Chapter 21: Depression at the Last Moment

It wasn't until the end of the first half that Croatia passed a free-kick opportunity in front of the goal, created chaos in front of goal, and then relied on Suker's stabbing shot to break the door of the Chinese team.

At the end of the first half, the score was 2:1, and the Chinese team was ahead.

I have to say that the luck of the Chinese team is also super good - although the first two games were fought to the death, and even Ling Feng left the field with blood, but it was worth it after all - after the hard battle with Germany, the next three games of the Chinese team were quite smooth.

and the United States almost did not consume any physical strength of the Chinese players, especially the main players also got enough rest; When playing against Mexico, due to the tactical mistake of the opposing coach, Ling Feng scored two goals in a row, and there was not much suspense about winning; And this game against Croatia - so far, the Chinese team has not fallen behind in the slightest.

Although a goal was scored in the last moment, the luck of the Chinese team in the first half was really good.

When playing against such two teams of equal strength - the strength of the two sides refers to the strength of the two sides in the game, Croatia is stronger than China as a whole, but if you add a Ling Feng, it may not be - if the strength is equal, it is a chance.

In the first half, the Chinese team did not have many chances, but they were all fatal!

Croatia's defenders were still thinking about a question until halftime - how did Ling Feng's goal score in the first half?!

Su Ke was very depressed, in the season just ended, he played two games on behalf of Real Madrid and Fiorentina, all defeated, Ling Feng's performance in both games was exceptionally good, and today, when he played again, Su Ke still felt that the guy's performance level would definitely not be worse than usual.

98 years, the last glorious generation of Yugoslavia, but what about Croatia?

The third place in '98 made everyone recognize such a little-known team at once, and they got to know the Golden Boot award ****•Suker.

But what about after that?

In 02, the group did not qualify, and in 06, it was also in the group stage and went home.

98 was the heyday of Croatia, but unfortunately they met China.

Ling Feng has topped the scorer list with six goals, and now the score is China's one-goal lead, Croatia is now facing not the aging German team back then, but the real dark horse of this year's World Cup.

In the technical statistics of the first half, Croatia had 55% possession of the ball, occupying a slight advantage, but in terms of the number of shots on goal, Croatia only had five times, and the Chinese team had two more; Four corners for Croatia and three for China; One yellow card each, one each for Croatia's Tudor and China's Zhang Enhua.

Overall, the first half was evenly matched, but there were few dangerous shots on goal, and it was inevitable that the scene was a little flat.

In the second half, both teams made some changes, first of all, Ling Feng's position was withdrawn to the midfield and he became a midfielder, while Croatia replaced the striker Vlaovic, who had a mediocre performance in the first half, and replaced another striker, Procinecci.

With one striker replacing another, it seems that head coach Blazevic is not the one to take any gambles.

However, if Croatia did not score in the final moments of the first half, then maybe Brazevic will increase the attacking force, and perhaps he now feels that he is only one goal behind, and he does not have the upper hand on the field, it is better to play steadily.

But Brazevic didn't find that the situation of the Chinese team in the second half was not much different from the first half......

Li Tie went down, Ling Feng took his position, and Yang Chen went on the field to continue to partner with Hao Haidong.

Hao Haidong has scored three goals so far, which is the most goalscoring player in the Chinese team except for Ling Feng, while Yang Chen, as a striker, has only scored one goal, not as many as Liu Dong and Yue Lingxiang, which really makes Yang Chen very angry.

So the Croatian players watched the opponent's No. 20 start to rampage in front of their own penalty area, if they didn't know that it was Yang Chen, they would definitely be very puzzled - could it be that Maradona sent a manure stirring player to the frontcourt?

In Hertha Berlin, Yang Chen is the top scorer, he scored 16 goals last season, Hao Haidong has five more than Yang Chen, ranking fourth in the overall scorer list.

Croatia also has a lot of players playing in Germany, so there is still a little bit of fear of such a pair of strikers.

In the sixth minute of the second half, Yang Chen's close-range shot was blocked by the goalkeeper, and the Chinese team missed a good opportunity to expand the score.

Not to be outdone, Croatia were not to be outdone, and five minutes later, Suker's left-footed shot grazed the post and flew off the line.

The second half was much more exciting than the first half, after all, fans have to watch the game in addition to the result.

In the seventeenth minute of the second half, Ling Feng, who had been in charge of defense in the midfield, finally ran to the front and made a long shot, but the ball was pushed out by Tudor before it reached the goal - unfortunately Tudor was not much better, he just subconsciously jumped up the top ball, but he didn't notice that the ball was shot out by Ling Feng, and for a while he only felt that the golden flowers were popping up in front of him, and his head was a little dizzy.

Joke, Ling Feng's perverted foot strength, fortunately, it hit his forehead straight, otherwise if he wiped his scalp, it would be enough for Tudor to hurt for a long time!

The core of the Croatian midfield, Boban, also showed his strength at this time, whether it was passing or long-range shooting, Boban was a world-class player.

It's a pity that the rhythm of the game is now controlled at the feet of the Chinese team - to be precise, at the feet of Ling Feng!

In the second half of the game, Ling Feng showed the world the advantages of his technical back, just like Redondo, Ling Feng's control of the ball in the midfield is skillful, elegant, and not impatient - there is nothing to be impatient, Ling Feng's current purpose is to say that the good point is to control the rhythm, and the bad point is called a waste of time in the game.

The midfield, composed of him, Yue Lingxiang and Liu Dong, was much more controllable than the Chinese team's performance in the first half.

Zhao Jun, on the other hand, is a player with a good combination of technique and body, and in the first half he was tasked with wreaking havoc near midfield, while in the second half, he was involved with three other midfielders.

Although he doesn't have too many highlights, he is also a player with more potential, and it is expected that after the World Cup, it will not be difficult to arrange for him to play in the top five leagues.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning the teenager Zhu Yin, except for the game against the United States, the 17-year-old has been the starter in the game, and the fact that Lao Ma is so new to him is enough to make many clubs have a green eye for him.

The intense atmosphere of the World Cup is very suitable for training players, especially young players who are still relatively young in mentality.

With the victory of one game after another, Zhu Yin's mentality has been greatly improved, and his performance in the game is like a defensive core, Croatia broke through from the wing several times in this game, but did not get too good chances under his interference.

In the twentieth minute, Liu Dong, the youngest in this World Cup, made three consecutive disguised breakthroughs on the left side of the stadium that caused the fans on the sidelines to burst into earth-shattering applause.

And five minutes later, Yue Lingxiang also got the applause of the audience with a wonderful hanging door - but still no goal.

With only twenty minutes left on the clock, the Croatian finally couldn't sit still, and coach Blazevic changed a midfielder and a striker in succession and began to attack.

Croatia's desperate posture even Ling Feng had to retreat, when Ling Feng saw Jairni grinning and pounced on him when he took the ball, he felt a void in his heart for no reason, and he didn't even dare to run to the side of the ball.

Jalni's speed was very fast - it was a little too fast - Sun Jihai saw Jalni rushing up violently, and Jalni, who even Ling Feng could frighten him, naturally scared Sun Jihai out of his mind, but Sun Jihai couldn't run away this time, and as a result, Jairni slammed into Sun Jihai's body......

It took the Chinese Sun half a day to get up – and waste some time, but the referee awarded the ball a foul on Jairney.

It's really not calm, Ling Feng snickered in his stomach, is this the 100-meter race of the Olympic Games, and he can't even turn a corner when he dribbles the ball?!

In this way, Croatia not only wasted a good opportunity to turn defense into attack, but also wasted five more minutes by the Chinese team.

Now Croatia is playing quite impatiently.

Several threatening attacks were flopped by misplaced passes, and now the time left in the game is running out of time.

Lao Ma replaced Hao Haidong off the field and replaced Xu Yunlong to consolidate the defense in the middle - I have to say that Lao Ma went out this time, and the defenders inevitably brought too little.

With less than five minutes left on the clock, Croatia are still relentlessly attacking.

At this time, in fact, the Croatian team has a big hole in the backfield, and if the Chinese team strengthens its forces at this time, it is likely to score a goal at the last moment.

But the problem is that even gamblers like Ling Feng don't dare to press it at the last moment!

Your Croatia is already behind at this time, even if you concede another goal, you will lose, but the Chinese team will lose one goal at this time - then the loss will be big!

Ling Feng didn't want to play overtime and then face the cruel Golden Ball Decisive Method—it was too cruel, quite cruel.

However, there are some things that the more he is afraid, the more he will happen......

Just as the referee lifted three minutes of stoppage time, the accident happened.

Suker got the ball in front of the big penalty area, and was a little flustered in the "wind" of the fans, in this last moment, he didn't think he was Ling Feng, it was Maradona, and his own ball control ability was not very strong, so at this time, Suke chose to pass.

In this "gale" sound, Su Ke only felt that there was chaos in front of him, and in a panic, he passed to the side, and he didn't know where the ball went.

But just three seconds later, he heard a cheer from his teammates, in Croatian, not Chinese, which he was familiar with.

"Did the ball go in?" Suker looked up blankly, and saw his teammate Ploxinnetsky pounce on him......

"Genius idea! Genius passing! Genius inspiration! The commentator of Croatian state television shouted into the microphone: "Davor•Souk! Sucre! Our heroes! He saved Croatia at the last minute, and the pass was enough to go down in World Cup history! ”

Ling Feng and the others drooped their heads, although they had not yet failed, but they were equalized by the opponent at the last moment, and they were definitely unhappy - this is also to blame the Chinese team for being a little impetuous, and they did not correct their mentality at the last moment of the game, such a mistake is really unreasonable.

Su Ke didn't see the specific situation clearly, but everyone else could see it clearly, just like the first goal scored by Ling Feng in the first half, the route that this ball passed out could only be attributed to a supernatural event.

Su Ke was caught between the two defenders of the Chinese team, and there was no way to break through, but he didn't expect Su Ke to squint and kick!

The ball first smashed on Zhao Junze's leg and bounced, and then smashed on Fan Zhiyi's leg and bounced again, such a change caught everyone off guard, especially the two Chinese players did not have any preparation at all, and the ball bounced twice in a row and rolled into the penalty area.

Prozhinetski rose out of the crowd and stabbed the unattended ball to the ground, which passed under the armpit of the fallen Ou Chuliang and slowly rolled into the gate......

2:2 draw!

At the last moment of the game, the Chinese team was stubbornly equalized by Croatia, and shortly after the Chinese team restarted, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game for 90 minutes!

Both sides must go to extra time to win the Golden Ball!