Chapter 9: The First Half Draws
The captain is the spiritual pillar of a team, as the captain, he may not be the best in the team, but he is definitely the most leader in the team, as long as he is on the field, it will definitely be able to make all the players believe that the game will be won.
But captain is a responsibility, as a captain, you have to shoulder the whole big picture of the team, on the pitch he is like a second manager, ready to deal with unexpected situations.
Ling Feng is the captain, whether it is in the overall situation or in the temperament of the leader, the entire Chinese team does not think about it except for him.
However, as the captain, Ling Feng had to give up something.
For example, personal improvisation, and a vigorous attack...... All these are not the qualities that a captain should have.
Looking at the world's top teams, there are very few forwards who serve as captains, or pure offensive players, but defensive players account for most of them, why? Because the task of these players is not to play individually, but to integrate the whole team as a whole.
If you want to be a top attacking player, you must have an individual performance.
No one dares to deny Ling Feng's ability, and no one dares to say that Ling Feng, the captain of the Chinese national team, is not worthy of his name, but when facing the Brazilian team, the world king, if Ling Feng does not come forward and attack the opponent, then the Chinese team really has no hope.
Yue Lingxiang snatched Ling Feng's captain's armband, which meant that Ling Feng no longer had to worry about his back in the next game, and he didn't have to worry about the loopholes in his defense, he only had one goal in mind, and that was to attack and score goals!
Now Ling Feng can enjoy the preferential treatment of carrying the ball alone without thinking about creating opportunities for his teammates, he will change from the organizer on the field to the sharp knife of the attack, a military advisor who has been in the command of the command headquarters, and now after relieving the pressure, he has become a general on the battlefield!
The main factors for players to play, first, morale, second, suitable for their position, third, the opponent.
The morale of the Chinese team has now been raised, Ling Feng has returned to the position of the hidden forward he is most familiar with, and the opponent is enough for Ling Feng to show his 100% or even 200% strength, Brazil!
Ling Feng's eyes changed, everyone who knew a little bit about Ling Feng had this feeling, in the past, Ling Feng, no matter how fierce the game was, no matter how strong the opponent, as long as he stood on the court intact, he always had a smile on his face.
He was like a sun, hanging high in the sky, and the light was too bright for others to look at.
But the sun's rays are too scattered, Ling Feng has always given his teammates a lot of opportunities to pass the ball, although there are a lot of individual performances, but according to technical statistics, his ability to organize and coordinate is first-class.
The current Ling Feng is an unsheathed knife.
The Brazilian players were surprised to find that although they had just scored a goal, the pressure on the Chinese team increased!
In terms of morale, the Chinese team was not moved by the goal just now, but the Brazilian team, after scoring just now, had a trace of anxiety, and was driven straight into the front by Ling Feng, and a long-range shot almost opened the door of the Brazilian team!
Dida saved Brazil's life.
His wonderful save blocked Ling Feng's powerful ball from the bottom line.
Ling Feng just tilted his neck to look at Dida, and then ran into the penalty area, he wanted to seize every opportunity to score.
There has never been a particularly good goalkeeper in the history of the Brazilian team, Tafarel helped Brazil win in penalty shootouts in two World Cups, but when it comes to real individual strength, it cannot be compared with players of Schmeichel, Kahn and Buffon.
Dida's appearance has become a treasure for the Brazilian team, with a height of 1.91 meters and an agile reaction speed, even if it is not as good as Kahn and Buffon, but it is not far behind.
The corner kick taken by Yue Lingxiang was also hit by this big man out of the penalty area.
The Brazilian team attacked quickly, but Ling Feng did not chase it all the way back as usual.
Without Ling Feng, is there any outstanding talent in China's backline who can hold off Brazil's top superstar one-on-one?
The answer is yes!
The defenders of the Chinese team are inevitably a little timid in the face of Ronaldo, Rivaldo and others, thinking about the route and method that the opponent may dribble, and they can't let go of their hands and feet at all, which makes the already very different strength widen again, and often the opponent gets rid of himself as soon as he looks at the face.
To say a joke, the Chinese team's typical bullying of the soft and afraid of the hard, the previous fierce style of people who can't pass the ball has been completely restrained in front of the Brazilian team, but it seems to be a group of modest and studious primary school students, who dare not hurt the opponent's big-name players, and the actions are cautious one by one, which is very funny.
When the defenders are defending, how many of them can be like Ling Feng and Lei Dondo, so that they can break the ball in front of people and not stick to the leaves?
As a defender, there are more or less small moves when defending - although it is not advocated, but this is something that cannot be helped, and this situation is most common in Serie A.
The other is that when you are a defender, you must be ruthless, you must be ruthless with your feet, overwhelm the opponent from the momentum, and make the opponent afraid of you!
A typical example is Cannavaro, that girl's feet can't be described in ruthless words, it can be called a vicious one!
However, Cannavaro is very accurate in addition to being ruthless, looking at the action is quite large, but without exception can break the opponent's ball, but one thing must also be counted, the players are afraid of injury, and when they see the opponent's expression, they are first cowardly.
Now Rivaldo saw Zhu Yin's desperate look, and his feet were first soft - Zhu Yin rushed up almost grinning, and fell to the ground three meters away from Rivaldo.
directly made a long pass with his left foot, looking for Ling Feng who was ambushed in front of the penalty area!
The Brazilian defenders, who were already familiar with the duo of Hao Haidong and Yang Chen ambushing in front of the penalty area, did not expect that there would be another person coming out, and it was their most feared opponent!
Outstanding air awareness, no less than the perfect skills of the Brazilians, Ling Feng leaned on Sampaio behind him, padd the ball on his shoulder, and then flicked the ball to the side with his foot in the air, after a standard Zidane unloading the ball in the air, Sampaio has been left behind by Ling Feng.
As soon as the ball landed, Ling Feng didn't even look at the goal, he pulled out his left foot and fired a powerful volley at the bouncing ball!
“goooooooooooooooal!” Dida made a save, but the distance was too far and the ball hung in the corner of the goal!
Three minutes! Just three minutes!
Three minutes after the Brazilian team scored, Ling Feng blasted the Brazilian team's goal with a beautiful long-range shot!
With two threatening shots in three minutes, Ling Feng showed the true strength of the world's top players!
In the national team, Ling Feng has always served as an organization, which makes many people forget what he said when he first debuted - if you want to prevent Ling Feng from scoring goals, you can only prevent him from taking the ball!
Even the king of Brazil must not give Ling Feng a chance!
Brazil's backline is far inferior to France in Ling Feng's eyes, especially when their players press the attack, the Brazilian team's backline is a layer of paper for Ling Feng, and it will be broken as soon as he stabs it!
Maybe there are Thuram, Desailly and others in France who can slow down Ling Feng's offensive pace when they compete one-on-one, but in the Brazilian team, except for Carlos and Cafu who can rely on speed to fight with Ling Feng on the side, it is really difficult for others to gain the upper hand in a one-on-one situation.
Of course, the same applies to the Brazilian's attack.
It's not that they haven't seen the ferocious defense, and Zhu Yin's moment just now did have a surprise effect, including Ling Feng's next goal, which was taken by surprise by the Brazilian team.
Brazil, who is worthy of being the king, quickly got rid of the shadow of the goal conceded, and continued to bombard the door of the Chinese team.
But the effect now is a little different from the beginning, Ling Feng did not return to the penalty area as usual, but in the midfield generation activities, involving several midfielders of the Brazilian team did not dare to press, and at the same time, once counterattacked, he will be able to rush to the opponent's backfield as quickly as possible!
With such a player, the Brazilian team naturally did not dare to relax, and Sampaio and Aldair sandwiched Ling Feng one after the other to prevent him from threatening to break through at any time.
In the Chinese half, the Brazilians tried to break through the Chinese team's stubborn defense.
Leonardo is now the engine of Brazil's midfield, Li Tie follows him every step of the way, the current midfielder of AC Milan has a reputation as a miracle strategist in the '98 World Cup, and his instigation of attacks is a magic weapon for the Brazilian team, and it is also a source of power to support the front trident.
Li Tie's skills are not very good, but his stalking kung fu can be regarded as being trained by Santana, especially when facing technical players, it is like a piece of kraft candy, and he can't get rid of it!
What's more, Li Tie's physical strength is also the top in the Chinese team, and Santana also gave up the idea of training him into a top defender with both offense and defense, and shaped him into the No. 1 kraft candy in the Chinese team.
With Li Tie's interference, Leonardo's ability to play was greatly reduced, and the Brazilian team's attack was also delayed.
In this way, the two teams fell into a tug-of-war, but the Brazilian team had a clear advantage in possession time.
Before the end of the first half, China committed a foul in front of the penalty area, and Brazil got a well-placed free-kick opportunity.
Rivaldo and Carlos were both standing in front of the ball, and after the referee's whistle, Rivaldo ran first, raised his left foot and shot!
The Chinese team's human wall jumped, wrong, it was a feint!
Rivaldo sprinted past the ball, and behind him, Carlos rushed to the ball with small steps and fired a powerful left-footed volley into it!
The ball sticks to the ground and goes into the bottom left corner of the goal!
2:2 draw!
Towards the end of the first half, Brazil finally equalised with a free-kick opportunity!
A few minutes later, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and Brazil and China were unexpectedly tied in the first half.
Scoring free kicks is generally one of the magic weapons for a weak team to defeat a strong team, of course, it is just a general situation, and there is no provision that a strong team cannot score through a free kick during the game.
However, the Brazilian team did not tear apart the Chinese team's defense in the positional battle, and relied on Carlos' extremely fast free kick to equalize the score, which inevitably made people a little disappointed with the performance of the Brazilian team.
In the last twenty minutes of the first half, Ling Feng let people see his killer side.
One goal, three successful breakaways, a total of five shots, four threatening shots, and one threatening pass, if it weren't for Brazil's luck today, coupled with the excellent performance of goalkeeper Dida, the door would have been breached.
Of course, it is worth mentioning that there is also the Chinese team's backline, which still did not show weakness in the face of the opponent's strong offensive, and several times Ronaldo and others burst into the penalty area and threatened to shoot, but they were blocked by Fu Bin or other defenders at the last moment.
In this way, the two teams reluctantly ended the first half of the game with a draw.
When he returned to the lounge, Ronaldo saw Ling Feng's eyes were cold, and he swallowed the joke into his stomach, he also knew that the Brazilian team had not really played its full strength until now, it can be said that they were still relatively relaxed, if it were not for Ling Feng, the Chinese team would not be their opponent.
But Ling Feng is different, he has already shown all his strength in this game, and the only few attacks have disturbed the Brazilian team's backline, he has never seen him so serious since he met Ling Feng.
Perhaps, Ronaldo, who is in the football kingdom, can't appreciate the heavy responsibility on Ling Feng's shoulders, in Brazil, the strength of the national team never needs to be worried about individual players, their goal is to improve their level, get more honors, get higher salaries, that's all.
But Ling Feng is different, now personal honor is no longer important to him, what he pursues is the real rise of Chinese football.
In the second half of the game, the real drama is about to begin!