Chapter Seventy-Four: The Veteran Twilight
Because of the poor performance on the offensive end, the Chinese team can only defend passively. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
But the Chinese team's defense is not too solid. Although there is a meritorious veteran Li Fengwei in the back line of the national team, Li Fengwei is already a 34-year-old veteran after all, and his physical condition has declined very seriously, and he looks a little embarrassed in the face of the impact of the Japanese team's attacking players Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa.
In fact, Li Fengwei still occupied a place in the history of the Sino-Japanese football confrontation, and there is a very famous photo in the Sino-Japanese football feud, which is the picture of Li Fengwei, the captain of the Chinese national team, smiling and pinching the captain of the Japanese national team, Keita Suzuki. It was the East Asian Cup in early 2008. Although the Chinese team lost the game 0:1 in that game, Li Fengwei's pinch was full of domineering and became a picture that people talked about after the game. At that time, the Japanese media and commentator Tsuki were very angry about this scene, and the Japanese media even thought it was a shameful scene for Japanese football.
But in fact, from the football itself, this is not a glorious thing, after all, if you lose the game, even if you choke someone's neck, what does it do?
Now, the 34-year-old Li Fengwei is facing the fierce attack of the new generation of the Japanese team, and gradually feels that he is unable to support himself.
In the twenty-fifth minute, Keisuke Honda passed Kagawa Shinji, after Kagawa Shinji received the ball, in the face of the defense of Li Fengwei, the captain of the Chinese national team, a feint suddenly accelerated after a feint, although Li Fengwei saw it, but his body could not react, half a beat slower, and he could only watch Kagawa Shinji burst into the penalty area from his other side, and then shot angrily, and the football flew into the goal guarded by Zeng Cheng.
"Beautiful!!!" the Japanese commentator shouted. "Shinji Kagawa!Shinji Kagawa!He opened the scoring for Japan!!"
At the Tokyo National Stadium, the cheers rang out like a volcanic eruption. After the national Olympic team lost to the Chinese team and lost the gold medal, Japanese fans also held back a fire in their hearts.
Now this anger can finally be vented.
"Danger! Oops!" Liu Hong exclaimed after Shinji Kagawa inserted himself into the penalty area, but in the end he was unable to prevent the Japanese team from scoring. "The Chinese team is behind on the road! The Chinese team's backline has been under pressure before, full of dangers, and it is like conceding goals at any time. It was too dangerous, but in the end the national team couldn't make it...... Li Fengwei was easily broken by Shinji Kagawa when defending head-on...... There is no way, the thirty-four-year-old Li Fengwei is already a veteran, even if he performs well in the Tianjin team, but the domestic league and the top ten competitions are still not at the same level......"
Li Fengwei's performance in the past two years has been really outstanding, at the beginning of this year, Li Fengwei was selected in the selection of the best artists in Asia on the British professional football website, as the best central defender, the website's evaluation of Li Fengwei is: Since leaving the South Korean K League to join the Tianjin team of the Chinese Super League, Li Fengwei's experience and changes over the years have some enlightenment for the entire Chinese football world. The veteran played a very important role in Tianjin's dressing room and helped them win the Chinese Football Association Cup.
Because of last year's outstanding performance, domestic public opinion has been calling on Gao Hongbo to give veterans a chance to make another contribution to the Chinese team's impact on the World Cup, including Li Fengwei and Zheng Zhi.
So after the top ten competition began, Gao Hongbo complied with the "public opinion" and recruited Li Fengwei, but Zheng Zhi was not recruited because of the complete conflict with Zhou Yi's role.
After Li Fengwei entered the national team, he became the captain by virtue of his qualifications. It must be said that Li Fengwei is still quite conscientious in the national team, and he also played a leading role in helping the coaching staff stabilize the locker room. In the past, there were many negative comments about Li Fengwei, believing that he was a bully who led players against coaches and clubs, and often couldn't control his temper on the pitch and ate cards, causing controversy.
However, as he grew older and more experienced, his temper gradually subsided, and now he is no longer the difficult to discipline ball bully.
Gao Hongbo's recruitment of Li Fengwei into the team was not only forced by the pressure of domestic public opinion, but also saw the changes in Li Fengwei.
But one thing to say, Li Fengwei's importance in the dressing room does not equate to his importance on the pitch. The intensity of the Chinese Super League and the FA Cup cannot be compared with the top 10 games in any case, which is related to who can go to the World Cup.
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After the goal, Shinji Kagawa excitedly ran to Keisuke Honda, who was giving him the assist, and the two Japanese players who played in Europe hugged each other, and the other Japanese players also rushed up to celebrate the goal excitedly.
In the forbidden area, Li Fengwei raised his head and closed his eyes in pain. He knew that it was his responsibility to lose the ball, and he couldn't argue or blame others, and he could only scold himself if he wanted to scold, which made him very aggrieved.
I want to be the "big head" who was dominant, and now it is difficult to resist the invasion of the years......
On the Chinese Internet, some fans who don't have a good opinion of Li Fengwei are scolding his defense for simply "defending with eyes", and some people question why Gao Hongbo recruited such an elderly player into the national team and gave him the opportunity to start.
"Why don't you start Guo Nu? Guo Nu's height is a little worse, but little Japan's height is not high!"
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After conceding the goal, Gao Hongbo finally got up from his seat, he walked to the sidelines, slapped the team and encouraged the team not to be discouraged by the conceded goal.
The substitute internationals sitting on the bench were also very annoyed by the conceded goal, Yang Muge and Guo Nu sat together, Guo Nu held his head in his hands and leaned on the back of the chair all of a sudden, although Yang Muge did not have such an exaggerated action, but also sighed.
For them, the Chinese team's defensive problems have actually greatly increased the possibility of them playing. For example, on the Internet, some people are calling for Gao Hongbo to replace the two of them and resist the attack of the Japanese team.
But the two of them on the sidelines didn't think about it that much at this moment, they were just sharing the fate with the eleven national team teammates on the field. I regret and regret the goal conceded by the Chinese team, and I don't think about whether I will get the possibility of playing because of this.
Zhou Yi turned his head to look at the old captain Li Fengwei, when he was still a fan, he watched Li Fengwei on the TV wearing the national team jersey and wearing the captain's armband, playing against players from Asian countries. He had a lot of controversy on and off the field, but there was no denying that he was the best centre-back in Chinese football at that time. His two headers against Uzbekistan and Qatar in the 2001 Top 10 made Xiao Zhouyi, who was still watching the game in front of the TV at the time, jump from his seat excitedly.
The Chinese team was able to reach the World Cup finals, and Li Fengwei also contributed to it.
The hero of Chinese football has now become the culprit of conceding goals.
The experiences in between made him sigh.
It's very hypocritical to say sympathy or something.
couldn't bear to watch the hero's twilight drama anymore, Zhou Yi turned his head away, and just happened to meet Kagawa Shinji's gaze.
As soon as the celebration ended, Shinji Kagawa set his sights on Zhou Yi.
The eyes of the two met in the air, and although they did not speak, Zhou Yi understood what Shinji Kagawa meant—he challenged himself with this goal.
However, Zhou Yi did not make any response, and looked away very calmly.
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After the restart of the game, the Japanese team took advantage of the momentum they had just taken the lead and continued to launch a fierce attack on the Chinese team's goal. Among them, Shinji Kagawa was very active.
Every time he catches the ball, passes and shoots, he immediately wins praise from the commentators on Japanese television.
Chinese commentator Liu Hong also repeatedly mentioned Shinji Kagawa's threat to the Chinese team's backline.
After conceding the goal, Li Fengwei obviously became the main target of the Japanese team in the attack, but fortunately he was not affected by the conceded goal, and he was still actively trying to defend. Although the frontal defensive ability has declined, he still has a very high level in the header battle, and the Japanese team occasionally comes to a cross from the side, which is directly pushed out by Li Fengwei.
But the Japanese team still comprehensively suppressed the Chinese team.
After conceding the goal, the Chinese team played very embarrassed, and for a while they couldn't even pass half time, He Ying was cruising in front and couldn't catch the ball at all.
The Chinese team's defense line is frequently urgent, and the sirens in front of the goal are constantly sounding.
"This ball is dangerous!"
"Danger!"
"It's so hanging!"
Commentator Liu Hong kept popping out of his mouth with such words.
The Chinese fans in front of the TV were also very nervous, and they were about to have a heart attack.
Fortunately, after conceding the goal, the Chinese team's shrinking defense still played a role, and Zhou Yi also actively participated in the defense, using his judgment of the Japanese team's ball path to interfere with the Japanese team's offensive organization. He had another direct conversation with Shinji Kagawa, when he was in front of Shinji Kagawa, Shinji Kagawa did not choose to break through, but passed the football sideways, which was regarded as avoiding Zhou Yi.
In the end, after the efforts of the whole Chinese team, until the end of the first half, the Japanese team was not able to expand the score.
When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the score was 1:0, and the Japanese team playing at home took the lead.
Liu Hong praised the Chinese team's performance after conceding the goal and looked forward to Gao Hongbo's adjustment at half-time.
The Japanese commentators, on the other hand, were a little disappointed that Japan did not extend the score in the first half.
But at the same time, he was still optimistic in his simple outlook for the second half, saying that if he continued to play like this, it should not be a problem for the Japanese team to win the Chinese team at home. (To be continued.) )