God of Greenery

Belgium's first wave of offense also hit from the wing.

Because of the configuration of the two defensive midfielders of the Huaguo team, the middle road has become an impregnable wall. Even with the technology of the Belgian team, it is difficult to penetrate the offense through the middle road.

In the end, Jiang Xiaolin's teammate in Alkmaar, Maarten Martens, switched to the wing. After receiving a pass from his teammate, he used a gorgeous bicycle to pass the Huaguo team's full-back Tan Wangsong, and then kicked a pass.

Forward No. 9 Kaivan Miralas grabbed the first point in the penalty area, but under the interference of Li Weifeng's fight, he failed to hit the right position and pushed the ball over the crossbar.

The first attack of the two sides was quite tit-for-tat, and it seemed that Belgium even had a little advantage.

After all, Belgium formed an attacking goal, and the Hua Guo team didn't even grab the first point.

This fully demonstrates the difference in the technical strength of the players of the two teams. Even if the Hua Guo team's state is increased to 98%, some technical strengths cannot be made up.

For example, Cui Peng's cross is far from that of Maarten Martens, which cannot be compensated by his state.

But the advantage of adding the state to 98% is that the players of the Huaguo team can basically play their best level and rarely make low-level mistakes.

The low-level mistake of passing the ball directly to the opponent in a panic is generally not made.

Next, the game basically formed a situation where Belgium was the main attacker and the Hua Guo team was the main defense, playing defensive counterattacks.

Because the Huaguo team has a high probability of qualifying in a tie, plus the defensive advantage of two defensive midfielders and Jiang Xiaolin's counterattack ability, the Huaguo team naturally chose to defend and counterattack.

Belgium, on the other hand, was driven to a dead end. It had to win to retain the hope of qualifying, so it had to take risks and aggressively attack.

It's a pity that the Huaguo team's overall 98% on-the-spot status allowed the players to do a good job both individually and as a whole.

Even if there is a gap in personal ability, with the defensive bonus of the overall number of players, they can still withstand Belgium's offense, and Belgium does not pose too much threat to the goal of the Chinese team.

In the 6th minute, Belgium formed another attack in the penalty area, but in the end forward Tom Demur's shot was cleared by Feng Xiaoting with a tackle in time, and there was no foul.

This is the benefit of being close to full value to the players of the Huaguo team. Even in the penalty area, they dare to tackle the ball, and they can accurately tackle the ball without fouling.

As for outside the penalty area, the Hua Guo team's defense is even more decisive. Most of the time, they can stop Belgium's offense within 30 meters of the goal.

In the 8th minute, Marten Martens wanted to use a Marseille roundabout to pass Zheng Zhi, but when he was about to pass Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi turned around and pulled him decisively to the ground.

The place where Zheng Zhi fouled was more than 30 meters away from the goal, even if the foul was not harmful, even the referee did not give a yellow card, but just gave Zheng Zhi a verbal warning, telling him not to make such a big foul next time.

The Belgian players were naturally dissatisfied and protested around the referee, but the referee insisted and let Belgium take a free kick.

Helpless, the Belgian players could only disperse and continue the game. Marten Martens, who created the free kick, took the free kick himself.

Although Martens' free kick skills are good, the ball is too far from the goal.

Although he finally shot a shot within the range of the goal frame, because the distance was too far, the goalkeeper Qiu Shengjiong had too much preparation time, and Qiu Shengjiong easily confiscated the ball.

Afterwards, Qiu Shengjiong launched an attack with a hand throw, and the Huaguo team took advantage of this opportunity to play a threatening attack. In the end, Jiang Xiaolin received a diagonal pass from Hao Junmin at the front of the Belgian penalty area and volleyed the ball slightly wide. column.

10 minutes passed, neither side scored a goal, and the Huaguo team did not appear to be as invincible as in the previous game.

However, the ability shown by the Hua Guo team still makes many fans satisfied.

After all, Belgium is different from New Zealand. It is a European team, and its strength is not the same as that of New Zealand.

Moreover, in the first 10 minutes of this game, the Hua Guo team had a solid defense and basically made no mistakes. No one gave Belgium a good chance to shoot.

At the same time, the Hua Guo team can occasionally hit a counterattack to threaten Belgium's goal, which is already considered good.

If it weren't for the big victory in the previous game, even the fans would have been pleasantly surprised by the Olympic team's performance against Belgium.

Of course, because of the big victory in the last game, some fans still have extravagant hopes. They hope that the Hua Guo team will score as soon as possible.

Surprisingly, the Hua Guo team's first goal did not make the fans wait too long.

The Hua Guo team's defensive and counterattack style of play is relatively restrained from Belgium's 433 mad attack formation.

Belgium, which was forced to attack aggressively, will inevitably feel empty in the backcourt after putting most of its troops into the attack.

As a result, in the 12th minute, the Hua Guo team seized a chance to counterattack.

This time it was also Belgium's offense, but when their pass hit the frontcourt, a slight pass error occurred, but it was still discovered by Zhou Haibing, who was in a near-full state, and rushed to grab the card in advance, and Belgium Player Jan Witungen's attempted pass to Maarten Martens was blocked halfway.

After intercepting Belgium's pass, Zhou Haibing didn't stick to the ball too much, and immediately played the ball before Martens countered, and passed the ball to Hao Junmin on the wing.

At this time, Jiang Xiaolin had already turned around and rushed towards Belgium's empty half. Although there was no anti-offside, Belgium's empty backcourt because of its offense obviously gave Jiang Xiaolin a lot of room to sprint.

And Jiang Xiaolin's starting speed and subsequent running speed are well known to the whole team.

Therefore, Hao Junmin, who received the ball, did not stop and made a slight adjustment. He did not wait for the Belgian full-back to come up to grab the ball, so he made a long diagonal pass and kicked the ball into the Belgian half, rolling towards the front of the penalty area.

In the middle, Jiang Xiaolin was running at top speed, and Belgian defenders Zepp Delovo and Thomas Vermeeren were running backwards with him.

Originally, Delovo and Vermeeren were closer to their penalty area than Jiang Xiaolin, and they were four or five meters away from Jiang Xiaolin.

But when Jiang Xiaolin started rushing towards their half court, Hao Junmin passed the ball diagonally, and the two turned back to defend, the distance between Jiang Xiaolin and the two of them had been shortened to only two or three meters.

Then Jiang Xiaolin crossed the halfway line, and the three of them staged a speed competition in the Belgian half.

Delovo and Vermeeren knew Jiang Xiaolin's speed was very fast, so Vermeeren tried to get in position while retreating, blocking Jiang Xiaolin's advancing route, allowing Delovo to return to defense at full speed, and Hao Junmin's pass was blocked. Clear out.

Although they were mentally prepared, they still underestimated Jiang Xiaolin's speed.

Jiang Xiaolin, who started sprinting, not only quickly overtook Vermeeren, but also his strong physical fitness made it impossible for him to pull him down.

Jiang Xiaolin overtook Vermeeren about 20 meters away from the Belgian penalty area line, and then overtook Delovo at a position about 10 meters away from the Belgian penalty area line. The forward catches up with Hao Junmin's pass to form a single shot.

Although Delovo tried to stop Jiang Xiaolin's one-handed attack from the side and rear, but Jiang Xiaolin's full physique and balance made his pulling and pulling ineffective.

Even if Jiang Xiaolin was held back and couldn't run at full speed, Jiang Xiaolin, who had completed the anti-offside overtaking, naturally would not let Delovo go back.

Jiang Xiaolin dribbled the ball forward while he was stuck in the position, and at the same time observed the position of the goalkeeper Bailey who was attacking. Delovo's pull behind him did not have a fundamental impact on Jiang Xiaolin's progress.

However, another player who was running without the ball, Vermeeren, had already chased him up from the side, and Jiang Xiaolin had already seen Vermeeren's figure out of the corner of his eye.

Therefore, there is not much time left for Jiang Xiaolin.

If Vermeeren gave him a tackle from the side, Jiang Xiaolin might not be able to protect the ball under the pull of Delovo.

So, when he was about to approach the top of the penalty area, Jiang Xiaolin took a shot.

Facing the goalkeeper Bailey who attacked into the penalty area, Jiang Xiaolin naturally chose to lob.

Bailey also knew that Jiang Xiaolin would most likely choose a lob shot, so he didn't jump down when he saw Jiang Xiaolin's shot, but stood still.

Then he saw the ball kicked by Jiang Xiaolin fly into the air, Bailey immediately took off with all his strength, trying to catch Jiang Xiaolin's lob shot.

It turned out that Jiang Xiaolin's footwork was too precise, and the height was chosen very appropriately. He just passed the palm of Bailey who took off, flew over Bailey's fingertips, and then slowly landed towards the Belgian goal.

Vermeeren, who was chasing back, did not stop sprinting, and rushed to the goal at full speed, trying to come to a goal to rescue him.

But the speed of the ball was still faster than him. When Vermeeren rushed to the goal line, the ball had already fallen into the hole.

In the end, Vermeeren made a futile undercut to clear the siege, and then fell into the goal with the ball.

In the 12th minute, Jiang Xiaolin finally succeeded in countering offside with speed in a quick counterattack. After receiving Hao Junmin's oblique long pass from the backcourt, he scored an empty goal and opened the scoring for the Huaguo team. The Huaguo team led Belgium 1-0.

Immediately, the Huaguo fans at the scene and in front of the TV gave out deafening cheers and screams, wildly celebrating Jiang Xiaolin's goal.

Belgium is not New Zealand.

This is a European team, and it is a European team whose FIFA ranking is more than double that of the Hua Guo team.Being able to score the first goal on such a team is a huge stimulus for both Chinese players and fans.

Therefore, in addition to the passionate cheering fans in the stands, Wang Yongbai, Hao Junmin, Zheng Zhi and others on the field also rushed to the front court excitedly, hugged and high-fived Jiang Xiaolin who scored the first goal, and warmly celebrated this goal.

On the other hand, the Belgians seem very helpless.

Their state and performance in this game were actually not bad. The only bad thing might be Jiang Xiaolin, a super striker who made the final decision.

Jan Witungen, who is also a midfielder, asked Marten Martens: "Martens, was Jiang Xiaolin also as good as he was in Alkeamar?"

Martens said with a wry smile: "No way, although Jiang was very good in Alkmaar, he has not reached the level he is now. It can only be said that Jiang's progress is too fast. After these two months In the world preliminaries and Olympic friendly matches, Jiang’s offensive ability is much stronger than when he played in the Eredivisie. If Jiang stays in the Eredivisie next season, I can be sure that he will definitely be the golden boot of the Eredivisie next season. Nothing else will happen to anyone else."

Witungen enviously said: "Then you don't want to get a lot of assists?"

Martens shook his head and said: "Jiang Xiaolin is so famous now, I guess it will be difficult for the team to keep him? Besides, no matter what, it will be a matter of next season. We are still considering this game now." How to play! Now we are already behind in score, and the goal difference is so far behind, if we don’t win this game, we will be out of the group.”

Wei Tonggen shook his head and sighed: "It's difficult! If we want to attack aggressively, we will definitely leave Jiang Xiaolin with a lot of counterattack space in the backcourt. Look at Jiang Xiaolin's speed and shooting skills, there is no solution."

Martens also sighed and said: "Yes, but there is no solution, we still have to attack. I used to be teammates on the same team, and I would be happy to be on the same team as Jiang Xiaolin. I didn't expect today We'll be rivals, it's a headache."

No matter what Jiang Xiaolin's club teammate Maarten Martens thinks, everyone is in charge of this game, and they are fighting for their own country and honor. The positions of the two sides are always opposite, and the confrontation must continue.

After celebrating for about half a minute, the Hua Guo team was finally interfered by the referee amidst the Belgian protests, ended the celebration, and returned to their own half to wait for the game to restart.

After Belgium opened the ball in the middle circle, it continued to use its advantages in technology and overall coordination to press forward and attack the hinterland of the Hua Guo team.

The Huaguo team, on the other hand, still shrinks the defense according to the established tactics and plays defensive counterattacks.

The situation on the field still continued with Belgium as the main attacker and Hua Guo team as the main defender, but psychologically, the offensive Belgian fans were not very happy, and the Hua Guo team fans who were pressed by their opponents were not depressed.

After all, the Huaguo team was ahead in terms of score.

Moreover, although the Hua Guo team was under pressure, there was nothing wrong with the overall performance of the Hua Guo team players. Regardless of individual defense or collective positioning, it was difficult for the strong Belgium to find good offensive opportunities and gaps.

Therefore, until half an hour passed in the first half, Belgium still failed to usher in their first goal.

Even though there were two or three shots, and one shot was within the range of the goal frame, they were saved by Qiu Shengjiong, who was also in excellent form, and failed to score.

Instead, the Hua Guo team continued to use Jiang Xiaolin's counterattack ability to create threats to Belgium.If it weren't for the high vigilance of the backcourt players and the strong goalkeeper, Jiang Xiaolin might have already scored his second goal.