As soon as Qin Xiong finished speaking, the scene quickly became quiet, and his appeal and influence were particularly obvious at this moment.

The fans applauded Qin Xiong and realized that excessive behavior would smear the national image. They reminded each other, took the initiative to maintain good order, and watched the entire Chinese team board the bus amid the cheers.

The Chinese team set off for Pretoria.

In the next three days, they will start preparing for the World Cup 1/8 finals.

Paraguay is a South American team. They have the innate genes of South American teams. The team has strong overall technical capabilities, but in terms of overall technical and tactics, they are not as strict and orderly as European teams.

The Chinese team made pre-match deployments for Paraguay's technical style. Everyone in the team focused and carefully listened to the coaching staff's analysis, and kept it in mind repeatedly thinking deeply in their hearts.

On June 25, Pretoriala Lovtos Stadium.

The Chinese team and Paraguay walked into the stadium with enthusiastic cheers from the fans. The players of the two teams held their heads and chests with great momentum, and had already prepared everything for a battle.

In addition to the neutral South African fans in the stands, the fans of the two teams participating in the stands were shocking, and the Chinese fans were simply arrogant!

"Come on China! Come on China!"

The uniform slogans echoed in the stadium, and it lasted for a long time. In addition, wearing Chinese team jerseys uniformly, the stands were rendered like a red ocean.

The Chinese team seemed extremely solemn in the national anthem. On the stage of the World Cup knockout stage, China's national anthem can be played on the field and spread throughout the world. Every minute and every second at this time will become a Chinese player, fan and an eternal memory.

"CCTV, CCTV, here is the Loftos Stadium in Pretoria. I believe that all viewers watching this game know that today is a historic game for the Chinese team.

What is about to start is one of the World Cup 1/8 finals, with the Chinese team facing the South American powerhouse Paraguay.

The Chinese team, which reached the World Cup for the first time in history, won praise from all parties in the Chinese sports industry. But the Chinese team's road has not yet reached the end. We hope that the Chinese team can work hard and go as far as possible!

Paraguay performed well in the group stage of this World Cup. They teamed up with Slovakia to eliminate Italy in the group stage, creating an upset in the group and showing that Paraguay's strength should not be underestimated.

The Chinese team seems to meet all the opponents in the World Cup. We are all weak teams and we are not optimistic!

But football is the winner, not the strong one, and the strong one will win!

The Chinese team has created history and may create new glory today.

OK, let's take a look at the list of both sides.

Chinese team 442.

Goalkeeper: Yang Zhi.

Defenders: Sun Jihai, Li Weifeng, Feng Xiaoting, Sun Xiang.

Midfielder: Zhao Junzhe, Zheng Zhi, Liu Yi, Huang Bowen.

Forward: Qin Xiong, Han Peng.

Paraguay 4321.

Goalkeeper: Bilal.

Defenders: Bonet da Silva, Alcalaz, Morel.

Midfielder: Santa Cruz Otiguesa, Riveros, Bella, Benitez.

Forward: Barrios.

The game will begin soon and the Chinese team will take the lead in kick-off."

After the referee's whistle sounded, Han Peng kicked the ball to Qin Xiong.

Qin Xiong stepped on the football and looked at Paraguay's halftime. At this time, he had completely entered the game state and was mentally conscious!

He was able to throw all the messy factors around him out of his mind and devote himself to the game. He played in the top league for many years and knew how to adjust himself under such circumstances.

Barrios rushed up first. Qin Xiong's eyes passed by Barrios and stared at Paraguay's goal, as if he was treating Barrios as air.

But when Barrios rushed up and wanted to press the ball with his feet, Qin Xiong suddenly started, and pushed the ball diagonally with his right foot, and rushed forward with his legs!

Barrios only felt a gust of wind passing by his side, and he was instantly broken through by Qin Xiong!

Qin Xiong dribbled forward, Santa Cruz and Benitez were not able to react in time, and they both stood on the side. Unexpectedly, Qin Xiong was determined to kick off the ball and then came alone. The two had no time to block Qin Xiong.

When Qin Xiong dribbled the ball to Riveros, he pushed the ball horizontally with his left foot and made a long shot. As soon as Riveros stretched out his foot, he instantly realized that he had been deceived!

Because Qin Xiong's usual foot is his right foot, which is about forty yards away from the goal, it is unlikely that he will shoot with his left foot!

Sure enough, Qin Xiong's left foot buckled the ball from behind and then took the ball and dribbled it with his right foot.

Before Bella and Otigsa joined forces to block the game, Qin Xiong chose to shoot!

This long-range shot was so powerful that the whole Paraguay team knew that Qin Xiong had the ability to pass Yang with hundreds of steps, so he would not take it lightly.

Goalkeeper Bilar moved horizontally towards the right post of the goal, and after the football fell, he saved the ball horizontally and held the ball in his arms!

He was fully prepared and Qin Xiong's shooting was far away from the goal. He could easily resolve Qin Xiong's long shot without making a low-level mistake.

However, no matter what, Qin Xiong's long shot still sounded the alarm for Paraguay.

You can't make mistakes in this game!

The same goes for the Chinese team.

Paraguay began to organize the offensive, and they specifically studied the game between the Dutch team and the Chinese team.

Therefore, offense is executed step by step according to the style of self-persistence, but the focus of the defense is divided into two parts.

Part of them blocked Qin Xiong in part and kept him under strict control.

The other part focuses on killing the passing organization of the Chinese team from defense to offense.

In this way, Paraguay quickly developed an advantage after the opening game.

They achieved a very similar effect to the Dutch team. They actively fought for the middle and frontcourt to block the Chinese team's offensive and defensive transformation, while their offense was to raise high and play quickly and decisively, trying to use a fast pace to drag down the Chinese team.

In the 11th minute of the game, Bellala made a cross and the ball fell into the penalty area. Feng Xiaoting cleared the ball and hit Santa Cruz and bounced towards the goal.

Yang Zhi couldn't react and turned his head to look at it. He saw the football hit the post and rebounded in the small penalty area.

Barrios immediately took the ball, but fortunately Sun Xiang returned to defense and took the lead in clearing the ball.

It is difficult for the Chinese team to fight back, and in part, the reason is that the offense and defense conversion is not handled well enough.

Either it becomes a positional battle, or it just kicks the ball into the frontcourt and returns the ball to the opponent.

This is also what Alihan said repeatedly during training.

Even if you have a big foot clearance, you cannot be intercepted in the midfield and backcourt!

Because once the opponent steals the ball against the ball, the consequences will be disastrous.
Chapter completed!