World Cup of Great Powers

With the whistle from the Argentine referee, the Chinese team's first World Cup match officially began.

"First, let me introduce the players on both sides."

"The Chinese team has a 442 formation today, and the goalkeeper is No. 1 Jiang Jin."

"The four defenders from left to right are Wu Chengying, General Fan, Zhang Huahua and Sun Jihai."

"The two midfielders are Li Tie and Peng Weiguo, and the two midfielders are Ma Mingyu and Zhang Xiaorui."

"On the front line, Holden sent Zhang Yuheng and Su Maozhen as partners."

"In this lineup, two players are from the Jianlibao youth team that just won the Toulon Cup, and one forward is from Liaoning Football League B, and the remaining 9 players are all from League A."

"On the Danish side, the goalkeeper is Schmeichel."

"The defenders are Schjönberger, Ripert and Jess Hogg."

"In the midfield we have Helweger, Kolding, Laudrup, Weghorst and Jorgensen."

"The forwards are Laudrup Jr. and Sander."

"In the European qualifiers, Denmark beat Croatia and qualified directly as the group leader. The Chinese team also ranked first in the group and qualified directly for the World Cup."

"Denmark kicked off first..."

"No. 6 Helweger's breakthrough."

"Li Tie stretched his legs and knocked him down decisively."

"The young player Li Tie was very active after the start. He didn't have stage fright at all."

However, the good times did not last long. In the tenth minute, another flying shovel from Li Tie knocked Jorgensen to the ground.

This time, the Argentine referee didn't say much nonsense and directly showed Li Tie a yellow card.

"Li Tie played too hard." Huang Jianxiang commented.

"It's okay to let the Danes pass the ball. After all, it's in the midfield."

"This is the first yellow card the Chinese team has received in this game."

Huang Jianxiang said this unintentionally, but the fans listened with interest.

"I really don't know what Zhu Xie was thinking, why did he take Li Tie to the World Cup again? Just forget about going and let him play as a ploy?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, the ball hasn't been scored yet, so I got a yellow card first. If this continues, maybe there won't be anyone on the field to play before the game is over!"

"I really don't know what Li Tie is doing. Why are you so busy fighting in this place? What can you do if you let him pass?"

The fans chattered and pointed at the court, as if they were back in Golden State last year.

However, after Li Tie received this yellow card, Denmark's threatening attacks gradually increased.

In the 18th minute, Denmark Ripert took a free kick. Weghorst nodded the ball in front of him. Sander stepped in and kicked the ball high. Jiang Jin hit the ball high.

In the 25th minute, Denmark took a corner kick from the left, and Laudrup shot a powerful shot from outside the penalty area, which also went over the crossbar.

Five minutes later, Denmark scored again with a free kick into the national football penalty area.

Schjörnberg returned the ball to the top, and Weghorst followed up and volleyed directly with his left foot. The ball once again went over the Chinese team's crossbar.

Seeing this, Horton fell silent, and the fans in front of the TV started to curse.

"This is totally overwhelming!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, if we keep playing like this, we will lose the ball sooner or later!"

"What are the players doing? Attack, attack!"

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while insiders watch the door.

After seeing Jorgensen miss another shot because of himself, Horton turned around and murmured to the consultant on the side.

"What are they talking about?"

Seeing that Horton had no intention of discussing with the coaching staff, Jin and Chi could only find Zeng Zheng, who was holding the back of his head on the coaching bench and looking lazy, to ask what was going on.

After listening to a few words, Zeng Zheng pointed to the midfielder and said: "Denmark's frontcourt organization ability and shooting ability are very strong."

"As long as the ball passes through the midfield, it can hit our goal and eventually become a shot."

"The few balls just passed were either free kicks or corner kicks. They went directly over the midfield, making the midfield defense useless."

"Horton is thinking about how to make them play positional battles with us honestly, and then let the players commit less fouls."

After hearing this, Jin and Chi looked at each other.

They only saw Denmark taking several shots in a row in the past few decades, and they just wanted to strengthen the defense in the backcourt to prevent them from taking shots easily.

But now it seems that these are just solutions without changing the medicine.

"Xiao Zeng, look, what should we do?"

"What should we do? What else can we do? Our strength lies here." Zeng Zheng rolled his eyes, "Let the people in front move back and strengthen the defense in the midfield and frontcourt!"

"In addition to Lee Tie, the other three midfielders have also improved their intensity."

"If the ball can't be hit, Denmark will naturally have fewer shots."

When Chi Shangbin heard this, he immediately discovered that there was something wrong with this tactic.

"With all the forwards back to participate in defense, we have to wait and see whether we can attack. The problem is, what if the other three midfielders are defensive intensive and all get cards? The first half is not over yet, and we will play with cards in the second half.

, but it won’t last long!”

"Coach Chi, we've even reached the World Cup, why are you still so timid?"

Zeng Zheng sneered, "If we don't fight now, when will we fight? Do we really have to wait until the finals to fight again?"

"Stop talking about you, I don't think I can wait for that day!"

"What does it mean to get a card? What about the red one?"

"Anyway, we have brought 22 people, and our strength is not much different. We will take the cards when we need them."

"If you don't take the card now, you will lose the ball then!"

After hearing this, Chi Shangbin frowned and remained silent, apparently thinking about the feasibility of Zeng Zheng's tactic of "using yellow cards to reduce the number of shots fired by the opponent."

Jin Zhiyang on the side was also a little anxious.

"Xiao Zeng, besides this, is there no better way? For example, let's make substitutions in the second half or something?"

"Coach Jin, if there is a better candidate, why can't he play?" Zeng Zheng didn't give Jin Zhiyang face, "It's not that I don't want good ideas, it's really that I don't have any!"

"This is the World Cup, that's all we can do!"

"If we don't put in some effort to narrow the gap, we're going to lose!"

After saying that, Zeng Zheng Erlang raised his legs and said no more words.

In the 34th minute, Ma Mingyu fired a long shot from 40 meters outside the Danish penalty area, causing screams from the stands.

"Ma Mingyu shoots!!!"

"Oh..."

"The ball was shot too high!"

“This is the Chinese team’s first shot in the first half!”

This is also the first shot of the Chinese team in the World Cup.

Although he didn't hit the door frame, he finally kicked his first kick.

Schmeichel didn't even move.

After the ball flew out of bounds, he asked the ball boy for a football.

Ma Mingyu wiped the sweat from his temples, his face full of unwillingness.

I know there is a gap.

I thought I would run hard and catch up.

But I didn’t expect it to be so big!

Denmark then followed up and launched an attack.

Laudrup passed Wu Chengying on the left and then passed the ball into the penalty area. Jiang Jin lifted the crossbar with one hand.

After Li Tie took the card, the national football team's midfield was useless.

"Zhang Xiaorui, don't always think about attacking. Come back to the midfield and participate in defense first!"

Under Zeng Zheng's orders from thousands of miles away, Zhang Xiaorui gritted his teeth and honestly participated in the defense.

But he is not naturally a defensive player.

I followed up a few times, but was either beaten hard by the opponent or passed by in a one-two punch.

Here, Denmark once again used a strong hand throw opportunity to throw the ball into the Chinese team's penalty area from a distance.

Laudrup Jr. stopped the ball in his chest and then shot with his heel. The ball was bravely saved by Jiang Jin.

After Sun Jihai on the wing got the ball, he was about to protect it when a shout suddenly came from his ears.

"Run forward, run!!!"

Is it Mr. Zeng?!

Sun Jihai did not hesitate, took a long stride, and rushed forward along the right road.

At this time, the two midfielders closest to Sun Jihai were facing in another direction.

When they noticed that Sun Jihai was speeding up with the ball, it was too late to turn around and chase him.

In the blink of an eye, Sun Jihai rushed through the midfield.

By the time the Danish defender pulled over from the center to block Sun Jihai, the young Wanda player had already brought the ball to the edge of the Danish penalty area.

At this time, Zhang Yuheng was the only one running in the Danish penalty area, and there were three defensive players marking him.

Sun Jihai had no choice but to move the ball laterally and cut inside towards the center.

After avoiding a defensive player, Sun Jihai repeated his old trick and tried to use the change of rhythm to get past the second player.

But Ripert, who came after him, did not give Sun Jihai another chance.

With a shove from both legs, Sun Jihai was knocked down directly in front of the penalty area.

"Beep!!!"

The referee's whistle sounded and the Chinese team won a set kick in the frontcourt.

Seeing the position of this set piece, many of the international players who were still holding the ball in the backcourt brightened up. They immediately raised their arms and ran forward in stride.