Chapter 496: Let Football Go Back to Its Roots

Before the finals, most of the Chinese media were relatively calm, and they had not milked the Chinese team in their reports, probably in order to be modest, in case they lost to the opponent in the subsequent game, wouldn't it be too much face?

After the Chinese team defeated the Dutch team, these Chinese news media finally stopped hiding their inner championship dreams, and they shouted out the slogan they had been thinking about: The Chinese team won the championship! Let's get football back to its roots!

Modern football certainly originated in England, but if you look further back, China had the sport of Keju in the Song Dynasty, and Keju was the equivalent of football today.

When the ambitions of Chinese fans swelled, the foreign media naturally had to make a big splash, and there were a few Japanese and Korean media that specifically picked on them.

South Korea's KBS: The Chinese team was just lucky, and they have a Chinese player of Korean nationality, and if it weren't for Liu Yu's performance, they wouldn't have been able to reach the World Cup final.

Japan's JNN also made the same remark: This year's Chinese team is relying on referees, and the strength is not good at all!

Of course, there are still a few media like this, after all, the Chinese team can come so far, as long as a reasonable person knows that the strength of the Chinese team is definitely not easy to ignore.

The British Times gave great affirmation to the performance of the Chinese team: Chinese football is developing rapidly, and today's Chinese football is already full of talents, and it is estimated that it is difficult to find a second player like Liu Yu in the world.

Even the media in the Netherlands, which had just been beaten by China, did not hesitate to praise themselves: Liu Yu's performance in the Chinese team is world-class, and I think such a player should really be sent to the Premier League to practice!

After this report came out, it immediately received a lot of supporters, the Premier League should be the most confrontational league in the whole football competition, if you can go to the Premier League to exercise yourself, I believe that after coming back, the quality of the body and all aspects will have a qualitative improvement.

To be honest, Liu Yu did not receive an offer from the Premier League, Wang Zijie also received an invitation a few days ago, it seems that a team from abroad wants to buy Liu Yu's agent.

I don't know if the foreign media know the relationship between Liu Yu and Wang Zijie, maybe if they knew, they wouldn't have done it!

The media outside expressed their opinions, and the conference speech in the national football lounge was in full swing, because Zhipeng was sent off in the semi-finals, which means that he will be absent in the final, therefore, now it is necessary to find someone who can replace him, at least to have a stable performance.

It's not that there is a shortage of left-back talents in the national football team, it's just that there are really not many people who can play relatively stably in normal times, and the opponent who will fight after that has not been completely determined, and the personnel are not easy to determine when the tactics are not clear.

After considering the above problems, the national football team has given two plans, if Italy enters the knockout round, the Chinese team will change the four-back system to a three-back system, so as to increase the offensive point in the frontcourt, at least to help Liu Yu share the offensive pressure.

Of course, if it is the Brazilian team that finally advances to the World Cup final, China may have to let Liu Yu play the back, so as to liberate the back of the Chinese team.

Why be so cautious about Brazil? Of course, the Brazilian team's offense is strong enough, if it is a head-to-head battle, it is very likely that the Brazilian team will score several goals, and this is Brazil's home field, occupying the right place and place, the Chinese team really doesn't want to play against him.

After the plan is decided, all that remains is to wait, wait for the second World Cup semi-final, and wait for your next opponent!

This time the wait was not long, as it was only less than 24 hours, so the results were quick to come!

In addition, the result of this game was actually quite unexpected, the Brazilian team that had the home advantage was completely defended by Italy, and the two few single knives of the Brazilian team did not take advantage of the opportunity.

In the end, it will be China and Italy who will meet in the World Cup final!

In order to be able to have a deep understanding of the opponent, the Chinese team sent a special tactical analyst to study the Italian game repeatedly, as for what conclusions to draw, Liu Yu did not know, because these conclusions were given to the coach.

Although the final list is determined, the major casinos have also opened, although the Chinese team has played very well in the previous games, but most of the casinos are still not very optimistic about the Chinese team, they gave China a high odds of 1:3.6, while the odds of the same opponent Italy are only 1:2.2.

Of course, it's one thing to be optimistic or not, and the result of the game will not be concluded because of whether you are optimistic or not, otherwise you don't have to play this game, just speculate on winning or losing, and the odds of the Chinese team's previous games are about the same, and no one was optimistic about the Chinese team at that time, but the Chinese team slapped them in the face again and again, and now, the Chinese team still has the opportunity to continue to show their heroism!

There is still no World Cup championship in the history of Chinese football, of course, including men's football and women's football, the best record of women's football is the runner-up of the World Cup, and the women's football team at that time was also invincible, and in the end it was only a penalty shootout to hate the United States.

And this time, the men's football team will once again represent Chinese football to attack the world's highest peak!!

In this World Cup, the Chinese team has always solved the battle within 90 minutes, so there is no experience of overtime, and Italy itself relies on defense, so they have scored a total of two overtime games in this World Cup, and their experience in overtime is far richer than China's.

On the personal experience of the players, the Italian team is also extremely rich, many of their players are players who participated in the semifinals of the European Cup and the World Cup, and such rich experience is naturally not comparable to Chinese players, even if Liu Yu has strong strength, but today is still lacking.

Due to the huge disparity, almost no one is optimistic about Liu Yu and the Chinese team.

In order to ensure that the players on both sides are physically fit enough, a total of four days of rest from the semi-finals to the finals, don't underestimate these four days, Liu Yutong's very tired state is definitely enough to recover to the peak.

This time, the World Cup final was held at the Rio de Janeiro stadium in Brazil, and although there was still some time before the game, many fans had already rushed over.

Some are looking for routes in advance, some people are coming to see beauties, some people are coming to see if there are scalpers selling tickets, not to mention that there are a lot of businessmen who dump tickets outside the gymnasium, as for whether the tickets in their hands are real or fake, there is no way to know, anyway, Liu Yu was cheated back then.

It was a long time ago, to be precise, before rebirth, that time Liu Yu went to the concert, but he didn't buy a ticket online, so he went to the scene to find a scalper and bought one, and it turned out that it was a fake ticket, and finally Liu Yu could only grit his teeth and curse the scalper from head to tail.

(End of chapter)