Greenery Reverses The Madness

The World Cup quarter-final match between China and Senegal is definitely not exciting.

The one who can make the game exciting is Senegal, but they are too worried and overly cautious. There is no problem in strategic awareness in the knockout round based on defense.

After all, even the world's top teams will be cautious in the knockout rounds.

At the same time, there will be almost no major adjustments at the technical and tactical level.

Because there is no room for trial and error, and I am not willing to bear the cost of trial and error.

Although Mane, Dia, and Sarr have shown excellent personal abilities, they are always in a situation of being surrounded and suppressed, and it is difficult to create a threat.

Sporadic long-range shots and lucky crosses could make the Chinese team nervous, but in the end they failed to score.

In the 76th minute of the game, Ye Yifeng's consciousness fell into darkness.

The cheating moment has arrived.

He stood in the consciousness space without moving for a long time.

Tangled!

The game never presented an environment that allowed the Chinese team to threaten a counterattack.

And judging from the trend, Senegal does not intend to sink the ship within the regular time.

There's no telling whether there will be any action in overtime.

After all, the physical fitness of both teams is almost reaching its limit.

The further time goes by, the easier it is for technical moves to go out of shape.

Reactivity will also be reduced.

Forward, midfielder, defender, which one to choose?

The very real problem facing Ye Yifeng is that it is not that he lacks the ability to score goals for the Chinese team, but that he does not meet the environmental conditions for the Chinese team to perform.

If Senegal does not have a decisive battle, it will not make much sense for him to strengthen his defense.

So, what will ultimately determine the outcome of the game?

Thinking of this, Ye Yifeng chose the goalkeeper's optional card for the first time in his career.

Although there are European football elites mixed in to make up the numbers.

But there are 7 goalkeepers among the 15 people selected.

He took a gamble.

The goalkeeper is in line with his wishes.

If you don’t come, don’t force it.

A row of cards disappears.

In the dark space of consciousness, light bloomed in front of him, quickly turning from a bright spot to a bright one, and the Italian flag appeared in front of his eyes from far to near.

Then in a burst of dazzling light, Francisco Toldo walked out of the flag.

Ye Yifeng nodded slightly.

At least they are people who follow their own ideas.

Consciousness returns to reality.

Substitutions for the Chinese team.

Voure replaced Fernando.

Lippi didn't dare to take too many risks at this time.

The World Cup is not a place for willful gambling.

A regular matchup substitution.

Senegal has not made any substitutions yet. They have put on their strongest lineup and the substitutions are of little significance.

After all, he is still very cautious in his playing style.

With less time, both teams played more conservatively.

The slower the tempo, the harder it is for the defense to find loopholes for the opponent.

In the 86th minute of the game, Ye Yifeng had just reached the frontcourt. Almost the whole Senegal team retreated into the backcourt. He was surrounded by the strikers and midfielders and had no room to respond.

He wisely chose to retreat.

Senegal knows exactly who poses the biggest threat, so they won't be careless in their defense.

Before the end of the 90 minutes of the regular game, the Senegalese team made a wave of impact.

Mbaye advanced to the frontcourt and finally sent a mediocre cross.

Wang Dalei struck out and picked the ball out of the air.

After he stalled for time and kicked the ball out, the referee blew the whistle to end the second half.

The Chinese fans were hoarse from shouting.

The result was 0:0.

I haven't even seen a shot that was exciting enough.

The same goes for Senegalese fans.

At this stage, Cisse no longer tries to figure out Lippi's tactical intentions.

There's no point anymore.

In overtime, the team must grit their teeth and persevere, and at the same time pay more attention to defense.

Are you going to fight for it?

We didn’t rush for 90 minutes of regular time, but we rushed in overtime?

Isn't this a contradiction?

Ye Yifeng cheered for his teammates. He clenched his fists and said to everyone sonorously: We have no regrets when we get here, but we can definitely persist and see what results will happen!

Believe in yourself, and I believe in you. We now have the same probability of advancing as Senegal, 50-50.

Why can't it be us? !

It will definitely be us!

Teammates also cheered each other on.

Wang Dalei, who usually roars at the defense, took the initiative to hug every teammate and repeated Ye Yifeng's last words.

Wu Xi also actively boosted team morale.

At this moment, they were unprecedentedly united and united.

When the overtime started, the Chinese fans’ cheering was still earth-shattering!

Red flags are flying.

Senegal took the lead in sneak attack after the opening.

A wave of fierce attacks forced Ye Yifeng to retreat into the penalty area to cover his position. In the end, Jiang Guangtai was the first to clear the ball when Dia grabbed the point to resolve the danger.

The Chinese team suddenly became a little nervous, and the whole team retreated to the 30-yard area in front of the goal to defend.

But Senegal only made a sneak attack and then slowed down the pace.

In the 96th minute, Ye Yifeng found Li Ke with the ball from the backcourt during a counterattack, and then he ran forward, driving the Senegalese forward to retreat, and the midfielder followed up. He went all the way to the dangerous area and then slowed down. Wu Lei was in After receiving the response from the front, they could not find a passing route for Ye Yifeng, so he had to go it alone.

Not surprisingly, the ball was intercepted by Koulibaly.

When Senegal attacked, Ye Yifeng had already retreated to the midfield and was still retreating.

Cisse's face was expressionless, but he was very disappointed in his heart.

The blitz failed and the game returned to the rhythm of regular time.

The two teams were afraid of each other.

Senegal controlled Ye Yifeng's threat well, but at the same time it also lost its threat in offense.

The same one-on-one fights continued.

Mane's ball-handling errors showed that there were also problems with his physical fitness.

At this stage, Senegal has more of its forces at the back.

Because it is difficult to press the frontcourt to the extreme and still have to sprint to catch up with Ye Yifeng in defense.

When your physical fitness cannot keep up, you can only care about one end.

Soon the first half of overtime ended, and the two teams drank water on the sidelines before changing sides and fighting again.

Senegal makes a substitution.

Cisse replaced three players, two midfielders and one forward.

They are all substitutions, trying to increase the vitality of the team.

But the players who had just been replaced were obviously a little nervous.

It was the Chinese team's sneak attack, and Ye Yifeng was pulled to the ground as soon as he entered the dangerous offensive area.

The Chinese team took a direct free kick. Although it was 30 yards away from the goal, it still made the Senegalese fans nervous and couldn't help but start pinching.

Ye Yifeng, who was almost exhausted, took the free kick and hit a curve ball. Although the football flew over the wall and towards the goal, the ball was not fast enough and Mendy smoothly confiscated the ball.

Cisse had to gesture on the sidelines to remind the midfielders to tighten the siege of Ye Yifeng and not to make a hasty foul!

If Ye Yifeng scores another free kick, he will be in tears.

When the slow-paced and boring game came to the last three minutes, the offenses of both teams were already going through the motions and completely lost their threat.

Almost all of them tightened the fence in their respective half to avoid being killed by the opponent!

When the fourth official raised a sign to indicate 1 minute of injury time, Lippi gestured to Ye Yifeng on the court.

Ye Yifeng glanced at the sidelines and knew what was going on.

When the Chinese team attacked for the last time, he came to the right side of the frontcourt, received Xu Xin's pass and kicked the ball forward to the sideline in front of the baseline.

Senegal has not yet served the ball from the backcourt.

Substitutions for the Chinese team!

Cisse turned around and saw that the Chinese team had used up three substitutions at once.

There is no doubt that Lippi has replaced the penalty shooter.

Luo Guofu, Alan, and Exon, three naturalized players appear!

Li Ke, Xu Xin, and Chi Zhongguo were replaced.

After the three naturalized players entered the field, the Chinese team defended in the backcourt.

Senegal took the ball from the backcourt and slowly moved forward to organize the offensive. The referee blew the whistle to end the overtime!

The 120-minute game ended, China 0:0 Senegal!

Now the game will enter a brutal penalty shootout!

The Chinese team has done a great job in being able to fight for this. Although Senegal has never launched a full-scale offensive, this is the World Cup knockout round. It takes a lot of courage for a team to launch an unscrupulous attack on its opponents. .

The Chinese team successfully contained Senegal's forward line through intensive defense. Now, both we and Senegal have a chance to advance to the quarterfinals of the World Cup!

When Lippi began to formulate the order of the penalty kick list, Ye Yifeng walked to Wang Dalei, who was drinking water and listened carefully to Lippi's words. To be precise, he listened to the translator relaying Lippi's words.

Ye Yifeng hugged Wang Dalei and said to him seriously: How about I guard the goal in the penalty kick?

Wang Dalei almost spit out a mouthful of water.

His face was full of astonishment.

After coming back to his senses, he hugged Ye Yifeng with his backhand and said to him nervously: Team Ye, if you want to guard the goal, that's fine, but I don't think it's necessary. We've come this far and you've already won the world!

No one else could have brought us here, you did!

You don't have to!

If we lose on penalties...

I know, I know, but I want to win, trust me.

Ye Yifeng knew what Wang Dalei meant when he said it was unnecessary.

The penalty shootout was won, everyone was happy.

If he guards the goal and loses the penalty shootout, he will most likely take the blame, unless the Chinese team still loses after he saves one or two penalty kicks.

Wang Dalei didn't want Ye Yifeng to bear this pressure.

From a utilitarian point of view, it is really not necessary.

Wang Dalei said seriously: Otherwise, you give me a signal, which way to pounce? Just point, I will listen to you, and I absolutely trust you.

Ye Yifeng smiled and shook his head and said, Let me be willful for once.

Wang Dalei was silent for a moment and then nodded and said: Okay, then you guard the goal. Just in case, I mean just in case, if we are eliminated, I said that my wrist was uncomfortable immediately after the game. You are the goalkeeper to put out the fire. Don't let it slip. .”

Ye Yifeng hugged him, feeling a little moved, and said, Thank you, but I am the captain. I should protect you. If you win, we will enter the quarterfinals together. If you lose, I will take the responsibility.

After the negotiation was settled, Ye Yifeng turned to Lippi and said, I will guard the goal.

Everyone else looked at him, extremely shocked!

Lippi stared at Ye Yifeng for ten seconds and then nodded slowly.

There is no need to say much between master and disciple.

When the penalty shootout was about to begin, everyone saw in disbelief that Ye Yifeng put on Wang Dalei's goalkeeper jersey, then walked up to the referee and informed the opponent that the Chinese team had changed the goalkeeper.

Because there is no substitution involved, only players changing positions on the field, this is allowed within the rules.

The Senegalese generals were stunned!

Damn it!

I haven’t seen your shocking performance in 120 minutes!

When it came to the penalty kick, you stepped on the horse and actually held back a big move!