Chapter 23: The King
The football and the South Korean defender pounced on Gao Zheng together, Gao Zheng raised his foot to make a gesture to catch the ball, and the two Korean players immediately pounced from behind him.
But Gao Zheng didn't catch the ball, he directly let the football leak between his legs, and then he turned between the two people, leaving the two people behind.
"Whoop!! There was a thunderous cheer from the stands.
"Beautiful!! Pretty! He Ping slapped his hands and applauded Gao Zheng, so that the audience in front of the TV heard the sound of snapping.
This is just one of those outstanding performances after Gao Zheng came on the court.
The Chinese fans in the stands are already crazy, as long as the football passes to Gao Zheng and Gao Zheng receives the ball, the cheers in the stands will follow.
He has become the focal point of the stage.
For Gao Zheng fans, this is a familiar feeling.
Gao Zheng before the injury was like this, as long as he was on the court, then he was the well-deserved protagonist of this court.
In the last six months, the stage has lost its protagonist, but today the protagonist is back.
In the face of Gao Zheng's various active performances, the Korean team struggled to deal with it.
They seemed to be back to the game more than six months ago, and when Gao Zheng started to break out, they really didn't have much to do but watch him score.
Park Changji, who was on the bench, was ready to make a move, and set his eyes on head coach Stillik several times, but Stillik didn't even look at him.
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Seeing Gao Zheng's performance, Sun Xing also wanted to compete with Gao Zheng.
However, he found that after Gao Zheng came on the court, the Chinese team's defense was better than before.
He tried to break through from the side with the ball twice, but was met by the tough defense of the Chinese team, and once he shoveled the ball out of the bottom line. Because he tackled the ball first, he didn't foul at all.
Another time, the defenders of the Chinese team faced him, simply cut off the football, and then took the opportunity to make a big counterattack.
It stands to reason that Gao Zheng is just a striker, and he usually doesn't defend much. He shouldn't have improved China's defensive performance......
The Chinese players, especially the defenders, were clearly encouraged by Gao Zheng's performance after taking the field.
So they even performed better in their own defense......
This really made Sun Xing a little unexpected.
Obviously Gao Zheng hasn't scored yet, the score is still 0:0, they have a chance to score, but we also have a chance to score, why do they seem to have an advantage?
He cast a puzzled gaze at his backfield.
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Gao Zheng raised his hand to his teammates and motioned for his teammates to pass the football to him.
As a result, before his teammates could pass the ball, there were already two Korean players next to him.
At first, the Korean players were not like this, they thought that Gao Zheng was just dying and struggling.
But after Gao Zheng had been playing for almost ten minutes, they found that although Gao Zheng had just recovered from injury, his state seemed to be completely unaffected.
Stillik yelled at the sidelines again, telling them to step up their defense against Gao Zheng.
Naturally, they didn't dare to ignore Gao Zheng's.
As a result, because two players came to defend Gao Zheng, there were gaps on the side of other Chinese players, especially Wu Lei, who keenly found the holes in the South Korean team's defense.
The only pity is that the Chinese players who passed the ball were a little slower, and this loophole was quickly filled by the South Korean players.
By the time the football reached Wu Lei's feet, the opportunity was gone.
"Wu Lei!" However, just after Wu Lei got the ball, he heard Gao Zheng's shout.
Wu Lei looked up and saw that Gao Zheng had already thrown off the two Korean players who were following him, turned around and ran towards the South Korean team's penalty area, and was squeezing his eyes at him at the same time.
Wu Lei knew what he had to do, and he immediately passed the football to Gao Zheng's front.
Seeing this, the two Korean players chasing Gao Zheng hurriedly accelerated, wanting to defend Gao Zheng with one left and one right.
Unexpectedly, while Gao Zheng was receiving the ball, he suddenly stopped and turned around, leaving the two pursuers behind him again, but at the same time, his forward momentum was interrupted and turned backwards.
Gao Zheng was not disappointed, he immediately turned around again and walked sideways to the left side.
In the process of his sudden stop, I don't know how many people's eyes were fixed on his injured right knee.
But there was no problem, and he made this move with all his might, without the slightest sign of being unsupportable and about to lose his balance.
Gao Zheng on the field didn't pay attention to his right knee at all, and after shaking off the two pursuers, he dribbled the ball horizontally and inserted diagonally into the penalty area.
After the South Korean defender pounced, he passed the ball to the side and then cut in without the ball himself.
He rushed forward and the ball was passed over.
A low flat ball, fast speed, swept in front of the South Korean goal.
Gao Zheng inserted the forward point, on the inside, there was a player from the South Korean team, and goalkeeper Kwon Soon Tae was blocking the angle, and there were also Korean team players behind him, everyone had to surround him, except for his front, there was no one in the direction of the football......
In this kind of encirclement, Gao Zheng's direct shot has almost no angle at all, and there is no time and space to adjust when he stops the ball and adjusts it.
I saw Gao Zheng rushing towards the incoming ball with an arrow step, at this time he was basically facing away from the goal, and there was no shooting angle at all, he only had one way to go after stopping the ball and then passing the ball.
The South Korean players who surrounded Gao Zheng were overjoyed, knowing that they were about to complete a successful defense.
But in the next second, the players of the South Korean team suddenly saw the football rushing out from between Gao Zheng's legs, and the left leg that he was dragging behind flicked like a cow's tail and threw it on the football.
The ball was knocked up by his heel before jumping up and flying between two South Korean players into the back corner of the goal.
South Korea's goalkeeper Kwon Soon-tae, who blocked the angle at the front point, was completely unprepared for Gao Zheng's shot, and when he saw the football flying over, although it was close at hand, he had no way to make a block and save, the only thing he could do was to turn his head and neck and let his eyes follow the football This is the result of long-term goalkeeper training, no matter what, the goalkeeper can't let the football out of his sight.
The rest of the Korean players didn't react until the ball flew into the goal from a distance, and their minds turned again, realizing that there was a very serious problem just now, wasn't it...... Lost the ball?
Soon, the cheers at Helong Stadium helped them to give them an answer.
Yes, they conceded the goal!
"Gao Zheng! Gao Zheng! Gao Zheng!!! There's nothing better than this comeback! He staged the return of the king at Helong Stadium!! He Ping shouted excitedly, and his voice was even a little choked up at the end.
At this moment, he fantasized about it for too long and waited too long.
In fact, before this game, he had conceived a lot of plans for Gao Zheng's comeback goal, and what kind of words he would say in what tone when the time came.
But just now, the moment he saw the football fly into the goal, a wave of blood rushed to his head, and all the commentary he had worked so hard to prepare was washed away......
He only remembered one word:
The King Returns.