King of the Zone

The Huaguo team defeated Italy 4-3 and advanced to the semi-finals, which put the pressure on the next opponent of the Huaguo team, Spain.

After analyzing the Hua Guo team's several games in the group stage, the Spanish coaching staff found out that Cheng Hai not only solved the problem of the reverse foot and became balanced with the left and right feet.

Of course, this is the technique that Cheng Hai showed after he upgraded from a breakthrough master to a breakthrough master.

It is also the key factor for Cheng Hai to stage a big four and lead the Hua Guo team to beat Italy 4-3 and advance to the semi-finals.

Otherwise, with Italy's defensive ability and the guarding of the world's top goalkeeper Buffon, it may be difficult for Cheng Hai to perform a hat-trick like he did against Brazil and Mexico, not to mention the big four.

It is precisely because Cheng Hai's left and right feet are balanced now, and he has been upgraded from a breakthrough master to a breakthrough master, so that a world-renowned defensive master team like Italy failed to stop Cheng Hai's counterattack and breakthrough, and Cheng Hai poured three sports goals and a penalty kick.

Italy were all conceded four goals by Cheng Hai, and Spain felt that they might not be much better.

What's even more troublesome is that they are not sure that the whole team will score more goals than Cheng Hai alone. Cheng Hai is too perverted.

After thinking for a long time, the coaching staff finally formulated a strategy of pressing the whole court, strengthening pass control, first guarding against Cheng Hai's counterattack, and then waiting for an opportunity to attack. Even if you can't score a goal, you can't lose.

In the next few days, Spain conducted targeted training around this set of tactics.

Of course, Spain's tactic is to strictly guard against Cheng Hai's goals, but it is not a no-front defensive formation like Bayern and Stuttgart.

Nor is it necessary.

Except for Cheng Hai, the Huaguo team's other players are all at the bottom of the world, and they may not be qualified to play in the five major leagues. If they dare not even attack because they are afraid of Cheng Hai alone, then it is better to simply surrender and admit defeat.

Spain just felt that it had to contain Cheng Hai's counterattack first, and then use its overall strength to attack and destroy the Hua Guo team's defense.

If there is no good opportunity, then control the ball at your feet, even if you waste time in the backcourt, you don't hesitate, anyway, you can't easily give the ball to Cheng Hai.

That's how you have a chance to win the game.

For the Huaguo team, there was naturally no change. They still defended and counterattacked, leaving the offense to Cheng Hai alone, and the others focused on defense.

On June 6, the first semi-final between Brazil, the first in Group A, and Uruguay, the second in Group B, was held in Belo Horizonte.

After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 2-1. Brazil beat Uruguay by one goal and advanced to the final first.

On June 6th, in the second semi-final, it was the Hua Guo team's turn to face Spain.

As the winner of three consecutive competitions in the 2008 European Cup, the 2010 World Cup, and the 2012 European Cup, Spain has created a brilliant dynasty that is unprecedented and difficult to come by.

The title of three consecutive major championships not only gave Spanish players and fans great confidence, but also put great pressure on all opponents.

In this game, the Huaguo media and fans hardly mentioned anything about winning and advancing to the finals.

Everyone's saying is that if you can fight against Spain with real swords and guns, and learn from the experience, you are already making money.

Even if the Hua Guo team defeated Italy, everyone still had no confidence in beating Spain.

Because Spain's reputation in recent years is really terrifying.

The Spanish national team inherits Barcelona's pass-and-control football, which can grind most opponents to death.

Being able to qualify in the group stage is already a great dark horse miracle. As for the semi-finals, no one cares about it.

Even if we lose, everyone is satisfied enough and there is no place to blame.

But for the Hua Guo team, especially Cheng Hai, the strength of the opponent is not the reason for him to give up.

Now he is only two games away from the championship.

As long as he wins the championship, he will have a full 500 skill points, then he can add all reasonable collisions, pick passes, free kicks, etc. to full value, and his strength will skyrocket again, and it will be more beneficial for him to strive for better transfer conditions.

Therefore, Cheng Hai must go all out and encourage his teammates before the start of the game.

"Everyone, although Spain's strength is terrifying. The record of three consecutive World Series championships has never been achieved by five-star Brazil."

"But that's not a reason for us to give up on ourselves. We have the ability to beat Italy, and of course we can beat Spain."

"Everyone has to believe in my ability to counter-attack and score goals. As long as you give me the ball, I can create a threat to the opponent, even if the opponent is Spain."

"But the first thing we need to do is concede fewer goals."

"I think everyone knows Spain's pass-and-control football. In this game, our ball possession rate may be very low. Most of the time the ball is in the hands of the Spanish team."

"It not only reduces our chances of scoring goals on the counter-attack, but also increases our chances of conceding goals."

"Because both Spain and Barcelona's pass-and-control football have a characteristic, which is to use the drowsy backcourt to paralyze the opponent, and when the opponent is paralyzed, suddenly speed up the offensive rhythm and kill with one blow."

"Therefore, everyone must cheer up and concentrate on the game. Don't be paralyzed by the Spanish team's backcourt. You must pay attention to their sudden change of rhythm."

"As long as the defense holds up, we have the potential to win."

"Come on, everybody!"

"We are only two games away from the championship, and it is entirely possible to create miracles."

Afterwards, players from both sides entered the field, played the national anthem, took photos, challenged each other, and so on.

一切准备妥当后，2013年6月27日下午17:00，随着主裁判的一声哨响，2013年巴西联合会杯半决赛西班牙VS华国的比赛在福塔莱萨正式展开。

What many neutral fans want to see is the crazy goal of Spain's beautiful football team against Cheng Hai, staged a goal battle like the Chinese team's 4-3 Italy and 3-4 Brazil.

But the process of the game disappointed all the neutral fans.

Because after Spain took possession of the ball, they didn't attack much at all, but slowly fell behind.If Cheng Hai goes to grab it, they will walk the monkey.

The midfielders of the Huaguo team just watched their captain Cheng Hai being walked, and did not go up to help. Instead, they firmly guarded their half-court area and did not overstep the barrier.

More than ten minutes after the game started, Cheng Hai got his first chance to counterattack with the ball.

As a result, the Spanish team successfully disrupted Cheng Hai's counterattack rhythm with two consecutive double defense strategies. In the end, although they managed to barely shoot from outside the penalty area, they were not too threatening and were confiscated by Casillas.

And Spain, which got the ball, began to use their strong ball-handling ability to start using the ball to defend. They would not attack easily and would not hand over the ball to the Hua Guo team.

Half an hour after the start of the game, Spain's ball possession rate was as high as 80%, while the Hua Guo team's ball possession rate was only a pitiful 20%, which was extremely low.

Spain also has a possession rate of up to 80% and does not attack very much.Even if you attack occasionally, you will retreat back when you see that the Huaguo team is ready and there are no loopholes. Anyway, you will never give the ball to the Huaguo team easily.

Such a game is naturally drowsy.

But there is no way, Spain is afraid of Cheng Hai's counterattack and breakthrough ability, so it can only use this method to delay time.

If it can be dragged into a penalty shootout, the goalkeeper is Iker Casillas, and Spain, whose other players are much better than the Huaguo team, is naturally the one with a high probability of winning.

The Huaguo team didn't even have the chance to get the ball a few times, not to mention that Spain didn't attack aggressively at all. Even if Cheng Hai got the ball, he didn't have the conditions for a quick counterattack, so he could only dribble the ball hard.

Although Cheng Hai's ability to break through the master is [-]% one-on-one, but Spain has enough people in the backcourt, and every time two or three people defend together, Cheng Hai can't break through several barriers in a row and send the ball into the opponent's goal.

As a result, not only did the two sides draw 0-0 in the first half, but both sides did not score in the second half, and entered overtime with a score of 0-0.

After entering overtime, the Huaguo team began to feel a little anxious.

This is also impossible.

At this point in the game, everyone knows that Spain's goal is to drag the game into a penalty shootout, and then use their better goalkeeper and shooter to defeat the Hua Guo team.

As a result, the Huaguo team had to strengthen the rhythm of the frontcourt counterattack in overtime, trying to grab the ball and hand it over to Cheng Hai to attack the opponent's defense.

But in this way, there will inevitably be loopholes in the defense of the Huaguo team, giving Spain an opportunity to take advantage of.

Spain's pass-and-control football is waiting for this kind of opportunity.

Fortunately, the Spanish players' shooting skills are not as abnormal as Cheng Hai's.

In the 97th minute of overtime, Spain once caught a sudden acceleration of the offensive rhythm. Harvey sent a very penetrating through ball and sent the ball to Torres who succeeded in anti-offside.

But Torres doesn't have Cheng Hai's speed of dribbling the ball without slowing down, making the opponent unable to catch up.

Although the successful anti-offside formed a single-handedly, Torres was overtaken by defender Dewey in the process of dribbling the ball to the penalty area.

In the end, after Torres dribbled the ball to the penalty area line, facing the attacking goalkeeper Yang Zhi, he made a lob shot, hoping to hoist the ball into the Hua Guo team's goal.

However, under the interference of defender Dewey who was chasing back, Torres's lob shot was not played well, and finally it was slightly higher than the crossbar, which made all Spanish players and fans sigh.

Hua Guo players and fans also secretly rejoiced that they escaped unharmed.

Although there was a dangerous situation, the Huaguo team still had no choice but to continue to press forward and press Spain's backcourt pass control.

Even at the risk of being counterattacked by Spain, it is not hesitating.