Chapter 215: Changing Situation
The Dragons had a lead in the score and didn't last long.
After the Russian team unexpectedly fell behind in the score, it immediately launched a large-scale counterattack, and after the Dragon team scored, the mentality of the players underwent some changes, after the game restarted, the mind was still on the goal just now, and the attention was not immediately retracted to the game, and the strength of the defense was no longer as strong as at the beginning, giving the Russian team a chance to take advantage of the void.
This Russian team did have the strength and immediately seized the opportunity of the Dragons to gain a firm foothold and equalized.
At this time, the first half of the game was not yet halfway through.
The score became 1:1, and the warring sides returned to the same running line, but the situation of the game, after these two goals, has quietly changed.
First of all, the Dragon team, because they have completed one of the pre-game goals - scoring the first World Cup goal in the team's history, the pressure on the players of the Dragon Country team has plummeted, and the attitude towards this game is more calm.
Moreover, through this goal, the players of the Dragon Country team also recognized the strength of the Russian team, and their overall strength is indeed above themselves, which is an objective fact and cannot be denied, but the Dragon Country team is by no means without any chance of winning in front of them.
Just like that goal, as long as the Dragons can create and seize the chances, the goal of the Russian team will also be open for them!
This realization made the players of the Dragon Country team play more confidently in the game, no longer a little cringe as they did at the beginning, and put too much energy into defense, resulting in counterattacks that have not improved.
Moreover, this goal also allowed the Russian team to see the strength of the Dragon Team, proving that although the Dragon Team is slightly inferior to them, but in front of them, it is not without the power to fight back, if they continue to attack like in the opening stage, ignoring the defense, it will still leave a chance for the Dragon Team to counterattack.
This forced the Russian team to put more effort into defense.
The total amount of energy that a team can expend in the whole game is limited, and if you invest a little more in offense, you will inevitably invest a little less in defense; Put in a little bit more in the first half of the game, and inevitably put in less in the second half of the game.
The Russian team's marking of Shen Feng is involved in more energy, which will inevitably lead to less energy they can devote to attacking, thus reducing the defensive pressure of the Dragon Country team.
And the defensive pressure of the Dragons team is reduced, so they can have more energy to devote to counterattacking, thus forcing the Russian team to have to put more energy into defense.
Such a change in the situation made the Dragon Country team play more and more relaxed, more and more calm, and more and more confident in this game.
On the other hand, the Russian team seems to be a little out of order, continuing to maintain the offensive intensity in the opening stage, and worrying that the Dragon Team will be exposed to counterattacks; Reducing the offense and maintaining the status quo is not what they expected from this game.
As the host, the Russian team faced the Dragon Nation team, which was obviously inferior to itself in the opening match, so it naturally wanted to take all three points, win the game, and make a good start for the World Cup held at their own doorstep.
Moreover, simply winning the game is not the real goal of the Russian team, what they really want is to win the game cleanly and bloodlessly!
If you want to achieve this goal, you can't win this game with the minimum consumption, at least you have to lead the Dragon Country team by more than two goals!
The situation on the pitch before the start of the game, as well as in the first ten minutes of the game, gave the Russian team a lot of confidence in achieving the goals set before the game.
But ten minutes later, the situation of the game changed drastically, and the Dragon Team took the lead in breaking the deadlock of the game, which can be said to be a blow to the Russian team.
Although they quickly equalized and did not give the Dragons a long lead, the trend of this game, from this time on, is no longer under the control of the Russian team.
After conceding the goal, the Dragon team quickly adjusted its mentality and refocused on the game, and the intensity of the defense was raised again, and the Russian team's offense once again fell into a difficult situation.
The self-confidence of the players of the Dragon Country team has improved, and they have been more resolute in defense, stealing, intercepting, blocking, and moving cleanly while the effect has also increased steadily.
After the transfer of the ball, the counterattack of the Dragon Country team also became more targeted.
During this period, Shen Feng also showed a completely different attitude from the opening stage, running more actively, fighting harder, and fighting for almost every ball.
After Shen Feng scored the first goal, the Russian team's marking intensity against him was raised by a level compared with before, not only did there be a special player to mark him closely, but in a small area, when Shen Feng got the ball, there would be a second or even third player to come up and attack and encircle him.
This made it more difficult for Shen Feng to get the ball in the front court, and he had to increase physical contact with his opponent.
The players of the Russian team are all strong and have very strong confrontation ability, but Shen Feng has also greatly improved his physical fitness after more than a year of hard training, especially with the support of the "Shenfeng" system, he can also strengthen the ability of "physical fitness", "strength" and "confrontation" by adding free attribute values.
Shen Feng's current attribute values of "physical fitness", "strength", and "confrontation" are all above 80 points, and the attribute values of "confrontation" have reached 84 points, which is not a great disadvantage compared with the Russian team players who have racial advantages in terms of physical fitness.
What's more important is that Shen Feng is a model of a strong center in terms of physical fitness, but he also has super fast speed, which allows him to have more physical flexibility, even if he suffers a little loss in the physical confrontation with the players of the Russian team, as long as he is allowed to distance himself and give full play to his speed advantage, the players of the Russian team have nothing to do with him, they can only look at him.
In addition, because Shen Feng is often on the active side in terms of running and physical confrontation, this allows him to occupy some of the first moves and have some advantages in terms of physical consumption.
After more than ten minutes of continuous switchback running, plus emergency stops, turns, and physical confrontations, Shen Feng was still full of energy and vitality, while the player in charge of guarding him in the Russian team was already out of breath and sweating, and he couldn't keep up with Shen Feng's footsteps.
In this way, Shen Feng's opportunity is here again!