China's first-round win over Brazil, the favourites for the Confederations Cup, has boosted the confidence of many players in the team, who are looking forward to facing last year's European Cup runners-up Italy in the second round of the group stage.

However, at this time, the captain Iroh poured cold water on those teammates who were a little bursting with self-confidence.

The day before he prepared for the match in Italy, he summoned his teammates to the hotel where the national team was staying for an ideological education class, because he felt that some players had been slacking off in their training and had not worked hard to participate in the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in Brazil.

Of course, Iroh did not choose to directly use a sharp approach to the change in the mentality of his teammates, he just tactfully expressed what he thought, because the teammates here are all players with heads and faces, and-for-tat is not suitable for the current Chinese team.

Times are changing, and so are methods.

Elloh's efforts paid off immediately, and Pep Guardiola was keen to feel that the players' training attitude was much better than the previous two days during the recovery training on the day of the game, and he was also going to call the players for a psychological lesson after the game, which seemed to be ...... Now it's exempt.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that before the second round of the group stage between China and Italy, Balotelli, who scored a goal for Italy in the first round of the group stage against Mexico, made a surprising statement.

Therefore, he said in a very high-profile manner: "What can the Chinese team represent when they beat the Brazilian team by a big score? If it were us who faced Brazil in the first game, Italy could still beat their opponents! So the team that won the next group stage is still us! And...... I'm going to score, the key goal! ”

Balotelli's remarks fully reflected his brainless nature, but there was no reporter who kindly reminded him that his arrogant remarks could trigger a war of words between the two sides of the match.

Soon, the Chinese team players in another hotel heard the remarks from Balotelli, and the fiery Zhao Xuri immediately used the media platform to sneer at Balotelli: "Beat us? Want to score goals? It's too underestimating our Chinese team, right? That's right...... Super Mario, who likes to 'think about life' on the football field, is it sure that he didn't score the key goal or his own goal? ”

Zhao Xuri's remarks hit the nail on the head, for Balotelli is really not a pot, in early 2013 from Manchester City to AC Milan scored a 'key goal' in the Milan derby, and this key goal was precisely to score his own goal, resulting in the owner AC Milan lost 2:3 at home to Inter Milan......

With the passage of time, social platforms are also evolving all the time, and Zhao Xuri's relevant words quickly reached Balotelli's ears, so he immediately sarcastically ridiculed Zhao Xuri, thinking that he couldn't do anything but defense, so he would sit on the bench......

No one expected that Zhao Xuri and Balotelli would break out before the start of the game, which made many people unexpected.

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It is worth mentioning that in the first match of Group A of the Confederations Cup in the afternoon, Zhao Xuri and Balotelli both started the match between the Chinese team and Italy.

And from the first minute of the game, Zhao Xuri and Balotelli 'pinched'.

At that time, Balotelli faced Zhao Xuri's letting go after getting the ball, he used his excellent foot skills to kick the ball between Zhao Xuri's legs, Zhao Xuri, who had excellent defensive awareness, of course, would not let Balotelli pass easily, plus the two of them were in the 'festival' before the game, Zhao Xuri put a shovel behind the side, and there was no intention of closing his feet.

Balotelli didn't expect Zhao Xuri to choose to foul, so he didn't dodge it at the first time, so his right ankle was a solid kick, but fortunately there was no injury.

But Balotelli is notoriously unreasonable, and after getting up, he didn't trouble Zhao Xuri, but deliberately knocked Zhao Xuri behind in the next frontcourt counter-robbery.

Thereupon...... The two went back and forth, and finally a clash broke out in the seventh minute.

Fortunately, the captains of both sides of the game, Iello and Pirlo, reacted in time and pulled the two away from the place of the incident at the first time, otherwise the two would have a real fight on the playing field.

Of course, the two also received a yellow card each.

And the two who received the yellow card realized that the game is the most important, especially Zhao Xuri, who was able to replace Huang Bowen's partner Wu Xi in this game to start the game is through his own efforts in training to impress Guardiola, if he is sent off because of Balotelli, he will likely be blacklisted by head coach Guardiola, which is not worth it......

As the saying goes, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge.

In addition, the grievances on the football field can be resolved by the score, as long as the Chinese team defeats Italy to win the game, then the palm of the media can be used to slap the brainless Balotelli after the game.

Zhao Xuri, who gradually returned to normal, really helped the team in the next game, he took the initiative in the 28th minute to steal the ball at the feet of Pirlo from Pirlo to Balotelli, and then passed the ball directly to Wu Xi, who won the ball and launched a counterattack.

Elo's pace was on full display, and against an aging Italian backline, he used his speed to eat Chiellini and Desiglio alive, and then attracted enough attention to pass the ball to the unguarded Hao Junmin on the other side.

Hao Junmin didn't waste a brilliant pass from Iroh as he took the ball into the box and calmly slotted home from Buffon to open the scoring for China.

Four minutes later, it was Zhao Xuri again, he received the return ball from Ailuo in the 35-meter area and adjusted it slightly, and then picked up his right foot to shoot decisively, and the shot completed in the unmarked state was of very high quality, urgent and fast.

Although Buffon subconsciously made a save, he had no choice but to announce that the football angle shot by Zhao was tricky, and he could only announce that the whip was out of reach and the city gate was lost.

Italy fell behind the Chinese team 2:0.

Balotelli was very unhappy when he saw Zhao Xuri's sudden outburst and successive miraculous contributions for the Chinese team, so he very much wanted to help the Italian team equalize or even overtake the score.

But many times the eagerness is counterproductive, and Balotelli's positivity has become a burden to Italy, squandering opportunities frequently, so he was replaced by manager Prandelli at half-time.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated Italy 3:1 and won two consecutive group wins, and Zhao Xuri was named the best on the spot and successfully slapped Balotelli in the face.

In the other match in the same group, Brazil defeated Mexico 2-0, and the Chinese team was able to qualify for the group ahead of schedule because they won Brazil and Italy, which scored points in the group.