Chapter 86: Winning Great Honor for the Nation!
However, Lao Tan naturally has his confidence in forcibly occupying the pit, and this one is no exception. Only 10 minutes into the opening game, Tan Jiangbai got a wonderful pass from Li Huitang in the penalty area, and scored a one-on-one shot against the British goalkeeper to open the scoring for the team.
It didn't take a few minutes for Lu Zhuhu to find the captain with an accurate cross after running from the right, and Li Huitang naturally had no reason to miss it and make another city for the team. After falling behind by two goals, the British army also launched a counterattack with all their might, taking advantage of a mistake by Li Tiansheng, the left wing-back of the Chinese team, to recover a goal from the right winger. But before the other party was happy for a while, Tan Jiangbai seemed to have stolen Li Huitang's skill package, and completed a beautiful horizontal shot in the counterattack, and the opponent's goalkeeper had no choice but to let the ball go into the net. The first half was 3-1.
At the beginning of the second half, Lu Zhuhu once again showed his personal ability, shaking the opponent's defenders to find North, and then passed a wonderful single knife to Sun Jinshun, who was yelling to invite him to dinner every day, and Sun Tie's legs shot head-on, expanding the score to four to one. Seeing that it was going to be beaten by the Chinese team, the British army worked together to strengthen the attack, scoring its second goal from the near corner of the center, but soon the Chinese team ended the opponent's idea of chasing points, Li Huitang began to break out in all directions, inside and outside the penalty area, left and right, scored four goals in one go, and the second half completely became Li Huitang's personal performance time, and he himself once again completed the feat of five yuan in a row.
At this time, Lu Zhuhu and other teammates could only spread their hands in the midfield, staring at the captain who insulted the opponent's increasingly weak defense line again and again.
The British army took advantage of the slack defense of the Chinese team before the end of the game to make the score eight to three, slightly saving face, and the game ended.
After a day's rest on June 27, the second game of the Chinese team in Yangon, the opponent was the Yangon champion Myanmar Police Team, which was very famous in the Nanyang area - this time it was considered to have met "peers", after all, Feng Jingxiang, Li Tiansheng, Tan Jiangbai, Ye Beihua were the traffic police in Guangzhou before, and the Guangzhou Police Team built by them swept the Guangzhou football world, which was the strongest team in Guangdong at that time, and they have always enjoyed the title of "Four Knights".
For spectators in Yangon, there weren't many opportunities to compete with the Burmese police, so not only did the event spark a craze among the Chinese diaspora, but it also sparked a lot of local interest, with fans flocking to the ticket office five hours before the start of the game, and many fans who couldn't get tickets and were blocked from the stadium, so anxious to curse. In the end, more than 28,000 people entered the stadium, breaking the record for the highest attendance in the area – and if tickets were opened, more could be entered. But even so, who doesn't have a big stadium in Yangon like Shanghai? The fans have also been squeezed to the edge of the stadium, a bit of the Devil's home stadium in some of the Premier League's fan zones close to the stadium in the future, which caught the organizers a little off guard.
The Chinese team put Tan Jiangbai, Ye Beihua, and Li Tiansheng in the "Four Knights" into the starting lineup to play against the "peers" to see which side of the police is better. It's a pity that Second Uncle Feng is still recuperating from his injuries, and one of the four knights is missing. The final starters were:
Goalkeeper: Bao Jiaping
Defenders: Li Tiansheng, Cai Wenli
Midfielders: Zhang Xianyuan, Lu Zhuhu, Chen Zhenhe
Forwards: Cao Guicheng, Tan Jiangbai, Li Huitang, Ye Beihua, Zheng Jiliang
The Yangon champions did have a good quality, and the Myanmar police were in full swing after the start of the game, and it was clear that they were accustomed to suppressing their opponents' aggressive style of play in the local game, and despite their ferocity, their players were not rough, but rather agile, with clear and fast penetration of short passes, and dominated the field. In the 22nd minute, Cai Wenli made a low-level mistake, and was calmly crossed by the right winger of the Burmese police, and the opponent's center shot directly into the net, leading the Chinese team 1:0! After falling behind, the team rushed to equalize the point, and the more they rushed, the less they got the chance. By the end of the first half, it was still one goal behind, which was rare in all games in Nanyang, and it also made the overseas Chinese who were looking forward to "raising our country's prestige" again be silent and uneasy.
However, after a brief adjustment in the midfield, the Chinese team finally recovered some form in the second half. Only 5 minutes into the opening of the second half, Lu Zhuhu connected with the captain, Li Huitang passed to Cao Guicheng after getting the ball, and the opponent directly crossed the high ball to find the most capable header in the team. However, the opponent was very dissatisfied with being equalized, after the restart, the center of the Burmese police broke through with the ball all the way, unstoppable, Li Tiansheng, who was not dominant in height and strength, saw that the opponent was almost in the penalty area, and in desperation, he had to put him down, and the referee gave the opponent a free kick in a very good position - 15 yards from the goal. The opponent's penalty this time was a bit of a thief, and instead of attacking the goal directly, he transferred the ball to the feet of the center who was ambushed in the penalty area through cooperation, and shot a half-high ball - but Li Tiansheng could make a mistake and come back on his own, leaning down to the ground and heading the ball to clear the dangerous goal. After that, the captain began to exert his power, Li Huitang played a central role, and the team's attack was all started by him as the offensive starting point, revitalizing the entire frontcourt, and the defenders of the Myanmar police were tired and gradually fell into the disadvantage.
The horn of the counterattack was sounded by Cao Guicheng, and after getting Li Huitang's pass, he circled the opponent's central midfielder and shot directly, and there was also a bouncing effect - a great test for the goalkeeper, but it was unfortunately blocked by the defender who was chasing.
But soon, in the 10th minute, Li Huitang got Zheng Jiliang's pass and distributed it to Ye Beihua who was inserted at high speed on the left side in time. There was a burst of shouting in the stadium, and every Chinese expatriate rejoiced.
Before the end of the game, in the audience of the expat's "One more one! In the shout of "enter one", Cao Guicheng completed the breakthrough of the opponent's defense, and then sent the low flat ball to the left side, Zheng Jiliang rushed to the kill, and volleyed the ball!
Right in the middle of the net!
3:1!
The Chinese team turned defeat into victory, and the happiest thing is that the overseas Chinese fans who have been touched by the team's performance are all happy as if they are celebrating the New Year, and they feel that the grievances they have accumulated over the years in Yangon have been swept away at this moment!
See? In Asia, the best at playing football is always us Chinese!
The next thing is naturally to carry the "national hero" around the field, but this time it is not only Lao Tan alone, the three of the four knights, Li Huitang, and Zheng Jiliang, who scored the goal, were all held high.
"Achieving great honor for our nation" - naturally we cannot but express it. In order to celebrate the team's successive victories, the overseas Chinese in Yangon specially "crowdfunded" the next day, chartered a small steamer, invited Lu Zhuhu and his party to enjoy the scenery, and even invited the Myanmar Song and Dance Troupe to help the fun......
I'm afraid I won't be able to enjoy this treatment when Lao Jiang comes......