Fox in the Penalty Area

The Japanese fans in the stands were a little disappointed with the team's performance.

Because after the game starts, the Chinese team is more dominant. The Chinese team has far more opportunities to threaten their goal than the Japanese team has to threaten the Chinese team's goal.

Although it was the same in last year's Asian Cup, it is our home court now!

How could the Japanese team be given the upper hand by the Chinese team at their home court?

"Actually, we were able to overpower the Japanese team in the past."

Watching the game broadcast on TV, Hu Lixin sighed and said with emotion.

Xie Lan nodded: "Yes, yes, didn't we beat them in the Asian Cup last year?"

Hu Lixin glanced at her: "No, it was earlier."

"Ah? Earlier? How early is earlier?" Xie Lan was surprised.

Hu Lixin thought about it carefully, silently calculating in his mind how long ago it was, and then said: "About thirty or almost forty years ago."

Xie Lan was stunned for a moment: "When was that?"

"The 1980s and 1990s."

"Ah, so early...

"We couldn't beat South Korea at that time, but we still had an advantage when facing Japan." Hu Lixin explained to his wife.

1Xin's teenage years were the final stage of the era of China's professional football system.

Although Chinese football, which was built on a national system, has not reached the World Cup finals, it was barely considered the second-rate top player in Asian football at the time, and could occasionally squeeze into the first-rate.

In front of Chinese football, Japanese football is like Japan during the period of sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty. It is a complete little brother.

Perhaps due to conflicting tactics, it was difficult for the Chinese team to defeat South Korea at that time, but they often did not fall behind when facing Japan on the field.

Looking at the current situation of Japanese football, and thinking back to those years, it is really sad:

After all, even if we dare to play against Japan in an away game, we will be bragging and proud for a while.

Thirty or forty years,

Football in the two countries has taken completely opposite paths.

Fortunately, Chinese football launched in-depth reforms in 2015, which finally stopped the downward trend at the critical juncture when Chinese football was about to fall into the abyss.

That's why today's scene happened.

It makes older fans like Hu Lixin feel like they are back in their youth.

When those young Chinese fans kept exclaiming "I'm so fucking awesome" in front of the TV and on the Internet, the old fans in their 50s and 60s felt that this was just Chinese football returning to its original position.

And this time it's not just as simple as returning to the original position, they will continue to move upward, getting rid of the air conditioning and ridicule.

Finally, we arrived at the place that everyone had only seen in dreams, but no one had ever been to.

※※※Sugiyama Tatsuya received the ball in the midfield, and he was immediately followed by Xia Xiaoyu - the person who defended Sugiyama Tatsuya in this game was not the starting midfielder Gao Ruimin, but Xia Xiaoyu.

Although Xia Xiaoyu is not a midfielder specifically responsible for defense.

This is an unexpected arrangement for Dillon.

Logically speaking, Xia Xiaoyu is the organizing midfielder. Although he also has to defend, his defensive ability is obviously not as good as that of a dedicated defensive midfielder.

But Dillon still asked him to defend Tatsuya Sugiyama.

It's because in Dillon's view, Sugiyama Tatsuya is already a European player - he went to play abroad earlier than Hu Lai.

Although Gao Ruimin is a midfielder who specializes in defense, when playing domestically, Gao Ruimin is only an Asian-level player in terms of thinking and ability.

On the contrary, Xia Xiaoyu has played in Alvara for more than two seasons, and his understanding and ability of football tend to be European.

In other words, he can keep up with Tatsuya Sugiyama's pace.

Therefore, letting Xia Xiaoyu guard against Tatsuya Sugiyama would be more effective than letting Gao Ruimin guard against him.

Therefore, Xia Xiaoyu has a heavy task and a lot of pressure in this game.

Not only did he have to contain Tatsuya Sugiyama's performance in defense, but he also had to actively advance forward in offense to support Zhang Qinghuan who was entangled by Junpei Morikawa.

When Xia Xiaoyu faced Tatsuya Sugiyama with the ball, he did not rush to steal it directly. Instead, he always stayed close to Tatsuya Sugiyama and used physical confrontation to interfere with the opponent's possession of the ball.

Under his close guarding, Sugiyama Tatsuya could only distribute the football to the wing.

But Xia Xiaoyu didn't let him go. Even without the ball, he still followed Tatsuya Sugiyama.

The Chinese team has as many as five players in the midfield. He is not worried that following Tatsuya Sugiyama's activities will cause any loopholes in the middle of the midfield.

There is also Gao Ruimin, a specialized midfielder.

Moreover, the Japanese team is different from the Chinese team. They do not have a dual-core in the midfield, and they only have Tatsuya Sugiyama as the core of the organization and offense.

The Japanese team's attack ultimately failed.

After the football was passed to the left wing, the Japanese team's left midfielder Yuki Maruyama failed to stop the ball. He stopped for a moment and was intercepted by Luo Kai on the right.

"Luo Kai! Well done!

Luo Kai, who successfully intercepted the ball, did not hesitate at all and quickly pushed the football forward, avoiding Maruyama Yukishi who came up to counterattack.

He got out of the way of Maruyama Koshi who overran, restarted, caught up with the football, and took the ball along the sideline to the front court!

The Japanese fans in the stands screamed.

Because this scene reminded them somewhat of the last round of the Premier League, when Luo Kai, wearing a Tramed jersey, attacked at high speed along the sideline.

"Stop him quickly!!"

The Japanese fans in the stands pointed at Luo Kai's sudden advance and exclaimed.

Amid the exclamations, Luo Kai dribbled the ball past the center line.

The Japanese team's defensive midfielder Tsunoda ran diagonally from the center, preparing to stop Luo Kai.

Luo Kai didn't bother much with him. He swayed his upper body and lowered his shoulders to the left, as if he was about to cut inside.

After tricking Tsunoda into slowing down to prevent an inward cut, Luo Kai used the outside instep of his right foot to move the football forward, and then accelerated to chase the ball. Just like that, he got rid of Tsunoda man cleanly!

When the latter reacted and started to chase, it was already difficult to catch up with Luo Kai who was so fast...

"Beautiful! Luo Kai! Breakthrough from the wing!!"

Different from playing right winger in the national team before, Luo Kai, who now plays right midfielder, retreats deeper and further back, so he has more space to sprint and can give full play to his speed advantage.

Facing the Japanese left back Kawasaki Eiji who intercepted him in front, Luo Kai finally slowed down. The opponent chose a good position and he could not continue to rely on speed to force a breakthrough.

Just slow down.

At the same time, Zhang Qinghuan rushed from the middle to meet him. Of course, Morikawa Junpei was also following him.

After Luo Kai slowed down, he also tried to shake Kawasaki Eiji away with a fake move, but the latter remained unmoved.

This full-back who plays in Serie A is also a Europeanized Japanese player. He has rich experience and is not afraid at all when facing Luo Kai.

Seeing this, Luo Kai could only give up the idea of ​​forcing a breakthrough and passed the football to Zhang Qinghuan who came up to meet him.

As soon as the ball was passed, Luo Kai accelerated and made a diagonal pass into the penalty area.

Kawasaki Eiji quickly followed and retreated.

In this way, he would not be able to defend Zhang Qinghuan with Junpei Morikawa.

Facing the defense of Junpei Morikawa alone, Zhang Qinghuan made a move to pass the ball directly, as if he wanted to hit the wall with Luo Kai. After Morikawa Junpei stretched out his foot to block it, his toes gently pushed the football between Morikawa Junpei's legs!

At the same time, he dodged away, then accelerated and started to cut in and move from behind Junpei Morikawa!

Junpei Morikawa, who was passed over by Zhang Qinghuan, did not give up. He reached out to pull Zhang Qinghuan's jersey, but Zhang Qinghuan broke away!

He quickly turned around and rushed back again.

Zhang Qinghuan raised his right foot and tried to pass the ball at a 45-degree angle outside the ribs of the penalty area.

Morikawa Junpei caught up with him and stretched his legs to block it.

Turns out this was another fake move!

Zhang Qinghuan raised his foot not to pass the ball, but to step on the football!

Morikawa Junpei rushed over...

After getting rid of Junpei Morikawa, Zhang Qinghuan used the soles of his feet to pull the football back and get out of the way to pass the ball!

This time he made a real pass!

Junpei Morikawa has been completely shaken away. There is no way to stop him. He can only watch the ball being passed directly backward by Brother Huan!

There Zhou Zijing got in from behind and then jumped up high!

Under the premise that Hu Lai helped him attract the two central defenders of the Japanese team, the defensive force he faced was very weak!

He almost hit the football over the head of the Japanese team's right back Yoshitoki Kiyota who took off in a hurry!

Even though the angle was not big, he still pushed the football towards the goal!

Although the Japanese team goalkeeper Nobuo Nishiguchi jumped up to save, he was still powerless against Zhou Zijing's header that was so close...

Before he could block the near post, the ball flew into the goal!

The Chinese team, who dared to show their sword, poked a hole in the Japanese team!

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