Fox in the Penalty Area

"What? Tonight's game isn't against the Japanese team?"

“Huh? Another Syria? Where did this come from?”

"I checked, and the Sino-Japanese war will not go until next Monday, October 9th!"

Seeing such comments on the Internet, Xie Lan couldn't help laughing: "Wow, I didn't even know the specific opponent after doing this for a long time..."

"It's normal." Hu Lixin said. "Most people are just here to join in the fun, and usually don't even watch the ball...

"Hey, don't say you don't watch football, maybe you don't even know the rules of football."

"Aren't you the same before? There has to be a process. From not knowing or not caring, to understanding and paying attention. Besides, compared with the Syrian game, of course the 'China-Japan War' is more gimmick."

This national team match day is actually two games.

But many people only focus on the "China-Japan War", so that when they come to them, they realize that the top 12 match on Thursday, October 5th is not China and Japan, but the Chinese team's home game. Syria game...

This is embarrassing, many people are waiting to watch the game against the Japanese team, they don't care about Syria at all.

And this is still a common phenomenon.

As the influence of Chinese football continues to increase, more and more people who usually don't watch football at all are also paying attention to the Chinese team's games.

These people may not even fully understand the rules of football, and they usually don't watch the game.

Only because of the fact that the Chinese team hit the World Cup did they pay attention to the national football team.

There are actually many such people. In the past, the topic of quarrels often arose on the Internet because those "real fans" were dissatisfied with these people who were not even fake fans:

"True fans" believe that it is these trolls who have messed up the public opinion environment of Chinese football. Abuse cannot solve the problem, but can only make Chinese football have no successors.

And those who don't watch football usually blame Chinese football for being able to survive. It is you "true fans" who can give Chinese football traffic and make them feel confident. Since Chinese football is so bad, let's just scold it to death.

"True fans" scolded the trolls for treating Chinese football as a phlegm, and the other party in turn ridiculed the "real fans" that phlegm could be a treasure.

Neither party can convince the other, so they can only scold each other on the Internet.

But now the situation is obviously much better.

Because after the performance of the Chinese team improved, those "trolls who don't watch the game" disappeared a lot.

In other words, the broad masses of the people have not had time to transform into "trolls who don't watch football."

In fact, they are all interested in being able to represent the national football team out of simple emotions.

In the past, the performance of the national football team was poor, so of course they would scold them.

Now the performance of the national football team has improved a lot, and there is nothing to scold.

And just as Hu Lixin said, if the group of supporters of a sport wants to expand, there will inevitably be many people who were ignorant of the sport before, who are interested and pay attention to it for some reason.

From not understanding to understanding, there must be a process.

Just like Sheilan.

In the beginning, she was also an ordinary person who knew almost nothing about football. Her impression of Chinese football was actually the basic impression of the masses of Chinese football—nothing good to say.

But now she already knows more than most of the so-called fans on the Internet.

It's just that the Chinese football in the past had poor grades and a bad reputation. So many people have just learned about Chinese football, and what they know is all kinds of infamy, so they will naturally spit and leave. They are not interested in knowing more about it, let alone liking it. Now that they are all spitting, what is it if it is not a spittoon?

How can I say something?

"If it's shit, you can tell it at a glance. Don't you have to taste it yourself to know it's shit?"

After years of deepening reforms and improving performance, the current Chinese football has greatly improved its image in front of the public.

So those ordinary people who might leave at a glance and leave a bad word will be attracted by football and gradually understand,

Finally become a real fan.

This is a virtuous circle from football environment to football culture.

As long as this virtuous cycle can be maintained for a period of time, such as two or three World Cup cycles, many problems in Chinese football in the past may be solved.

※※※After the two rounds of the top 12 group stage, the ranking of the Chinese team in Group A is very polarized-the top three are the three teams that scored all six points,

The bottom three are teams with all zero points.

The Chinese team, the Iranian team and the Japanese team are the top three.

Syria, Iraq and Thailand are the last three.

Among them, Syria ranked first among the last three. Although they both lost two games, they ranked ahead of the other two sufferers because of their goal difference advantage.

Syria lost two games: a 0:1 loss to Japan in the first round away game, and a 0:1 loss to Iran at home in the second round.

Judging from these two games alone, Syria is a very tenacious team.

Against the most powerful opponent in the group, it is remarkable to be able to lose only one goal.

So in fact, Chinese fans are not qualified to ignore this opponent, skip it directly, and look forward to the match with the Japanese team.

If the top and bottom of the Chinese football team have the same thoughts as these fans, then they may capsize in the gutter, even in their own home stadium...

Fortunately, the Chinese team has a sober head coach.

Jorge Dillon, a famous European coach, has led the team to win the Champions League twice. What scenes have you never encountered?

When the outside world was frantically hyping the "China-Japan War", he kept admonishing his players to focus on the game against Syria.

After the start of the game, Syria, which knew it was weak, set up a bus in front of its own gate and played a defensive counterattack against the Chinese team.

They hope to wear down the patience of the Chinese players with defensive tactics.

After all, playing at home is not always an advantage.

Especially in a home game in a country with a population of 1.4 billion. The pressure of 1.4 billion, how huge is it?

Syria believes that as long as they can entangle the Chinese team and prevent the opponent from scoring goals, the home fans will lose patience. Then the cheers in the stands will turn into boos.

As the Chinese players played more and more impatiently amid the boos, there would definitely be loopholes in the defense, allowing them to seize the opportunity to fight back.

In fact, in the previous two games, Syria played like this, and they all expected that.

Although they all failed in the end, Syria still insisted on this tactic. It was not that they did not know how to adapt, but that they were not qualified to face strong teams. Apart from playing like this, they really had no better way.

After doing their best, all they can count on is luck.

In the first two games, they both fell short, and they don't know what luck will be like in this game, but they still have to continue to do so.

Forty-five minutes into the first half, Syria's defense was indeed very successful. Their targeted defensive tactics caused a lot of trouble for the Chinese team's offense.

Especially their goalkeeper Hassan Mansour, who made seven saves and was Syria's busiest player in the first half.

Mansour is not a famous player, and he is just an ordinary player in Asian football. But in the last two top 12 games, the performance was very good.

He is also an important contributor to Syria's ability to lose only one goal in two consecutive games.

It is not without reason that "weak teams will go out the door".

Because the goalkeeper of the weak team will always face a lot of shots in the game, of course he will get more training opportunities than the goalkeeper of the average team. As long as the mental quality is excellent and the basic skills pass the test, there will be much more highlight moments than goalkeepers of ordinary teams.

It's just that Mansour's efforts failed in the 63rd minute-when Chen Xingyi broke into the penalty area and crossed, the football hit the Syrian defender's open arm.

Without waiting for the VAR reminder, the referee decisively blew the whistle and punished the Syrian player for a foul, and sentenced to death, and awarded the Chinese team a penalty kick!

The penalty kick was taken by Hu Lai.

Syrian goalkeeper Mansour also tried to "match wits" with Hou Lai on the goal line - he moved aside to give more of that half of the goal out.

This is to increase the choice of free throw players and make the opponent hesitate when taking penalty kicks.

When kicking a penalty kick, the most important thing is not the technique, but the psychological quality, and the concentration of concentration. In this case, hesitation will lead to defeat.

The goalkeeper's move to the side will make the penalty shooter doubt and hesitate, and he can't help but guess what the goalkeeper is going to do...

The goalkeeper's bet is that the player will hesitate to play the "big goal" or the "small goal".

Hassan Mansour, despite his lackluster reputation, is a good goalkeeper who has done everything he can. Although he was awarded a penalty kick, he did not give up, but tried every means to save the situation.

But he chose the wrong target for the battle of wits and courage.

Hu Lai, who was standing at the penalty spot, took a deep breath after hearing the whistle, ran up, and volleyed!

He drew the football to the "big goal"!

Mansour simply guessed the wrong direction - he jumped towards the small goal.

The football flew into the goal without any suspense!

"Hu Lai! Beautiful! The goal has been scored!! There is no suspense! This is the second penalty kick scored by Hu Lai in the top twelve! As the number one penalty shooter of the national team, Hu Lai has a heart beyond ordinary people , despite Mansour's psychological warfare, he scored the ball steadily! The Chinese team finally broke the deadlock!"

Eighty thousand people cheered in unison in the Shanhai Stadium, as magnificent as mountains and seas!

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