Chapter 26: The Workers' Stadium (1)
"Cushion station, cushion platform, this is the third round of the group stage of the 2012 AFC Champions League broadcast by CATV Sports Channel, Beijing Guoan's home match against Japanese team Tokyo FC." At 20 o'clock in the afternoon of April 4th, in the TV sets of many domestic fans, the unique Beijing swallowing sound sounded repeatedly.
"Now the players of the two teams are coming out of the players, wearing the green jersey of Beijing Guoan, who is playing at home, and wearing the red and blue top and blue shorts of Tokyo FC from Japan's J-League. We can see that the broadcast camera is constantly given to a young player in the Tokyo FC team, if fans and friends who have not watched the game recently may not know this fast-rising young player in the J League, this 21-year-old young player is not Japanese, he is a Chinese, only rose in the Japanese J League in the last month, we don't know much about him at present, but in the last round of the AFC Champions League he scored a long-distance goal at the home of Tokyo FC, helping Tokyo FC draw at home to the powerful Ulsan Hyundai, was also selected for the best team of the AFC Champions League in the last round. Football commentator Liu Jianhong was introducing.
Standing in Guoan's home stadium, Ringer was a little awkward. When he first came out of the players' tunnel, there was a loud cheering sound in the stadium, but now it was a buzz all over the field, and Ringer could hear that they were all talking about him, and even the little caddie holding him kept looking up at him, and Ringer felt as if he had turned into a giant panda and was constantly watched.
At this time, the fans who watched the AFC Champions League in front of the TV were also talking.
"He's Ringer, and this time he's finally alive."
"It is said that Japanese fans call him a Chinese Kaka, and he looks good, and he deserves the nickname of Chinese Kaka, but I don't know how his football skills are?"
"Guoan wants to win, no matter what Chinese Kaka or Chinese Messi he is, no matter who stands in front of him, he must be killed, otherwise our group qualification will really hang."
When the two sides shook hands before the game, most of the Guoan players looked at him when they shook hands with Ringer, and Ringer was even more speechless.
This is also caused by Ringer's special identity, at present, all players in China are players in the system, and now he suddenly has such a "outside the system" guy as Ringer, and he is rising quite fast, of course, everyone is curious to take a look at him.
In this game, Guoan arranged a 4231 formation, the purpose is very clear, multi-sided road crosses let the single arrow center foreign aid Kaludevich to grab points, this is a common way for China, South Korea and Australian teams to play Japanese teams, and the skills of fighting feet are definitely not enough, but Japanese defenders are often not tall enough, so seize this point to play, Kaludevich is a strong European center forward, very suitable for this job.
Japanese teams rarely have reliable defenders, especially centre-backs.
Tokyo FC is in a 442 formation, Ringer and Chima Watanabe start in the front, and Bobovic mainly wants to rely on the speed of Ringer and Watanabe to counterattack.
Although the fans and players alike were curious about Ringer, no one would be polite to him when the game started.
"Loot ~ Loot!" As soon as the game began, Bobovic on the sidelines shouted, which was the focus of his defense before the game, and the Chinese team often lacked skills at their feet, forcing them to make mistakes as much as possible.
"Tokyo FC opened with a fierce rush and broke the ball~ Xu Liang lost the ball under the joint pressure of Hasegawa and Hideto Takahashi, and stuffed it straight to the front, and Ringer took the ball!"
Ringer didn't expect to succeed in the opening press, and Bobovic, the big-mouthed coach, is still a bit level. Ringer received the ball, Guoan was suddenly cut off by the defense and was not prepared, and he took advantage of the situation and began to look for opportunities.
Ringer dribbled the ball, was very fast, and shook off Xu Liang in one fell swoop. The ribs ~ burst in! ”
"Ringer ~ Knock on the door!"
"Oh ~ Majic ~ He made a meritorious service, Ringer was very threatening this time, fortunately Majic rubbed his header up, and the ball flew out of the bottom line against the crossbar, if you don't rub it, then it flew directly to the dead corner of the goal, and most of the balls Hou Sen (goalkeeper) can't be saved."
"This Ringer who suddenly appeared is really not in vain, and he gave Guoan a disgrace at the beginning." Liu Jianhong said.
Guoan fans also breathed a sigh of relief, if the opening goal was broken, this game would be really difficult to play.
Bobovic on the sidelines was applauding Ringer and shouting for everyone to continue playing like this.
There are always all kinds of accidents on the field, and when accidents come, it is useless for the coach to arrange them well.
In the 8th minute, a normal cross from Guoan, Karudevich fell to the ground when he was competing for a header with Tokyo FC's central defender Kenichi Kaga in the penalty area, and finally the ball was cleared by Mato Morishige out of the sideline, but Kenichi Kaga in the box was lying on the ground and could not stand up.
“FXCK~~~!” Bobovic couldn't help but curse, and as soon as he saw Kenichi Kaga's painful appearance, he knew that the problem was probably not small, and this game was probably unplayable. However, Bobovic still held on to the last bit of hope and asked the team doctor to check on him, and if he was lucky, it was just a hard injury, the game had just begun, and he didn't want to use a substitution so early.
"Tokyo FC's starting central defender Kenichi Kaga seems to be injured, and the team doctor of Tokyo FC is currently checking on the field, and I don't know if he can still hold on."
"The referee signaled for Tokyo FC to carry people off the field first and then check, the game will continue, Tokyo FC did not make a substitution immediately, it seems that I still hope that Kenichi Kaga can continue to insist on the game, then I am afraid that Tokyo FC can only play one less person for the time being."
Now it was Guoan's sideline ball, Tokyo had one man less, and Ringer had to come back to help defend.
Guoan threw the sideline ball, defender Zhou Ting stepped forward to receive the ball, Zhou Ting, as a defender, may not be as good as a midfielder, but he clearly knew that at this time there was one less central defender on the opposite side, and the protection of the penalty area was relatively weak, so he had an idea and stuffed the ball straight into the Tokyo FC penalty area.
"Zhou Ting, beautiful through ball, Wang Changqing~ went in!"
"Wang Changqing, being pulled down, how can the referee judge?"
"Penalty ~ The referee pointed to the penalty spot! In just the 11th minute of the first half, Guoan was awarded a penalty, and Tokyo FC's defensive defender Hideto Takahashi also received a yellow card. Guoan won the penalty, and Li Jianhong was also excited.
All this changed too fast, in just three minutes, Tokyo FC first injured the central defender, and then immediately was seized by the opponent to attack, and finally won a penalty, the Workers Stadium resounded with huge cheers, Bobovic reacted, and immediately rushed to the sidelines and shouted: "Fake fall ~ That's fake fall!" But that only helped him win boos from the home fans and a warning from the fourth official.
It's no wonder Bobovic will be so out of shape, just now Guoan is to seize Tokyo FC one less central defender to stuff the ball into the penalty area, Takahashi is too late to make up for it, and he received a yellow card because of it, so this pot should be carried by head coach Bobovic, if he didn't expect Kenichi Kaga to continue to play, if he wasn't reluctant to make this substitution, then all this would not happen, Bobovic did pick up the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon.
In fact, to be precise, the sesame watermelon was lost, and the team doctor's detailed examination basically concluded that Kaga had a serious thigh muscle strain, and this one would definitely not be able to play, and now not only the substitution quota has to be used, but the team was also punished a penalty.
"Guoan will take this penalty by Wang Xiaolong to see if he can withstand the pressure."
"Wang Xiaolong~Run~Hit the door!"
"The ball went in, Tokyo FC's goalkeeper Shuichi Gonda gambled in the right direction and touched the ball, but Wang Xiaolong's penalty was very powerful, and the ball finally flew into the goal."
"Congratulations to Guoan, they took a 1-0 lead in just over ten minutes of the opening game, which is a good start."
At the beginning, Tokyo FC played more actively, and it seemed that there was an anti-guest meaning, but unexpectedly, after 10 minutes, the stadium was full of accidents, and Guoan seized the opportunity to score a goal and took the lead first.