On June 30, at 21:00 German summer time and 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 1, the quarterfinals of the Chinese team and the Italian team started at the AOL Stadium in Hamburg.

Lippi used a 4411 formation and the players on the pitch were:

Goalkeepers: 1, Buffon

Defenders (left to right): No. 3 Grosso, No. 5 Cannavaro, No. 13 Nesta, 14, Zambrotta

Midfielders (left to right): No. 20 Perrotta, No. 21 Andrea Pirlo, No. 8 Gattuso, No. 16 Camoranesi

Shadow Striker: No. 10 Totti

Striker: Tony

Lu Hai used an unprecedented three-back formation in this game. The lineup of the Chinese team is:

Goalkeeper: No. 1 Li Kui

Defenders (left to right): No. 3 Sun Xiang, No. 2 Yang Jie, No. 9 Zhang Yi, No. 7 Hao Junmin

Back (left to right): No. 13 Zhang Yaokun, No. 3 Zheng Zhi, No. 6 Zhao Xuri

Avant-garde (left to right): No. 20 Shao Jiayi, No. 5 Zhou Haibin

Striker: No. 8 Lei Heng

On the bench were: No. 16 Hou Jian, No. 17 Xu Yunlong, No. 15 Zhang Xiong, No. 4 Feng Xiaoting and No. 11 Li Jinyu.

The main reason for Lu Hai to use Zhang Yaokun is for Totti's injury, Lu Hai told Zhang Yaokun to let him harass Totti from time to time in addition to defense, Totti's style is actually not in tune with this Italian team, and Totti is the prince of Rome, in this phonegate incident, Roma is the vanguard of Juventus, AC Milan and Lazio. Totti was one of the isolated ones in the Italian team, but Roma were gaining momentum because of the phonegate, and Lippi had to use Totti as well. Lu Hai wants to pry a hole from the inside of the Italian team, and Totti is the best target. Moreover, Totti is arrogant, short-tempered, and isolated in the Italian team, so he may not be able to endure the small tricks that Zhang Yaokun learned from Lu Hai. Lu Hai didn't want to hurt Totti and replace Piero on the field, but if he could get Totti's red card off, he would still be happy.

Of course, this is just a means for Lu Hai to be helpless, and Lu Hai does not expect such a method to definitely work.

At the beginning of the game, the Chinese team retracted into the half, and Italy easily won possession. However, the attacking method in positional warfare is not Italy's forte, and their best positional attacking method is only the bottom cross, and the most effective attacking method for Italy is the set-piece tactic. For the Chinese team, the referee is the key.

Originally, the match was Ukraine vs. Italy, and the three referees were all from Belgium. Now that the match has been replaced by the Chinese team and the Italian team, European referees cannot be used, so the referee for this match is from Mexico.

In the opening ten-minute competition, due to the Chinese team's familiarity with the Italians, the Italians did not take any advantage. But the referee's performance made Lu Hai's heart sink, and the referee's whistle was tight, and it was biased towards Italy. These were all expected by Lu Hai, but they still made him feel uncomfortable.

Referees are human beings and are not only made mistakes, but also influenced by various aspects. In the World Cup, FIFA pursues fairness and protects star players in terms of penalties, so the penalty scale is very tight.

In the most commercialized English league, in order to ensure the consistency of the game, the referee's penalty scale is the loosest, and the Premier League has become the most fierce and fast-paced league. Therefore, when the England team arrives at the World Series and encounters the whistle of the World Cup and the European Cup, the players are often very uncomfortable, which is one of the reasons why the England team's results in major competitions are often poor. The Italian team, which was originally defense-oriented, was the victim of the World Cup penalty scale, but in this game, the defensive team became the Chinese team, and the victim changed.

The most important thing is that Italy is one of the strongest teams in the history of the World Cup, and in the hearts of people all over the world, including referees, it is normal and logical for Italy to win against the Chinese team, and it is abnormal and illogical for the Chinese team to win against Italy. The referee will unconsciously carry out the "normal" logical decision in his mind.

Teams with no history are naturally discriminated against by referees at the World Cup, and to solve such problems, there must be other factors to counter such natural discrimination. Therefore, in the history of the World Cup, among the teams that won the championship, Uruguay, Italy, England, Argentina, and France won the first championship on their home soil.

Germany, Brazil, and Spain also have their own reasons, in 54, when Germany won the first World Cup, the World Cup was held in Switzerland, and the runner-up was Hungary, which made world football even more unfamiliar, and the Germans poured into neighboring countries, turning every game that Germany participated in into a home stadium. Led by Pele in '58, Brazil, with Zagallo, Garrincha and others, was really not something that any team could resist at the time. Spain in 2010 won the European Championship in 08, and Barcelona's Tiki-Taka swept Europe and shocked the world. Spain, with seven Barcelona players, are naturally considered favourites to win the title. That's it, before the World Cup in South Africa, the Spanish Football Association was still crazy about doing the "work" of the World Cup Organizing Committee, and in the end, the 2010 World Cup became the most stringent law enforcement scale, and the Spanish team with the best technology also benefited from it.

In the 08 Olympic championship plan discussed by Lu Hai and Yan Shiduo, the selection of referees with relatively loose law enforcement has become an important part of the planning part. Of course, what is even more shameless is to learn from the Koreans - to buy referees.

In the group stage, this trend is not obvious, in the knockout round, and Ukraine, although Ukraine has the long-established Shepchenko, but the Ukrainians lost 0:4 to Spain in the group stage, and the Chinese team drew 2:2 with France, slightly changing the views of some referees, and the penalty is relatively fair. But in this game, this unspoken rule came out, and Lu Hai and the Chinese team were helpless about it.

This is also one of the obstacles for Lu Hai to complete the task given to him by the gods.

Around 20 minutes, with the familiarity with the Chinese team, the Italians' offensive became fierce. In the 22nd minute, Grosso squeezed away Zhao Xuri's header, the football was lifted off the crossbar by Li Kui, and the Italian team took a corner kick. Zambrotta's corner kick was pushed out of the box by Zhang Yi, Pirlo won the ball and shot angrily, and Li Kui knocked the ball out of the box with both fists. Gattuso grabbed the ball in front of Zheng Zhi and passed diagonally to Pirlo, Pirlo faced Zhang Yaokun who pounced, did not choose to receive the ball, the ball passed through Pirlo's legs and was picked up by Camoranesi, who was following him. Camoranesi passed Sun Xiang, the ball was a little big, and was grabbed by Yang Jie, Yang Jie didn't dare to open a long pass, he was followed by Totti, Yang Jie made a short pass to Zhou Haibin, Zhou Haibin received the ball and turned around, and the ball was broken by Gattuso.

The Roman prince was actually in charge of guarding Yang Jie during the attack, which no one in the Chinese team expected. Lu Hai had no choice but to let Zhang Yaokun harass Pirlo, but he didn't expect it to really make the Italians' attack sluggish. Lu Hai was not a die-hard fan in the previous life, and he did not know that in 2010, during the Champions League, Manchester United and AC Milan, Park Ji-sung successfully harassed Pirlo. Although Zhang Yaokun's skills are not as good as Park Ji-sung, after Lu Hai's devil training, Zhang Yaokun's running ability and physique surpass Park Ji-sung.