Chapter Seventy-Four: Silva Pretending to Fail

Zhang Hong finished dinner early, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and sat on the sofa. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoToday is February 12, the seven-day Spring Festival holiday has ended, while Valentine's Day is two days later and Lantern Festival is three days later. For most people, it's an ordinary Wednesday. But for the fans, it was an important day they had been waiting for.

After many frictions with the Football Association, Zhang Shu, who returned from Brescia, will play for the national team for the first time today. The player squad has been announced a day in advance, and Zhang Shu is among them, and with his strength, no one will doubt that he will not be able to start.

Since the Chinese team was defeated 4-0 by Brazil in the 02 World Cup, they once again ushered in the new world champion. Although the fans were heartbroken by the national football team again and again, when there was a national football game, these cute and poor Chinese fans still sat in front of the TV on time. They always believe that the next national football team will bring them a little different surprise.

"CCTV, CCTV, good evening to the audience, here is the warm-up match between the Chinese team and the Brazilian team brought to you by Huang * Jian* Xiang and Zhang Lu Zhang." The familiar voice of Huang Jian* Xiang came from the TV

"Good evening, audience friends." Zhang Lu also said hello to the audience.

"Now the starting lists of the two teams have come out, and the young player Zhang Shu, who has been concerned by fans and friends, will make his debut today."

"Good!" Hearing Huang Jian's words, although he had already prepared, Zhang Hong still raised his arm and clenched his fist.

"Today, the Chinese team discharged a defensive 451 formation, goalkeeper No. 1 Liu Yunfei, defender No. 3 Yang Pu, No. 5 Zheng Zhi, No. 14 Li Weifeng, No. 7 Sun Hai; Back No. 15 Xiao Zhao, No. 8 Li Gang, right forward No. 18 Li Xiaopeng, left forward No. 23 Zhang Shu; No. 19 Qi Hong in the front waist; The single striker is No. 24 Li Yi. ā€

"Today, Zhang Shu was placed in the position of left forward, what do you think of Zhang's guidance?" Huang Jianxiang asked.

"Zhang Shu doesn't seem to have played in this position before, but he should have practiced this position in Brescia training, otherwise Alihan wouldn't have suddenly let him move on the wing. Judging from his technical characteristics, his passing and crossing ability is still there, but today Alihan put him on the left, and it may be a little troublesome for Zhang Shu, who is used to using his right foot, to cross, I don't know if the coach has any special arrangements. Zhang Lu analyzed.

Zhang Shu has indeed practiced the position of left midfielder, but in the capacity of "shadow striker". After a few weeks of training in Mazzoni, he is now no longer averse to playing on the wing, so he quietly accepts the manager's position in the position.

Anyway, I'm on the field, can you still stop me when I'm going to the middle lane? Zhang Shu thought so in his heart.

At this time, Huang * Jian* Xiang suddenly interrupted Director Zhang's analysis, "Okay, the game has started, let's take a look at this ball first." ā€

As a commercial match, the Brazilian team is still very worthy of the dollars paid by the sponsors, at least in terms of the lineup, Da Luo, Xiao Luo, Rivaldo, Dida, Cafu, Roberto. Carlos, Gilberto Silva, Ze Roberto, the starting line-up put almost all of the '02 World Cup winners' squad on the field.

But it was a commercial game after all, and the players of the Brazilian team would never see this match as important as the World Cup. They arrived in China only two days before the race and did little training. The trip to China was more of a trip for the new world champions, and reporters even found cigarette cases and empty bottles in Ronaldo's room after they left the hotel at noon. It seems that the superstars of the Brazilian team also threw a party on the eve of the game.

And this contemptuous attitude towards the Chinese team was also reflected in the game, after the game started, the Chinese team quickly lost the ball, and the Brazilian team did not waste energy to organize the attack, but directly passed the ball to Xiao Luo, let him alone to fight the Chinese team's backline.

In the end, Xiao Luo's shot after passing three people on the right was blocked by the Chinese defender, and the subsequent corner kick was also grabbed by Brazil, and Ronaldo's header at the back post was deflected wide.

It turns out that even if the Brazilian team does not take it seriously, they are still capable of suppressing the Chinese team in the half.

Zhang Shu stood in the left midfielder position and watched as Brazil laid siege to the Chinese team's goal. There was nothing he could do about all this, and even if he went back to help defend, it didn't do much, so he stayed near the halfway line and waited for an opportunity to counter-attack.

That's 40 minutes.

Fortunately, perhaps because Brazil were too relaxed, although they occupied 90% of the possession time and had a whopping 13 shots on goal, they were still slow to knock on China's door until half-time.

Towards the end of the first half, Brazil finally slowed down their attack.

For Brazil's big-name players, the business game is coming to an end. Since this game is not an official game, both sides have six substitutions each, and it is predictable that a superstar like Ronaldo will definitely be substituted in the second half.

It's a bit of a shame that we couldn't take the lead in the first half, but who cares, shopping and making money is the main purpose of coming here, isn't it?

The absent-minded Gilberto Silva faced the Chinese team's big kick clearance and decided to please the fans with a fancy stop. Since you have received money from others, you have to let other people's fans enjoy it. The Chinese fans at the scene of this game did not hesitate to applaud and cheer, especially when superstars such as Da Luo and Xiao Luo got the ball, they received more cheers than the Chinese team players.

Anyway, this is the backcourt of the Brazilian team, and the nearest Chinese player is far away from him.

The ball bounced off the air and fell again, but Silva lifted it up with his shoulder, and then he kept flipping the ball up with his shoulder and slowly ran forward.

Maybe it was because he drank too much beer with Ronaldo last night and couldn't run two steps before he lost control of the ball, which slid down his shoulder and fell to the ground.

"Beep~~~~~~" The referee's whistle sounded. The ball fell against Silva's arm as he ran, and although it was not a serious foul, the Chinese referee on duty awarded a 28-meter free kick.

Brazil didn't pay much attention to the somewhat far-fetched decision, Silva smiled and waved at the referee before backing up, and Carlos ran up from the side and sneered at him, making Kleberson, who was standing next to him, laugh.

The entire Brazilian team was immersed in the joy of mocking Silva for pretending to fail.