After Nigeria withstood the fierce offensive of the Chinese team in the first ten minutes of the game, it was finally able to launch some threatening counterattacks. First, Ibrahim Opoku targeted the Chinese team's right center from the left rib.
Defender Liu Yan launched an assault. Before Cui Zexu fully returned to defense, Opoku singled out Liu Yan.
Facing Liu Yan's defense, he didn't even make a fake move. He just moved the football forward and started accelerating on the spot. When Liu Yan turned around, Opoku was almost one step ahead of him...
The good Wang Guangwei predicted the difficulties Liu Guan would encounter in advance, came over in time to help defend, and chased Opoku to force a pass, but he lost his accuracy. The ball was headed back by the Chinese team's left center back Cai Xieyi.
Nigeria's offense did not end there. They took control of the second point and reorganized their offense.
However, facing the Chinese players who were already in position, Nigeria could not organize any effective offensive, and then was intercepted by Ouyang secretly during the back and forth side kick, losing the ball. The Chinese team counterattacked. It also failed, so they replaced
Nigeria fights back.
They still relied on speed to rush hard. After stealing the ball, the Nigerian players directly passed the ball to the forward teammates in front. Of course, they did not pass it casually.
This wave of Chinese team's counterattack came from the left wing where Chen Xingchuan was. When Qizilia counterattacked, he consciously passed the football into the space behind Chen Xingchuan. Mine was from another player who was fast and at the same time
Emmanuel Akua is even more sophisticated with his feet.
Akua and Cai Shuyi started a "race" on the wing. In the end, Akua was the better, catching the ball before Cai Shuyi. By this time, Cai Shuyi had been pulled out of the penalty area and became a full-back. So Xia
Xiaozi returned to the penalty area and played as a temporary central defender. At the same time, Chen Xingyi quickly returned to the defense to limit Akua's breakthrough with Cai Shuyi.
Facing the defense of two people, Tongku was not afraid at all. He used the strength of his upper body and feet to change the rhythm, tricking An Shuyi into intercepting the ball first, and then he used the outside of his right foot to gently move the football to the side.
Throw! Immediately after, the left foot throws the football out again, running diagonally towards the bottom line!
Fortunately, Chen Xingyi's starting speed was fast enough. When he saw Cai Shuyi being shaken, he immediately rushed forward and forced Akua. Finally, he chased back near the baseline, and then stretched out his foot to block Akua's cross.
The bottom line was reached. "Damn, it's so dangerous!" Yan Yan let out a sigh of relief in front of the projection screen.
"The individual combat ability of Nigerian players is really strong. Just like this one on two, they can also create a corner kick..." "My condition is to be a member. In some classes that reflect like this, as long as we see us raising a letter
People, "It's just floating away." Yan Yan said.
Tang Xiuyuan looked at her boyfriend again, and Chu Yifan nodded: "Well. Basically, the failure in the World Cup, if there is not a huge gap in strength, the loss is probably due to the wrong mentality. Nigeria should
After the draw with Italy in the first game, and then watching us defeat Spain 3:0, I felt that the defending champions were nothing more than that. In the last game, they launched a fierce attack from the beginning, unlike now, they just counterattack honestly..."
After Nigeria's corner kick was taken, their center back Kennedy Omero grabbed the point, but the ball flew high over the crossbar. The referee gave a goal kick.
After the goal was continuously threatened by Nigeria's counterattacks, Jorge Dillon made adjustments. He asked the Chinese team to slow down the tempo, and Chen Xingyi and Cui Zexu were withdrawn as full-backs. They slowly dealt with Nigeria. Nigeria
Want to fight back? Then don't let them fight back.
Anyway, now that the Chinese team is one goal ahead, there is much more room for tactical maneuver. If Nigeria is not in a hurry, then the Chinese team is not in a hurry either. At least in the first half, there is no rush.
After Chen Xingyi and Cui Zexu took their positions, the Chinese team's overall formation also reverted. The pace slowed down significantly.
The game has become less exciting and exciting than the first ten minutes. But the Chinese fans don’t care. In the face of victory, it doesn’t matter whether the game is good or not!
As long as they can qualify from the group, it doesn't matter even if the "10-0-0 method" is used in the end and the scene is extremely embarrassing. After the Chinese team shrunk their formation and slowed down the pace, Nigeria did not immediately press forward to attack.
Head coach Ebubeliya Oladebo fears this is
The Chinese team "lured the enemy deep", so he did not make adjustments, but continued to let the team play defensive counterattack. During this period, the pace of the game between the two teams slowed down, and the football was mostly spinning back and forth in the midfield.
It was difficult to threaten each other's goal, and the game was not good to watch. This stalemate lasted until the 30th minute.
There are still fifteen minutes left before the end of the first half. Juzilia has no way to continue to defend and counterattack. They want to use this time to strengthen their offensive and see if they can score a goal. If they can equalize the score in the first half,
That couldn't be better.
Seeing this scene, Dillon laughed a little. He covered his mouth with his hand and said to Jin Tao: "Look, they really can't wait any longer." After that, he got up from his seat and walked to the sidelines. Although he didn't
Talk, but the Chinese team players all know what it means. Always pay attention to counterattack opportunities!
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"After Nigeria's offensive started, the Chinese team's defensive pressure was a bit heavy. But this is also a good time for the Chinese team to counterattack. As long as we can tighten the fence, we can find opportunities to counterattack long ago to face the Chinese team's stubborn defense. Nigeria's
Unable to counterattack, they could only attack with force.
As Nigeria's center in this game, Zaide Okuye had to hold the ball in the Chinese team's penalty area in order to create opportunities for his teammates. However, this time he picked up the ball slightly to the left of the penalty area and was immediately blocked.
Two Chinese players made a head-on interception. Cui Zexu and Liu Yan blocked Okuye head-on. Seeing that there was no way to pose a threat, Okuye planned to turn around and protect the ball.
But just as he turned around, the third Chinese player, midfielder Ou Yangjin, appeared in front of him, stretched out his foot and poked the football away from his feet! The football was poked to Liu Yan's side, and he quickly pushed it away.
The football was passed forward to Xia Xiaozi, who was retreating to receive the ball. Xia Xiaoyu turned around and took the ball forward. He saw Zhou Zijing pulling to the right in the frontcourt, while Hu Cai pulled to the left. They pulled one to the left and the other to the right, pulling the two Nigerians
All the central defenders have been moved to the wings. As a result, there is a huge gap in the middle!
But Xia Xiaoyu did not pass the football directly to the center. There was space there, but the problem was that there were no Chinese players there... He passed the football to Zhou Zijing who was on the sidelines.
Just as he was passing the ball, Chen Xingyi, who was originally supposed to be on the left, had moved to the middle and was moving forward into the space!
Because he was passing the ball while moving quickly, Xia Xiaoyu's pass was not very accurate. He passed the ball behind Zhou Zijing. So Zhou Zijing could only turn his back to the offensive direction and palm the ball. When he caught the ball, Chen Xingyi
Start accelerating!
Because Zhou Zijing was facing the Chinese team's half, he saw Chen Xingyi's forward penetration. So he did not try to turn around and dribble the ball, but instead directly knocked the football horizontally into the center space behind him with his left foot.
Seeing the football being passed to Chen Xingyi, Nigerian center back Kennedy Omero, who was originally defending Hule on the right, immediately turned around and pounced on Chen Xingyi.
As for the other Nigerian player who was originally chasing behind Chen Xingyi, when he saw Omero coming to guard Chen Xingyi, he slowed down and gave up his position. He really couldn't catch up... He came from China.
The team's penalty area chased him all the way to his own penalty area, sprinting at a high speed of dozens of meters. He was not a speed player, so he was really terrible. Chen Xingyi caught up with the football and strode forward to get the ball.
When he took the second step, Omero finally came up and reached out to interfere with Chen Xingyi. At this time, Chen Xingyi just ran to the line of the penalty area.
Faced with Omero's interference, he neither chose to continue dribbling nor shot. Instead, he used his right foot to distribute the football horizontally to the left! There, the completely unguarded Hu Lai faced the rolling football and stretched his bow.
He nocked an arrow, used his left foot as support, and spread his right leg! "Hulai!!"
Goalkeeper Artuloma attacked and pressed to the line of the small penalty area to block Hulay's shooting angle. He thought Hulay would hit the far corner - most forwards would do this. But Hulay kicked a near corner! Hurry!
He quickly got down to the ground and used his hands to block the football. He did touch it, but nothing changed...
The football rushed away from his fingers, rolled past his feet, and finally hit the inside of the near post and bounced into the net!
"Good goal!! Hu Lai scored again!! He is the best in this tournament
Scored twice in the World Cup! His form is really hot! Four goals, ranking first in the World Cup scorer list! "The Chinese team leads Nigeria 2:0! We have the upper hand in qualifying for the group!"
In fact, the Chinese team only needs to draw with Nigeria in this game to qualify. Because no matter what the result of the game between Spain and Italy is, it will not have a big impact on the Chinese team.
When the Chinese team tied, Italy won, and they ranked first in the group with seven points. Spain scored three points, which was not as good as the Chinese team with four points. Italy lost, and Spain ranked first in the group with six points. The Chinese team and Italy
They both scored four points, but the Chinese team had the advantage on goal difference.
Italy and Spain tied. Italy qualified first in the group with five points. The Chinese team and Spain both had four points. With a superior goal difference, they qualified second in the group. So Hu Cai's two goals were equal to the Chinese team.
The situation of qualifying for the group is double insurance. Even if Nigeria chases two goals in a row and equalizes the score, the Chinese team can still qualify with the goal difference.
How difficult is it for Nigeria to chase two goals in a row?
