Chapter 688: First Battle in Chile
The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is the 20th FIFA World Cup, which was held from June 12 to July 13 in 12 cities in the football kingdom of Brazil.
This is the second time the World Cup has been held in Brazil since 1950 and the fifth time it has been held in South America since the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
At the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, the Brazilians were defeated by the Uruguayans in front of their home stadium, cheered on by the 200,000 home crowd at the Maracana, and won the championship with one goal.
This has become an eternal pain in the hearts of Brazilians.
When the 2014 World Cup returned to Brazil, all Brazilians were united in their efforts to take advantage of the host's advantage to win the tournament.
Among them, Neymar, who is known as the successor of the football king, is the leader of the Brazilian team and has high hopes.
On June 12, the opening ceremony of the 20th FIFA World Cup in 2014 was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The opening ceremony lasted 25 minutes, and then the opening match began.
The opening match was played by Group A hosts Brazil against Croatia.
After 90 minutes, the score was 3-1 on the big screen, Brazil won, and Neymar's brace drew cheers from all Brazilians.
On the second day, the group stage of the World Cup was in full swing.
In the second match of the first round of Group A, Mexico defeated Cameroon 1-0 and won three points in a thrilling way.
Next, it will be the turn of Group B, which is the group of the Chinese team.
The first is the defending champions taking on the uncrowned king of the Netherlands.
The whole world thought it was a close battle.
As a result, after 90 minutes, the whole world was stunned by the score on the field.
5-1!
Casillas, the world's top goalkeeper and Real Madrid goalkeeper, was completely blown up, and the Orange Tulip Dutch team beat the Spanish Matadors 5-1.
The defending champions were slaughtered, and the Spanish dynasty, a three-time World Series champion, collapsed.
In particular, Van Persie's beautiful and shocking long-range fish leap to the top has conquered audiences all over the world and made countless viewers who watched football games for the first time fall in love with football.
At the end of the game, the dejected expression of the Spanish team was deeply imprinted in everyone's eyes.
After being divided into Group B, with Spain and the Netherlands, the Chinese team, which had no confidence in qualifying, suddenly woke up.
After Spain was slaughtered 5-1 by the Dutch team, it must have a broken mentality and is not in the state, does the Chinese team have a chance to defeat Chile and Spain to qualify?
Spain's big score defeat gave the Chinese team the hope of qualifying, and everyone's spirits were lifted.
The first condition for qualifying is that they must beat Chile and then fight Spain to make a difference.
On the evening of June 13, 2014, the Pantanal Arena in Cuiabá was full, and Chinese fans and overseas Chinese occupied most of the positions.
In the stands, stimulated by Spain's 1-5 defeat, Chinese fans, like the national football players, saw the hope of qualifying, and their spirits were greatly lifted, and they continued to sing the national anthem, "Five-Star Red Flag" and other songs before the game started, creating a home atmosphere for the Chinese team.
Domestically, at least 500 million Chinese are watching live broadcasts, more than the 2002 World Cup China vs Brazil match.
Because of Lu Wenbin's presence and his outstanding performance in the Confederations Cup last year, the Chinese audience has more expectations for the results of the competition.
Everyone is waiting for the first goal and the first victory of the Chinese men's football team in the World Cup.
Among them were not only fans, but also countless students, women, and ordinary spectators.
There are even enterprises, institutions, and schools that have directly taken vacations to let everyone watch the World Cup matches of the national football team and cheer for the Chinese team.
At 19 o'clock in the evening, with the referee's whistle, the second group stage of the first round of Group B of the Brazil World Cup between China and Chile officially began.
The Chinese team plays in a 4321 formation, which can constantly change according to the game situation.
When defending, Lu Wenbin is a central midfielder, using his superhuman physical fitness and physique, positioning, and defense to defend in the middle, and command the back line, and the two forwards can also retreat to participate in the defense.
When attacking, Lu Wenbin can advance to the front midfield, two fullbacks to follow up and assist, two forwards to the forward line in advance, waiting for Lu Wenbin to deliver shells, or for Lu Wenbin to break through the goal to make a run and cover.
Lu Wenbin, who is standing on the back waist line, can really attack, retreat and defend, and give full play to his super ability to attack and defend in an all-round way.
The Chinese players, including Lu Wenbin, thought that Chile was a soft persimmon in this group, and that the Chinese team had a chance to win, and then try to win or draw with Spain to qualify.
But what kind of soft persimmon is Chile?
In the FIFA World Rankings in May 2014, Chile was ranked 13th in the world, higher than the Netherlands, France, the United States, Mexico, Croatia and other giants.
Being able to beat Uruguay in the South American qualifiers and join hands with Argentina and Colombia to qualify has nothing to do with soft persimmons.
The Chinese team's media fans and players imagined that they would easily defeat Chile and then fight for Spain to qualify, but it was not easy to achieve.
At the beginning of the game, Chile pressed the Chinese team and began to attack.
Lu Wenbin's ability to counterattack in sports and his ability to score direct goals from free kicks and corners has always been the sword of Damocles on Chile's head.
Therefore, Chile must score first in order to have more room to maneuver.
The Chinese team, led by Lu Wenbin, defended solidly and waited for an opportunity to counterattack.
But before Lu Wenbin's counterattack could be launched, the Chinese team's defense was broken by the Chilean team.
In the 12th minute, Chile played a delicate match up front.
Striker Aranquez and striker Sanchez made a wall collision to break through Lu Wenbin's defense and then entered the forbidden area, deducted the attacking goalkeeper Zeng Cheng, and then crossed in front of the goal.
Another striker, Vargas, and central defender Wang Qiang rushed to the ball at the same time, but neither of them touched it, and the ball rolled in front of them.
Sanchez, who had collided with Alanquez after hitting the wall, followed up with a tackle before central defender Zhao Peng cleared the ball and shoveled the ball into the goal.
Chile opened the scoring with a 1-0 lead over the Chinese team led by world superstar Lu Wenbin.
The Chinese team was cheered, the Chileans erupted in wild cheers, and the Chilean players raced on the field to celebrate.
I didn't expect the Chilean team's attack to be so sharp.
South American teams, sure enough, are all technical streams. Despite having Lu Wenbin in the rear, the defense line was torn apart by the opponent's technical flow attack.
It seems that it will not be easy to beat Chile and get a chance to qualify.
Seeing that his teammates were a little distracted, Lu Wenbin quickly clapped his hands and yelled to cheer up his teammates, it was still early, and the Chinese team still had enough time to equalize and reverse.
Encouraged by Lu Wenbin, the morale of his teammates was slightly boosted, and the silent Chinese fans in the stands also applauded and shouted slogans again to cheer for the Chinese team.