Chapter 634: Good start!

"Well, I think after tonight, the Chinese fans will remember the referee again"

"This referee is definitely going to be hot!!"

When everyone was ready, the referee looked at the players on both sides, then raised his hand and blew the whistle.

One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds

After the referee blew the whistle for ten seconds, Li Zihan, who took the free kick, did not move, still standing in front of the ball, running in a running position, staring at the Saudi Arabian penalty area in front of him.

The atmosphere at the scene was very weird, and then everyone turned heads and ears, not knowing what the situation was.

The referee was also puzzled, and he came up to him and asked, "Why don't you kick off?" ”

Li Zihan was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Did you tell me to kick off?" ”

Li Zihan used honorifics, and the referee really thought he didn't hear it, and the referee said: "I blow the whistle, you can kick off." ”

Li Zihan "suddenly realized": "Oh I see, I know, thank you!" ”

After the referee saw that Li Zihan understood, he began to retreat. Then the whistle blew again.

Li Zihan did not kick the football out directly, but reconfirmed it to the referee: "Can I really kick it?" ”

The referee nodded very seriously, and then the referee knew that he had been played. As the captain of Arsenal, he is one of the hottest strikers in the world. He often plays against world-class giants and won the Champions League last season

Such a Li Zihan would not know these most basic rules, he must have known, he must have done it on purpose.

The referee was angry, and the blame was that Li Zihan's immature and sincere face was too deceptive.

After getting permission from the referee, Li Zihan ran and then kicked the football out directly.

Although the Saudi wall tried to jump, it still did not bring the football down, and the football went around the wall and continued to fly towards the goal.

This time, Saudi Arabia's goalkeeper Al-Waleed was fully prepared and jumped off against the football.

Waleed met the soccer ball in the air, and he struggled to reach out his hands to hold the soccer ball, but the soccer ball bypassed his hand.

Waleed was shocked, he had already planned the route and the time and height of the jump. But I never thought that the football would have a turn in the air?

"Deciduous Ball !!" Huang Jianxiang shouted again.

The ball passed through Waleed's black hair and hands, and then straight into Saudi Arabia's pass.

"Three to zero!! This time it's really 3-0!! ”

Li Zihan, who scored the goal, did not celebrate the goal, but looked at the referee with blank eyes.

When he saw the referee pointing to the middle circle after blowing the whistle and indicating that the goal was valid, Li Zihan smiled slightly, and then turned around and walked towards the middle circle.

It's just that his back was quickly surrounded by his teammates of the Chinese team who rushed up.

"In the face of such a pit referee, even Li Zihan, who has always been good-tempered, couldn't help but mock the other party."

When the game came to 3-0, it seemed that it was already doomed.

Saudi Arabia made a last-ditch push as interim acting head coach Kosmin replaced a yellow card midfielder with an attacking striker.

It's a hands-off gamble.

On the Chinese team's side, because the previous referee was too tricky, they all held their breath, and after the game restarted, they continued to press the attack, without the slightest reservation.

In the face of the offensive line led by Li Zihan, the Saudi team, which is missing a defensive back, is even more miserable.

In the end, the Saudi team, which played strongly, used foul tactics and wanted to use this kind of physical contact to stifle Li Zihan and cause him psychological pressure, so they would put some of it in.

But they completely underestimated Li Zihan from the Premier League, what kind of action has not been seen in the Premier League?

Instead, in a foul, the Chinese team got another chance for a free kick. However, since he and the Chinese team have already formed a relationship, the referee simply offended everyone at one time.

It was supposed to be a direct free-kick, but he only gave it an indirect free-kick.

The referee's idea is very simple, Li Zihan's free kick is very good and can hit the goal directly, but what if it is an indirect free kick?

Li Zihan kicked the football out, Yu Hai jumped to the top and then shook his head to attack the goal.

But he was interfered with by the opposing centre-backs and didn't do it particularly well. In the end, the football grazed the crossbar of the Saudi team and flew directly out of the bottom line.

The Saudi team broke out in a cold sweat and was almost lost to 4-0.

The Saudi team, which has played twice in a row, began to keep a low profile.

In the 65th minute of the game, the head coach of the Chinese team, Pei Lan, began to make substitutions. He made two substitutions at once, the captain of the Chinese team, the veteran Zheng Zhi was replaced, and he was replaced by Ji Xiang, a post-90s teenager of the Jiangsu Shuntian team. Ji Xiang can play forward and right wing-back, and replacing him in the midfield at this time will naturally strengthen the defense.

The second substitution was a bit of a surprise to everyone, and Perrin replaced Li Zihan, the biggest contributor to scoring two goals and an assist. Replaced by a player from the Jiangsu Shuntian team, attacking midfielder Sun Ke!

When Li Zihan left the game, the Chinese fans in the audience stood up and applauded him, and Li Zihan also applauded and thanked him.

When he got off the field, Pei Lan came over deliberately and explained to Li Zihan the reason for replacing him, and Li Zihan smiled and said that he didn't care.

To be honest, Li Zihan really can't be interested in facing these opponents in the Asian Cup.

It's like playing football with the college team for a long time, and suddenly one day going to play with the primary school team, Li Zihan is naturally not interested.

If it weren't for the great attraction of the Asian Cup for Li Zihan and the Chinese team, he really didn't want to come

The final result was 3-1, with the Saudis scoring a face-saving goal near the end of the game.

The Chinese team also defeated the Saudi Arabian team for the first time in 18 years and got off to a good start in the Asian Cup!

This hearty victory gave Chinese fans a shot in the arm, and the whole country rejoiced!

In the post-match press conference, Perrin severely condemned the Saudi team's style of play, saying that it is against sportsmanship, such a lethal style of play is a step backwards in football, if all teams play like this, who would dare to play football?

And Li Zihan said in an interview that he should not be surprised by this victory, because his teammates fully deserve this victory, which is what we deserve.

Li Zihan's words surprised the reporters very much, because Li Zihan has always been relatively modest, and the reporters don't know why he is so high-profile this time.

Regarding the celebration after his first goal, Li Zihan explained: "I want to tell the fans, puff up your chest and raise your head! We are no worse than any team that goes to the Asian Cup, but we should also be proud, confident, confident that we can win! ”

Chinese fans have been inferior for a long time, and they have forgotten what self-confidence is. So Li Zihan just wants to inspire the kind of confidence of fans.

As for the question of the referee's penalty scale, Li Zihan answered it like this.

Li Zihan: "The referee of this game? Hehe! ”

Then the press officer ended the press conference.

Now is the era of the Internet information explosion, and the news that the Chinese team defeated its rival Saudi Arabia 3-1 in the first game of the Asian Cup suddenly spread to China.

At first, people who didn't pay attention to the game didn't believe it, because Saudi Arabia was separated from the Chinese team in the qualifiers, and as a result, they abused the Chinese team and got the first place in the group, while the Chinese team took the last train of the Asian Cup with the third place in the best group.

But when they saw the official news, they realized that it was true.

Happiness came so suddenly, they weren't ready!

The team's great hero, Li Zihan naturally became the focus, and his sentence after the game: "Hehe! "It has also become the focus.

It's just that only Chinese fans may understand the meaning of this sentence.

The first round of the group stage officially ended, Group A hosts Australia beat Kuwait 4-1 to get off to a good start, and South Korea also won a game in the same group, but the score was not enough to see, they beat Oman 1-0. Oman is not a strong team, so South Korean fans are not happy with the scoreline. However, Koreans have always liked this kind of affordable score.

In Group B, first of all, the Chinese team defeated the strong Saudi Arabian team 3-1, and then Uzbekistan defeated the DPRK 1-0. Fresh team. In this way, the Chinese team and the Uzbekistan team in this group have the advantage.

In Group C, the UAE is still a big score, and they beat Qatar 4-1. Qatar's league is still doing well, because of the support of oil tycoons, even in the AFC Champions League, Qatar's club teams are fierce rivals, but they didn't expect their national team to be so vulnerable. Iran narrowly beat Bahrain 2-1 and the prospects of qualification for both teams are very impressive.

In Group D, Japan defeated the Palestinian team by a score of 4-0, and it seems that the anger of the defeat in the World Cup was vented by the Japanese to the Asian Cup, and poor Palestine became the first to hit the muzzle. In the other game, the war-torn Iraq won a stunning victory over Jordan, although it was 1-0, but for a team like Iraq, three points is a qiē.

The most popular champion of this Asian Cup is the Japanese team and the host Australian team, first of all, the Japanese team has a strong lineup, Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa, Yuto Nagatomo and other players all play in European giants, many of their lineups participate in the Champions League, and it is also the second highest club in the Asian Cup, the first is the Chinese team, but considering that a Li Zihan who is worth more than 80 million euros, in fact, the Japanese team is worth more.