Fox in the Penalty Area

Seeing her son pointing to the sky with his hands raised amidst the cheers of the fans, the mother Ren Changmei in the stands still couldn't hold back the tears that welled up in her eyes.

She stood alone among the cheering crowd, tears streaming down her face.

Then there was a gust of wind, and she suddenly felt something and turned her head to look to the side.

A figure who had been gone for many years appeared beside her at some point, looking towards the court.

Sensing her gaze, he turned his head and looked over, with a smile on his never-aged face.

Ren Changmei also laughed, until her eyes were wet with tears, filling her vision. She raised her hand to wipe away the tears from her eyes, and when she took her hand away again, the familiar figure had disappeared.

It was as if she had never been here at all, as if it was just her own hallucination.

After being stunned, Ren Changmei turned her head to look around, but couldn't find it. None of those excited faces were familiar to her.

After realizing that it was really her hallucination, Ren Changmei sat down slowly in the stands, staring absently at the densely packed crowd in the front row.

At this moment when the whole country is jubilant, she feels lost.

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When the players of the Chinese team swarmed over the billboard and ran towards Zhang Qinghuan to celebrate the goal with him, the head coach of Uzbekistan, Rasulov, who was in front of the coaching bench of the visiting team, turned angrily and punched the awning of the coaching bench.

He is not dissatisfied with the performance of the players, he is dissatisfied with himself.

Because he has been emphasizing the importance of marking Hu Lai before the game, so the defense of Hu Lai in the game can be regarded as a success.

He adopts the strategy of quickly contracting the defense because he is concerned about the speed advantage of the two wide players, Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai.

For the Chinese team's offensive trident, he arranged everything he could think of, but he just ignored the "hand" wielding the trident——Zhang Qinghuan!

Or ignore Zhang Qinghuan's scoring ability!

Because of such an excellent teammate as Hu Lai, Zhang Qinghuan's goals in the club are not too many, so it is easy to give people an illusion that Zhang Qinghuan is an offensive midfielder who focuses on organizing offenses and is not good at scoring.

But in fact, he can score goals.

Now it's not a question of whether he can score goals, but whether he wants to score goals...

When there is a better scorer than him in front, he would rather be a support behind and send assists.

That doesn't mean he won't score. If there is a chance to score, he will not let it go.

Just now, the cross running between Hu Lai and Luo Kai successfully helped him open the goal of Uzbekistan. In front of his eyes, there was a feeling of "sudden enlightenment" in the middle of the penalty area of ​​Uzbekistan.

If Zhang Qinghuan didn't know how to seize such a good opportunity, he couldn't be the most talented super genius in Chinese football before Hu Lai appeared.

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Zhang Qinghuan's goal occurred in the 40th minute, and there was not much time left before the end of the first half.

There is no way for the Chinese team to take advantage of the morale-boosting opportunity after the goal and continue to form a siege to Uzbekistan's goal.

Five minutes passed in a flash.

The referee soon blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and the Chinese team entered the intermission with a one-goal lead.

This score makes people happy, but it can't let them relax.

Because it's just a one-goal lead.

If the game ended with this score, it would definitely be Uzbekistan who laughed out loud, not the Chinese team.

Because for Uzbekistan, which returned to play at home in the second round, only losing 0:1 in the first round is simply a small loss.

Therefore, the Chinese team has only one task in the second half, and that is to try to score more goals, not only to win, but also to win more.

In response to this situation, Uzbekistan's head coach Rasulov encouraged his players in the locker room: "...Although you conceded a goal, overall, your performance in the first half was very good The next time and the advantage are on our side - the Chinese team will definitely attack aggressively in the second half,

As long as we are patient and able to withstand their attacks, then as time goes by, the Chinese team will definitely play more and more impatiently. So we must adhere to the tactics of defensive counterattack! Don't get too entangled with them in the midfield, and don't be fooled by their passes! Hold our penalty area, as long as there are no gaps, they can't score! At the same time, don't give Zhang Qinghuan the chance to shoot casually outside the penalty area! "

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At the same time, in the locker room of the home team, Shi Wuzhen was also saying this to his players:

"We're going to keep scoring goals in the second half, that's obvious. So Uzbekistan must have guessed our reaction. It's impossible to catch opponents off guard. Pay attention to their counterattacks - if the situation is critical, even if it is a foul, their counterattacks must be interrupted when they are just beginning to appear, and they must not be allowed to fight."

Shi Wuyin arranged more defense during the halftime break, including how to let the players defend against Uzbekistan's counterattack; what aspects should be paid attention to during this critical period of transition from offense to defense; the defense against Namozov needs to be done to what extent...

As for offense, he didn't say much.

Because there is nothing to say.

Uzbekistan shrinks its defense, and the Chinese team plays positional warfare when attacking. The players participating in the offense on the field know how to play. The offensive routines are just those, and it is difficult to play any tricks.

What's more, compared to arranging tactics in detail and performing micro-manipulation, he believed more in the bonds between Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi, Zhang Qinghuan, and Luo Kai on the court.

Three of these four played in the same team for two years and won two national championships. This tacit understanding is naturally invincible.

Luo Kai also played in the Olympic team with Hu Lai and Chen Xingyi in the Olympic team, and he and Hu Lai are still high school classmates, so it can be said that they are very familiar.

They must know what to do on the court, and they don't need their own coach to be long-winded. In fact, when Shi Wuzhen was playing football, it was difficult for any coach to teach him how to attack on the court, because his playing style was that erratic, and it was difficult to use a certain routine to ask him how to attack. Kick.

This was the case with Zhang Qinghuan's goal in the first half. Hu Lai's running position made people think that he would be the one to finally shoot, but Luo Kai's sudden oblique thrust made people turn their attention to him.

Unexpectedly, it was Zhang Qinghuan who shot the goal last.

Even Shi Wuji himself didn't think of this.

This does not belong to the offensive routine they have trained before the game, it is completely the result of the players improvising on the court.

If you have to say where the training results are reflected, it is the continuous training of cross-running positions that helped Zhang Qinghuan open the opponent's center defense in this attack.

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Both sides completed the adjustment and arrangement of the intermission, and the 15-minute break passed in the blink of an eye.

The two teams did not make substitutions, and directly changed sides to fight again.

And Uzbekistan coach Rasulov guessed right, after the start of the second half, the Chinese team relied on their home court advantage and launched a fierce attack on Uzbekistan's goal first.

Because it had been expected, the Uzbekistan players were calm and did not panic.

Anyway, as long as they lock the gate and make sure not to leave space for the Chinese team in the penalty area, they can make the Chinese team's offense fail again and again.

And because of Zhang Qinghuan's goal in the first half, the head coach Rasulov also specially told the players to strengthen the defense against Zhang Qinghuan's direct shot during the intermission. It's the last patch on the team's defense.

Rasulov observed on the sidelines for a while, and found that the situation of the game had stabilized, so he turned and walked back to the coach's bench, took the opportunity to drink some water, and then chatted with the assistant coach.

"The next thing is to wait for the time to pass." Walking in front of the coach's bench, he said to the assistant coach.

The assistant coach nodded.

Rasulov bent down to pick up the bottle of mineral water, unscrewed the cap, and turned around while putting it into his mouth.

Then he heard a burst of loud cheers suddenly sounded.

When he turned around, he saw Chen Xingyi dribbling the ball into the penalty area from the side. Behind him was Uzbekistan's right back Ogud Tajibaf. Almost unable to maintain balance, it looks very embarrassed!

"Chen Xingyi's breakthrough is really beautiful!!"

Chen Xingyi, who entered the penalty area, faced the Uzbekistan defender who came up to block him, sent a cross, and kicked a low ball straight to Hu Lai who was plugging in!

Although the central defender Hamlayev is closely following Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi still chooses to pass the football to Hu Lai.

Because during the intermission, Hu Lai specifically said that it doesn't matter whether there are defensive players around him, as long as it is an opportunity, just pass the football to him. After all, he has played in the Premier League for almost a year. If he couldn't even fight the opponent's defender physically in the Asian level, wouldn't this year's training be in vain?

Chen Xingyi thinks so too. Could it be that Uzbekistan's central defenders are more difficult to deal with than the Premier League's central defenders? So he crossed without hesitation!

After the ball was passed, he saw Hu Laisha pointing forward, using his body to block Hamlayev, who was a head taller than himself, and his right arm was still entangled with the opponent's hand. However, his figure was not staggering, and his steps were vain.

He ran vigorously to the football landing point, his right foot was firmly planted next to the incoming ball, and his left foot kicked towards the football!

It turned out to be a left-footed shot!

The outer instep of his left foot did not hit the football firmly, but cut it, allowing the ball to draw a slightly weird arc, just avoiding Hamrayev's outstretched foot, and also bypassing to the front Goalkeeper Abramoff to block his angle!

Go straight to the back!

Abramoff didn't even have time to reach out to make a save. He just tilted his body to the left, then turned his head and watched the football rush into the goal!

Rasulov, who was still drinking water on the sidelines, sprayed all the water out of his mouth. He stared dumbfounded at everything in front of him, ignoring the wet skirt of his clothes.

"Hu Lai—beautiful! Beautiful!! This is still a left-footed shot that he is not good at!! The shot is tricky enough! Abramov didn't react at all!! We lead by two goals!"

He Feng raised his arms and shouted hoarsely at the commentary booth, but as soon as he spoke, he was swallowed up by the huge cheers from the scene!