Chapter 21 The Foot of God
While Chinese players were celebrating their goals wildly, Chinese commentator He Ping also praised Zhou Yi frantically: "It's amazing! I haven't seen the direction of the pass at all, so I sent the football accurately into the space! I even think that in Zhou Yi's mind, there may be a real-time satellite image of the stadium, and he doesn't need to look up to see what's happening in every corner of the stadium."
He Ping had a very bright mind for a moment, but accidentally guessed the truth. Of course, he would not think that he had guessed correctly, he would only think that this was his nonsense.
"This goal just now was so beautiful! Not only was He Yingsheng beautiful, but he shot beautifully, but more because of Zhou Yi's beautiful pass! Zhou Yi's pass to the offensive direction was so wonderful! It fully demonstrated his precise control of the situation and his extremely outstanding vision. On the back of Zhou Yi's head, he might have really grown a pair of sky eyes! Haha!"
During the game broadcast, the Chinese team's goal just now was constantly replaying, and Zhou Yi's pass was played over and over again from different angles.
Everyone can see clearly what Zhou Yi was doing when passing the ball. Everyone who has seen it will be as excited as He Ping, because this pass is like God borrowed Zhou Yi's body and made him pass an impossible pass.
Not only He Ping, but also commentators from other countries also had a very high evaluation of Zhou Yi's kick.
"This is a pass like a god!" The German commentator was shocking as soon as he spoke. His evaluation of Zhou Yi's pass was even higher than that of Chinese commentator He Ping. "No one knows how Zhou Yi saw that space and how He Ying's running position, because he never looked up at all. At that time, all his energy was concentrated against the Korean players who were surrounding him."
"My God! Zhou Yi's kick reminded me of Maradona's pass against Brazil in the 1990 World Cup in Italy. It was also unexpected and the same shot was sure to kill. But I personally think that Zhou Yi's kick is more difficult than Maradona's kick at the beginning, because he was controlling the ball on the spot and also giving away the pass when he was facing the attack direction!" The Japanese commentator also had a very high evaluation of Zhou Yi.
Logically speaking, after scoring, the player is usually the protagonist, but in this goal, He Ying became a supporting role, and Zhou Yi is the protagonist who everyone praised.
However, even if He Ying heard the commentators, he would probably not have any objection. Because he himself thought that Zhou Yi's contribution to this ball was greater than that of himself.
The Chinese team is celebrating the goal, and the South Korean team, their captain Ji Chengyong is slapping hard to encourage his teammates after the initial depression.
"Don't give up! We're just one goal behind! We can definitely equalize the score!"
At this time, the realistic goal is of course to equalize the score. But even if the score is equalized, it may not be a good thing for the Korean team.
If eleven Korean teams are on the court, they equalize the score in this situation, and there is a good chance of winning. Even if they are delayed to overtime, the Korean team will have physical and mental advantages. If they are not able to defeat the Chinese team in overtime, then in the penalty shootout, the Korean team with better will be more advantageous.
But now the Korean team has one less person, and their physical fitness will definitely be consumed faster than usual. Even if they can drag the game to overtime, it will probably be exhausted for the Korean team. If you have the energy to be spared, you will not be able to do anything, and if the Chinese team seizes the opportunity to fight a counterattack, it may collapse.
Of course Ji Chengyong knew this, but he had no choice but to take one step and equalize the score first.
In front of the coach's seat on the sidelines, Hong Mingfu, the head coach of the Korean Olympic team, also looked solemn.
The Korean team has one less person and the score is still behind again, which is extremely unfavorable.
But this actually made Hong Mingfu lose his burden, so he didn't think about anything, just attack and score a goal!
He quickly made a decision to replace defender Hwang Seok-ho with Kim Hyung-sung, the only forward in the Korean Olympic team.
This is a desperate situation.
This kind of substitution is very consistent with the personality traits and football style of Koreans.
They think they attach great importance to the quality of will and believe that momentum is very important.
Hong Mingfu hopes to use this substitution to boost the morale of the players and sound the horn for the Korean team's Jedi counterattack.
After the double encouragement of captain Ji Chengyong and head coach, the morale of the Korean team's players has indeed recovered a little.
When the game started again, they launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team's goal, and quickly equalizing the score was their primary goal now. For this purpose, they were willing to pay all the price.
Seeing the South Korean team attacking the Chinese team's goal, the Korean audience in front of the TV were extremely excited. They believed that under the impact of the South Korean team's momentum, the Chinese team's goal would definitely fall.
But not long after the game started again, they found that the situation was not what they imagined.
In their imagination, the South Korean team's offense will be like a surging tide, wave after wave, continuously impacting the Chinese team's defense line, without giving the Chinese team any chance to breathe.
But in fact, the South Korean team's offensive is strong, but it cannot last long. Because when their attack is over, the ball will change hands and fall to the Chinese team.
Once the Chinese team controls football, the originally storm will slow down, which makes the Korean team very uncomfortable.
It's like when a person is sprinting with all his might, there are obstacles ahead that he must stop and avoid. When he avoids the obstacle and accelerates the sprint again, he sees an obstacle in front of him. He keeps circulating like this, so he can't speed up and run quickly.
This feeling of being unable to do with energy is really unpleasant.
Why is there such a change in rhythm?
Because the Chinese team has Zhou Yi.
When the ball changed hands, the Chinese team was not in a hurry to launch an attack, but passed the football around and dealt with the South Korean team.
The South Korean team snatched the Chinese team's down-foot in the midfield. At this time, Zhou Yi let the football stay under his feet for a longer time and used his ball control to slow down the pace.
Even if he can let the football stay under his feet for an extra second, it will delay the Korean team's re-launch of the offense for a second.
Moreover, Zhou Yi has excellent ball control ability. After the football reaches his feet, he can always control it for more than a second. After attracting all the Korean players to him, he passes the football out, fully mobilizes the Korean players, and makes them exhausted.
Under such circumstances, Korean players will inevitably become impatient. When dealing with Zhou Yi, their hands and feet will move more and more.
Zhou Yi fell to the ground frequently under their defense, and the referee's whistle sounded often, and the Korean team was sentenced to foul. The game was interrupted from time to time. The already impatient Korean players were even more irritable.
They think that Zhou Yi is deliberately making a fall.
As long as Zhou Yi fell to the ground, the Korean players looked helpless, or protested against the referee against Zhou Yi's fake fall, and the Korean fans in the stands also booed and put pressure on the referee.
"Zhou Yi's socks were all broken by the shoe nails of Korean players. Can this be said to be a fake fall?" He Ping said unfairly for Zhou Yi.
A close-up shot just now showed Zhou Yi's socks, and a hole was cut at the ankle, revealing the skin inside.
Korean players were protesting around the referee, and Zhou Yi sat on the ground slowly tidying up his socks and sneakers, without any rush. Yang Muge came up and asked him with concern: "How is it? Didn't you hurt your ankle?"
Zhou Yi shook his head: "It's not a big deal."
Yang Muge stretched out his hand: "Do you want to get up?"
Zhou Yi smiled and shook his head and said, "No need for now, wait until they finish talking to the referee. Anyway, we are not worried now."
Zhou Yi was not in a hurry, but Brazevic was a little anxious off the court.
After this foul by the South Korean team, he rushed out of the coach's seat and complained and protested to the fourth official: "Shouldn't such an action be given cards? The referee should control the situation and not turn the game into a barbaric fight!"
The fourth official signaled him to calm down.
Brazevic continued to mumble and turned back.
He was worried that Zhou Yi was injured. The Korean players are obviously anxious now.
If Zhou Yi was injured, the Chinese team's Olympic journey might end in the semi-finals. Zhou Yi was not only the captain's note: I wrote that Zhou Yi was not the captain before, but later I thought about it and felt that it was unreasonable for Zhou Yi not to be the captain, so I modified the previous article and handed the captain's armband to Zhou Yi, which is still the absolute core of this team. As long as he is on the court, his teammates will be very relieved and confident. If he is absent due to injury, it will be a fatal blow to the Chinese team.
Brazevic wanted to replace Zhou Yi, but hesitated that the Korean team is so aggressive now. The Chinese team relies on Zhou Yi to deal with them. What if Zhou Yi is replaced and the midfield loses control? Look at the game time. There are still twenty minutes left before the end of the game. This time is enough for the Korean team to do something.
The protests of Korean players have finally ended, and they cannot keep pestering the referee, as this will make them reversal of cards and it will not be worth the loss.
They just need to continue to express their attitudes, and just let them repeat to the referee that "Zhou Yi is a fake fall liar", then maybe at a critical moment, they can get miraculous results?
When they finally dispersed from the referee, Zhou Yi was pulled up from the ground by He Ying who came up.
When he pulled Zhou Yi up, He Ying said in his ear: "Zhou Yi, one goal ahead is not a safe score. What should they do if they continue to attack you like this and cause you to be injured?"
"You are right." Zhou Yi nodded to agree with He Ying's concerns. "This situation must be changed."
"How to change it?" Yang Muge asked.
Chapter completed!