Fox in the Penalty Area

The World Cup stadium in Paris, France was full of people, and the French fans in the stands waved the red, white and blue tricolor flags in their hands to cheer for their national team.

What is going on is a pre-World Cup warm-up match between the French team and the Chinese team.

The reason why the Chinese team was able to play a warm-up match with the French team was because the French team was grouped with the South Korean team in the group stage of the World Cup finals. They needed an East Asian team to do a targeted warm-up.

The Chinese team is in the same group as Brazil, Russia, and Algeria in the World Cup finals.

The opponent in the first warm-up match is France, and the second warm-up match is Ukraine.

Choosing Ukraine as an opponent in the warm-up match naturally hopes to understand the Russian team under the same system by playing against Ukraine.

France's warm-up opponent was not chosen by the Chinese team, but by France. None of the three opponents in the group match had the same characteristics as the French team. If you insist, Algeria may have something to do with French football. After all, there are many descendants of Algeria in France. However, the styles of the two teams are still very different.

But the Football Association finally agreed to France, mainly because it wanted the Chinese team to play against the world's top teams, to experience the strength of the world's top teams, and to see how far the current Chinese team is from the world's first-class level.

Now they know how far they are from the world-class level...

The real-time score of the game is displayed on the big screen in the stadium:

3:0

Only an hour into the game, the French team led the Chinese team with three goals.

Forward Mendy Payet, who plays for Paris Erger, scored twice in the game and also provided an assist. He is the best player of the French team so far in the game, and he is indeed the number one star in French football.

His sharp breakthrough made it difficult for the players of the Chinese team to parry.

Only 12 minutes into the game, Paye took advantage of the opportunity of the Chinese team's frontcourt attack being interrupted and sprinted for more than 50 meters with the ball. At the front of the penalty area, he forcibly broke through Yao Huasheng's defense with his speed. After entering the penalty area, he faced the attacking goalkeeper Hao De and made a false shot.

The whole process seemed extremely relaxed and comfortable, and it even made people feel that he still had energy left.

When he jogged to celebrate with open arms, he left a group of stumbling Chinese players behind him, staring blankly at Payye.

This is the first time they have played against this player who can always be seen on TV broadcasts. Although through live TV broadcasts, they have all watched Paye play and know that he is good at straight-line breakthroughs, fast speed, and strong explosive power. Strong combination of man and ball.

Before the game, Shi Wuyin also repeatedly warned the players to avoid being pulled away by the opponent's line of defense when defending, and then break down one by one, keep an appropriate distance, and keep the line of defense intact...

Knowing is knowing.

When it comes to competitions, in many cases, it is not like daily training that everything just fits in with the training conditions...

It is said that the defense line should be kept tight, but when the opponent really rushes up, the players of the Chinese team will either fight collectively and retreat, but they cannot retreat indefinitely. …

Either someone goes up to block and someone retreats to defend, then it is inevitable that the opponent will be singled out with the ball and defeated one by one.

In short, the players of the Chinese team know what Paye is good at and how to defend, but when they are actually playing one-on-one with him on the court, those things they know are useless and meaningless.

People simply move the football forward and then speed up. The Chinese team players were thrown away.

When you turn around, Paye is already five or six meters in front of you. You can only watch your teammates go up and be easily swayed by them...

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"I have no power to parry..." Yong Jun in the private room looked away from the scoreboard on the big screen, shook his head and muttered.

This game was played in Paris, France, and others were in Leeds, so they must have come to watch the game at such a close distance.

Beside him, Li Qingqing said calmly: "It's normal, Uncle Yong. The French team was the top four in the last World Cup."

As someone who played in France, she knows the level of French football all too well.

Moreover, this French team did not come to play against the Chinese team with the mentality of underestimating the enemy.

This may have something to do with Hu Lai.

After all, Hu Lai is the Chinese national team player that French players are most familiar with, and if Hu Lai's performance in the Premier League is used as a reference...you can understand why the French players are so active in the game.

In this game, Hou Lai was defended by the highest level of French players in the game.

The main goalkeeper of the French team, Julian Lame, was scored six goals by Hou Lai in the league. As a result, he has not allowed Hou Lai to score in this game so far.

Is it because Lame suddenly became stronger?

Of course not, Hu Lai was more heavily defended. At the same time, the strength of his teammates in the national team and his teammates in the club were not the same, which affected his performance to some extent.

The game lasted 60 minutes, and Hu Lai had four shots, but only one shot was within the range of the goal frame.

This shows how much defensive pressure he faces.

Yong Jun naturally knew that what Li Qingqing said was right, he sat back on his seat, shook his head and said, "That's fine, at least let those blindly optimistic people in China see how far we are from the top teams in the world. I’ve been thinking wildly all day... I just saw it on the Internet today, and it turns out that some fans have already set the Chinese team’s results in the quarter-finals of this World Cup... What do you think they think?"

Hearing Yong Jun's complaint, Li Qingqing laughed.

She also knows about this.

Since the results of the Chinese team's grouping in the World Cup came out, fans have started all kinds of speculation...or predictions on the Internet. Predict the final result of the Chinese team in this World Cup.

Surprisingly, with the strength of the Chinese team, it stands to reason that it is not easy for the group to qualify. But qualifying from the group has become the lowest goal of many fans.

According to their analysis results, although Brazil is the seed team in this group, its strength has long been inferior to what it used to be. Today's Brazil is no longer the former "Kingdom of Football". Although the team has Kendor Kabanca, Dudu Carlos, Victor Lemos and other star players who are firmly established in the European giants, In the eyes of Chinese fans, it is just "the end of the battle".

At that time, Brazil will be proud and underestimate the enemy, and we may not be able to score a point against the only "six champions" in world football.

The other two opponents in the group, Algeria, like them, entered the World Cup for the first time in history. Russia's strength is average, and it is only in the lower middle reaches in Europe.

In the group qualifying route planned by the Chinese fans for the Chinese team, they first defeated Algeria, the weakest group in the first round, and scored three points.

Then facing Russia in the second round, the opinions of the fans were divided: some people thought that with the strength of the Chinese team, they might not be able to beat Russia, so they should try their best to win the second round. After scoring six points in this way, the Chinese team will advance to the group stage, and the outcome of the final round against Brazil does not matter.

Some people think that Russia's strength is not outstanding, but it is not bad, especially its physical strength, which restrains the Chinese team. If you want to win, you are likely to lose. It's better to play steadily, put a bus in front of the goal, and strive to draw with Russia and get a point. The Chinese team with four points like this, as long as they can draw with the Brazil team, which is "at the end of the crossbow" and "proud and underestimated the enemy", if they get five points, they will have a great chance of qualifying.

But no matter which route it is, qualifying from the group is everyone's default result.

Discussions on the Internet are in full swing, just looking at the speeches of the fans, you will think that the heroes of the world are nothing more than mediocre, as long as our Chinese team is serious, anyone can beat everyone!

Now Yong Jun couldn't help but wonder how the fans in front of the TV would feel when they saw such a score...

This is the gap between us and the world's top teams. Without any beauty filters, it is so real, cruel, and naked in front of everyone.

Whether it is Yao Huasheng or Wang Guangwei, those top players in the Chinese Super League seem vulnerable in front of the real players of the world's top teams.

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He Feng seemed to be afraid that this game would hurt everyone's confidence, and he kept emphasizing during the commentary process: "...Because the World Cup is getting closer, the French team also attaches great importance to this game...to what extent? ?They didn't even let the reporters take pictures of the training content... It can be seen that they really treat this game as a World Cup match. So the French team went all out in this game, and with the home court advantage, we It is actually not easy to be able to play like this, all the players have tried their best, and there is nothing to say about the attitude of the game..."

Yan Kang glanced at He Feng from the side, hesitated to speak, hesitated for a while and said: "But in fact, this is what we will encounter in the World Cup. Of course the French team is not Brazil, but Brazil's strength is not weak. Never assume before the game that the opponent will be proud and underestimate the enemy, that is not the right approach... After all, this is our first World Cup, if you want to make progress, facing the gap is the first step."

His remarks were specifically aimed at those arguments on the Internet. In his opinion, the Chinese team entered the World Cup for the first time in history, which seemed to make many people lose their minds. It's just dried shrimp. He believes that if this kind of emotional trend is allowed to spread, it is definitely not a good thing for Chinese football.

If you cannot correctly understand yourself and the world, you will suffer a great loss.

"Yes, the reality is cruel. But we can't live forever because of this...Chinese football has long since returned to the world football family, but it has never officially entered the world football stage. And now is the first time , for the first time, we can't ask too much..."

He Feng and Yan Kang sang together and started their "traditional arts" again, pouring cold water on Chinese fans and making them "normal".

But this time what they said was actually quite right, and it could not even be regarded as "deliberately pouring cold water".

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"Okay, let's change."

In front of the coaching bench of the Chinese team on the sidelines, the head coach Shi Wuyin said to the assistant coach Li Zhifei next to him.

"Call back all the warm-up players."

Li Zhifei nodded, turned and ran out.

After all, it is a warm-up match, and Shi Wuyin still hopes to allow more players to get the chance to play in the game. Coupled with the fact that the Chinese team is so far behind in the score, there is no need to insist on the staffing on the field, otherwise the opportunity of this warm-up match will be wasted.

He knows that there are actually many Chinese fans in front of the TV, just waiting for Hu Lai to get back a goal-now they don't expect the Chinese team to beat the French team in an away game, or draw with the French team. It has been reduced to as long as Hu Lai can score a goal and save some face, they will be satisfied...

But Shi Wuyin still wanted to make a decisive substitution.

In the two warm-up matches, Shi Wuyin didn't care about the result or the process of the match. He wanted the players to wrestle with the world's top teams and feel the atmosphere. The real test of the team's tactics still has to wait until the next warm-up match against Ukraine.

He doesn't care what the result is, and he doesn't care what the scene looks like.

In the 63rd minute, after the French team shot wide of the baseline, the referee gestured for a substitution.

The Chinese team changed five players in one breath on the sidelines.

Hu Lai, who started the game, was replaced by Gao Chen under the regretful gaze of Chinese fans.

He didn't score a goal until he was replaced.

Li Qingqing in the box watched Hu Lai end, and said to him in his heart:

It's okay, Holly. This is just a warm-up match, your real stage is the World Cup!