Chapter 135: France equalizes
After 30 minutes of play, both teams played their own characteristics on the field, the French team's fast lateral transfer of the ball made full use of the width of the field, creating a more open field for Henry to run, and the Chinese team used the numerical advantage in the middle to play a small range of short passes with a particularly smooth play. It can be said that after the group stage and two knockout games, both teams have adjusted to their best form, and the field is attacking and defending each other.
In addition to being afraid of the speed of the Chinese team's start, the French team also paid special attention to controlling fouls at the edge of the penalty area, after all, Trezeguet was the one who knew the power of Li Bourne's free kick in the small book. In the last 10 minutes of the first half, the French team was killed, withstood the attack of the Chinese team and also played two counterattacks, if it were not for Liu Yunfei's excellent play, the score would probably be equalized by the opponent. Especially in the 41st minute, Henry volleyed into the far corner in front of the penalty area, Liu Yunfei struggled to block the ball, but unfortunately the ball flew towards the small penalty area line in the middle, Trezegay pressed Zheng Zhi to push the ball to the empty goal, but Liu Yunfei quickly got up from the ground, and then a fish leap lifted the ball out of the bottom line, worthy of being the goalkeeper of the future national brand.
There was also a small episode at halftime, when the camera camera captured the famous French movie star Sophie Marceau in the main stand, the love affair between Li Bern and the goddess was not known to so many people in the world except for the people who eat melons in the two countries, so that many viewers at the scene thought that the goddess was here to cheer for the team of her motherland, and the French fans who knew about it at the scene were clear, so boos rang out, in their opinion, Sophie Marceau should not appear in this game. Sophie is not a simple little girl when she performed "First Kiss" back then, hearing the boos from the fellow villagers in the stands next door, Sophie stood up and smiled and compared an international greeting gesture to them, the Chinese fans on the scene boiled up, and then the fans outside China and France were all confused. Before Sophie, who was blocked by the media for an interview after the game, could speak, Li Byrne got into the camera, hugged his big gold brick and said to the reporters with a wicked smile: "What are you doing? You can't bully my woman! Otherwise, I'll give you a cannon!" Well, after this game, such a handsome young man as Lee Bern got the first nickname of his career – "Cannon".
Then more and more information about Li Bourne was picked up by the media of all over the world, in addition to the Chinese national team players, he is also the chairman of the world's largest sports company Rice, and at the same time, it also has subsidiaries such as film and television, advertising, and real estate in operation, and all of them are laying eggs. Now the French gentlemen are not babbling, it seems that the goddess of their own country is a bit high-minded?
At the same time, because of the well-known rehabilitation and physiotherapy methods of Rice Sports in the sports world, some people with ulterior motives began to make a fuss about attacking Li Bourne, saying that the teenager was a reformed person and the like. Li Byrne listened to it and was happy in his heart, hehe, you guessed so accurately, I was a little embarrassed. However, Li Bourne still found an internationally renowned medical institution to do a comprehensive physical examination, and accompanied by FIFA officials, in the end, of course, he blocked the mouth of Youyou with the actual results, which completely calmed down the turmoil caused by Sophie Marceau's on-site viewing.
Then back to our game, the French team picked up the tempo at the beginning of the second half, and they hoped that the Chinese team's backline could panic like in the first half, so that they could take advantage of it. As a result, Henry's play fulfilled another Chinese player, that is, Sun Jihai, who was switched to the right center-back position in the second half by Chen Yiming in order to target Henry. In the second half, the French team launched 3 attacks in a row from the left side where Henry was, but I didn't expect the right central defender of the Chinese team to successfully defend the French Shenfeng twice one-on-one, and the only time it was broken by Henry or relied on the cooperation between Luo Teng who was inserted forward, but Henry's shot was interfered by Sun Jihai, and he staggered when he burst into the penalty area, but he barely completed the shot before Li Weifeng's defense was in place.
However, in the face of the French team, which has a very balanced strength on three lines, the Chinese team that is on the defensive still conceded the ball because of mistakes. In the 16th minute of the second half, Jia Wenpeng was half a step slower to get out of the ball, and Vieira was entangled with each other. No, the black long legs directly hooked the ball back. Well, this is purely the advantage of people's long legs, and it can't be said that Jia Wenpeng made a mistake.
Vieira, who grabbed the ball, did not wait for Jia Wenpeng to react, took a step and rushed towards the Chinese team's penalty area with the ball, with the cover of Trezeguet in front of the penalty area, Vieira flicked horizontally to the right side, shook off Zheng Zhi's defense in front of him, and was about to raise his foot to shoot, when Yu Guang suddenly caught a glimpse of Li Boen, who was running towards him quickly on his side, "My day, the cannon is coming so fast!" Vieira muttered, while quickly sending the ball to the right sideline near the bottom line of a straight stopper, Jiuli and Wu Chengying started at the same time, and the two of them reached the ball at about the same time, at this time it showed Jiuli's experience, Wu Chengying stretched out his leg to reach the ball, and Jiuli directly stabbed the ball to the former's leg with his toes, and after a rebound, the ball reached Jiuli's feet, and Wu Chengying's center of gravity couldn't come back.
The unmarked Jiuli burst into the penalty area, fortunately Li Boen has already filled in the position, in the face of the small Jiuli, the teenager directly pounced on it to block the angle of the opponent's lateral or backward pass, after all, the front of the goal is Liu Yunfei's defensive area. It was this misjudgment, but I didn't expect Jiuli to actually give a foot pass to the bottom line position on the side of Li Byrne, and it was the big black silk again.. The big black leg appeared, Vieira, who received the ball on the bottom line, stopped the ball with his left foot, and then knocked the ball with his right foot towards the position of the penalty spot behind him, Henry the Great blocked Sun Jihai who was guarding himself by the cover of Trezeguet in the middle, and took the lead to touch the ball and shoot, the whole process was not muddy at all, the ball rubbed against the ground and rolled into the goal with the near post, and the French team finally equalized the game.
The midfield of this French team is indeed strong, and this has not brought the likes of Djokaeff, no wonder the French team was able to win the championship in 98, aside from Brazil's own inexplicable low-level mistakes, there is really no team that can despise France from the hard power.
Gotcha, it's going to take another chapter to continue this evenly matched game, see you in the next chapter!