Although it had been expected, after clearly eliminating Italy to reach the semi-finals, the players of Lu Hai and the Chinese team still rushed into the field with cheers.

Huang Jianxiang excitedly announced over and over again in his hoarse voice that the Chinese team had entered the semi-finals of the World Cup. In fact, few people in front of the audience in front of domestic TV are listening to him, and in this season, it is almost 6 o'clock in the morning, and the sky is already bright. It's Saturday, and the older ones are trying to get some sleep, and the younger ones are already calling to get some friends and find a place to play football together. In the past half a month, there have been more young people looking for empty space to play football.

The soccer balls in the sporting goods store have been sold out of stock several times, along with the Chinese team's uniforms. The most sold at the beginning was Zhang Yi's No. 9, and later Yang Jie's No. 2 and Lei Heng's No. 8 sales also began to rise. From a set of 10 yuan on the stall to more than 200 genuine products in the sporting goods store, the No. 9 and No. 2 ones will be sold out quickly, and the No. 8 ones are a little slower, but they are not worried about not being sold out. After this game, it is estimated that the goalkeeper uniform of the No. 1 Chinese team will also sell well. On the streets, especially in places where there are many young people, there is often a large scene of white and red uniforms of the Chinese team.

There are also many girls who are also buying Chinese team uniforms, they basically pick up No. 9 and No. 2 to buy, after all, this is still a world of faces. The star-chasing family has already changed the object of star-chasing, the tall and handsome Zhang Yi and Yang Jie, who are more beautiful than most women, have successfully entered the national idol in the past half a month. In particular, Zhang Yi, who has a degree from the Department of Mathematics of BD, has been forcibly evolved into a "child of someone else" by countless Chinese parents.

The game ended at 6 o'clock in the morning, and the newspaper at 8 o'clock in the morning already had the news that the Chinese team was fighting Italy and reaching the semi-finals. "Sports Daily" chose Buffon and Lei Heng lying on the ground side by side with four eyes staring at the Italian goal, in the photo Lei Heng's eyes are full of expectation, Buffon's face is full of despair, which is the capture of the Chinese team when it scores. Non-sports newspapers mostly use photos of Zhang Yi or Yang Jie.

One thing that is common is that all the media are silent about the final scene of the penalty kick in the early hours of this morning, as if it hadn't happened.

But on the Internet, after the Chinese team entered the semi-finals for a while, there were hardly many people discussing it, and everyone was talking about the "fighting method" at the last moment. Although at the post-match press conference, Lu Hai told reporters: "This is just a way for the players to seek psychological comfort under great pressure and be able to play their strength normally, and it does not involve the issue of religion and belief." ”

But Lu Hai stroked Lei Heng's head and feet, stroked Xu Yunlong's head, Nesta and Buffon prayed, and Lei Heng knelt down at the penalty spot screenshots quickly filled the Internet.

But from 9:00, the major forums began to clean up all posts related to this topic, and the traces on the Internet were quickly cleaned up, but the impression was left in the psychology of many netizens: "Land and sea have mana".

Back at the hotel, Lu Hai received a call from Yan Shiduo. Yan Shiduo waited for the person he was waiting for, and there were a few questions over there that asked him to communicate with Lu Hai.

"Xiao Lu, is there any possibility for the Chinese team to go further?" Yan Shiduo saw Yang Jie's red card, but he also saw that the Chinese team could still drag Italy to a penalty shootout under such difficult conditions and win the final victory. Based on his current superstition about Lu Hai, he believes that the Chinese team still has hope of reaching the finals.

"It's impossible, it's okay to say that others are absent, but Yang Jie and Zhang Yi can't go up, this loss is too great. It is basically impossible for the Chinese team to pass the German hurdle. "What's more, for the first five opponents, the Chinese team has at least 50 games of experience in the dream simulation game of Lu Hai, but against other opponents, this experience is more than 10 games at most.

"Is there any certainty in the race for third or fourth place? Can you finish third? Yan Shiduo retreated, he couldn't let the elder go to watch a game that he couldn't win.

"Boss Yan, you have been in charge of the Football Association for 6 years, in the knockout rounds of the World Cup, especially in the semi-finals, when have you ever seen a game that must be won?" Lu Hai was very strange how Yan Shiduo could ask such an amateur question.

Yan Shiduo had to explain this matter, Lu Hai pondered for a long time after hearing it, and he also knew the benefits of having a big leader watching the game on the spot for the development of Chinese football. But the Chinese team, which lacks soldiers and major generals, basically has no chance of winning against the German team, and can lose by a small score, even if it saves face. The Germans are at home again, so that the big leader Baba rushed to Germany, in front of the whole world, to witness the Chinese team's loss to Germany?

Then the big leaders can only watch the competition for the third or fourth place. But what this Chinese team is most afraid of is a team with good individual skills, in this Portuguese team there are C-Ronaldo, Pauletta, Deco, although Figo is old, but it is not a rough buddy of the Chinese team that can resist casually. But the good thing is that these world powerhouses don't really care whether they finish third or fourth in the World Cup, and even in their opinion, the third and fourth place matches are not in time for a group stage. Unless there is also a host in this match.

"You can watch the race for third place." Lu Hai finally made a decision, and he had to give up the semi-final match against Germany, and contribute the dream simulation game before the third or fourth place to Portugal. Lu Haijue's own pity for the players, in the previous 5 games, only the night before the game, he used the excuse of keeping the players to maintain their strength, separated the main players and their female companions, and then let them enter the dream simulation again. This time, from tomorrow night, the players will have to be separated from their female partners until the third or fourth place final.

After talking about this issue, Yan Shiduo asked about "feudal superstition", under the huge pressure of the competition, there are many people among the athletes who believe in this. However, the government's attitude towards this is basically to ignore it, not to ask, and not to publicize it. The people around the elder also hinted at Yan Shiduo in their words, this is just a routine question, as long as Lu Hai shows that he "will not do this in the national team, and even can do it but don't make it public". China's leaders are still very reliable in IQ, and they know that this kind of thing is endless. As long as the grades are good, you can open one eye and close one eye to these things.

Lu Hai also knows this, and guarantees that it is just the personal behavior of the athletes, and these two athletes usually don't believe this, just relieving under great pressure. After all, it is impossible for a person who prays to Guanyin Bodhisattva and Taishang Laojun at the same time to be a devout believer.