Chapter 337: Tied for first place on the shooter list
"Ahaha! It's a pity that the Chinese team almost got God's favor, but when they entered the door, God repented, so the Brazilian team escaped. ”
Marcel Leif joked humorously, anyway, the result of this game has nothing to do with him, and commenting the game as a third party is naturally extremely relaxed.
The Brazilian commentator was a little angry, accusing Thiago Silva: "Although it is very difficult to clear the siege this time, Thiago's approach is really incomprehensible, this is not the performance of a central defender of his level!" Brazil came close to becoming the first team to score an own goal in two consecutive World Cups. ”
In the last World Cup on home soil, Brazil created a goal in the opening four minutes, but it was an own goal with the wrong goal. The creator was Marcelo, the left-back of the game.
Although the football field is always about striving for the first place, but no one will like to score the "first" of the own goal twice in a row, fortunately Thiago Silva is the outside of the instep to touch the ball, otherwise the Brazilian team will definitely not be able to avoid this embarrassing record.
With the offensive that almost rewrote the score at the beginning, the Chinese team suppressed the Brazilian team in the first ten minutes of the opening game, perhaps the last game was pressed by the German team, the Chinese team players were suffocated, this game got Lippi's call to attack actively, the frontcourt players completely released the suppressed vitality, Yu Hanchao's breakthrough is just a microcosm, Wen Zhihao deliberately guided the passing rhythm very fast, according to his experience in the face of Real Madrid, constantly diagonally or directly behind Marcelo, While suppressing the offensive firepower of the Brazilian team on the left side, he fully activated the martial arts king who is good at running without the ball, and the sprint speed is his specialty, whether it is Marcelo who is chasing back from behind, or Marquinhos, the central defender who comes out to make up for the defense, once he is left behind, it is difficult to rely on speed to catch up with him.
At the same time, taking advantage of the fact that all the players in the opening game were full of physical fitness, the Chinese team's frontcourt counter-robbery was quite powerful, and Lippi specifically asked Liang Xin to target the Brazilian team's midfield and backfield to Coutinho's passing line, snuff out the Brazilian team's most threatening counterattack point, and make this core point as much as possible into a source of water, unable to exert his full power.
In fact, Coutinho himself does not have many opportunities to receive the ball, the Chinese team's linkage and overall high pressure in the midfield are very in place, almost pressing the Brazilian team in front of the penalty area, Zheng Zhi and Liang Xin have a clear division of labor, responsible for marking the passer and card key passing lines, after the ball is broken, Wen Zhihao is responsible for distributing the ball of the offensive organization. The three midfielders each played their own role, so they played very aggressively. Within a few minutes, he hit a couple of high-quality counter-attacks on the spot. Wen Zhihao's long-range shot and Gao Lin's close-range scramble after receiving a cross from the wing forced Ederson to make two good saves in short bursts.
The Brazilian commentator couldn't bear to look at it directly: "Being pressed and beaten by the Chinese team, there is no doubt that Tite's tactics have gone terribly wrong, it's really terrible!" ”
The commentator and some of the worried Brazilian fans who watched it flashed through the semi-finals of the last World Cup, the worst 1:7 defeat in the history of samba football, when they were scored four goals in a row by the German team in fifteen minutes, the situation was almost the same as now!
The only difference is that the current goalkeeper of the Brazilian team, Ederson, is better than his predecessor Cesar at that time, otherwise the Chinese team could have taken advantage of this offensive to make some gains.
As for the Chinese fans, their mood is about to fly. Seeing the Chinese team's various offensive methods, frequently interspersed with running around the opponent's penalty area, Wen Zhihao controlled the rhythm steadily, and Leng Buding passed a blood-boiling scalpel pass, which caused chaos in front of the Brazilian team, and the old fans who watched the 02 World Cup suddenly had a feeling of feng shui turning, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.
At that time, who would have thought that the Chinese team would face Brazil in the knockout round when it participated in the World Cup for the second time, and played the exact opposite of the game at that time?
In this World Cup, the Chinese team has always been moving forward in the eyes of the vast majority of people who think it is impossible, and then the world is amazed again and again.
So when the Chinese team showed the momentum of siege on the field, Chinese fans have slowly become accustomed to it, and they are no longer emotional, but everyone is looking forward to a goal, so the performance in the opening fifteen minutes is absolutely flawless. A truly fantastic start.
Many people's thoughts flashed and did not completely subside, and the change did appear.
In the sixteenth minute, Wen Zhihao controlled the ball that the Brazilian team had cleared out at a 45-degree angle outside the left penalty area, just aimed at Ederson standing in the near corner, and the far end showed a fatal gap, and the Brazilian team's defensive formation has not been fully restored.
As soon as Paulinho saw the arc drawn by Wen Zhihao's shot in the air, he secretly screamed badly. No one is more familiar with Wen Zhihao's hidden threats than him, who has been both an opponent and a teammate with Wen Zhihao, and has also stalked at him several times.
But Ederson plays in the Premier League and he doesn't know that. He was already kicking the ground very fast, his hands were stretched long enough, and his body was quite stretched, but it was still too late for the speed of the ball.
Ederson could only watch in frustration as the ball grazed the post and into the back of the net. It was only after experiencing it first-hand that he really understood why Paulinho repeatedly reminded himself to watch out for Wen Zhihao's sudden kick anywhere near the penalty area.
He only hated himself for understanding too late, and the price was somewhat dearly.
Wen Zhihao's kick detonated the emotions of everyone in the audience and the commentary room, and in the face of the cheers of the Chinese fans, He Wei jumped up directly and shouted: "The ball is in!" The ball is in! Wen Zhihao showed his iconic world wave for the first time in this World Cup. Another historic goal, the first time that the Chinese team scored the goal of a World Cup winner in an official tournament at the senior national team level. Congratulations! ”
Spanish national television commentary Garcia first let go of his voice and said with a smile after Wen Zhihao's goal: "If you have seen Wen's performance at Atletico Madrid, you should know that once he shoots without hesitation near the penalty area, the opponent will be unlucky." ”
Sky Sports' Joe Kruka said: "It was Winn's third personal goal at the World Cup. Now he is temporarily tied with Harry Kane and Romelu Lukaku for the top scorer. Much of the battle for the Golden Boot at this World Cup will depend on how far these players can go for their respective national teams. ”
Joe Kruka is not wrong, and from that point of view, Wen Zhihao has the least chance. It's not that he's not strong personally, it's that the national team may be holding him back.