4 July 1998.

At 4:50 a.m. Beijing time, the Stade de Lyon, France.

The 65,000-seat Relang Stadium was already full, and the players from both sides were all standing in the players' tunnel, ready to enter together.

After Batistuta and Vieri both went home, Ling Feng was the only player who scored five goals so far, while Croatia's top scorer Davor • and Suker have scored three goals so far, and if the Chinese team has the last laugh in this game, then Ling Feng will have more than 80% chance of winning the top scorer.

The situation is not quite the same as it was in history.

Both teams were surprisingly low-key before this game, and they all said in interviews with reporters that it was beyond their original hopes to be able to reach the current quarterfinals, and the rest of the game was to play one more game, and they had no regrets in this World Cup......

Both teams are super dark horses at this year's World Cup, but Croatia are not very dark compared to China - they lost their last game in the group stage to Argentina, and as for the victory over Romania - this is not an upset, and the two sides are about the same quality.

However, as a former Yugoslavia, it is inevitable that Croatia will have the idea of avenging its old brother, but as for who can make it to the end, it depends on the result of this game.

The race finally began in anticipation.

According to the schedule, this game should be Croatia's home stadium - but the problem is that China's two jerseys, whether they are all white or all red, look similar to Croatia's home jersey with red on white on top of red - this cannot be used.

After discussion, Croatia wore the blue jersey away from home, while China wore their usual white jersey.

Some careful people found out that the sneakers worn by the Chinese team today are a brand that has never appeared in the World Cup - the trademark next to the sneakers has some similarities with Nike's matching trademark.

Li ning!

Ling Feng snatched the style they had just made and had not yet been released from Li Ning - size 43, it was just right to take it and wear it - and the others also found sneakers with their own size - anyway, no one in the Chinese team except Ling Feng has the ability to let big merchants like Adi and Nike order sneakers for them, and they feel good to wear.

Li Ning's excitement, that excitement!

This is the first time his brand has appeared on the World Cup stage!

However, did Li Ning ever think about whether others would blame him for the loss if the Chinese team lost this game - for example, Ling Feng's new shoes were not comfortable to wear, which directly led to the shooting disorder and the like......

What an optimistic person - but fortunately, although these sneakers are new, they are all old after half an hour - new shoes wear feet, and athletes must know it, so the first thing to do when they get back is to put the shoes on the ground and ** hard.

Poor Li Jinyu just got the new shoes, and he forgot about the stubble in a moment of excitement, and directly put the shoes on his feet, but his feet were unfortunately suffered along with the sneakers......

Ling Feng played the same position in this game as in the previous game, he was a winger, and it seemed that Lao Ma had no intention of being conservative from the beginning, and vowed to attack Croatia.

The situation is also as people imagine, the Chinese team has just kicked off, only after a three-legged midfield pass, Yue Lingxiang gave a half-high ball to Ling Feng on the left side.

In the exclamation of 60,000 players, Ling Feng, who had a big gauze sleeve on his head, stepped in quickly, cut off the ball from the middle chest of the two Croatian players, and then rushed to the opponent's door!

Yue Lingxiang had just passed a high ball, and Stanic thought he could hit it, but when he jumped up, he found that the ball was slightly larger than he expected.

It was obvious that Xiao Yue's ball was an arc, but Stanich didn't notice this, and the ball was sent directly to Ling Feng's chest behind him.

Even Ling Feng himself couldn't have imagined that the first opportunity could be created so easily.

Almost subconsciously, Ling Feng rushed forward, and then skillfully unloaded the ball with his chest, Bilic behind him did not react at all, after taking a step, Ling Feng buckled the ball, passed the only central defender in front of him, Stimachi, and then raised his foot to shoot!

Unsurprisingly, Ling Feng's powerful left-footed volley was so powerful that Croatia's goalkeeper Radic didn't react at all!

"The ball went to !!!" Liu Jianhong's roar resounded

Only fourteen seconds into the opening game, Ling Feng took the lead for the Chinese team!

Not only the Croatian players, but even Ling Feng himself couldn't have imagined that the first goal of this game would come so quickly.

You read that right, it's fourteen seconds!

To be exact, it was only 13.96 seconds to open!

What does this mean? Represents a record! A world-class record!

Fastest goal ever scored in World Cup history!

The player who set that record came at the 1962 World Cup in Chile with Czechoslovakia's Baclaav •, and Musk took just 15 seconds to break through Mexico's door after the referee blew the opening whistle.

Although Czechoslovakia lost 1:3 in the end, this record has been held for 36 years!

(It was not until the '02 World Cup in South Korea and Japan that Turkey's Hakan •Suk broke this record in the third and fourth place finals against South Korea, with a new record of 11 seconds - and in the '06 World Cup match between Portugal and Angola, Pauleta almost broke the record again in the opening nine seconds, but his shot went wide.)

When the commentator shouted a goal in shock for 14 seconds, some veteran fans immediately burst into cheers!

In addition to setting the record of the youngest hat-trick in this World Cup, Ling Feng also set the record for the fastest goal score!

He has now scored six goals, the number of goals scored by the top scorer since the '78 World Cup - so can Ling Feng break that fate?

Will he become the youngest top scorer in World Cup history?

All fans can do is speculate and ...... Await.

After scoring the goal, Ling Feng quickly rushed to the young player Yue Lingxiang behind him, and a pounce pressed him under him, I have to say that 80% of the credit for the goal just now is Xiao Yue's!

"How did you do that?" Ling Feng asked excitedly!

"Don't press it, I'm out of breath!" Not only Ling Feng, but the other players also pressed up one by one, Yue Lingxiang let out a miserable howl under the tall pile of people: "I slipped my foot just now, and I was originally going to pass it to Haidong......"

Well, it seems that the distance between Hao Haidong and Ling Feng was a full twenty meters at that time......

Judging from the slow motion, it was indeed Xiao Yue who slipped on the sole of his foot when passing the ball, as for how the ball flew from Hao Haidong's original position to Ling Feng, it can only be attributed to a supernatural event......

After the old horse knew, he just smiled faintly: "It seems that luck is also standing with us today, there is a play!" ”

In fact, the old horse's stomach was crooked with laughter, but as a head coach at the level of the king of the ball, he naturally couldn't show such excitement - there is a shi identity!

The game is made up of such a coincidental factor, Croatia can only blame themselves, it is too lucky!

In any case, the Chinese team took the lead at the beginning of this game and took the advantage.

Croatia, which was one goal behind, was not impatient, but patiently passed the ball near the midfield, and in terms of overall strength, Croatia was a notch higher than the Chinese team.

But both Boban and Assanovic have noticed a very strange phenomenon - it is difficult for them to pass the ball very smoothly to the feet of Suke in front of them!

Although the control ability of the Chinese team's midfield is not as good as that of the Croatian team, in terms of scrambling, the Croatians, who inherited Yugoslavia's delicate style of play, cannot take advantage.

When Lao Ma arranged for Ling Feng to go forward, he discharged Li Tie and Zhao Junze's double back at the same time - since Zhao Jun had just passed the suspension period, Lao Ma meant that Zhao Jun would just go up and shovel it, take on the work of that great manure stirrger, don't ask you how to organize the attack, you just need to stir up the other party's black smoke miasma......

One Li Tie is already enough for the Croatians, plus another Zhao Junze who gave up the attack to fight, it is no wonder that Croatia cannot organize an effective attack in the midfield.

The positions of Liu Dong and Yue Lingxiang are all in the middle, and the Chinese team almost gave up the assists on the side, completely responding from the middle, relying on Hao Haidong and Ling Feng in the front court to break through with speed.

It's just that this style of play makes it difficult for both teams to organize a very beautiful attack.

One is the big head that is mixed up in the midfield, and the other is that there are not many players who organize the attack, so the game enters garbage time, only to see the ball in the midfield constantly rolling back and forth under the feet of the players on both sides, it is difficult to organize an effective and real attack.

Even if the ball occasionally rolls to the feet of the striker, neither Ling Feng nor Su Ke can make a threatening breakthrough when they are leaning on the opponent very tightly.

Croatia is okay, occasionally from the side can also go down the bottom cross, but the Chinese team is really in the middle, which makes the Chinese team's forward line a little stretched.

Croatia's head coach Blazevic looked at Maradona with some depression, he couldn't figure out what the king of the ball who had created miracles again and again was planning?!

What can be planned?

Maradona's task before the game is to do his best to freeze the organizational ability of the opponent's midfield, as for the attack, leave it to Ling Feng, anyway, this guy will not be able to break through the opponent's defense - relying on strength and a little luck......

Ling Feng and Hao Haidong's teammates in Hamburg, Croatian Kovacevic - not the one that Yugoslavia later transferred to Juventus - did not enter the national team squad due to the recent ups and downs in form, but his strength is also good, so the two know the Croatian better.

Although it is a continuation of the fine tradition of Yugoslavia, the Croatians are not as good as the big brother in terms of overall technology, and it is only by relying on several top superstars such as Suker and Boban that they have given people such a big surprise.

In general, in terms of overall strength, Croatia is not as good as Yugoslavia now – a large part of the reason why they have been able to get to where they are now is because they have not faced too strong teams – Jamaica, Iran, Romania.

As for why he was able to defeat Germany 3:0 in the original World Cup, a large part of it was due to luck - it's just that today's goddess of luck probably fell in love with Ling Feng, a handsome guy, and abandoned the poor Croatian......

Defending Hao Haidong is the most famous of the Croatian defenders, Giarni, who plays as a left-back and has his own set of rules in both defense and assists - in this game in history, it was Giarni's long-range shot that helped Croatia win 3-0 over Germany.

Jairni is fast, and Hao Haidong has a slight disadvantage in the conversation, but both Jairni and Carlos have a common characteristic, that is, they like assists.

In the twenty-fifth minute of the first half, Boban's pass was pushed out by Zhang Enhua's header, and Li Tie followed the big foot and drove to the front!

Even the 1.92-meter-tall Croatian defender Tudor, when his body was squeezed behind by Ling Feng, he didn't have a slight advantage in the high-altitude scramble, Ling Feng jumped high and rubbed the header to Hao Haidong, who was running forward - at this time, Giarni was assisting in front of him, and he didn't have time to return to defense!

The pass of this header happened to complete an anti-offside coordination with Hao Haidong - the central defender Seric was far away from Hao Haidong's position, so he chose to press forward, but it was too late.

Maybe if Seric didn't press up but ran to Hao Haidong, it was very likely to catch up - after all, Hao Haidong had to stop the ball and dribble the ball, and the speed would definitely slow down.

But Seric rushed forward, and when he found that the referee did not blow the whistle and chased back, Hao Haidong had already stopped the ball firmly at his feet and rushed into the Croatian penalty area without any resistance!

Single-handed!

For such opportunities, Hao Haidong got a lot in last year's Bundesliga, so even if the opponent's goalkeeper Radic yelled, Hao Haidong only thought he was farting......

An easy push and the ball rolled into the Croatian goal!

2：0！ In the twenty-fifth minute of the first half, Hao Haidong's goal helped the Chinese team extend its lead!