Although the first game of the Olympic Games was tied with the powerful Nigeria Olympic team, it made everyone pay attention to the Olympic team to a new level.
But in the next second group match, the Olympic team still lost to Belgium.
Although the players of the Olympic team performed very tenaciously in this game and fought so hard that their main midfielder Zeng Chi even got injured and was unable to continue the game.
It still failed to save the team from losing the game.
The score is 0:1.
Even if you didn't stay up late to watch the game, just from this score, you can see how tenacious the Chinese Olympic team is in resisting.
Therefore, after losing the game, no one in the domestic media criticized the Olympic team harshly. Social media was filled with various voices of praise and comfort, believing that the players of the Olympic team performed well and played with style.
They can leave the field with their heads held high.
But for the Olympic team themselves, losing this game means that their goal of qualifying for the group is almost impossible to achieve.
In the first round of the group stage, the Chinese Olympic team drew with Nigeria 2:2. At the same time, the Argentine Olympic team tied with Belgium 1:1. At this time, it is still unclear who can qualify from the group and who will be eliminated.
Home.
In the second round, the Chinese Olympic team lost to Belgium 0:1, while Argentina defeated Nigeria 1:0 and scored three points.
In this way, Belgium and Argentina in this group have one win and one draw, and they are tied with four points, ranking the top two in the group.
The Chinese Olympic team and Nigeria, a pair of close friends, both scored one point, ranking third and fourth.
In the final round of the group stage, Nigeria is going to challenge Belgium. They must win in order to have any hope of qualifying for the group - and that's just a hope.
The same is true for the Chinese team. If they want to qualify from the group, they have to defeat the Argentine Olympic team. But is it easier said than done?
You know, there is Melly Banega in the Argentina team.
Everyone in the world of football now recognizes that Melli will become one of the greatest players in football in the future. The talent he has shown now has blinded many people. Under his dazzling light, all the players of the Chinese Olympic team
, almost invisible.
What can the Chinese Olympic team do to compete with others?
Is it all about passion?
So after many people saw the Chinese team losing to Belgium, they felt that the Chinese Olympic team's Olympic journey should be over.
Unless the Chinese team defeats Nigeria in the first game, fans can still have some thoughts and hope for a draw with Argentina in the last game. It may not be impossible if the entire game is intensively defended.
Now, there is no need to think about what is and is not.
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"It's such a pity... we lost to Belgium and there is no hope of qualifying..."
"It would have been great if we could have beaten Nigeria..."
"It would be good to draw with Nigeria, but why win? I think it is actually very good to play like this. There is nothing to regret."
On the training ground, the women's football players were conducting recovery training while discussing the Olympic team game that ended last night.
They also finished their second group match yesterday, but almost no one cared about their own affairs.
After all, after winning the game yesterday, they had already obtained the right to qualify in the group ahead of schedule, so they really didn't have to worry about their own affairs.
The overall atmosphere during today's recovery training was very relaxed. Even the coaching staff did not stop the players from chatting while training.
Xu Wen, who was training back and forth with Li Qingqing, lowered her voice and said: "Qingqing, look what I said before? How can it be so easy to qualify in the group..."
Li Qingqing also sighed.
"Don't sigh. It's great that they can perform like this. Hu Lai even scored a goal in the Olympics. For the men's football team, this is a historic breakthrough."
"Not enough, Wenwen." Li Qingqing shook her head.
"Why isn't it enough?"
"This is not enough for the whole world to remember him."
Xu Wen opened her mouth wide and almost couldn't control her voice: "Are your expectations for Hu Lai too high, Qingqing? I know that he used to be your high school classmate... but think about it, he has grown from a
How many years does it take for an ordinary high school student to start contacting and learning to play football? In less than six years, he can already score goals in the Olympics. This is already a super genius, okay?"
Li Qingqing was stunned by what Xu Wen said. Her body reflexively caught the ball passed by Xu Wen, but instead of passing it directly back, she stepped on it. She recalled that she had met Hu Lai at Dongchuan Middle School.
At that time, he looked like a puppy that no one wanted, being pushed out and driven away everywhere.
At that time, even I didn't expect that he could become such a powerful character now.
At first, she just hoped that Hu Lai could successfully enter the school team through her own training.
And what he has achieved so far has indeed exceeded her expectations by far.
So she smiled at Xu Wen: "You are right, Wenwen. He is already very powerful."
I'd better comfort him on WeChat...
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In the noisy conference room, Hu Lai received a WeChat message from Li Qingqing: "Are you convenient now?"
He looked at the teammates around him and replied: "I'm with my teammates."
"Oh, forget it."
"What's wrong?"
"I originally wanted to videotape you."
"Ah, it's not convenient right now. We are waiting for a meeting. Director Shi will be here soon."
"Hmm. Actually, I just want to ask you, after losing to Belgium, what are your goals for qualifying?"
"What else can we do? Let's fight Argentina."
"But they have Merry..."
"We still have Hu Lai!"
Li Qingqing couldn't help laughing when she saw this sentence in WeChat.
"I said I was trying to comfort you, but I don't think it's necessary." She replied with a smile on her face.
"No need to comfort me, big heart. Director Shi is here."
"Okay, let's have a meeting."
After Li Qingqing sent out these words, she did not receive any reply from Hu Lai, so she also put down her phone with a slight smile on her face.
She has nothing to worry about.
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"Let's take a look at the videos of Argentina's first two games today." Shi Wuyin took the remote control of the projector and said to all the players in the conference room. "Since we have to fight against Argentina in the last game, of course we
We need to fully understand this team. Argentina is very strong, but it is not so strong that some people outside say that we are ten blocks behind us... Melly Banega is the strongest player in their team, but they only have
There is a Meli Banega, and the gap between the others and Meli is also very large. Overall, they are not as terrible as the outside publicity. This can be seen from their 1:1 draw with Belgium.
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As he spoke, he pressed the remote control and showed everyone the video of the match between the Argentina and Belgium Olympic teams.
"We have already played against Belgium, and you should have a very intuitive understanding of the abilities of Belgian players. So the match between Belgium and Argentina should give us some inspiration."
The conference room fell silent, and everyone was staring intently at the game screen on the projection screen.
This is a collection that has been re-edited by the coaching staff, eliminating a lot of useless information and allowing players to focus on what the coaches want them to see.
"...Generally when facing Melli, the defensive side will be faced with a dilemma - either send more manpower to defend Melli, but then other areas will be empty of troops, allowing Argentina to find an opening. This is how Belgium conceded the goal.
Either. Or keep the defense intact, but there is no way to use more people to restrict Melli. In this way, Melli, who has excellent personal ability, cannot be guarded..."
In the video, Melli suddenly dribbled the ball from the left wing and cut inside. With his excellent starting speed, he instantly got rid of the Belgian player who was guarding him, and then dribbled the ball diagonally into the center of the Belgian center.
Then facing the Belgian center back Armaniaz Jacob who was attacking, he only used his left foot to gently push the football, avoiding Jacob's foot that stretched out to steal the ball, forming a breakthrough.
This Armaniaz Jacob, the Chinese Olympic team just competed with him in a game. He has tough defense and outstanding ability. He caused a lot of trouble for the Chinese team's forward line during the game.
But in the video, he was passed over so easily when faced with Melly's attack...
Someone in the conference room couldn't help but exclaimed.
Mellie Banega, recognized as the best among young people in the world, is indeed amazing.
He is not tall and definitely not fast, but his feet are very fast, which allows him to always strike first and react before his opponent makes a move.
Therefore, it is often very simple to push and buckle him to get past his opponent.
The players he passed still don't understand how they were passed.
In the video, after Melly passed Jacob, he tore a hole in the Belgian defense. After attracting the Belgian defenders, he passed the football to his teammates in the space, and his teammates scored.
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"So when we are defending Melli, we should not just focus on him, otherwise it will be like the ball lost in Belgium. We have to shrink, like a palm, spread out, fingers and fingers
There are gaps all over.”
Shi Wuyin raised his right hand, spread out his fingers, and showed it to the team members.
"These gaps will be exploited by Melli and the Argentine team. But if we shrink and make a fist... where are the gaps?" Shi Wuyin clenched his palms into a fist, "When we defend, we have to clench it like a fist.
Shrink the defense and don't give them too many openings in key places... If we lose the ball in the midfield or frontcourt, the person who lost the ball must counterattack as soon as possible. But remember that the main purpose of counterattacking is not to intercept the ball.
The goal is to delay the opponent's offensive progress. If you can entangle the opponent and prevent them from passing the ball forward, it will be considered a successful counterattack. Others must return to defense at full speed and fall into their own positions.
...You can let them go to the side as appropriate, but the center must be guarded..."
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"Let's watch the opponent's video for the next game."
Roderich Rosas, head coach of the Argentine Olympic team, is also watching videos of the Chinese team to his players.
However, the players of the Argentine Olympic team sitting below were not too concerned. Some people were still whispering: "Isn't the old man taking it too seriously? Do you still need to care so much when playing against the Chinese team?"
"They can't even beat Belgium, how can they beat us?"
Although Rosas couldn't hear the players' whispers clearly, he could tell what they were thinking from their casual faces.
This made him a little annoyed.
So he killed Merry Banega: "Merry!"
Melly stood up with a confused look on his face. He was not whispering about it. He didn't know why the head coach asked for his name.
"Can you score five goals in less than nine minutes?" Rosas asked.
Melly shook his head: "I haven't done that, Mr. Rosas."
"Very well, you can sit down, Melly." Rosas was quite pleasant to Melly.
After Melli sat down, he turned to the other players and immediately changed his face: "What even Melli couldn't do, there was one person in the Chinese team who did it! It was their main forward, No. 14, Hu!
This is our opponent in the next game! What qualifications do you have to look down on others here?!"
Everyone was stunned by the scolding by the head coach, and they didn't dare to take a breath. Some people who had been sitting in improper postures also adjusted their sitting postures under the direct gaze of the head coach and sat in their seats honestly.
"Because Belgium beat China, do you think we can definitely win? Let me tell you, that's not necessarily the case! If you still play like this, you may not be able to win! Everyone must give
I value this game! Watch the video now!"
He pressed the play button, and after a brief black screen, Hu Lai's figure appeared on the TV screen.
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"Argentina is very strong, but they also have their own problems. On the one hand, they rely too much on Melli in their offense. Many times their offensive system is like Melli tearing apart the opponent's defense by himself, and then passing the ball to other players.
People. The other aspect is their defense." Shi Wuyin continued talking about the game video.
"Argentina plays a 343 formation. If the wingers cannot return to defense in time, the three center backs have to be spread out to cover the entire back line. Even with the help of midfielders, there is still an opportunity. In addition, their left center
Defender Santiago Sweeney is the weak link in their defense. This person's playing style is a bit rough and he will make some mistakes that he shouldn't make. So we have to constantly put pressure on him during the game and force him to make mistakes.
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Shi Wuyin paused the game, pointed at the Argentine No. 3 player on the projection screen and said.
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"Sweeney, you have to keep a cool head during the game!" Rosas poked his temple with his finger and said loudly to Santiago Sweeney. "Protect the area where you are, don't
Give the other party a chance!"
"Don't worry, sir. I promise I won't make a mistake!" Santiago Sweeney, who was named, looked a little unnatural, but he still stood up and answered the head coach loudly.
After he sat down, the teammates around him winked at him, which made him feel very unhappy.
But in front of the head coach, he couldn't say anything and could only stare back fiercely.
On the stage, head coach Rosas was still saying: "I emphasize again, don't underestimate the enemy. The Chinese team's draw with Nigeria is not based on luck. If you underestimate your opponent, you will pay the price!"
