World Cup of Great Powers

Chapter 100 Dream Start
One team is the last Olympic champion, and the other is the "dark horse" of this World Cup.

Judging from the names of the two teams, the gimmick is not small.

So this game attracted fans, reporters and scouts from all over the world.

The stands are bustling with each other, very lively.

In the past few days, Zeng Zheng simulated 15 games against Nigeria, and the results were very dismal.

4 draws and 11 losses, not a single victory.

Zeng Zheng also directly looked away after losing a series of battles.

Anyway, the World Cup has come to this point, so why bother?

At this stage, enjoying the "happiness" of football is the most important thing.

[National team: tacit understanding 81%]

[Overall status: relaxed and at ease]

[Saint-Denis weather: sunny; temperature: 17-26 degrees Celsius]

[Team BUFF1: World Cup National Team 1* (non-replaceable)]

[National team: Unexpectedly advanced to the top 16, players with high morale are easily influenced by fans. 】

[Team BUFF2: World Cup National Team 2* (non-replaceable)]

[National team 2: Unexpectedly advanced to the top 16, the mentality of the players who overfulfilled the task will not be affected by the big loss. 】

[Team BUFF3: World Cup National Team 3*]

[National team 3: Unexpectedly advanced to the top 16, there is a small probability that the optimistic and relaxed attitude will cause the players to display extraordinary strength in an instant]

[Team BUFF4: Demon City Saohua]

[Modu Saohua: Small-scale passing between Shenhua players, enhanced ball-handling ability]

[Team BUFF5: XXX]

[Team Tactics (unlocked by improving the tacit understanding of coaches): long pass]

[Long Pass LV1: Easier to pass high-altitude balls between players, and slightly improve the header ability of the receiving players]

"Kick well, don't have psychological pressure, kick out your own demeanor!!!"

"According to what Coach Zeng said, we will definitely win!"

At the beginning, Jin Chi and the two shouted loudly.

The players did not have any pressure in this game, just like students after the college entrance examination.

After three years of hard work, everyone had only one thought in their minds—to make it through!
Except for emphasizing the bamboo shoe reward again, Zeng Zheng and the teaching assistants didn't say anything before the start of the game.

There is no passionate speech before the game, and there is no solemn oath ceremony.

Just a word, just don't leave any regrets!
Sure enough, the momentum of the Chinese team was high after the opening.

Amidst the cheers of nearly [-] fans at the scene, the ball was quickly snatched from the feet of veteran Yekini.

Seeing that General Fan was stealing the ball for the first time after returning from suspension, a small wave of voices from Shenhua fans erupted in the stands.

General Fan's blood boiled instantly.

Instead of looking for his teammates in the frontcourt, he sent the ball to Shensi's feet, and ran past the Nigerian striker himself.

Shen Si took a look, how could she still not understand the captain's intention?

He gave a slight push to General Fan's running route, and the ball immediately rolled back to General Fan's feet.

Seeing General Fan and his teammates playing two-on-one and then dribbling forward with the ball, Jin Chi and Jin Chi laughed and cursed.

"Little Fan, he will play tricks as soon as he comes back!"

"Yeah, I didn't clear the siege in the restricted area, my heart almost jumped out of my throat!"

You know, Nigeria just attacked their own penalty area.

According to the past, if the ball was successfully intercepted in this place, which player would not kick the ball away with a big kick?
But now facing Nigeria, the strongest opponent since the start of the World Cup (Nigeria was the Olympic champion in 96, France had only won the European Championship in 84 before that), but they played two against one in their own penalty area.

It seems that after advancing to the top 16, General Fan, who got another chance to play for nothing, really let himself go.

Hearing the two teaching assistants laughing and scolding, Zeng Zheng curled his lips.

It's okay for General Fan and his teammates to play two against one.

If Ou Chuliang does the same thing later, I still have to follow the example in Journey to the West with a plate to catch the two of you, right?
After receiving the return pass from Shensi, General Fan went all the way unimpeded.

It wasn't until the ball was brought near the top of the arc in the middle circle that he slid the ball to the right and found Sun Jihai.

In the last game, Sun Jihai performed very eye-catchingly. As soon as he caught the ball, he was double-teamed by two Nigerian players.

Faced with the opponent's front and rear pincers, Sun Jihai decisively chose to pass the ball to the center, giving up the space on the side.

Taking advantage of the Nigerian defender turning his head to chase him, Sun Jihai saw the opportunity and sent a textbook-style lob with his left foot.

The Nigerian defender's attention was all on the two forwards.

No one noticed that Zhang Xiaorui, who was advancing all the way from the midfield, had already run to the middle of the opponent's two defenders.

Facing the ball coming from behind while running, lean over and stop the ball forward with your chest, then continue to move forward with the ball.

Seeing this, even Milu stood up involuntarily, staring at the Chinese player who dribbled the ball into the Nigeria penalty area.

Facing the ball, unloading the ball, dribbling, kicking.

Zhang Xiaorui's set of procedures is smooth and smooth, without any delay.

Faced with Zhang Xiaorui's strong shot from the near corner, Lu Fei immediately made a cross-body save and barely blocked the ball from the right post of the goal with his left hand.

"Zhang Xiaorui shoots!"

"Oh, what a pity!"

"Eh???"

Huang Jianxiang let out an "ah".

Because the screen has switched to the line judge.

The flag in his hand was being raised high.

Zhang Xiaorui also looked helpless, shook his head, turned around and ran out of the Nigerian restricted area.

"Offside."

"No. 22 Zhang Xiaorui."

"This is a young player from Jianlibao."

"Through the slow-motion playback, we can see that Zhang Xiaorui was in an offside position at the moment of passing the ball."

"Eh? This doesn't seem like an offside!"

"Nigerian defender West just dragged in last."

"This is a misjudgment!"

"The linesman didn't see it."

"Okay, although it was a misjudgment."

"But Zhang Xiaorui was very smooth from running, catching the ball, stopping the ball and shooting, and this last kick was also very beautiful."

"If it wasn't for the referee's misjudgment, the ball was at least a corner kick."

Subsequently, Nigeria organized several offensives.

But I don't know whether the Chinese team's defense is solid or Nigeria's offensive chess is not good enough.

On the contrary, the international players who have become accustomed to counterattacking under Zeng Zheng's command are extremely sharp.

After fighting for a corner kick with the back of his head in the penalty area, Sun Jihai looked back and found that the right side was empty.

Immediately, he ran wildly, and after catching up with the ball, he made a vigorous trip to the side, and his speed began to soar.

After all, it is an African team, and speed is also the strength of Nigerian players.

Before halftime, Sun Jihai was overtaken by Okecha from diagonally behind.

Seeing that the opponent was about to catch up to him, Sun Jihai put his right foot forward with the ball, as if he wanted to stop to protect the ball.

Seeing this, Okocha hurriedly slowed down.

But at this moment, Sun Jihai's right foot did not stop, but circled directly in front of the ball.

At the same time, the following left foot was sent forward suddenly, and the whole person also took advantage of the momentum to accelerate and rush out.

Okocha, who had just slowed down, was half a minute slower.

At this moment, he forced to speed up to chase, but it was still a step too late.

Sun Jihai got stuck in his body and completely stuck the opponent directly behind his body.

Okecha had no choice but to stretch out his right leg from the side to Sun Jihai with all his strength, hoping to stop him.

However, the frequency of Sun Jihai's feet touching the ball is also very good.

Before the opponent stretches out his foot to stop him, push the ball forward again.

After the pressure of dribbling the ball was gone, Sun Jihai moved sideways like a crab, and after getting rid of Okocha completely, he caught up with the ball again.

Seeing that Sun Jihai was about to cut inside again, Oliseh, who had come to make up for the position in front, had no choice but to put Sun Jihai down.

The referee whistled and awarded the Chinese team a set kick in the frontcourt.

But before the referee ran over to warn the Nigerian players, Sun Jihai got up and quickly set the ball with his hands.

He kicked out without lifting his waist, and the ball went under the feet of three Nigerian players in the blink of an eye.

"Sun Jihai quickly serves a free kick"

"Su Mao really rushed into the restricted area!"

"Heels!"

"Come in!!!"

The excited Huang Jianxiang quickly let go of his throat and shouted loudly.

"Zhang Yuxie!"

"In the 13th minute of the game, Zhang Yuxie from Liaozu received a second pass from Su Maozhen's heel and opened the scoring for the Chinese team."

"1 to 0!"

"The Chinese team made a fantastic start!!!"

Listening to the high-pitched and passionate voice in the microphone, Sun Zhengping looked helpless.

"Xiao Huang is broken!"

(End of this chapter)