Chinese champion

Chapter 45 The Surprise After the Opening

In the semi-finals, the performance of the China Youth Team once again stunned all the audience watching the game. The Iranian youth team, which had the advantage of home court, was defeated by the China Youth Team. Pei Wei, Zhu Jun, Zhang Qi, and Hu Yong, composed of four people The midfield is perfect, Pei Wei's organization, Zhu Jun's breakthrough, Zhang Qi's cross, Hu Yong's interception and long pass, organized the entire Chinese youth team into a perfect collection, with 21 shots in the audience [-] times, [-] times within the range of the goal frame, and hit the goal post twice, scoring three goals. If the referee hadn't been biased and called Pei Wei's two wonderful passes offside in the second half, I am afraid that the Iranian team would suffer at home. worst defeat in recent years.

The successful entry into the final also made the domestic fans excited again. At the same time, the owners of the beer stalls were probably the ones who were grinning from ear to ear. Almost all the beer was out of stock, and they also made a lot of money.

It was already late at night. In the Japanese team's resident, the Japanese team members were already fast asleep, but the lights were still on in the coach's hut.

There is a TV in front of the head coach of the Japanese youth team, Nishimura Akihiro, and what is shown on the TV is the video of the match between the Chinese youth team and the Iranian team.

On TV, Pei Wei, Zhu Jun, and Zhang Qi of the China Youth Team played consecutive passes in the middle. In a blink of an eye, they tore through the Iranian team's defense in the middle and broke through to the front of the penalty area. Pei Wei faced The defender who came out to block, poked lightly with his toe, and Zhong Yan, who jumped in at high speed, succeeded in turning offside, facing the goalkeeper and easily scored the ball.

The counterattack of the Iranian team, a midfielder broke through to the half of the China Youth Team, Hu Yong did not wait for him to secure the ball, and then he made a fierce tackle. The ball accurately flew in front of Qu Tao who was running. Qu Tao easily unloaded the ball with the inside of his foot, stabbed and shot, and made another victory.

Pei Wei passed two people in the middle, saw no one came up to fight back, and decisively took a long shot about 30 meters away from the goal. The poor goalkeeper didn't even make a save, and saw the ball hit the net. spinning around...

In the second half, the China Youth Team replaced Zhu Jun, Zhang Qi and Zhong Yan in one go, but the Iranian team still had no strength to counterattack. Although Pei Wei's performance was not as good as in the first half, there was nothing outstanding, but he was in The midfielder's seemingly careless two-footed throughs have formed a single-handed trend. If the biased referee hadn't judged these two strikes as offside...

Akihiro Nishimura didn't dare to think about it anymore. You must know that in the group stage, the Japanese team with all the elites only drew 2:2 with the Iranian team!

In tomorrow's game, the China Youth Team probably won't be as indifferent as they are against the Iranian team.

Akihiro Nishimura is very aware of the conflict between China and Japan. When the two sides meet, they have always been able to hit each other three times, definitely not just two!

Nishimura Akihiro smiled wryly. Now that the China Youth Team is at its peak, he has to admire He Jin. In the group stage, he suppressed the enthusiasm of the China Youth Team members bit by bit, allowing the young players to They have always felt unhappy, and let them let go after entering the semi-finals. As a result, the China Youth Team had a collective explosion, and the score the day before yesterday was the best proof.

What made Akihiro Nishimura even more chilling was the attitude of the youth team members in the second half.

After the eccentric referee unreasonably blew away the two must-goal goals of the China Youth Team, they didn't ask the referee to argue at all. This Nishimura Akihiro also understood, because after all, there was three goals in the first half, so there was no need Take the card for this reason.

But he could see that in the second half, the Chinese youth team members obviously suppressed their own state consciously. They played with a calm mentality. What kind of psychological adjustment ability is this? The state can only be better than the day before yesterday, because tomorrow is the final!

Nishimura Akihiro has been thinking about it until two o'clock in the middle of the night, but he still hasn't considered any solution. He can only pray that tomorrow's game will not lose too badly!

On the second day of the game, Akihiro Nishimura arranged a 4-5-1 defensive formation, removed a striker and replaced a midfielder. His tasks for the two midfielders Takeo Aoki and Koji Morisaki were only One is to completely stare at Pei Wei, the midfield engine of the China Youth Team!

And in the front midfielder position is his trump card: Yoshito Okubo, this player born in 1982 was directly promoted by him from Kunimi High School, a player with excellent skills, coupled with excellent speed and header Forward Ryoichi Maeda, the offense is up to them!
On the evening of November 2000, 11, in the final of the Asian Youth Championship, the match between the Chinese youth team and the Japanese youth team began.

CCTV-5, the sports channel of CCTV, broadcast the game live. Originally, the game was not included in the live broadcast plan, but due to the excellent performance of the China Youth Team in the previous game, the sports channel temporarily adjusted the plan and decided to live.

The ace commentator of the sports channel, Wang Jianxiang, is in charge of the on-site commentary. He is also a die-hard fan and holds a pure hope for Chinese football.

He watched the previous games of the China Youth Team, and what moved him the most was the mental state of the China Youth Team on the field, which he had never seen in any previous national team.

Tonight, like the majority of fans, he is waiting for the start of the game with excitement.

"CCTV, CCTV, audience friends, what we are broadcasting for you now is the final of the 2000 Asian Youth Football Championship. The winner will be crowned the champion of this competition.”

"The Chinese youth team has played five games so far, with five wins and five wins. They scored [-] goals and conceded zero goals. The Japanese youth team scored three wins and one draw in the group stage. Defeated the Iraqi youth team in overtime, scoring ten goals and conceding four goals..."

Wang Jianxiang took the trouble to talk about the information that the fans knew, but none of the fans complained about it. On the contrary, they kept cheering when Wang Jianxiang reported the match information of the China Youth Team.

"Now that athletes from both sides have entered the arena and are playing the national anthems of both sides, we will report the list of appearances of both sides for everyone."

"The players of the Chinese youth team are goalkeeper No. 1 Wu Qi, and the defensive line from left to right is No. 3 Sun Ru, No. 4 Li Min, No. 5 Du Wei, No. 2 Yang Bing, and No. 8 Hu Yong in the midfielder. , left midfielder No. 11 Zhu Jun, right midfielder No. 7 Zhang Qi, front midfielder No. 10 Pei Wei, two forwards are No. 9 Zhong Yan and No. 18 Zhanfeng. The Chinese youth team is playing the traditional 4-4-2 Formation."

"The Japanese youth team gave up the 4-4-2 they used in the group stage, and the formation is 4-5-1, the goalkeeper Fujitani Yosuke, and the four defenders are Ikeda Shohei, Nasu Daisuke, and Nakazawa Satoshi. With Haneda Kenji, double defensive midfielders Takeo Aoki and Morisaki Koji, right midfielder Naohiro Ishikawa, left midfielder Shunta Nagai, front midfielder Yoshito Okubo, and the only forward is Ryoichi Maeda."

After hearing this, many fans in front of the TV burst into laughter: Is Little Japan guilty?There is only one striker, so wouldn't our defense be able to crush them to death like ants?
Wang Jianxiang continued: "It seems that the Japanese team is very afraid of Pei Wei, the core midfielder of the China Youth Team, and specially sent two midfielders to defend him, trying to use the advantage of one more midfielder to deal with the China Youth Team. The strongest link, but when we interviewed He Jin, the head coach of the China Youth Team before the game, Coach He said that no matter how the opponent changes, as long as we stick to the policy of focusing on me, the final victory must belong to From this interview, we can see that He Jin is very confident, which also makes us have higher expectations for the upcoming game."

After the national anthem was played, the two sides shook hands, picked sides, and exchanged team flags. Everything was going on in an orderly manner.

Du Wei seemed to be lucky, he guessed the coin correctly, and he picked the ball first.

After the players from both sides took their positions, the China Youth Team took the lead to kick off.

Pei Wei narrowed his eyes: "Are we downwind?" For a moment, he had a calculation in his mind.

He ran to Zhong Yan who was about to kick off, and whispered something in his ear.

Zhong Yan's eyes widened: "Isn't it? Are you really going to do this?"

Pei Wei smiled: "Can't you? I want to show them off at the beginning!"

Zhong Yan shrugged helplessly: "Well, I said it when you beat me three years ago, no matter what you say on the court, I will unconditionally obey you!"

Pei Wei patted him on the shoulder: "Don't act like I'm forcing you, if you succeed, you'll get an extra assist!"

Zhong Yan couldn't help laughing.

The referee blew the whistle to start the game, Zhanfeng knocked the ball to Zhong Yan, but Zhong Yan did not pass the ball back as usual, but pushed the ball into the penalty area of ​​the Japanese team.

The ball was pushed forward about two meters, and the audience in front of the TV was stunned: How did this guy pull it?Give the ball to someone else?
Wang Jianxiang couldn't help shouting: "Maybe Zhong Yan was nervous, he passed the ball directly to the Japanese team's half... Wait, there is a player from the Chinese youth team rushing up, it is Pei Wei! God! , His speed is so fast, does he want to..."

Pei Wei rushed up at his fastest speed, the players of the Japanese team were a little dazed for a while, and no one thought of blocking him!
Yoshito Okubo was the first to notice Pei Wei's intentions. He was also the closest Japanese player to Pei Wei. He rushed to meet Pei Wei, hoping to intercept the ball.

But Pei Wei's speed was much faster than he imagined. When he was about one meter away from the ball, Pei Wei had already received the ball and stabbed forward, immediately piercing Okubo Kato's crotch. After crossing Yoshito Okubo, without hesitation, he directly pumped the lower part of the ball with his left foot:
"shoot with great precision"!
A super long shot 40 meters away from the goal!

Yosuke Fujitani, the goalkeeper of the Japanese team, was still twisting his fingers to warm up. He looked up when the teammates in front of him shouted loudly, and saw a black shadow flying towards him from a small and arrogant, Yosuke Fujitani Startled, he raised his hand almost instinctively, and then he felt a shock in his wrist, and the ball was blocked by his hand and went out of the baseline.

"Oops!" Wang Jianxiang exclaimed regretfully, "The China Youth team had a shot from the very beginning. No. 40 Pei Wei shot a long shot from [-] meters away! It's a pity that it was blocked by the goalkeeper. Within half a minute of the game, China Youth The team won the first corner kick of the game!" The other spectators sighed like him, this was a surprise given to them by the China Youth Team at the beginning of the game, and it also indicated that this game will not be too much. unusual.

Akihiro Nishimura was startled. He touched his beating heart and couldn't help becoming annoyed: These bastards have been reminded a long time ago, but they were caught off guard at the beginning!

(End of this chapter)