Chapter 1234: Zero's Breakthrough

According to the principle of FIFA taking turns to sit in the bank, the 17th World Cup was held in Asia, the 18th in Europe, and the 19th World Cup finally set foot on the African continent for the first time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

As the hosts, a total of six African teams – Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria and South Africa – will compete in the Hercules Cup. They represent the glory of Africa and the expectations of fans around the world.

African players have strong physicality and an innate athletic instinct, and many fans hope that African teams can break the South American and European monopoly on the Hercules Cup on their own doorstep.

However, it turns out that both Asians and Africans are still a long way from the pinnacle of football, and even playing on their home turf cannot make up for the huge gap in strength.

In the opening game, the host South Africa took advantage of the right time and place, and finally only drew with Mexico 1:1, South Africa's two opponents behind the French team and Uruguay are all former World Cup champions, and South Africa is very likely to become the first host team that cannot qualify from the group in the World Cup.

In Group B, the African team Nigeria played against Argentina with Messi, although the African Eagles were extremely talented, they were still difficult to match the skillful cooperation of the Pampas Eagles, and the result of the 0-1 loss was also expected.

Slovenia in Group C is barely a soft persimmon in Europe, but compared to Algeria, they are a strong existence, Algeria fought hard for 90 minutes, and still fell to the same one-goal defeat as Nigeria. Unlike Nigeria, Nigeria's next two opponents are South Korea and Greece, and there is still hope of qualifying, while Algeria's last two opponents are England and the United States, and there is little hope of qualifying.

In the first three days of the competition, only Ghana in Group D got off to a good start, and Ghana, who lacked Essien, defeated Serbia 1-0, and their hopes of qualifying were greatly increased.

After the match between Ghana and Serbia, it will be the match between China and Germany.

With the record of three consecutive defeats in the warm-up match, with the doubts of thousands of fans and reporters, and with the pressure of the senior management of the Football Association and the General Administration, the players of the Chinese team walked onto the Durban Stadium in Durban.

The Durban Stadium, built in 09, can accommodate 62,760 people, and today is the first time it is full, of which Chinese fans account for 60%, German fans account for 20%, and neutral fans account for 20%.

The German team started with a 4231 formation: 1-Neuer/16-Lahm, 17-Mertesacker, 3-Friedrich, 20-J. Boateng/6-Khedira, 7-Schweinsteiger/13-Müller, 8-Ozil, 10-Podolski/19-Kakau

The Chinese team started with the formation of 451: 1-Zeng Lei/2-Sun Yang, 3-Du Wei, 4-Wang Xiao, 5-Sun Hai/6-Zheng Hua, 7-****, 18-Shao Gang, 8-Gao Fei, 10-Chen Yu/9-Han Peng

After exchanging team flags and emblems, the Chinese team took the lead in kicking off.

Today's Chinese team's tactics are to defend and counterattack, try to entangle with the German team in the midfield, and don't stick to the penalty area, because the Germans are too tall and have excellent headers, and they can't hold the penalty area at all, and blocking the German team in the midfield is the best choice.

The German team is a very good thinking team, they have clear tactical discipline, offensive and defensive, leading behind, against strong opponents, are not impatient, tenacious, in the face of the Chinese team such an Asian belly, the German team is not proud of the enemy, still a board and a glance with the Chinese team, like Ozil, Schweinsteiger and other stars also chase back and shovel, not caring about their identity and face.

Playing with the German team, the Chinese team had almost no chance of winning, and could resist for a while in the first ten minutes, and then the German team flattened the formation more and more, and finally could only retreat to their own 30-meter area to resist stubbornly.

In the 18th minute, Podolski opened the scoring for Germany, Ozil burst into the box and passed back to Podolski, who volleyed hard from 13 yards out, Zeng Lei pounced on the ball, but still failed to prevent the ball from going into the net, and Germany led China 1-0.

Then the German team's attack did not relax at all, still wave after wave, the Chinese team has never played against such a high-level team, the intensity of the friendly warm-up match is not a concept at all, almost stunned, just by instinct to resist near the penalty area.

In the 42nd minute, Klose, who had repeatedly missed good opportunities, finally atoned for his crimes, Lahm hoisted a 45-degree diagonal pass from the right into the penalty area, and Klose rushed the ball into the goal before Zeng Lei attacked, helping the German team expand the score to 2-0. It was Klose's 11th World Cup goal and he also equalled the record held by Jurgen Klinsmann.

At halftime, Forado had an exchange with the players of the Chinese team, and he told the players of the Chinese team that no matter how they play, we can't beat the German team, the outcome has already been decided, and our plan is not ready to score points on the German team, but we must not learn from Saudi Arabia and lose seven or eight goals, because in the end we may have to score small points with other teams, so we can score a few goals if we can score a few goals, and we can make the German team score a few goals less.

Assistant coach Yin Shengtie also said that against the German team, as long as we concede no more than five goals, the fans will not scold us.

After a nightmare first half, the spirit of the Chinese team in the second half finally relaxed, but the gap in strength is not the spirit can be made up, the second half played ten minutes, the German team scored another goal, this is Lahm side breakthrough cross, a scuffle in the penalty area, the ball touched in front of Muller, Muller with his knee to the goal, the score became 3:0.

The German team is notoriously serious, and after 3:0, they still refuse to give up, and it is still a rhythmic attack.

At this time, there is no need for anyone's encouragement and cheering, and the players of the Chinese team also understand that if you fight against the German team, if you don't resist, you will definitely die more ugly than Saudi Arabia.

Almost without warning, the Chinese team, led by Chen Yu, launched a counter-offensive, and the focus of the attack was on the side of Bad Stuber.

In front of others, Bad Stuber may not be the weakness of the German team, but in front of Chen Yu, in addition to height and strength, everything else is weakness, Chen Yu easily broke through his defense and passed the ball into the penalty area.

The Chinese players in the middle also suddenly invested a lot of troops, and four players inserted into the penalty area at the same time to grab points.

The German team spared no effort when attacking, but it really didn't pay attention to the defense, and the landing point was grabbed by Zheng Hua of the Chinese team, Zheng Hua was jealous of Neuer's save, shook his head to attack the goal, and tried to push the bottom right corner of the goal, but Zheng Hua did not control it well, and the ball flew out of the bottom line against the goalpost.

The Chinese team's attack was not short-lived, after the German team kicked the goal, the ball was grabbed by the Chinese team, and then handed over to Chen Yu to launch a counterattack again.

Chen Yu still broke through from the side of Bad Stuber, this time Bad Stuber learned his lesson, fouled Chen Yu in advance, was shown a yellow card by the referee, and the Chinese team got a free kick opportunity on the side.

Facing the German team's human wall of more than 1.85 meters high, Chen Yu was not afraid and tested the German goalkeeper Neuer again with a fluttering elevator ball.

Neuer is worthy of being the most talented young goalkeeper, he judged Chen Yu's ball accurately, and flew to save the ball from the bottom line.

Although the two attacks of the Chinese team did not seize the opportunity, they greatly improved the morale of the players and fans.

Although the German team still doesn't take the Chinese team to heart, it also pays a little attention to defense, which pays a little attention, and the Chinese team has no chance to attack, and is once again suppressed in its own half of the defense.

In the 70th minute, the German team extended the score again, Ozil broke through the pass to the penalty area on the left, followed up with an easy outflanking and broke the net, expanding the score to 4-0.

After leading by four goals, the German team still did not give up the attack, and continued to attack the Chinese team's penalty area, seemingly treating the Chinese team as another Saudi Arabia.

The Germans have regarded the Chinese team as a fish belly on the board at this time, and did not take into account the counterattack of the Chinese team at all, they just scored the fourth goal, and the Chinese team counterattacked again.

Germany's two major central defenders, Medssack and Friedrich, lacked nothing, but they turned slowly, Chen Yu saw the two, and when they turned around, China's wind-chasing teenager had surpassed them.

Seeing that Qu Bo was about to get a chance to score a single goal, he never thought that Neuer had rushed out of the big penalty area when he saw that the situation was not good, and shoveled the ball out of the sideline before Qu Bo.

A great opportunity was lost like this, and Chinese fans all sighed, playing against a strong team like Germany, such an opportunity is rare, and it is likely that it will never be again in the future.

Sure enough, the German team strengthened the protection behind them, and the opportunity for the Chinese team to play behind them was lost again.

It's just that the game has just been played for 73 minutes, and there is still a lot of time behind, and the Germans don't like to consume garbage time with their opponents, so they recycled for a while, and soon attacked the Chinese team, as if they wanted to completely knock out the fighting spirit of the Chinese team.

However, the idea of the Chinese team is not on the same channel as the idea of the Germans, the Chinese players only want to complete a goal in the World Cup, and they don't care so much about winning or losing, no matter how many goals the German team scores, their idea of attacking will not disappear.

In the 80th minute of the game, Zheng Hua of the Chinese team won the ball, he deducted a German player who grabbed it, and saw that Chen Yu was already running to ask for the ball, Zheng Hua decisively hoisted the ball behind the German central defender.

Chen Yu slid diagonally through the gap between the German central defenders and full-backs with lightning speed to grab the landing point of the ball.

Seeing that it was impossible for the two centre-backs to grab the ball first, Neuer once again burst out of the box and ran towards the spot where the ball landed.

Neuer thought he was fast, but Chen Yu was faster, and when he realized that he only had half the chance of touching the ball first, Neuer had no way to retreat, so he could only rush forward.

Chen Yu arrived one step ahead of Neuer, pushed the ball to the side, dodged Neuer's rush, took three steps and made two steps, stopped the ball with his left foot on the side, and without waiting for Neuer to return, Chen Yu decisively pumped to the goal with his right foot.

The ball flew accurately into the net from a distance of more than 30 meters, and Chen Yu scored the first goal of the World Cup for the Chinese team, and also rewrote the score to 4:1.

Chinese fans have been waiting for this moment for more than 40 years, and now it has finally come true, and the fans in front of the TV are cheering to celebrate the Chinese team's breakthrough in the World Cup.

The subsequent German team was a little annoyed and angry, and wanted to continue to attack and expand the score, but the Chinese team also found a magic weapon to deal with the German team's onslaught, that is, to hang the ball behind the German team, Chen Yu Qu Bo is a speed master, after a few counterattacks, although he did not get the ball, but the Germans were afraid, anyway, the game was won, the score was not small, the German team gave up the onslaught, retreated to the midfield, and was ready to call it a day.

The Germans stopped playing, but the Chinese were unwilling, and the Chinese players adhered to Taizu's guerrilla tactics, the enemy advanced and retreated, and the enemy retreated and I advanced, but launched an attack on the German team.

The German team was angry and harassed by the Chinese team, and was ready to teach the Chinese team a lesson, but was almost counterattacked by the Chinese team again, but Qu Bo's ability to grasp the opportunity was too poor and was saved by goalkeeper Neuer.

At this moment, the game time is gone, the Chinese team and the German team can no longer afford to score, and finally the German team defeated the Chinese team 4:1 and won the first game of the group stage.

Although the Chinese team lost the game, they did not gain nothing, and getting a World Cup goal can be regarded as a preliminary meeting of the fans' requirements.