Grass roots glory

Chapter 850 The normal operation has just begun

Fernando Santos's starting lineup today is a 4-2-3-1 formation. The core of the midfield is the 35-year-old veteran Katuranis, and the 37-year-old veteran Karagunis is sitting on the bench superior.In order to pursue a balance between offense and defense, Greece still has a backup player today.

At the beginning of today's game, the rhythm of the Chinese team was not as fast as the previous game.Lippi asked to play at a normal pace. After all, it is a European team. The tactical quality and discipline are not comparable to African teams.

Zhou Tiancheng's task is very heavy. When Lippi asks to deliberately control the rhythm, most of the ball will come to his feet. After all, Hao Junmin is just a midfield playmaker of the midfielder type. Tian Cheng was closer to the restricted area, and basically did not retreat much.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the confrontation between Zhou Tiancheng and Papastathopoulos became the main theme of the game.

The Greek pushed directly to the backcourt. In any corner where Zhou Tiancheng appeared, his method was to wrap around Zhou Tiancheng from behind. Passing back behind him was allowed, but turning around and passing the ball forward was absolutely not allowed.

It's not that Zhou Tiancheng has tried to turn around forcibly. His strength can withstand Papastathopoulos, but the opponent is holding on to his clothes so tightly that he can't get up to speed.

"Foul! Papastathopoulos, you can't escape this action. Hahaha, he can come and stare at Zhou Tiancheng. There are too many stories of such familiarity and killing each other on the stage of the World Cup. But he should learn Be smart. To defend like this, he may have to calculate for himself how long he can play this game. The result will definitely not be better than Harvey Martinez and Schweinsteiger, who have always regarded Zhou Tiancheng as a thorn in his side. How much better people are. The referee is still merciful."

Fernando Santos stood on the coach's bench, nodded slightly at Papastathopoulos and gave a thumbs up: good job.

On the court, the Greek got more enthusiasm after being affirmed. He smiled and stretched out his hand to pull Zhou Tiancheng up, and asked, "Zhou, does it feel good? How do you feel?"

Zhou Tiancheng saw that he was smiling smugly, and answered with a soft snort: "How do you feel? How dare you think about it."

"What?" Papastathopoulos didn't react at once.He subconsciously felt that Zhou Tiancheng should be holding back some unexpected moves, and couldn't help but glance at the coach's bench, but the head coach Santos just stood on the coach's bench without any indication, so he could only bite the bullet and continue to execute tactics .

Lippi sat on the coach's bench, still looking around the audience, without deliberately concentrating on the midfield area.

He has seen this kind of defense a lot, and he completely trusts Zhou Tiancheng.

The next time Zhou Tiancheng received a pass from the backcourt, he directly squeezed his body backwards, first squeezed the space for Papastathopoulos to do his movements to the maximum, and when the ball came to his control range, the upper body of Papa behind him had already Unable to exert force, the only thing he could do was to stretch his feet, even though it was unlikely to touch the ball, but Zhou Tiancheng's position to catch the ball was already a bit dangerous, close to the defensive core area 30 meters from the front of the penalty area, a yellow card was worth it.

However, when Zhou Tiancheng received the ball, he knocked back lightly, just as Papastathopoulos stretched his foot, and the door opened wide in the next three lanes. Zhou Tiancheng directly knocked the ball behind him, then turned around cleverly, and got rid of it.

Papastathopoulos was about to fall to the ground, but Zhou Tiancheng's turn around directly wiped him out, and there was no time to react.

Turn around and wipe the whole world!

Duan Xuan stood up and shouted: "Beautiful! This extraordinary movement doesn't look fancy at all, but it is extremely delicate. This turn around is a manifestation of spirituality."

Even Fan Zhiyi, the former captain of the national team, clapped his hands and stood up, and commented with a smile: "The opponent's defensive move is really too stupid. But I can't figure out what the Greek coach thinks, Papastathorpe Lowes originally played as a central defender in Dortmund. If he played well, why did you ask him to play as a midfielder? Can he play? He can’t play! And let him defend Zhou Tiancheng, can he do it? Can’t defend, I don’t have the ability to know Right! If you think you can be sure of being a teammate, then the winner of every derby in the Ruhr area should be Schalke."

"General Fan" spoke seriously, but Duan Xuan couldn't help laughing, and the fans in front of the TV were already overjoyed.

"General Fan is talking nonsense, 666!"

"It blows me so well."

"Jiang Hao silently clicked to report... What's wrong? Look down on me?"

After Zhou Tiancheng steals the ball, he sends it forward directly, and hits the penalty area with a long pass over the top. It is a pity that Jiang Hao's volley did not give full force, the angle was too straight, and he was hugged by goalkeeper Karnesis.

Papastathopoulos looked depressed at first, but he was directly blocked by the referee as soon as he got up, and Mark Geiger directly took out a yellow card for warning.

With an innocent face, Papastathopoulos kept telling the referee that he didn't touch Zhou Tiancheng with the ball.

But this yellow card is just the result of the accumulation of his previous dangerous actions.

Zhou Tiancheng came over and patted Papastathopoulos on the shoulder, and asked with a smile, "Papa, what do you think? Am I prepared well? You don't seem to be ready!"

Before the game, Zhou Tiancheng returned the exact words that he bragged to himself.

Papastathopoulos almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, he just took a deep breath and wanted to say something.Katuranis came over to persuade him to leave directly, and at the same time pointed at Zhou Tiancheng, warning him not to go too far.

Kathuranis is indeed the soul of the team. He does not allow his teammates to cause unnecessary troubles by causing unnecessary troubles.

Zhou Tiancheng admired Kathuranis, a veteran player, and kept watching him with a smile.

When Katuranis led the Greek team to perform the miracle of the European Cup ten years ago, he was just a student. It is no exaggeration to say that he had been a fan of Greece for a while.

But standing on the court now, it is another way of thinking-the beard is so deep, and I still have to take a good rest, what is there to insist on?It is no longer your time.

He walked past Papastathopoulos and said with a smile: "Papa, don't be cowardly, let's keep going!"

The narrator of the Greek National Television had a gloomy face and said seriously: "Fernando Santos seems to have no plan at all. Is he overconfident in Papastathopoulos' ability? We must face up to this fact. There is almost no one in one-on-one. If you can prevent him, if you let him perform so recklessly, there will be big problems sooner or later."

The Greek commentator's eyes are still very vicious, and he has already seen this. Zhou Tiancheng didn't use his full strength at the beginning. This is a normal operation.

(End of this chapter)