God of Green

Jiang Xiaolin's equalizing goal excited the Chinese fans at the scene and the Chinese fans in front of the TV.

Of course, it also made Uzbekistan determined to continue attacking, and the defenders could not defend.

Because defending a draw is useless for them, they can only press forward to attack.

For the Chinese team, such a game is just what they want.

As a Central Asian team, Uzbekistan still has certain advantages in height and physique. Uzbekistan can get some good opportunities when passing from the bottom of the wing and competing for aerial balls.

Even if the Chinese team plays a defensive counterattack, it is useless. It can't be stopped and the opponent will always catch the opportunity.

But there is a problem, that is, the Uzbek players have advantages in height and physique, but not necessarily in jumping.

Li Weifeng, Wang Xiao, Zheng Zhi, Zhou Haibing and others are good in jumping and heading. Even if the Uzbek players grab the first point, it is difficult to head a high-quality header.

In the 22nd minute, Uzbekistan made a threatening cross from the sideline, and their striker Girnik grabbed the first point in the penalty area and headed the ball.

This ball was close to the goal and was very threatening.

However, under the close interference of Li Weifeng, Girnik did not head the ball within the goal frame, but missed the post and flew out of the bottom line.

The home fans in the stands immediately sighed in unison, regretting that the ball did not go in.

In the 27th minute, Uzbekistan won a free kick on the front side.

This free kick was not suitable for direct shooting, and the penalty player lifted the ball into the penalty area. It was Uzbekistan's striker Ansukik who grabbed the first point and headed the ball.

However, this time, like Girnik's header, under the interference of the Chinese team's defender, although the header had power, it did not have an angle, and was easily confiscated by goalkeeper Song Zhenyu.

In fact, as the last-ranked team in the group, Uzbekistan's attacking power in this game is still very impressive.

Perhaps it is the pressure of being at the bottom of the group that gives the players more motivation.

In addition, the advantage of playing at home also allows the players to play very well and frequently threaten the goal of the Chinese team.

In fact, the strength of the Chinese team is similar to that of Uzbekistan. The two teams are currently ranked almost the same in FIFA, and their rankings in Asia are even closer.

The pressure of being at the bottom of the group exploded. Considering the fact that Uzbekistan played at home, it is not incomprehensible that the opponent pressed the Chinese team, scored the first goal, and frequently threatened the Chinese team's goal.

Judging from the performance of the Uzbek team during the beginning of the game, if Jiang Xiaolin had not been there, it would not be strange for the Chinese team to lose to Uzbekistan by a large score in this game.

But the decisive factor is Jiang Xiaolin.

Because of Jiang Xiaolin, even though Uzbekistan had a desperate mentality, they still didn't dare to fully press forward.

At least, the two central defenders didn't dare to cross the center line to participate in the attack.

The two full-backs were the same. Even if they could assist, they could only take turns to play, and the other had to stay behind to help defend and prevent the Chinese team's counterattack.

As for the defensive midfielders and forwards, although they focused their main energy on the offense, they had to go back to defense once they lost the ball.

As a result, sometimes Uzbekistan couldn't go all out when attacking, and some players were still in the backcourt and couldn't run to the front to participate in the attack.

In addition, the shooting and heading skills of the frontcourt players were different. Even if they got a chance to shoot, they didn't have a high goal frame hit rate like Jiang Xiaolin, and they couldn't compare with Jiang Xiaolin's tricky shooting angles.

This is why Uzbekistan's offensive in the first half hour seemed to be so powerful, but they always failed to score a goal when shooting at the last moment.

On the other hand, the Chinese team's overall counterattack number is definitely lower than that of Uzbekistan.

But the quality of the Chinese team's counterattack is higher than that of Uzbekistan.

In the 20th minute, Jiang Xiaolin was blocked from getting the ball and could not break through. He suddenly passed a through-the-crotch pass, passing the ball from the crotch of an Uzbek defender who intercepted him to the feet of his teammate Huang Bowen.

However, Huang Bowen finally hit the ball a little straighter due to the interference of the opponent's returning defense player, and was saved by the goalkeeper Yun.

But the threat of this ball is still very great.

After several counterattacks that ultimately did not result in a goal, the Chinese team finally launched a successful positional attack.

ThisThe attack was initiated by goalkeeper Song Zhenyu.

In the 31st minute, Uzbekistan's attack failed to pass into the penalty area to pose a threat. Finally, an anxious midfielder took a long shot outside the penalty area, but it was a cannon.

Then, when goalkeeper Song Zhenyu kicked the ball, most people on both sides moved to Uzbekistan's half, waiting for Song Zhenyu to kick the ball.

This time, Song Zhenyu did not pass the ball from the backcourt to slowly launch the attack, but directly identified the position where Jiang Xiaolin was and kicked it out.

And this time, Song Zhenyu's kick was also lucky. It was not too small, too big, or crooked, but just near Jiang Xiaolin.

Naturally, Jiang Xiaolin used his speed, physique, and ability to grab the first landing point smoothly, and then took the ball down despite the competition of two opposing players, and headed it to Shao Jiayi on the wing.

This attack was not a counterattack, but a positional attack initiated by Song Zhenyu's goal kick, so there was no situation where Shao Jiayi was unmarked.

Uzbek midfielder Yamedamien stepped forward to intercept Shao Jiayi.

But Shao Jiayi is one of the best forwards in China. From Munich 1860 to Cottbus, he has been in German football for 7 years and his skills are very outstanding.

If it weren't for the problem of always being injured, Shao Jiayi's achievements would be even higher.

This time, facing Yamedamien's interception, Shao Jiayi did not stop to pass the ball, but boldly used technology to break through the opponent.

Yamedamien thought Shao Jiayi would pass the ball out under his defense, and was a little caught off guard by Shao Jiayi's breakthrough, and was broken through by Shao Jiayi's Matthews fake move.

Although he turned around and chased him immediately, he was always stuck behind Shao Jiayi's hand, half a body behind Shao Jiayi, and could not form a steal.

While blocking Yamedamien and dribbling the ball forward on the wing, about 20 meters from the baseline, Shao Jiayi faced Uzbekistan's full-back Danisov and made a two-on-one wall pass with the front midfielder Huang Bowen who came to support.

Without the ball, Shao Jiayi accelerated his sprint, temporarily leaving Yamedamien and defender Danisov beside him, and received the ball from Huang Bowen after the wall pass behind Danisov.

Although Yamedamien and Danisov immediately caught up and wanted to interfere with Shao Jiayi's cross, Shao Jiayi did not give them a chance.

After receiving the pass from Huang Bowen, Shao Jiayi just dribbled the ball and adjusted two steps. After looking up at the situation in the middle, he kicked the ball to the middle.

At this time, Jiang Xiaolin had already rushed into the penalty area at the right time, and Shao Jiayi's pass was aimed at Jiang Xiaolin.

Of course, in actual matches, especially when encountering this kind of positional attack, the opponent's penalty area is absolutely ready, and will not allow dangerous players like Jiang Xiaolin to stand in a fixed place to get a chance to compete for a header.

No matter how strong Jiang Xiaolin is, he is only one person.

If two or three opponents surround Jiang Xiaolin, some compete for the header and some pull him, it will be difficult for Jiang Xiaolin to grab the ball.

This is also the reason why Jiang Xiaolin cannot grab the first point to form a threat every time a corner kick or a teammate passes from the bottom.

Therefore, in order to successfully compete for the header in the penalty area when the opponent is ready, it is necessary to give full play to Jiang Xiaolin's ability to run without the ball and grab points in the mobile battle, and get rid of some defensive players to grab the ball.

This time is the same. Shao Jiayi's pass is not directly in front of Jiang Xiaolin's running position, but a little forward, in the area between the corner of the small penalty area and the large penalty area line.

This is a bottom cross attack routine that has been practiced in training.

But to successfully compete for the header, several conditions must be met at the same time.

On the one hand, Jiang Xiaolin's running position should achieve the effect of surprise, and he should be able to shake off some or all of the defensive players and grab the ball in the gap to form a header.

On the other hand, Shao Jiayi's passing skills should be in place, and he should be able to pass a good ball that matches Jiang Xiaolin's height and bounce.

Otherwise, if he is too short, he will be destroyed by the opponent's front point players, and if he is too tall, he will fall behind. In addition, he cannot be too far behind, let alone close to the goal.

If he is close to the goal, it may be destroyed or directly confiscated by the goalkeeper.

The goalkeeper who can use his hands in the penalty area naturally controls the ball at a higher height than Jiang Xiaolin, even if Jiang Xiaolin's bounce value is full.

In other words, even if Jiang Xiaolin's off-ball running position, speed, physique, and ability to grab points are all top-notch, it cannot guarantee that every attack of the team will work, and every cross of his teammates will be grabbed by Jiang Xiaolin.

It still has a certain luck.

In fact, Shao Jiayi and Jiang Xiaolin do not have a very good tacit understanding.

After all, Shao Jiayi was trapped in the top ten competition due to long-term injuries.*Joint training, only a few days in total, the passing and running tacit understanding has not reached a very good level.

This is also the reason why Shao Jiayi's counterattack passes were not grabbed by Jiang Xiaolin several times before.

Either the pass was not in place, or the cooperation with Jiang Xiaolin was not in place.

But this time, the two sides played a high-quality attack from the sideline.

Although there were three defensive players in the Uzbek penalty area staring at Jiang Xiaolin, and others were also paying attention to assisting defense to prevent Jiang Xiaolin's running.

But sometimes the football field is so helpless - there is no power.

Even if you are determined to stare at someone, but the opponent is too strong, you can't stare at him even if you want to. Otherwise, superstars would not be so popular.

The role of superstars is to break through the opponent's defense at a critical moment and get a chance to shoot.

And this time, Jiang Xiaolin played the role of a superstar in the Chinese team's attack.

He first grabbed the goalkeeper Song Zhenyu's long-footed goal kick, headed the ball to Shao Jiayi, then quickly rushed into the penalty area, used his off-ball running and speed to suddenly change direction to shake off two defenders, then turned to the front point, and before the Uzbek players could react, he jumped high, overpowered the only defender who competed with him for the header, Ainumov, and grabbed the ball from Shao Jiayi's side pass. With a powerful header, he headed the ball into the Uzbek goal.

As mentioned earlier, this attack, whether it was Shao Jiayi's cross or Jiang Xiaolin's header, was perfect and well coordinated.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin's header was also quite beautiful.

The speed of Shao Jiayi's cross plus the speed bonus of Jiang Xiaolin's header made the ball very powerful and naturally very fast.

More importantly, even in the process of competing with the opponent's defender Ainumov in the air, Jiang Xiaolin's full-value bounce and header skills still allowed him to force an angle.

Although it is not a dead angle, it is also very tricky.

If it is a shot outside the penalty area, goalkeeper Nestalov may be able to save it.

But this is a header shot in the penalty area, with great power, fast speed, and a very short distance.

Therefore, even if goalkeeper Nestalov has made a displacement judgment based on Jiang Xiaolin's running position and made a save in time, he still failed to stop Jiang Xiaolin's header.

Amid the huge boos and desperate eyes of Uzbek fans, the ball flew into the goal from the upper side of Nestalov's outstretched palm.

In the 31st minute, the Chinese team completed an efficient and concise attack, with Shao Jiayi assisting Jiang Xiaolin to score twice, helping the Chinese team to reverse the score 2-1 and gain a leading advantage.

This attack, the ball went in quite quickly.

The ball was passed only three times by the goalkeeper, Jiang Xiaolin, Shao Jiayi, and Jiang Xiaolin before it was scored into the Uzbekistan goal. It was so fast that some people couldn't react. How could the goalkeeper Song Zhenyu's goal fly into the Uzbekistan goal?

But it was scored, and there was no room for doubt.

When the referee pointed to the center circle and blew the whistle to indicate that the goal was valid, the commentator of the sports channel of China National Television jumped up from the commentary booth and shouted excitedly:

"The ball is in!"

"The ball is in... "

"Jiang Xiaolin scored twice, and the Chinese team took a 2-1 lead!"

"A beautiful header, a smooth attack, this attack is really wonderful!"

"The ball was kicked by the goalkeeper and only passed three times before it was sent into the goal of Uzbekistan!"

"Jiang Xiaolin's goal efficiency is really amazing, no one can match it! He is worthy of being a goal-scoring machine who can score 52 Eredivisie goals in a single season, the king of efficiency, and the existence of the king of football Pele."