From the beginning of the first half, the two sides used completely different styles, causing the game to enter a strange rhythm.

If there is no ideological bias involved, then the game between China and Brazil is two temperatures, two colors, two different worlds.

The Chinese team's defense is very targeted on the defensive end. They effectively control the frontal battlefield meters in front of the goal, but the price is that the Brazilians can do whatever they want on the wing, and their butts will keep getting cold when the Brazilians press hard.

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But there are losses as well as gains. It becomes very difficult for the Brazilians to attack from the center and enter the frontal battlefield. The closer they get to the goal, the greater the defensive resistance they encounter. If they are not careful, they will be cut apart and fall into the trap set by the Chinese team.

into the trap.

So far, Brazilian players can only rely on their personal abilities to penetrate the penalty areas on both sides. Even the Brazilians, who are good at small-scale cooperation, feel that the penetration is seamless.

However, the Brazilians usually attack this area, which is enough to pose a great threat to the defender.

But today, no matter whether Brazil's wide players cut in and shoot, cross into the penalty area, or cross the ball, Lin Yaodong will always become a wall that is difficult for them to bypass, and he can always use his personal performance to eliminate the danger in the end.

A line of defense.

Halfway through the first half, Lin Yaodong had already made three wonderful and effective saves in front of the goal and resolved several passes that invaded the penalty area.

This performance can be described as glorious, but the Chinese team's defenders and midfielders are not without credit. They successfully blocked the threat from the front, allowing Lin Yaodong to only focus on the attack from a 45-degree direction.

This kind of trade-off limited the loopholes that the Brazilians could take advantage of, or it could be said that this was an opportunity deliberately left by the Chinese team.

Under the premise that the opponent's options were limited, Lin Yaodong used his abilities to the fullest today. He seemed to be in a state where one man was in charge and no one could open the door.

Naturally, this kind of defense has attracted some weird comments from commentators from various countries, but that's alright. Their performance on the offensive end is the black spot that Western commentators are criticizing.

The reason is simple, they played too ugly on the offensive end!

As soon as the Chinese team gets the ball today, it is a horizontal transfer without any aggression. If it encounters resistance, it will go too far. It will immediately pass it back and pass it all the way back to the goal. In short, it is rare to see them actively pushing forward.

, it can be said that there is no enterprising spirit.

This kind of unappreciative and ugly offense makes the originally smooth rhythm become boring once the ball is transferred to the Chinese team.

The two strikers of the Chinese team also have shortcomings? I originally saw a double striker configuration? I thought the Chinese team was going to have a vigorous confrontation with the Brazilians.

But the fact is just the opposite. These two forwards are the defenders who stay in the frontcourt. As soon as the football reaches the Brazilian team's half, they will step forward to press.

The Brazilians are not afraid of this kind of pressing, because even the two central defenders in the Brazilian team have delicate passing and control skills and even good long-range shooting ability.

But two forwards with speed and confrontation? Especially the frontcourt pressure brought by the monster Wu Jie? It still makes the Brazilians afraid to tip the ball in the backcourt like the Chinese team, and of course they don't bother to do so.

As a result, the Brazilians basically attack forward when they have the ball, while the Chinese team retreats to the backcourt and makes meaningless kicks as soon as they get the ball.

After watching the game for more than 20 minutes, many neutral fans became haters of the Chinese team.

But Santana on the sidelines felt more and more uncomfortable. After experiencing the defeat in the last World Cup, he had long understood that this kind of fragmented game contained ever-changing dangers and opportunities at every moment.

His worries are not wrong. The Chinese team's "Chain Defense Version 2.0" has a killer move on the offensive end, which is to suddenly change the defensive and offensive rhythm in a fragmented game, and create a dream moment in the most difficult offense or defense!

In the 33rd minute of the first half, Socrates, who had been surrounded and cut, suddenly discovered the opening of the Chinese team on the frontal battlefield.

He didn't think much about it. He just felt that there was a flaw in the Chinese team's defense.

It's no wonder that he lacked vigilance. This kind of defense of the Chinese team was unprecedented. It was difficult to see the situation clearly in the middle of the game. Even Santana, who was always on tenterhooks on the sidelines, actually didn't see the danger coming.

But if you look at it from an overhead perspective, you can see that the Chinese players quietly formed a diamond shape around the open space, but the distance between each other is a bit far.

Socrates was not vigilant enough, and the Chinese team's defense did not focus on taking the initiative to double-team and steal the ball. As long as the Brazilians did not invade the frontal battlefield, the Chinese team would not take the initiative and use layers of contraction and

Cutting, like a slowly closing net, forces the opponent to complete the attack before encirclement.

But this time the Chinese team not only laid a trap, but their defensive rhythm and defensive aggressiveness also suddenly accelerated and strengthened.

When Yorginho passed the ball to Socrates, the four players ambushed by the Chinese team instantly completed the contraction from four directions.

Socrates was surrounded in the blink of an eye, but as a experienced veteran, he did not panic, but quickly found the ball point.

But after quickly looking around, he couldn't find any point where he could release the ball?

This is very fatal. Socrates has always been known for his creativity and imagination in passing, but this time the Chinese team's diamond-shaped cutting not only had no dead ends, but after the entire defense zone was quickly compressed, even the surrounding points where the ball was released were blocked.

and blocked it.

The Brazilian players also discovered that Socrates was trapped in a tight siege and hurriedly moved to respond, but it was obviously too late.

Socrates remained calm despite being in a desperate situation. He knew that if he rushed the ball now, it would be easy for the Chinese team to steal the ball and counterattack.

The best choice now is to use your superb skills to deal with the opponent. Even if you lose the ball, you must give your teammates a chance to return to defense. As long as the Chinese team does not counterattack, a mere mistake is nothing.

But unfortunately, the first one to steal the ball was Chen Haonan. He would not give Socrates a chance to delay. He saw the right moment and stole the ball cleanly, leaving behind the Brazilian midfielder who looked embarrassed.

At this moment, the Brazilian team's backcourt defense was also in a mess. Socrates' loss of the ball was not a disaster. Which midfielder would not make such mistakes. Wu Jie and Chen Haonan also made many similar mistakes.

The real trouble for the Brazilians is that both full-backs are pressing forward. At this time, the Brazilian team's backcourt only has two center backs and midfielder Cerezo who can return to defense.

After receiving the pass, Wu Jie faced the front and rear double-teams of Cesar and Cerezo, and decisively passed the ball to Wang Dongning, who was pulling to the side, and accelerated forward.

The Brazilians already knew something was wrong. After receiving the pass, Wang Dongning did not carry it himself and quickly passed the ball to the open space behind the Brazilians. This was a simple one-two.

But this simple coordination quickly turned into the most deadly counterattack under Wu Jie's astonishing sprint speed.

Cesar and Cerezo chased behind them with all their strength, but Wu Jie was still thrown away by several positions in the blink of an eye. This absolutely crushing speed made the two Brazilian players feel deeply powerless.

Gallo didn't hesitate at this time, he abandoned the goal and rushed out of the penalty area.

The Brazilian goalkeeper knows that there is absolutely no chance of surviving Wu Jie's one-on-one goal in the penalty area!

But is it any better if you just leave the house?

Wu Jie's speed gave everyone an unreal feeling, but he also told people the answer in advance.

Gallo had just rushed out of the penalty area and was still several meters away from the football. Wu Jie caught up with the football first, and with a simple change of direction, he passed the current Brazilian No. 1 goalkeeper cleanly.

Half of the Brazilian fans at the scene couldn't help but cover their eyes because the next scene was too cruel!

Wu Jie did not humiliate his opponent when the goal was empty. For example, he deliberately stopped the ball in front of the goal, taunted him and then pushed the ball in. That was not so good.

After getting rid of Gallo, he kicked the ball towards the empty goal with a simple push.

Cesar and Cerezo had no idea of ​​blocking the ball before it rolled into the goal line, because Wu Jie threw the two men five meters away in a sprint of just over 30 meters.

Cerezo was the most tragic. He fell to the ground during forced acceleration and could not get up until the football rolled into the goal.

Brazilian coach Santana's face paled a lot. He thought that the Chinese would use intensive defense to deal with them.

But he didn't expect that although the Chinese team had a large number of defenders, it was not intensive defense in the traditional sense at all, and it looked different from Italy's defensive system.

He can be sure of this. He was so impressed by the Italian defense in the last World Cup.

The Chinese team's defense does not rely on physical fitness and individual combat to press the ball like Italy. Instead, it uses two defensive chains to cut and compress the areas with the greatest threat. The ultimate goal is to force them to shoot in areas with little threat.

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But the worst thing is this. In the eyes of these Brazilian players, those areas that have been deliberately opened up are all shooting ranges. Why don't they dare to shoot?

The Brazilians not only dare to shoot, but from the shooting data in the first thirty minutes of the first half, we can see that the Chinese goalkeeper has an almost dominant performance in these shots. This is a Chinese trap!!!

Just when Santana on the sidelines felt that he was careless, Wu Jie on the court was already celebrating with his "alien flip", which has caused the death of one imitator and serious injuries to two imitators around the world since its inception.

, and the "death front flip" that caused an unknown number of minor injuries.

"Wu's goal and how wonderful the celebration was, how ugly the Chinese team played today!"

"I can't believe that such a team with no enterprising spirit can actually become the leading side. Maybe this is the benefit of having an alien!"

"Poor Brazilians, they played enjoyable football, but now they are lagging behind, and we all know what it means to be lagging behind when facing aliens!"

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The strange atmosphere coming from all over the world at this moment fully explains what "double standards" means. No one is discussing how the Chinese team's defense is different from before.

Santana also only saw the Chinese team using chain defense to cut and compress in the frontal battlefield, but he did not see that this chain defense had the attribute of regional defense added to it.

Today, after the Chinese players were passed, they did not turn around to pursue the defense, but immediately ran to the next defensive zone. This made their dense defensive formation like a spring under pressure, and the deeper they went, the stronger the rebound and resistance became.

Many times, they don't even press closely, but actively retreat, deliberately opening a channel for Brazilian players to break through.

However, as the deeper the defense zone, the more people there were, the greater the resistance the Brazilian players encountered. In the end, they either got stuck in the quagmire and made mistakes, or were forced to shoot from the position Lin Yaodong had prepared.

Chinese players dare to play such a thousand-layer cake defense precisely because they have absolute trust in Lin Yaodong and believe that this kind of prepared shot from outside the penalty area poses no threat to him.

The Brazilians still don't understand the true intentions of the Chinese team. Now that the score is behind, they will naturally become more impatient. At that time, the Chinese team will have more and more opportunities to counterattack.

But although this is the case in theory, Brazil is, after all, a representative of offensive football and even artistic football.

Such a team's counterattack after an injury, even if it uses a defensive system that transcends the times, still makes the Chinese team feel like a storm is coming.

Brazil's two wingers launched an even more crazy offensive when they were lagging behind, especially the two full-backs who seemed to be living in the frontcourt, constantly using their skillful dribbling to launch fierce breakthroughs against the Chinese team.

In the 40th minute, Li Junwei lost the opportunity to move to the defensive zone behind him due to Blanco's fierce and delicate breakthrough. He was knocked down directly because of his overconfidence in his speed.

But this did not allow the Chinese team's defense to have a fatal flaw. Blanco's breakthrough route soon had two defensive players waiting for it.

Blanco glanced at Socrates, who was still cut, and was about to kick him outside the penalty area when he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"That guy is coming up, hurry up and fill your position!"

Lin Yaodong saw Cerezo in the penalty area and pressed forward, and hurriedly signaled his teammates to come up and fill the position.

But this surprise was beyond the expectations of the Chinese players. The Brazilians had just been counterattacked by the full-backs because they pressed on them. Now this defensive midfielder actually dares to press on. Isn't he afraid of Wu Jie?
To be continued...