Chapter 196: Breaking the Ground
However, the most attractive thing about this game is not that Gao Hong wants to appear in person.
Instead, his starting lineup is full of Chinese players or Chinese players.
It's so much to think about.
Under the leadership of world-class coach Lippi, the Chinese national team first drew with the powerful Philippine team, and then lost to the Asian powerhouse Syria by another goal, and with the help of several naturalized players, stumbled into the top 12 of the Asian World Preliminary Tournament.
With the current level of this Chinese team, it seems that there is little hope of making it out of the top 12.
However, the Espanyol team led by Gao Hong, although it is called the Espanyol team, is really all Chinese players or Chinese players, in a sense, it is more orthodox than the current Chinese team of the 'Brazilian three teams' in China.
If it weren't for the restrictions of foreign leagues, it is estimated that Gao Hong would have no problem forming a club team with all Chinese players.
Moreover, the average age of this team is less than 18 years old, and the other players in the team except Gao Hong are all in the age group of 16 to 19 years old, and they seem to truly represent the future of Chinese football.
And now this more orthodox Chinese team will face the giant club Red Army Liverpool.
In the past, no matter how much domestic fans cared about Espanyol's game, it was also a match between foreign clubs.
But now the meaning of this game is different.
Because of the starters on the field, the game was more like a battle to defend the country's reputation.
The white chickens of the national football team have high salaries, refuse to train well for all kinds of pleasures, and have long lost their sense of shame and national honor in their hearts.
Although Gao Hong was banned by the Chinese Football Association, he has been fighting for national honor!
What a noble and great spirit this is!
The foreign sports media apparently followed the game as well.
Some media even directly joked that this is China's U18 echelon.
If the European giants are cut down by the Chinese U18 echelon, it still feels very faceless.
After all, Chinese football has always been very backward, and in front of Europe and South America, it has always been a primary school student who can't hold his head up.
Now the schoolchildren actually sent the U18 team to play against the senior team of their big club.
If Gao Hong's team wins this game, where will the face of the entire European football world go?
Of course, these media outlets are not worried.
Because they feel that Gao Hong's team, leaving Chiro Immobile, leaving stars such as Werner, Pique, and Alba, will plummet by one level in terms of strength, and has no strength to confront the Reds Liverpool head-on.
Even an unnamed player from Liverpool told reporters that Gao Hong's actions made them angry, thinking that Gao Hong looked down on their strength and would make Gao Hong suffer with a hearty victory.
The race is on.
What is the difference between Gao Hong, the 'legendary football king' and other players...... In addition to a whole bunch of skills, the main thing is that he has a small map in his field of vision.
It's clear where the opposing players are standing and where the other teammates are on the field.
Espanyol is in a formation of 432.
One less person.
Because Gao Hong set up a free man formation.
He played the role of a free man.
After the start of the game, I saw Gao Hong running all over the field, when Liverpool attacked, Gao Hong returned to the back line to participate in the team's defense, and when the Espanyol team attacked, Gao Hong was dispatched in the midfield, and even rushed to the front court to participate in the attack.
About ten minutes into the game, Gao Hong dribbled the ball in the midfield, and after a dazzling move past the opponent's back, he shot a powerful long-range shot from 35 meters away, and the ball did not even draw an arc, like a detached cannonball, directly hitting the dead corner of the Liverpool net.
The goalkeeper saw the route of the ball and made a save, but in the end, only his fingers barely rubbed the ball, because the speed of the ball was too fast, although the goalkeeper rubbed it, but the ball almost didn't change the route and crashed directly into the net!
Onslaught!
There was silence in the stadium before the Chinese and Espanyol fans who came to watch the game cheered a moment later.
Gao Hong made his debut after coming on the field, and a long-range shot like the god of war Barty began his killing road on the field.
In the seventeenth minute, Gao Hong rushed forward from the left flank like Thierry Henry, cut inside to break through the defense of two Liverpool players, and fired a powerful shot at the top of the left arc of the penalty area, and the goalkeeper looked at the ball again and sighed.
The score became 2-0.
In the 23rd minute, Gong Chenglong broke through the bottom on the right side, passed the ball back to the penalty area, Gao Hong jumped high, like a golden bomber Klinsmann, and suddenly smashed the ball into the ground on the side of the goalkeeper and bounced into the net, and the goalkeeper didn't even have time to make a save.
In the 32nd minute, Liverpool made a wonderful pass to the side, Salah rode straight into the Espanyol penalty area, and the defenders defending him were thrown away directly, but Gao Hong near the midfield chased back to the penalty area at a high speed faster than Usain Bolt, and at the moment when Salah was about to kick, he stretched out his foot to steal the ball with lightning speed, and successfully resolved a defensive crisis for the team.
In the 41st minute, Gao Hong ran along the right side, Yuan Qiang made a diagonal pass in the air on the left side, Gao Hong ball arrived, and volleyed directly without stopping the ball at a near-zero degree angle, the ball broke into the net with a bit of coldness and unstoppable, and the goalkeeper of Liverpool was stunned.
The scene is reminiscent of Van Basten in 1988.
In the 45th minute, the Liverpool team attacked the Espanyol penalty area, Salah skillfully passed Mane, the goalkeeper was forced to abandon the goal, Mane shook the goalkeeper and then shot hard, seeing that the Liverpool team was about to score the first goal of the game, but I didn't expect a player from the Espanyol team to return to the side of the goal at high speed, and when the ball was about to be shot into the empty goal, he shoveled it with a foot, and forced the ball to fly out of the bottom line above the lintel.
Mane is shooting instead of passing, this ball defender is extremely difficult to save, and it is not at all comparable to the own goal defended by Zhang Moss when Syria played against China in the first round of the world preliminary group stage.
However, the Espanyol player did just that, helping the goalkeeper keep the goal intact.
When the fans came back to their senses and the cameras focused on the defender, everyone noticed that it was not a few defenders of the Espanyol team who had just completed the remedial feat, but Gao Hong, a free man!
The front court scored three overhead kicks, intercepted and tackled Salah at high speed, and this time he actually made up for the goal, how much physical energy does it take to complete all this?
In the first half, Espanyol temporarily took a three-0 lead.
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