Chapter 11: Against Germany (Medium)
In the twenty-fifth minute of the first half, the situation on the field took an incredible turn.
In the first 25 minutes, the German team has been controlling the situation on the field, and launched a super high-altitude bombardment towards the Chinese team's goal, but unfortunately it has been in vain, and although the Chinese team has one or two chances to shoot, but due to the poor position of the shot, it did not form a too threatening shot.
The current situation is very obvious, the Chinese team was pressed and beaten by the Germans due to the physical gap, and the entire back line relied on Ling Feng's running and header to barely maintain the gate without being breached, but in this case, fans believe that the German team will be able to completely defeat the crumbling Chinese team if it increases its offensive intensity.
However, in the twenty-fourth minute, Jerimes' lateral pass in front of the penalty area was cut off by Ling Feng's textbook tackle before Bierhoff, and then Ling Feng, who quickly got up, flicked the ball horizontally, flashed Muller in front of him, and then ......
Ling Feng made a long pass directly to the backcourt of the German team!
At this time, all the defenders of the German team were pressed on the midfield line, and Hao Haidong, as the forward of the Chinese team, he has not returned to defense, but also stood on the midfield line, waiting for the opportunity to quickly counterattack.
There is no doubt that in the current Chinese team, if you talk about speed, except for Ling Feng, Hao Haidong is the happiest runner.
Coral Corel, the hero defender of the German team in the 90 World Cup, is a 34-year-old veteran who is responsible for keeping an eye on Hao Haidong this year, but he never expected that the speed of the Chinese team from defense to attack would be so fast!
Both of Germany's centre-backs are over 34 years old, and they are no match for Hao Haidong, who is in the prime of life.
At the moment when Ling Feng passed the ball with his big foot, Hao Haidong, who had cooperated with him for a whole year, began to accelerate and rush forward.
The second half of the entire German team was as empty as Hiroshima after a nuclear bombing.
The ball landed behind the arc of the German team's midfield, and Hao Haidong, after getting rid of the defense of Coral next to him, stopped the bounced ball with his chest very easily, and then drove to the opponent's penalty area with full horsepower - when he was forty meters away from the goal, Hao Haidong was already single-handed!
The Germans have tasted the distress of veterans, whether it is Coral or Mateuss or Thorn, all of whom are over 32 years old, and it is really difficult for them to race against Hao Haidong in the prime of life - and chase after them fiercely.
Moreover, Hao Haidong had no technical content at all with the ball without interference, and he drove the ball out of five or six meters in one step, and then quickly followed, and in an instant, he hit the opponent's big penalty area!
Koepke had no choice but to abandon the door.
The current goalkeeper of the German team roared angrily - but it was still some distance away from the roar of the lion Kahn, Hao Haidong broke through Kahn's door twice last season, and he didn't hear Koepke's roar.
Very cleverly in front of the fallen Kopke with a gentle push with the arch of his foot, the ball very easily drilled through the armpit of the German goalkeeper, and slowly rolled into the empty goal......
The ball is in! As China's No. 1 striker, Hao Haidong also scored his first goal in the World Cup!
Amid the cheers of the fans in the stadium, Hao Haidong rushed all the way back to the backcourt and pounced fiercely towards Ling Feng......
Everyone can see that the biggest contributor to this ball is still Ling Feng, his long pass across 60 meters directly tore apart the German team's backline, as long as it is a player who can run past a turtle at an average speed, this goal can basically be scored.
Ling Feng was pounced on the ground by a hungry dog by Hao Haidong, and then the players next to him pounced on Hao Haidong's body one by one, and a pile of people was piled up......
Ling Feng, who was pressed under the pile, couldn't help but scold, this ball didn't go into it by himself, if you want to press it, you have to press Hao Haidong's bastard!
The Chinese team directly tore open the door of the German team by the cooperation of defenders and forwards, which made all the German team players and fans very unacceptable, when the game resumed, the Germans, who had obviously not come back to their senses, were once pressed back to their own half by the Chinese team.
At this time, Ling Feng, the dragging central defender, pressed forward and became a midfielder - anyway, his physical strength is sufficient, just running back and forth in the backfield, it won't have a big impact at all.
The football is round, so strange on the pitch, dominating but not necessarily scoring, the Chinese team scored the lead under pressure, but the next ten minutes of onslaught were only two threatening shots on goal - compared to one-on-one defence, the German defenders are still extremely experienced.
In the 35th minute, Vogts finally couldn't sit still and replaced midfielder Heinrich with 22-year-old, the youngest midfielder in the German team - Ballack!
Although the 22-year-old is called a young player, compared to the Chinese group of young players whose average age is not more than 21 years old, Ballack is also considered to be big, and it is also thanks to Ling Feng's blessing, Beckenbauer found him in an amateur team, brought him to Bayern Munich, the leading boss of the Bundesliga, and also made him quickly grow into the latest generation of German leaders in two years, and entered the national team for the first time.
Last season, Bayern underwent a partial change, Klinsmann left, Brazilian Elber joined Bayern from Stuttgart, and Ballack secured his place in the main team of Bayern, the name of the 1.89 meter big man is no longer familiar to fans around the world, and he has also become the representative of the new generation of German midfielders after Schuster, Müller and Eeffenberg.
Ballack's appearance won a burst of cheers from the German fans, and Ling Feng told Li Tie that he must keep an eye on Ballack, because if Ballack is allowed to play at full strength, his long-range shots and passes will be a great threat.
But Ling Feng guessed wrong, the purpose of Foggots replacing Ballack was not just to strengthen his control in the midfield, but to ......
In the 43rd minute of the first half, when the Chinese fans were already preparing to cheer the victory of the first half, the German team won a free kick opportunity on the right side of the penalty area.
This position is an excellent passing zone, all the players of the Chinese team except Hao Haidong have returned to the defense, Ling Feng naturally can't take care of the two at the same time at this time, he chose Bierhoff, who is the most threatening at the front of the high-altitude threat.
Muller passes the ball, and the ball flies in an arc towards the back post!
This move came as a big surprise to Ling Feng, as Bierhoff and Klinsmann were in the middle of the penalty area, respectively, and the back was ...... Just played, 1.89 meters Balak!
As a midfielder, Ballack's height of 1.89 meters is indeed a bit wasteful, but at this time, this height has become the magic weapon of the German team!
Li Tie couldn't suppress Ballack's jump at all, and the twenty-two-year-old German teenager threw the ball into the gate with a beautiful header!
1:1 Draw! In the final moments of the first half, Ballack's header helped Germany stubbornly equalize!
Ballack roared to the corner to receive cheers from the fans, while Vogts stood up with a smile on his face and cheered with the players on the bench.
Being able to bring on a player in less than 10 minutes to score a goal when they are behind is clearly a miracle for the coach.
Alien Ronaldo said in an interview with reporters before the World Cup, "I'm glad I didn't meet the Chinese team in advance, otherwise they will be the biggest difficulty, and I'm looking forward to playing against them in the final."
The almost hard-fought 3-2 win over European powerhouse Yugoslavia was an ordinary victory for ordinary people, but the strength shown by the Chinese team was enough to prove their qualification in the top 20 of the world rankings.
As the oldest team in this competition, it has to be considered a sadness for the German team, especially when they face the Chinese team, which has the youngest average age in this competition, many media have said that the German team should be at the age of renewal.
Ballack's goal gave German fans some comfort that we have a new generation of players in Germany who can take over the work.
In the last five minutes, the two sides ended in a pounding game, and the result of the first half was 1:1.
At halftime, everyone was not unhappy to be equalized, because for the Chinese team, a draw is a victory, first of all, the defense is too weak, and secondly, even if it is drawn, Germany may not be able to win Yugoslavia, which is bent on qualifying, in the last game, and the Chinese team is still very sure of qualifying for the first place in the group.
In Group E, the Netherlands and Mexico both have one win and one draw to accumulate four points, but because the Dutch team just swept the South Korean team 5:0 to top the group, the last game is expected to be the Netherlands team should not lose to Mexico, so the first place in the group to avoid the Dutch team is still very good.
Maradona's tactics in the midfield are to ask Ling Feng to defend steadily, and at the same time see the opportunity to insert assists, Ling Feng was too conservative in the first half, if it wasn't for an assist to cover up, he was really a free man to play.
Ling Feng was also depressed, he wanted to go up, when he saw that his teammates couldn't tear apart the defense of the opponent's defenders in the front court, his heart was already itchy, defense was not his true color, crazy offense was the pursuit.
Lao Ma's words were exactly what Ling Feng meant, and it seemed that the door of the German team was going to suffer in the second half.
At the start of the second half, it was spotted that Mateus had been put on the bench and Vogts was brought on Borussia Dortmund's veteran defender Reuter to consolidate the defence.
Replacing a 37-year-old defender with a 32-year-old defender is the best thing Vogts has been able to do so far.
However, 32 years old is not too old for a defender, and it will be more difficult for the Chinese team to attack.
At the beginning of the second half of the game, the two sides launched a fierce attack on the spot without any politeness, and people were surprised to see that Ling Feng, who had attacked the city before, was back!
Although it is rare to go to the opponent's penalty area, but the number of assists in the midfield has increased significantly, under the possession of Ling Feng, the midfield iron triangle that shocked the world when the game against Yugoslavia was organized again, and the Chinese team's control of the midfield has been significantly enhanced.
In the sixth minute, Ling Feng finally hit his first shot of the game, his long-range shot from 30 meters away in front of the penalty area was held up by Kopke and hit the crossbar, and the crisp sound of the bell made the hearts of the German fans tremble.
Five minutes later, the Germans did not dare to show weakness and launched a counterattack, Klinsmann cleverly dribbled past Zhang Enhua in front of the penalty area, and the ball was saved by Ou Chuliang.
In the twelfth minute, the Chinese team finally planned a chance to attack quickly, Ling Feng made a long pass to the front, Yang Chen's header returned to Yue Lingxiang behind, Yue Lingxiang received the ball with the outside of his instep, flashed off the Coral in front of him, and at this time Reut made up for it.
Very uncreative, Yue Lingxiang made a shooting feint again and then continued to flick the ball outward, although he flashed off Corel, but it had already reached the center of the penalty area, and his body was completely sideways towards the goal, and there was no room for shooting at all.
Ignoring the two defenders who were thrown aside, when facing the steal of the opponent's third defender, Yue Lingxiang actually flicked the ball to the side with the same outside instep as the two balls just now, flashed Thorn and entered the right front of the big penalty area.
Passed three players in a row, but ...... This kind of passing is inevitably a bit amateurish, because even if Yue Lingxiang broke through three players in a row, he used three super simple and identical passing moves - not to mention him, even if Li Tie was like this, it was estimated that he would be able to break through the past.
But the next scene was very surprising.
Although Yue Lingxiang was not in a good position, there was almost no chance of shooting directly at the goal, but in the experience of the goalkeeper, Koepke still attacked slightly forward to block the opponent's angle more thoroughly.
Originally, Koepke was understandable to do this, but if he had watched the content of the Chinese team's closed training two days ago, he would definitely not do it.
In the first two days of the Chinese team, they have been training for hanging doors......
Yue Lingxiang glanced at Kopke's position, and immediately rubbed his right foot under the ball!
The ball flies high and flies towards the goal with a drop!
Although Koepke tried to run back, it was too late, and the ball fell straight into the gate!
The ball is in! In the twelfth minute of the second half, Yue Lingxiang made a wonderful hanging door to help the Chinese team take the lead again!