God of Greenery

Seeing that Tan Wangsong failed to block Ensofor's shot, many Hua Guo fans in the stands even closed their eyes, a little afraid to watch.

In their opinion, the shot was so close that it was almost impossible not to score!
And those Nigerian fans, even the players outside the penalty area on the court and the coach substitutes on the sidelines, have already stood up and prepared to celebrate the goal.

As a result, everyone was surprised to see that the ball kicked by Ensofur flew straight out of the crossbar and towards the stands.

The nervous goalkeeper Qiu Shengjiong almost subconsciously spread his feet and arms to expand the defensive area, only to find that the ball flew high above his head.

Then he turned his head and saw that the ball had already flew high off the crossbar and flew towards the stands.

It's easy to say that the goalkeeper was blocked, but Ensofor actually kicked such a good shot opportunity that was close at hand?

Immediately, countless Nigerian fans scratched their heads on the spot and in front of the TV, which seemed incredible.

However, the Huaguo fans, who were terrified, suddenly burst into applause. Tens of thousands of people applauded in unison, paying tribute to Ensofor's plane.

After completing the shot, Ensofor was not knocked down by Tan Wangsong, but he was so painfully hit by his own shot that he knelt on the ground and hammered the ground madly, annoyed.

In the commentary booth, the Nigerian TV live broadcast commentator who had already stood up and prepared to celebrate the goal said in a distraught way:

"Oh my God, the ball flew off the bar!"

"I can not believe it!"

"Ensofor actually defeated Aguirol's wonderful pass assist that was so hard to pass several people into the penalty area and was close to the goal!"

"Nsofor is a sinner in Nigeria!"

"He cut off our dream of reversing and advancing to the final!"

"Such a good shooting opportunity, I don't know if we can still meet it."

Indeed, for the Hua Guo team, this time the opponent's striker's volley shot in front of the goal felt a little escaped.

The commentator of the National Television Sports Channel also explained in the commentary booth with lingering fear:
"It's okay, it's okay, Nigeria's No. 9 forward kicked the shot from close at hand!"

"Nigeria wasted a chance to score and our Olympic team escaped!"

"The Hua Guo team still leads Nigeria 3-1 by two goals, and there is still half an hour before the end of the game."

"As long as the Olympic team sticks to it for another half an hour, we will be able to advance to the final, at least a silver medal is guaranteed!"

"Half an hour, the lead of two goals, I believe the players of the Olympic team can hold on!"

On the field, the players of the Huaguo team who escaped were also encouraging each other's morale, and reminded everyone to pay attention to the opponent's personal breakthrough and supplementary defense.

As the captain, Zheng Zhi shouted to everyone: "Everyone must pay attention, this situation cannot happen again next time. Everyone should have realized that the opponent is deliberately increasing the frequency of personal technical breakthroughs. So next time someone breaks through, everyone It is necessary to increase the defensive strength to prevent him from breaking through to the next teammate, and to intercept the passing route nearby, so that the opponent can basically block the route of shooting or passing the ball."

Under Zheng Zhi's shouting, everyone nodded, expressing that they knew what to do next.

The game continues.

Although it is a pity that Ensofor missed this close shot opportunity, but on the other hand, the Nigerians also think that Aguirol's previous two consecutive shots are a very effective offensive strategy.

Everyone is more determined and frequently uses personal skills to break through the players of the Huaguo team, and almost no longer cooperates with the team.

But this approach of going from one extreme to the other is actually not advisable.

As Zheng Zhi told his teammates, after the Nigerian players' thoughts were seen through by the Hua Guo players, it was actually very difficult for them to think of such an easy breakthrough to create a threat.

Because after all, they are not Ronaldo, not Ronaldinho, not to mention Pele and Maradona.

Before the Huaguo team could react, they might be able to use their personal skills to successfully break through several times in a row, but after the Huaguo team saw through the nature of the Nigerian players fighting alone, their defense would be much more targeted.

In particular, the overall on-the-spot status of the Huaguo team has improved their defensive cooperation and positioning success rate by more than one level.

Even if one person can't stop it, there will be someone behind to make up the defense in time, and there will be no loopholes due to the marking of other people.

Because everyone already knows that there is a high probability that the Nigerians will not pass the ball, but will continue to break through, trying to penetrate the Hua Guo team's defense line.

Under such circumstances, the success rate of Nigerian players has not only not become higher, but has become lower.

The lower success rate naturally means that the number of balls lost and the number of ball rights changed hands increased, and the number of counterattacks of the Hua Guo team increased.

Even though the head coach has made targeted arrangements to prevent Jiang Xiaolin from counterattacking with the defensive midfielders and defenders, sometimes it is not so perfect and complete.

After all, Jiang Xiaolin wasn't the only one in the Huaguo team.

Occasionally, when other players are in a good position, they can also participate in the counterattack.

In the 75th minute, when Nigerian midfielder Keita swayed Zheng Zhi's defense away with a gorgeous bicycle ride, and tried to smash the ball to sway Zhou Haibing away, Zhou Haibing shoveled the ball away decisively and ferociously. Keita was shoveled to the ground.

But the referee did not punish Zhou Haibing for a foul, because Zhou Haibing tackled the ball first, and he did not raise his foot too high to deliberately trip Keita.

Keita was only brought down by Zhou Haibing's body after a tackle.

The ball passed by Zhou Haibing rolled between the winger Cui Peng and the Nigerian player Aguirol. The two started at the same time and rushed towards the ball.

However, Cui Peng, who was in the full state, reacted a little faster than Aguirol, and took the lead in using the skill of flying shovel when he was close to the ball, touched the ball first, and swept the ball to Wang Yongbai who came to meet him in the middle.

At this time, Jiang Xiaolin had already turned around and rushed towards Nigeria's half. Nigeria's newly replaced midfielder Anichebe also quickly retreated and blocked his position, blocking Jiang Xiaolin's forward line.

The other two central defenders, Appam and Adrie, returned to the defense at full speed to prevent Wang Yongbai from passing the ball behind his big foot again, and kicked the ball behind them, and then Jiang Xiaolin caught up with the ball to form a single-handed counterattack.

However, Wang Yongbai did not drive the ball to the frontcourt this time, but passed it to the side: Hao Junmin rushed to Nigeria's half before Nigeria's full-back Okonkuwo returned to defense.

Wang Yongbai passed the ball to Hao Junmin's way forward. Hao Junmin didn't need to brake at all, he just kicked the ball out, and rushed along the sideline to Nigeria's bottom line unscrupulously.

Although Okonkuwo behind him defended tightly, he still failed to catch up.

Because Hao Junmin was not guarded in front of him, he was able to throw the ball far away, and then he sprinted at full speed, almost running without the ball. He didn't slow down at all and waited for Okonkuwo to catch up.

The current situation is that Jiang Xiaolin in the middle and Nigeria's midfielder Anichebe are entangled to advance, and there are central defenders Appam and Adrie who are returning to defense a few meters in front of them.

On the side, Hao Junmin dribbled the ball to the bottom at high speed, and the Nigerian full-back Okonkuwo not far behind him chased after him, but he still failed to catch up.

It was almost a two-on-four opportunity in the frontcourt, and Hao Junmin was flat in front of him, and there was no defense at all.

This situation exceeded the expectations of the Nigerian players.

They thought that the Hua Guo team would only rely on Jiang Xiaolin to fight back, but they didn't expect him to have helpers.

Jiang Xiaolin alone attracted the attention of Nigeria's defensive midfielder and defender. As a result, the Hua Guo team's full-back Hao Junmin was in an unguarded situation, and he could smoothly dribble the ball down without interference from anyone.

No way, of the two central defenders in the middle of Nigeria, only one can go to Apam to intercept Hao Junmin.

Don't go!
If no one went all the time, Hao Junmin might not have to make a bottom pass, but cut in from the side. The distance with Jiang Xiaolin would get closer and closer, and the threat would become bigger and bigger.

Therefore, Apam can only give up the defense in the middle and go to intercept Hao Junmin, hoping to intercept Hao Junmin in the middle, preferably if he can't even make a cross.

But in fact, Appam failed to stop Hao Junmin.Because he wanted to run to the side, he ran diagonally, while Hao Junmin had been running straight along the sideline.

In the process of Hao Junmin dribbling the ball to the bottom at high speed, Jiang Xiaolin also relied on his faster speed and stronger body to get rid of Anichebe's entanglement and rushed into the Nigeria penalty area.

The only one who can stop Jiang Xiaolin is central defender Adrie.

But defending alone is really difficult for Jiang Xiaolin, who has full physique, perfect jumping, superb header, erratic movement, and precise grabbing points.

Hao Junmin naturally knew this too.

When he saw Jiang Xiaolin throw off Anichebe and was about to rush into the penalty area, Hao Junmin, who was not actually at the bottom line, kicked in a cross.

Hao Junmin, who completed the pass while running at high speed, was even thrown out of the baseline by his own inertia, and stopped when he bumped into the billboard outside the baseline.

But the ball he passed has avoided the central defender Appam, who flew to block the hole of the gun, and flew towards the Nigerian penalty area.

The quality of Hao Junmin's pass this time is not bad.

After all, it was a cross without any interference, and Jiang Xiaolin's own state had been added to the full value, so the temporary performance of the cross this time was not bad.

The ball landed near the penalty spot, and goalkeeper Fan Zejin didn't dare to attack, so he could only stand firmly on the goal line, passively praying that Adrie, who returned to the defense first, would push the ball out to make a clearance.

Adrie, who was the first to return to the penalty area, did grab the ball's landing point, occupy the position, and was about to take off and compete for the top to clear the siege.

But I didn't expect Jiang Xiaolin, the latecomer, to jump even higher. He leaped high in front of Adrie, and hit the ball with a powerful head shake. He instantly changed the direction of the ball and let the ball fly like a cannonball. towards the goal.

Adrie realized that something was wrong the moment Jiang Xiaolin took off.

He judges the landing point based on his jumping level, so he naturally chooses a relatively late one.

But he ignored Jiang Xiaolin's jumping ability.

Jiang Xiaolin's jumping ability is higher than his, so the landing point of Jiang Xiaolin's eyes is naturally higher than his.

After realizing this, it was too late to grab the landing point, so after the jump, Adrie could only try his best to push Jiang Xiaolin on the back, hoping to influence Jiang Xiaolin's header.

Jiang Xiaolin was indeed affected.

Although he hit the ball, he pushed it a little higher under Andrea's interference. He missed the goal frame, but hit the crossbar and bounced back.

Moreover, the height of the bomb was a bit too high, and it even bounced back and flew over his and Adrie's heads.

However, that is also the case, just avoiding Anichebe who hastily returned to defense.

Anichebe was left behind by Jiang Xiaolin just now, and he has been chasing after him.

After Jiang Xiaolin finished his header, Anichebe was still rushing into the penalty area, but just missed the rebounded ball.

When he saw that Jiang Xiaolin's header missed the goal and bounced off the crossbar, he couldn't stop the car and rushed past Jiang Xiaolin and Adrie.

Thus, the ones fighting for the bounced ball became Jiang Xiaolin and Adrie, who landed on the ground.

Jiang Xiaolin's reaction was faster than Adrie's. The moment he landed, he turned around and rushed towards the ball's landing point.

But Adrie didn't react slowly, and not only turned around immediately, but also stretched out his hand to give Jiang Xiaolin a hand.

Although he let go immediately, he successfully slowed down Jiang Xiaolin's speed, allowing him to keep up with Jiang Xiaolin, entangled and rushed towards the ball's landing point together.

Under Adrie's interference, Jiang Xiaolin was unable to stop the ball smoothly before turning around and shooting.

Because not only was Adrie by his side, but Anichebe behind him also stopped the car and turned around to chase him back.

There are also Nigerian players returning to defense from outside the penalty area, and two people rushed towards the ball.

Once Jiang Xiaolin tried to stop or unload the ball, he would immediately be interfered by these people and even snatch the ball away.

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Xiaolin, who was entangled with Adrie and with his back to the goal, suddenly opened his arms to block Adrie, then fell backwards, jumped, and shot a powerful mid-air volley, throwing the ball that fell in the air. He kicked back to Nigeria's goal again and again.

A volley shot with an undercut.

Jiang Xiaolin used this special skill with a full value of 20.

Even though it was a volley shot with an undercut, Jiang Xiaolin's skills at full strength and speed were very powerful, and Jiang Xiaolin even had enough energy to hit an angle.

The ball flew past Adrie's ear like a sharp arrow, flew over Anichebe's head behind him, and flew towards the upper left corner of Nigeria's goal.

Goalkeeper Fan Zejin was ill-prepared for Jiang Xiaolin's undercut shot, and the distance was too short and the ball was too fast, so he didn't even have time to make a save, and just watched the ball fly into the upper left corner of the goal.