Chapter 127: Time is running out for the Chinese team
After the first round of the group stage, there are basically no unexpected scores in each group, and they should win and win, and they should not win and lose. Among them, there are a few eye-catching games, one is the Brazilian team in Group B 10:3 invited the little Xiba who grew up on the Korean Peninsula to take a beautiful bath, what a bloodbath! (Real score) in addition, the Asian Youth Championship runner-up Japan team drew 3:3 with the South American powerhouse, Santa Cruz sat in Paraguay (the 16-year-old Paraguayan center did participate in this Cup, and performed well).There is also Group E Argentina upset 3:4 lost to the Kangaroo Army, a wonderful offensive battle, the bull is Argentina's goal In addition to Riquelme's face-saving penalty in the end, the other future big names are collectively dumb, Instead, it was a young man named Sara Pastis from the Kangaroo Army who completed his senior year. How awesome is this? Baidu can't find any information at all, and a search for his name gives a picture of a blonde beauty and a monster that can discharge. In the end, the United Arab Emirates in Group F defeated Cisse's Ivory Coast team 2:0, yes, it was Cisse who was shoveled by Zheng Zhi and broke his leg, this is originally from Côte d'Ivoire, and his father is also a former Ivory Coast international, so it's a popular science. In addition, although Andy Lau is 17 years old at this time, he is also a player of appropriate age, but he was not selected for this national youth team, but was busy trying out at Paris Saint-Germain.
In the second round of the group stage, the opponent of the Chinese team is the African champion Ghana. The more famous players in this Ghana team later included Juventus' Stephen Brown. Appiah, Bayern Munich's decorated centre-back Kufuor, and Eredivisie PSV Eindhoven's Addo are a team that is stronger defensively than attacking. The offensive side is more dependent on the excellent physical fitness and nervous knife of African players, but compared to several other African teams in the competition, the Ghana team is better in terms of overall coordination. Ghana defeated the United States 1-0 in the first round with Ofriquaye's goal, although there was only one goal, but the Africans were completely dominant on the field, and if it were not for the help of the crossbar goalpost, the United States team would probably have conceded more than 3 goals.
In this game, both teams entered the state quickly, and in the opening 4 minutes, the Ghana team seized the shortcomings of Zhang Yonghai's slow turn on the Chinese team's back line, and striker Agogo received Appiah's through penalty spot and pushed a low flat ball into the far corner to score. Then the two sides fought fiercely around the control of the midfield, and the rhythm of the game became fragmented for a while, but fortunately, the fouls of the players of both teams were rushing to the ball and not rushing people, which made the referee's hanging heart slowly relaxed. The midfield stalemate lasted for about 20 minutes, and Ghana's right-back Hans Murphy was deadlocked. Salpe flashed half a body of space under Wu Chengying's close defense, and found the first-round goal hero Ofri Quaye at the back of the penalty area with a cross, the tall striker jumped high to press Li Weifeng to top a curling ball, Li Leilei even though he had moved quickly to the back point, he was still two fingertips away. In the 30th minute of the half, the Ghana team achieved a 2:0 advantage with speed and bounce respectively, which made the few Ghanaian fans on the scene extremely excited.
Mention Peter. On October 1, 1997, at the age of 17 years and 194 days, Ofri Wai played for Olympiacos of Greece and scored a goal against Norwegian Super League powerhouse Rosenborg, setting a new record for the youngest scorer in the Champions League, and this record has been engraved with Ofriquaye's name for 22 years before it was broken by Barcelona's Fati in Barcelona's 2-1 victory over Inter in the 2019 Champions League. Fathi was only 17 years and 40 days old at the time. The situation of the two who are both talented players is very different, Ofri Kwaye fell quickly in the years that followed, while Fati took over the No. 10 shirt of the coal boss and renewed his contract with Barcelona until 2027, with liquidated damages of up to 1 billion euros.
Every time we meet an interesting player and an interesting thing that happens in a game, we will stop and share it with you and relive it, and this time is no exception. Okay, let's get back to this game.
African teams have a commonality, especially in the 90s of the last century, there was more or less lack of concentration, and Ghana took an early 2-0 lead in this game was no exception. In the 39th minute of the first half, Jia Wenpeng, the defender of the Chinese team, stole the opponent's left front mark. Edusay, after Sun Jihai's side forward attracted the attention of the opponent's left back, Jia Wenpeng, who rarely participated in the attack, suddenly started at this time, and after a wall collision with Shao Jiayi and passed Apia, he distributed the ball to Sun Jihai who was waiting on the right side. The latter pretended to break through to the bottom line, but in fact he shook off the defense and crossed with his left foot at 45 degrees outside the corner of the penalty area, the ball field moved backwards and took away 1.83 meters of Addo, Shao Jiayi took Appia to move forward in reverse, Wang Peng rushed up to the ball, Kufuor was also close to Wang Peng to interfere with the opponent's grab, but Wang Peng did not jump at all, but sideways to let go, the ball shook off Kufuor behind him, and the ball landed 1 meter in front of the penalty spot. Just the Ghana backline thought the goal would be scored by goalkeeper Sammy. When Adjie took it, Jia Wenpeng didn't know when he stepped into this position, and the unguarded Jia Wenpeng grabbed a shovel shot before the opponent's goalkeeper to help the Chinese team pull one back before the end of the first half. The score was rewritten to 1:2, and the Chinese team was one goal behind.
It was clear that all the Ghana players in the penalty area had done their defensive duties well, except for Layea, who was responsible for defending Jia Wenpeng. Kingston didn't know why he didn't follow Xiao Jia, and it was obvious that he was out of position. In the CCTV live broadcast room, Director Zhang Lu said sullenly at the time: "This Ghanaian player named Kingston was afraid that his memory was not enough, but he didn't keep up with Jia Wenpeng because he was stuck." Just this sentence, Huang Jianxiang's snot bubbles came out next to Le.
Before the break, Wang Peng was knocked down by the opposing full-back outside the penalty area, and although the Chinese team did not create a scoring opportunity through this goal, Wang Peng's injury gave another Chinese striker a chance to make a big show in the second half. This person is Li Jinyu.
After the opening of the second half, the two wings of the Chinese team began to come alive, and the frequent insertion of Sun Jihai and Wu Chengying brought a lot of pressure to the Ghanaian team's defense. In the 62nd minute, Wu Chengying on the left side stepped forward to distribute the ball to Li Jinyu who received the ball in the corner of the big penalty area, and then slipped to the bottom line by himself, Li Jinyu took this opportunity to first shake off the opponent's fullback, and then made a passing feint on the penalty line, and suddenly sank his shoulder in disguise to shake off Kufuor's defense, and then took a step laterally and then shot with his right foot into the far corner, the ball crossed the goalkeeper's fingertips and went straight into the dead corner, and the Chinese team finally tied the score.
However, the Ghana team did not panic, after all, the first round win, it is still only a draw, and the game is still 30 minutes away. There are often some unbelievable and unexpected scenes in the matches of African teams. In the 78th minute of the second half, the Ghana team started the ball on the left side, and after Li Burn pushed the ball out in the middle, the Chinese team's back line collectively pressed out, and the players of the Ghana team moved out in order to avoid offside. With the ball on his back, and with the defenders of the Chinese team behind him, it is difficult for the ball to turn around, and the Chinese team's defense line has no preparation at this moment, who knows that Ao Hei turned sideways and knocked the ball from the middle of Li Weifeng and Zhang Yonghai with the heel of his right foot to the penalty spot three or four meters to the right of the penalty spot. Appiah didn't know how to judge the intention of the ball Ohei's pass, and before everyone could react, he straightened his instep and fired a volley before the ball landed, and a half-high falling ball flew into the near corner of the goal very quickly, Li Leilei only had time to move half a step to his left, and the ball had already crossed the goal line.
3:2!Ghana took the lead again, and the African fans in the stands began to clamor again. By the time Appiah and Ofriquaye had finished their celebrations, there were barely 10 minutes left in the game plus stoppage time. At this moment, the domestic audience in front of the TV felt very nervous with Huang Jianxiang's sentence "There is not much time left for the Chinese team", you must know that many times, it is a world of difference to accumulate 3 points and 4 points before the final round of the group stage.
Just when everyone thought that this game was going to be cool and many people had turned off the TV, Li Jinyu stood up again. Just 3 minutes after the Ghana team scored, Sun Jihai's long pass from the backfield hit directly to the front of the Ghana team's penalty area, with his back to the defense of Bayern's main central defender Kufuor, Li Jinyu made a chest stop before the ball landed, and then the moment the ball landed, Da Yu suddenly turned around and cut into the penalty area from Kufuor's left side, and the ball flew into the penalty area after bouncing off the ground past the Bayern central defender who was only 1.78 meters tall. In the face of the attacking goalkeeper, the Chinese striker pulled the ball to the left with his right foot, and then walked diagonally forward with his left foot for half a step to easily pass the goalkeeper, and at a position less than two meters from the bottom line, Li Jinyu easily bounced with the outside of his right foot, and the ball flew into the net against the ground, and Kufuor also hit the near post in order to save the ball. After the referee's whistle, Li Jinyu did not make any celebration this time, but ran to the side of the goal post and pulled up Kufuor, and the Bayern defender got up and gave Da Yu a bear hug, obviously this beautiful goal also conquered Kufuor.
The remaining seven or eight minutes did not stop the attack because of the friendly hug, and both sides hoped to score a goal before the end of the game, so as to lock up a place in the top two of the group in advance, but when the final whistle blew, neither team got what they wanted, and ended the second round with a score of 3:3.
After the game, Kufuor once again found Li Jinyu to take the initiative to exchange jerseys, and this game also impressed the Bundesliga Hornets Dortmund team who had just beaten Juventus to reach the top of Europe, Riddle, who scored twice in the Champions League final, has switched to Liverpool in the Premier League, and there are still Swiss Chap Isat and Herrich who is 1.86 meters in the front. Incoming head coach Italian Nevio. Scala hopes that the team can add a skilled all-round striker under the age of 24 to the front line as the focus of Dort's forward training in the next five years, and all teams in the Bundesliga want to win the championship is a challenge to Bayern Munich, the only hegemon of the Bundesliga, seeing the 20-year-old Chinese striker face Bayern's main central defender Kufuor's excellent performance, how can Dort's scouts be indifferent?