Chapter 8 The Spoon
Sun Pan and Guo Nu feel right, but their feelings cannot represent all Chinese national Olympic team players.
I thought that with their abilities, the pressure on the Mexican National Olympic Team was indeed not very high.
Sun Pan is the goalkeeper of Atletico Madrid, and he has to face the "Swiss Super League double-strong" at least twice in the league. He faces players of the level of Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema, Messi, and Iniesta. Compared with them, Mexican players are indeed not strong enough...
Guo Nu faces a defensive pressure in Siena, a small Serie A team. He has tempered it in such a harsh environment, and looking at the offensive level of the Mexican National Olympic Team, he naturally thinks it is not a big deal.
But among those teammates who have not experienced La Liga and Serie A training, it is different...
For them, the level of the Olympics is still much higher than that of the domestic football league.
So this shows a split state - the five little dragons who study abroad feel that their opponents are not as strong as they imagined, and other Chinese Olympic team players feel nervous and exciting. They are trying their best to think in their hearts, "It is really worthy of being the seed team of this group!"
The Mexican National Olympic Team also found a problem. There are four people in the Chinese team's defense line, among which the shortest central defender is the most difficult to deal with. He is fast, has a fast scramble, has strong physical confrontation ability, and has great bounce ability. He is simply a monster, and it is difficult for anyone to win in front of him.
But no matter how powerful he is, he cannot cover the entire Chinese team's defense zone, so they consciously avoided Guo Nu and chose others as a breakthrough.
It must be said that if this Chinese team does not have the Five Little Dragons, it will be difficult for them to even get the right to participate, let alone compete with other teams in the world in the Olympics.
Therefore, although this Chinese Olympic team is known as the strongest national Olympic team in Chinese football history, it is still far from the world's top level.
After Mexico changed its strategy, it indeed began to threaten the Chinese Olympic team's goal.
Sun Pan was very excited because they finally had a shot that could shoot directly! It was time for him to show off!
The Mexican side soon discovered that even if they could bypass Guo Nu, they were still facing Sun Pan. This is the last line of defense for the Chinese team and they have to face it no matter what.
The goalkeeper of the national Olympic team was like a chicken blood, receiving high and low blocks, making all the Mexican players' shots come back in vain...
"Peralta's shot-Sun Pan! Beautiful save!"
"It's Sun Pan again! He hit the football with one punch!"
Although Sun Pan had a great time, Zhou Yi did not want Sun Pan to be the protagonist, which means that the Chinese team's goal is always in danger.
We still have to fight back.
The football was beaten out by Sun Pan, and Yang Muge and the opponent's players were competing for the landing point.
Yang Muge's excellent judgment on the landing point allowed him to win the football in advance and directly pushed the football to Zhou Yi.
As soon as Zhou Yi received the ball, commentator He Ping became excited: "Zhou Yi takes the ball now!"
Zhou Yi didn’t have many opportunities to get the ball before, but every time he got the ball, he would create some threats.
Of course, Mexican players will also take care of him.
After Zhou Yi stopped the ball that Yang Muge had pushed with ****, the Mexican player quickly posted it up.
Over-age midfielder Salcido stood behind Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi did not get into trouble with him much, and directly passed the football back to Yang Muge.
After Yang Muge received the ball, he made a little adjustment and found He Ying with a long pass. The Chinese team made another threatening counterattack, and Mexico could only withdraw from the defense in a hurry.
In the National Olympic Team, the Chinese team is not the core of Zhou Yi later. When Zhou Yi was not in the National Olympic Team, Yang Muge took on the task of organizing offense, so he actually has a certain ability to organize offense.
The main thing is long passes. His position and mission determine that he cannot step forward anytime and anywhere like Zhou Yi, but because he has to undertake certain organizational offensive tasks in the National Olympic Team, Yang Muge conducted special training on his long passes, and the effect is pretty good.
After passing the football back to Yang Muge, Zhou Yi did not stay where he was, but turned around and ran forward. When he turned around, Yang Muge passed the football to He Ying.
When He Ying received the ball, Zhou Yi had already crossed the center line and ran to the frontcourt. He did not stop, but continued to run forward.
While Zhou Yi was running forward, He Ying, who received the ball, led the ball forward, and the Mexican defensive player quickly posted it up, trying to stop him.
He Ying did not pause, but forced himself to overtake by speed and continued to rush forward. At the same time, the Mexican defenders pushed him to the side, which was the most common method used to defend players who fought individually, to keep him away from the middle and narrow his shooting angle. In this way, he could only cross, and compared with the shooting, the threat of crossing was much smaller.
Under such circumstances, Zhou Yi suddenly accelerated and rushed to the front of Mexico's penalty area. At the same time, he raised his arm and signaled He Ying to pass the ball to him.
His move of course also attracted the attention of other Mexican defensive players. He Ying attracted two Mexican players to intercept him on the wing, and relatively speaking, the middle is empty. Everyone understands what Zhou Yi wants the ball. As long as He Ying can pass the football to his feet, he can form a breakthrough in the middle, which is very dangerous.
He Ying also indeed passed the football to Zhou Yi.
"Zhouyi!"
He Ping shouted excitedly.
Because the Chinese team played a defensive counterattack, there were not many people in Mexico's backcourt at this time, and there were many spaces, as long as they could catch it...
And He Ying's choice was undoubtedly correct.
Zhou Yi's sudden appearance attracted everyone's attention, not only for the commentators, but also for the Mexican defenders.
One of the two men who were following He Ying turned to Zhou Yi and ran towards Zhou Yi, and the central defender Miyer rushed up together, intending to block Zhou Yi and form a clamping attack.
Zhou Yi slowed down and raised his foot, making the move to stop the ball.
But when the football really rolled in front of Zhou Yi's feet, he raised his foot and put the football over.
He missed the football to Wu Lei behind him!
"Zhou Yi missed, good ball, Wu Lei!" He Ping cheered.
Wu Lei received the ball five or six meters away from Zhou Yi, but Mexico did not give up on defense. Miere, who was originally blocking Zhou Yi, had already rushed over and wanted to block Wu Lei's shot.
After Wu Lei stopped the ball, he looked up and saw Zhou Yi's back. After he missed the ball, he rushed forward when he saw Wu Lei catch the ball. Now he was in a gap!
Good opportunity!
Wu Lei quickly pushed the football out diagonally.
The football rolled past Mier and then rolled back to Zhou Yi's feet.
At this time, there was no Mexican player in front of Zhou Yi except for a Mexican goalkeeper Corona. Mier turned around and raised his arm to signal Zhou Yi to offside, but neither the referee nor the lineman said it because this was a very beautiful counter-offside!
"Beautiful straight pass, Wu Lei passed it to Zhou Yi!!"
While He Ping shouted, the Chinese fans in front of the TV also roared and jumped up. This is a one-on-one strike. Will Zhou Yi seize this opportunity?!
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When Mexican goalkeeper Corona saw the football pass to Zhou Yi, he decisively abandoned the goal and attacked - he didn't care whether the ball was offside or not, and then blocked it first. If it was offside, he would not lose. But if he didn't offside... he thought he would lose a big loss if he hesitated?
His decisive attack shortened the distance between himself and Zhou Yi and increased the angle of blocking the shot.
He lowered his center of gravity, opened his hands, and tried to expand his defense area.
Zhou Yi was looking back at this time and knew nothing about what happened before him.
If he watches the ball after receiving it, he may be caught off guard by Corona.
But what Zhou Yi did next surprised people.
Instead of turning his head to observe the situation ahead, he still kept looking back at the ball and swung his right foot.
When the football rolled from behind him to his feet, he swung his right foot and took the opportunity to lift the football upwards!
The football flew up directly from under his feet and turned into a kick!
"Spoon--!" With He Ping's long roar, the football passed over the head of Mexican goalkeeper Corona who was almost about to pounce on him. Under his helpless eyes, he flew towards the goal behind him!
He kept shooting directly, Zhou Yi's choice caught Corona off guard. He knelt on the ground, leaned back, and watched the football fall into the empty goal...
Chapter completed!