Chinese champion

Chapter 279

When Dong Yuzhuo unloaded Pei Wei's pass, the entire stadium immediately fell into silence, and all the fans stood up from their seats, stretching their necks and staring nervously at the stadium.

As Dong Yuzhuo passed Zubruhler beautifully, the field became so quiet that even the sound of a pin falling on the ground could be clearly heard. When the ball rolled out of Dong Yuzhuo's feet and slowly rolled across the goal line At that moment, a huge burst of applause erupted immediately above the stadium!
"The goal is scored! Dong Yuzhuo passed Zubruhler and sent the ball into the empty goal! No. 208 minutes of the first half, the Chinese team took the lead! After a stalemate for nearly half an hour, the Chinese team finally broke through the opponent defense line, the goal is the 21-year-old Dong Yuzhuo!"

When Dong Yuzhuo saw that he sent the ball, he immediately felt in his heart: Yes!

Zubbruhler, who was closest to him, had been knocked to the ground, and the other Swiss players were at least ten meters away from him. No one could stop his first World Cup goal!
When he really saw the ball go in, a burst of joy erupted from his heart. He turned around and ran towards Pei Wei who was behind him!
He wants to thank Pei Wei for sharing the joy of scoring with him as soon as possible!
Not only for his assists, but also for his teaching before the game!
When he was still five or six meters away from Pei Wei, he jumped up and rushed towards Pei Wei.

Pei Wei opened his hands, and when Dong Yuzhuo was about to approach him, a sly smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he turned around to hide, leaving the solid ground in front of Dong Yuzhuo.

Dong Yuzhuo let out a cry. Although he withdrew his strength in mid-air, he still fell down firmly with a "bang" and gnawed on the mud.

Before the dizzy Dong Yuzhuo got up, the other players had already swarmed up and pinned him to the bottom. When the smoke cleared, the poor goal scorer was so crushed that he almost rolled his eyes...

"Hey, are you okay?" After the teammates dispersed, Pei Wei ran over to help Dong Yuzhuo up, and kept nagging: "Xiao Dong, why are you so careless, did you fall? No It’s just scoring a goal, is there any need to be so excited?”

"You..." Dong Yuzhuo gritted his teeth with hatred, but he couldn't say anything.

The fans in the stands and beside the TV were all amused by this scene, and Wang Jianxiang couldn't help laughing: "It seems that the players of the Chinese team are very relaxed. This is a welcome change! Maintaining a good mentality in important games is a key to winning!"

Compared with the joy and encouragement of the Chinese team, the morale of the Swiss team, which conceded a goal first and broke the record of not conceding a goal, was severely hit. It was so easy to score a goal by the opponent. Can't hang on.

Kuhn leaned against the awning of the coach's bench with a stern expression on his face.

He underestimated Dong Yuzhuo. He shouldn't have underestimated him, but Dong Yuzhuo's sluggish performance in the group stage made him underestimate.

A striker who can score [-] goals in a season in the European League will definitely not be a parallel importer, even if he is in a second-tier team in a second-tier league.

Switzerland launched an attack, they had no choice, and although it was only the first half, they were already behind and could not expect their not-so-good attack to score goals in such a slow game.

But Dong Yuzhuo quickly let them take it back. His lightning speed made the Swiss team's slightly loose defense line unable to parry, especially in the two direct dialogues with Jiu Nuo. After the shot, if Zubruhler hadn't performed well, the score might have been rewritten.

Now the Chinese team's offensive tactics are very simple. It is to hand the ball to two fast forwards and let them beat the Swiss team's two central defenders. Magnin is okay. Facing Zhong Yan's impact, he relies on his own experience He was able to cope with the card position, but Jiu Nuo was miserable. He was played around by the dexterous Dong Yuzhuo. If he showed the level of a world-class central defender in the first 15 minutes of the game, then he showed his performance in the following games. That's the level of an amateur player.

Due to the containment of the midfielders of the Chinese team, the other players of the Swiss team simply had no time to help the two battered central defenders, because others could not relax either.

Seeing that Jiu Nuo's advantages could not be brought into full play in the face of the Chinese team's ground attack, and his shortcomings such as slow turning and inexperience were fully exposed, Kuhn had to make a move that he did not want to do at all—— People, replaced Jiu Nuo, whose confidence was extremely inflated to completely shattered, with Grehedin.

At the critical moment of the World Cup, Kuhn could no longer care about protecting the players.

Jiu Nuo left the stage disgruntled. Judging from the disappointment on his face, this young general will not be able to get out of the shadows for a long time.

No. 40 minutes into the first half, and a defender was replaced, which shows that Kuhn has admitted that there is a problem with his formation, which is another big blow to Sweden's morale .

However, Grehedin's playing has effectively alleviated the tightness of the Swiss team's defense. Although his speed is not very fast, he is much better than the young Jiunuo in terms of positioning and judgment.

Dong Yuzhuo's forced breakthrough was blocked by Grehedin, and then Bigfoot launched a counterattack. Li Min fouled in the process of fighting for the header. The Swiss team won a free kick about 27 meters away from the goal.

Barnetta took the penalty. The left-footer who played for Leverkusen is also very good at free kicks. In the Swiss team, he usually takes direct free kicks. Even Yakin can only take the penalty. Can be responsible for indirect free kicks from a relatively long distance.

Barnetta took a few steps back, and then volleyed vigorously at the ball. The ball bypassed the wall and flew directly to the lower right corner of the goal.

Wu Qi threw the ball sideways and pushed the ball out. Wang Xiaomin came up and immediately made a big kick to clear the siege.

At this time, the referee blows his whistle, and the first half is over!The Chinese team led by one goal into the second half.

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The atmosphere in the dressing room of the Swedish team was very dull. The first goal conceded in the World Cup made the players a little unacceptable, but only now did they deeply feel the impact of Sandros' absence.

Looking at the current mental state of the players, Kuhn felt that he should say something. If the morale continues to be so weak, there is no need to play in the second half of the game.

"I want to say sorry to everyone." Kuhn said suddenly, the players fell silent, and all eyes looked at him: "It was my mistake in judgment that caused us to lose in the first half of the game." Zhong is so passive, Jiu Nuo, your performance in the first half was very good, although there were some problems in the second half, but it was not your fault, you are more suitable to stare at the opponent's tall center, believe in your strength."

"It's not all your responsibility." Captain Vogel spoke on behalf of the players: "It's because we didn't show our courage on the field, coach, we believe you will lead us out of this difficult time, and we also have to do well. Performance!"

Kuhn's prestige in the hearts of the players is very high. Basically, these players can enter the national team and come to the World Cup through his hands. Kuhn's team's results are also very good. He said that just entering the top 94 of this World Cup is already the best result the Swiss national team has achieved since [-].

His candid admission made the players feel a little discouraged because they fell behind, and they all expressed that they would have a good fight with the Chinese team in the second half of the game.

Seeing that the morale of the players had risen again, Kuhn was finally relieved. With such a mental state, he could still fight in the second half.

"We want to attack in the second half! Now that we are behind, we can no longer slowly consume the opponent's energy like in previous games. The two full-backs have to increase your assists and use the backcourt to create offsides. We have no other choice. , We have to go home if we lose, we can continue if we win, we can only attack.” Kuhn said.

"They have already led by one goal. After the start of the second half, they will definitely have to recover for a while. We just want to take this opportunity to attack. Naturally, it is best to score. Even if they can't score, they dare not attack boldly. This will at least prevent us from being overwhelmed by the opponent like in the first half, do you understand?" Kuhn said loudly.

"Understood!" The players shouted in unison.

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In all fairness, Kuhn's tactical thinking is very correct. Generally speaking, the leading side in the game will first take back a little to stabilize its position, especially in a game like the World Cup knockout round, where one goal is likely to determine a team. Regardless of the outcome of a game, few people would still take the risk of attacking after taking the lead.

It is a pity that what he met was Menotti, a master of tactical command, and at the same time a master of trying to figure out the opponent's psychology.

The tactics he arranged in the locker room for the second half are very simple: continue to attack, but the way of attack should be changed. Instead of passing the ball quickly to the back as in the first half, it is based on the midfield and holds the ball firmly. Control at your own feet, use the breakthrough ability of the two sides and the ball control ability of the entire midfield to have a positional battle with the Swedish team!

With the skilled technical and tactical cooperation of the Chinese team players, the second half started for a full 5 minutes, and the Swedish team players couldn't even touch the ball!

And the morale that Kuhn finally boosted up during the intermission also slowly disappeared in front of the Chinese team's soft knives.

Pei Wei is familiar with the ball in the midfield. Although Vicky is constantly interfering with him, he still keeps the ball under his feet. Wei's feet were broken.

Vogel also went up, and the two flanked Pei Wei. Only at this time did Pei Wei's skills really show. Under the defense of the two, he still controlled the ball with ease. The defense made Pei Wei useless, and now Vogel has added a wiki, but still can't make Pei Wei feel a headache.

This also surprised Vogel. He thought that he had improved a lot in the past few years, otherwise he would not have been favored by AC Milan. However, compared with Pei Wei's rocket-like improvement speed, Vogel My progress is like a small car at best.

This is the difference between AC Milan's substitute and Inter Milan's main force.

Yajin withdrew, and he joined the ranks, three against one!We can't let this guy go any longer, otherwise the morale of the Swiss team, which has been so hard to raise, may be wiped out.

Just when Yajin was about to pinch Pei Wei, Pei Wei, who had his back turned to him, suddenly turned around, put Vogel and Vicky behind him, and then suddenly raised his foot and swung horizontally!
Hu Yong plugged in from the back row and caught the ball easily!

Since the three midfielders are all around Pei Wei, there is no one around Hu Yong to defend at all!
Hu Yong drove straight in with the ball, and Switzerland's defensive formation immediately became chaotic.

Grehding had to leave Dong Yuzhuo to defend him. Hu Yong immediately passed a ground ball when he saw him jumping forward. There was a gap in the penalty area of ​​the Swiss team. Dong Yuzhuo easily received the ball. As soon as the ball stopped, it was a volley immediately before Magnin came up to defend!
Zubruhler flew to the side and almost caught the ball, but because the distance was too close, he could only choose to hit the ball.

The ball flew into the penalty area, and Zhong Yan suddenly emerged from the crowd, facing the ball with a diving header!
Zubruhle, who was lying on the ground, didn't even have time to wave his hand, and the ball flew into the undefended empty goal!
"The goal is scored! Zhong Yan's header! Only 10 minutes into the second half, the Chinese team expanded their lead again! 2:0! The Swiss team's defense made a serious mistake, and almost all their players in the penalty area were pulled It’s empty, Zhong Yan didn’t have a defender by his side when he shot, they paid a heavy price for it! Those who want to say that the Chinese team has no forwards can shut up, in this game, everyone who scored two goals It's a striker!" Wang Jianxiang shouted hoarsely.

Kuhn closed his eyes. At this moment, he knew that he had lost, and he lost badly!

Menotti had completely guessed his psychology, but he couldn't see Menotti's inner thoughts at all!
From the moment Menotti anticipated his move, the outcome of the game was practically decided.

(End of this chapter)