There is a belief called football

Chapter 288 The Contest of Two Dark Horses

In the player tunnel, Li Qiao seemed to be back in time at this moment. He glanced to the right, and they were all familiar friends. Li Qiao even almost walked over to the Ukrainian team just now.

There were always cameras in the player tunnel, so although the players from the Ukrainian team had seen Li Qiao a long time ago, they just smiled in return.

Prahimi made a face at Li Qiao, and he pointed to Li Qiao's right foot, which should mean "are you ready?"
Li Qiao nodded with a smile.

The referee of this game is "Enrique Cenkovic" from Chile (hereinafter referred to as Enrique). Under the leadership of the referee, the players of the two teams began to enter the field.

The appearance of the players pushed the already enthusiastic stadium atmosphere to a higher level. The players also applauded to the audience. At this moment, Li Qiao saw the former coach—Marsh.

The national anthem was played. This was the fourth time "March of the Volunteers" was played in Brazil. The audience sang the national anthem in unison. This time Li Qiao sang it with a smile. At this time, he was full of pride in his heart.

After the national anthems of the two teams were played, the players from both sides shook hands. When they shook hands with Li Qiao, everyone would strengthen their hands and pat Li Qiao. Only when Prahimi passed by, he said softly in Ukrainian - "I can finally defend you."

Li Qiao didn't speak, but replied with a slightly contemptuous expression, meaning "Are you sure you can defend yourself?"
After choosing the side, it was decided that the Ukrainian team would kick off first in the first half. The Chinese team still formed a circle to encourage each other as usual, but the slogan changed again. Zheng Zhi said to everyone: "Go to dream".

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Enrique blew the whistle, and the game began. The Chinese team started to press high after the opening, and began to grab the ball in the middle circle and even in the Ukrainian half.

Ukraine handed the ball to "Yarmolenko", and Lin Zhijian was on his side.Yarmolenko's speed and technique are a bit like the Irish fast horse "Duff" in its heyday. The 25-year-old "Yarmolenko" is in the golden period of his career. If this performance continues, it will be difficult for "Dynamo Kiev" to continue to retain this Ukrainian genius.

Facing Lin Zhijian, Yarmolenko stood still. He made a few fake moves to pass the ball, but he did not deceive Lin Zhijian. Lin Zhijian also knew that the opponent was fast, so he did not dare to jump up easily. He just had to stand still.

One of Ukraine's double midfielders - "Rakitsky" leaned over to respond, Yarmolenko took advantage of the situation and passed the ball to him, who passed the ball to Prahimi.

When Prahimi took the ball, Li Qiao rushed over immediately, but Xiao Hei's long legs are like "Yaya Toure". As long as he stands firm, it is difficult to grab the ball at his feet. Now such midfielders are too scarce. Barcelona really found a treasure.

To protect the ball, Li Qiao didn't dare to make easy moves, but Prahimi was a bit sticky to the ball and didn't pass the ball immediately. Li Qiao stuck to it and stretched his legs to grab the ball, but his legs were longer. Li Qiao couldn't match Prahimi, and the situation quickly turned into a wrestling.

The referee came over and blew a foul, and both sides fouled. The referee took the ball and was about to drop the ball and restart.

There is usually an unspoken rule at this time, that is, after the referee drops the ball, one side kicks the ball far away, returning the ball to the opponent without giving the opponent a chance to attack.

Enrique dropped the ball, but Li Qiao didn't fight for it. Prahimi kicked the Chinese team halfway with a big kick. It was originally a kick to "send the ball", but suddenly the Chinese team players realized that something was wrong. The direction of the ball was actually the goal behind Wang Dalei.

Prahimi himself discovered that his "send the ball" was so accurate that it turned into a long-range lob.

Because the scene just now happened in the midfield, Wang Dalei was still standing on the edge of the penalty area. After discovering the abnormality, Wang Dalei retreated quickly, and finally almost scored a goal.After the ball was saved by Wang Dalei, Prahimi embarrassedly apologized to the Chinese players.

Of course, this time the Ukrainian team will not attack from the corner kick. Corbin goes to the corner flag area and kicks the ball directly to the Chinese player.

This round was a rare scene on the court, and it was all because Brahimi's footwork "improved" too much.

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Ukrainian head coach "Marsh" is the same as "Stan" of the Chinese team. He has come up step by step. He has rich experience and careful thinking. He has watched all 3 games of the Chinese team.

Marsh felt that the Chinese team had to work harder in the second half, because the starting 11 of the Chinese team was very strong, but the Chinese team had a fatal shortcoming, that is, the substitute lineup was too thin, and the Chinese team wanted to end the battle quickly with the starting 11 full of energy, so Ukraine could not let the Chinese team do what it wanted.

Marsh's football wisdom is indeed much higher than those of the opponents in the group stage. Such opponents are not obvious, but they are often difficult to deal with, just like Greece in the 2004 European Cup. When everyone really started to know them, they found that they had already won the championship.

Ten minutes into the first half, the scene was a little silent. Except for Brahimi's unintentional lob shot, the two sides did not create any good opportunities. At this moment, the scene camera turned, and the fans in the audience let out a "boom". It turned out that the camera had captured "Guardiola".

It seems that this game has attracted a lot of "private interviews" by big names in football. Under normal circumstances, the top executives of big-name clubs will not let the media know in advance when they go out for inspections. Otherwise, if they really like someone, the price will immediately go up.

So the appearance of "Guardiola" and "Galiani" means that either Bayern or Milan have signed someone on the field, or they are just here to watch the game.

But the appearance of the two sparked everyone's thinking-would there be many scouts from wealthy clubs just mixed in the crowd to pay attention to this game?
Before the game, the media reported that no matter what the result of the game is, after the World Cup, there are a few players from the two teams who may not be able to keep them. On the Ukrainian side are "Yarmolenko" and "Korbin", and on the Chinese team are "Li Qiao" and "Ding Mu".

This World Cup has "fired" one person, that is Colombia's "James Rodriguez", who has even been dubbed "Rodriguez". After the World Cup, no matter where he goes, one thing is for sure, "Monaco" will not be able to keep him.

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The game was a bit boring, so the on-site camera often threw the camera to the stands to look for big-name coaches and beautiful women. Of course, "Diana" was locked again. In the 15 minutes of the first half, Guardiola and Galliani appeared in the camera once, but Diana had appeared twice.

It's just that not many people know that she has a boyfriend and is on the court, but it is estimated that after the World Cup, the whole world will know about it.

When the scene was calm, the Chinese team launched a fast break.Ding Mu and Lin Zhijian exchanged positions, and Ding Mu ran to the position of the right midfielder. It was this subtle change of positions that disrupted the Ukrainian defense. Just when Lin Zhijian and Ding Mu had finished disrupting the opponent's defense, the protagonist came out.

Lin Zhijian passed the ball low and flat to Li Qiao. Li Qiao wanted to cut diagonally between the Ukrainian right back and right center back, but just as Li Qiao started, a person came out from behind him—Prahimi.

For this ball, Prahimi's return to defense was too fast. When Lin Zhijian took the ball, Prahimi was still in the center arc, but when Li Qiao took the ball, Prahimi had already quickly run to the arc of his own penalty area, so Li Qiao was also caught off guard.

After Prahimi stole the ball, he handed it to Rakitsky, and then turned around and handed it to Li Qiao. Li Qiao didn't shake his hand, but stood up by himself. Obviously, Li Qiao didn't want to have any "friendship" with Prahimi on the court.

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"Marsh" on the side of the field is like a symphony conductor, constantly gesturing to the players on the field. He requires the two sides to move frequently, and repeatedly toss the Chinese team's defense back and forth in order to consume the Chinese team's physical energy.

This trick works very well, it’s like “Wolf is coming”, the Ukrainian team doesn’t necessarily have to shoot every time they attack, but it forces you to give [-]% of your physical strength to defend every time, because you don’t know whether the opponent is “playing fake” or “playing real” this time.

On the sidelines, Stan put his hands in his pockets and stuck out his tongue, looking a little helpless. Marsh's control over Ukraine was just like his control over the Chinese team.Such a team is unbeatable and very united.

Stan took his hands out of his trouser pockets, gestured towards the field, and repeatedly made the "pull away" gesture. Stan had to make full use of the width of the field to make a fuss, because the Chinese team's formation spread out, and the opponent's running distance would increase.

In the story of "the wolf is coming", the wolf will always come in the end. The Ukrainian team passes the ball back and forth in the midfield, and finally it will show its "fangs".

After "Konoplyanka" used his speed to break through Qi Bing, he crossed at a 45-degree angle. The Ukrainian winger is different from the England winger. The Ukrainian winger is good at breaking through and passing the ball even better.

Konoplyanka's cross accurately found "Korbin" in the penalty area, and this pass point "Konoplyanka" was carefully selected, which can pass the "overhead" of Zhou Dun in front, and make Wei Xiao, who points behind, out of reach.

In the absence of defense, Corbin jumped heavily and headed the ball towards the goal of the Chinese team. Wang Dalei threw it sideways. The ball passed over Wang Dalei's fingertips and flew into the lower left corner of the goal. It was 1-0. In the 20th minute of the first half, Ukraine took the lead.

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