There is a belief called football

Chapter 273
Li Qiao kicked the middle of the ball after a small run-up, and at the same time added a lot of spin to the ball. "Enyeyama" judged that the ball should land near the small penalty area. He took a few steps, ready to jump up and take the ball off.

Just when Enyeyama hit near the small penalty area line, the rotation of the ball exceeded Enyeyama's prediction, "not good", Enyeyama thought, and he immediately backed up and took a few steps back, but the ball was obviously turning into the goal at this time.

At this time, Wei Xiao and Ding Mu in the penalty area could see clearly that they were already preparing to celebrate Li Qiao's "World Wave" goal in advance.

But what happened next made the Chinese offensive players dumbfounded. The monster "Enyeyama" seemed to be too late, and even made an Olympic high jump action, and at the same time stretched out his left hand to lift the ball over the crossbar.

At the moment when the ball slowly flew out of the bottom line, the audience burst into a sigh of "wow". It was not only a pity, but also felt that the Nigerian goalkeeper's move was really incredible.

The Nigerian central defender "Yabo" immediately came over and gave "Enyeyama" a high-five to celebrate. This "flutter" boosted morale too much. One after another, other Nigerian players also ran over to high-five the captain "Enyeyama".

This scene is the last thing Stan wants to see. It doesn’t matter if the goal is not scored, but it will boost Nigeria’s morale. This is the most dangerous. Objectively speaking, Nigeria’s overall strength is still slightly stronger than the Chinese team. If their morale improves, then the work in the first half will be in vain.

The Chinese team continued to take a corner kick, this time it was a corner kick on the right side, and Lin Zhijian took the corner kick. In the end, the ball was pushed out of the penalty area by the Nigerian central defender "Yabo" and did not pose a threat.

*****
"Two chances in the second half, it would be nice to score one," Stan thought.

10 minutes into the second half of the game, Li Qiao looked up at the middle of the penalty area after breaking through from the left, and Ding Mu suddenly made a detour behind "Yabo" and inserted himself between "Yabo" and "Ambrose".

Li Qiao knew that the time had come, he played a low ball, and passed a "Fallen Leaf Scimitar" into the penalty area.The ball ran well at first, and the pass was also good. It was a textbook-like pass-run coordination. Ding Mu didn't waste this opportunity. He jumped up and hit the goal with a header. However, the header is powerful and the angle is hard to control. If you want to control the angle, you can only do it lightly.

Ding Mu's powerful header was saved to the baseline by "Enyeyama" with a single palm. After saving the ball, Enyeyama hammered his chest hard, just like "Tarzan of the Ape", as if he had saved a penalty.

In fact, this ball is not very difficult. The reason why Enyeyama did this is that he is very good at using every available opportunity to improve the morale of his teammates.

After the ball was saved, the neutral fans in the stadium applauded him one after another. The Nigerian bench seemed to be revived suddenly. Even the head coach "Kathy" got out of the bench and returned to the sidelines to direct the game.

The situation changed suddenly, and Stan, who was originally proud, was now full of depression. His plan was divided into two halves. The first half was successfully executed, but something went wrong in the second half, and the obstacle on Stan's way to success was the opponent's goalkeeper.

"Three, three must-goal chances, even if you catch one, the morale of Nigeria will collapse," Stein thought.

If Nigeria came out of the locker room in the second half like a person fell into a cliff, and the only reliance was that he still had one hand on the rock on the edge of the cliff, then Nigeria is now on the edge of the cliff with both hands, and can pull himself up at any time.

"No, I have to step on Nigeria and send them down," Stan thought.

But in the first ten minutes of the second half, not only did they wake up the Nigerian players, but they also suddenly gave "Kathy" a hint, "In fact, strengthen our defense a little bit, we have a chance on the scene."

Thinking of this, Kathy made a substitution 15 minutes into the second half of the game. He replaced "Azes" who played for "Almeria" in La Liga, and replaced No. 9 striker "Emenik", leaving only "Moses" and "Mousa" to fight back.

Stan's heart skipped a beat because of Kathy's "substitution". He knew that Nigeria's defense is now a layer of window paper. As long as a hole is broken, strong winds can pour in. But the problem is that, 15 minutes into the second half, the Chinese team won't score, and the window paper cannot be pierced.

Stan calmed down. He knew that the opponent's goalkeeper made a few tricks in the second half. In addition to this substitution, Nigeria's morale has improved a lot. Now he must stabilize.

Seeing Stan's hand gesture, the players slowed down their offense and handed the ball to Zheng Zhi as much as possible, he was the metronome.

Zheng Zhi saw that the opponent's half-court defense was in good shape, and he had nothing to do. He half-turned and passed back to defender Zhou Dun.

Zhou Dun took the ball and looked at it. The opponent's defensive fence was tightened, and there was no chance for a fast break. Now he could only win by surprise.

Can the central defender succeed in attacking?The most important thing is to see if there is any suddenness. If there is a counterattack, the central defender can disrupt the opponent's defense and make the opponent's marking appear chaotic.

But Zhou Dun has already inserted once in the last game, and now everyone knows that the No. 2 central defender of the Chinese team has such a move, so it can be said that Zhou Dun's attack has no suddenness.

Zhou Dun thought everything was the same as in the match against Belgium, but he didn’t know that the three Nigerian players—Onazi, Musa, and Moses—had formed a "jaw jaw" and approached Zhou Dun.

Stan could see all this clearly, but he was far away and the stadium was noisy, no matter how anxious he was, it was useless to shout.

When Zhou Dun saw Onazi coming, he swung his right foot to the right, confident that he could pass the opponent, but what he didn't expect was that as soon as the ball went out, a person came out from his right.Moses passed the ball to Musa immediately after stealing the ball, and now only Wei Xiao is left in the middle defense of the Chinese team.

After Moses passed the ball, he immediately joined the offense. Now Nigeria has two offensive players, and there are also two Chinese players on defense—Chen Fei and Wei Xiao.The left back Qi Bing is relatively forward, and he can't help the ball. In addition, Moses and Zhou Dun behind Musa are also desperately chasing back.

The situation of 2 on 2 was very dangerous. Musa advanced at a high speed. When he reached the arc of the penalty area, he pushed the ball straight, passed behind Wei Xiao, and gave Moses who was plugging in at a high speed.

Wang Dalei had already attacked, Chen Fei was running towards the goal, Moses was waving the ball very fast, Wang Dalei started on the spot, and couldn't keep up after running for a few steps, Moses dodged an angle and shot the empty goal, at this time Chen Fei was running towards the goal, he was just to cover the empty goal behind Wang Dalei.

Moses' low-level push shot was fast, and Chen Fei failed to clear the ball. It was 1-0 and Nigeria took the lead.

*****
If God really exists in this world, then God must be a football fan, because he has directed too many weird football plots, such as Manchester United's 1999-minute reversal of Bayern in the 3 Champions League final, Greek mythology in the 2004 European Cup, and the magic of the night in Istanbul in 2005. All these are incredible.

In the second half, the Chinese team got N chances, but they couldn't pass Enyeyama's ten fingers, and the opponent counterattacked once and broke the Chinese team's goal.

After losing the ball, seeing the opponent celebrating in ecstasy, Stan held his head in regret for a second, then he immediately cheered up, and he called the captain Zheng Zhi.

"Tell the players, don't be discouraged, our goal has changed, now it is changed to get one point in this game, then we can win the last game against England, and we can still qualify from the group."

Zheng Zhi shook his head after hearing this, "Coach, can the teammates listen to what I'm talking about now?"
"Why, you don't believe me"?
Zheng Zhi didn't refute, but the expression on his face said it all, "Yes, I don't believe it".

"Okay, I don't care about others, just bring the words to me, as long as one person believes it," Stein said.

Zheng Zhi nodded, and then ran back to the court.

*****
After Nigeria celebrated wildly, the game continued. The time had come to the 23rd minute of the second half. The Chinese team kicked off in the middle circle, but it was clear that the morale of the Chinese team had been hit hard.

Kathy is now fully revived. He stands on the scene dancing and directing the players on the field. Except for the goalkeeper, all 10 Nigerian players have strengthened their running. Their footsteps seem to be much lighter.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Stan raised his index finger high, meaning to remind the players at all times, 1 point, if we can get 1 point, we still have a chance to stay in the World Cup.

Kathy hopes to pursue the victory and seal the victory, but it is obvious that the Nigerian players are not as physically fit as the Chinese players. After 25 minutes in the second half, the Nigerian players still slowed down after a few minutes of vigor.

This is easy to understand. Most of the Nigerian players play in the European League. After a season of fatigue, it is the most tiring time for the players. On the other hand, the Chinese team has trained the players on the plateau, and their physical fitness is not a problem at all.

"A ball, even if it's a lucky ball," Stein thought. In all fairness, the Chinese team did well enough in this game, but luck was not on the Chinese team's side.

A few minutes after the kick-off in the middle circle, the morale of the Chinese team was very low, but the finger that Stan held up high and refused to drop finally inspired the players. Yes, they believed Stan's words, 1 point, and worked hard for 1 point.

At 30 minutes into the second half, the players of the Chinese team regained their initiative on the field and became more active in running. With 15 minutes left, one goal is not out of reach for the current Chinese team.

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