Chapter 304: Mindset Determines State

In the 4th minute of the first half of the game, Qu Bo, who was re-recruited by Fu Bo into the national team after two years, received a pass from Wang Yongbo near the right midline, and used his speed advantage to force a breakthrough through Komano Yuichi's defense along the sideline. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When Qu Bo broke through to the edge of the big penalty area and was about to cut into the penalty area, he was knocked over outside the penalty area by Japanese midfielder Toshihiro Aoyama.

At the same moment that Qu Bo was knocked over on the turf by a Japanese player, the referee from Australia blew the whistle for a foul.

Immediately afterwards, when Japan's goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa commanded his teammates to line up the human wall, Huang Wenbo, who was in charge of taking the free kick on the right side of the front court, took two steps back and prepared to start the free throw.

At the same time, Yu Dabao, who was arranged by Fu Bo in the left winger position in this game, in order to compete for a favorable position in the penalty area, launched a "hand-to-hand" battle with the central defender of the Japanese team, Yuzo Kurihara. In order to occupy a favorable position in the penalty area, the two people kept squeezing, pushing, pulling, and pulling various small actions on the opponent.

Because Fu Bo, the acting coach of the Chinese team, once "admonished" his players before the start of the game: "What kind of small moves they use against you when they are defending, you will fight back against them in the same way." However, no one is allowed to make violent and hurtful gestures for me. Otherwise, as long as I'm the head coach of this team, disobedient people will never get a chance to play......"

So, just when Huang Wenbo took two steps back and was about to take a free kick, Yu Dabao was entangled with Kurihara Yuzo, and his right hand was very "hidden" behind him and pulled out a handful of the opponent's "Little Ding Ding".

Immediately afterwards, at the same moment when Huang Wenbo threw the ball into the penalty area, Kurihara Yongzo, who was plotted against the "critical part", overthrew Yu Dabao in the penalty area in anger.

Without any hesitation, at the same moment that Yu Dabao screamed and fell on the turf, the Australian referee blew the whistle again for a foul by the Japanese team.

Although a number of Japanese players surrounded the referee in the middle and collectively protested against Yu Dabao's foul, the "unbearable" Kurihara Yuzo pushed him down in the penalty area.

However, since the referee's perspective is sideways to Yu Dabao's front, it is impossible to see what he is doing behind his back. Therefore, the protests of the Japanese players were in vain.

In the 6th minute of the first half of the game, Wang Yongbo, who served as the forward position of the Chinese team in this game, easily deceived the goalkeeper and pushed the penalty created by Yu Dabao into the lower left corner of the Japanese goal, 1-0.

Although Japanese players have always been the epitome of "playing with their brains" in Asia, conceding a goal in such a humiliating way still affected their emotions in the game.

In the past, the Japanese players' painful and erratic running positions interspersed with running positions, as well as tacit passing and cutting cooperation, were also forced by the Chinese team's frontcourt oppressive defense, which was difficult to find.

On the other hand, the midfield of the Chinese team, under the control of three technical players Huang Wenbo, Zheng Zhi, and Wang Yongbo, not only firmly controlled the initiative of the game. Moreover, he also played exquisite passing and cutting coordination many times, and frequently launched dangerous attacks into the opponent's penalty area.

If it weren't for the bad luck of the Chinese team's strikers and the extraordinary courage of the Japanese team's goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa, I am afraid that the Chinese team would have been able to seal the victory before the end of the first half.

Due to the dominant situation on the field, the Chinese team has not been able to convert the advantage on the field into an actual advantage in the score. With the passage of time, the Japanese team, which stabilized its position, also frequently used the few offensive opportunities to test the stability of the Chinese team's backline.

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Perhaps, because they have not been able to defeat the Japanese team for too long, the players of the Chinese team, who have not been able to extend the lead of the score, have gradually become impatient.

With the emergence of impatience, the number of mistakes made by Chinese players when handling the ball on the field has gradually begun to increase.

In the 41st minute of the first half, Yu Dabao, who helped the Chinese team win a penalty shortly after the opening, was about to break through to the bottom line after receiving a pass from a teammate on the left side of the front field. However, after the opponent saw through the intention, he was ready to pass the ball to Wang Yongbo in the middle, and then he reorganized the attack.

However, under the interference of Japan's right wing-back Tomoaki Makino, he passed the ball directly to the feet of the opposing midfielder Hotaru Yamaguchi.

After receiving Yu Dabao's "pass", Hotaru Yamaguchi immediately passed the ball to Yojiro Takahagi in front of him.

Due to Yojiro Takahagi, who was in a vacant position, there were no Chinese players around him to force him closely. So when he received a pass from his teammates, he still had time to look up and observe the position in the front court.

So, when he saw that Rong Hao, who assisted in his own half, had not yet returned to the defense, he sent an over-the-top pass directly to the defensive gap on the left side of the Chinese team.

The next moment, the original guchi Genki, who was inserted at high speed, unloaded the ball steadily on the right side of the front court, and then killed it in the direction of the Chinese team's penalty area.

At this moment, except for goalkeeper Zheng Cheng, only Du Wei is left who can stop the attack of Haraguchi Genki. If he can't stop Genki Haraguchi's breakthrough, then he will be given the opportunity to face the goalkeeper alone.

For the sake of "being safe", Du Wei still chose to shovel fiercely at the opponent, and then shoveled it down outside the large forbidden area on the right side.

However, he not only gave the opponent a well-placed free-kick opportunity, but also carried himself a yellow card. But in Du Wei's own opinion, it is better than being directly attacked by the opponent.

However, it is a pity that Du Wei's yellow card was finally "taken for nothing".

One minute later, when the referee signaled that the Japanese team could start the penalty kick, he created the original breath of this free kick, and the curling ball kicked out accurately bypassed the heads of the Chinese team players and appeared in the back area of the goal area where the defense was relatively empty.

Immediately afterwards, Yuzo Kurihara, who was "unwilling to be humiliated" and gave the Chinese team a penalty kick in the opening stage, jumped high and beat Wang Wenbo and pushed the ball into the upper left corner of the goal.

Although in addition to the number of fouls, the Chinese team in the first half of the game in all technical statistics were better than the Japanese team, which is not the strongest team.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of ability to grasp the opportunity, coupled with the lack of a little luck, in the end, at the end of the first half, there was still a bit of regret that the war with the Japanese team ended in a draw.

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Although the morning after the Diamond League in Monaco, Feng Quan boarded the first flight to Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport.

However, due to the time difference, even if the flight was not delayed and left the airport terminal, Feng Quan took the business car of the Football Association staff who had been waiting for a long time. It was only 10 minutes after the start of the match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team that they arrived at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, where the game was played.

In fact, Feng Quan originally did not plan to participate in the first game of the Chinese team against the Japanese team. Even though his physical fitness is far beyond ordinary people, after a long-distance flight of more than ten hours, the fatigue of both physical and mental aspects is still very obvious.

However, on the morning of July 20, French time, Feng Quan suddenly remembered that when he participated in the London Olympics a year ago, when he competed in the 4x100-meter relay event, he seemed to have a little "little holiday" with a few guys from the Japanese relay team.

Moreover, in Feng Quan's memory, it seems that the Chinese team has not been able to defeat the old enemy of the Japanese team for a long time.

Thinking of this, Feng Quan immediately dialed the phone number of Cao Jingwei, the leader of the national team, and said that he was

I really want to be able to play against Japan, even if I don't have time to play the whole game, just a few minutes.

Therefore, it is hoped that after Cao Jingwei arrives in Seoul, he can arrange a car outside the airport and send him directly to the Seoul World Cup Stadium, the venue of the competition.

So, after ending the call with Cao Jingwei, Feng Quan immediately asked his agent Zhao Shijie to refund the ticket originally scheduled for the 21st. Instead, take the earliest flight on the 20th to Seoul, South Korea.

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Feng Quan followed the national team staff waiting outside the Seoul World Cup stadium, and after coming to the players' locker room, he did not immediately change into his jersey and go to the bench inside the stadium. Instead, lie down on a leather bench in the locker room and take a nap to relieve your physical and mental exhaustion.

If it weren't for the staff of the Chinese team, who forgot to turn off the LCD TV in the locker room when they left, causing the Japanese team to score the equalizing goal, the cheers from the TV woke up the wind in an instant.

I'm afraid that it won't be until halftime when the players of the Chinese team return to the locker room that the exhausted wind will wake up.

However, after seeing the Japanese player Yuzo Kurihara actually knocking on the door of the Chinese team with a header, Feng Quan's heart couldn't help but sigh.

Alas! It's really hard to imagine that the national football team, which was known as the "Chinese head team" back then, could still be scored by the Japanese, who were good at foot skills but relatively short in stature, with a header.

Despite Feng Quan's header skills, he has just reached the barely "qualified" level of 70 points.

But when Kazequan saw the slow-motion replay of Kurihara's header, he believed that with his "perverted" explosiveness and physical strength that were "rare opponents" in the Bundesliga. If he was responsible for marking the Japanese player who scored the goal on the pitch, he would definitely not be "pressed on his head" to put the ball into the goal.

In any case, the reality that the Chinese team was equalized by the Japanese cannot be changed after all. And if you want to lead the Japanese team again, you can only pin your hopes on the second half of the game.

Thinking that he didn't seem to have warmed up yet, Feng Quan first changed into a training uniform he was wearing during the warm-up, and then took out the No. 19 player with the five-star red flag from his locker closet, and walked towards the exit of the stadium.

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Even if the Chinese team lost to the Japanese player in the header grab, which they are more "good at", Fu Bo's heart couldn't help but be annoyed. But he is low-key and introverted, but he does not show it on his face.

When Fu Bo and the 11 Chinese players who started the game returned to the locker room after the first half, he met Feng Quan, who was about to warm up, and a bright smile immediately bloomed on his face.

Joke! Even the backline of the World Cup runner-up Netherlands team has no way to take the style, not to mention the Japanese backline, which is obviously inferior to both physical fitness and defensive skills.

After seeing Feng Quan appear, Fu Bo asked the eleven players who started to play to go back to the locker room to rest first. And he returned to the locker room after briefly inquiring about Feng Quan's physical condition.

And the other dozen or so substitute players who did not get the opportunity to play in the first half, after seeing Feng Quan appear on the court, also quickly gathered around him and greeted him warmly.

However, the "enthusiasm" of his teammates made Feng Quan, who was eager to play in the second half of the game in order to help the Chinese team win, feel a little "distressed".

Although Fu Bo did not say that let Feng Quan play at the beginning of the second half of the game, if it is not conducive to warm-up activities during the halftime period, once the team needs to play on their own to turn the tide of the game and then start warming up, it will inevitably affect the playing time.

So, after a few polite greetings from his teammates, he ran around the court alone on the grounds of "Fu Gui let me go to warm up quickly".

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Although Fu Bo, the acting head coach of the Chinese team, fully affirmed the good performance of the players in the first half of the game at halftime. And hopefully they can continue the good form of the first half in the second half of the game and try to win against the "old enemy" Japan.

However, it is a pity that the "scorelessness" in the first half of the game, coupled with the "accidental" goal conceded in the final stage, still affected the players of the Chinese team to a certain extent.

Less than five minutes into the second half, Zhang Linpeng cut forward along the right flank to the 30-meter area of Japan and sent a low pass near the top of the penalty area.

Just when Toshihiro Aoyama of the Japanese team thought that Qu Bo, who was standing with his back near the top of the arc of the penalty area, would stop the ball before proceeding to the next step. Qu Bo deliberately missed the ball, allowing the ball to pass directly between his legs and roll into the Japanese team's penalty area.

The next moment, Gao Lin, who was inserted into the penalty area at high speed, appeared on the line of the football in time. Then he flicked the ball to the right side of his body with the outside of his right foot, and easily dodged Kurihara's save.

But just when Takabayashi, who was dodging Yuzo Kurihara, was about to raise his foot to shoot, he was thrown directly on the lawn by goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa, who abandoned the goal.

Without any suspense, the referee from Australia awarded another penalty to the Chinese team. And this time, because Nishikawa's foul action was so obvious, the players of the Japanese team were "too lazy" to argue with the referee again.

However, it is a pity that Wang Yongbo, who was pressed by Yuzo Kurihara on top of his head at the last moment of the first half to score a goal, kicked the ball directly to the post on the right side of the goal because he was too interested in the angle when he took the penalty......