King of the Zone

Winning all three games and advancing first in the group, the Hua Guo team not only advanced to the knockout round, but also faced Jordan, who was second in Group A in the knockout round.

This is a team similar to Kuwait, Qatar, and Uzbekistan in the FIFA rankings. They are all after 100, and their ranking is lower than Kuwait.

You know, the current FIFA ranking is still Cheng Hai's ranking before he participated in the Asian Cup. Before that, Cheng Hai had never participated in the national football competition.

Therefore, it can be considered that without Cheng Hai, the strength of the Hua Guo team itself is stronger than that of Jordan.

Now add Cheng Hai's factor, and the history of all opponents who were similar in the previous three group matches, no matter the media, fans, or the team, everyone is very confident in the quarter-finals.

Cheng Hai was naturally full of confidence.

However, in the gap before the start of the quarter-finals, on January 1, the second half of the German football season that had already started had the third round of the German Cup. Dortmund challenged Nuremberg away.

Cheng Hai is more concerned about this game, because if the team loses, his trip to the German Cup this season will be over.

Before the start of the game, Cheng Hai also called his teammates to encourage them, hoping that they would beat Nuremberg and advance to the next round.

Unfortunately, things did not develop as Cheng Hai expected.

On the one hand, this German Cup is an away game, and the opponent is Nuremberg, who is also a Bundesliga team.

On the other hand, Klopp planned to give up the German Cup as early as the first half of the season. In the second round of the German Cup against Offenbach, most of them were substitutes. Dortmund relied on Cheng Hai to grab an opponent's mistake after entering the field in the second half and scored a goal to advance to the third round.

In this game, Klopp did not send the main team. Most of the 18-man roster were substitutes. Absolute main players such as Hummels, Schmelzer, Kyle, Shaheen, and Barrios stayed at the training base.

In addition, for Nuremberg, which is at the bottom of the standings at this time, if they can win the German Cup, it will be another way to qualify for the European war.

Dortmund's own indifference, coupled with the away factor, and the opponent's desperation, the result was that after 90 minutes of the game, Dortmund lost 1-2 to Nuremberg in the away game, suspending the road to the German Cup this season.

Cheng Hai's DFB Cup Champion Mission 4 also failed ahead of time, saying goodbye to the championship reward of 30 skill points.

This made Cheng Hai a little disappointed, but there was nothing he could do. Since he came to participate in the Asian Cup, he would definitely not be able to participate in the German Cup. With the head coach Klopp striving for the Bundesliga championship and not wanting multi-line battles to affect the league goals, the exit from the German Cup has already been foreshadowed.

Even if this round is not out, Cheng Hai may still be playing in the Asian Cup in the next round of the German Cup and has not yet returned. The probability of Klopp sending a substitute lineup and being eliminated by his opponent is still very high.

It's just a pity that the task reward of 30 skill points.

Cheng Hai, who was a little depressed, vented his anger on Jordan, his opponent in the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup.

The Jordan team is the biggest dark horse in this Asian Cup, because they are in Group B with the strong Asian team Japan, the last Asian Cup runner-up Saudi Arabia, and their strong rival Syria in the group stage.

Before the start of the Asian Cup, the media generally believed that the Jordan team had no chance of qualifying at all.

As a result, they overwhelmed Saudi Arabia and Syria, ranking second in Group B.

However, for this qualifying spot, the Jordan team also paid a heavy price in the group stage. The team captain, main defender Iki, and main forward Yousef Isim were seriously injured and unable to participate in the quarter-finals.

Another main defender, Omar Ofevin, was suspended for accumulating yellow cards and could not play in the quarter-finals.

This is also the reason why Huaguo media, fans, and the team are full of confidence. They feel that the Huaguo team should have no problem beating Jordan and advancing to the semi-finals.

However, for Cheng Hai, he simply wanted to defeat Jordan and advance to the semi-finals. Now that Dortmund has been eliminated from the German Cup and there is one less event, the Asian Cup can no longer be lost.

The loss of 30 skill points can barely be tolerated, but if the Asian Cup champion loses the 200 skill point reward, Cheng Hai will definitely not be able to bear it.

Even so, he has to do his best in the quarter-finals, taking advantage of the opponent's weak strength to score more goals and earn more experience.

Now his experience has exceeded 250 million, and he is only 50 short of leveling up.

As long as he scores more than two goals in this game, gets the best player on the spot, and the team wins, then he can be upgraded again and get an upgrade reward of 30 skill points. This can be regarded as making up for his lost soul!

Before the start of the game, the Khalifa International Stadium, which can accommodate 48000 spectators, was full.

With the three consecutive victories in the group stage and Cheng Hai's 3 goals in 8 games, almost 48000 of the more than 3 fans on the scene are Chinese and overseas Chinese fans from China.

Wearing red Hua Guo team jerseys and waving national flags, they turned the entire Khalifa International Stadium into the Hua Guo team's home stadium.

The remaining approximately 18000 fans are Jordanian fans or local neutral fans in Qatar.

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Facing the huge threat from Cheng Hai, the Jordan team chose a defensive counterattack tactic, first trying not to concede the ball, and then launching an attack after Cheng Hai was replaced in the second half.

The Jordan team's defense is very extreme, playing a 541 tactic, putting a full three central defenders in the penalty area, and there are two defensive midfielders in front of the central defenders for protection.

Such extreme defensive tactics almost gave up most of the offensive opportunities, just to prevent Cheng Hai from scoring.

From the previous games, it can be seen that Cheng Hai's speed is used for counterattacks, and the opponent has almost no power to fight back.

In the positional attack, Cheng Hai's goals from outside the penalty area are relatively small, because he has average shooting power and no curve ball skills. Even if the angle is tricky, it is easier for the goalkeeper to judge the ball and save it.

Therefore, the Jordan team adopted an extreme defensive strategy, strictly defending Cheng Hai, and resolutely prevented him from getting a shot in the penalty area.

However, in this game, Cheng Hai held his breath and wanted to score more goals and gain more experience, and he played very hard.

Since there is no gap in the penalty area and his teammates can't pass the ball to him, he withdraws from the penalty area to get the ball, and then uses his full-value dribbling and Matthews' fake moves to make a breakthrough.

No team's defense can really be watertight, especially Jordan's own strength is not strong, many people have been injured, suspended, the strength has declined seriously, and Cheng Hai, the top striker in Europe, is even more unstoppable.

In the 8th minute, Cheng Hai first used his speed and running without the ball to run out of the left wing outside the penalty area to receive a pass from his teammates, and then broke through three defensive players in a row and entered the penalty area with a low shot.

The ball passed through the goalkeeper's crotch and into the goal behind him.

In just 8 minutes of the opening, Cheng Hai broke through the layers of defense of the Jordan team and opened the scoring for the first time, giving Hua Guo a 1-0 lead.

Looking at Cheng Hai who was running to celebrate, many players of the Jordan team showed powerless eyes.

Forwards of this level, they really don't know how to defend.

With their strength, they can't be prevented at all!
However, after all, they are only one goal behind, they have not fallen into despair, and they have not given up.

In the next game, the Jordan team continued to defend Cheng Hai strictly, and even strengthened the defense. At any time, someone was paying attention to Cheng Hai's running position to help defend and block, and tried every means to block Cheng Hai's running position, breakthrough, shooting and so on.

However, Cheng Hai is not the only one in the Huaguo team, and the other players are not completely paper.

Although the national football team is scolded as if it can't play elementary school students, these are exaggerated remarks made by fans who hate iron and steel.To be selected for the national team, at least there is still a little level.

After the Jordan team became more and more frightened of Cheng Hai after his first goal and focused most of their attention on Cheng Hai, other Hua Guo players inevitably got a lot of opportunities.

There are more opportunities, and naturally you can score goals.

In the 20th minute, Cheng Hai took the ball on the right side of the penalty area and broke through a defensive player. He made a gesture of wanting to enter the penalty area and shoot, attracting four Jordanian players around him to siege Cheng Hai.

Facing the siege of four people, it was naturally impossible for Cheng Hai to break through by force.

Although his dribbling and Matthews feints are 20, his defense is also [-] or [-] points, not zero.

The four of them rushed forward, even with Cheng Hai's physique, it was impossible to break out.After all, his current breakthrough technique is still very single.

Fried meatballs, Marseille roundabouts, oxtails, cycling, etc., all will not.

Not to mention breaking through, whether he can control the ball under his feet is a big question.With four people surrounding him, there is a high probability that they will be able to poke the ball off his feet.

What's more, since I have attracted four people's siege, doesn't that mean that other places are empty?There must be teammates who are in an unguarded position.

Although Cheng Hai is not an organizer, he does not have a good vision and the insight to find gaps, but he only needs to pass the ball.

Also, great passing ability is not required.

Because just near him, there are teammates who are in the gap.

Before four people surrounded him to death, Cheng Hai made a low pass and passed the ball diagonally to Deng Zhuoxiang, the midfielder outside the penalty area.

Although Cheng Hai's passing skills were not good, but the short pass between the two was less than 10 meters. This time Cheng Hai still passed it well. The ball successfully avoided the Jordanian player who was grabbing and rolled in front of Deng Zhuoxiang.

As the main midfielder, Deng Zhuoxiang's vision and passing skills are naturally better than Cheng Hai.

Before receiving Cheng Hai's ball, Deng Zhuoxiang discovered the gap on the other side of the penalty area and the running position of his teammates, and had already thought about how to deal with the ball.

Therefore, facing the ball passed by Cheng Hai, Deng Zhuoxiang didn't adjust at all to give the opponent a chance to steal it. He passed the ball directly and pushed the ball to the left side of the penalty area.

Because Cheng Hai attracted too much attention, the left midfielder Yu Hai rushed into the penalty area without any defense, faced Deng Zhuoxiang's pass and volleyed the ball non-stop, and kicked the ball towards the goal.

In fact, the Huaguo team had several shots from other players before, but they either flew or were thrown by the goalkeeper.

It can be said that the previous shots of Hua Guo players truly reflected their level.

And this time Yu Hai's shot, luck finally stood on the side of the Hua Guo team, allowing him to hit a high-quality shot.

The ball jumped out in an instant, towards the lower side of the near end of the Jordan team's goal, dodged the feet of a Jordanian defender who was flying over, and got into the Jordan team's goal before the palm of Jordan's goalkeeper Shafi, who flew to save him, was in place.

In the 20th minute, the Hua Guo team took advantage of Cheng Hai's attraction to the Jordan team's defensive attention. Yu Hai, who ran out of space, succeeded in shooting from the left side of the penalty area, extending the score to 2-0.

This goal and score finally crushed all the confidence and morale of the Jordan team.

Football is not like basketball. There are very few examples of two goals behind and then an equalizer.If it is said that the Jordan team can still afford to fall behind by one goal, then no one can afford to fall behind by two goals.

They must attack, and if they do not attack they will almost certainly die.

At the same time, in this goal, it was not Cheng Hai who scored the goal for the Huaguo team, nor Cheng Hai who even assisted, but Deng Zhuoxiang assisted Yu Hai who ran out of the gap to score the goal.

At the moment when Deng Zhuoxiang passed the ball, the unguarded Yu Hai looked so dazzling.

Yu Hai scored without any defense, which is a mockery of the overall defense of the Jordan team. This proves that it is absolutely inadvisable for them to focus most of their attention on Cheng Hai. Other players of the Huaguo team can also score goals.

Therefore, in the next game, the Jordan team began to counterattack while strengthening the marking of other offensive players of the Chinese team.

However, the result of this is that the strength of defending Cheng Hai will inevitably drop significantly, and when they attack, the gaps and opportunities in the backcourt will be much more than they can't defend.

Such a situation is undoubtedly very refreshing for Cheng Hai.

Therefore, it was quite logical that in the 31st minute, the Jordan team's attack was interrupted. Cheng Hai successfully received Zheng Zhi's long pass from the backcourt against offside.

Although the speed was delayed when the ball was stopped, the Jordanian defender Munir, who was returned to the defense, caught up.

But it was useless to catch up. Cheng Hai's full physique and dribbling skills made Munir helpless against Cheng Hai. He couldn't grab the ball, couldn't even make fouls, and couldn't knock Cheng Hai down.

Cheng Hai carried Munir's pull and push, and after dribbling the ball beyond the top of the penalty area, he chose a light lob shot against the goalkeeper Sha Fei who attacked into the penalty area.

When Cheng Hai was about to shoot, Munir was ruthless and made a tackle from the side, trying to stop Cheng Hai's shot.

However, his decision was made too late.After Cheng Hai kicked out the lobbed ball, his feet were in place.

Therefore, Munir failed to stop Cheng Hai's lob shot in the end, but only tripped Cheng Hai on the line of the penalty area.

When Cheng Hai shot the goal, Shafei jumped up and tried to stop the ball, but although Cheng Hai didn't have the skill of lob shooting, his full-scale shooting skills still played a great role.

The ball passed over Sophie's head smoothly, avoided his fingers, and then drew a parabola in the air and fell into Jordan's goal.

In the 31st minute, Cheng Haiyan scored twice to help the Huaguo team expand the score to 3-0. Huge cheers erupted from the Huaguo fans at the scene and in front of the TV.

With a three-goal lead, even if Cheng Hai is replaced immediately, the chances of the Hua Guo team being reversed by Jordan are quite low.

If it was so easy to reverse the three-goal lead, the Istanbul Miracle would not become a world-famous miracle battle.

It is precisely because of the rarity and the low probability that a three-goal lead can almost be regarded as a certainty.

Everyone can assume that the Hua Guo team will basically advance to the semi-finals.

That's why the fans of the Hua Guo team seemed so excited.

Of course, the Huaguo players on the field were even more excited, rushing up to celebrate with Cheng Hai who scored the goal.

The Jordan players, on the other hand, were ashamed.

This conceded goal is basically a death sentence for them.

After struggling for a while off the court, the head coach of the Jordan team resolutely replaced a defender who had received a yellow card and replaced him with a striker to strengthen the offense.

You know, it was only the 31st minute of the first half, and they overturned their own tactics and made substitutions before the halftime break, which shows how critical the situation is for the Jordan team.

After the game restarted, the Jordan team pressed across the board and launched a crazy attack.

However, this kind of attack across the board not only failed to break through the Hua Guo team's goal, but instead exposed more gaps and opportunities in their backcourt, giving Cheng Hai more opportunities to counterattack.

Before the end of the first half, in the 42nd minute, Jordan's shot was confiscated by goalkeeper Yang Zhi.

Then, without waiting for everyone to withdraw from the penalty area, Yang Zhi suddenly kicked the ball towards the front court with a big kick, allowing Cheng Hai to chase after him.

However, Yang Zhi didn't drive the ball well, and it didn't match Cheng Hai's speed. Cheng Hai, who successfully reversed offside, had to stop and wait for the ball to fall after running to the spot where the ball landed in the frontcourt.

Just as Cheng Hai stopped to wait for the ball, a defender who returned to the defense chased him up again and entangled him.

Fortunately, Cheng Hai's physique and ball-stopping skills are at full value. After occupying the landing point with his body, he easily unloaded the ball.

However, when Cheng Hai unloaded the ball, another defender who returned to the defense also rushed to the position, stuck Cheng Hai, unable to turn around with the ball.

It can be seen that, in order to save time, Cheng Hai did not force himself to do it alone, because Qu Bo had already stepped up from the middle, and he was four or five meters away from the defensive player.

So, after Cheng Hai unloaded the ball, he made a decisive cross pass and sent the ball to Qu Bo who was in the middle.

Although the two defenders immediately turned around and tried to block Cheng Hai, Cheng Hai without the ball far surpassed them in terms of confrontation ability and speed.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Cheng Hai threw the two of them away and ran to the front. The speed was so fast that the two of them couldn't catch up even if they wanted to.