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But it is not so easy for the national football team to score a goal against Japan.

Mori Baoyi made a targeted arrangement, preferring to let the national football team shoot rather than easily create fouls in his own backcourt, cutting off the possibility of the national football team getting a free kick in front of the court from the source.

In addition, in front of the Japanese team, the national football players actually do not have any advantage in passing and receiving, and often make mistakes in passing out of the line, and it is difficult to create excellent shooting opportunities through normal strings.

So the scene looked lively, but in fact, no one could help anyone.

Although the Japanese team is ahead of all Asian teams in terms of technology, the national football team still needs to be taller and stronger in terms of physical fitness.

However, the two forwards of the Japanese team, Yuya Osako and Hiroshi Furuhashi, are really strong and can often get shooting opportunities, but this kind of conventional shooting is difficult to test Zheng Yaxin.

Towards the end of the first half, Mori took the lead in making adjustments, allowing Yuta Nakayama and Ritsu Doan to start warming up on the sidelines, depending on the situation, the Japanese team was going to be under pressure in the second half.

There is no change in the national football team, and it is still playing according to the tactical style before the game, and when attacking, at least six players will press it; When defending, at least 8 people retreated, leaving only Wu Lei and Exxon standing near the middle line, waiting for a counterattack.

This tactical style of play was learned by the national football team from Arsenal, and it is very useful to play counter-attacks.

The two strikers only need to make a stop in the middle line, and they can contain at least three opposing defenders, so that they do not dare to press too hard.

At the beginning, Arteta saw that Zheng Yaxin's goalkeeping ability was top-notch, and ordinary shots could not be difficult for him at all, so he studied this style of play with a wit - when the opponent attacked with the ball, he kept two players in the middle line, and stepped on the middle line and waited for counterattacks.

The core of this tactic is that I bet that you can't shoot the goal, and then as soon as you get the ball in the backfield and counterattack, the striker will be single-handed.

The national football coach Dapeng is now sacrificing this tactic, just to let Wu Lei and Exxon give full play to their speed advantages and reduce the pressure on the national football team when the Japanese team attacks with the ball.

This style of play has also been practiced many times in previous targeted training.

It can be said that this style of play is tailor-made for Zheng Yaxin, specializing in the oppressive play of strong teams with the ball.

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The time soon came to the end of the first half, and after the Japanese team recovered some physical strength, they began to frequently press over the middle line and press the national football team in the half of the attack.

But the national football players did not panic at all, even if they couldn't grab the ball and were repeatedly caught by the Japanese team to shoot at goal, but they still insisted on their rhythm.

Zheng Yaxin's side, as soon as he seized the opportunity, immediately drove the ball to the frontcourt, trying to let Wu Lei and Exxon fight one-on-one with the Japanese defenders.

Wu Lei and Exxon also each caught a defensive omission of the Japanese team and formed a two-footed shot on goal, which shocked Shuichi Gonda in a cold sweat.

And when the game reached the 45th minute of the first half, Exxon grabbed the ball with Yuto Nagatomo on the right side of the front field and won a free kick opportunity for the national football team.

The ball was out of the way and far from the goal.

I think if it weren't for the bias of this ball, Nagatomo Yudu wouldn't have fouled at all.

In his opinion, no matter how good Zheng Yaxin's free kick skills are, this kind of ball that is far away from the goal is impossible to choose to hit the goal directly and still score it, right?

However, it is clear that Nagatomo Yu has miscalculated.

At the first time when the referee blew the whistle and signaled the Chinese team to get a free kick, Zheng Yaxin ran over from the backfield at the speed of a 100-meter sprint and stood at the penalty spot.

As soon as this posture came out, Japanese goalkeeper Shuichi Gonda was suddenly nervous.

He had studied Zheng Yaxin's ten-corner elevator ball, and he knew how difficult that kind of ball was to defend, and he was not sure that he could save this kind of ball.

Although the ball was more than 30 meters away from the goal and the angle was also off, the elevator ball could not be guessed by common sense.

Zheng Yaxin stood behind the ball, glanced ahead, calculated the angle, and raised his foot to shoot a powerful shot, and his thumb and toe were the ball (the special touch part of the elevator free kick).

Then he craned his neck and looked away.

The ball arced in an erratic arc over the wall, over the small half of the pitch, and shot precisely at the back post on the left side of the penalty area.

Bang ——!!

The ball slammed into the crossbar and bounced back at the junction of the crossbar and the post.

I saw that Wu Lei didn't know when he had appeared in this position, jumped up lightly, and made up the ball into the empty goal with his head.

Beep ——!

The referee blew the whistle decisively to signal that the goal was valid.

The entire Khalifa Stadium immediately resounded with deafening cheers.

The Chinese team is ahead!

"The goal went !!!"

"China 1-0 Japan!"

"Supplementary shot from Wu Lei!"

"At the end of the first half, the Chinese team won a set-piece on the right side of the front, Zheng Yaxin's free kick bypassed the human wall, smashed on the crossbar and bounced back, Wu Lei was alert with his head, and the ball went in!"

This goal directly ignited the passion of Coach Zhan, and the entire live broadcast room was filled with his half-hoarse roar.

On the field, with the cheers of the fans, Wu Lei trotted all the way to Zheng Yaxin and high-fived each other to celebrate.

After high-fives, he was still excited, raised his arms vigorously, and shouted loudly at the fans.

"Leizi, well done!!"

The teammates followed Wu Lei all the way and rushed to the area where the Chinese fans were, so excited that they kept pulling their jerseys and shouting to celebrate this hard-won goal.

At this time, Zheng Yaxin had already retreated to the door, hiding his merit and fame.

"1-0, now the pressure goes to the Japanese team, if this score is maintained until the end, then the Chinese team will win two consecutive victories, and the Japanese team will have two consecutive defeats."

"It is said that before the start of the round of 12, an interesting thing happened. At that time, Japanese reporter Kosumi Mano interviewed Zheng Yaxin and asked which three teams in Group B could finally qualify, and Zheng Yaxin replied that it was the Chinese team, the Saudi team, and Australia. ”

"At that time, the Japanese domestic media also ridiculed this comment, thinking that Zheng Yaxin didn't understand football at all."

"However, looking back at the interview now, it seems that Zheng Yaxin's prediction is about to come true."

"If we lose the first two rounds in a row, the pressure on Japan to qualify will be very high."

In the live broadcast room of Gugu Sports, after Director Zhan celebrated, Director Zhang immediately talked about interesting things off the field.

1-0！

Time is running out for the Japanese team!

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Soon after the restart, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the half.

Players from both sides left the pitch one after another.

Italy

The home of the famous handsome Lippi.

When he saw the score of the Chinese team 1-0 Japanese team dominating the screen in the live broadcast screen, the former Chinese team coach Lippi who was idle at home couldn't help but clench his fists with both hands and cheered.

Although he has not yet agreed to China's invitation to serve as the coach of the national football team for the third time, he still inevitably pays attention to the national football team's game.

This look made him suddenly have an idea.

This group of players in this Chinese team is still the same group he coached at the beginning, the technology is still so good, and there are still so many mistakes, but it can be clearly felt that it is different.

It's not the same team as before.

This team has a soul!

Especially that goalkeeper (Zheng Yaxin), too strong.

With such a strong goalkeeper as the team's anchor, the Chinese team can actually produce results.

In that case, should you accept the invitation of the Chinese team for the third time?

Maybe, you can lead the Chinese team to stage a miracle.

Lippi smoked his pipe and fell into deep thought.

While Lippi was pondering, his wife Simonetta looked at him with a smile and was also cheering for the Chinese team's goal.

The Chinese team's goal looks like a balloon, but luck is also part of football, not to mention, in the opening stage, the Chinese team was missed a penalty.

Although the Japanese team has been besieging the Chinese team from the beginning to the present, taking advantage of it and passing by the goal several times, it was the Chinese team that took the lead in scoring the goal.

That's football.

It's not that the strong wins, but that the winner is strong.

After the excitement, Simonetta quickly came back to her senses, and she began to remember what Lippi had told her earlier.

"I'm 73 years old, and I really don't want to go out to coach anymore, but the Chinese team has given too much, and the results of leading the Chinese team to the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup before are more or less unreasonable."

"If this Chinese team has a future, I will think about it carefully."

Now, Lippi is really thinking about it!

Simonetta knows her husband, and the two have been married for 47 years and know each other too well.

She could tell that Lippi was moved.

If it had been before, Simonetta might have persuaded Lippi not to coach, after all, he was too old to go out of the mountains to toss.

Now, Simonetta feels that it is better for Lippi to decide on his own.

If he still has ambitions, then why not take over the Chinese team?

A person, no matter how old he is, always has to dream a little, doesn't he?

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