a wave of counter-attacks from the Australians, the two wing assault masters of the Chinese team gradually began to show their strength.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Nichols of the Australian team, after the cross from the right side of the front field was pushed out of the penalty area by Zhang Linpeng, it happened to be the second landing point by right fullback Wu Xi.

Wu Xi had just advanced less than 5 meters with the ball when Australia's Partaru pressed up. For the sake of safety, Wu Xi did not choose to pass rashly, but passed the ball to Zhao Xu, who stepped forward to answer him.

At the same time, Feng Quan, who had returned to his own half to assist Sun Xiang in defense, immediately accelerated and rushed towards the front court.

And Zhao Xu, who received Wu Xi's pass, saw that Fengquan had started quickly, so he immediately sent a long pass over the top to the empty space on the left side of the front court.

Although Zhao Xu's long pass over the top was a little big, Feng Quan relied on his superior explosiveness and terrifying acceleration ability on the way, and still controlled the ball firmly under his feet before the football flew out of the sideline.

Feng Quan, who dribbled the ball to the left side of the penalty area, chose to pass the ball to the top of the penalty area when he was defended by two players from the opposing side.

Immediately afterwards, when Australia's central defender Kornswaite thought that Wang Yongbo, who quickly moved forward to the top of the arc of the penalty area, would choose to shoot directly at the edge of the penalty area as he did in the previous two games, he suddenly missed the ball with a false shot.

The next moment, Zheng Zhi, who had been cruising near the midfield in the previous game and rarely stepped forward to the front of the opponent's penalty area, received the football from Wang Yongbo in a timely manner. Then, he faked a shot with his right foot, deceiving the Australian defenders into losing their center of gravity. Then he flicked the ball sideways to the right with his right foot, dodged a little angle, and directly completed a powerful long-range shot 223 meters away from the goal, shooting the ball to the top left corner of the opponent's goal.

However, just when more than 10,000 Chinese fans in the stands of the Seoul World Cup stadium were ready to cheer warmly for Zheng Zhi's long-range shot that "helped the team expand the score advantage". The goalkeeper of the Australian team, Birigiti, miraculously blocked Zheng Zhi's powerful long-range shot from the bottom line.

Since Huang Wenbo did not start this game, the task of taking the corner kick fell to Zheng Zhi.

Perhaps it was the brilliant volley scored by Feng Quan in the previous game that made too much of an impression on the Australian team's defenders. So much so that even though Feng Quan was still three or four meters away from the top of the arc of the penalty area, there were still two defenders waiting by his side.

Then, when Zheng Zhi, who took a corner kick, gave the same "signal" when Huang Wenbo took a corner kick in the last game against South Korea, the Australian players were even more convinced that the Chinese team was going to replicate the corner kick tactics of the last game again.

So, one of the two defenders who was waiting by Feng Quan's side immediately began to pull his jersey "covertly". And the other is standing on the right side of Feng Quan, ready to block Zheng Zhi's pass to the ball here at any time.

Unfortunately, Zheng Zhi did not pass the ball to Fengquan outside the penalty area as expected by the Australian jersey. Instead, it was a flat fastball that was passed to the goalkeeper.

In the next moment, Du Wei, who often played an important role in the Chinese team's corner kick tactics, got ahead of Australia's Ryan McGowan and swung the ball near the penalty spot.

Wang Yongbo, who had been ambushed near the line of the big penalty area, stopped the ball with his chest, and then swept the ball directly to the left side of the goal with the inside of his right foot without waiting for the football to land.

Despite the quick reaction of goalkeeper Birigiti, he pounced in the direction of the left side of the goal at the first time.

However, just as Birigiti was about to pounce on the ball, Wu Lei, the right winger of the Chinese team, kicked the ball to the right side of the unguarded goal with a light cushion with the arch of his right foot before he could touch the ball.

In the 20 minutes of the first half, Wu Lei, who started for the first time in three games, scored his second goal of the game in almost the same way.

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China, who led by two goals, played more comfortably for the remainder of the first half. Not only does he firmly control the rhythm of the game on the field, but also between several frontcourt offensive players, he often plays amazing passing and cutting combinations.

If you ignore the skin color of the Chinese players and the color of the jerseys they are wearing in some periods, it will even give people the illusion that they are watching a "Barcelona" game.

Shortly after Wu Lei scored a brace, Zheng Zhi, who had not scored a sports goal for the national team for a long time, finally broke this embarrassing record again.

In the 27th minute of the first half of the game, Feng Quan, who switched positions with Wu Lei and came to the right side, broke through the defense of the opposing two players along the right side, and then entered the Australian team's penalty area.

Just as Cohenswaite stepped forward to fill in and was about to block Feng Quan's breakthrough route, Feng Quan suddenly sent an inverted triangle pass to the right outside the penalty area.

The next moment, Zheng Zhi, who suddenly stepped forward to the front of the penalty area, adjusted his pace a little, and then directly shot a low flat ball 212 meters away from the goal, sending the football into the lower right corner of the Australian team's goal. 3 to 0.

After taking a three-goal lead, the Chinese team once again had the old problem of "lax mentality". Not only did he make a number of low-level passing errors in the attack, but he was also noticeably not as tight as before in terms of marking when defending.

Although Fu Bo and the team's assistant coach Ou Chuliang stood many times to remind the players to stay focused. But after taking a three-goal lead, it is obvious that it is difficult for the national football players to focus on the game itself as they did at the beginning of the game. Even if the Australian team in front of him is just the "second team" or even the "third team" of the "Kangaroo Army", for the Chinese team of the "second-rate team in Asia", it is indeed enough to be proud of being able to take a three-goal lead.

However, the players of the Chinese team soon paid a heavy price for their laxity.

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In the 34th minute of the first half of the game, Sun Xiang received Zhang Linpeng's ball on the left side of the half, and did not pass the ball to the ball in front of him for the first time, but was ready to pass Nichols, who was forcing him, and then make further plans.

Although it can't be said that Sun Xiang is wrong not to pass the ball to the wind, but under the pressure of the opposing players, he still chose to dribble like "playing with fire" in his own half, which is really a little undesirable for him, a 31-year-old veteran of the national team.

In fact, it would be better if Sun Xiang could really get rid of the other party with his personal ability. Unfortunately, his successive changes of direction not only did not escape the opponent's marking, but also almost slipped on the pitch because he stepped on the turf potholes.

Taking advantage of Sun's slippery feet, Nichols quickly stretched out his leg and poked the ball out from under his feet. Then, with the advantage of physical strength, after squeezing Sun Xiang to the outside line, he quickly rushed in the direction where the football was.

Since Sun Xiang lost the ball only six or seven meters away from the Chinese team's penalty area, once Nichols burst into the penalty area with the ball at this time, whether the opponent chooses to attack the goal directly by himself or pass the ball to his teammates near the penalty area, it will inevitably pose a great threat to the Chinese team's goal.

In desperation, Zhang Linpeng had no choice but to rush towards Nichols fiercely, and at the moment when he was about to suddenly enter the penalty area, he put him down outside the line of the big penalty area.

Although due to inertia, Nichols, who was tackled by Zhang Linpeng, fell in the penalty area with momentum. However, he and several other Australian players then surrounded the referee and demanded that he award a penalty to his team, and at the same time expel the fouler Zhang Linpeng directly from the game, but the Japanese referee was not accepted.

However, Zhang Linpeng, who "took the blame" for Sun Xiang, finally received a yellow card because of his foul.

Moments later, Nichols, who created the free-kick opportunity, took the free-kick but was saved by Zheng Cheng. But his next corner was only for team-mate Cohenthwaite to pull a goal back.

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Originally, Fu Bo thought that after being pulled back by the Australian team, the players of the Chinese team would be able to return to the "appropriate tension" at the beginning. Unfortunately, the players' performance on the pitch did not go as well as they would have liked.

Just when the first half of the game was about to enter injury time, Sun Xiang, who was injured by Zhang Linpeng, who was injured by his own dribbling mistake 10 minutes ago, made a low-level mistake again.

Although the first half of the game was coming to an end, the Australian team, which was demoralized after pulling back a goal, still launched a frantic pressure on the Chinese team players in the frontcourt.

At this time, the players of the Chinese team, because of the slackness of mentality and the fatigue of the body after a large number of runs, led to the embarrassing situation of technical deformation of most players to varying degrees.

In order to maintain the two-goal advantage until the end of the first half, the Chinese players who had been occupying the initiative on the field in the previous game had to give up the strategy of controlling the ball at their feet and reluctantly chose to kick the ball to the opponent's half.

This time, Feng Quan, who was standing near the center circle, finally grabbed the first landing point before Partaru and gave the ball to the left wingback Sun Xiang.

But just as Sun Xiang was about to pass the ball to Zheng Zhi in the middle, he controlled the ball so that it could be dragged until the end of the first half. Australia's striker Nichols, however, suddenly appeared on his passing path and successfully blocked his pass.

Nichols then took two steps forward before making a sudden stop and slotting the ball sideways into the open space in the middle.

The Australian defender Mooy, who quickly stepped forward, stopped the ball with his left foot, and then completed a heavy bombardment with the outside of his right foot directly 30 meters away from the goal.

The next moment, the football flew like a cannonball out of the chamber to the upper right corner of the Chinese team's goal.

Although Zheng Cheng, who had been acting bravely before, accurately judged the direction of the opponent's shot, and pounced on the right side of the goal at the first time. However, Mooy's heavy bombardment was not only powerful, but also extremely tricky.

Therefore, even if Zheng Cheng has stretched his body to the extreme in the air, he has not been able to stop the "footsteps" of the football running into the net.

Although the Chinese team still maintained a one-goal lead at the end of the first half. But neither the starting eleven nor the members of the team's coaching staff could see the slightest hint of joy on their faces as they made their way to the tunnel......

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PS: The starting list of both sides in the battle between China and Australia

China: 4-2-3-1

goalkeeper No. 1 Zheng Cheng;

Defender line (from left to right): No. 3 Sun Xiang, No. 17 Zhang Linpeng, No. 5 Du Wei, No. 15 Wu Xi;

Midfielder: No. 10 Zheng Zhi, No. 7 Zhao Xu; left winger No. 19 Feng Quan, forward No. 8 Wang Yongbo, right winger No. 20 Wu Lei;

Striker: No. 18 Gao Lin.

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Australia: Formation 4-3-1-2

Goalkeepers: No. 12 Birigiti;

Defenders (left to right): No. 17 McKay, No. 4 McGovern, No. 6 Cohenswaite, No. 23 Briland;

Midfielders: No. 11 Goodwin, No. 20 Mooy, No. 24 Partaru; Forward: No. 25 Nichols;

Forwards: No. 29 Juric, No. 19 Duke;