Chapter 9 The Collective of Unity

After the start of the second half of the game, the Chinese team was full of fighting spirit.

In the fiftieth minute, it was Yan Min who sent a cross from the right side, and Gao Lin headed the ball in front of the goal!

However, the goal was ruled offside......

"Gao Lin's header! The ball is in! Good goal!! the Chinese team equalized!!" The commentator Duan Xin was very excited, and couldn't wait to shout without waiting for confirmation.

There were also loud cheers at the scene.

But it soon became clear that something was wrong, and instead of pointing to the centre circle after the goal, the referee ran to the place where Gobayashi headed the ball and raised his arms high – a gesture for offside.

"Huh, offside?" Duan Xin was surprised.

Gao Lin, who was running to celebrate, turned around and found that his goal had been blown out, and he also waved his fist in dissatisfaction.

However, judging from the subsequent slow-motion replay, when Yan Min crossed, Gao Lin was indeed offside......

There is no problem with this decision.

"Alas...... It's a pity, it's a Duan Xin could only shake his head and sigh after watching the replay. "It was indeed offside......

"It doesn't matter, although it was offside, but the Chinese team was in good shape after the start of the second half, as long as they continue to play like this, I believe the goals will come. Zhang Lu said beside him.

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Zhang Lu is right, although the goal of the Chinese team is not counted because of offside. However, the morale of the Chinese players was not affected, and they continued to attack the Chilean goal after that. Yan Min played a very important role in this, and his breakthrough with the ball made it difficult for the Chilean players to defend.

Chilean commentators even gave Yan Min the nickname, calling him "China's Robben". Because he is fast, he is also good at changing direction, he can cut inside and cross from the wing, and his technical characteristics are somewhat similar to Robben's. However, Yan Min has more hair than Robben......

Just three minutes after Gao Lin's offside goal, in the fifty-third minute, He Ying pulled to the side to cross, defensive midfielder Yang Muge suddenly inserted into the penalty area, and after receiving He Ying's pass in the middle, he shot hard!

The soccer ball rolls against the turf to the near corner of the goal!

"The chances of the Chinese team ——!"

In Duan Xin's roar, Chilean goalkeeper Bravo fell to the ground to save, pushed the football out with his hand, and the rescue was successful!

The Pantanal Arena resounded at the same time with the breathing voices of Chilean fans and the exclamations of Chinese fans.

Then in the 57th minute, Chile tried to attack, but when Sanchez was in the middle circle with the ball, he encountered Yang Muge's frontal interception, he wanted to force a breakthrough, but Yang Muge stabbed the football behind him, and at the same time he couldn't stop the car and hit Yang Muge, and the two fell to the ground at the same time, but the football had been picked up by He Ying, who had retreated.

He dribbled the ball into the Chilean penalty area.

The Chinese fans in the stands cheered loudly and cheered him on.

Facing the defense of two Chilean defenders, He Ying was not very fast with the ball at first, and when he was about to bring it to the line of the big penalty area, fullback Zhang Linpeng chased after him from behind, and then cut inside to move closer to the middle.

He Ying suddenly accelerated, and wanted to bring the football to the bottom line, causing the Chilean defenders to follow and press to the bottom line. In this way, Zhang Linpeng is exactly in the vacant position.

He Ying immediately knocked the football over with his heel!

"Heel pass!

Zhang Linpeng, who got a great opportunity, rounded his right leg and volleyed vigorously!

But the ball shot high and flew off the baseline......

"Oops—yaw!" this time it was Zhang Lu who couldn't help but sigh. "This ball, Zhang Linpeng, I want to exert my strength so much......"

Zhang Linpeng, who shot high, covered his mouth with both hands, looking very regretful and annoyed.

Zhou Yi, who was on the sidelines, slapped hard and shouted to his teammates in the field: "It's okay, it's okay!

He didn't care if his teammates could hear his voice, he looked like a coach at this time......

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Of course, the Chilean team is not completely passive.

The Chinese team's fierce attack means that the Chilean team has a chance to counterattack.

In the 60th minute, the Chilean team organized an attack in front of the Chinese team's penalty area, and Sanchez suddenly sent a diagonal straight stopper.

The football passed diagonally through the Chinese team's defense and came behind them, and on the left side of the penalty area, Vargas squeezed forward and received the ball behind the Chinese team's defense!

Sun Pan abandoned the goal when Sanchez passed the ball and pounced on Vargas.

Vargas didn't have a chance to adjust to the shot, he could only use his instinct to stab him!

The ball was blocked by Sun Pan's foot, but it still stubbornly rushed over and rolled towards the goal......

"Look at this ball-" Duan Xin shouted in horror, if this goal is scored again, the Chinese team will fall behind by two goals again, and the game will not be easy to play. This is definitely a heavier blow to the morale of the Chinese team!

Just after the football was about to roll into the goal, Guo angrily slapped the horse, fell to the ground and turned around at the same time to tackle, and kicked the football out on the goal line!

"Guo Nu ——!" Duan Xin roared as if Guo Nu had scored a goal, "At the last moment, Guo Nu kicked the football out!

But the Chilean players made sense, and they protested to the referee, believing that the goal had been scored when Guo Nu cleared the ball.

However, this protest did not affect the referee's judgment, as the goal-line technology was also introduced in this World Cup, and FIFA finally caught up with the trend......

After the return defense of the goal-line technology, you can clearly see that when Guo Nu cleared the siege, the football did press the line, but it was only about one-fifth on the line, and the other four-fifths were still outside. According to FIFA rules, the ball must be over the goal line in its entirety in order to be counted, not even a trace of projection on the goal line.

Not to mention such an obvious no-get.

So it's useless for Chile to protest, the goal just didn't go in.

After Sun Pan got up, he saw Guo Nu clearing the football on the goal line, and this time he did not "taunt" him, but hugged him hard to show his gratitude.

"It was really touching to see Sun Pan hugging Guo Nu at the moment...... "Later, some netizens reviewed the game on the Internet that impressed him deeply. "Everybody's trying, everybody's trying. It's a moving sight of the team coming together and working towards the same goal. I know the future of this team is limitless!"

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"Chile lost a great opportunity to extend its lead...... while the Chinese side rejoiced, the Chilean TV commentator regretted that he kept shaking his head in the commentary seat. "After being bombarded by the Chinese team, we had a chance to end this embarrassment and embarrassment...... Now the suspense continues, we are only one goal ahead, and this is very, very dangerous!"

Sampaoli obviously knew this, so he made a substitution immediately after the goal was not scored.

He replaced Vidal with Felipe Gutiérrez.

After Vidal was replaced, he angrily threw his sweat wipe on the ground with a towel. I don't know if he was dissatisfied with Sampaoli's early substitution, or if he was dissatisfied with his own performance in this game.

His performance in this game was indeed lackluster, as Juventus' main midfielder, Vidal has more responsibility in the national team, he is the heart of the Chilean team's midfield, can attack and defend well. A well-in-form Vidal with Sanchez will definitely make the Chinese team even more embarrassed.

But ahead of the World Cup, Vidal suffered from injuries. Because of a meniscus injury in his right knee, he also underwent surgery on May 7. At the time, it was assumed that Vidal would miss the World Cup if he chose to undergo surgery just over a month before the start of the World Cup. How quickly did you expect Vidal to recover. Training with the ball began at the beginning of June and a few days later, he came off the bench in a friendly against Northern Ireland and was involved in Chile's first goal.

At the time, Chilean fans were thrilled.

But there are also those who are worried that Vidal is so anxious to make a comeback. Chile's well-known newspaper Mercury interviewed Cugart, who had surgery for Vidal, and the latter's answer was indeed not optimistic: "If you let Vidal play before July 7 – less than two months before he had surgery – his injury is likely to recur." ”

However, Vidal is confident that he will definitely be able to play in the first group game of the World Cup against China.

Now it seems that he has caught up, but the price he paid is that he is sleepwalking, and he has no contribution to the team's offense or defense. It speaks volumes about how his knee isn't as good as he says it is, and injuries and surgeries have affected his performance.

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In the 65th minute, Chile won a corner.

Sanchez drove the corner kick, but it didn't form an attack, and the football was directly punched out by Sun Pan and hit outside the penalty area.

Yang Muge passed the football to Zheng Zhi, and Zheng Zhi passed the football to the group photo next to him before the opponent forced up.

When He Ying received the ball, there was a large space in front of him, and there was no one around him to interfere, so he threw the football five or six meters away, and then began to accelerate.

In addition to Yan Min in the Chinese team, He Ying is also a fast horse.

Chilean player Felipe Gutiérrez, who had just been substituted, also accelerated to stop He Ying.

But in the competition of speed, he fell behind.

When he was about to paste He Ying, He Ying once again swept the football away, and then accelerated to get rid of it, Gutierrez was afraid of fouls, raised his hands to show his innocence, but his feet were out of rhythm, and after stumbling a few steps, he could only look at He Ying in the dust.

"The Chinese team's counterattack! He Ying! Beautiful! He used his speed to break through Gutierrez's defense!"

After shaking off Gutierrez, He Ying took the ball to the middle.

At this time, there was only one Chilean central defender in front of him, and Yan Min stepped forward at high speed from the other side, keeping pace with him.

He Ying can either dribble the ball by himself or pass the ball to Yan Min, which makes it very difficult for the Chilean team to defend it, and they don't dare to come up to fight He Ying for fear of missing Yan Min.

This greatly reduced He Ying's pressure.

When He Ying dribbled the ball to the line of the big penalty area, he slowed down slightly, and then pulled the ball horizontally, making a posture of dribbling and cutting in.

led the Chilean central defender Medel, who was in front of him, to block the middle, but He Ying's left foot knocked the football from behind to the right!

Change direction and turn around at the same time!

Cut inside into the penalty area!

He Ying, who had just cut into the penalty area, used his right foot to take the football forward, and at this time, Gutierrez, who was chasing back to the penalty area, also shoveled the football with his foot, but he was too late to get off the foot and was not able to touch the football, but kicked He Ying's foot......

He Ying was shoveled in the penalty area by him......

Duan Xin was stunned for a moment at first, then quickly glanced at the referee, and found that the referee Duai blew the whistle and ran into the penalty area, and still didn't know whether He Ying would be sentenced to fake a fall or Gutierrez foul, but he couldn't wait.

Soon, the referee also made a decision, and he raised his hand to the penalty spot!

It's a penalty!

In the 65th minute, the Chinese team got a great opportunity to equalize!