Chapter 621: Battle of Croatia (4)
"Did the Croats get some information at half-time?" Liu Jianhong repeatedly confirmed that the news he got should not have it. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
But the situation on the pitch changed abruptly, which told Liu Jianhong that something must have happened, and Croatia was like a different team in the second half, not like joining hands with the Chinese team to qualify, but to work hard.
"It's not necessary, it's incredible."
In the second half, the busiest person on the Chinese team's side was goalkeeper Yan Junling, who resisted high, and Yan Junling saved several threatening shots from Croatia.
In fact, this is a good thing, the goalkeeper is most afraid of cold shots, just like in the first half, and this kind of continuous shooting just stimulates the goalkeeper's potential, and people react faster when they are excited.
On the Croatian side, the centre-backs and goalkeepers were largely out of the question, with Subasic in particular having yet to touch the ball in the second half.
He became the most leisurely spectator on the field, only to see Croatia take a corner kick over there, the ball flew to the middle of the penalty area, and Yan Junling, who was already high, took a few steps, jumped high, and picked the ball up steadily.
Just when the audience applauded Yan Junling's wonderful performance, Yan Junling did not be arrogant, but kicked the ball directly to the Croatian half.
At this time, the Chinese team had only one person in the opponent's half, that is, Kico, and he had not yet grabbed the ball, and the ball flew towards Croatia's central defender Joel Luka.
This kind of ball should be able to be parked even by elementary school students, Joeluka raised his head to look at the ball, moved his feet under his feet, suddenly, the unthinkable happened, Joeluka slid to the ground, in this way, the ball flew over, fell to the feet of Kiko, and the original non-threatening ball became a single ball on the Chinese team's side.
Kiko couldn't believe his eyes, it was like being hit by 5 million, Kiko took two steps slightly, and then got up and volleyed, and the ball flew steadily into the goal.
Today, Joel Luka is completely unlucky, and the two goals of the Chinese team can be said to have been sent by him.
But just as the Chinese team was celebrating, they saw the flag raised by the linesman, and Ji Ke was offside.
Kiko felt that he was very wronged, he had seen it, and he and the other party's Srna should be parallel, but the linesman was unmoved.
When everyone watched the replay after the game, they would find that Croatia's captain Srna was really good, he seemed to have expected that Jorluka would make a mistake, and ran a few steps forward, and it was this distance of less than half a meter that allowed Gico to be in an offside position when he received the ball.
Li Guo could see it clearly, he gave a thumbs up in the direction of Srna, but many people thought that Li Guo was praising Ji Ke, but in fact it was not, Li Guo expressed his admiration for Srna's super prediction.
The Croatian head coach couldn't stand Jolluka's sleepwalking performance and replaced Jolluka with Piaca after a dead goal.
The Chinese team, which lost its main force, attacked very casually, like hitting big luck, one foot forward, whoever touched it was lucky, it was impossible to sort out the attack in an orderly manner like when Zhou Dun and Liao Lisheng were there.
After Croatia reduced its mistakes, the Chinese team had no chance to attack and was pressed in the half.
At this time, Croatia's attack had no choice, there were too many people in the half here, and they could only hang with long passes.
Mandzukic in the box was a threat, but the bigger threat was the Croatian passers, especially Modric and Rakitic, so Li Guo waved his hand and asked the players to press out a little bit and push Croatia's pass point a little bit.
Zhang Yuning has retreated to his own half to assist in the defense, the advantage of youth is that he can run, when other teammates can't run, Zhang Yuning can still run like crazy like a circle.
Croatian players are still a little afraid of Zhang Yuning, and this "little madman" relied on this to grab the opportunity in the first half.
So whenever Zhang Yuning approached, the Croatian players would speed up the pass to avoid a repeat of Jorluka's tragedy.
Modric took the ball, Zhang Yuning ran to Modric with a snort, the Magic Flute began to like this little guy a little bit in his heart, too serious, but football is cruel, and the Magic Flute is ready to pass Zhang Yuning when he is close.
But unexpectedly, Zhang Yuning's feet slipped under his feet, and the whole person collided up, which surprised both parties, only to see Zhang Yuning and the magic flute collide together, and the referee sentenced Zhang Yuning to a foul and gave him a yellow card.
Croatia got a free kick in a good position, although it could not shoot directly, but it could pass the ball, defender Vida couldn't help it, he rushed up, so that in addition to Mandzukic, Croatia had another high point in the Chinese team's penalty area.
Rakitic ran over, the ball was taken by him, Yan Junling spat a few times on his gloves, the air defense altitude of the Chinese team is not enough, in this case, the goalkeeper is more important.
Rakitic also knows that this ball must not be picked up by the goalkeeper, otherwise it will be beaten back, and even if he can't score, he must go out of the bottom line.
The ball was hoisted high into the penalty area, basically there was no arc, and the Chinese players understood that Croatia was relying on the advantage of height, and did not play any skills, the high ball was hoisted in, and then it was hard to grab the header.
This is the easiest, but also the most test of strength, in the penalty area jumped high is the Croatian player, blonde, from a distance to know that it is Vida.
Although Vida jumped high, it was obvious that his judgment of the ball was not accurate, he did not reach the ball, the ball fell to the back point, Mandzukic waited for the square, and the air tyrant Mandzukic did not wait for the opportunity to head the ball, but waited for the opportunity to sweep.
Mandzukic's unaccustomed left-footed shot was crushed and flew into the near corner of the net.
After the goal, Mandzukic was relieved, as Croatia's number one striker, of course, the more goals, the better, for this conceded goal, the Chinese team is not frustrated, Croatia is obviously full of firepower in the second half, in this case, the Chinese team only conceded a goal, not bad.
3-1 was also the final score of the game, Croatia won a victory, and the Chinese team was the second in Group B, and the two sides advanced to the round of 16 together.
The game is over, Chacic is still very satisfied, the player is not injured is the most important thing, he took the initiative to Li Guo, Li Guo knew that it was impossible to meet Croatia again in this cup, unless both teams reached the final, but that was basically impossible, since there was no conflict of interest, Li Guo also said a few beautiful words, touting Croatia.
After hearing this, Chačić felt light, in fact, he still admired Li Guo a little, so he was still very happy to be praised by Li Guo.
Bidding farewell to Tsacic, Li Guo walked to the fans, the group stage of the Chinese team is over, and a new journey is about to begin.