Chapter 480: Advance to the Knockout Round

Fortunately, what worried Liu Yu did not happen, although Liu Yu was missing a strong scorer, but on the defensive side, China did a very good job, at least it did not let the opponent score again!

The score also stopped at 4:3, and the Chinese team finally completed the big reversal with Liu Yu's hat trick, so that the Chinese team has collected six points, and in this group, in addition to the Chinese team, the other highest is only four points, except for the eliminated Ivory Coast, the other two teams have the opportunity to qualify for the World Cup, why do you say that the Chinese team has already qualified, because the Greek team only drew the first game, so they only have one point, and the four points are Colombia, In other words, only if the Greek team defeats Ivory Coast in the last game and the Chinese team defeats Colombia, the Greek team may advance!

Otherwise, it will be the Chinese team and Colombia that will advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup, but the Chinese team will definitely advance anyway, and the last game will determine whether the Chinese team will be ranked first or second in the group.

China is in Group E, and when the Chinese team enters the knockout round, they will play against the first and second in Group F, and in the current form, the Chinese team is likely to meet Mexico in the quarterfinals!

In the Olympic Games, the Chinese team played against the Mexican Olympic team, and Liu Yu felt very relaxed at that time, after all, the Mexican Olympic team was not very strong, anyway, under the leadership of the Chinese team, they finally won the game!

And now the Chinese team will meet the Mexican national team, I believe it will be a very difficult battle, I think for the future, now it is more important to play the game in front of us!

In the last game against Colombia, Liu Yu did not start the game, due to the injury in the last game, in this game, he just sat on the bench, as for why not go to the audience, it is because, in order to prevent the Chinese team from being beaten by the other party, if you see that the state of the national football players is not good, Liu Yu can be on top!

Colombia's star squad is simply the most luxurious in the entire squad, and there are also a lot of players playing for some big clubs, including AC Milan's Christian Zapata and Monaco striker Falcao García, which can be said to be a luxury in any team in the big five leagues.

Of course, such an extravagant lineup also has shortcomings, the players are a little playing cards, although they will not do a good job in handling the relationship, some players may still have a little contradiction between them, although they will maintain the same position during the game, but hey, the cooperation between the players is not tacit!

Therefore, through the experience of Colombia playing against the other two teams, it is not difficult to see that the current Colombia pays more attention to individual singles ability, and does not do well in team cooperation.

For Colombia, they must not be easy in this game, the Chinese team has won two teams in a row has proved the strength of the national football team, if Colombia underestimates the national football team at this time, it will hurt itself after all, it is better to face the level of the national football team now, perform well, maybe you can win the Chinese team.

It's another seven days of training, this time Liu Yu mainly exercises his shooting skills, because he can't use a variety of more handsome actions like training during the game, and when he competes, because the movements are relatively small, so how fast and how to come is the best, so he generally needs a variety of special actions to maintain the balance of his body, as far as he can play a higher quality shot.

Seven days of training passed in a blink of an eye, and seven days were like a day, and soon it was time for the official competition!

It's still 7:40 p.m., which refers to the local time in Brazil, and it's only about 12 o'clock in China, but in fact, in addition to hardcore fans, no fans will stay up late to watch the game during this time period.

But no matter how sleepy you are, there will always be fans who come to watch the game, and these fans are the hardcore of the Chinese team and the fans of the Chinese Dragons!

Now the Chinese team has been confirmed to advance to the knockout round, so for the Chinese players just need to play their own form, but Liu Yu has to do more than that, he has to beat Colombia, at least to solve the glory.

However, he couldn't tell the reason, so he could only wait in his heart for him to score a few more goals when he came on the field!

After the start of the game, Colombia still relied on its offensive advantage to press forward, and for a time the Chinese team was suppressed in the half, the situation was obvious, Colombia is to pursue offense, while China is trying to play defensive counterattack.

As a result, in the 3rd minute of the game, Colombia gave the Chinese team a dismount, this goal was James Rodriguez sent a long pass, McNelly Torres quickly followed to form a single knife, this may be because the Chinese players just came on the field, the position is not familiar with the reason, anyway, in the moment of passing the leak, fortunately, Torres in the moment of the goal, Wang Dalei quickly attacked to confiscate the ball.

When it came up, it was pierced by the other party, which also made the Chinese players recognize their strength, and won the previous matches with Ivory Coast and Greece, many players thought that the Chinese team was already strong, but now look at it and that's it, that is, a weak team ratio, I want to be the difference in strength with Colombia's performance now!

In the 8th minute, Zheng Zhi, the captain of the Chinese team, suddenly shot a cold arrow outside the penalty area, the ball was played very suddenly, and the opponent's goalkeeper did not react, but fortunately, the opponent's defender made up for it in time, and the pursuit was blocked with his body.

In the subsequent game, the smell of gunpowder on both sides became bigger and bigger, and players frequently fell to the ground and were injured, and the opposing players kept provoking the Chinese team, and even made some actions to insult the Chinese team.

In the 10th minute, Colombia's Christian Zapata made a long pass to his teammate Torres, Torres faced the defense of the Chinese team of two people, with strong physical fitness, broke through from the middle, Torres no longer had the interference of the Chinese team members, faced the goalkeeper of the Chinese team Wang Dalei, directly hit a far corner, the ball touched the turf on the ground in the process of flying towards the goal and changed the line, don't underestimate this change of line, it was supposed to score the goal, the ball was barely mixed out of the goal range!

After the game, the Colombian official also expressed dissatisfaction with the stadium of the game, however, the competition committee did not accept the proposal, their opinion is that the Chinese team in the same game did not say the problem, and you began to discuss it, which is not reasonable.

Of course, this is all in the future, and it is still in the game, so keep your eyes on the present!

In the 15th minute, Colombia's defender Jackson Martinez deliberately stopped the ball for handball and escaped punishment, and the Chinese team did not pay attention to the player's attack while expressing dissatisfaction to the referee, so that the opponent formed a more threatening attack, but fortunately, the Chinese team's fullback made up in time and blocked the ball out of the bottom line with his feet, but because the ball was hit by the bottom line, the opponent still won the corner kick opportunity.

Fortunately, this time the corner kick opportunity was not scored, if this goal was scored by the opponent, the Chinese players had to be angry, fortunately, this time the corner kick attack was broken up by Feng Xiaoting, the Chinese team played a quick counterattack, this time it was a long pass from the backfield, Yu Hanchao stopped the ball with his chest near the half, and saw that the opponent's defenders did not come up to defend closely, Yu Hanchao simply chose to bring himself forward, and the opponent's defender finally couldn't sit still, and began to rush up and run long distances into the penalty area, However, the final shot was blocked by Greek defender Camilo Zúniga.

A minute later, it was the Chinese team that made a steal near the midfield, and in the face of their multi-person package, the Chinese player decisively chose to hit the goal on the periphery, this time, because it was too sudden to aim at all, the ball hit the inside post of the goal and bounced into the goal.

In the 16th minute, the Greek team finally won a free kick in front, because the angle was too far to hit the goal, James Rodriguez free kick crossed, Christian Zapata nodded the ball slightly higher, because the pass speed is very fast, although only with the help of the power of the pass, but the speed of the ball is still a little outrageous.

Wang Dalei stood in place and didn't save, it wasn't his mistake, but he couldn't get enough time to get the ball so fast, but fortunately, the ball didn't hit the goal, and Colombia didn't score a goal.

One minute later, Liu Yu's volley from outside the box was saved by the Colombian goalkeeper.

In the 20th minute of the game, it was the highly skilled Colombia that broke the deadlock, this time it was the Chinese player's own mistake corner cross, and when he passed back to the goalkeeper, he almost formed a goal, Wang Dalei blocked the ball with his foot out of the bottom line!

This time the Colombian players finally seized the opportunity of the corner kick, Cristian Zapata's corner kick found James Rodriguez in front of the goal, who faced the goalkeeper of the Chinese team, pushed in a reverse direction, grabbed the header and hit the left side of the goal, the key moment was still played by the star, James Rodriguez opened the scoring for the Colombian team with a beautiful header.

After conceding the goal, the Chinese players blamed themselves, this goal was indeed a problem with the Chinese defenders, and the defense did not keep up, otherwise this ball would not have let the opponent fight for the ball so easily.

Subsequently, the players of the Chinese team were a little anxious because of the loss of the ball, and as a result, the players received two yellow cards in the game, and Zheng Zhihe and the backfield player Jiang Zhipeng were warned by the referee with yellow cards.

The two yellow cards can also be regarded as a lesson to the Chinese team, and the Chinese players have become much clearer all of a sudden, at least knowing that such a malicious foul is useless!

After conceding the goal, the Chinese team took the initiative to press the attack, anyway, it had already qualified for the World Cup knockout round, even if it lost the game, it was useless, so the players didn't care much.

In the 23rd minute, the players of the Chinese team played tacit cooperation in the front court, Hao Junmin made the ball, Yu Hanchao shot vigorously after getting rid of the defense, and the ball was bravely blocked by the opponent's goalkeeper.

The Chinese team still lacked luck today, to be precise, the opponent's goalkeeper played too bravely, seeing the game develop like this, the Chinese team finally couldn't sit still and began to apply to the head coach next to him for substitutions.

China finally knew a very dangerous goal in the 27th minute, but unfortunately Chinese striker Yu Dabao tried a long-range shot from outside the box, but the ball went wide of the post.

The ball almost rubbed against the crossbar of the goalpost, if it wasn't for a certain change of line in the air, the ball would have slid into the knock, or a matter of luck, in recent games, luck has not been on the side of the Chinese team.

In the 28th minute, Christian Zapata sent a wonderful pass, and Abdoujackson Martinez followed up with a shot that was blocked by Chinese defender Jiang Zhipeng.

More than halfway through the first half of the game, the Chinese team still fell behind by one goal due to the mistake of the defenders, but in general, the Chinese team played no worse than Colombia, at least it looked good!

Continue to fight, in the 30th minute, Colombia arc ball cross, Camilo Zuniga header is deflected, players on both sides are trying to attack, the Chinese team is to tie the score, and Colombia is to expand the score, the two sides go back and forth, and the game is very exciting.

In the 35th minute, the Chinese team stole the opponent's ball in the backfield, Ji Xiang counterattacked with a long pass, Yu Hanchao quickly inserted and saw the opponent's goalkeeper standing in front of the direct shot, and sure enough, the opponent's goalkeeper could not go back, but the quality of the shot was not high, and the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar. In the 36th minute, Hao Junmin made the ball on the side, and a strong volley near the corner of the penalty area missed the post, and the Chinese team missed the opportunity to tie the score, but on the whole, the Chinese team performed perfectly today, Liu Yu's performance, but the Chinese team never fell behind!

Of course, this is also related to those young players who are replaced, young players are not convinced by anyone, born calves are not afraid of death, even if they meet athletes who are stronger than themselves, these young players can also fight!

The passive Colombian team adjusted through substitutions and replaced the strong Juan Cuadrado, through this substitution, Colombia wants to stabilize itself, after all, let the Chinese team play so much that it will lose the game sooner or later.

In the 35th minute, the Colombian player broke the ball from the feet of the Chinese team players and played a counterattack, and Cuadrado, who had just come on the field, curled a shot from outside the penalty area.

In the 38th minute, the players of the Chinese team entered the field without the permission of the referee after Yu Hanchao left the field, and the referee showed him a second yellow card and sent him off with a red card, and he could only play 10 to 11 for a while.

At this time, the Chinese team applied for personnel adjustments, Liu Yu replaced Hao Junmin on the field, and equalized the score when he touched the ball for the first time in the last game.

This time, Liu Yu calmly shook off the defenders and crossed the arc ball after breaking through from the side with the advantage of being physically strong when he just came on the field, but he didn't expect the opponent's defender to stand badly, and the ball actually hit the opponent's defender and bounced into the goal!

(End of chapter)