God of Greenery

Soon, the time came to 2008 o'clock in the evening on August 8, 15. The Beijing Olympic women's football knockout match between the Chinese women's national Olympic team and the Japanese women's national Olympic team officially started at the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center.

In the eyes of countless Chinese fans looking forward to it, the women's Olympic team did not bring everyone a victory.

In the 14th minute, the Japanese team took advantage of a corner kick and Sawa Hoki scored with a header. In the 78th minute, Nagato Yuki made a single-handed contribution.

The Huaguo women's football team fell behind in the whole game, and finally defeated Japan 0-2, missed the semi-finals, and ended the women's football team's journey in the Olympics.

This is also the 1999th consecutive year that the Huaguo women's football team has missed the semi-finals of the World Series since it won the runner-up in the US Women's Football World Cup in 9.

The defeat of the women's football team was embarrassing, and it also cast a shadow over the men's football game the next day.

No matter how rationally everyone thinks that the Hua Guo team will definitely not be able to beat Italy, but everyone still has a glimmer of hope in their hearts, hoping that the Hua Guo team will perform exceptionally and eliminate Italy to enter the semi-finals.

But the women's football game made everyone realize the reality: Huaguo football is just that weak.

Even the former World Cup runner-up couldn't make it to the semi-finals, let alone the stubborn Huaguo men's football team.

It was in such an atmosphere that at 8:16 on August 18, the Chinese men's Olympic team ushered in the quarter-finals against the Italian Olympic team at the Beiping Workers' Stadium.

Although everyone knows that the Olympic team has been abused and eliminated a lot, the tickets for this game were bought by Hua Guo fans early on, and there are countless Beiping citizens pouring in from all directions. The scalper bought a high-priced ticket to watch the game.

Regardless of the outcome, no fan wants to miss the Huaguo Men's Football team's first knockout match in the World Series.

Even if they knew they were going to lose, everyone still wanted to watch.

This is the first time that the Hua Guo Olympic team has actually come to the host city of the Olympic Games - Beiping after finishing the group stage. The citizens of Peiping are also supporting the Olympic team players who performed well in the group stage with practical actions.

Before the game started, the stadium was almost filled with enthusiastic Chinese fans.There are only a few thousand fans in Italy, and they seem so lonely in a Beijing University that can accommodate more than 6 people.

Undoubtedly, in this Olympic Games, as the host team, the Hua Guo team will play at home wherever they play, and will receive the maximum support from domestic fans and spectators.

When the Hua Guo team led by Jiang Xiaolin started to warm up, they were warmly welcomed by the fans, and the atmosphere was very strong.

Of course, Italian players have seen the world and are not surprised by this situation.

If it was the Hua Guo team in the first two games of the group stage, they might still cheer up to deal with it.

But after the test of the Brazilian team in the last group match, it proved that the Hua Guo team was still the Asian team. The first two games were just a bout of shit luck.

Compared with Italy, the Hua Guo team is far behind in terms of experience and technical and tactical standards.

The Italian players are confident that they will defeat the Hua Guo team today, advance to the semi-finals, and finally reach the final and win the championship.

In their opinion, meeting the Hua Guo team in the quarter-finals is simply the best way to win.

Although the Hua Guo team is the host and will inevitably face the pressure of the home fans, but the strength of the Hua Guo team is the weakest of the top eight teams in their opinion, and it is the best to pass the test.

Except for Jiang Xiaolin, none of the other Huaguo players caught the attention of the Italians.

They believed that as long as Jiang Xiaolin was guarded, the Huaguo team would have no threat at all.

We are very confident about this.

If it was another team, they might not have the confidence to defend against Jiang Xiaolin, but for Italy, which is the best at defense, this is not a problem, and the coaching staff has already made targeted arrangements.

Compared with other Huaguo players, Jiang Xiaolin's strength was much higher, and he stood out from the crowd. The other players couldn't form a good cooperation with Jiang Xiaolin.

As long as Jiang Xiaolin is defended alone, most of the Hua Guo team's attacks can basically be terminated.

In the face of Italy's chain defense, no matter how strong Jiang Xiaolin's personal strength is, so what?

Can he fight against the entire Italian team alone and penetrate the entire Italian defense?

impossible.

As for the offense of the rest of the Huaguo team, so what if they let it in?

Do they have the superb shooting skills of Jiang Xiaolin?Can it be a real threat to Italy's goals?
No.

Therefore, the players of the Italian team seemed very relaxed during the warm-up, and they were full of confidence in this game.

Correspondingly, the Hua Guo players on the other side seemed a little nervous and cautious.

Although they didn't seem too nervous when they faced Brazil, another world-class team, and their on-the-spot status was 85%, but that was because they had already qualified ahead of time when they played against Brazil, and winning or losing the last game was not too important.

So at that point they were relaxed.

But today's game is different. If you lose, you will be eliminated and go home.

No matter how many media and fans analyze the Hua Guo team's losses and losses, as professional players, they still have the idea of ​​​​giving it a try and winning the quarter-finals.

What's more, everyone has personally experienced the feeling of bursting in the first and second games of the group stage.

If they can play in that state by then, the Hua Guo team may not be without the possibility of overturning Italy.

Therefore, everyone carefully and nervously warmed up before the game, preparing for a showdown with Italy later.

The time was slowly approaching 18:6, Jiang Xiaolin put all his eggs in one basket and spent 18 attribute points to increase the "long pass" of 20 to the full value of [-] points. .

Even the long pass attributes of Beckham, Harvey and others cannot reach this level at the highest.

It took less than a week to add points this time, but Jiang Xiaolin decided to take a risk, and added two points to the full value at a time. Even if someone finds that his progress is too weird, they can't control that much.

Anyway, his speed of progress* is well known to everyone, and no scientist has actually come to arrest him and slice him for research.

The reason why Jiang Xiaolin is so risky is that he also knows that Italy will definitely focus on him.

With the Italian's proficiency in chain defense, it may be difficult for him to get a good one-handed chance.

In this case, it is better to leave the chance of shooting to the teammates.

As long as the status of the teammates is increased to 100%, and then pass the ball, the teammates can also threaten the Italian goal.

This is why Jiang Xiaolin took the risk of adding the long pass attribute to 20 full before the game.

In addition, Jiang Xiaolin added a little more to Jiang Xiaolin's 15 points of "Picking the Ball", making it 16 points.

It's not super safe, but it works once in a while.

After adding points, Jiang Xiaolin had 87 attribute points remaining.

Next, the team entered the field, played the national anthem, took a group photo, and picked a side. After completing the side pick, Jiang Xiaolin turned on the team halo to check the overall state of the Hua Guo team.

Probably the players were really too nervous about the first World Series knockout match. This time the Hua Guo team's on-the-spot state was much lower than the previous game against Brazil, even lower than 80%, only 77% of the on-the-spot state.

If Jiang Xiaolin's team halo is not there, if you play against Italy in this on-the-spot state, the Hua Guo team, which is not as strong as the opponent, will definitely be bloodbathed by the opponent's big score, just like the Hua Guo team in the Korea-Japan World Cup faced Brazil. 4-0 slaughter as well.

Fortunately, the Hua Guo team still has Jiang Xiaolin, a cheater with a system cheat.

Without hesitation, Jiang Xiaolin spent 30 attribute points to increase the team's 77% presence status to 100%, and then chose to use the team aura to apply 100% presence status to everyone in the team.

Immediately, the players of the Hua Guo team suddenly felt clear-headed, and a feeling of the first two games of the group stage came to their hearts.

Everyone immediately felt that the explosive on-the-spot state in the first two games of the group stage had returned to themselves.

Looking at each other again, it seems that everyone has regained that peak state.

Immediately, the players of the Hua Guo team became more confident.

With such an on-the-spot state, perhaps the Hua Guo team really has the possibility of overturning Italy!

After Jiang Xiaolin filled up the Hua Guo team's on-the-spot status and used the team halo, the game is about to start.

At 2008:8 on August 16, 18, with the whistle of the referee, the men's football quarter-finals of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese National Olympic Team VS Italian National Olympic Team, officially kicked off at the Peking Workers' Stadium.

Italy, which got the kick-off right, took the lead in the game, but they did not rush to attack. Instead, they passed the ball back to the backcourt for a few kicks, pulling the Hua Guo team out of formation, and then began to pass forward. attack.

The game has just started, and Italy's offense is not fast, they are tentative.

But even if it was a test, they thought it would be easier to push the offense to the front of the Hua Guo team's penalty area.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the ball passed the center line, it was intercepted tenaciously by the Hua Guo team, and was blocked back. It couldn't even pass the midfield, so it was forced to pass back to the backcourt.

This surprised all Italians, even the fans, reporters and commentators in the stands.