After ninety minutes, before the overtime starts, players on both sides will enjoy a few minutes of rest. Because the rest time is too short, no one will go to the locker room to rest. Everyone comes to their bench coach seat and sits on the ground.n∈n∈,

Zhou Yi is sitting on the ground now, while the physiotherapist of the Chinese team is massaging his thigh muscles to relax his muscles and relieve fatigue.

He is really tired now.

Since the start of the Asian Cup, the Chinese team has played five games, Zhouyi has played all the games, and there has been no one minute of the game missing.

This is the first time since he became a professional player. In Dortmund, he has never played five games in a row, either in the youth team or the professional team, because his physical fitness does not support him to do so. Although his physical fitness has made great progress in the past two seasons, because Dortmund has also fought on multiple fronts this season and needs rotation, Zhou Yi has not been able to play in five consecutive games and play for 90 minutes.

It was his first time in the Asian Cup, which was a fresh experience for him.

Gao Hongbo had no choice. The Chinese team's lineup was not as thick as Dortmund. He could only rely on Zhou Yi and had to rely on Zhou Yi.

Although he positioned the Asian Cup as a training camp, and the lineup of each game is indeed different, Zhou Yi is the main force who cannot be defeated. Zhou Yi is also the only reason why he dares to rotate like this and can reach the semi-finals.

Moreover, the cup competition is already intensive. From January 8th to January 25th, five games were played in 18 days, with an average of nearly three and a half days per game, which is equivalent to a weekly double game for three consecutive weeks.

Of course, the requirements for physical fitness will be very high.

Zhou Yi himself is not the kind of person born with good physical fitness. It is normal to feel tired now, but he is still persevering.

In order to prepare for overtime, the team's team doctor tried hard to massage him, hoping that he could rest better and last longer.

Because the Chinese team has used all three substitutions now. If Zhou Yi can't run, then no one can be used. He can only stand on the court. In this way, the Chinese team will be less than one person to deal with Australia. That is too dangerous.

While the players were resting, Gao Hongbo seized the time to explain the strategies in overtime to the players.

In fact, the strategy is very simple.

Both sides have consumed a lot of physical strength by this time. It is definitely impossible for overtime to maintain the rhythm of the ninety-minute game. Generally, one team will attack for the first half and then another team will attack in the second half. Even Australia will not be able to have the physical strength to support them in the thirty-minute overtime attack.

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The five-minute rest time was fleeting. When Zhou Yi got up from the ground and was about to go on stage, Gao Hongbo stopped him.

"No matter what the result of this game is, I am very grateful for your efforts to the national team, Zhou Yi." He said.

Zhou Yi was surprised: "Gaoqi, are you comforting me after you prepared in advance and failed?"

His breath was a little uneven when he spoke.

"I just don't want you to be under too much pressure."

"There is no pressure, Gao Jie. We have reached the semi-finals, what pressure is there? But we will still go to the finals, so Gao Jie, you should prepare your winning speech in advance, ha!"

After saying that, he turned around and acted.

Gao Hongbo looked at his back and fell into deep thought.

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After the overtime starts, Australia kicks off, so at this time, it is naturally Australia who should take the initiative and then attack the Chinese team's goal.

This is the "convention" of countless overtime games.

But the actual situation is somewhat different from the practice.

Because soon when the ball fell to the Chinese team, the Chinese team actually took the initiative!

Under the leadership of Zhou Yi, they launched an aggressive offensive towards the Australian goal, forcing Australia to retreat to the defense at all, huddled in their own half to resist the Chinese team's offense, hoping to rely on intensive defense to block the Chinese team's goals. At the same time, they waited for an opportunity to counterattack.

Many people will have headaches when fighting positional battles and breaking dense defenses.

When Zhou Yi got the ball, Australian players immediately rushed up to guard him in close combat, preventing him from sending the football out easily.

At the same time, they also pay attention to their feet when pressing, so as not to knock Zhou Yi down to the ground, and the referee would blow a free kick with an excellent position, which would be not good.

After all, there are still two free kick masters in the Chinese team. One is Deng Zhuoxiang who once scored a goal defended by Loris with an elevator ball in the warm-up match against France, and the other is Hao Junmin who had just scored a goal of Uzbekistan with a free kick in the Asian Cup group stage...

So although the Australian players made a big swing, they did not dare to overturn Zhou Yi to the ground.

For Zhou Yi, he realized that this might be an opportunity.

The opponent saved a lot and didn't want him to pass the ball well. What if he didn't pass the ball?

Yes, if you don’t pass the ball, you will drive the ball and break through!

After the Australian players rushed over, they did not dare to have too much physical contact with him, which gave him room and opportunity to break through!

So in the 99th minute, when his teammate passed the ball to him and Australian midfielder Jedinak rushed up, Zhou Yi did not choose to stop the ball, but instead crossed his right foot to a slightly angle. When the football hit, it did not stop at his feet, but bounced out and bounced forward!

At the same time, Zhou Yi exerted force and rushed out, just passing by Jedinak who was rushing up!

When he was so wrong, Zhou Yi could even turn the shocked expression on the other party's face. Obviously, he didn't expect that Zhou Yi, who always passed the football in front of the penalty area, would actually go to the penalty area behind him!

"Zhou Yi! Breakthrough!" Liu Hong screamed in surprise.

Amid his exclamation, Zhou Yi rushed to the penalty area.

His sudden start-up breakthrough really made Australian players not expect, so their reaction was half a beat slower. When they were about to rush up, they saw Zhou Yi leaning to the left side and lifting his right foot, as if he was going to pass the football to the right!

Australian defender Neal, who was standing in front of him, quickly glanced over there, and there was indeed a gap there!

Thinking of Zhou Yi's accurate and fatal pass, Neil, who originally wanted to come up to pounce on him, was hesitant. Should he cut off the passing route first?

His body sided toward Kongdian.

Zhou Yi saw that when his right foot fell down, he did not pass the ball, but... gently hit the left!

Just squeezed over from Neil!

Neil saw Zhou Yi suddenly change direction and break through. He originally reflexively wanted to reach out and stretch his hands and feet to trip Zhou Yi, but his hands and feet were stretched out. Only then did he remember that he was now on the penalty area line. This is a very, very sensitive place. If he fouled here, he would have a high chance of being awarded a penalty!

With a flash of lightning in his mind, Neil's hands and feet froze in the air, and he could only watch Zhou Yi burst into the air!

Zhou Yi brought the football into the penalty area!

At this time, Australian players woke up as if they were dreaming and turned around and rushed over.

If you look down from the air, Zhou Yi is like a human-shaped magnet, instantly attracting all the Australian players around him who are different from him.

At this time, Australia's penalty area was almost empty, and anyone Zhou Yi could pass it to could create a shot.

But Zhou Yi did not pass the ball, but instead shot while the encirclement was not yet closed!

The football drilled out of the gap under the crowd's feet and rolled against the grass toward the near corner of the goal!

Schwarzer saw the football rolling out of the encirclement and quickly fell to the ground and rushed to the side, but the football that was poked out by Zhou Yi was even better at speed...

When he fell completely to the ground, the football had already rolled into the goal behind him...

In the 100th minute, the Chinese team took the lead!

"Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi!!!" Liu Hong was a little hysterical and shouted desperately. "Beautiful! Beautiful! So beautiful!! 2:1! The Chinese team took the lead! They led Australia in overtime!! They have the chance to defeat their opponents and enter the finals!! Every time at the last moment of the game, Zhou Yi, who was originally exhausted, often has amazing performances. I think this time can be defined as the 'Zhou Yi Moment'!"

In front of the TV, countless Chinese fans are also hysterical.

Zhou Jianliang was also among them. His face turned red and his neck was bulging.

When was the last time I was so happy for Chinese fans after so many years?

I don't remember it anymore...

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After scoring the goal, Zhou Yi crawled out from the middle of a group of stunned Australian players and ended up hitting Gao Lin.

Gao Lin hugged him and then pulled him to the ground. Then Hao Junmin pressed him up. More Chinese players were running towards him. They screamed excitedly, as if they saw their idol girl.

The Chinese players on the bench also rushed out of their seats, like a row of birds that were startled. Their arms were waving like wings.

Gao Hongbo punched his chest with both fists and waved them hard. Behind him were the members of the coaching team who had already embraced each other.

Everyone is venting their emotions and roaring desperately until their throats are hoarse. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!