King of the Zone

The U23 men's football quarter-finals at the Asian Games did not even make a splash in world football, and the vast majority of fans had never even heard of this event.

But in China and South Korea, the result of this game aroused heated discussions among the media and fans that night and the next day.

Naturally, the whole country celebrates in Huaguo.

Although the Hua Guo team receives gold medals every day, football, as the world's largest sport, naturally has countless fans and non-fans paying attention.

There are so many sports in China that are no match for foreign countries, why does football attract so much infamy?
It is because there are so many people watching football!
Therefore, after decades of Korean-phobia, Huaguo football first defeated the South Korean national team 3-0 in the East Asian semi-finals this year by Gao Hongbo's adult national team.

Now, the national football team has defeated the Korean Olympic team 23-3 in the U2 Asian Games, which will naturally arouse overwhelming media reports and heated discussions among fans.

"Olympic team beat South Korea 3-2 to advance to the quarter-finals of the Asian Games, and won the first victory in the history of the two sides' Olympic-level confrontation! "

"Cheng Hai once again staged a hat-trick and led the Olympic team to beat South Korea 3-2 and advance to the quarterfinals of the Asian Games!" "

"Despite the dangers of the game, the Olympic team still defended Cheng Hai's hat-trick, and finally defeated South Korea 3-2 and entered the quarterfinals of the Asian Games men's football team! "

Fans have heated discussions in various forums, news comment areas, post bars, QQ groups and other places.

From Cheng Hai's captain's armband, to his thigh cramps, to his 4 goals in 11 games, etc., and the Olympic team's strict defense at the end of the final stage, they have become hot topics among fans.

Needless to say, Cheng Hai's toughness completely conquered all the fans.

Even for the rest of the Olympic team, although some people ridiculed that they were completely carried by Cheng Hai, some people still think that the defense of the Olympic team after the whole game is still very desperate.

Obviously, under the leadership of Cheng Hai, the Olympic team, although their skills are still poor, their mental state and hard work have indeed improved a lot.

In the eyes of some fans, at least this has been a good change.

If the national teams at all levels of the Hua Guo team can achieve some results in the Asian Games, Asian Cup, Olympics, and World Cup under the leadership of Cheng Hai, it will surely influence many young people to join football, increase the football population base of Hua Guo, and have some beneficial effects on the future of Hua Guo football.

That's what some true patriotic fans want to see.

Although the impact is still small, everyone still has some expectations and looks forward to the good development of Huaguo football.

As for South Korea, the defeat is pessimistic.

If we lost 0-3 to Gao Hongbo's national football team in the East Asian semi-finals in the first half of the year, we could comfort ourselves with the fact that the South Korean team had a group of substitutes on the bench, but this Asian Games cannot be explained by this reason at all.

In order to obtain the gold medal and the exemption from military service, South Korea U23 selected the most powerful London Olympic-age players in the country this time, plus several overage players who participated in the World Cup in South Africa.

Under such circumstances, the South Korean team lost to the Huaguo team, which is very uncomfortable.

Even if there is Cheng Hai's factor, but Cheng Hai is only one person, and the South Korean team only scored two goals in offense, which makes many fans feel uncomfortable.

The South Korean U23 who returned to China received a lot of abuse and accusations from the Korean media and fans, claiming that they played badly, and even the undefeated opponent Hua Guo Guo Guo could win against them, which is a shame.

In the end, the head coach of South Korea was forced to come out and hold a press conference to apologize to the fans, claiming that they did not play well in the quarter-finals and were eliminated by the Chinese team, which failed the expectations of the Korean fans.

After finishing the quarter-finals with the South Korean team, there are four full days before the next quarter-finals.

Therefore, the Hua Guo team finally took a day off to let the players have a good rest.

Especially Cheng Hai, who had cramps during the game, worried the players and coaches for a while.

Fortunately, after the treatment and massage by the physical therapist, plus his own rest, Cheng Hai woke up almost fine the next day, and there was no abnormality at all when he resumed training on the third day.

However, when the daily training started on November 11, Cheng Hai's speed performance surprised the coach and teammates.

Originally, Cheng Hai's speed was almost the weakest in the team.

However, during this training, Cheng Hai suddenly reached the highest speed in the team while running back and forth.

Especially in the starting speed, it was the most obvious. No one in the team could match Cheng Hai's acceleration.

Cheng Hai's abnormal performance naturally made his teammates and coaches very curious, asking questions one after another.

As a result, Cheng Hai said again: "I don't know why, it seems to run so fast all of a sudden!"

Only the physical fitness coach in the team hesitated for a moment, and said: "Maybe it has something to do with your running movements becoming more standard. I think your striding and swinging movements are more standard than before. It should be that you already have this speed. It's just that you didn't train specially before. Now you have found the most standard movements by accident, so you can use your speed."

Cheng Hai naturally knew that this was a natural change after he used the system plug-in to increase the acceleration to 18 and the speed to 16, but he naturally would not expose it, but accepted the coach's guessed explanation, saying:

"Maybe that's the reason! Anyway, I feel that running is much smoother than before."

The other teammates all expressed envy that Cheng Hai was already strong enough, but now his speed has soared so suddenly, it is estimated that the opponent in the next game will be beaten by Cheng Hai.

However, the coaching staff was still afraid of accidents, so they asked the team doctor to conduct a rough physical examination on Cheng Hai.

The physical examination proved that there was nothing abnormal about Cheng Hai's body, which proved that Cheng Hai's current running speed was indeed what his body could bear, which reassured everyone on the team.

Everyone is also full of expectations for the next game.

Cheng Hai's sudden soaring speed will definitely give the opponents in the quarter-finals a super fright.

Although we don't know whether the Hua Guo team can make it to the finals, the organizing committee of the competition must try to arrange the Hua Guo team's possible participation in the Tianhe Stadium in the setting of the schedule.

In fact, there is no accident. If the Hua Guo team can advance to the final, all the matches from the group stage to the final will be held in Tianhe Stadium, and each game will be filled with more than 5 spectators.

After overcoming the super difficulty of South Korea, the quarter-finals faced Uzbekistan U23, and the Hua Guo team, both the media and the fans, felt a lot easier.

Not to mention the rankings of the Hua Guo team and the Uzbekistan national team in FIFA, the Hua Guo team is higher than Uzbekistan.

Just talking about the performance of this Asian Games, the Hua Guo team ranked second in the group with 6 points and two wins in three games.

Uzbekistan, on the other hand, only won the group match against Bangladesh in Group E, and lost the other two group matches against Huaguo Xiangjiang and the United Arab Emirates U23. They only scored 3 points in the group stage, and finally advanced to the knockout stage as one of the four best third-place teams.

In the quarter-finals, Uzbekistan faced Qatar U23, and there was nothing they could do. The two sides drew a goalless draw within 90 minutes.

It was not until overtime that full-back Nagayev scored the only goal in the 108th minute, beating Qatar 1-0 and entering the quarterfinals.

Its own strength is weaker than that of the Huaguo team, and it fell into a 120-minute overtime battle in the last game. No matter how you look at it, the Huaguo team has no reason to lose to Uzbekistan.

This is just the opinion of the outside media and fans. In fact, inside the team, the coaches and players are more confident.

Because after Cheng Hai's speed has soared a lot, Cheng Hai not only has the ability to run long distances, but also his ability to run without the ball and grab points has improved a lot.

Under the chain reaction, Cheng Hai's strength also soared a lot, but the outside world didn't know about it.

Uzbekistan, on the other hand, is bound to become the experiment and victim of Cheng Hai's sudden soaring speed.

In fact it is.

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As the captain, Cheng Hai unfortunately lost the right to pick a side in the side-picking ceremony of this game, but was lucky to get the kick-off right.

Because he knew that his opponent definitely didn't understand his speed change, he discussed it with a few frontcourt players, and planned to give the opponent an opening fast break, using his sudden soaring speed to catch the opponent by surprise.

Therefore, when the referee blew the opening whistle, Cheng Hai kicked the ball to Wu Xi, and ran towards the opponent's half, the Uzbekistan players thought that Wu Xi would pass the ball all the way back to the backcourt, attracting Uzbekistan's formation to press out and then organize an attack.

Therefore, they did not pay attention to Cheng Hai's running position at all.

Not only Cheng Hai, but at the moment the game started, the two full-backs of the Hua Guo team also rushed into Uzbekistan's half, forming a support for Cheng Hai in the middle.

Under the watchful eyes of the Uzbekistan players, after Wu Xi received the ball from Cheng Hai in the middle circle, he faced the opponent's rushing forward to press, but he did not pass back to the backcourt.

Then Wu Xi himself rushed into Uzbekistan's half, about seven or eight meters behind Cheng Hai, forming a four-corner formation with the avant-garde on both sides and Cheng Hai.

When Wu Xi passed the ball to Lu Wenjun who was plugging in from the wing, the Uzbekistan players seemed to finally realize something and wanted to stop Cheng Hai.

It's a pity that Cheng Hai's speed has soared at this time, and he crossed the Uzbekistan midfield line almost in the blink of an eye without the ball, and faced the two central defenders.

The two central defenders did not panic, one stepped forward to intercept Cheng Hai, and the other retreated back to the penalty area to prevent accidents.

At this moment, Lu Wenjun saw Cheng Hai's running position, and passed the ball diagonally to the front of Cheng Hai's running position outside the top of the penalty area.

Lu Wenjun's pass was actually not very good. It was a bit too close to Uzbekistan defender Irmatov.

But Irmatov's reaction was not as good as Cheng Hai's.

Cheng Hai's full value of off-ball running and spot-grabbing ability allowed him to immediately judge the ball based on the rolling route and speed of the ball after Lu Wenjun passed it.

Therefore, Cheng Hai, who first judged the rolling direction of the ball, did not continue to rush forward in a straight line, but immediately changed direction and ran a few steps to the side to catch the ball in advance.

Although Irmatov reacted immediately, he was one step behind Cheng Hai.

When he rushed up, Cheng Hai had already received the ball, swung the ball to the corner of the penalty area, then jumped up to avoid Irmatov's outstretched foot, and passed Irmatov in an instant.

Of course, the ball Cheng Hai waded out was not safe, because there was a full-back and a central defender in the Uzbek penalty area.

As long as Cheng Hai is a little slower, the ball may be gone.

But Cheng Hai has already picked up his speed now. After successfully dodging Irmatov in the jump, he rushed up with an acceleration of 18 points when he landed, and took control of the ball before the full-back Ahmedov.

Ahmedov was a step slower, and could only lower his center of gravity cautiously, preparing to intercept Cheng Hai's shot or breakthrough.

Cheng Hai looked at Ahmedov's position and another central defender, goalkeeper, etc. in the penalty area, and found that the probability of his shot being blocked was high, so he didn't shoot.

Instead, the moment he controlled the ball, Matthews made a fake move, making an illusion of breaking through the middle of the penalty area.

Cheng Hai's 19-point dribble and Matthews' fake moves are very skillful when making fake moves, and they are very deceptive when breaking through. Ahmedov is not the world's top defender, so he was naturally deceived by Cheng Hai, and his body center of gravity involuntarily moved to the middle.

As a result, in the next moment, Cheng Hai flicked the ball to the bottom line of defense and broke through from the outside of Ahmedov.

Although Ahmedov immediately turned around and pulled Cheng Hai to lose his center of gravity and control of the ball, Cheng Hai's full physique played a key role at this time.

Although Ahmedov's pull grabbed Cheng Hai's clothes, he was thrown away by Cheng Hai's tyrannical speed and body impact.

The acceleration of 18 gave Cheng Hai instant explosive power, allowing him to easily get rid of Ahmedov's block, and dribbled the ball to the corner of the small penalty area.

Afterwards, Cheng Hai immediately volleyed ahead of the central defender Holmuradov who came over from the side with a shovel, and pulled the ball out.

The goalkeeper Zhulayev was guarding the near corner, half squatting, trying to expand the defensive area as much as possible.

As a result, he didn't pay attention to his crotch.

The ball shot by Cheng Hai ran towards Zhulayev's crotch against the turf. Zhulayev was shocked and immediately closed his legs, trying to stop the ball.

However, his movements were too slow.

With Cheng Hai's full shooting skills and such a short distance, the ball passed through the small gate between his legs without any suspense, and rolled into the gate behind him.

At this time, the game had only started for 8 seconds, some fans were still looking for their seats, and some fans had just turned on the TV in front of the TV.

In the commentary seat, the CCTV-5 commentator who was reading the starting list of both sides stopped reading the starting list in an instant, but let out a long roar and shouted explosively:

"Cheng Hai shoots!"

"The ball is in, it's in, it's in, it's in..."

"Oh my god, let me see, just 8 seconds into the game, the Olympic team used the kick-off to launch a successful blitz, and finally Cheng Hai volleyed from a small angle to break the goal of Uzbekistan!"

"There is no doubt that this is the fastest goal in the history of the Asian Games!"

"In the opening 8 seconds, Cheng Hai and the Olympic team teamed up to create the fastest goal in the history of Asian Games football!"

The guest teacher Zhang next to him also nodded excitedly and said:
"That's right, I don't need to look at the data, this must be the fastest goal in the history of Asian Games football!"

"Cheng Hai and our Olympic team made history!"

"In addition, I found that Cheng Hai's running speed without the ball and the speed of breaking through with the ball in this offense have been greatly improved compared to before. It is very obvious. Am I wrong?"

The narrator immediately continued: "Mr. Zhang, you are not mistaken, I also found out, but I don't know what's going on."

"However, no matter what, Cheng Hai's speed suddenly increased, which is a great thing for the Olympic team."

"It is estimated that Uzbekistan was also caught off guard by Cheng Hai's sudden increase in speed, so Cheng Hai easily broke through the two in a row, and then scored."

The guest nodded and said, "It should be!"

The commentator and guests were right, not to mention the two defenders who were broken by Cheng Hai, the Uzbekistan midfielders who were passed by Cheng Hai without the ball just now were all caught off guard by Cheng Hai's speed, and Cheng Hai easily rushed to the frontcourt.

Before the game, they carefully watched the Hua Guo team's game video, and studied Cheng Hai as the number one threat.

No one thinks that Cheng Hai's speed is a threat. Everyone just needs to guard against Cheng Hai's movement and breakthrough near the penalty area.

Unexpectedly, now that the game has just started, Cheng Hai gave them a head-on blow with super fast speed. Some Uzbekistan players were a little dazed and felt unreal.

"The game should have just started, right? Why are we falling behind?" Some people thought in disbelief.

In the stands, the Chinese fans didn't care whether the Uzbekistan players and fans believed it or not. Anyway, they saw Cheng Hai's successful shot and the score on the big screen became 1-0, and they immediately fell into excited celebration.

Everyone applauded and cheered while discussing:
"Damn, I just came in. I haven't found a position yet, so I scored a goal?"

"Cheng Hai is so awesome! So cool!"

"Uzbekistan's strength is not as good as ours, and it conceded the goal 8 seconds into the game. It seems that we will win!"

"Cheng Hai is so fierce today. This should be the fastest goal in the history of the Asian Games, right? I feel that his running speed is much faster than in the previous games."

"Yeah, I feel that way too!"

"The speed of progress is so fast! Even Cheng Hai, who relies on his body's explosive power, can suddenly soar so much, and he doesn't know where Cheng Hai's end point will be."

"No one knows, but even if the Hua Guo team never wins the World Cup, I think Cheng Hai should be able to become a world superstar like Shevchenko and Drogba."

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