Although the Swedish players were tall and strong, the confrontation was more prominent, but Liang Xin and Zheng Zhi's defense aimed at the opponent's feet, relying on better timing to make tackles, and the Chinese team won many offensive opportunities in the opening stage with their active defensive strategies. The wide attack was an unexpected highlight. After Liang Xin and Zheng Zhi stealed, they sent a direct pass to the left side of the Swedish team as soon as possible. Yu Dabao faced full-back Olsen, who plays for Swansea in the Premier League, with a clear advantage in height and weight, and directly crushed into the penalty area from the left, Gao Lin's scramble in front of the goal was slightly off the post.

The moment Yu Dabao entered the forbidden area, the Chinese media had already widened their eyes and showed a very expectant expression. At the moment when Gao Lin shot with his feet, He Wei and Xu Yang shouted at the same time: "Good ball...... Yes! ”

Seeing Gao Lin's shot grazing the column and drawing the bottom line, both of them slapped the commentary seat regretfully, Xu Yang regretted: "It's a pity! Just a little bit, this shot is three centimeters more positive, and the first goal of the Chinese team in the World Cup will be born! ”

"Gao Lin is only a little bit away from going down in history!"

Gao Lin stood in place, with a wry smile on his face, shaking his head regretfully, as a striker, it was inevitable that he did not grasp the opportunity. But on the special stage of the World Cup, I will feel more regretful.

In the first 10 minutes, China relied on the steady play of midfielders Liang Xin and Zheng Zhi to overwhelm Sweden – yes, Wen Zhihao was not the most eye-catching player in the opening stages. Although he was the most focused on the Chinese team, the ball did not stay at his feet for much time. More like a freelancer who runs without the ball, going back and forth between the front line and the midfield, looking for holes in the opposition. It may seem like a deliberately sacrificial character, but it is this way of shifting focus that Lippi defuses the opponent's attempt to contain the Chinese midfield by limiting Wen Zhihao.

Sweden team coach Andersson is not very good-looking, he found that he despised the strength of the Chinese team's midfield, Wen Zhihao did not have a bright spot during this time, but it was not the success of the midfield defense, but the changes made by the Chinese team on their own initiative, Liang Xin and Zheng Zhi replaced Wen Zhihao's role Although the two were not as creative as Wen Zhihao in planning the attack, the characteristics of the two just complemented each other, Liang Xin could go up and down, and ran well. Zheng Zhi's strengths are rhythm control and rich competition experience. Anderson felt that his tactics were caught with shortcomings, one of the midfielders was attracted away by Wen Zhihao, and the remaining midfielder was powerless to face Liang Xin and Zheng Zhi.

The midfield occupies the initiative, the Chinese team has the absolute initiative on the offensive end, Yu Dabao and Wuqiu Wang are not traditional wing players, the two are Zhengyin strikers and shadow strikers respectively, they are better at creating threats in the middle, and in the situation of dominance in the midfield, they are more active to approach the middle.

Sweden's two centre-backs quickly felt the pressure, and the Chinese were in danger of collapsing their defence at any moment after five minutes of siege in the middle.

During the period of siege of the Chinese team, the cheers of the fans in the stands rose higher and higher, and the smart and erratic running position of the king of Wuqiu has found the loopholes in the opponent's defense line many times, but the kick at the door is still not confident enough, and the defenders of the Swedish team stubbornly make up for the defense, and frequently kick the ball out of the sideline or the bottom line.

Joe Kruka, a famous British Sky Sports speaker, couldn't believe that this was the strength of the Chinese team, but the overwhelming advantage he did show on the field made him have to change some of his prejudices against the Chinese team, and admitted convincingly: "The strength of the Chinese team in this half hour, frankly speaking, is stronger than the Asian teams that played a few days ago." That's all the more exciting. So far, Wen has not been the one who has created the most threats, and he has not even taken the initiative to take the ball very often, perhaps because Lippi deliberately could have arranged it. Well, when he really starts to take control of the game. What is the limit of the strength of the Chinese team? Ha! Maybe you can see it in the second half. ”

However, as far as the current set of tactics is concerned, the effect has been very good, and the Chinese team is getting closer and closer to scoring, as long as the situation does not change abruptly, and there is no large-scale bottleneck in the physical situation, Lippi will definitely not take the initiative to change the strategy.

As the time went on in the first half, the Swedish team's full-backs gradually moved closer to the middle, assisting the midfielder to make up for the huge space in the middle, and the defender who was marking Wen Zhihao also had to disperse his energy a little, which is also the conscious instinct of the defensive players on the field, and they will subconsciously approach the direction of the player in the high-intensity confrontation, especially in the case of physical decline, there will be a discount in the implementation and execution of tactics.

After Liang Xin won the ball on the left side of the opponent's penalty area, he was going to directly distribute it to Deng Hanwen, who was inserted into the assist, after a second, he found that the player who was staring at Wen Zhihao on the left side was accelerating in his direction, without a second of hesitation, Liang Xin changed his footwork, and quickly pushed the ball sideways with the arch of his right foot, and went straight to the direction of Wen Zhihao!

After Wen Zhihao got the ball, facing the opponent's central defender who was like a big enemy, he made two consecutive feints to deceive the opponent's defensive center of gravity to his right foot, and at the same time deducted the ball to his left foot, directly passed the opponent from the opposite direction, and entered the penalty area!

"Good ball, Wen Zhihao into the penalty area! Hahaha, this is the opportunity! ”

As soon as He Wei saw Wen Zhihao start to exert his power, his confidence immediately became a lot fuller.

The Swedish centre-back who was passed scolded Sheet, and then quickly turned back to make up for his mistake, but it was too late, and the difference of a second or two in this acceleration start could already dominate the outcome of an attack at this time.

The goalkeeper of the Swedish team, Nordfeldt, who also plays for Swansea in the Premier League, was like a tiger out of the hole, and immediately abandoned the goal and pounced towards Wen Zhihao, but Wen Zhihao was already ready for the next shot when he sprinted, and faced the goalkeeper at close range, Wen Zhihao directly and calmly picked up the ball, crossed the head of Nordfeldt, and fell directly into the goal of the Swedish team behind him.

"Whoa!"

In the stands around the Olympic Stadium in Sochi, almost at the moment when the ball fell into the goal, tens of thousands of red people jumped up from their seats and cheered wildly. Lippi and Madaloni also high-fived themselves in their excitement.

He Wei almost roared in the commentary seat with the maximum decibels: "The ball is in!" Entered! Remember this historic moment! We must remember the hero who scored the first goal of the World Cup for the Chinese team, Wen Zhihao! The calm and exquisite hanging shot brought the Chinese team the first lead in the history of the World Cup! ”

Wen Zhihao knelt in the center of the pitch after scoring the goal, and bowed his head and kissed the national team emblem on his jersey under the watchful eyes of countless camera lenses at the scene. Then he was crushed by his teammates who rushed over to celebrate.