Chapter 79: One goal for the Chinese team, one hundred silver rewards!
On June 14, the Chinese team ushered in back-to-back matches against Sumatra East Coast United. In addition to the captain Li Huitang who was absent due to injury, Feng Jingxiang and Jia Youliang were also injured and entered the injury list. It's a pity that Second Uncle Feng has been in excellent form recently, and his performance in the center forward position has also been unanimously recognized by the whole team, and he can be an excellent replacement for the arrow position when Li Huitang is not present.
However, Second Uncle Feng still smiled all day long, saying that the offensive core was not good, so Captain Li took a truce and injured him, it seems that he still waved towels off the field to cheer up others, and it was better for him to enjoy the food provided by the Medan hosts on the side.
The team carried out a large-scale personnel rotation, Comrade Po Yu was given a chance to rest, the captain and vice captain were also absent, Sun Jinshun acted as the captain, and Dai Linjing returned to his best center position. The starting line-up is:
Goalkeeper: Zhou Xianyan
Defenders: Mak Siu-han, Lee Tiansheng
Midfielders: Zhang Xianyuan, Liang Rongzhao, Chen Zhenhe
Forwards: Zhuo Shijin, Sun Jinshun, Dai Linjing, Tan Jiangbai, Zheng Jiliang
The Soviet Union is a team that gathers almost all the elite stars of the east coast of Sumatra, and the spirit is very high, and it is not afraid of the so-called 30-year East Asian championship, not to mention that this is a "second team", and the posture is to beat the Chinese team in attack.
In the first 20 minutes, the two sides went back and forth, evenly matched, and the Soviet Union team had a very threatening goal, causing the third goalkeeper of the Chinese team, Zhou Xianyan, to get out of his hands and almost be broken by the opponent's supplementary shot, but fortunately, Zhou Xianyan's reaction was not slow, and he made up for his mistakes in time. His teammates were a little worried that he was still not fully back in form.
But fortunately, the Chinese team did a good job in attack next. In the 22nd minute, Zhuo Shijin took the ball 25 yards from the goal, and suddenly hit the goal with a heavy shot, and the opponent's goalkeeper was caught off guard and could only let the ball hang in the corner and enter the net.
Five minutes later, Mai Shaohan's pass on the right side was hoisted into the opponent's penalty area, and with Tan Jiangbai's height and skills, he faced the short Sumatran local player on the high-altitude ball, and unceremoniously headed the ball into the net, easily winning 2:0.
The schedule was quite dense, which caused the players to be tired, and in the second half, the Chinese team had a physical decline and had a two-goal advantage, basically no longer attacking aggressively. However, Zhou Xianyan's state gradually improved after halftime, and the Sudong United team was unable to break through the door of the Chinese team.
In the end, the Chinese team won the third game in Medan with a score of 2:0. The elite Sudong United team also has to admit that the pre-game ideas are a little unrealistic, and there is still a considerable gap between their level and the current Asian first-class.
For the Chinese team, the game itself has no highlights, but the attack that Mai Shaohan gave to Tan Jiangbai is a little strange: there were only two defenders, and one defender was frantically attacking the opponent's half, which made people wonder if it was the arrangement of the de facto tactician Li Huitang, or whether the wheat classmate himself was a little floating-
In fact, it was because Mai Shaohan tried Lu Zhuhu's "strange formation" in the past two days, and his position had a lot of offensive authority, which made him a little impulsive when he really played. Frankly, it's a lot tiring to play like this, but it's really cool.
There were a little too many wounded soldiers and not enough manpower, and Lu Zhuhu's idea of starting a large-scale offensive and defensive drill in the new formation could only be slightly postponed for two days. The last game of the Chinese team in Medan was a very important one, and the opponent came for the purpose of "revenge".
The opponent was the Malay Turkish selection team, and this was also the fourth match of the Chinese team in six days.
This team is the strongest team in Sumatra, and in a sense it is also an "undefeated division", and other teams in Sumatra have a gap with it, but it is a pity that its undefeated record ended at the feet of the Chinese national team led by Li Huitang and Zhou Xianyan that year. However, in the years since, the team has maintained a strong strength and even improved. A year before, the Hong Kong South China team without Li Huitang had visited again, and now many players in the team were in the South China team at that time, but unfortunately South China was finally defeated at the feet of this team.
But this is not enough, what they want is naturally to defeat a complete Chinese national team, so as to avenge the shame of the year. The owner of the team even promised a heavy reward, giving the player a bonus of 100 silver dollars for every goal scored by the Chinese team!
What kind of encouragement and mobilization is more effective than real money, and there must be brave men under the so-called heavy reward!
Naturally, the Chinese team does not want to repeat the mistakes of Nanhua last year, and has no other idea than to win, which is not only to continue to correct the strength of the team, but also to help the local expatriates in Medan strive for glory. The last big rotation also had the idea of staying for this one.
This strong dialogue also caused quite a stir in Medan, both overseas Chinese and local aborigines of Sumatra flocked to cheer for the team they supported, and the stadium was full, and it was rare to see that the fans who supported the Chinese team were on par with the local fans!
The Chinese team also discharged the strongest lineup except for the injury number, and Li Huitang also returned ahead of schedule to lead the focus of the battle. As the national goal that defeated the Malay Turks that year, Zhou Xianyan naturally wanted to continue to play in this game, but in the end, for the sake of insurance, the team still sent the first goalkeeper Bao Jiaping. Mak Shawhan, who performed well in the previous game, also continued to play at right-back, while Arabto's starting right-back Comrade Tan Jiangbai came to his preferred forward position, and the starting line-up was:
Goalkeeper: Bao Jiaping
Defenders: Mak Siu-han, Lee Tiansheng
Midfielders: Lu Zhuhu, Xu Yahui, Chen Zhenhe
Forwards: Cao Guicheng, Tan Jiangbai, Li Huitang, Dai Linjing, Zheng Jiliang
The boss of the native team came to the scene to supervise the army, as if it was a big walking check. The Malay team really had a strong desire to win, and launched a direct onslaught after the opening, besieging the gate of the Chinese team for the first ten minutes. The defensive pressure is a little big, the Chinese team repeats the old tricks, Lu Zhuhu retreats to the central defender position to assist in the defense, and unlike that day, Mai Shaohan has some familiarity with the system of three defenders, although Lu Zhuhu is not a serious defender, but the contact and cooperation of the two still effectively consolidated the team's defense line, assisting Bao Jiaping to withstand the first wave of the Malay Turen team's full attack.
After 12 minutes of the first half, the Chinese team gradually eased up and began to organize an attack. In the 13th minute, Mai Shaohan made a long pass to Cao Guicheng directly after breaking the ball, although the "flying general" was short and only one meter six, but he had an excellent vision. Tan Jiangbai was still brave in this game, and he shot the ball with a blast and opened the scoring for the Chinese team!
The opposing defender arrived at the same time, but he couldn't stop Tan Jiangbai's goal, and in his anger, he didn't care about the size of the defensive action, and kicked Tan Jiangbai in the waist and abdomen, and Tan Jiangbai could only be carried off the field immediately for treatment. In order not to let the game lose suspense too early, the local referee also let him go and did not send the Malays off the field immediately.
During the period of Tan Jiangbai's treatment, the Chinese team played one less player, but the attack was still very threatening. In the 25th minute, Xu Yahui broke the ball in the midfield, passed it to Cao Guicheng quickly, Cao Guicheng passed it to Dai Linjing quickly, and Dai Linjing passed it to the returning captain Li Huitang - Li Huitang took the ball to the right side of the penalty area, did not choose to rush in again, and shot directly from a distance, and the full moon scimitar was directly screwed into the goal, which was another city for the Chinese team, 2:0! The Malay goalkeeper could only hammer the post to show that he could not do anything.
In the 28th minute, the left winger of the Malay Turks Rukiman passed the ball to the left inner striker Sha Ling, who was still 35 yards away from the goal, only took two steps, and suddenly shot from a distance - Bao Jiaping did not expect the other party to shoot so far away, he was not well prepared, and the jump save was half a beat slow, the ball grazed his fingertips and drilled into the net, and the Malay Turkish team pulled back a goal - even Bao Jiaping was helpless in the face of this extremely dangerous ball, which may be why Zhou Xianyan has similar strength, One reason why it is extremely popular.
However, after being pulled back by a goal, Tan Jiangbai completed his treatment and asked to play again. Although he played with an injury, Tan Jiangbai's foot feeling was still strong, and almost not long after the Malay team scored, he immediately returned to color, and the pass after Lu Zhuhu broke through the opponent's goalkeeper's crotch, once again extending the lead to two goals. The Chinese team finished the first half with a score of 3:1.
In the second half, the Chinese team's offensive continued unabated, in the 3rd minute, Xu Yahui passed to Li Huitang for the first time after breaking the ball, Li Huitang found Tan Jiangbai, Tan Jiangbai was unstoppable like a tiger going down the mountain, and staged a good show of five levels and six generals, and scored the ball in the goalkeeper after passing three players on the other side, completing a hat trick, 4:1. After that, the goalkeeper of the Malay Turkish team, Eedman, was slightly distracted when he sent the goal kick, and was directly stopped by Li Huitang, who dribbled all the way into the penalty area, and shook the Malay Turkish team's central defender Raiz directly to the ground, followed by a strong shot, but unfortunately did not hit the target, but it still caused the fans to marvel. Soon Cao Guicheng was violated by the left midfielder of the Malay Turkish team, Shariani, Lu Zhuhu took a free kick and almost spun directly into the goal, but was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Edelman, and Dai Lin caught up with a follow-up shot to rewrite the score to five to one. Before the end of the game, Chen Zhenhe pushed down the opponent in the penalty area, and the Malay Turk center Suliman converted the penalty kick to change the score to a slightly less ugly 2:5.
The Chinese team won a big victory again, whether it was the score or the process, the opponent could only accept the reality that the skills were inferior. When the Malay center Suliman saw Zhou Xianyan, who had refused him all long-range shots, grabbing points, and even a penalty, sitting on the bench of the Chinese team, he was a little surprised: "I thought that after many years, we would have the opportunity to compete with you again - who would have thought that you would let you be a magical goalkeeper with eight arms!" We didn't lose unjustly! ”
Zhou Xianyan looked at the other party, and couldn't explain that he was now on the bench instead of what he used to be, so he could only smile and maintain his peerless image.