Chapter 60: Historical Inertia

Although Evergrande equalized after a counterattack, in terms of strength, it is still inferior to the Mexican American team.

Chinese football is really too far behind world football, not that it can catch up with relying on two or three high-level foreign aids.

Cannavaro can naturally see the difference in strength between the two teams, so after the equalizer, Evergrande still chose to continue to defend and counterattack steadily, and replaced Elkeson, Goulart retreated to the midfield, leaving only Dai Zhiwei and Robinho two strikers in the front, just defending with all their might, waiting for every opportunity to come.

The attacking duo of Dai Zhiwei and Robinho is almost as fast as Asia, and even the Club World Cup team has no team to underestimate their quick counter-attack.

Under Evergrande's tactics, although the Mexican América team created several good scoring opportunities, they were unable to score.

The two sides fought fiercely, and although Mexico America dominated 62% of the possession in the second half, it was still difficult to make a difference in attack as their fitness declined.

Although Evergrande's goal seems to be in a stormy situation and may be breached at any time, the score on the field has not changed, and the mentality of the players in Mexico and America has become more and more anxious, and the players are almost all pressed to the front.

When the game came to the last 10 minutes, there was a sudden change on the field.

Paulinho's midfield steal was too much for Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi pulled the ball, dodged Cattermole's marking, and quickly got up with a long pass.

When Dai Zhiwei received Zheng Zhi's long pass over the top, he once again rushed to the backfield of the Mexican American team like a wind, and Robinho next to him just came off the bench in the second half, full of energy, and followed without hesitation.

At this time, América Mexico had only Goertz and Pablo Aguilar left in the backfield.

A great opportunity for Evergrande!

In the face of Goltz's defense, worried that the opponent would interrupt this rare counterattack opportunity with a foul, Dai Zhiwei chose to pass, but instead of passing to Robinho, who was closely watched by Pablo Aguilar, he kicked the football to the left, and then continued to cut forward without the slightest pause.

He saw that Zou Zheng had stepped forward quickly and was able to get the ball to his feet again, so that he could just shake off Pablo Aguilar and go one-on-one.

Facing Zou Zheng, who was receiving the ball, Goltz made a long-distance sliding tackle, Zou Zheng kicked the ball and jumped to avoid Goltz's sliding tackle, but when he landed, his feet were soft and he was paralyzed to the ground.

Suddenly, in the stadium, the referee's whistle sounded like a shrill siren; In the stands, whether it was Mexico, America or Evergrande fans, they all stood up in surprise!

Zou Zheng was caught off guard and only felt a piercing pain near the ankle of his right leg, and then, like an abandoned rag doll, he fell the lawn.

Dai Zhiwei heard the referee's whistle and the fans' exclamations and quickly turned his head, his face was full of surprise when he saw this scene on the field, and he strode towards the foul site.

And the troublemaker Goltz stood beside Zou Zheng worriedly, constantly waving to the sidelines, signaling the stretcher and medical staff to hurry up!

Cannavaro's face turned blue and he was forced to replace Zou Zheng with Li Xuepeng, using up all the team's substitutions.

"Is this historical inertia?" Dai Zhiwei watched Zou Zheng being carried out of the field on a stretcher, his brows furrowed.

In the previous life, Zou Zheng was seriously injured in this Club World Cup, and since then he has never recovered to the previous level, and his career has fallen from a high altitude.

Because Zou Zheng's injury was not directly kicked to the injury, but in order to avoid the opponent's tackle, he jumped and landed and caused the support foot to be injured, but the referee still gave Goltz a yellow card with the action of Goltz tackle to light the soles of his shoes, so that the latter turned two yellows into one red and was still sent off the field.

Because Goertz was sent off with a red card, América Mexico could only play with 10 men, coupled with the rapid decline in physical fitness caused by the fierce attack in the first 70 minutes of the game, the next ten minutes of the game were completely controlled by Evergrande.

This is also the only time when Evergrande has the initiative in today's game.

In the 83rd minute of the second half, the attack of América Mexico was attacked by Paulinho, who did not dribble forward, but passed the ball diagonally to Robinho who was waiting in the midfield for the first time.

The Mexican-American player who is targeting Robinho is Andrade, but who is Robinho?

Robinho, who has experienced too many ups and downs, didn't even have time to look at Andrade, and when the opponent didn't press in front of him, he conceded the ball to his right side, and then went straight to Dai Zhiwei on the forward line, and the football penetrated the defense of Mexico America in an instant.

Seeing this, the players of Mexico and America hurriedly tried to quickly return to the defense, because at this time there was only Samudio defending alone in the backline.

Dai Zhiwei held the football passed by Robinho with his back, and although Samudio was marking behind him, Dai Zhiwei still protected the ball steadily.

At this time, they are all players running in the direction of the goal of Mexico America, whether it is Mexico America or Evergrande, if Dai Zhiwei passes back, he can only delay the fighter, but if he is forced to break down, the opponent catches the opportunity to counterattack, it is a fatal mistake.

But who is Dai Zhiwei?

Already known as the new Asian Footballer of the Year, he decided to go it alone without the slightest hesitation.

Samudio was very vigilant in defending Dai Zhiwei in front of him, who was far superior to other Chinese players of Evergrande in terms of honor, ability and reputation, even Goulart and Robinho were slightly inferior to Dai Zhiwei on the court.

Samudio is well aware of Dai Zhiwei's strength, so he will not relax like he does against young players, but pay attention to Dai Zhiwei's movements with tense nerves.

Dai Zhiwei suddenly moved, only to see his upper body turn to the left, but the range of movement was not large, and Samudio hesitated for a moment before deciding to wait for the change.

"Heads-up, I won't lose to anyone." Dai Zhiwei's self-confidence is naturally justified, because although Evergrande has been suppressed as a whole, it has always had the upper hand at Dai Zhiwei's point.

Dai Zhiwei glanced at the nervous Samudio, started quickly, the ball moved back and forth between his feet, and used the inside of his foot with a little forward angle to dial the ball to the inside of the other foot, and drilled it directly.

Deep-fried croquettes!

Although Samudio subconsciously stretched out a kick, he did not trip Dai Zhiwei, and Dai Zhiwei broke through Samudio's defense in an instant.

Dai Zhiwei burst into the penalty area and made a concise dribbling action in one go.

With Dai Zhiwei's current dribbling ability, it is easy to perform extraordinary actions such as cycling, rainbow passing, flicking the tail of the ox, and croquettes, but it is still a little easy to use Iniesta, who regards croquettes as his signature move.

Coming to the goal, Dai Zhiwei's eyes aimed at the upper corner of the goal, and at the moment when Muñoz subconsciously lifted his center of gravity, Dai Zhiwei shot a powerful shot with his left foot and hit the football into the near corner of the goal.

"Boom!" The moment the football crashes into the net, the stadium is as noisy as a burst watermelon.

Seeing the continuous agitation of the white net, Dai Zhiwei did not have the excitement after scoring in the past, but put his index fingers in both hands to the sky and used the goal to pray to the sky that Zou Zheng's injury would not be too serious.

Before his rebirth, Dai Zhiwei was a staunch atheist, but after experiencing a rebirth full of fantasy, he was naturally less determined.

After hugging Dai Zhiwei, the rest of the Evergrande players also made the same action as Dai Zhiwei.

After that, although there were still sporadic attacks in Mexico and America, they were generally disarmed and surrendered due to physical exhaustion.

After all, with the exception of the Champions League and the Copa Libertadores, the rest of the teams are only here to make up the numbers for the Club World Cup.

In recent years, even the Copa Libertadores champions have only come for the runners-up prize in the Club World Cup.

2:1, the first match of the Club World Cup of Guangzhou Evergrande team, defeated the Mexican American team at the last moment.

In the 2006 Club World Cup, Mexico América faced Asian champions Jeonbuk Hyundai in their first match, and they eventually defeated Jeonbuk Hyundai. But this time, they didn't have the last laugh as they had hoped.

From the two sides to the backwardness, and then to the final lore. Evergrande proved with a performance of not abandoning or giving up that the domestic team is definitely no longer just the one who is killed. After the victory over América Mexico, Evergrande also reached the semi-finals of the Club World Cup for the second time, and will face Champions League champion Barcelona in the semi-finals.

Facing the tough Mexican American team, Guangzhou Evergrande team had the last laugh, and entered the semifinals of the Club World Cup again after 2 years, and the next thing waiting for them will be the Cosmos team Barcelona -

The most powerful football team in today's football!