Chapter 41: The atmosphere at home is frenetic

When the game began, there was a huge cheer in the Mineiro stadium, which was given to the Brazilian team, not the Chinese team.

As hosts, the atmosphere at home here is very strong.

With a capacity of 62,547 fans, it is the second largest stadium in Brazil.

Today, the Arena Mineiro is almost entirely a sea of yellow as far as the eye can see, and the stadium is overwhelmingly populated by Brazilian fans.

However, although there are few Chinese fans, the red color is quite conspicuous in a patch of yellow, which is quite easy to find.

After kick-off, the on-site commentator He Ping began to introduce the starting lists of both sides in this game.

Compared with the previous game, the starting lineup of the Chinese team in this game only made one adjustment in the forward position, replacing Wu Lei with Gao Lin.

Gao Lin was in the center, and He Ying went to the right.

The rest of the location is exactly the same.

On the Brazilian side, Scolari replaced Paulinho, who had a poor performance in the group stage, with Manchester City defender Fernandinho, and there were no other major changes.

Neymar and Hulk are all there.

The center forward is also still Fred.

The referee of this game is Webb, a famous referee from England.

Anyone who has played in England or the Champions League will be familiar with this referee.

Zhou Yi has had Weber's game experience, the most impressive of which was the second leg of the Dortmund semi-finals last season, the away game against Real Madrid, Webber was the referee.

However, at the national team level, Webber has never officiated the Chinese team before, after all, the last time the Chinese team participated in the World Cup was in 2002.

Brazil played Chile in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in South Africa four years ago, and Weber was the referee. In that game, Brazil defeated Chile 3-0 to advance to the quarterfinals thanks to goals from Juan Fabiano and Robinho.

So if I had to say it, Webber was the referee who brought good luck to Brazil. It is not known if Webber will continue to bring them good luck in this match.

He Ping was introducing the starting lists of the two sides, while the Brazilian commentator talked about the history of the two teams: "This is the second time we have played against China in the World Cup. The last time was in 2002, when we won the World Cup. In the second round of the group stage, we defeated the Chinese team 4-0 at that time......"

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After the start of the game, the Brazilian team took advantage of their home advantage and launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team's goal.

In the opening four minutes, after Neymar got the ball in the middle circle, he faced the defense of Zhou Yi and Yang Muge, and chose to break through with the ball from the middle.

He wiped Zhou Yi away, but was pushed to the ground by Yang Muge in time.

Referee Webb made the first foul penalty of the game, awarded Yang Muge a foul and gave a verbal warning.

"The Chinese team has to defend Neymar today, and his breakthrough will be a big threat......," He Ping said.

If you want to talk about today's Brazil, who is the most feared by the Chinese team, it must be Neymar.

Neymar is also the only one in Brazil's starting lineup who has not played against Zhou Yi.

Brazil won a free-kick in front of the goal, they hit the Chinese team's penalty area, Hulk jumped up to head the goal, the ball was lifted off the crossbar by Sun Pan, and Brazil won a corner.

Hulk then runs for a corner.

After the corner kick came out, it was cleared by Feng Xiaoting's header, Marcelo got the second drop point outside, and after he adjusted, he directly shot with his left foot.

After the ball made an arc, it still missed the goal.

The Brazilian fans in the stands almost cheered.

Marcelona's goal did not score, but it sounded the clarion call for the Brazilian team to attack the whole country.

In the twelfth minute, Brazil played a beautiful combination in front.

Hulk took the ball down the left flank and broke forward, and in the face of two Chinese players, he chose to pass the ball to Neymar, who picked him up in the middle, and then continued to run forward himself.

Neymar was facing away from the direction of the attack, and Guo Nu couldn't turn around, so he rubbed the football behind him with the outside instep of his right foot, and passed it back to Hulk, who was inserted in front!

Hulk accelerated into the box, but China's right-back Zhang Linpeng followed him all the way. When Hulk got the football into the penalty area, he made physical contact with Zhang Linpeng, and then he fell in the box.

When Hulk threw himself to the ground, there were loud boos and shouts from the stands at the Mineiro Stadium.

Brazilian fans rose from their seats and waved their arms into the stadium.

They thought it was a penalty.

But the referee Webber didn't say anything.

The Brazilian coach on the sidelines, Scolari, was stunned for a moment, and then shouted angrily: "How can this not be a penalty?!"

Chinese commentator He Ping was also worried: "Hulk fell in the penalty area, the Chinese team should be careful!"

Then the slow motion of the TV broadcast showed that Zhang Linpeng and Hulk did have a physical contact, and his hand did have a movement to push outward, but it was not very obvious, and the power of this action should not make Hulk fall to the ground so easily, you must know that Hulk is very strong, just like a humanoid tank, how can it be pushed down so easily?

Even if Zhang Linpeng made a move in his hand, Hulk was also suspected of fake falling and touching porcelain.

"It's not a penalty, Webb sees it clearly!" He Ping breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the Brazilian commentator held another view: "This is a penalty! The No. 5 player of the Chinese team has an obvious push action! Weber turned a blind eye! It seems that Zhou Yi's words before the game really played a role, so that the referee did not even dare to adhere to the normal penalty scale, for fear of being labeled as 'taking care of the host'!"

When he said this, he was indignant, and there was a kind of unhappiness that made Zhou Yi succeed.

Hulk went down for the first controversial decision of the game and Scolari was still chattering, but he couldn't change the decision.

Fortunately, the Brazilian players were not affected by the decision, and they continued to attack the Chinese goal with home advantage.

In the seventeenth minute, Brazil attacked again and reached the front of the Chinese team's penalty area, Neymar passed a ball to the left, and when he wanted to give Hulk, Yang Hao, who was about to defend himself, saw that the football was about to fly past him, and his brain was hot, and he suddenly stretched out his hand and blocked the football......

"Eh, eh, it's handball!" exclaimed the Brazilian commentator. "It's a deliberate handball!

"Yang Hao's foul ......" He Ping was also quite speechless, this was not a threatening pass, even if Yang Hao couldn't stop it, he didn't have to block it with his hands...... As a midfielder, if you get a yellow card for such a stupid reason, it will be very bad for the rest of the game. "Yang Hao is still a little nervous, probably affected by the home atmosphere of this game......"

The atmosphere at Brazil's home stadium in this match was indeed very frenetic, and at all times, the stands were filled with the shouts and songs of Brazilian fans. As long as the Brazilian team takes the ball and pushes forward, whether it threatens the Chinese team's goal or not, it will be a huge cheer, so loud that it makes people's hearts extremely uncomfortable.

In addition, when the Chinese players get the ball, there will be a burst of boos. Of course, there are not many boos enjoyed by other Chinese players, mainly Zhou Yi, who will be particularly booed whenever Zhou Yi touches the ball. Zhou Yi's remarks before the game successfully aroused the disgust of Brazilian fans for him.

Referee Weber did not let go of the foul of the Chinese team this time, he not only gave the Brazilian team a free kick on the left side of the front, but also gave Yang Hao a yellow card.

Brazil then took the free-kick from Hulk. His free-kick went around the wall and into the near corner of the net.

However, such a free kick is difficult to break through Sun Pan's ten fingers.

Sun Pan rose into the air and sealed the football out of the bottom line.

Brazil won a corner.

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The previous corner was taken by Hulk, but this time Brazil changed the corner serve, and Neymar ran to play this corner.

He kicked the ball to the front point.

The Chinese team also strengthened the defense of the front point when defending, after all, it was a very threatening way to score from a corner.

The captain of the Brazilian national team, Thiago Silva, really jumped high in front of the point to head the ball!

Guo Nu, who was not as tall as him, fought with Thiago Silva in front of him with his excellent bounce, but he was squeezed behind by Thiago Silva, who still got the ball ahead of him.

It's just that under Guo Nu's interference, he couldn't head the goal, so he could only rub the football to the back point.

This rub caught the Chinese team's defense off guard.

Sun Pan originally blocked Thiago Silva's header at the front point, and the Chinese team's defensive center of gravity was also relatively forward.

Unexpectedly, Thiago Silva rubbed football to the back point!

At the back point, there's David Ruiz!

But in front of David Ruiz, there is Yan Min who retreated to the front of the goal to defend.

Yan Min saw the football flying over, and reflexively raised his leg backwards, as if a horse was about to raise his hind legs to kick someone, this was completely a subconscious action, he wanted to block the football before David Ruiz.

But David Ruiz clinged to him in the back and also lifted his legs, and the legs of the two men collided together, which caused Yan Min to lose control of his legs.

The ball hit his calf and bounced off the line into the unmarked goal......