Chapter 12 Group Qualification

For the remainder of the first half, Mexico played a good offensive but could not break through the Chinese team, who continued their lead until halftime. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Back in the dressing room, Wan Sheng praised everyone's performance as they continued to work hard to maintain their hopes and beat Mexico to qualify for the World Cup.

Mexico coach Ander Herrera summed up the first half, telling his players to pay more attention to the defense on both flanks, and in the midfield position, they need to be more penetrated.

"They are very fierce in the midfield, and if we keep entangled with them in the midfield, we won't have too many chances, so we need to strengthen the cooperation and penetration of the midfield, don't stick to the ball too much, and play the ball to the front court decisively and quickly."

At the start of the second half, a substitution was made, with left-back HΓ©ctor Moreno coming on.

The Mexican full-back, who was born in 1992 and plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie, is a well-known 'butcher' in the Eredivisie and even European football.

Herrera asked Moreno to play in order to limit the offensive on the right side of the Chinese team, and Moreno's toughness may be able to limit the cooperation of Wang Qiuming and Zhang Yuning, and it was the cooperation of the two that created the goal in the first half.

This adjustment of defensive position was also highlighted at the beginning of the second half, and it was not easy for Zhang Yuning to find opportunities in front of him, and any striker would be very distressed in the face of Moreno, because the latter seemed to be completely unconcerned about the physical harm that his foot movements could cause to the opponent.

At the same time, Mexico's attack has also become decisive, they do not stop in the midfield, and pass the ball to the front of the field whenever they are free, wanting to directly threaten the Chinese goal.

This style of play forced the Chinese team to be more cautious in defending the front of the penalty area.

Taking advantage of the opening time, Mexico played a good situation, they pressed the Chinese team for nearly five minutes in a row, and this pressure also gave them hope of scoring, so they played more aggressively and pressed forward.

Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines, constantly shouting to remind the team to pay attention to defense, the first half of the game Chinese team played very well, so that many people forgot that their tactics in this game, in fact, are based on defensive counterattacks, as soon as the game opened, several players stood very forward, which also caused the danger of defense.

Hearing the manager's shout, the Chinese players also became much calmer, and they began to retreat into formation and tighten the penalty area.

After more than ten minutes, Wan Sheng was not too worried.

The Chinese team has regained the feeling of defense, the formation has been very stable, although Mexico frequently pressed, quite a momentum to break the goal, but they are difficult to find opportunities in a good position, the two nearby shots, both on the outside of the penalty area.

Herrera certainly doesn't have a Master of Soccer system, and their players don't have a shooting ability bonus, so most of these shots are just a waste of chance.

The Mexican players also found that it was not easy for them to break through the door of the Chinese team quickly.

Twenty minutes passed in the second half.

There is an old Chinese saying, 'one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion', Herrera does not know this sentence, but understands the meaning, it is also applicable in football games, he thinks that the team will equalize in one go, and the next chance will be greater, but as soon as the 20 minutes pass, the one drum is completely over, their offensive is getting more and more tired, and the opportunity to break through the goal is getting less and less.

Herrera had to make a substitution, opting to replace a midfielder with a striker.

In this way, Mexico's formation has been adjusted from 352 to 343, which is almost equivalent to a full attack play, and the 343 formation is very sufficient, but the Mexican players on the field are tired, they have been attacking for a long time, working hard for a long time, but they have not been able to break through the door of the Chinese team, even if they have made substitution adjustments, their attack is actually not more fierce than just now.

The Chinese team has been retrenching in defense.

In the lead, the Chinese team is not in a hurry to play a wonderful attack, but to ensure the score, as long as Mexico is not a big threat, or a very good chance, they will take the initiative.

The Chinese team is not only tightly defensive, but also very tough, especially in terms of physical confrontation, they have tasted the sweetness, when their side is particularly tough, the opponent will be softer, just like Mexico in the second half, almost gave up fighting with the Chinese team in the midfield, they continue to use the cooperation to pass the ball to the front, this style of play seems to be technical, but the error rate has increased, without toughness, Mexico wants to grab the ball at the feet of the Chinese team The chance has become smaller, which is not good for them.

The Mexican players were not used to it, and they were already feeling tired by this time.

On the surface, Mexico has been pressing the Chinese team to play, but in fact, they have found few good opportunities, and the offensive threat is much worse than at the beginning of the second half, and the Chinese team's goal has been quite safe for a long time.

Wang Xiaolei felt the deepest.

At the beginning of the second half, he put all his energy into the ball, and now that the football has not fallen in goal, he feels a lot more relaxed.

Wan Sheng sat in the coach's seat.

This move did not make the media say anything, but it already expressed his mentality.

He's reassured about the game.

The players on the pitch were doing really well, the team had another goal advantage, and the opposition started to show weakness.

The game has been basically won.

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In the remainder of the second half, Mexico made a lot of efforts to break through the Chinese team.

In the 81st minute, Herrera used up his last substitution, which was also replaced by a striker.

In this way, Mexico has four strikers.

But the increase in the number of strikers has not brought a qualitative change to Mexico's attack, and they still have no way to defend the Chinese team's solid back, and at this time they finally know why the Netherlands has worked hard all but has not broken through the door of the Chinese team.

It's not that the Netherlands are doing poorly, it's not that their players don't have shooting boots, it's that the Chinese team is doing a really good job defending.

If you want to break through the door of the Chinese team, you need not only strength and cooperation, but also a lot of luck.

Bad luck for the Netherlands.

Mexico also had no good luck, at least so far, with five minutes left to end the game, almost all the players of the Chinese team returned to the backfield to participate in the defense, and even Wang Qiuming also reached the middle line, and the Chinese team put on a posture of strict defense.

Attacking and defending are the opposite of the two extremes of the football game, and when the whole line is retreated, even if there is a large gap in Mexico's backfield, the Chinese team is not unable to take advantage of the threat, because they are all focused on guarding the goal.

Mexico thinks the same way, and perhaps by this time they have no longer cared about it.

They have been desperately on the offensive.

In the 89th minute of the game, Mexico hit the penalty area with a wave of attack, striker Hernandez touched the ball above his head, but pushed the ball into his teammate's arm, because the football popped out of the penalty area, and the referee did not give a penalty.

After that, Zhang Yuning drove the ball forward with a big foot.

Wang Qiuming rushed up instantly! He let go of his legs and ran forward with his head buried in his might!

Wang Qiuming didn't think about scoring a goal, he just chased the ball forward and tried to move forward faster to buy the team more time, and 20 meters before the Mexico penalty area, he chased the falling ball, and then he realized the opportunity.

There is only one central defender Marques who can rush over to defend, Marquis runs beside Wang Qiuming, he is a veteran who is almost 40 years old, he is extremely experienced, but his body can no longer keep up, especially after such a long game, he can't run at all.

After Wang Qiuming caught up with the ball, he stepped forward and continued to chase the ball.

Marquis could only stay behind, he kept running, but he couldn't catch up.

Wang Qiuming continues to dribble the ball!

The audience resounded with fierce cheers!

"Wang Qiuming! Opportunity! Golden opportunity! ”

"He must have stabbed it alone!"

Mexican goalkeeper Talavera attacked in advance, and without the assistance of defenders, he had no choice but to choose to go on his own, but Wang Qiuming was too experienced, and when he saw Talavera attacking, he immediately chose to shoot!

A lob shot that is not very strong!

But in the face of the football that was nearly two meters above his head, Talavera could barely stop and turn his head to watch the football fly into the goal, with only despair flashing in his eyes.

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Mexico lost!

When the ball flies into the goal, even if the game is not over, everyone already knows the result.

Mexico couldn't have scored two goals in stoppage time, which meant they would have lost the game, with China coming out on top.

All the Chinese fans began to celebrate the victory with excitement, and the cheers resounded all over the country, from Russia to Beijing, and from Beijing to the world.

"Team China! Win! ”

"The second game of the World Cup! One game for the Netherlands, one game for Mexico, the Chinese team won! ”

"They've made it out of the group!"

"This is a miracle, the Chinese team is already sure to become the dark horse of the World Cup!"

"I don't know how far they can go in the future, but now this moment belongs to the Chinese fans!"

Amid all kinds of shouts, the game time passed little by little.

3 minutes.

1 minute.

30 seconds.

Finally, Mexico ended the last wave of attack, goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei kicked the ball out, and the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

In the second game of the World Cup group stage, the Chinese team defeated Mexico 2-0.

Coupled with the 1-0 defeat to the Netherlands in the first game, the Chinese team has already scored 6 points, considering Brazil's first draw with Mexico, in other words, the Chinese team has completed the group ahead of schedule!