Chapter 16: 2:2 or 3:1
The stars go to the holes, the coaches shoot advertisements, the black whistle files the case, the newspaper sales are bullish, the bold talk of entering the quarterfinals, the longing of beating the "Brazilian Reservoir Dogs", and the World Cup goal of scoring a goal, winning a game, and getting three points...... In short, it's a season that makes people's hearts float. There is a frenzy slowly growing in people's hearts, and the approach of the World Cup has made everyone start to get restless.
In this environment, on May 18, the campus of Dalian University in northern China welcomed 15 colleges and universities from all over the country, where they will compete for 10 days to determine the championship of the National Collegiate Football League from 200 to 2002.
Zhang Jun took a can of iced tea in front of the vending machine, and when he heard a commotion not far away, he looked over, but saw a very familiar tall figure.
Journalists gathered around him and were asking him questions. He was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and voluminous shorts, and it appeared that he had been caught by reporters as he came down to hang out.
Li Yongle tilted his head and was stunned for a moment, because he also saw Zhang Jun wearing a peaked cap with iced tea in his hand, Zhang Jun smiled at him, and said hello.
"Li Yongle, R University lost the championship last year, what is your goal this year?"
Li Yongle still just tilted his head to look at Zhang Jun, and said word by word: "I don't know what happened last year, but this year's champion must be our R!" ”
"Is this a challenge for you?" After the reporters left, Zhang Jun and Li Yongle found an inconspicuous corner and sat down. Zhang Jun threw a jar of iced tea to Li Yongle.
"Bang!" Li Yongle opened the pull ring of the can, and rushed to the second place in a puff of anger. "The high school league is really out of touch with the college league...... No one even recognized the national number one scorer in high school, hehe! ”
Zhang Jun raised the brim of his hat that was lowered: "Those who played well were poached by the professional team, and after graduation, we are the only ones who are still in college, and you are in the capital of Yanjing, so you are naturally attracting attention." But that's fine, it's so unfun to be eye-catching as soon as you come up, I'm going to surprise them! Zhang Jun said as he looked at the crowd of people coming and going in the hall.
"Is Sophie okay?"
Zhang Junliang showed his left wrist, with Sophie's newly knitted bracelet before leaving.
Li Yongle looked at it carefully: "Tsk! In addition to envy or envy! We haven't been lifted out of poverty yet, you're already well-off! ”
"It's strange, you're so tall and handsome, you don't have a girlfriend?"
"Hey! Before I defeat you, I don't think about the love of children ......"
"Huh? In the three years of high school, you haven't lost a game between us, and it seems like a tie every time......"
"But I didn't win either!"
"Oooh! Well, I'll lose to you this time, so let's get a girlfriend, right? Ha! Zhang Jun joked.
"No way!" Unexpectedly, Li Yongle suddenly raised his voice, causing the people around him to look this way, Li Yongle lowered his voice and said: "I want you to do your best, and then I will do my best, so it's fun to defeat you!" ”
Zhang Jun looked at Li Yongle's serious eyes, and remembered the smile after seeing Ren Yudi being seen through by Li Yongle during the Spring Festival - the helplessness of giving up football, the pain that his body couldn't bear, and the unwillingness to leave nine times...... "He is fighting today with tomorrow." As Ren Yudi's teammate for three years, what he didn't see made an opponent say a word. Similarly, as an opponent of Lee Yongle, he seems to have little regard for his opponent's feelings. Such an opponent is not as simple as "trying to defeat you", right?
Zhang Jun drank the iced tea in the jar, stood up, and looked at Li Yongle.
"Have you read the schedule? After qualifying from the group, we will meet in the semi-finals with just one game. Let me start by saying that our goal this year is also a national victory! ”
Li Yongle smiled: "If I lose, I will win the national championship on my behalf." If you lose, so do I! ”
This is a football game of college students themselves, and it is also a battlefield between two people.
As the runner-up of the last year, the champion of the North Zone Finals, and the number one favorite to win the championship, R University won all three games in the group stage, scoring 15 goals and conceding only two goals, and took the lead in qualifying from the group stage. Lee Yongle shines every game, and he shows people the concept of "all-round midfield". Due to his outstanding performance in the qualifiers, he has attracted the attention of his opponents, so in order to hit the opponent more effectively, Bai Hongfei did not fix Li Yongle in his original position as a back midfielder, but let him move freely, giving full play to his good physical fitness, steady defense, accurate passing, and decisive attack. Therefore, his shadow is in the penalty area of the side and the penalty area of the opponent, almost everywhere in the field, and he is really a "free man", and Bai Hongfei has also officially established Li Yongle's core position, requiring the offense and defense to revolve around him. It stands to reason that as long as you look at the core figures, R University will not work, but judging from Li Yongle's average run of 13 kilometers per game, which is an astonishing record among college students, no one who can keep up with his opponents has not yet been born.
If it is said that R University has such a good performance because they are a traditional powerhouse, it is not news. Then the performance of U University, which reached the national finals for the first time, can be called a "sensational explosion".
In the first group stage, facing C University from the Western Region, Zhang Jun gave the team that vowed to win the championship a blow at the beginning. In the 5th minute, he received Zhu Hui's wonderful pass in the penalty area, ran out of space, and then kicked the goal, and the football pierced the crotch of the goalkeeper who was caught off guard, leading 1:0!
Just when many people thought that the goal was a fluke, Yang Pan then completely shattered the hope of a big equalizer with a powerful heavy cannon from 25 meters away. The goal that silenced the entire stadium came in the 35th minute of the first half, and when the goal was scored, the goalkeeper stood still and did not say anything. 2:0! U Big extended its lead.
In the second half, the U University still penetrated the ball in the middle, and the offensive football of the side flew Qi Fei to suppress the opponent's breath. In the 67th minute, Zhang Jun once again showed his killer nature, he received a cross after Yang Pan's breakthrough at the front point, a powerful header, pulled the knife out of the sheath, the cold light flashed, and the football went into the net. 3:0! Zhang Jun scored twice, a very typical Zhang Yang-style cooperation.
The score of 3:0 made many viewers excited, but everything was not over, Zhang Jun continued his performance, in the 73rd minute, it was Yang Pan who forced a breakthrough on the right side by speed and crossed vigorously, the ball flew to the back point, Zhang Fan, who seemed to be ignored, jumped high in the crowd, just when the goalkeeper thought he was going to attack the goal, he pointed the ball to the middle, Zhu Hui was very clever and missed, Zhang Jun entered, he pulled a strong volley full of bows, and hit the ball into the near upper corner of the goal, all the C big players could only look at the ball around him and sigh. 4:0! Zhang Jun completed his first hat trick in this year's national finals!
In the remaining time, C University completely collapsed, and Zhang Fan scored his first goal in the national finals in the 80th minute. His "half-striker and half-back" man is quite unusual on the field, but he is very practical, an assist, a goal, it is perfect.
In stoppage time, U University had a chance to expand the score, but Yang Pan's shot on the corner of the penalty area was shot by the goalkeeper who was desperate, and the captain Xie Yun, who followed the supplementary shot, shot the ball wide.
However, the big score of 5:0 is enough to make any U big player happy for a long time, and he was rated as a dark horse in this competition before the game, and U big also lived up to expectations, showing people what is the "true color of a dark horse": a black to the end, black thoroughly.
In the next two group games, Zhao Yujun replaced Zhang Jun and several other main players in the second half, and let the substitutes come on the field to exercise. Even so, they still beat their opponents every game, from 4:0 to 7:2, and some people exclaimed, "U is crazy!" "They have also become favourites and no one dares to underestimate this fledgling team anymore.
Winning all three games, scoring 16 goals and conceding 2, U University advanced from Group D with their heads held high, and their limelight even overshadowed the number one favorite to win the championship. But Zhao Yu was not fluttering because of a little achievement, as early as before qualifying, he saw from the schedule that General R was the biggest stumbling block on his team's way to winning the championship. Both teams are top of their group, so the two teams will definitely meet in the semi-finals according to the rules of A1 vs D2, A2 vs D1, B1 vs C2 and B2 vs C1. Therefore, from the very beginning, he paid attention to collecting a lot of information. The most prominent player in R University is naturally the core of their midfield, No. 10 Li Yongle in the first year. Zhao Yu knew when he studied the past of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan that this Li Yongle was the person who opposed Zhang Jun in high school, and he fought against Zhang and Yang for three years on his own, and his strength was naturally not to be underestimated. In particular, the coach of R University has played Li Yongle's role to the extreme, many teams want to contain him, but they have not succeeded, and U University is originally a team that is stronger in attack than defense, can he succeed?
When Zhao Yu was still worried about how to contain Li Yongle, Zhang Jun and Yang Pan were the two generals in the team, but they were in a small restaurant with the core figures of the opponent, drinking and talking.
"I heard that your kid has been rampant lately! One hat-trick, two braces, and currently ranked first in the scorer list! Li Yongle looked serious, "So, you have paid for today's meal!" ”
"Come on!" Zhang Jun waved his hand, "Our coach has been studying you frantically since the first group game, thinking about how to curb your pervert!" So you're in for a treat for this meal! Our coach claims to be invincible in the Eastern Conference, and you're the only one who makes him so nerve-wracking, what an honor! ”
"Nope! No! If we switch around, the coach you're talking about is also going to worry about how to contain you, and you're not right. You'd better pay for it! ”
"Where! Even if we make a move, the coach of the R major will have to worry about how to stop you. So, no matter where you go, the end is the same: pay the bills! We finally had half a day off in the afternoon, and it was not worth spending here, right, Yang Pan? ”
Yang Pan sat by the window, slowly sucking the juice in the cup, by the way listening to the-for-tat confrontation of these two "sworn enemies" to relieve his boredom, heard Zhang Jun call him, glanced at the two of them, and thought to himself that fortunately they did not come out in the representative uniforms of their respective schools, otherwise the fastest news to circulate in D tomorrow must be: "R big core and U big ace tablet had a 35 yuan lunch payment problem and fought hard, and finally alarmed 110, and the 110 patrol police who reacted quickly arrived in time to stop the fight, and Jiang and the two took it back to the police station ...... "Yunyun."
He moved his gaze to the sunny street outside the window, there are so many beautiful women in Dalian......
"Huh? It's weird. Yang Pan said, "In the past, as long as someone was present, the two of you were always competing to pay the bill, what happened today?" ”
In the end, the meal was still AA system, and some people resolutely disagreed with the AA system before the meal, thinking that friends had not seen each other for a long time, and the AA system seemed too emotionless. But when I finally paid the bill, I was eager to count all the n digits after the decimal point obtained by dividing 35 by 3 to show that I was not taking advantage of the slightest advantage. The two very contradictory words of "AA hurts feelings" and "brothers settle accounts" have become so harmonious and perfect in someone's mouth.
The three of them walked on the streets near D University, and they had been in Dalian for several days, and they were busy with competitions and training every day, and they didn't have much time to go out, so the three people who were not familiar with Dalian could only circle around D University, and it seemed that they would get lost if they took one more step.
The trio's conversation was largely focused on the semi-finals in a few days' time, although they all faced a quarter-final to come.
"Seriously, you said that your coach has been trying to stop us, have you come up with any way?" Li Yongle asked the two.
"Nope." Both shook their heads at the same time.
"Oh?" Li Yongle raised his eyebrows, "I'm not that difficult to deal with, right?" So what do you have to do? ”
"Nope." Shaking his head at the same time.
"If you think about it, we never seem to have thought about how to stop you in the past three years!" Zhang Jun looked at the blue sky.
Yang Pan continued: "And we also defeated you with a total score of 2:1......"
Li Yongle shook his head: "Correct, it's not a victory, it's a temporary lead!" ”
"Death to save face!" Yang Pan muttered in his heart.
"In this national finals, I will draw the score at 2:2, wait and see!" Li Yongle said with confidence.
"Dreaming!" It was Zhang Jun and Yang Pan who answered him in unison.
"Hey, hey! You two...... No wonder it's so tacit! Li Yongle smiled helplessly.
"Correct, it should be us to expand the score and score a hat-trick!" Yang Pan hit back at Li Yong's previous sentence.
"Haha!" Li Yong smiled and said: "I think it's completely pointless for us to talk nonsense here, it's useless to say anything now, everything can only be known when we are on the field." ”
"That's right, football is played with the feet, not by the mouth."
"Then we'll talk with our feet, shall we?"
This time, the three came to a consensus, and they began to look forward to the semi-final in three days' time.
Is it 2:2 or 3:1?
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