After conceding the goal, Burkina Faso became the more aggressive side after the game restarted.
Because they are fighting for their own survival and must attack.
But this does not mean that the Chinese team was suppressed.
This situation may also be intentional by the Chinese team - they shrink back to make more space, so that Burkina Faso can press forward as a whole and attack, and the Chinese team can get more openings.
The pressing Burkina Faso was completely different from the team that drove the bus in the first half.
They are simpler and more direct in their attack and will not make any complicated passes in the midfield.
Not even more than five consecutive passes.
When you get the ball in the backcourt, you just drive forward, relying on the individual abilities of the offensive players to go head-to-head with the Chinese team's defensive system.
"The bodies of these black children are so demanding..."
Xie Lan sighed after seeing Salomon use his physical advantage to knock Ou Yangjin away and grab the spot.
Ou Yangjin, who is 1.85 meters tall, is not considered a thin player in the Chinese team. After experiencing the European competition, his core strength is very good.
However, he still suffered a loss in the confrontation with Salomon.
"They are going to fight tooth and nail," Hu Lixin said.
Although one goal behind, if Burkina Faso can equalize the score, the game will still return to the "right track" that Lenormand hopes.
At that time, Burkina Faso will definitely shrink its defense, rearrange its buses, and try to drag the game to a penalty shootout.
The team that equalizes the score has high morale, which can offset the negative impact of psychological pressure.
However, whether it was Hu Lixin or Xie Lan who were talking, their moods were actually very peaceful.
It was not as nervous as when the Chinese team besieged Burkina Faso's goal in the first half.
After all, no matter how fierce Burkina Faso's offensive is, it is finally a normal game now, rather than the extreme situation in the first half where the Chinese team blasted fifteen shots and Burkina Faso didn't even have a shot.
Condition.
What is a normal game?
That is, both sides come and go, and both sides have opportunities to score.
Since everyone has a chance to score, let’s see who has the better ability to seize the opportunity...
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Salomon knocked away Ou Yangjin, grabbed the spot, and passed the football to O'Connell who was advancing forward.
After offensive midfielder O'Connell received the ball, he did not go deeper.
Because the Chinese team's defense is still very intact.
If he continues to develop into the Chinese team's penalty area, he may lose the ball and cause the offense to fail.
Burkina Faso is now not qualified to organize attacks slowly outside the Chinese team's penalty area.
The core idea is "shoot first no matter what".
Only by shooting can you have the possibility of scoring a goal.
Although you may not score a goal if you shoot, you definitely won't score if you don't shoot.
So shoot first!
Especially long shots.
Maybe someone's body might be bumped into during the flight, and the refraction would change its direction, and it would accidentally fly into the goal?
No matter what, it would be better to get a corner kick.
The set piece in the frontcourt is an important scoring method for weak teams.
O'Connell took a long shot this time!
The football rushed towards the goal against the turf.
The quality of this shot is quite high, because a shot that touches the turf is the most difficult for a goalkeeper to save.
Especially for goalkeepers who are tall, they tend to get off the ground slowly.
Lin Zhiyuan fell to the ground and threw himself on his side. He pushed the football that was rolling towards the left goal post with one palm, and the football spun and flew out of the baseline.
Burkina Faso did receive a corner kick.
But they didn't take advantage of this corner kick to score.
After the ball was kicked out, the Chinese team captain Wang Guangwei pushed the ball out first.
Next, the Chinese team took this opportunity to launch an attack.
In the end, when Chen Xingyi tried to dribble the ball into the penalty area, he was blocked by a Burkina Faso player.
The Chinese team did not organize a counterattack on the spot, but let Burkina Faso attack and they defended.
They did not counterattack on the spot because they were afraid of disrupting their defensive formation and giving Burkina Faso an opportunity to counterattack.
Anyway, the Chinese team is one goal ahead now, so they don't need to be so anxious when attacking.
It is Burkina Faso that should be anxious, and as long as they are anxious, flaws will definitely be revealed.
Burkina Faso advances again.
It is also a simple and crude long pass.
However, this time Salomon did not rely on his physical advantage to grab the first spot.
Wang Guangwei suppressed him, rushed to the landing point first, and then took off first. Finally, he completed the top fight over Salomon before he had time to take off, and pushed the football back.
Xia Xiaoyu, who retreated, controlled the second shot, and the Chinese team turned to attack again and passed the half.
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Taking advantage of the dead ball, Burkina Faso's captain Julian Salomon, a forward who plays for Monaco City in Ligue 1, loudly encouraged the morale of his teammates.
Because he has discovered that as the game progresses, the morale of his teammates is getting lower and lower.
After all, this is a true "away game" for them.
Every time a Chinese team player takes the ball, they will receive thunderous cheers from the stands.
This has also put tremendous psychological pressure on the Burkina Faso players.
At this time, as the captain of the team, Salomon must stand up.
In addition to using words to boost the team's morale, what he should actually do is use goals to boost morale.
Burkina Faso scored one goal in the first three games of this World Cup, which was the goal against South Korea in the final group stage.
And that goal was scored by the team's "number one star" Julian Salomon.
After he scored a goal, he became the target of crazy attacks by Korean players. In the end, his eye socket was bleeding after being kicked out...
At the critical moment when Burkina Faso qualified for the group stage, he became the hero of the entire country, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he was the hero of the entire African football - after all, only one team from Burkina Faso broke into African football in the end.
The top sixteen.
Now African football also needs him to stand up and act as a hero.
Just like against the South Korean team, only one ball is needed... only one ball is needed for Burkina Faso to equalize the score!
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Because the score was behind, Burkina Faso had no way to patiently and meticulously organize the offense when it controlled the ball in the frontcourt.
They often use simple and direct through balls to hit the Chinese team behind, trying to create one-on-one opportunities.
For example, this time, when facing the Chinese team's complete defense, O'Connell chose to pass the ball over the top.
At the same time, Julian Salomon quickly moved forward and got through the gap between the Chinese team's center back Wang Guangwei and left back Peng Weijun!
But just when he retracted his gaze and looked forward following the football, he suddenly realized that a black shadow had jumped in front of him!
"Lin Zhiyuan!"
"This ball hits... it's really far!"
to the exclamations of the commentators.
Lin Zhiyuan has almost rushed to the edge of the penalty area!
The moment O'Connell started to pass the ball, he had already guessed the opponent's intention, decisively abandoned the goal and rushed towards the landing point of the football.
So when Salomon thought he could get a one-on-one chance, in fact, the chance was gone...
Next, Lin Zhiyuan only needs to clear the football from the sideline, and Burkina Faso's attack is over again.
but……
After Lin Zhiyuan jumped up to face the football, he did not kick the football out of the sideline with his feet. Instead, he stretched out his hand to push the flying football forward and out of the penalty area!
But he doesn’t want to come to the rescue either!
This action left many people scratching their heads and gave them a very bad premonition.
Some fast-thinking Chinese fans immediately thought of Lin Zhiyuan's damn attack mistake in the 2026 US-Canada World Cup qualifying play-offs...
Will he do it again?
Why does everyone think so?
Because the goalkeeper cannot touch the ball with his hands when he leaves the penalty area, and Lin Zhiyuan now holds the football out of the penalty area, and he also rushes out. He cannot touch the ball with his hands, and at the same time, there is still a huge empty goal behind him.
If something goes wrong and Burkina Faso regains possession of the ball, wouldn't it be an opportunity to hit an empty goal?!
That's what Julian Salomon thinks.
After seeing Lin Zhiyuan attack, he had already slowed down.
Then when he saw Lin Zhiyuan holding the football out of the penalty area, he quickly stopped and turned around, trying to regain the ball.
Apparently he also knew this was his chance!
There were sporadic screams among the cheers that sounded in the stands just now.
Lin Zhiyuan looked up and saw the situation in front of him, opened his arms to block Salomon behind him, and then directly kicked the football forward with his big foot!
The broadcast camera moved along with the flight of the football, and a figure appeared on the edge of Burkina Faso's penalty area!
"mess--!
!”
"Chance!
"
He Feng and Li Qingqing each yelled.
Although many people didn't understand what happened, why Lin Zhiyuan took a big kick and appeared outside the penalty area of Burkina Faso, but this did not prevent them from cheering!
Xuanwu Sports Center burst into cheers!
The football fell to the ground in front of Hu Lai.
Burkina Faso goalkeeper Yaya Traore gave up the goal.
Hu Lai raised his right leg and stopped the football with the inside of his foot.
Traore lowered his center of gravity and slid towards Hu Lai, while opening his arms to increase his defensive area.
Hu Lai swung his left leg normally, and then when he was about to touch the football, he pulled his left ankle inward and the outer instep hit the football!
Traore knelt on one knee and stretched out his left leg in an attempt to intercept.
The football spun violently across the front of his left foot, plowing a very obvious arc in the turf of Burkina Faso's penalty area!
Then it rolled into the goal!
“HUUUUUUUUUU!
One hit will kill! Hu!
He almost ended all the hopes of Burkina Faso! He personally extinguished the 'Light of Africa'! In the 67th minute of the game, the Chinese team led Burkina Faso 2:0!"
"Wow!
The ball went in!
Beautiful! Hu! This is his fifth goal in this World Cup and the eighteenth World Cup goal in his career! With this goal, he tied Caesar's World Cup total goal record! He
It only took three World Cups! And...this goal was assisted by the Chinese team’s goalkeeper Lin!”
"He's messing around! He's messing around! It's amazing! He has scored in seven consecutive World Cup games! The eighteenth World Cup goal in his career! He continues to write his own legend! He is the 'goal'!"
Li Qingqing doesn't have the eloquent tongue of those commentators, and she can't speak long and wonderful sentences. She can only shout excitedly:
"Well done, Hu Lai! Well done! This ball is so crucial! You are the best!"
But such a simple sentence is better than the thousands of words that other commentators racked their brains to come up with, because she said that her lover is the best!
