Chapter 137: The Samba Legion Without Samba
On July 10, at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, the third and fourth place finals of the 2018 World Cup are about to begin.
China vs. Brazil.
Two names that used to make people laugh when compared together in the field of football, but today they will have to compete on the World Cup stage for the last possible team honour.
There are five players in the Chinese team in Europe, Yang Shaotian, the mainstay of the Fiorentina team in Serie A, Su Nian, the substitute center of the Ajax team in the Eredivisie, Lin Shengjian, the left midfielder of the Fulham team in the English Championship, Chen Jiaxuan, the substitute midfielder of the German League Dusseldorf, and of course, Chu Yang, the leading scorer of the Valencia team who has just been promoted and is about to play in La Liga in the new season.
Among these five people, except for Yang Shaotian, who has long been famous, and Chu Yang, who was born out of nowhere, can be called a star, the other three can be said to be not well-known in world football, not to mention other players who are still playing in the Chinese Super League.
However, the Brazilian team is star-studded, almost every player is the main force or even the core of the world's famous football clubs, Lua, Sosar, Sandro, Seni and so on are names that even people who don't usually watch the game have heard of, and the hard power is absolutely crushing for the Chinese team.
If the draw with England, the Netherlands and Italy made the Chinese fans full of confidence in the Chinese team, then the defeat against Germany has shattered the fans' fragile self-confidence, especially the weakness shown by Chu Yang after the last game made the domestic media very unoptimistic about the result of this game.
The Chinese team kicked off first, and Chu Yang tested the goalkeeper of the Brazilian national team and the Italian Inter Milan team with a midfield hanging shot as soon as he started.
Although Seni was taken aback by Chu Yang's dismount, he showed the super reaction that a world-class goalkeeper should have, and quickly moved his feet to take the ball into his arms.
The Brazilian fans on the sidelines offered their contempt for Chu Yang's gambling shot, and booed.
Chu Yang didn't care and began to walk towards the forbidden area in Brazil.
In this game, the Chinese team played 451, He Qingyuan replaced Su Nian with a defensive midfielder, and Chu Yang was the "1".
The team's change of lineup is a big deal, but Chu Yang can only be regarded as a recruit in the national team, if he hadn't played too perverted, he should still be sitting on the bench now, so He Qingyuan is also exploring how to tap his power, and constantly changing the lineup is actually a process of crossing the river by feeling the stones.
Sandro, the soul of Brazil's backline, plays for Barcelona and is a player who debuted in the same group as Fontaine, and being able to go toe-to-toe with this old guy in the Spanish Super League already shows his quality.
The most effective way to deal with this kind of experienced old fritter is to use physical fitness to crush, speed, strength, agility, etc., so Chu Yang decisively equipped the monster before the game.
Compared with when he equipped the "Wind Chaser Boy", his strength has increased to 18, his speed has dropped to 12, the wind is galloping, the wind changes direction and cannot be used, the zero-degree angle shot is activated, and at the same time, "moving like a rabbit" has become "devastating", and the technical style and technical characteristics of the whole person can be said to have changed greatly.
In the first six games of this World Cup, Chu Yang only used half of the "Warcraft", so although he knew that his strength and physical confrontation were not weak, most of the opponents' research on him was based on speed and breakthrough.
From a technical point of view, Chu Yang sacrificed a superb dribbling skill and an advanced breakthrough skill in exchange for a shooting skill with pitiful low practicality, but in terms of style, he has transformed from a speed-type striker to a powerful center.
This abrupt shift has rendered much of the Brazilian defenders' preparation useless.
They originally planned to compress the defensive line and not give Chu Yang room to break through and counter offside, but now Chu Yang was directly and firmly nailed into the penalty area like a columnar center, relying on his physical strength to kill a bloody path.
The audience had the immediate impression that they were watching the German team play.
The midfield line composed of Yang Shaotian, Lin Shengjian, and Xu Hongfei took the ball directly into the penalty area for the first time, and did not hide its dependence on Chu Yang, and the offensive method was monotonous to boring, but it was by no means conservative.
Compared with the Chinese team's tactics and routines, the Brazilian team's offensive means are much richer, with both wings flying together and flowering more.
Against this backdrop, the first goal of the game came as soon as one might expect.
Lua, who played as a central striker in the last game, returned to his familiar position, which can be said to be a forward or a shadow striker, in short, quite free, and his characteristics are also vividly reflected in this goal.
"Lu A takes the ball, Chen Jiaxuan is defending him, his feet are shaking, Chen Jiaxuan is very experienced, he is slowly retreating, wearing gear! Passed! Mo Yu came to make up for the defense, but he didn't touch the ball, Lua's movements were too fast! ”
Lua kicked the ball in front of the goal, like a pass and shot, Lowe was very focused and moved in the direction of the football, but the astute Brazilian striker Barnetta suddenly ran out of the diagonal line, and with a flick of his head, the ball changed direction and flew into the net.
Suddenly the tsunami-like cheers rang out, and the Brazilian players ran to the sidelines and danced the samba en masse, and the Brazilian fans in the stands also jumped into their seats and did a mess of celebrations.
The deficit in the score did not make the Chinese team cower, but rather made their attack more determined, but these were nothing more than a death throes in the eyes of the Brazilians, their players were relaxed, and their fans were already celebrating the victory in advance.
Less than 10 minutes after the first goal, Brazil threatened the Chinese goal again, this time the starting point of the attack was still Lua, who broke through the right side and crossed the ball across the middle, but fortunately the right-back Mo Yu reacted quickly and desperately tackled the ball down.
Yang Shaotian, who returned to the defense, got the ball, and drove the ball into the Brazilian team's penalty area with a big foot without looking at it again.
This kick ball is not so much a pass as a clearance, the ball flies high and urgently, and it is very difficult to stop the ball, but it is not a challenge for Chu Yang at all.
He leaned on Sandro to unload the ball with ease, then leaned back to squeeze Sandro away, and finally flicked the ball lightly and shot straight before the other defenders came up.
Simple and direct, outrageous and unreasonable.
No matter how you look at it, this kind of shot tastes like a rush or a rush to the hospital, and the Brazilian didn't take it very seriously, but the moment the ball flew into the top left corner of the goal, the whole world was quiet.
With the power of 18 plus a hundred steps through Yang and Shi Breaking Shock, Chu Yang's long-range shooting ability can definitely enter the top ten today, even if it is placed in the history of football, it can also be ranked among the top 20, and in the case that he can get up comfortably, the goalkeeper has to rely on a little luck to save as much as he wants.
Chu Yang walked to the stand with the most Brazilian fans and stretched out his index finger to his mouth.
Now, shut up.