Fox in the Penalty Area

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When Zhou Zijing raised his hand to ask for the ball in front of the penalty area, Yao Huasheng went up to him.

After receiving the ball, Zhou Zijing turned around in the face of Yao Huasheng's defense.

Yao Huasheng bumped into him, trying to interfere with Zhou Zijing's control of the ball.

But after his body bumped into Zhou Zijing, his steps were disrupted. He stumbled and followed two steps before being thrown away by Zhou Zijing.

However, Zhou Zijing failed to complete the shot.

Although he got rid of Yao Huasheng, Qin Qi, who was rushing over, saw the right opportunity and scooped the ball away from his feet.

Then he got up from the ground and went to pull Yao Huasheng who fell to the ground: "Be careful, Captain Yao."

Yao Huasheng slapped his hand away and got up from the ground: "I'm not that fragile!"

Qin Qi scratched his head.

Team Yao really did what he said. He didn't give him any good looks during training and completely regarded him as a competitor.

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Xia Xiaoyu, who was wearing a red vest, made a long pass from the backcourt and directly passed the football to the feet of left winger Li Rong.

Because it was a quick counterattack, the front court was very empty.

So Li Rong did not dribble the ball along the sideline, but dribbled the ball diagonally into the penalty area.

Upon seeing this, Qin Qi, who was wearing a blue vest, wanted to rush forward and challenge Li Rong, but Yao Huasheng shouted from behind: "Keep your distance!!"

At this time, Li Rong was still more than half a stadium away from the goal. Even if he was counterattacked, the center back, as the last line of defense in front of the goalkeeper, did not need to attack so hard.

If Qin Qi lets Li Rong get past him, then only two central defenders, Yao Huasheng and Ding Yuanhai, will be left.

Then Yao Huasheng had to wipe Qin Qi's butt, which was equivalent to letting Ding Yuanhai face the two strikers Zhou Zijing and Luo Kai alone.

Qin Qi, who was stopped by Yao Huasheng's roar, stopped in time and retreated about five or six meters away from Li Rong.

This distance makes Li Rong a little uncomfortable - if he wants to start quickly, he has to move the football out. But this distance will allow him to put the football just within Qin Qi's control.

You must know that although Qin Qi is a central defender, he is not slow at all, so Li Rong actually does not have much confidence in racing against Qin Qi 56 meters behind.

The trip was too small... and there was no way to speed up, so he could only fall into Qin Qi's rhythm of fighting and retreating.

As soon as he hesitated, his counterattack slowed down.

The blue team's defensive midfielder Ou Yangjin has quickly chased back.

And he retreated to the central defender position in one breath.

Yao Huasheng shouted at the central defender: "That's it!"

Qin Qi, who got the signal, suddenly accelerated and rushed forward!

He started very fast and caught Li Rong off guard.

The latter was still observing the movements of his teammates, when suddenly something went dark in the corner of his eye!

By the time he reacted, Qin Qi had already reached him.

He hurriedly moved the football to the side, intending to break through along the sideline.

But just as he pushed the football away, no one could follow him because he was pushed in by Qin Qi and knocked away...

After Qin Qi squeezed Li Rong away, he protected the football.

Li Rong tried to get it back from behind him, but he was not as good as Qin Qi in terms of physical confrontation or leg length. He could only watch Qin Qi pass the football back to Yao Huasheng who stepped forward to respond.

As the football rolled toward Yao Huasheng, he had already pointed to the sideline, signaling Qin Qi to pull away there.

After all, Zhou Zijing and Li Rong were running towards him one after the other.

After Qin Qi pulled away, he passed the football.

At the same time, he shouted to Qin Qi: "Long pass!"

But Qin Qi didn't listen to him this time. There were no red team players in front of Qin Qi at this moment, so instead of making a long pass, he suddenly dribbled the ball forward!

"This is a good choice!"

Jorge Dillon, who saw this scene from the sidelines, couldn't help but praise it.

Qin Qi first dribbled the ball along the sideline, and then faced the red team player Guo Junfu who came up to intercept him, and he feinted a shot.

Pretending to continue to break through along the wing, after directing Guo Junfu's center of gravity there, he used the outside instep of his left foot to move the football toward the center, changing direction and inserting it diagonally.

Then he took advantage of his height and long legs to pass the football to Zhang Qinghuan before Xia Xiaoyu could get to him.

After passing the ball, Qin Qi did not go back, but simply accelerated towards the red team's penalty area.

"Beautiful!" Dillon exclaimed again.

Qin Qi, who reached the red team's penalty area, was like a big catfish that suddenly broke into the fish pond, causing a lot of trouble for the red team's defense. For a moment, neither Wang Guangwei nor Liu Yan knew what to do. Who is going to guard Qin Qi?

In the end, Liu Yan went up to try to block Qin Qi. After all, Wang Guangwei had a heavier defensive task - he was responsible for defending Hu Lai.

A single move can affect the whole body.

After Liu Yan went up, there was a loophole in the red team's defense in the penalty area.

Zhang Qinghuan accurately found this loophole and passed the football.

The ball was not passed to Hu Lai, but to Hu Lai's strike partner Tan Yunlong!

Hu Lai helped him firmly attract Wang Guangwei, and Liu Yan, who was supposed to guard him, went to guard Qin Qi again.

So Tan Yunlong, completely unmarked, shot with his feet!

The football rolled from goalkeeper Duke's hands into the goal!

"nice shot!"

After scoring, Tan Yunlong waved his fist excitedly, and then everyone went up to high-five him and congratulate him on his goal.

Although it is only a training match within the team, the performance in the game will also become an important reference for the coaches when selecting players.

After all, during the domestic training camp, there was only one actual battle with real swords and guns, which was the warm-up match against the US team on May 31st.

That game was more like a final exam, but it was not the only way to determine a player's final fate. The usual test performance was equally important.

Although in domestic football, Tan Yunlong is the only choice for the high center forward position besides Zhou Zijing. But he didn't dare to take it lightly.

This goal may help him consolidate his position in the national team roster.

Head coach Jorge Dillon, who was watching from the sidelines, also applauded the goal.

But he was not applauding Tan Yunlong, but praising Qin Qi's performance:

"That forward move was so decisive and resolute. Central defenders who play in China lack such courage, confidence, and awareness!"

When Tan Yunlong scored, Yao Huasheng watched Qin Qi from the backcourt and high-fived him to celebrate.

He remembered that just now he had asked him to just make a long pass.

As a result, Qin Qi did not listen to him, but chose the very risky move of dribbling forward with the ball.

Finally a goal was produced.

When he first defended, Qin Qi listened to himself and completed the first perfect defense.

Later, Qin Qi didn't listen to himself and instead scored a goal.

Yao Huasheng looked at the young figure in the distance and shook his head slightly.

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The Shanhai Peace Stadium was buzzing with people.

The stands of the stadium, which can accommodate 80,000 people, were packed to the brim.

Chinese fans are constantly chanting: "Come on, Chinese team! Come on, Chinese team!"

The real-time score displayed on the big screen in the stadium was that the Chinese team led the American team 1:0.

This is the last domestic warm-up match played by the Chinese team before the World Cup.

Their next warm-up match is going to Spain, and it will only be a few days before the World Cup starts.

This warm-up match was proactively contacted by the opponent US Football Association. They hope to play a warm-up match with the Chinese team when they go to Spain.

This is because the U.S. team’s opponent in the group stage of this World Cup is South Korea.

It is also fate that this "father and son" were assigned to the same group for two consecutive World Cups.

Judging from the FIFA rankings, the American team ranks higher than the Chinese team, one is 26 and the other is 31.

It seems like the American team should be better.

But now in the game, the Chinese team is leading by one goal.

The last "China-US confrontation" was actually the Olympic Games two years ago. But that was an Olympic level competition.

Both sides only have three over-age players in each team.

In that Olympic team final, the Chinese Olympic team almost crushed the U.S. Olympic team, and they also won the first men's football Olympic gold medal in history.

But the Olympic team and the national team cannot be simply compared.

Just because the Olympic teams can crush each other doesn't mean that the national team can too.

So in today's game, the Chinese team only scored one goal in the second half.

As for this goal, there was still some luck - Hulay's shot hit the opponent's defender Aiden Rudy and deflected.

As a result, the goalkeeper of the US team, Milano Todd, failed to react in time when he made the save. He only blocked the football with his fingers, but was unable to completely control it.

The football he threw out fell in front of the goal. The starting center Tan Yunlong in this game stabbed the football into the goal without anyone marking him.

In this warm-up match, Dillon did not use all the main players in the starting lineup, but adopted a large rotation of matchups.

For example, Zhou Zijing did not start, and his replacement was Tan Yunlong.

Zhang Qinghuan also did not start, and his replacement was Guo Junfu.

The U.S. team did not have all the main players, and they even messed up the numbers of the players on the field.

The starting forward wore the No. 2 jersey, and the center back Eden Rudy, who was caught off guard by Hulay's shot, was wearing the No. 10 jersey that symbolizes the playmaker...

It seems that he is afraid of being spied on by Korean scouts and coaches.

After all, South Korea and China are neighboring countries, so it is very convenient to come and watch a game.

The Chinese team also wears numbers randomly, except for Hu Lai.

The main reason is that he is so famous that he can't hide it by changing his number.

Neither side played their main players, and the FIFA rankings were relatively close, so this warm-up match was still very close.

After leading 1:0 in the first half, Jorge Dillon made significant adjustments to the team's lineup in the second half.

Even Hu Lai was replaced.

The American team took advantage of Hu Lai's absence and launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team's goal, hoping to score.

This period of time is a very dangerous moment for the Chinese team.

At this critical moment, the Chinese team's head coach Dillon naturally needs to strengthen the defense.

He turned to Qin Lin, who was sitting on the coaching bench, and said, "Qin, go and call Xiao Qi."

Qin Lin was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Dillon would choose to let his son appear.

"What?" Dilong asked more questions when he realized that Qin Lin didn't go there immediately.

"No." Qin Lin quickly turned around and went to the bench.

Then he walked up to his son and hooked him: "Get up, it's your turn."

Qin Qi looked up at his father. He seemed surprised and didn't react at all.

Until he felt someone nudge him with an elbow.

As if he hadn't recovered yet, he turned to look at Yao Huasheng who was stabbing him next to him.

When Captain Yao saw that he was still turning to look at him, he raised his eyes and asked, "What are you doing? Do you want to give this opportunity to me if you don't go?"

Hearing what Yao Huasheng said, Qin Qi finally reacted. He immediately stood up, took off his vest, and followed his father to head coach Dillon to take orders.

Behind him, Yao Huasheng was staring deeply at the impatient figure.

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PS, overnight, all Asian teams were eliminated.

The Japanese team actually played pretty well during the 120 minutes.

Perhaps it was because of this that people had too high expectations. As a result, who would have thought that they performed so poorly in the penalty shootout, which was in sharp contrast to their performance in previous games.

So much so that I wonder if Little Japan has not practiced penalty kicks specifically?

Are they confident that they will solve Croatia within 120 minutes, or will they be solved by Croatia?

Isn't this penalty kick too amateurish?

No, it's not as good as the performance of the amateur teams in the previous Football Association Cup!

As for South Korea...

What a great loss!

Cool!

Brazil played really well in the first half.

It's a pity that we relaxed after taking a four-goal lead, but that's human nature and we can't force it.

There were also Korean fans holding banners at the scene to remind the Brazilian team not to forget Mineiro’s 7:1 match in 2014, but South Korea’s West Brazil placed their national team ahead of the 7...

I really don’t know who gave them the confidence and courage.

You were taught a lesson in the end, right?

Deserve it!

In the last two games of today's quarter-finals, there is no suspense between Morocco and Spain. Spain will definitely win, and it will win by at least two goals.

But there is some suspense in the last game, Portugal vs. Switzerland.

Ronaldo is definitely out of luck. After playing three games in the World Cup, it is obvious that Ronaldo is not in form and his physical condition is not good either. But Ronaldo has to play... who dares to put him on the bench?

What about Switzerland? Good defense and tough.

Therefore, I am optimistic that Switzerland will defeat Portugal with one goal and advance to the quarterfinals.

As for Ronaldo, tomorrow morning will be his last dance on the World Cup stage...