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Chapter 338 Fighting hard in Uruguay (Thanks for the monthly pass)
俄罗斯当地时间7月6日17时，世界杯1/4决赛首战在下诺夫哥罗德球场展开较量，由华国对战南美的乌拉圭。

This is the second time for the Huaguo team to participate in the World Cup, except that the Korean and Japanese World Cup took advantage of the Asian hosts and entered the main match. Walking on the road to create the best results of the Asian team in the World Cup.

Uruguay has won four consecutive World Cups for the first time since 1930. If they can defeat Hua Guo, they will tie the team's record of five consecutive victories in a single World Cup.

1966年1/4决赛0比4负于西德后，乌拉圭最近2次1/4决赛均晋级（1970年和2010年）。

近2届世界杯对欧洲球队取得4连胜，老帅塔瓦雷斯执教世界杯达到20场，追平扎加诺和米卢，仅次于舍恩（25）、佩雷拉（23）和斯科拉里（21）。

The starting rosters for the two teams are as follows:
Uruguay (4-3-1-2):
1 - Muslera;

22- Caceres, 2- Jimenez, 3- Godin, 17- Laxalt;
8-Nandez, 14-Lucas Torreira, 15-Vecino;
6 - Bentancur;

9-Suarez, 11-Stuani.

Huaguo (4-4-2):
1- Zeng Cheng;

2-Bi Jinhao, 6-Cai Huikang, 5-Zhang Linfan, 3-Feng Xiaoting;
10-Zheng Zhi, 18-Yin Hongbo, 13-Zhang Mai, 15-Wu Xi;

11-Zhang Yulin, 7-Wu Lei.

It is not difficult to see from the starting positions of both sides that Huaguo and Uruguay have made some changes in their formation.

Cavani, who suffered a calf injury in the last round, was absent and sat on the sidelines. Suarez's partner was replaced by Stuani. It is doubtful whether Uruguay's frontcourt can continue to fire.

Godin became the player who played the most World Cup games (8 games) as Uruguay captain.Goalkeeper Muslera rewrote Uruguay's World Cup participation record (16 games).

From the group stage to the knockout stage, Uruguay scored 7 goals and only conceded 1 goal. Their solid defense left a deep impression on people.

Facing Huaguo, Cavani missed the start due to injury, and Uruguay must strengthen its defense if it wants to limit Huaguo's "two cards" with excellent offensive capabilities.

If Uruguay, a South American giant, stops outside the top four, the most regrettable thing in this team is Cavani.

Cavani's highlight moment in this World Cup is undoubtedly the last game against Portugal.

In that game, the Paris striker scored twice to help Uruguay win 2-1 and advance to the quarterfinals.

In that game, he was like a "duizi", he exchanged Ronaldo, but he was injured in the second half because he fought too hard.

Now in the game against the Hua Guo team, when he was sitting on the bench lonely, no one could understand his mood.

In fact, Cavani's absence has a huge impact on Uruguay!

In the qualifiers for this World Cup, Cavani scored 10 goals and was the top scorer in South America, while Suarez, another Uruguayan striker, played more of a "cake-feeding" role .

In the Uruguay national team, he is not only an arrow figure, but also the number one scorer.After his absence, Suarez tended to fight alone, and the defensive pressure of the Huaguo team today was naturally much less.

It is undeniable that if it were not for Cavani, the Huaguo team would also experience an extremely difficult schedule:

First face Argentina with Messi, then Portugal with Ronaldo, and then Belgium or Brazil with shining stars.

However, with Cavani, Portugal was the first to be "solved".In this sense, the Hua Guo team can be regarded as a fisherman.

In the Uruguay national team, Cavani has participated in three consecutive World Cups, and the Uruguayan team has reached the knockout rounds, while Cavani has scored goals in each session.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is the most important member of the Uruguayan team.However, Cavani is now 31 years old.Will he be able to participate in the next World Cup?
Zhang Mai appreciates Cavani's style of striker, which is simple, practical, ingenious, and has no bad troubles of bells and whistles.

For this reason, when Zhang Mai was still waiting to enter the player channel, he greeted Cavani who was passing by in a cordial and friendly manner.

For the Huaguo team, Liu Jianye was suspended and Yin Hongbo came on as a substitute. The double arrows of Zhang Yulin and Wu Lei were restored in the frontcourt, and the other positions remained unchanged.

The Chinese and Uruguayan teams had never faced each other in the World Cup before, but the courageous Huaguo football shoes have invited Uruguay to China for many times. The Huaguo team lost all four games.

At the start of the game, Uruguay wore traditional blue jerseys and Hua Guo wore white jerseys. The two teams battled together amid the cheers of 5 spectators.

The war between Huaguo and Uruguay was full of gunpowder. The Uruguayans who kept making small moves tried to restrict Huaguo players in various ways. Even Zhang Mai, the storm boy, was treated indiscriminately by his opponents.

As soon as the game started, Zhang Yulin was knocked to the ground with a painful expression on his face, and the referee only gave a verbal warning to the Uruguayan defender who made a foul.

In the 5th minute, Nandez attacked from the right, Suarez passed the ball with his heel, Caceres knocked Stuani across, Stuani broke into the penalty area and swept across the goal from a small angle on the right side, but there was no teammate to respond.

In the 10th minute, Bentancur of the Uruguayan team made a big foul and brought down Huaguo left back Bi Jinhao. It was sitting directly on Bi Jinhao's body, which caused Bi Jinhao to suffer another injury.

Zhang Mai and Zheng Zhi stepped forward to protect Bi Jinhao in time, and the referee drove away the players from both sides who were gradually approaching, and still only warned the Uruguayan side to be careful.

In the 11th minute, seeing his teammates being bullied, Zhang Linfan also fouled Suarez and knocked down the Barcelona striker in front of the penalty area.

In order to limit Zhang Mai, the Uruguayan team is also doing everything possible. No. 14 Lucas Torreira is dedicated to marking Mbappe, and he is also very serious in defense.

Zhang Mai, who didn't believe in evil, was also annoyed. The two sides got entangled and fought fiercely. The 19-year-old Zhang Mai still had the upper hand.

In the 16th minute, Lucas Torreira took a corner kick from the right side. Jimenez fought for the top 9 meters from the goal. Stuani flew in front of the goal, but Zeng Cheng hit the ball first .

In the 18th minute, the adapted Huaguo team began to counterattack. Wu Lei made a pass from the right, Zhang Yulin nodded and ferried the ball, and Wu Xi's header from the right 7 meters away from the goal landed in the top net.

In the 20th minute, Bi Jinhao pulled Nandez's jersey and was warned by the referee with a yellow card in deliberate revenge, but the Hua Guo team had nothing to say.

It turned out that Bi Jinhao pulled out a big hole in the hem of Nandez's jersey, and Uruguay's right midfielder had to replace it with a new jersey on the sidelines to continue the game.

In the 23rd minute, Suarez made a cross from the right and was ejected by Cai Huikang. Caceres pushed back to the penalty area. Vecino stopped the ball in the chest and shot a volley 12 meters away from the goal, which was caught by Zeng Cheng.

As the game entered the middle of the first half, the confrontation between the two teams gradually heated up, and Hua Guo, the ancestor of martial arts, also slowly regained its disadvantage.

In the 26th minute, Huaguo and Uruguay competed on the wing. Zhang Mai, who was shifted to the right, got the ball and hooked it, trying to get rid of the Uruguayan Laxalt's defense and speed up chasing the ball.

However, Laxalt would not allow Zhang Mai to leave easily. The Uruguayan defender held Mbappe tightly with both hands, leaned forward reluctantly, blocked Mbappe with his shoulders and thighs, and did not let the back The player starts to chase the ball.

Zhang Mai was cornered by Laxalt's defensive action. He put his left arm around Laxalt's neck and swung hard, trying to break free and speed up to catch up with the ball...

However, Laxalt was not good at it, and he hugged Zhang Mai and did not let him speed up to leave. The two sides completed a contest in this judo-like hug and throw.

The startled referee rushed to him and gave the persistent Laxalt a yellow card, but the latter didn't care.

The smell of gunpowder between Huaguo and Uruguay also made the atmosphere on the court more tense and dignified. Players on both sides knew that this kind of confrontation was bound to happen again.

For more than 10 minutes thereafter, the two teams continued to perform in this way of hand-to-hand combat and strangling each other, and neither team got a good chance to shoot.

In the 40th minute of the game, the Uruguayan team fouled again slightly.

This time it was Bentancur, who put down the successful breakthrough Wu Xi directly behind him, received a yellow card himself, and gave Huaguo a chance to set the ball.

It was this opportunity of a set kick that was seized by the Huaguo team. Zhang Mai took the set kick and crossed Uruguay's goal with a round moon machete...

Zhang Linfan, who went straight into the left side of the penalty area from behind, was unmarked, and headed the ball into the far corner 10 meters from the goal.

1-0!The passive Hua Guo team took the lead in scoring instead, putting the pressure on Uruguay at once. Can the lagging Uruguay send Cavani to play?
This is the first goal of Huaguo Hui national defender Zhang Linfan in the World Cup. He became the first Huaguo player to score in the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

The Huaguo fans in the auditorium were cheering for the goal, while the Uruguayan players who were unexpectedly behind began to attack desperately.

Lucas Torreira, who specially marked Zhang Mai, rushed to the frontcourt, and replaced Godin to mark Zhang Mai. Uruguay's offensive flourished...

In the 43rd minute, Lucas Torreira's right corner kick was ejected, and Nandez volleyed directly with his left foot from 27 meters in front of the goal, which was blocked by Hua Guo defender Feng Xiaoting.

Lippi waved his hand from the sidelines, and the Huaguo team shrank their defense across the board. Even Zhang Mai returned to the penalty area to focus on Suarez.

Before the end of the first half, Lucas Torreira slanted the left side of the penalty area with a free kick. Cáceres headed the goal 9 meters in front of the goal, but Zeng Chengfei lifted it out of the lower left corner with one hand. The supplementary shot has lost its angle.

The ups and downs of the first half of the game finally came to an end. The Hua Guo team temporarily led Uruguay 1-0, and gave the arrogant Uruguayans a hard slap in the face before the game.

In the first half, Hua Guo scored with the only shot on target. In order to keep the goal clean, Zeng Cheng contributed 7 successful saves in the first half.

While Uruguay failed to score 4 shots on target, Huaguo players used their flesh and blood to block the wild bombardment of the South American powerhouse.

(End of this chapter)