King of the Zone

In this final, the Brazilian team followed the 433 formation that had defeated the Hua Guo team in the group stage.

After all, they won the group match, so they shouldn't change their formation easily after winning the game.

But the Hua Guo team had no choice. In order to block the attacks of Mexico, Italy, and Spain, two players were suspended for accumulating yellow cards, and another player was too exhausted after Spain's overtime game and had thigh cramps, so he had to miss the final.

However, these are not critical factors.Everyone knew that Cheng Hai was the key to the Huaguo team's victory.As long as Cheng Hai can start the game, the Huaguo team has the possibility of defeating Brazil to win the championship.

In view of Spain's careful control of the ball and still losing the ball and its own experience in winning against the Hua Guo team in the group stage, the Brazil team did not adopt a conservative strategy in this game.

This was beyond the expectations of the Hua Guo team.

Under the threat of Cheng Hai scoring 11 goals in four games, Hua Guo's players and coaches thought that the Brazilian team would be a little more conservative in the final to prevent Cheng Hai's counterattack threat.

Unexpectedly, the Brazilian team did the opposite and played a duel in the final, without any scruples about Cheng Hai's existence.

The Hua Guo team was caught off guard, and several players were changed in the starting lineup. They were unable to enter the game state for a while, and Brazil scored a goal in the opening 3 minutes.

The reason for conceding the ball was that Neymar, the new king of the Brazilian team, used a series of gorgeous samba football moves to pass three people in a row and then assisted in the penalty area. The striker Fred fell to the ground and scored.

The Brazilian team got off to a fantastic start, leading the Chinese team 1-0.

This ball made the Brazilian players and fans instantly ecstatic, because they took the initiative in the game.

In the previous games, the Hua Guo team mostly shrunk to defend in the backcourt, and Cheng Hai came to counterattack.

But now, the Hua Guo team is behind in the score, and it is useless to shrink the defense.Even if the back goal does not concede the ball, the score of 0-1 will cause the Hua Guo team to lose the game.

Therefore, the Brazilian team holding the lead can retreat in a leisurely formation, wait for the Hua Guo team to attack, and then fight the Hua Guo team's counterattack.

With the strength of the Huaguo team, as long as they don't rely on numbers to shrink their defense, there must be a lot of loopholes in the defense, and the chances of Brazil scoring goals are even greater.

So, players, fans, coaches, journalists, all Brazilians celebrated as if the game had been won.

It's because Cheng Hai's name is too famous.

Even if it is as strong as Brazil, there is a lot of pressure before the game.Fortunately, their players seized the opportunity and scored a goal in the opening 3 minutes, taking the initiative in the game.

For the Hua Guo team, conceding the ball in the first 3 minutes really felt a little desperate.

After the game restarted, the Brazilian team was no longer busy attacking aggressively, but retreated in formation, waiting for the Hua Guo team to attack, and then counterattacked the Hua Guo team.

This is the advantage of leading the score.

But the Huaguo team knows their own affairs. Except for Cheng Haihai, the other players are of Asian race. In fact, they have more or less physical problems in the finals of this kind of world competition.

Once you attack, you may not be able to come back.If you are counterattacked by the Brazilian team, you will not even have time to catch up.

Therefore, the Hua Guo team could only stand still temporarily and let Cheng Hai take the ball to attack the Brazilian team's defense.

But the Brazilian team has too many people in the backcourt, and one person can't stop it, so two or three people will play together.

Even with Cheng Hai's ability to break through the master, there is nothing he can do.

Until the end of the first half, the Huaguo team failed to equalize the score.Because Cheng Hai is too isolated and helpless, the Brazilian team can defend him well without worrying about the cooperation of other Chinese players with Cheng Hai.

There is no need to worry about Cheng Hai passing the ball to others to shoot.

Under such circumstances, defense naturally becomes very simple.

Even if Cheng Hai's breakthrough skills reached the master level, he would not be able to break through the opponent's defense line after layer, and at most occasionally hit a long shot from outside the penalty area.

But the long-range shots from outside the penalty area, even with Cheng Hai's ability, the scoring rate is not high.Cesar, the goalkeeper of the Brazilian team, is also one of the world's top goalkeepers.

However, through the first half of the game, head coach Gao Hongbo still found something.

During the intermission, Gao Hongbo made tactical adjustments and explanations, allowing the players of the Hua Guo team to see the hope of equalizing the score in the second half.

As a professional coach, Gao Hongbo's ability to discover the opponent's flaws and take advantage of Cheng Hai's advantages is still stronger than that of the players.

After a 15-minute break and the restart of the second half, the Huaguo team began to advance in position and join Cheng Hai in the attack, either Qu Bo, Yu Hai, or Deng Zhuoxiang.

But Gao Hongbo gave a detailed explanation during the intermission. These three people stepped forward to cooperate with Cheng Hai. At most, only one person could go up, and the other two people must not move to prevent the Brazilian team from counterattacking.

As long as there is one more person, Cheng Hai will have a lot of changes. Even if he is only a pillar for passing and receiving the ball, Cheng Hai will have many more offensive methods, which will definitely have a great effect on strengthening the offense.

But there is one person missing in the midfield, and it is very dangerous when the ball changes hands and is counterattacked by the Brazilian team. Therefore, it is necessary for the fast Cheng Hai to retreat and participate in the defense immediately after losing the ball, so as to make up for the gap left by someone from the forward line to participate in the attack.

This will inevitably make Cheng Hai sprint back and forth and become more tired, but Cheng Hai said it's okay.His full physical strength, physique, speed, etc., can support him to play like this.

On the other hand, Gao Hongbo also let Cheng Hai continue to insist on personal breakthroughs, constantly using breakthroughs to harass the Brazilian team's defense.

And once they fouled while defending, it would undoubtedly give Cheng Hai a chance to kick a free kick.

Also, if you have a chance, you have to shoot. Even if you don't score, it may cause a corner kick or something, and quickly get the chance to compete for the top in the penalty area.

In short, Gao Hongbo, as the head coach, has come up with some solutions to Brazil's tactics, and he is not helpless.

After a 15-minute break, the game continued in the second half. Cheng Hai really increased the frequency of breakthroughs with the ball. Yu Hai, Deng Zhuoxiang, Qu Bo and others also took turns to intervene, making moves or supporting Cheng Hai.

Although the three of Yu Hai's skills are not as good as Cheng Hai's, they are still capable of simply passing and catching the ball without holding the ball to break through, and helping Cheng Hai build a wall.

This caused the Brazilian team to be unable to completely ignore the insertion of the three, and could only be distracted to defend them.

What's more deadly is that with the help of his teammates, the Brazilian team didn't know that Cheng Hai's next move would be to continue to break through with the ball and pass the ball out.

This increases the difficulty of defense for Brazilian defenders.

In addition, Cheng Hai increased the frequency of breakthroughs with the ball, resulting in the occasional situation where Cheng Hai could not be stopped and had to use fouls to stop Cheng Hai.

Finally, in the 54th minute of the second half, the Hua Guo team's tactics worked.

It was Deng Zhuoxiang who plugged in a disguise and Cheng Hai pretended to pass the ball to Deng Zhuoxiang, which deceived the defensive player into a gap, allowing Cheng Hai to gain space to break through, and almost entered the penalty area.

No way, the Brazilian defender David Luiz on the side could only force Cheng Hai to the ground, destroying Cheng Hai's possible single-handed attack this time.

However, Louis' pushing foul also gave the Huaguo team a free kick.Even if it is too close to the goal, almost on the penalty area line, it is quite dangerous.

Cheng Hai is still in danger of kicking the ball directly.

Therefore, under the command of Cesar, the Brazilian players sent their top players to line up the wall, trying to block Cheng Hai's free kick.

It is true that Cheng Hai's free kicks cannot be hit every time. In this Confederations Cup, there were several free kicks that were not scored.

But this time, Cheng Hai seized the opportunity.

Although the penalty spot was very close to the goal, only 17 meters away, Cheng Hai still made a perfect free throw, bypassing the wall and getting into the upper right corner of the goal.

Cheng Hai finally scored a goal and helped the Hua Guo team equalize the score.

In the stands and in front of the TV, countless Hua Guo fans and spectators celebrated excitedly.

This time, the leading edge of the Brazilian team no longer existed, and the two sides returned to the same starting line.

The Brazilian team had to revert to the way they played at the beginning of the first half, hoping to use a lot of offense to score goals and take the lead again.

However, this time, the Brazilian team was no longer as lucky as the goal in the opening 3 minutes.

On the one hand, it is because the Brazilian team does not have an efficient shooter like Cheng Hai. Even if they get a chance to shoot, they cannot hit the goal and score every time.

On the other hand, it was because of Cheng Hai's retreat to participate in the defense.

Although Cheng Hai knew that his retreat would reduce his counterattack speed and success rate, he managed to equalize the score. He could not watch his teammates in the backcourt being bombarded by the Brazilian team without doing anything, and watched the goal being broken.

Therefore, Cheng Hai took the initiative to retreat and participate in the defense. Even if it would make it more difficult for him to counterattack, there was no other way.

With Cheng Hai's participation in the defense, the Brazilian team has indeed been unable to score goals.

Cheng Hai's full stamina, speed, defensive positioning, and stealing ability have indeed caused too much interference to the Brazilian team's offense, so that their offense often hits outside the penalty area and has to stop and reorganize.

But correspondingly, because Cheng Hai's position was retreated, he was farther away from the Brazilian team's penalty area, and it took more time to counterattack, which also greatly reduced Cheng Hai's counterattack success rate.

Several counterattacks were stopped by the Brazilian team with two or three defenses and layers of defense.

The score of 1-1 has been deadlocked until the end of the game, and no one has scored yet.

It seems that the game between the Chinese team and the Brazilian team seems to be going into overtime.

However, Cheng Hai never gave up the idea of ​​fighting back.

Because he knows that his teammates' physical fitness is much worse than that of the Brazilian.

If it enters overtime, even with him, the Hua Guo team may not necessarily win.Therefore, the best result is to score the lore goal in regular game time and beat Brazil, then you can win the game and the championship in regular time without going to overtime.

With this in mind, even though the Brazilian team had paid close attention to Cheng Hai's counterattack, in the 89th minute near the end of the game, the Brazilian team's defense was finally penetrated by Cheng Hai.

Cheng Hai's personal strength is too outstanding, breaking through the strength of the master, although Brazil can rely on multiple people to defend against it, but it can't succeed every time.

Because multiple people need to cooperate in the pinch defense, if the cooperation is not in place, if Cheng Hai finds a loophole, he will break through in an instant.

And the goal lost in the 89th minute was the last line of defense David Luiz and Thiago Silva made a mistake, and the line of defense formed was a little slower. Cheng Hai seized the opportunity to poke the ball through the gap between the two, then he accelerated himself and forced his way through the gap between the two.

Even if Silva stretched out his hand to pull Cheng Hai down, he was unsuccessful, and Cheng Hai's strong physique and balance ability forced him to break through.

Cheng Hai broke through the closing defense of the last two defenders of the Brazilian team and formed a single-handedly.

Goalkeeper Cesar had no choice but to abandon the goal, but was lobbed by Cheng Hai. In the end, he could only watch helplessly as the ball flew over his head and fell into the goal behind him.

This goal was scored in the 89th minute of the game, and it was also the goal of the Hua Guo team to reverse the score 2-1.

In terms of probability, the goal at this time can be called a lore.

Therefore, when Cheng Hai broke through the defense line formed by Luiz and Silva to form a single-handed shot and lobbed the ball into the goal of the Brazilian team, the commentator of CCTV-5 of Huaguo immediately roared excitedly:

"Loud!"

"Loud!"

"Cheng Hai scored a lore goal!"

"In the 89th minute, the Hua Guo team reversed the score 2-1 with Cheng Hai's goal and led the Brazilian team."

"If the national football team can keep this score until the end of the game, then the Hua Guo team will win the Confederations Cup in a historic way!"

"It's so exciting. The national football team leads the Brazilian team. Now I just want the referee to blow the final whistle."

On the court, Cheng Hai naturally knew what his goal meant, and he ran to celebrate in ecstasy.

Then, after his teammates rushed up, Cheng Hai celebrated with his teammates for a long time, which may not mean delaying time.

But the Brazilians naturally do not allow the Chinese team to use goal celebrations to delay time without restriction. You must know that they are behind now, and they are still the host.

Therefore, after the Chinese team celebrated for more than 20 seconds, the players of the Brazilian team protested to the referee, protesting that the Chinese team celebrated for too long.

Considering Brazil's home game, the referee accepted Brazil's protest and stepped forward to stop the Hua Guo team's celebration, allowing Cheng Hai and others to return to their own half, allowing the Brazilian team to open the ball and restart the game.