In the seventy-fifth minute of the game, the competition between the two sides is no longer about skills and tactics, but about willpower!

Whoever can grit their teeth and persevere for the rest of the game will have the last laugh!

In order to better carry out the rest of the game, the coaches of both sides coincidentally deployed troops at this point in time, and the Longguo team replaced a fullback, Zheng Zheng came out to replace Wang Shenchao, continued to maintain defensive strength, and prepared a new force for counterattack; The Russian team also used the last substitution of the game, replacing No. 7 Kuzyaev with No. 19 Semedov.

The first substitution of the Russian team was a passive substitution, which appeared in the 24th minute of the first half, when the core of their midfield, No. 9 Zagoev, known as the "Little Tsar", strained his left thigh in the game and was forced to leave the field, replaced by No. 6 Cheryshev, who plays for Villarreal in La Liga.

Cheryshev was the player who scored the second goal of the game for Russia, making him the first player in the history of the World Cup to come off the bench and score in the opening game, and the fifth substitute player in the history of the World Cup to score in the first half.

After substitution adjustments, the two sides regrouped and continued to fight.

The situation of the game, on the surface, is still under the control of the Russian team, but in fact, it is the Dragon Team that occupies the initiative on the field, and this is not only because the Dragon Team has the advantage of leading the score.

In this game, the Dragon Country team is a trick that is eaten all over the world, and the offensive routine is very simple, which is a quick counterattack - after intercepting the attack of the Russian team in the backfield, do not make too many midfield transitions, and directly make a long pass to Shen Feng and Wu Lei in the frontcourt!

Although the routine is simple, the effect is very good!

The four goals scored by the Dragon Country team in this game were all obtained through this simple and clear quick counterattack routine, including Shen Feng's header and the previous corner kick, which were also created in this way.

In the eighty-first minute of the game, the Dragon Country team once again offered a quick counterattack routine, still looking for Shen Feng from the front court with a long pass directly from the backfield, Shen Feng After receiving the ball, he made a wall-hitting cooperation with Wu Lei, passed the defenders of the Russian team, and went straight to the goal of the Russian team with the ball.

Seeing that he was about to break into the Russian team's big penalty area and face the goalkeeper of the Russian team, the defenders of the Russian team who were chasing after him could only choose to put a shovel behind his back when there was no other effective way to stop Shen Feng from moving forward.

Shen Feng maintained enough realm in the process of rushing with the ball, and when the Russian defenders put the tackle, he grabbed the ball with one foot, and then jumped in the air with both feet off the ground to avoid the Russian team's defense.

The defenders of the Russian team, when they made the foul action of putting the shovel behind their backs, were already a little uncalm, and found that the shovel effect was not good, and they had to do useless work, their heads were hot, so they simply didn't do anything, and raised their feet to hook Shen Feng's legs, Shen Feng's body was jumping in the air, helpless, and after being hooked, he immediately lost control of his body and fell to the ground.

The referee's whistle sounded immediately, which was a very obvious foul by the Russian team, but due to the location of the foul, it was more sensitive, and the referee on the field still needed to consider how to punish him.

When the defenders of the Russian team put the shovel, Shen Feng had not yet burst into the penalty area of the Russian team, his original intention was to leave Shen Feng outside the penalty area, and would rather give the Dragon Team a direct free kick in front of the field than let Shen Feng burst into the penalty area and face their goalkeeper directly.

But Shen Feng cleverly dodged the shovel action of the defenders of the Russian team, forcing him to go further and raise his foot to hook Shen Feng - when the defender of the Russian team raised his foot to hook Shen Feng's legs, Shen Feng's body had already burst into the restricted area of the Russian team!

If it is placed in the past game, when the referee on the field is faced with this situation, he needs to judge whether the foul occurred outside the penalty area or in the penalty area, and then make a corresponding decision.

However, in this World Cup, FIFA has used a new penalty technique - video assistant referee!

The job responsibility of the video assistant referee is to use video replay technology to help the referee on the field make the correct judgment in the judgment of yellow cards, red cards, penalty kicks, goals and other important nodes of the game!

The video assistant referee will not make any penalty decisions himself, but will help the referee on the field and provide a clear basis for the referee's decision!

When FIFA launched the video assistant referee technology, it declared that its goal was to eliminate misjudgments, misjudgments, and missed judgments in major matches!

After the adoption of video assistant refereeing technology, situations such as the "Hand of God" of Maradona, the famous football king in the history of the World Cup, and the "ghost goal", will basically not happen again!

The opening match between the Dragons and the Russian team is the first practical use of the video assistant referee in the World Cup game, the previous game, the goals and fouls of both sides, the facts are very clear, the referee on the field can directly make the correct decision, and the video assistant referee does not need to come forward.

Now, in the face of this foul by the Russian team, whether it happened outside the penalty area or in the penalty area, the players on both sides insisted on their own words, and the referee on the field was also a little hesitant, it was the turn of the video assistant referee to show his face.

Lippi, the head coach of the Dragon Country team, was afraid that the referee on the field would favor the host Russian team, so he stood on the sidelines and kept drawing boxes in the air with his hands, reminding the referee on the field to watch the video replay on the sidelines before making the final decision.

The referee of this game, Argentine Nendo? Pitana, in the process of enforcing the game, was generally impartial to both sides, and did not favor the Russian team because they were the hosts, and made a decision in favor of the Russian team.

At this moment, when faced with a verdict that he couldn't decide, Pitana was not stubborn and conservative, and insisted on relying on his own experience to judge the penalty and not use the video assistant referee system.

Pitana blew the whistle to stop the game, then gestured a box in the air with both hands, signaling that he wanted to go to the sidelines to watch the video replay, and then make a penalty for the Russian team's foul, and then trotted to the video replay viewing area set up in front of the players' tunnel to watch the video replay of the whole process of the Russian team's foul.

After watching the video replay two or three times, Pitana found sufficient factual basis for this penalty and made a decision on the final penalty.

After returning to the field, Pitana pointed to the goal of the Russian team and awarded a penalty to the Dragon Team - his determination that the Russian team's foul was that the Russian team's defender hooked Shen Feng's action occurred in the Russian team's penalty area!