The Chinese and foreign media commentators were very well prepared before the game, and when Wen Zhihao stood on the penalty spot, everyone was expecting him to directly kill the Golden Boot suspense of this World Cup.

As Wen Zhihao scored the penalty steadily, including Garcia, all the commentators congratulated Wen Zhihao with a variety of different moods.

And He Wei and Xu Yang, who are CCTV commentators, are the most excited, after all, whether it is Wen Zhihao or the national team as a whole, it is their emotional sustenance, the two almost shouted in unison, and then calmed down, He Wei said emotionally: "Beautiful! This is not only a goal to preserve hope, but also a decisive goal to put the name of the Chinese player in the World Cup honor book! Wen Zhihao became the first Chinese Golden Boot in the history of the World Cup! No matter how much time passes, when it comes to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Wen Zhihao is destined to be an unavoidable name. This is his highest personal honor, and it is also a strong stroke left by Chinese football in the top football hall. ”

German commentator Marcel Leif and British Sky Sports commentator Joe Kruka expressed the same meaning: congratulations to Wen Zhihao for becoming the youngest golden boot in World Cup history. At this time, Wen Zhihao's age was seventeen years and three hundred and two days.

This record, to be honest, is not easy for future generations to surpass. He can achieve this honor at this age, talent, strength, environment, and luck are indispensable.

Wen Zhihao already knew through the media before the game that he would have another goal and the Golden Boot was in his hands, so after he scored the penalty, he first pointed to the sky with both hands and then celebrated with his teammates. Thank God for giving him this luck.

"Now we are just the first step in the long march, and it is still too early to really win the game, brothers, take another breath and fight! This game has to be a carnival for all of us. ”

Wen Zhihao did not forget to boost morale when everyone rushed up to congratulate him, and of course Lippi also understood that it was time to chase after the victory, so the Chinese team immediately made a second substitution. Liu Ruofan replaced Yu Hanchao.

In fact, this is a counterpoint adjustment, although Liu Ruofan has been playing as a central midfielder or an attacking midfielder before, but he can also be a winger. It is not difficult to see from the fact that Lippi frequently thinks of him at critical moments in this World Cup, and his versatile attribute is exactly what Lippi appreciates very much, and he intends to use this stage to cultivate him.

This substitution is also the final general offensive horn, which also means that from now on, Wen Zhihao will begin to take over the ball distribution and offensive organization of the Chinese team.

The Chinese team and the Spanish team showed completely different styles of play in the following games. The Chinese team had to race against time, so Wen Zhihao tried to speed up the pace of the attack and reduce meaningless crosses and returns. Seize every minute and extend the attack as far as possible into the heart of the Spanish team's penalty area.

Julen Lopetegui kept pressing down with both hands to instruct his players to increase possession and slow down the tempo, while Iniesta, the master of possession, was still on the field, and the slower the tempo, the more he could use his experience and game reading skills.

And as long as Iniesta is on the field, the overall passing control of the Spanish team will show an advantage over the Chinese team. This is not a gap that Wen Zhihao alone can erase. The passing ability of other players in the Chinese team is still very far behind the opponent. When it comes to a team like Belgium that pursues offensive efficiency, the performance is not so obvious, but compared to Spain's overall passing and control, it is immediately superior.

The Spanish team obviously learned the lessons of the previous Chinese opponents, and in the last 20 minutes, the overall formation was high-pressure to the front, limiting the rapid advance of the Chinese team, and as long as the Chinese team passed the midfield, the opponent did not hesitate to use physical contact to end the Chinese team's attack at the first time, so that the Chinese team's offensive away from their penalty area.

The Chinese team's attack is difficult, Wen Zhihao tried to shoot with ultra-long-distance set-pieces several times, but the distance between the opponent's foul site and the goal was far more than 40 meters, and it was already outside Wen Zhihao's limit shooting distance.

In the final stage of the game, the Kaliningrad Stadium once again resounded with the exciting song "Singing the Motherland", and the fans hoped to make the players on the field feel empowered with the loud singing.

But in the end, it is a pity that when the Egyptian referee Grisha blew the final whistle, the live scoreboard showed that the score between the two sides was still fixed at 1:2, with the Chinese team in front and Spain in the back.

The Kaliningrad Stadium was instantly quiet, and every Chinese fan had a sense of loss written on their faces.

It's still a little bit worse after all! There is only one step left to participate in the final competition.

However, no one blames the players of the Chinese team, they have really done well enough, at least the fans who have experienced this World Cup will remember for the rest of their lives that the national team has had such a stunning moment that shocked the world and made them so proud.

Wen Zhihao, like all his teammates, sat down immediately after the game, watching his opponents celebrate frantically on the field, looking at the disappointed expressions on his teammates' faces, and when he looked up, he saw the breathtaking red color of the Chinese fans around him, and he felt that even if he failed, he should still do something.

Wen Zhihao suddenly stood up and shouted loudly around: "Get up brothers, it's not terrible to lose, at least all the fans will know that we have done our best." Come on, perform our rituals, and walk out here with your head held high. ”

Subsequently, not only the eleven players on the field, but the whole team, twenty-three people, stood in a row hand in hand, and thanked the Chinese fans in the stands around them, but the response of the fans was very special, I don't know where a burst of singing came from, and then in just two or three minutes, it triggered a chorus of the audience, and the name of the song was "Blooming Life".

How many times have I fallen on the road,

How many times have I broken my wings,

Now I don't feel hesitant anymore,

I want to transcend this ordinary life!

I want a blooming life!

It's like flying in the vast sky,

It's like walking through the boundless wilderness,

Have the power to break free from everything!

……

Songs are an emotional interpretation, and this is how the fans responded in the most touching way.

He Wei listened to the singing of the audience, and said: "This is really the best interpretation, the course of the Chinese team in this World Cup is a bloom of life, a new life of breaking out of the cocoon into a butterfly, although our current strength is not enough to reach the peak, dominating the world, but at least from now on, Chinese football will be a new image in the hearts of everyone." The next battle for the third place will be regarded as a big carnival! With no regrets, we have the opportunity to make history and represent Asia on the podium of the World Cup. ”

After the end of the game, the next thing is to exchange jerseys between the players of the two sides, Wen Zhihao chose to exchange jerseys with Iniesta, Iniesta breathed a sigh of relief when he took off the jersey and handed it over, and said: "Finally see you lose once...... You didn't lose to me, though. ”

Wen Zhihao responded with a smile: "Losing is losing, our strength is not as good as yours, we can fight this far, we are already very satisfied." ”

Wen Zhihao was still very polite to Iniesta, a senior, but when Saul came over, Wen Zhihao looked at him with an expression of waiting to see how disappointed he was, so he naturally didn't give him a good face, and said: "You are good this time, but if you wait after four years, if you meet again, we will definitely have to change our positions." ”

Saul smiled: "Unless there are eleven Chinese team members of the same level as you, I'm really not afraid." ”

"Hmph, don't float to the sky so early, if we lose the final, we will be almost half a catty."

Saul smiled and patted Wen Zhihao on the shoulder, of course he could hear that Wen Zhihao was reminding himself to keep a good attitude to meet the finals in disguise.

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In the post-match press conference of this game, the Chinese team, as the losing side, received a rare amount of attention on par with the Spanish team. Lippi said that the players had done their best, and they were only one step away from the final, and although there were regrets, they were even more proud of the team.

Wen Zhihao expressed his determination to fight again in four years: "Failing to qualify for the finals has nothing to do with luck or anything, it can only show that we are not strong enough, but many players in this team are still young, if they can't work hard for another four years, if they can't do it this time, they will continue to work hard for four years, and one day the Chinese team will represent Asia in the World Cup finals, and the ceiling of the strength of Asian teams is the semifinals?" Is the final an insurmountable chasm? I don't believe that. ”

The ambition expressed by Wen Zhihao's words lifted the spirits of the Chinese journalists, who were not in a good mood, and they felt a kind of domineering attitude that lost but did not lose momentum.

After Wen Zhihao's original words at the press conference were reported back to China, they immediately sparked heated discussions among fans.

"This is the belief of the strong, in the face of winning and losing, there should be domineering, which is also the most missing element of the national team in the past. The best thing the Football Association did was not to invite Lippi, but to reopen the door of the national team to Wen Zhihao after experiencing twists and turns, and his joining gave the team a team soul. ”

"Zhihao is fine, we have survived so many years, we can afford to wait. There is another game, let go of the baggage, boldly fight, at least we can catch up with the best result in the history of the stick at worst, and I am satisfied. ”

"The Chinese team in this World Cup is actually quite awesome, and the strength is completely unadvantageous, to put it bluntly, what is the level of the Chinese team's lineup? Lippi's coaching level is king-level, Wen Zhihao belongs to the master level, Liang Xin and Zheng Zhi are between silver and gold, and the rest are a group of bronze teammates. ”

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After the game, the major media used an old-fashioned but appropriate description: although defeated, it is still glorious!

But this time, no one bombarded it, because this is not a deliberate gold paste on the face of the Chinese team by the media, and the performance of the national team really deserves these four words.

Fighting with the Spanish team to the last moment, he almost completed the two-goal disadvantage, and the field was not ugly.

As an official media, Xinhuanet exclusively released an article reviewing this World Cup, summarizing this game, and putting forward future expectations, which can be summed up in six words: pity, respectable, lamentable!

"1:2 defeat to Spain, failed to advance to the finals, from the result, it is a pity, the Chinese team on the field to show technical and tactical literacy is not inferior to the opponent, but this result is also fair, the World Cup final is the real king of the contest, the Chinese team wants to one day be able to stand on the finals, improve their own strength is the last word."

However, after 16 years, the Chinese team is respectable to appear on the World Cup stage again, starting from the group stage, defeating Sweden, drawing with North American powerhouse Mexico and defending champion Germany, and defeating Brazil and Belgium in the knockout round, showing unprecedented confidence. Defeating the strong with the weak, and being so strong and domineering, this has never been seen in the previous Chinese team, only such a national team can truly represent the image of today's China and truly shoulder the expectations of hundreds of millions of fans. ”

At the same time, it should be noted that Chinese football is not short of geniuses, I believe that supernovas like Wen Zhihao and Liang Xin are definitely not the number of pandas in China, and they are just the lucky ones, who have been trained on a high-level stage, and have the opportunity to play for the country. You don't have to think about it to know what an amazing vision of the future it will be. But if there is no down-to-earth youth training infrastructure, then the joy is only for a while, Wen Zhihao and Liang Xin are just two meteors passing through the darkness after all, after a short period of amazement, when looking back in the future, it will only be like we recalled the 02 World Cup in the past, full of happiness in the memory, compared with reality, it is a sigh of regret. ”

Xinhua website at the height of the national media, far-sighted, put forward the Chinese football practitioners should consider the problem, and all this needs time to test, fans are more willing to live in the present, looking forward to the next third place battle The Chinese team can win the third place, drawing a satisfactory end to this legendary World Cup journey.

At the same time the next night, the semi-final between the arch-rivals Germany and Argentina kicked off, a match that attracted more attention around the world than between China and Spain, after all, the two teams have a long history of feuds, and the Chinese media waited for the Chinese team's opponent in the third-place match.