Du Zhenyu's sending off became a turning point in the game.
Lippi, who had already formulated a substitution strategy with his coaching team on the coaching bench, quickly began to change his strategy. Qi Ming, who had changed his clothes and was standing on the sidelines, was pulled back to the bench.
There was no time to comfort Du Zhenyu who was sent off, so Lippi quickly arranged his substitutions.
Another young central defender, Liming, was quickly called up from the bench by Lippi: "Li, hurry up and make preparations. The team needs you now."
Although Liming is younger than the 21-year-old Du Zhenyu who was sent off - he is the same age as Xiang Tiange, only 19 - he has rich experience in the game. He knows that he has to play urgently. While changing his jersey, he
He was also jumping and stretching his body.
Because there are generally less central defenders warming up on the sidelines, after all, this position does not require frequent substitutions, so Liming, whose body is obviously not active, takes advantage of any time he has to warm up.
"After you go up, you will still play as a central defender. You must be cautious on defense, position your position for the ball, and listen to captain Li Yun's command." Lippi quickly laid out tactics for Liming.
Lippi's personal translator, who is also the translator for the national team, "Little Red Riding Hood" Awen quickly translated at the same time.
Huang Jianxiang has also been paying attention to the situation on the Chinese team's bench: "Qi Ming was already ready to play. According to the situation, Xu Mingyu, who has some physical problems, must now play as a central defender. Liming is also a 19-year-old
He is a young player who has firmly established himself as the main center back in the Longteng team in the past two seasons. Now we need him to come to the rescue."
"Actually, there are more experienced central defenders in the national team, including Feng Xiaoting, Mei Fang, Ma Yongli, etc., but they were all unable to be selected due to injuries this time. But now on the bench there is not only Longteng team captain Lu Zhihui, who is very experienced
There are many players, and there is no such thing as Mesozoic. Coach Lippi finally chose the youngest Li Ming. He should have his own considerations." Su Dong introduced the reserves of the Chinese team's central defenders.
The Chinese team was planning substitutions, and when the commentator was analyzing the substitutions, the Uzbekistan team solemnly arranged their best frontcourt free kick since the start of the game.
The position of Du Zhenyu's foul is very beneficial to Uzbekistan. It is less than one meter in front of the penalty area and slightly closer to the left side of the penalty area, allowing players with good footwork to play freely.
At such a critical moment, the person responsible for this task is of course the team captain, the golden left-footed free kick expert Deparov. He himself basically takes over all corner kicks and free kicks in Uzbekistan.
"The time has come to test Zengcheng." Huang Jianxiang said nervously.
It seems that the Chinese team has studied Uzbekistan's free kicks. They did not engage in any fancy free kick tactics. They left Jeparov standing alone in front of the ball. The other players, except for the two defensive players in the backcourt,
, all participated in the attack.
At the Jiangcheng Sports Center, everyone began to boo desperately, trying to affect Deparov's mood.
The referee blew the whistle for the free throw.
"Zengcheng!" Huang Jianxiang shouted loudly.
Following Huang Jianxiang's roar, there was a crisp "bang!" sound as the football hit the goalpost.
"Well done, this save is so crucial." Su Dong shouted excitedly, "Fortunately, he lightly held the ball with his finger while it was flying. Otherwise, it would have gone in directly."
Zengcheng, who saved the free kick, vented his nervousness just now, clenched his fists and shouted: "Ah!!!"
Du Zhenyu, whose eyes were red and still resenting his red card, was picking at the edge of the entrance to the players' tunnel with so much force that even his fingers turned white without feeling it.
When the football hit the goal post, Du Zhenyu suspected that his heart stopped beating for a second. Then he saw the football fly out of the bottom line and he had the right to breathe again.
The fans in the stands, as if their own players had completed the shot, first let out a "hiss" and then started cheering desperately.
Chen Jiangfeng and his girlfriend hugged each other excitedly. Mr. Tan, the monkey skin ball player, waved the golden cudgel in his hand and shook the banana fan, as happy as a three-year-old child.
Li Xuepeng and Li Yun all high-fived Zengcheng to celebrate, or patted Zengcheng's body excitedly, giving him encouragement and praise.
Lippi, who was rarely excited, also clapped and roared on the court, letting the players continue to tense up because they had to face Uzbekistan's corner kick next.
Similarly, this corner kick also gave the Chinese team a dead-ball opportunity to make substitutions.
The assistant referee raised a sign on the sidelines, and the Chinese team's No. 15 was replaced by No. 8, and Liming replaced midfielder Xu Mingyu.
Xu Mingyu, who knew the intensity of the game, did not hesitate at all and quickly left the field. Liming stretched his body while running and jumping into his own penalty area.
As soon as Li Ming entered the penalty area, the Chinese team seemed to feel a lot more relieved, because with his height of 1.89 meters, he could be said to be arrogant to everyone except the goalkeeper, and his strength was also obvious at a glance - no one was watching.
Bigger than him.
Deparov, who took the corner kick, frowned at a speed invisible to the naked eye. He originally thought about taking the corner kick unexpectedly, but now he changed his mind.
Before the game, Uzbekistan's head coach Babayan specifically told Deparov: "You are a veteran, and I believe in your experience and ability. But I think the opponent is also very familiar with you and knows that you are on the court.
As for the various habits of playing football, if I guess correctly, they have shown your playing videos countless times and studied them countless times."
"This game is very critical for us. Our goal is to get three points. I hope you can use some unconventional technical arrangements that suit the situation at a certain critical moment on the court. Sometimes, your changes will
It brings unexpected effects to the team.”
"As for when, it's up to you to choose."
Baba Yang's arrangements and suggestions for him were still lingering, so his sudden through ball caused the Chinese team to send someone off.
The Uzbekistan coaching staff, who have spent great efforts in preparing for this game, also specially collected analysis and introductions about Deparov from China's domestic mainstream sports media.
Among them, 70% of Jeparov's corner kicks are taken from the front, which is a statistic that most media will mention when doing tactical analysis.
Before the game, Babayan specially compiled this information and let Jeparov read it to let him know his opponent's evaluation and analysis of him.
Before taking the corner kick, Deparov had already planned to do the opposite and take the penalty kick, but Lippi's substitution and Li Ming's appearance canceled his plan.
Seventy minutes have passed in the game. As a veteran, Jeparov is very physically exhausted. If he wants to get around such a high point in the penalty area, it requires extremely high footwork and strength. He doesn't want to be blamed for his corner kick.
The penalty was too weak, allowing the Chinese team to easily push out of the penalty area and then counterattack.
After observing for a while, Jeparov gave a tactical signal to his teammates in the penalty area - nod and rub back before hitting.
By the time Deparov sent the ball to the front post, the Chinese team was already well prepared in the penalty area.
Xiang Tiange, who returned to the penalty area, defended very actively. Du Zhenyu was sent off just now. On the surface, it seemed that Du Zhenyu himself failed to guard the opponent's forward. If he really wanted to go back, Xiang Tiange attacked but did not come back. He was
Hitting the gap behind him is the main reason.
In order to make up for the mistake just now, he desperately carried Shomurodov in the forward point, facing the ball that was not very tall and the opponent who had a greater advantage in height, destroying the football beyond the baseline.
"It's still a corner kick from Uzbekistan. Players must stay steady for consecutive corner kicks." Huang Jianxiang said nervously, "There is a certain header advantage in the penalty area on the opposite side."
The header advantage Huang Jianxiang mentioned refers to Klimets, who is 1.93 meters tall. He is one centimeter taller than the tallest player on the Chinese team, goalkeeper Zeng Cheng.
At the same time, as a central defender, his header ability is very good. In this top 12 match, in the match between Uzbekistan and Qatar, it was his header that helped the team beat Qatar 1:0.
opponent.
The Uzbekistan team has always valued his role in set pieces.
On the second corner kick, Jeparov went straight to Klimets in the center.
In order to ensure that it can slightly bypass the front point, Jeparov's free throw was a little higher than the previous one, and it was also a little more floaty. This kind of ball depends on which player in the penalty area can jump higher.
Klimets thought he would get points because he had the highest altitude on the field, but in the end there was someone who jumped even higher than him, and that was Li Ming.
"Wow, Liming jumped so high, he broke the ball out of the penalty area." Su Dong kept encouraging Liming.
Li Ming's ball went out of the penalty area, but the danger did not dissipate. For this attack, Uzbekistan invested a lot of manpower. There were three people standing at the front of the penalty area, all ready to grab the second point.
After all, the second attack after a corner kick and taking advantage of the chaos in the penalty area to steal the chicken are very common tactics.
Denisov happened to seize this point.
Of course, Lippi will know better about the tactics that Uzbekistan can think of. In his corner kick defensive tactics, the midfielder is specially designed to do this job.
Although Hao Junmin didn't grab the second point, he didn't give the opponent any chance. He got the second point outside Denisov's penalty area. The former didn't hesitate to come over to prevent the opponent from organizing a second attack.
, and try not to give him a chance to shoot, and buy time for his teammates in the penalty area to regain their defensive position.
After several consecutive fake moves had no effect, Denisov was gradually pushed toward the sideline by Hao Junmin.
Finally, when Denisov lost patience and was about to force a breakthrough, Hao Junmin made a clean block and pushed the opponent's ball out of the sideline.
After completing this defense, Hao Junmin immediately followed Denisov and called his teammates to come up to prevent the latter from throwing the ball out of bounds.
Sometimes, veteran experience lies here.
Under the interference of the Chinese team players, the quick-throwing tactic of throwing the ball out of bounds did not work. Denisov simply came up with his own trick - throwing the ball vigorously out of bounds.
Seeing that Uzbekistan's players also left the sideline and dared to go to the penalty area, Hao Junmin gave up the unnecessary defense on the sideline and stood back to the front of the penalty area to continue defending.
"Pay attention. Denisov's powerful hand throw is a very important means of their frontcourt offense. He can turn a sideline ball into a powerful frontcourt free kick. Whether he is in the national team or playing for
In the Russian Super League, he has had examples of indirect or even direct assists by hand-throwing the ball. Our players must be more vigilant." Su Dong obviously made preparations before the game.
Sure enough, Denisov took a lot of steps back, freeing up a lot of space for his run-up.
"Header! Zengcheng saved the ball." Huang Jianxiang exclaimed, "Uzbekistan actually got the first point. Klimets didn't guard this point, and it was another corner kick from Uzbekistan.
"
"It is really difficult to reproduce a strong hand throw, and it is difficult to do targeted defensive training in training. Li Ming did not guess the opponent's landing point just now, and Klimets took the first point." Su Dong obviously knows better.
Some.
The continuous siege of the Chinese team gave Uzbekistan a huge boost of confidence. The Uzbek fans, who had been silent for most of the game, also shouted cheers with rare excitement.
However, the placement of Jeparov's corner kick was quite poor. It did not go around the front point at all and was pushed out of the penalty area by Xiang Tiange. Qin Minghao, who was guarding outside, drove the ball past the half-court with a big kick.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Chinese team's defensive formation came out and no longer gave the opponent a chance to attack.
Uzbekistan can only fight positional warfare step by step.
It was Deparov who was responsible for organizing the attack.
At this time, Deparov, who was holding the ball, was cooperating with Denisov in the attack on the left. He made several consecutive fake moves to get rid of Hao Junmin, but they were resolved by the opponent's immovable position. Then Wu Lei also retreated and came back.
During a double-team attack on Deparov, he hooked the ball out of the opponent's feet. The ball hit the opponent's calf and went out of bounds.
Jeparov fell to the ground and quickly waved to the referee that this was a foul. He wanted to take another free kick in the frontcourt, but the linesman who was right next to the place of the incident smiled and pointed his finger.
Uzbekistan half-time.
This is a side kick from the Chinese team.
Denisov, who had already taken the ball and was about to throw the ball vigorously, could only drop the ball angrily and quickly return to defense.
At this point in the game, the physical gap between the two sides became apparent.
The Chinese team has been taking the initiative on the court before. Although they run a lot, most of them are effective runs. However, in order to defend, Uzbekistan makes a lot more ineffective runs. Even if the Chinese team has one less player on the field,
Both sides looked like they were evenly matched.
In the 76th minute, Babayan immediately made his second substitution on the sidelines. The purely defensive midfielder Bikmayev, who was already exhausted, was replaced. Of course, he had a yellow card, which was not a small hidden danger.
, Baba Yang must eliminate this hidden danger.
"No. 4 Bikmayev came off the field and was replaced by No. 10 Rashidov. Huh? No. 10, is a forward replaced by a defensive midfielder?"
