While the boys of the Olympic team were still feeling sorry for themselves, the domestic media was in a state of excitement.
You must know that this is the German team. Although Germany does not pay attention to the Olympic team and many German players of the right age are absent due to various reasons, the starting group of players are all rising stars that European football pays close attention to.
A few years ago, who would have thought that the Chinese team could enter the Olympics, score a point against the German team, and even hope to win.
In the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese Football Association spent so much time trying to achieve good results at home, but what happened was that all it left was the laughing stock of the world.
Among all the players who have been touted in various ways, the one who has been praised the most is Nie Jiang.
Nie Jiang's two goals, one from a set piece and the other from a mobile game, reflected his all-round side. The entire game, and the failed confrontation with Sule, can only be regarded as a flaw in the game.
The most important thing is that Nie Jiang was born in 1998 and is only 18 years old this year. The Olympics is a U23 level competition. Looking at the opponent German team, Nie Jiang is younger than any of their players.
Whether he is playing small against big players or against these rising stars who are hot in Europe, he can score two goals, which shows his huge potential.
In fact, it is not just the Chinese media that are paying attention to this game. The German media, which claims that Olympic football is of little significance, actually sent people. As for the clubs where most of the players belong, they even sent people to conduct on-the-spot follow-up observations.
As the top scorer of the last World Junior Championship and the winner of the Golden Globe Award, Nie Jiang is followed by a long list of scouts. When he was usually with the Longteng team, several big clubs in Europe hired Chinese scouts.
We even regularly arrange for members of our club to come to Jiangcheng for observation.
Not to mention that when it comes to big events like the Olympics, at least five or six scouts in the stands came to observe Nie Jiang's performance, and in the end they all got satisfactory answers.
Now the Chinese team is ranked first in the group due to goal difference. In the last game against Mexico, the Chinese team can qualify from the group as long as they tie. Even if they are eliminated, the Chinese team will be unprecedented.
He scored four points in the Olympics, which broke a series of Chinese football records.
Of course, the media and fans who have been intrigued by the German team's game will not think that the Chinese team will lose. Faced with the defeats in youth international competitions in recent years, everyone generally thinks that the Chinese team will lose.
I think the Chinese team has a greater chance of winning, and qualifying would be like catching a turtle in a pot - it's easy to catch.
Amid domestic optimism, the Chinese Olympic team traveled from El Salvador to Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, where they will face the Mexican Olympic team.
Zhang Sheng is still vaguely worried about this, and he doesn’t know who gave the domestic media and fans the confidence to believe that the Chinese Olympic team can remain undefeated against the Mexican Olympic team. You must know that Mexico was the last Olympic Games in London.
The gold medal winners, they are the defending champions.
Of course, the defending champion of Olympic football does not have much reference. After all, due to the restrictions of U23, the next generation and the previous generation are basically two completely different groups of players, but this also shows that this country's youth training ability is still very strong.
Moreover, this Mexican Olympic team has the absolute core of the last Olympic team-forward Peralta, who scored twice in the final. This over-age player became famous in that game and will compete in the Olympics again this time.
Mexico had high hopes for him, but he was injured midway through the first round match against the German team and was doubtful for the match, which became a big plus for the Chinese Olympic team.
In fact, even if Peralta cannot play, the Mexican Olympic team does not lack outstanding players.
On the front line, Irvin Lozano is an outstanding young player who has attracted much attention. With nicknames such as "Ghost Baby" and "Little Rooster", this player born in 1995 has played in the Mexican League early.
Having established a firm foothold, he is a dazzling new star even in intercontinental competitions such as the CONCACAF Champions League (similar to the Champions League, Copa Libertadores and AFC Champions League).
What Zhang Sheng doesn't know is that this player, who is a top "monster" in every football game, will develop even better in the future. He scored 18 league goals in the 2016-2017 season, and also won the trophy with 8 goals.
He became the top scorer in the CONCACAF Champions League. After moving to Eredivisie Einhorn in 2017, he helped the team win the league championship. It was in Russia in 2018 that fans around the world remembered him.
In the World Cup, his golden goal helped the Mexican team defeat the defending champion Germany 1:0.
At the same time, there are many players in this Mexican Olympic team who are not well-known in Europe but are not bad at it, such as Rodolfo Pizarro.
This player born in 1994 is as well-known in Mexico as Lozano. When facing the German Olympic team in the first round, it was his goal that once gave Mexico hope of victory.
It is a pity that the Mexican Primera Division, as the strongest league in Central and North America, is quite similar to the Chinese Super League. The owners of each club are very rich (the gap between the rich and the poor in Mexico is huge, and the rich are very rich), regardless of
Both the player transfer fees and the wages offered are very high, which makes many young Mexicans not want to go to Europe to play football, but only want to play in Mexico.
Rodolfo Pizarro is a very typical example. He also developed well in the later period, and some teams in Europe also made offers for him, but he chose to play domestically. After the World Cup in the summer of 2018, Rodolfo Pizarro
During his domestic transfer in Mexico, his worth was as high as 14.5 million euros, which made Mexican star "Little Pea" Hernandez, who had played in Europe, feel sorry for his national team teammates - he thought that
High prices and salaries prevent Mexico's best players from playing in Europe.
The good news for the Chinese Olympic team is that Rodolfo Pizarro was injured in the last game and will definitely miss this game against the Chinese Olympic team.
Before the game, Gutierrez, the head coach of the Mexican Olympic team, expressed his concerns: "The Chinese team is an opponent I am very familiar with. We have encountered them in the World Junior Championships and the Toulon Cup. They are very strong.
With the addition of several players who play in Europe, they will be stronger, and we are troubled by injuries. But as the defending champion, winning the championship is our ultimate goal."
Before the game, the Chinese team discovered that Mexico had indeed not set off a smokescreen. Neither main forward Peralta nor core midfielder Rodolfo Pizarro was included in the squad.
After the game officially started, the Mexican Olympic team, which must win, launched a fierce attack. The 4-4-2 formation allowed the two full-backs to assist very high.
Gutierrez is confident that the full-backs can assist him so much because of his two central defenders - Cesar Montes and Carlos Salcedo.
Although the former of these two central defenders was born in 1997 and is only 19 years old, he has very strong ball control and ball-playing abilities, while the latter is defensively sound. The former plays for Monte, one of the most powerful and financially wealthy clubs in Mexico.
Lei, and has been coveted by the Serie A giant Roma for a long time, and the latter has already made a transfer agreement with another Serie A giant Fiorentina.
Mexico's midfielder 4 is in a very standard diamond position, with attacking midfielder Eric Gutierrez targeting Qi Ming's defensive midfielder position and launching multiple attacks.
As a versatile frontcourt player, Gutierrez became famous very early. When he was 19 years old two years ago, he was the absolute main force of the Mexican giants Pachuca. He can play as an organizational midfielder, attacking midfielder, and front midfielder.
, a winger or even a forward, he has helped the team pass and shoot many times in the league. When facing the Fiji team in the last round, he completed the fourth as an attacking midfielder and helped the team beat the opponent 5-1.
.In real history, he was later selected for the Mexican national team in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Gutierrez, who holds the ball in the midfield, frequently fights against him. What he wants is to break through him or draw a foul. Even if he fails to achieve this goal, he still wants to attract the defensive attention of the Chinese Olympic team and give him
Creating space on the wing.
However, the Chinese team, which maintained a good overall formation, did not give him such an opportunity. Qi Ming's position was very stable, he was taller than him, and his body was stronger than him. He did not lose in many confrontations, but was defeated by the two.
The second steal also forced Gutierrez to foul to prevent Qi Ming from launching a fast break.
The middle of the midfield was unable to penetrate successfully, so Mexico chose to rely on the two wings to make a fuss.
Cisneros on the right and Gonzalez on the left specifically target the joint point between the wing backs and center backs of the Chinese team's 3-5-2 formation.
At these two combined points, they did have some effect.
In the ninth minute of the first half, Cisneros played a beautiful one-two with right back Aguirre. The latter's pass found forward Eric Torres in the penalty area, but he was
He was defeated in the confrontation with Li Yun, who ended the attack with an easy header to clear the ball.
As a famous little monster in various football games, Eric Torres has always been optimistic. He is called "Pea II" in Mexico because his idol is the Mexican star "Little Pea" E. who plays for Manchester United.
Hernandez, at the same time, the way he plays football is also very similar to his idol - flexible movement and good at heading the ball.
It's just that this player did not reach the height of Hernandez later. In fact, Hernandez himself is also a player with extremely outstanding strengths and weaknesses-the advantage is that he is very flexible in the penalty area and has a strong ability to grab points.
, he can often use various unexpected body parts to score goals. At the same time, his shortcomings are also very obvious. His ability with the ball is poor. He cannot play as a lone forward, cannot play wide, and cannot assist. In other words, he can only touch the ball in the penalty area.
After that moment, there wasn’t much that could be done next.
As modern football demands more and more comprehensive forwards, both Hernandez and Eric Torres are destined to have smaller and smaller roles.
This was the situation just now. When Eric Torres met a central defender like Li Yun who was stable in the penalty area, flexible, and not bad in height, he was extremely disadvantaged.
This just confirms the outside world's evaluation of players like them - can fried and crispy tofu be used as a staple food?
Mexican head coach Gutierrez knew that the 4-4-2 double forward formation would be very restrained when encountering the 3-5-2 three central defenders, but he still deployed Eric Torres and Gabueno's double forward formation, too.
This is a last resort. After all, Eric Torres is poor at dribbling, has no passing ability, and is not strong enough to serve as a bridgehead. He must be paired with a center player who can act as a fulcrum in front so that he can have room to perform.
But judging from the current situation, the effect is not good, because Marco Bueno is not the kind of player who can stand firmly at the center position-he is only 1.81 meters tall and weighs only 130 meters.
Ten pounds, with such physical conditions, it is basically unrealistic to gain a foothold in the Chinese team's strong three-back system.
As for the player's ability, Marco Bueno had his highlight moment in the U17 World Junior Championship in 2011. At that time, he was also watched by Manchester United, Liverpool and other Premier League giants, but unfortunately he gradually disappeared from everyone -
-Can't even play as the main player in the Mexican League.
From the situation of these two forwards, it can be seen that Mexican players generally do not have strong physical fitness. They rely more on the players' foot skills and overall cooperation to complete offense and defense.
Compared with the last game against the German team, where the Chinese Olympic team struggled with physical confrontation and struggled to defend individually, the players in this game were much more relaxed.
The Mexican side played really lively, with the midfielder passing the ball constantly to occupy space, and the two wingers constantly playing small coordination with two or three people, and lobbing the ball into the penalty area. In fact, the effect was not good.
How good.
The Longteng team's defense with Li Yun as the core made the Mexican side less thunderous and less rainy, and the Chinese Olympic team's goal was not threatened.
But soon, the players of the Chinese team understood why Mexico could always be among the top teams in world football with its weak body and not so "South American" skills.
In the 21st minute of the first half, Cisneros saw that it was unrealistic to go down from the right, so he chose to dribble horizontally. His dribbling position was far away from the 30-meter area. The Chinese Olympic team
Bian also relaxed his close pressure on him. As a result, in such a small amount of time, Cisneros chose a beautiful overhead pass and hit the ball behind him.
Mexico's two forwards chose to retreat to attract the Chinese team's defensive attention, and midfielder Gutierrez chose to insert at high speed from the back row outside the penalty area.
Qi Ming, who was responsible for guarding Gutierrez, did not expect that the former would complete the connection with the full midfielder in this way. By the time he reacted, Gutierrez had already rushed into the penalty area and got Cisneros.
An overhead pass.
At this time, Du Zhenyu, who was lagging behind in the penalty area, had been thrown away by Gutierrez by two full positions. Gutierrez formed a single-handed move in the penalty area.
"Holy shit! Be careful!" Chen Jiangfeng, who had gotten up to watch the game at six o'clock in the morning and was drowsy because the previous game was dull, was suddenly awakened, "Marking. What are the defense doing?"
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Father Chen also sat upright on the sofa at this time, staring at the screen, as if he could rush into the TV and break the ball.
