Chapter 46: The Door God
Whether the national team has the strength to play in the World Cup, Zhang Guan is very clear. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Only 32 teams can participate in the World Cup, and if they do qualify by power rankings, no team in Asia will make it to the World Cup. Fortunately, the World Cup selection system will take care of all continents, so only countries in Asia and Africa can enter the World Cup finals.
For Asian countries, even if they enter the World Cup, they often go home after playing three games in the group stage, and few can enter the knockout stage, which is still the top strong team in Asia. The strength of the Chinese team can only be regarded as midstream in Asia, and to be honest, it does not have the level to play in the World Cup at all.
Although the current Chinese team is lucky to enter the World Cup, it is impossible to go further in the World Cup. Judging from the grouping, the Chinese team may have a chance to defeat Nigeria, but it is basically impossible to defeat an old European team like Poland, let alone the world's top Brazilian team.
With the strength of the Brazilian team, it is normal to kick casually, play a 4-0 or 5-0 game against the Chinese team, and if the Brazilian team gets serious and plays a 10-0 game against China, no one will be surprised. And Zhang Guan is no matter how good he is at playing forward, and he can complete a hat trick on the head of the Brazilian team, which is considered to be at the limit level. If calculated in this way, with a score of 10 to 3, China is still a fiasco.
Moreover, on the stage of the World Cup, there are many teams at the same level as Brazil, and even if other teams are not as sharp as Brazil, their strength is far superior to that of the Chinese team.
Zhang Guan appeared in the forward position and could easily crush the back line of Asian teams, but in the face of world-class teams, Zhang Guan's speed of scoring alone was far less than the speed at which the Chinese team's backline conceded goals.
In football, every position is important, but the one that can determine the outcome of a game is undoubtedly the goalkeeper.
If you play as a striker, although it is the easiest to score goals, there is a premise that the opponent needs to pass the ball to him, even if it is Messi, no one passes the ball to him, it is in vain. On the Asian stage, Zhang Guan can also receive passes from his teammates, but on the stage of the World Cup, Zhang Guan does not dare to guarantee this, maybe the Chinese team will not even have many opportunities to get the ball.
But the goalkeeper is different, the goalkeeper does not need the strategy of his teammates, and the second does not need to be integrated into the tactical cooperation, a super goalkeeper is enough to affect the trend of the whole game. In the final analysis, winning or losing in football games is to see more goals, even if it is crushing the strength, but in the end it is impossible to convert the advantage into a goal, and it is just useless, and the goalkeeper is the one who can turn all the advantages into useless work.
Not conceding a goal in the World Cup, this is Zhang Guan's goal for himself. This goal is not a fantasy, Kahn, Buffon, Casillas and other world-class goalkeepers have all failed to concede a goal in consecutive World Cup games.
The news of Zhang Guan's change to playing goalkeeper is still under secrecy, and it was not until before the World Cup that the national football team announced the list that people found out that Zhang Guan's name appeared in the goalkeeper's position.
"Really? Zhang Guan has changed to playing goalkeeper! The news has once again caused a stir in China.
In fact, many goalkeepers are born as strikers. Strikers are often tall and strong, explosive, fast, and quick to react, which is the same as the requirements of goalkeepers, and strikers are the best at scoring goals.
However, Zhang Guan, as the sharpest knife in the national team's attack, wants to play goalkeeper instead, but many people can't understand that everyone is still talking about how many goals Zhang Guan can score in the World Cup, but as soon as the news came out, they were all dumb.
"Zhang Guan actually went to be a goalkeeper, I thought that our Chinese team could break the World Cup goal drought, but it looks like it's out of play!"
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On June 17, 2018, Group E ushered in the first round of competition, at the Rostov-on-Don Stadium, the Chinese team faced the world's top Brazilian team in the first game!
Brazil's atmosphere inside seemed relaxed, and they didn't even make any tactical preparations against the Chinese team. The head coach of the Brazilian team also did not make tactical arrangements, he felt that against an Asian team, there was no need to arrange any tactics at all, and the players could just play freely.
In the player tunnel, Neymar looked at the Chinese team players standing in a row next to him, except for Zhang Guan, he didn't know anyone, but Paulinho, who was chatting with several Chinese team players.
"Zhang Guan is the goalkeeper. There was news that he was a striker, how did he become a goalkeeper? Neymar pouted indifferently, and Neymar felt that no matter who the opponent's goalkeeper was, he was capable of scoring the ball.
"Aim to score three or four goals in the first half, and you can probably be replaced in the second half, so you can clock in early and go to the nearby nightclub to see if there are any beautiful Russian chicks!" Neymar thought silently.
Russia is closer to China, so there are a lot of Chinese spectators who have already gathered, waving national flags, and turning half of the audience into a sea of red.
As for the audience from Brazil, there are not many viewers, after all, the distance from Brazil to Russia is still very long. But the Brazilian team is a star-studded team after all, and many Russian viewers know the stars of the Brazilian team, and they have become fans of the Brazilian team, cheering for the Brazilian team, but after all, it is not a team from their own country, and the momentum of the Russian audience is obviously not as good as that of the Chinese audience.
Among the 11 players in the starting line of the Chinese team, there is not a serious striker, but a forward midfielder, and his position is relatively backward, as for the other players, they are even more cowered in their own half. After the Chinese team kicked off, they also kept passing the ball in their own half, and had no intention of attacking.
"The Chinese team has no intention of attacking at all, and is going to defend to the end! Ridiculous, do you think that if you only attack but not defend, you can drag us down? Let you know right away, we have a thousand ways to score goals! Neymar snorted coldly and led the team to press all over the line.
More than ninety percent of the countries in the world hope to draw the game when they meet the Brazilian team, and only a few countries dare to challenge Brazilian football. Even those enthusiastic South American countries will turn into a shrunken turtle when they encounter Brazil, and will not go crazy to attack.
In this kind of group stage, no one intends to score all three points on the Brazilian team, and it has become the best result against the Brazilian team, and the Brazilian opponent has put on an iron bucket formation to defend, but it has become the most normal choice.
For the Brazilian team, breaking the opponent's retrenched defense seems to be commonplace.
I saw that the players of the Brazilian team were very skillful and began to press vigorously, putting pressure on the Chinese team's passing ball, and there was indeed a gap in the strength of the players on both sides, and it didn't take long for the Chinese team's pass to be cut off by the Brazilian team.
As soon as the Brazilian team got the ball, it was a big-footed cross, and Neymar went straight in, obviously not looking at the Chinese team's defenders. However, the Chinese team's defensive system exceeded Neymar's expectations, and the two defenders rushed forward at the same time, forcing Neymar to make a passing mistake one after the other.
Coach Lippi is a coach who pursues the overall operation of the team, and he is also a coach who pays more attention to defense, and can be called a defensive master-level coach. The team under his command tends to be tough defensively, and although sometimes the defense is ugly, the effect is really good.
The Brazilian team basically did not arrange tactical details today, and when it came to the field, it basically relied on the tacit understanding and play of the Brazilian team players themselves, in terms of personal strength, Brazilian players faced Chinese players, and there was no problem with playing two or two, even if there were no details and tactics arranged, it all depended on the personal ability of the stars, and the Chinese team still couldn't raise its head.
Everyone in the Chinese team retreated to their own half to defend, relying on the advantage of being outnumbered, and with some fouls, they actually stopped the Brazilian team's attack in a short time.
This also has something to do with the more casual play of the Brazilian team. For the Brazilian team, it is not a big deal to show a little bit after getting the ball, to indulge a little bit and to lose a few chances, anyway, it is only a matter of time before you score a goal. For example, Neymar is having a lot of fun now, playing all kinds of kung fu with his feet, and playing Chinese players in a circle.
However, the Brazilian team did not score, the Chinese team tried to compress the defensive space as much as possible, and did not let the Brazilian team have a chance to shoot.
After 20 minutes of the game, the Brazilian players' bodies gradually warmed up, and they gradually entered the state, the overall attack played more fluently, and the individual skills were more and more perfect. In the 23rd minute, Fernandinho knocked cross, and Augusto volleyed over the crossbar from 24 meters in front of the goal, which was the prelude to the Brazilian team's attack.
"Neymar, return pass from the right! Paulinho shoots! was held out by Zhang Guan! The commentator of CCTV breathed a sigh of relief, the goal just now was indeed very dangerous, Paulinho shot a half-volley at the front of the penalty area against the goal, the ball was very fast, and it was also very sudden.
However, Brazil's attack did not end there, Augusto controlled the ball, and a left-footed shot near the baseline hit the side-netting, which ended Brazil's attack, and if you look at it from a distance, this goal even looks like a real goal.
Three minutes later, Brazil's attack was repeated, Neymar crossed low from the left, and Coutinho cut inside with the ball and volleyed into the top right corner from 17 yards.
"Danger!"
While the commentator shouted in horror, Zhang Guan had already moved, he jumped up directly and grabbed the basketball with both hands.
In the 30th minute, Paulinho made a long shot and was saved by Zhang Guan.
In the 32nd minute, Neymar's free kick hit the wall.
In the 38th minute, Neymar received a pass from Coutinho, cut into the penalty area on the right side and cleverly deceived the players of the Chinese team, and pushed at a small angle 8 meters in front of the goal.
Before the end of the game, Marquinhos made a long-range through ball, Neymar burst into the left side of the penalty area 9 meters from the goal, and then jerked his foot to the bottom right corner of the goal.
"This can be stopped!" Neymar looked a little annoyed, he repeatedly attacked the goal directly, and they were all very good opportunities, but he was repeatedly stopped by Zhang Guan, Zhang Guan's reaction speed and body explosiveness far exceeded Neymar's expectations, Neymar felt that the ball just now should be speedy and angled, even if it is the top goalkeeper in the four major European leagues, it is impossible to stop it, but Zhang Guan can grasp the ball steadily.
"The speed of the ball is too fast, the explosiveness of the legs is very strong, and he deserves to be a world champion in sprinting." Neymar said secretly in his heart.
In the first half, the last attack of the Brazilian team was defused by the Chinese team with a yellow card, and the Brazilian team could only return to the lounge with a score of 0-0.
Statistically, Brazil is absolutely dominant, with 70% possession and 20 shots on goal, with an average of one shot on goal every little over two minutes. And the Chinese team didn't even get past halftime, let alone the number of shots on goal. At the same time, in the first half alone, the Chinese team received two yellow cards.
However, the score of 0-0 means that the two yellow cards are worth it, you must know that the opponent is the Brazilian team, and it is very rare for the Chinese team to be able to hold on to half the time without conceding points.
Of course, the main reason is the existence of Zhang Guan, several excellent attacks of the Brazilian team have been resolved by Zhang Guan's successful saves, if you change the goalkeeper, it is now at least 0-3 behind.
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At the beginning of the second half, the Brazilian team immediately launched a fierce attack, Paulinho forced a breakthrough through two Chinese defenders, pushed vigorously on the right side of the goal, and was saved by Zhang Guan from the sideline, and then the Brazilian team took a corner kick directly to the goal, and was also grabbed by Zhang Guan.
At this time, the Brazilian team had already discovered that the corner kick was passed directly in front of the Chinese team's goal, which was a very wrong decision, because Zhang Guan would take the ball down every time.
The corner kick is driven to the goal, and other players are at most relying on headers to compete for the top, but as a goalkeeper, Zhang Guan can use his hands, Zhang Guan has also gotten 20+ rebounds in a single game in the NBA, the round bounce is stronger than anyone else, and he can also use his hands, the players of the Brazilian team are even combing dozens of centimeters of broom heads, and they can't grab Zhang Guan.
Next, the Brazilian team played several more threatening attacks, but in the end, they were all defused by Zhang Guanyi one by one.
"What's going on, it's been 70 minutes, and I haven't broken through the goal of the Chinese team yet!" The head coach of the Brazilian team stood up with some anger, and he began to make substitutions!
The players of the Brazilian team on the field suddenly looked a little ugly, and they could see that this substitution was a tactical adjustment forced by the head coach, obviously dissatisfied with the delay in breaking through the Chinese team's goal.
As the core of the Brazilian team, Neymar felt the pressure, he knew that he couldn't continue to play so casually, otherwise he might really be forced to draw, and the Brazilian team needed to show some real skills.
"Damn, I didn't expect this Chinese team to be so difficult! No, it should be said that Zhang Guan is so difficult! Neymar's face was gloomy, but his heart was quite calm.
2 minutes later, Neymar inserted the ball on the left side, and then passed directly to the right point when he was close to the bottom line, the Chinese team players thought that the ball would be qualified, so the action was half a beat slow, but Augusto suddenly rushed over, a shovel pass from the bottom line of the back point, the ball happened to fall in front of the goal, and Paulinho signed the benefit of appearing at the place where the ball landed.
"Nice fit! It's just a smooth ride! ā
"This is the real Brazilian team, it's so exciting!"
Even Chinese fans have to admit that Brazil's cooperation this time is very beautiful, and it is definitely the world's top cooperation.
Augusto faced Zhang Guan and did not continue to move forward with the ball, but chose to hit the goal directly, and the direction he chose was the corner of the upper left corner of the goal.
"It's over!" Many fans of the Chinese team closed their eyes, they did not dare to watch this scene.
"Let me in!" Augusto let out a loud shout, and he used all his strength in this ball.
"Poof!" A crisp voice sounded, and I saw that Zhang Guan had already flown into the air, and slapped it on the football, which changed angles, concentrated the goalpost, and then bounced outside the bottom line.
"What! Pounced! Augusto looked at Zhang Guan in disbelief.
"It's Zhang Guan again! Another corner! The face of the head coach of the Brazilian team suddenly became gloomy.
Brazil did not take a direct cross from the corner this time, but chose to play a small area near the bottom corner to find an opportunity to score. The Chinese team compressed the defensive space very tightly and did not give Brazil the slightest chance.
In the 80th minute of the game, the Chinese team received the first red card and was sent off. With one less player to defend, the situation instantly became very unfavorable for the Chinese team, which can be said to be precarious.
However, the Chinese team also knows that the game has reached the last moment, and now it only needs to hold on for ten minutes, so everyone is desperate, even if the technical level is not enough, they will use their bodies to block the progress of the Brazilian players.
The Brazilian team is really starting to get anxious, the game has been played for 80 minutes, the Chinese team has not even played half time, and has always been pressed by the Brazilian team, but Brazil is difficult to break the fans of the Chinese team. This is the stage of the World Cup, and if it is forced to draw by the Chinese team, the Brazilian team will really lose its adult.
The Brazilian team began to become crazy, and the stormy offensive made the Chinese team breathless.
In the 87th minute, the Chinese team received a second red card. The two sides became 9 people and 11 people.
The referee showed the sign for stoppage time, and there were 3 minutes of stoppage time.
"Hold on for the last 3 minutes!" The Chinese players gritted their teeth and ran on the pitch.
At this time, Neymar made a feint and turned around, got rid of the players of the Chinese team, and rushed into the penalty area, the Chinese player raised his foot to break the ball, and touched Neymar slightly, although it did not affect Neymar's physical balance, but the monkey-like Neymar fell to the ground.
"Penalty! OMG! 90 minutes, the final moment of the game, penalty! Brazil is going to beat the Chinese team! ā
At this moment, the players of the Chinese team covered their faces in annoyance, and some even began to cry uncontrollably, but they didn't expect to hold on to the whole game, but they had to lose the game at the last moment.
The Brazilian team breathed a sigh of relief, and the penalty kick at this time undoubtedly saved the life of the Brazilian team.
Neymar set the ball up, glanced at the opposite goal, and after a few strides he started to get to his feet.
"Neymar, feint!"
Neymar's first kick was just a feint, but Zhang Guan on the opposite side had already seen through Neymar's intentions, his body trembled slightly, and then stabilized instantly.
The next moment, Neymar really got up and the ball hit the bottom left of the goal.
At the same time, Zhang Guan also flew to the bottom left of the goal.
"Not good! He guessed it! Neymar saw the direction of Zhang Guan's movement and was shocked.
Zhang Guan, on the other hand, grabbed the ball in his hand.
"Pounced, Zhang Guan pounced on the penalty!" The Chinese audience in the audience let out a thunderous cry, and many players on the bench of the Chinese team cried with joy.
The players on the field wanted to step forward and hug Zhang Guan, but Zhang Guan waved his hand at them: "Hold on, the game is not over yet!" ā
The game is not over yet, there are still two minutes to go.
On 93 minutes, Brazil couldn't wait to serve, and with the time left now, they could stop the last attack.
At this time, the Brazilian team is still full of forward pressure, even goalkeeper Alisson, also gave up his goal, and ran to the Chinese team's half to participate in the team's attack, after all, it is the last attack of the game, and it is also an advantage to be able to have one more person.
Run, pass. Brazil tried to do everything they could.
"Neymar, chance! Shot! ā
Neymar grabbed the last shot he did with all his might, but he immediately found that his shot was too right.
"It's too right. was so tricky before, but Zhang Guan stopped it, and this ball must be sad for Zhang Guan's Wuzhishan! ā
The situation was as Neymar expected, the angle of this ball was indeed too positive, and he was directly held in Zhang Guan's arms. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Guan did not hesitate at all, as if he was in a hurry, and drove the ball to the backfield of the Brazilian team with a big foot.
"The game is coming to an end, and the Chinese team has drawn Brazil!" Everyone knows that Brazil's last attack was stopped by Zhang Guan, which also means the end of the game.
The referee puffed out his cheeks, and he was about to blow the whistle for the end of the game, and before blowing the whistle, he subconsciously looked down at his watch.
"There are five seconds left before stoppage time. But what can you do in 5 seconds? The Brazilian team controlled the ball for more than 5 seconds, the big picture is already there! I really thought it would be a draw. The referee looked up and prepared to blow the whistle.
However, in the next second, he found that the football flying in the air was really flying high and fast, and the angle of the flight was also in the middle of the field.
"Wait a minute, this ball ......" The referee did not blow the whistle, but his eyes widened in surprise.
For Brazil, the first goalkeeper to react, Alisson.
"Oops!" Alisson roared and ran towards his goal with all his might, but how could the speed of a person compare to the speed of the ball!
"The goal is empty!"
"Look, football, it's flying towards the goal!"
The audience was filled with exclamations, and the television camera was precisely aimed at the football in the air.
Falling to the ground, it is the edge of the exclusion zone.
The ball bounces, falls again, bounces up, lands immediately, and then begins to roll forward, with the ball directly in front of the goal.
If there is a goalkeeper at this time, it only takes a few steps to pick up the football.
But now, there is an empty goal in front of the ball! Brazil's goalkeeper is not in front of goal, he has just participated in the last attack of the Brazilian team!
Behind, the Brazilian players chased frantically, while the football still rolled forward unhurriedly.
Neymar was running like crazy, he felt like he had never been so fast, but he couldn't catch up with the football.
The next second, the ball rolled into the goal.
The ball is in!
Alisson knelt on the ground, and because of inertia, his body slid forward again, and he saved his head in pain, covering his face with his hands, unable to believe this scene.
The other players of the Brazilian team even showed a sky-shattering expression. 11 people played 9 people, the opponent was still the Chinese team, but the Brazilian team did not win, not only did not win, but even conceded a goal and lost the game.
"Entered? Really in? Coach Lippi kept repeating the question, and he couldn't believe it.
"Scored? Is this a goal? Is it really a goal? Are we ahead? Are we going to win? The thinking of the commentator of the central electricity station also suddenly short-circuited, and he still felt that he was dreaming at this time, and involuntarily pinched his tiger's mouth.
In the next second, the broadcaster played the subtitles, 1-0, and the Chinese team took the lead.
At this moment, the narrator woke up like from a dream.
"In! Scored! We scored! Zhang Guan! He scored! It's not a kick-off, it's a shot! He's got a shot! The first goal, the first goal of the Chinese team in the World Cup. ā
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"Oh my God, what do I see? Goalkeeper's goal! The goalkeeper was in his own penalty area, kicked the ball towards the opponent's penalty area, and then scored! How could such a thing happen! ā
After the Russian audience at the scene was amazed, they couldn't help but applaud and cheer for Zhang Guan, the goalkeeper kicked off the ball and scored directly, this kind of thing has not happened in football, but the audience at the scene never thought that they would witness this miraculous scene.
Finally, the referee blew the whistle for the full game.
"The lore, the Brazilian team was killed, and it was also killed by the Chinese team, and it was a goalkeeper who presented this lore! Zhang Guan, even if he is standing in the position of goalkeeper, he still brings us a miracle! ā