"CCTV, CCTV! Audience friends, welcome to watch a match in Group H of this World Cup, between the Chinese team and the Nigeria team. This game is held at the same time as another group match in Madrid. These two games
The group stage will determine the final qualifying spots for this group..."
"The head coach of the Chinese team, Dillon, made slight adjustments to the starting lineup of the previous two games. Luo Kai, who started two consecutive games, missed this game due to injury. He did not even have the possibility to come on as a substitute.
——Sat directly in the auditorium outside the venue..."
When He Feng said this, the TV broadcast actually cut to Luo Kai.
In the camera, he is sitting with other members of the Chinese team who are not qualified to enter the coaching bench, wearing the uniform of the Chinese team.
"The starting replacement for Luo Kai is Cui Zexu, who is currently playing for Hedong Thunder. Cui Zexu is actually a left midfielder. Dillon asked him to start on the right, which should require him to cut inside to create a threat... In addition, in the center back
In terms of position, Dillon let Cai Shuyi return to the starting lineup, while Mao Junzheng, who started the previous game, sat on the bench... The starting goalkeeper was Lin Zhiyuan, the three defenders were Wang Guangwei, Liu Yan and Cai Shuyi, and the defensive midfielders Xia Xiaoyu and Ou Yangjin.
, attacking midfielder Zhang Qinghuan, left wing-back Chen Xingyi, right wing-back Cui Zexu, forwards Hu Lai and Zhou Zijing... This is also the strongest lineup that the Chinese team can currently field. Facing Nigeria, the Chinese team does not dare to take it lightly...
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After announcing the starting lineup, He Feng began to analyze the current group qualifying situation for the Chinese fans in front of the TV.
"After the Chinese team lost to Italy in the last game, the qualifying situation is not as optimistic as before. But in general, destiny is still in their own hands. As long as they can defeat Nigeria, no matter what the match between Italy and Spain is
In this way, you can qualify from the 'Group of Death'. However, if you want to win the first place in the group, you still have to look at the result of the match between Italy and Spain. The best thing is that the two teams of Italy and Spain draw, so that the Chinese team
Can win the first place in the group with six points..."
After the World Cup group draws were drawn, everyone said that Group H was the "Group of Death."
But in fact, after the fight started, I discovered that as long as there is a will, every group may become the death group.
Before the third round of the group stage, no team has been confirmed to qualify, and no team has been confirmed to be eliminated. There are three groups: Group A, Group D and Group H.
Logically speaking, Group A and Group D should not be the group of death...
But this is football. Never use existing experience to understand it, because that will turn experience into arrogant prejudice.
It does not mean that whoever is stronger on paper or who has been in better form recently will definitely win.
Things like status are illusory and may not necessarily last.
Paper strength is purely "talking on paper" - football is not a card game "comparing size"...
In fact, He Feng does not need to introduce the situation of this group to the Chinese audience in front of the TV.
Since losing to Italy, both the domestic media and netizens have been calculating the score and looking at the situation.
So every Chinese fan knows what the current situation is like.
The Chinese team can qualify from the group as long as they draw with Nigeria, but if they want to be first in the group, they still have to win. If they don't win and just draw, the Chinese team will be second no matter what the result of the game between Spain and Italy is.
After two rounds of group matches, Italy has four points and a goal difference, ranking first; China has three points and a greater goal difference, with two goal differences, ranking second; Spain has three points and a goal difference, ranking second.
The goal difference is -1, ranking third; Nigeria has one point, and the goal difference is -2, ranking fourth.
On the basis of the Chinese team's defeat of Nigeria, if Spain defeats Italy, as long as it is not a big score, the Chinese team will win the first place in the group. Considering Albertazzi's explosive state in this World Cup so far, Spain wants a big score
It is almost impossible to win against Italy.
If the Chinese team takes first place, it can go to the quarter-finals with the second place in Group G. The second place is currently Sweden.
Sweden is definitely easier to deal with than England, so Spain's small victory is completely acceptable to Chinese fans.
Of course, the best result is a tie between Spain and Italy, so there is no need to worry about the goal difference or total goals. Italy has five points and Spain has four points. No one can threaten the Chinese team with six points.
It's just that the defending champion and the host country have to be eliminated in the group, which is really... cruel.
Because Hu Lai plays for Madrid Pirates and Zhang Qinghuan also plays in La Liga, most Chinese fans still have a favorable impression of the Spanish national team and hope that Spain can join hands with the Chinese team to qualify.
As for Italy?
For the Chinese team, the worst result is that Italy beats Spain. In that case, Italy will become the first in the group with seven points, while the Chinese team is second in the group and can only fight with the first in Group G.
From this point of view alone, it is impossible for Chinese fans to support Italy.
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He Feng is still analyzing the current situation of Group H. Three minutes have not passed since the game.
This match kicks off for Nigeria.
When choosing sides before the game, Wang Guangwei continued to press the World Cup side.
It's not that he still wants to win the right to kick off, and then let Hu Lai kick the ball and shoot from the entire center circle.
Since the match against Italy, he has completely given up on this naive idea.
So he doesn't care whether he can guess the edge picker or not.
He just habitually only chooses the World Cup side.
On the opposite side, the captain of Nigeria, their goalkeeper Nba Atuloma, was very nervous and kept staring at the coins tumbling in the air.
When I finally saw the football side facing up, I was obviously relieved.
Then he couldn't wait for the kickoff...
Seeing Artuloma's performance, Wang Guangwei was also speechless.
Hu Lai really made all the opponent's captains and goalkeepers suffer from PTSD...
After the kick-off, Nigeria did not launch an attack immediately. Instead, they made some moves in the backcourt and then passed forward.
They passed the ball directly from the backcourt to find the forward.
However, such a simple and crude approach made the Chinese team defensive - Wang Guangwei judged the placement well, stayed in position, and blocked Nigeria's long pass with his chest.
Then he didn't rush to pass the football.
Instead, he looked back and saw Nigeria forward Zaide Okuye coming over to counterattack.
"Wang Guangwei! Beautiful! He used his body to withstand Okuye's counterattack first, and then passed the football..."
"This goal shows Wang Guangwei's confidence and physical confrontation ability. After playing in Italy for four years, he has made obvious progress. Although he lost the goal while defending Caesar in the last game, to be honest, Wang Guangwei can't be blamed for that goal. Who can
Do you think that Caesar can still have such explosive power at the age of 38? And after all, Wang Guangwei has played for almost ninety minutes, so his physical fitness is somewhat affected..."
Yan Kang spoke for Wang Guangwei regarding this defense just now.
After losing to Italy, there was a lot of criticism against Wang Guangwei on the Internet.
Although people who know football actually know that Wang Guangwei's responsibility is not big. However, the World Cup is different from the usual European leagues. A large part of the people who follow the World Cup do not watch football at all and do not understand football very well.
fan".
There are many of them and their voices are loud.
Among these people are self-media marketing accounts.
No matter how much responsibility this ball king Guangwei has, anyway, Caesar scored the goal under his defense, so it must be the defender's responsibility.
As he spoke, the football passed forward by Wang Guangwei fell to Xia Xiaoyu's feet.
He dropped back from the frontcourt to the midfield to take over.
While catching the ball, Xia Xiaoyu adjusted his body orientation, not completely facing away from the direction of attack, but facing sideways.
This helps him connect the next move at the same time when he catches the ball.
So when Xia Xiaoyu caught the ball, he moved the football in the direction he was going.
This bought him about half a second.
It was in this half second that he took the football away from the Nigerian defensive player who came up to tackle him.
However, Nigeria responded quickly, and two players immediately gathered around.
Xia Xiaoyu was forced to pass the football to Zhang Qinghuan who was pulling away from the angle.
After Zhang Qinghuan catches the ball, it will be difficult for him to have the same breakthrough space as Xia Xiaoyu.
Because he is already close to Nigeria's defensive third.
This is the area where players from both sides are most densely packed, and where the defensive team is most prepared.
Therefore, after Zhang Qinghuan received the ball, he did not find a good opportunity in the face of Nigerian players who were defending at all levels.
He could only pass the football back to Hu Lai who retreated to respond.
Hulay came out to receive the pass and also took away a Nigerian center back, Kennedy Omero.
However, the gap he created was not utilized by the Chinese team.
Because there was no one in the empty space, Zhang Qinghuan did not choose to pass the ball to the empty space, but passed it to Hu Lai's feet.
Hu Lai, who had his back to the attacking direction, distributed the football to Cui Zexu on the wing.
Cui Zexu is a left-footed player. He plays on the right wing in this game. It is difficult for him to cross directly with his foot. If he wants to pass, he has to turn back his left foot to pass, which will make his cross lose its suddenness.
However, he can also cut inside to directly threaten the Nigerian goal.
After Cui Zexu got the ball, he really wanted to cross the center. When leading the Nigerian defender to the center, he also left space on the wing.
Zhang Qinghuan stepped into this gap.
When Cui Zexu was dribbling horizontally, Zhou Zijing pulled out from the penalty area to meet him and set up a wall for him, while Hu Lai turned around and inserted in front of the goal.
Cui Zexu passed the football to Zhou Zijing.
Zhou Zijing then swept to the right.
However, Zhang Qinghuan did not directly cross the ball because he found that Nigeria's defensive formation was not in chaos. If he passed the ball at this time, he would most likely hand over the ball to Nigeria easily.
So he just made a pass, dunked the football back, and then passed it back.
To Xia Xiaoyu who stepped forward to help.
"The Chinese team played very patiently. Although this is an important game that determines whether to qualify or not, the boys of the national football team are still very calm. This shows that everyone's mentality has not been affected by the failure of the previous game. This is a good thing!"
When Xia Xiaoyu ran to pick up Zhang Qinghuan, he was already shaking his head back and forth to observe.
As the Chinese team's offensive develops here, it also attracts Nigerian players to the right wing, and their overall formation tilts towards this side...
So relatively speaking, there is a huge space on the left wing.
Xia Xiaoyu knew what he should do.
After catching the ball, he quickly adjusted his body direction and then made a long diagonal pass!
Hit the football into the space behind the Nigerian defense!
There, Chen Xingyi penetrated diagonally into the edge of the penalty area and swept the flying football towards the center without stopping the ball!
As Xia Xiaoyu's diagonal pass was transferred, Hu Lai also ran forward.
However, when Chen Xingyi was about to pass the ball, he suddenly made a fake move, dodged the Nigerian center back Kennedy Omero who had been following him closely, and retreated in the opposite direction!
At the same time, the football was swept over by Chen Xingyi and passed the ball in an inverted triangle!
Hu Lai, who got rid of the defense, jumped up while retreating, and then shook his head!
Just like a chip in table tennis, the football drew a very obvious arc and flew into the goal from the back upper corner!
Artuloma, on the other hand, stood there blankly, turning his head to watch the football go in...
In order to prevent Hu Lai from scoring from the kick-off, he specially grabbed the right to kick-off.
But he never thought that doing so would only delay Hu Lai's goal by three minutes!