At the VIP table, Jorge Dillon raised his wrist to look at his watch, and then said.
"The Chinese team hasn't even had a shot. This is abnormal."
After listening to Su Liwen's translation, Zhao Kangming explained: "Argentina's aggressive high-position pressure and frontcourt press at the beginning was really unexpected..."
After Su Liwen's translation and narration, Dillon shook his head and chirped.
Everyone looked at Su Liwen and asked, "What did Mr. Dillon say?"
"He said there was something wrong with the mentality of the Chinese team's players. He didn't know whether they were too nervous or too excited... In short, their performance was not like before," Su Liwen said.
Wang Xiaojun said with emotion: "This is the World Cup final after all. If they still behave as normal as before, I would think they are abnormal..."
Others nodded in agreement. From the perspective of "family members", they could not criticize the national team too much. After all, these young men have already created the history of Chinese football. If they still criticize their nervousness after the start, is it right?
A little unkind?
Of course, they didn't complain that Dillon's demands were too high. After all, they were just talking about the situation and could not fully understand the complex mentality of Chinese footballers.
After listening to Su Liwen's translation, Dillon nodded and did not say anything more, but continued to watch the game.
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In the 13th minute, the Chinese team advanced the attack within 30 meters of Argentina.
Chen Xingyi picked up the ball in the corner of the penalty area. Argentina's right back Pablo Osqui and defensive midfielder Dino Sosa stood side by side in front of him, like two goalkeepers, blocking Chen Xingyi.
Xingyi’s path to breakthrough.
Although Chen Xingyi has not scored a goal in this World Cup so far, Argentina does not dare to underestimate this Manchester Athletic main winger at all - Chen Xingyi, who has not scored a goal in this World Cup, can give away
Three assists.
Facing the Argentinian player who had already occupied a favorable position, Chen Xingyi raised his right leg, swayed it in a circle on the football, making a gesture to get down, and then suddenly moved the football to the right with the outside instep of his right foot, as if to move inside.
cut.
This made Dino Sosa react and follow him out.
But Chen Xingyi just passed the football to defensive midfielder Ou Yangjin who came up from behind, and then changed his direction and made a diagonal pass into the penalty area.
After receiving the ball, Ou Yangjin quickly sent a through ball, trying to hit a wall with Chen Xingyi.
However, their intentions have been seen through by Argentina's right back Osqui.
When Chen Xingyi thrust forward, he quickly turned around and ran back, always blocking Chen Xingyi in front of him.
In the end, Ou Yangjin's through ball was passed to the attacking Argentine goalkeeper Mariano Penalva.
Chen Xingyi was blocked by Osqui and failed to touch the ball.
"The Chinese team tried to use this kind of ground cooperation to push the football into Argentina's penalty area, but the effect was not good. Argentina's defense was very strict..."
"This kind of cooperation is actually too simple, and the intention is obvious. Ou Yangjin is a little anxious. If he does not choose to pass on Chen Xingyi, but transfers it to other places, the effect may be better." Li Qingqing analyzed from her experience and perspective
road.
In her opinion, Ou Yangjin is a defensive midfielder after all, so asking him to organize the offense is indeed a bit difficult.
But at that time, Xia Xiaoyu was already being watched by Argentine midfielder Matias de la Vega, or he was holding de la Vega in check. This gap could only be used by Ou Yangjin.
It can only be said that the Chinese team will face such a problem when they decide to play 352 but do not let Zhang Qinghuan start.
In the previous 352, Zhang Qinghuan was in front and Xia Xiaoyu was in the midfielder position. Ou Yangjin's job just now should have been Xia Xiaoyu's. If Xia Xiaoyu handled the ball, the final result should be better than Ou Yangjin's.
But there is no way, who makes Zhang Qinghuan's physical condition not enough to support him in the starting lineup?
Li Qingqing and He Feng discussed this issue when the starting list was announced, and there was no sign before the game that Zhang Qinghuan would start.
So this is also a very helpless situation.
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The Chinese team's offense failed to threaten Argentina's goal, and Argentina continued to use frontcourt pressure to put pressure on the Chinese team.
In the seventeenth minute, the ball was at the feet of the Chinese team. Qin Qi took the ball in the backcourt and passed it to Shi Wanqing, who was retreating to receive the ball.
At the same time as he passed the ball, De La Vega rushed towards Shi Wanqing at a sprint speed of 100 meters.
Shi Wanqing just stopped the ball without passing the ball immediately, and was approached from behind by de la Vega.
Seeing this, Shi Wanqing took the football back and waited for Luo Kai on the wing to come up and respond.
After seeing Luo Kai retreat, he passed the football forward.
But as soon as his pass went out, it hit de la Vega's foot.
It rebounded towards the feet of Melli, who had moved to the center.
Argentinian fans cheered loudly in the stands, cheering for Melli.
"Argentina steals in the frontcourt! Danger!"
"here we go again!"
After taking the ball, Melli broke through the middle and took all the Chinese team's defensive attention. He suddenly moved east and west and passed the ball to the right rib, where Ramon Cantero was on the sidelines!
When Cai Shuyi saw Cantero receiving the ball, he did not immediately rush to steal the ball. Instead, he put his hands behind his back and stuck them inside, forcing Cantero to the outside.
As a central defender, he still focuses on stability, fearing that because of his own mistakes, he will give Argentina a chance to score - Farias's breakthrough just now, although it was Qin Qi, also left Cai Shuyi on the other side.
I am deeply impressed. I will be more cautious when defending and will never take any shots casually.
Cantero saw that Cai Shuyi's defense was very cautious and there were no obvious loopholes. He did not force a breakthrough and cut inside. Instead, he passed the football back and hit the middle of the penalty area with an inverted triangle pass!
After Melli passed the ball, he ran towards the middle of the penalty area and caught the ball at this time.
But he didn't catch it because Ou Yangjin's close defense and interference with him caused him to miss the best opportunity to catch the ball during the hand-to-hand fight with Ou Yangjin.
Although he barely stretched out his foot to reach the ball, he didn't touch anything. The football was missed by him!
When they saw the football being passed to Melli, the Chinese fans in the stands screamed.
Now that Mellie has caught the ball, they breathe a sigh of relief.
But the tone is not over yet!
Because right behind Melly, Farias appeared in the flight path of the football after crossing over!
"Farias——!"
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Farias did not stay in his left rib position just because Melli intervened in the middle.
He still actively moved closer to the center.
At Madrid Pirates, he learned a forward's sense of smell from Hulay - it would be fine if Melli hit the ball, but what if Melli didn't hit it? Should I appear in the space behind him?
Hu Lai had many situations like this in the game. Even though the ball was not passed to him, he was still able to appear at the spot where the football landed and complete the shot. In fact, it was because he regarded other people's opportunities as his own.
So when he saw Melli moving forward into the middle, Farias immediately changed his direction and moved towards the middle.
He doesn't mind running in vain, but if the opportunity comes to him, then he is ready!
Cantero passed the football to the center. Farias' eyes were fixed on the football. He saw Melli reaching for the ball, but due to Ou Yangjin's personal interference, he did not touch the ball!
His eyes widened suddenly!
The ball is coming!
Mellie's chance became his chance!
Because of Melli's forward penetration, the Chinese team's back line has been pushed to the small penalty area line. As for the Chinese team's forward line, Ou Yangjin followed Melli and Shi Wanqing was taken away by de la Vega who advanced.
Xia Xiaoyu is the Chinese team player closest to Farias, and he is still a few meters away...
Even though he rushed back quickly when he saw Mellie catching the ball, it was still a step too late!
Farias faced the football rolling at high speed with almost no one marking him and swung his right foot!
Qin Qi rushed towards Farias and flew to tackle him, blocking his shot!
At the same time, Xia Xiaoyu stretched his arm to Farias's shoulder, trying to hold him.
But his hands are not that long...
When Farias shot, he did not put all his power into this kick, but tried to control the power and pursued angle rather than speed!
The football was rubbed by the inside of his foot and spun violently towards the back corner of the goal!
Melly, who missed the chance to shoot, looked back and saw the football leaving Farias's feet, making an arc and flying past him!
Wang Guangwei, who was intercepting him directly in front, tilted his body, reached over, and tried to destroy the football with his head.
But his efforts were in vain...
Lin Zhiyuan jumped into the air, stretched out his hand and pounced sideways!
Even though I stretched my arms to the limit in the air, I didn't touch the ball!
He watched with wide eyes as the football circled around his fingertips, looped around the back post, and then... flew into the goal!
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"Ahhhhhh!!" When the Argentine commentator saw the side netting of the Chinese team's goal suddenly fluttering and rolling up, he knew the result of this shot. He screamed loudly first, then took a deep breath and hissed:
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! Farias! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! Farias!! Nestor Farias! A beautiful shot! He opened the scoring and gave Argentina the lead! Argentina 1:
0 ahead of the hosts!”
In addition to him, commentators from other neutral countries also cheered for this goal:
"Farias!! Farias, who is only 20 years old, scored his first goal in the World Cup final! This genius boy from Madrid Pirates proved his talent with this goal!
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"This is his third goal in this World Cup! Considering this is only the first World Cup he has participated in, his future is limitless!"
"Farias' shot was very decisive, and the most important thing is that when faced with such an opportunity, he controlled his power and did not shoot too high! For a 20-year-old young man who participated in the World Cup final for the first time, this is really amazing
It’s not easy! Despite his young age, Farias is as calm as a battle-hardened veteran!”
He was indeed calm when shooting, but when celebrating, Farias was still as excited as a child.
After completing the shot, he opened his arms and ran towards the corner flag.
He ran past Melli without even thinking of pulling the team captain up.
It was Dino Sosa who came up and pulled Melly up, and then went after Farias with him.
The latter has been surrounded by more Argentine players.
"Well done, Nestor!"
"Beautiful! Nestor!"
"Awesome! Awesome!"
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Everyone slapped Farias' body and shouted in his ears.
At the same time, in front of the Argentina coaching bench, the coaches also rushed out to celebrate the victory.
Although the head coach Lucas Fissol was not as excited as them, he still jumped up, raised his arms and shouted.
Then he turned around and said excitedly to the rushing assistant coach Damian Pinto: "Our strategy worked!"
After deciding to press high at the beginning, Feisol was actually a little nervous.
He didn't know whether his approach would be successful.
If the Chinese team is very weak, then Argentina's pressing at the beginning is beyond reproach.
But this Chinese team is obviously not a weak host, so Argentina chose to start cautiously, and there is nothing wrong with it at all.
After the opening, it may be a better tactical choice to test each other and stalemate, and then use the Chinese team's eagerness for success in home games to counterattack the Chinese team.
But Feisol did the opposite and chose to risk high pressure.
If we play like this, if we can't score a goal in the opening game and let the Chinese team withstand the offensive, they can then counterattack with Argentina... With Hulay's ability to seize opportunities, Argentina may be self-defeating.
Feisol chose to risk everything and gamble.
He won the bet!
The Chinese team was obviously ill-prepared for Argentina's high-position press after the opening game and seemed very uncomfortable.
Perhaps the head coach of the Chinese team didn't expect that the powerful Argentina would go into danger?
After all, the finals have been unnamed since ancient times. It is normal practice to pursue safety and insurance.
But having decided to score goals against the Chinese team in the final, Feisol had no intention of playing the final in a normal way!
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"The Chinese team's defense against Melly was very strict! But defending Melly involved too much of their energy, which made them miss Farias at the critical moment! It is said that when he was in the club, Farias took advantage of Hu
I have benefited a lot, I wonder if Hu regrets his help to Farias now?"
Seeing Farias' goal, huge disappointment emerged from the hearts of many Chinese team players and hit their hearts uncontrollably.
Before the game, they fully estimated the difficulty of the game and expected to concede a goal.
But when the goal really came, everyone still couldn't deal with it calmly.
The same goes for Hu Lai.
He bit his lower lip tightly and turned his attention to his own goal.
After Lin Zhiyuan completed the save, he lay on the ground and did not get up.
The football is in the goal behind him.
There was no luck, the goal did go in...
Regarding the question of the neutral commentator, Hu Lai actually never thought about it at all - how could he think so far ahead at this time?
Hu Lai just stood on the court biting his lip. His performance after losing the ball was pretty good.
Shi Wanqing simply put his head in his hands and lay down on the turf.
He was in so much pain because the ball he lost was due to his mistake - he was waiting for Luo Kai, but in fact, Luo Kai hadn't fully reached the receiving position and he passed the ball... Due to the angle of the pass, he was in so much pain.
Not enough, and he had to risk letting the ball pass through De La Vega's defense.
The reason why he was rushing to pass the ball was because he was worried that the ball would be broken under his feet under the pressure of de la Vega, so he wanted to pass the ball out as soon as possible so that he would not have to take responsibility...
Unexpectedly, it was his passing error that led to the final loss of the ball.
He is the culprit of this goal loss!
Twenty-four-year-old Shi Wanqing was originally positioned as Ou Yangjin's substitute in this Chinese team.
But because Yuan Da was injured, the Chinese team changed to 352 in the final, and because Zhang Qinghuan's body could not recover enough to start, he was pushed from a substitute to the starting lineup.
This is the first game in the World Cup final!
Shi Wanqing didn't tell anyone, but last night he almost couldn't sleep all night, and every time he closed his eyes, he had all kinds of weird thoughts about the finals.
After the start of today's game, he also made a stopping error, which resulted in Argentina's Morello getting a shooting opportunity.
Of course, the reason why Xia Xiaoyu made a mistake in stopping the ball was that it was more difficult to stop the pass, but his own reasons were more important.
After the mistake, he always thought in his mind, would it be better if he chose to kick the ball forward instead of stopping?
Is my choice wrong?
But when he repeatedly dwells on the game that has passed, it actually means that he has lost focus...
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"Fuck! Shi Wanqing's pass... was a G8!"
"Eh? Eh? This lost ball... ugh!"
"Are our players too nervous? It feels like they haven't been in their best form since the start of the game! So far, they haven't even had a shot. Instead, Argentina is pressing them hard! It's strange that they can't concede a goal like this!"
"It's indeed the World Cup final... ugh!"
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Some people are upset and yelling at each other.
Some people put their heads in their hands and stared blankly at the venue, without any energy to speak.
Their fears ten minutes ago became reality.
At this moment, I don’t know how many people want to slap themselves in the mouth: