Fox in the Penalty Area

"...In a World Cup warm-up match held early this morning Beijing time, the Chinese team lost 0:4 to the last World Cup semi-finalist French team...During the game, Shi Wuyin made some adjustments to the team's lineup. Substantial rotation. At the press conference after the game, he said that the goal of the game had been achieved. Although the Chinese team lost four goals, they still played what he wanted to see..."

"Although they lost the first warm-up match, the Chinese team quickly started preparing for the second warm-up match. This morning, under the leadership of assistant coach Li Zhifei, the whole team played on the lawn outside the hotel. They have resumed training. Next, they will leave Paris and go to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, to challenge the Ukrainian national team in the second warm-up match... It can be seen from the players' resumption of training that the impact of yesterday's loss is still there... I hope the players can come out of this image as soon as possible..."

In the TV news, the Chinese team players wearing uniform training uniforms are undergoing recovery training on the lawn under the leadership of their coaches. The expressions on the faces of the national team players who appeared in several close-up shots were slightly dignified.

Considering that they lost the game yesterday, this performance is normal.

If everyone sees that after the Chinese team loses the game, all the members are giggling and smiling after sleeping, the public opinion will probably explode...

Although this is a warm-up match, the result of the game does not mean anything.

But there are still many Chinese fans who have high hopes for them before the game, hoping that they can show their prowess in a foreign land.

Based on such expectations, the Chinese team lost the game. If the fans still see everyone smiling after losing the game, it is indeed disrespectful to the fans.

After the recovery training of the Chinese team in the morning, the whole team took a bus and left the hotel after lunch. They were going to fly to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, where they would challenge the Ukrainian national team in the second warm-up match.

In this city, they left a big group photo and a 0:4 defeat.

This is their first official warm-up match after they won the right to qualify for the World Cup, so it can be said that the Chinese team's first World Cup journey actually started from this game.

It’s just that, unlike many people’s expectations, the Chinese team’s World Cup preparation journey started with an embarrassing failure...

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Four days later, on March 23, the Chinese team challenged the Ukrainian team away.

Compared with the game four days ago, Shi Wuyin made some adjustments to the starting lineup.

Lin Zhiyuan, who did not start in the last game, appeared in the starting lineup, replacing Hao De before.

Hao De was injured in the final play-offs of the World Cup qualifiers. In fact, the injury was not serious, but he really couldn't catch up with the second round of the play-offs, which gave Lin Zhiyuan a chance to become a hero.

After qualifying for the World Cup, he didn't take long to recover from his injury. It didn't even delay the Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League group stage of the new season of Hedong Thunder.

Shi Wuyin and his coaching staff are still hesitating about who Hao De and Lin Zhiyuan will be the starting goalkeeper for the Chinese team going to the World Cup. Although Lin Zhiyuan played a perfect performance in the last play-off game, he does have the disadvantage of being erratic and prone to thunderstorms. Hao De wins in his stability and rich experience. Sometimes the choice of starting goalkeeper is not just based on the player's goalkeeping skills...

So Hao De started in the last game, and Lin Zhiyuan started in this game.

In addition to Lin Zhiyuan, Zhang Qinghuan, who came off the bench in the second half of the last game, also started this game. And Guo Junfu, the midfielder who started before, returned to the bench.

From the starting lineups of these two games, it can be seen that Shi Wuyin is not very concerned about the results of the games. He still has to seize the opportunity of the warm-up match and constantly try new personnel combinations and tactics.

At the same time, he also made adjustments in tactics.

In the last game against France, he defended and counterattacked. The result was still beaten into a sieve by the French team.

This time his playing strength is inferior to that of the French team of Ukraine,

Shi Wuxian's tactics are much more aggressive.

Facing Ukraine, which did not even make it to the World Cup finals, the players of the Chinese team should be more confident.

After the game started, they launched a fierce attack on the Ukrainian goal.

This is also what Shi Wuyin requested, the purpose is to test how fierce the Chinese team's offensive firepower is.

Before the game, he told his players, don't care how many goals the Chinese team will concede in this game, and first see if his offense can penetrate the Ukrainian defense.

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"Rocky got the ball on the wing... against the Ukrainian defense... hey ok!"

He Feng didn't finish his sentence when he saw Luo Kai suddenly throw the football out, and then speed up and forcefully break through!

He quickly followed up and shouted.

Amidst his yelling, Luo Kai, who started suddenly, caught the Ukrainian defender by surprise, turned around a little slower, and was squeezed behind by Luo Kai.

After a successful breakthrough, Luo Kai did not pass directly, but brought the football into the penalty area, and then crossed the middle.

It's a pity that the football was blocked from the bottom line by Ukrainian defender Roman Sergey, who was closely marking Hu Lai.

Although he failed to score a goal, Luo Kai's performance was much better than in the previous game.

As the player who played the most minutes in the Chinese team in the last game, Luo Kai received special care from Shi Wuyin.

Thinking that he hadn’t played a lot of games for three months after going to Veronica, and unlike other domestic players who traveled long distances from China, he had no problem with his physical fitness, so Shi Wuyin gave him the most playing time until the second day. Seventy-seven minutes before he was replaced.

But as the player with the most playing time in the team, Luo Kai's performance was lackluster.

This made Luo Kai, who was holding back his energy before the game to perform well in front of Li Qingqing, was extremely depressed.

Director Shi gave him trust and allowed him to play the longest time, but he couldn't show any outstanding performance in return for Director Shi.

Now, all the shame in his heart has turned into motivation in this game.

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"Should I say it or not, Ukraine's strength is indeed far worse than that of France...Although they also have superstars like Kotien in their team..." Assistant coach Li Zhifei said to Shi Wuyin in front of the coaches' bench on the sidelines.

"Even so, they are stronger than our Chinese team." Shi Wuyin glanced at the real-time score on the big screen.

Ukraine is leading the Chinese team with a score of 1:0.

"Of course, of course. But we have also improved a lot. After conceding the same goal, the performance of the players is much better than the last game against the French team. The mentality is stable and the mind is still clear. I think this is very important. It's not easy..."

"That's why we must go to play against the French team first." Shi Wuyin smiled slightly. "Instead of competing with Ukraine first, and then playing the French team. Sometimes, the order of appearance is also very important."

"Because I played against France first, and after experiencing the brutal beatings by the semi-finals of the World Cup, I have seen a lot of wind and waves." Li Zhifei understood what Shi Wuyin meant.

Indeed, although the Chinese team lost badly in that game, they were beaten helplessly. Both the score and the scene were ugly. But as the coach of the team, Li Zhifei knew that such a failure was of great significance and precious to the team.

The outside media and fans may not be able to see anything for a while, but as an insider, they can still feel that some changes are happening to the players of the Chinese team.

Just like Luo Kai in this game.

He was obviously better than the last game.

Thinking of this, Li Zhifei walked to the sidelines and shouted loudly to Luo Kai in the field: "Luo Kai! Luo Kai!"

As a character who often needs to replace the head coach Shi Wuyin on the sidelines to yell and convey instructions to the field, the players of the Chinese team are very familiar with the voice of assistant coach Li Zhifei, so he easily attracted Luo Kai's attention.

Luo Kai thought that the head coach would give him some latest instructions, but he didn't expect to see Li Zhifei giving him a thumbs up and shouting: "Just play like this! Use the way you are good at! Attack them!"

Hearing the coach's words, Luo Kai took a deep breath, then nodded slowly.

This is what he was waiting for.

It feels as if some shackles in the body have been broken...

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Chen Xingyi broke through from the left and sent a cross. With Hu Lai being stared at by the Ukrainian central defenders, Luo Kai suddenly stepped in from the back and took advantage of his speed to jump high and grab the lead. In front of the Ukrainian left-back, a shot to the top!

Fortunately, Ukrainian goalkeeper Valery Kotyarov responded in time. In the process of turning over and attacking back, he raised one hand and hit the football over the crossbar.

"Oh, what a pity!" He Feng exclaimed, "Luo Kai's condition is really good today!"

After landing without a goal, Luo Kai clenched his hands in front of his chest and let out a loud cry.

He himself was very upset about not being able to score.

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Luo Kai's excellent state also stimulated the performance of other players in the Chinese team - young people always have a heart for comparison.

It's just that some young players compare their annual salary, how expensive their sports car is, who has the best ass...

And what these young people compare on the court is the performance of the game.

You Luo Kai are so outstanding, can I, Chen Xingyi, let you compare?

Can't!

After Chen Xingyi's outstanding performance, Zhang Qinghuan took a look, why are all the young people so pushy? Is this okay? This is not good! Do you really think that you can rely on your trident to attack in the frontcourt? Don't forget that I am the one wielding your trident!

How can I be a "halberd bearer" if I don't show some performance?

Come, come, listen to my command!

When Zhang Qinghuan took the ball in the frontcourt, he pointed to the gap in the ribs behind the Ukrainian defense and directed Luo Kai to insert there.

Luo Kai understood, and slanted in from the side. It caused Ukraine's defense to shrink.

But he passed the football to the other side and caught the Ukrainian team by surprise!

When the Ukrainian players wanted to step forward to block Chen Xingyi, Chen Xingyi directly used the outside instep of his right foot to cut the football to the right rib of the penalty area!

That's exactly where Luo Kai stepped forward!

Rocky is ready to catch the ball!

Hu Lai stepped forward in the middle, pointed at his feet with both hands, and shouted in Ukrainian: "Pass the ball to me!!"

This voice stunned the Ukrainian central defender Roman Sergey, who wanted to go up to block Luo Kai, turned his head to look at Hu Lai, and at the same time planned to go up to defend Hu Lai.

But at the same time, a doubt emerged in his mind: Why can I understand what he is saying?

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly realized - that kid spoke Ukrainian!

But why does he speak Ukrainian to his teammates? Do his teammates also understand Ukrainian? !

Before all the little question marks in Sergey's mind popped up... Over there, Luo Kai had already kicked the ball to shoot!

In the penalty area, the football turned into a white light and went straight to the top corner of the goal!

Goalkeeper Kotyarov arrives with his hand behind the football...

The ball is in!

Rocky scored!

This is his first goal in Europe!