Golden Greenery

Zhuo Yang could stop the Paraguayans from angrily attacking Sun Hai, but he could not stop the red card from Mexican referee Ajundia. In the 61st minute of the second half, Sun Hai shoveled someone from behind and sent Paraguay full-back Morel three meters away. The foul was very obvious.

Zhuo Yang was not hypocritical about this penalty. The facts were clear and the evidence was conclusive, and the punishment was accurate and appropriate. According to the World Cup's consistent policy of severe punishment, Sun Hai will most likely be punished additionally.

But the Chinese team is in trouble!

The three-center defender system is the foundation of Jieshuai's defensive tactics and cannot be missing. Compensatory adjustments must be made. Rijkaard, who originally wanted to win Paraguay, had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​strengthening the attack and quickly replaced Sun Xiang with Feng Xiaoting. Sun Xiang plays midfielder in the national team. He is a full-back and has never been a central defender, let alone a third central defender.

As a result, the already insignificant advantage of the Chinese team's midfield disappeared immediately. In addition, this was the critical point of physical fitness for most of the Chinese team's veterans, and the situation became completely passive regardless of will.

Zhuoyang, who was an offensive libero in the midfield and frontcourt, transformed into a defensive libero in the midfield and backcourt.

The ruler is short and the inch is long. When the difficult moment comes, Li Jinyu, who can exert pressure on the Paraguay goal, cramps. At the age of 33, the heavy pressure of the World Cup caused accelerated loss, so that he, who was not known for his physical fitness, almost ran out of energy after 60 minutes.

At this time, Rijkaard's calmness helped him make a prudent choice. He did not rashly replace Li Jinyu with a forward, but instead used Rong Hao, a young player who was born as a full-back and played in the midfield for the national team, to play.

Jieshuai made a wise decision to maintain the tie. There was only one less player in the game. 1:1 was a helpless but acceptable result. Zhuoyang's vision allowed him to understand Jieshuai's decision very well, so he temporarily gave up his unwillingness to score yet and led his teammates to deal with the Paraguayans.

Rijkaard is a head coach who advocates offense, but he does not advocate hasty offense. He has the vision to assess the situation. Given the power of two evils, Rijkaard's decision is very reasonable. Staying back here is just like Martino temporarily avoiding the edge in the first half, which is the tenacity of a good coach. However, Jieshuai seemed to have less luck than Martino in this game.

The situation of this game was full of ups and downs. The Chinese team had an absolute advantage in the first 20 minutes with a good start, holding its head and beating Paraguay until it turned into a tortoise.

Then the counterattack goal allowed Paraguay to make a breakthrough, and began to take the initiative on the scene with its technical, tactical and experience advantages.

After the start of the second half,

After personnel adjustments, Paraguay has more opportunities to threaten the Chinese team's gate, but it also has to be more wary of Zhuo Yang and Li Jinyu, and the two sides gradually become even.

But after the red card appeared, the Chinese team could no longer compete with Paraguay in an all-round way. Every contest seemed so embarrassing. Zhuo Yang rushed around to make up for the holes in his position and the lack of abilities of his teammates, and also relied on his personal ability to contain his opponents as much as possible.

Zhuoyang didn't dare or couldn't complain, he could only do his best.

In less than twenty minutes after Sun Hai's red card, the Chinese team paid the price of three consecutive yellow cards. Although they were unable to do their best, everyone was trying their best.

But football will not sympathize with the weak. The World Cup is a stage for the strong.

In the 79th minute, Paulo da Silva counterattacked Hao Junmin in the frontcourt and passed the ball to finally shred the Chinese team's shaky defense. Riveros, who had been tortured by Zhuo Yang, stood up at this moment. Successfully, his low shot towards the near corner penetrated the door behind Wang Dalei.

1:2, the Chinese team fell behind.

Fifteen minutes later, the game ended. The Chinese team, which was unable to counterattack but was still counterattacking, lost the first game.

On this day, there was happiness and pain at the Royal Bamfokeng Stadium, and tears were filled with joy and sadness.

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Now it seems that Paraguay's strength is even higher than what was judged before the game. However, it is not a strategic mistake of the Chinese team to list Paraguay as a target for three points. If they don't fight in the first game of the narrow road, are they holding back to kill Italy and Cameroon?

There are many reasons for the failure, but generally speaking, the same word remains: skills are inferior to others. But if you insist on letting Sun Hai take the blame, then that's up to you.

From the perspective of Sun Hai, the World Cup is his tragedy.

After the game, FIFA indeed imposed additional penalties on him. The red card will result in a two-game suspension. If the Chinese team fails to reach the top 16, the World Cup will be over for Sun Hai, and it will be over forever. Hai, who is 33 years old, has no chance of waiting for another chance.

After the game, Sun Hai apologized to the entire team in the locker room and even shed painful tears. Everyone lowered their heads and remained silent. Only Zhuo Yang said: It's okay, Hai, you can go take a shower first.

Zhuo Yang didn't blame him because Sun Hai tried his best, like everyone else. Conceit and impulsiveness in his character are actually components of his ability and part of his football, and they are inseparable, just like the two sides of a coin. Since we want to rely on his experience and strength, we must accept these.

Besides, is there any use in blaming?

In the World Cup in Korea and Japan eight years ago, Sun Hai played in the first game for 27 minutes and ended his World Cup journey. This time, the curtain call was still in the middle of the first game. Maybe, this is his fate.

In sharp contrast to Sun Hai is Li Jinyu, who is also 33 years old. He will forever go down in the history of Chinese football because of his immortal goal.

In the World Cup in Korea and Japan eight years ago, Li Jinyu was not selected for Milu's squad. In fact, he was never someone Milu valued, and he did not even have a role in the top ten games. Therefore, Li Jinyu was actually numb in 2002.

The Chinese team lost today, but Li Jinyu should be praised. Everyone feels disappointed because of the loss, but Li Jinyu should be happy. To be honest, he is indeed very happy, because he is not only the No. 9 of the national team, but also a living Li Jinyu.

But while Da Yu was excited, he couldn't help but secretly worry: Will Zhuo Yang be prejudiced against him? Here, Li Jinyu did not dare to use the word 'jealousy'.

Scoring China's first goal in the World Cup, such a glorious thing, should be accomplished by Zhuo Yang, and no one else can "overstep", otherwise it will be disrespectful.

It cannot be said that Li Jinyu's worries are unnecessary, because Zhuo Yang is indeed very jealous. He is also a living person, not a saint, he is also a young man with vanity, and he also likes to be in the limelight.

Some things once missed are missed forever.

Yao Ming once said that the person he envied most was Wang Zhizhi, because Wang Zhizhi was the first Chinese player to join the NBA. No matter how hard he worked, he could not take away this honor.

But to say that Zhuo Yang hates Li Jinyu because of this is naturally nonsense. Zhuo Yang is not a saint, he is the captain of the Chinese team.