Commentator Liu Hong praised the referee Hassan for taking cards to Australian players. He believed that this would help the referee control the situation on the field and let the Australian players know whose home court is here.

But the actual situation is not the same as he imagined.

Although I received a yellow card, this did not change Australia's tactics.

Zhou Yi is their focus on guard and the key to their ability to win away games. How could they be scared by a yellow card?

Some Australian players of Zhou Yi will use their excellent physical fitness to back up Zhou Yi. As long as the movement strength is controlled properly, even if they are not fouled, they can play a similar role as a foul. Anyway, they just don’t let Zhou Yi get the ball comfortably.

They divided Zhou Yi and pressed each other closely. This double-pronged tactic tried to prevent the Chinese team from operating normally.

It can be said that this strategy is quite successful and targeted.

Surrounding Zhou Yi not only cut off Zhou Yi's passing route, but also cut off the external passing route to Zhou Yi. In addition, a "personal bodyguard" made it difficult for other Chinese players to pass the football to Zhou Yi, let alone Zhou Yi's passing route to others.

So at the beginning of the game, Australia's tactics made the Chinese team a little embarrassed. Zhou Yi failed to make any requests. However, Australia was very active in the offense. Through physical advantages, they took advantage of the collision. Sometimes they were able to grab the ball by relying on their physical strength advantages, which was not even considered a foul.

Under such a basis, they repeatedly attacked the Chinese team's goal.

At this moment, Sun Pan became the protagonist of the Chinese team. He took the high and low blocks in front of the goal and resolved the crisis for the Chinese team many times.

Of course, Guo Nu and Yang Muge are also very important in defense. Without their layers of filtering, Australia's offensive against the Chinese team might be even more fierce.

However, even if you can hold on and not lose the ball, this is not the result that Gao Hongbo wants, nor is it what Chinese media and fans want. Since it is at his home court, of course, I hope to get all three-pointers. In this way, when facing Australia again away, the Chinese team can also appear more calm.

So defense alone is not good, you still have to attack. And if the offense cannot threaten Australia's goal, the pressure on defense will only increase or decrease.

But how to improve the offense?

Yang Muge can come up to pick up Zhou Yi, but he dare not do this because he comes up. However, Australian players grab the ball from Zhou Yi with their physical advantage, so they can directly hit the front of the back line because their midfield barrier is not in place. As a defensive midfielder, he cannot easily insert it. The defensive position is more important than anything else. He can take over the reality that the team is unable to attack, but he must not rush up to participate in the offense because of the unfavorable offense, resulting in a defensive loss.

So he can only be at the back. When Zhou Yi encounters trouble, he will ask Zhou Yi to pass the football back to him, and he will transfer it, or simply organize the attack.

But his offensive organizational ability is far inferior to Zhou Yi...

However, his existence does have an extra point of throwing the ball. So if Zhou Yi doesn't work after being posted by the opponent, he will decisively pass the football back to Yang Muge.

But this kind of back pass is of little help to the offense.

You can't always pass back or cross in a game, right?

The key is to pass the ball forward.

But Australia's strict defense against Zhou Yi's forward pass is simply a strict defense.

This strict defense hindered the Chinese team's offense.

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When Zhou Yi was surrounded by Australian players and could only pass back, He Ying thought of what Zhou Yi said to him this morning.

They had just gotten up at that time. After Zhou Yi finished washing up, he suddenly said to He Ying: "He Ying, if I am stared at me in the evening game, you have to retreat to pick me up."

He Ying was quite surprised at the time and didn't understand why Zhou Yi suddenly said that.

So Zhou Yi explained to him that Australia will definitely focus on guarding him, and they will definitely stop themselves from passing forward. At this time, Queen He Ying needs to withdraw to pick him up. When Zhou Yi is in the encirclement, He Ying will be his reinforcements.

"... And there is another very important point, He Ying. Your performance against the Japanese team in the last game must have been seen by the Australian coach. They must have understood your situation in the club. What conclusion do you guess they will come to?"

"I... am not in good condition." He Ying said.

"Yes." Zhou Yi said. "Will they focus too much on you in a bad state? I don't think it's possible. So in fact, you have a high degree of freedom on the court, you can do something without being noticed by Australia. Your sudden retreat and turning forward will be greatly beyond their expectations."

"But my condition..."

"Don't think about it so much, there will be state."

He Ying finally agreed to Zhou Yi's request. He was very envious of the tactical qualities shown by Zhou Yi, but he didn't know that this was verified by Zhou Yi in the virtual space.

In the virtual games he has played, Australia will implement a siege strategy on him in most games. In the virtual world, such a high probability means that this is a tactic that Australia is likely to adopt in reality. In order to deal with this tactic, Zhou Yi thought of many ways at the beginning, but later he found that the key to dealing with this defensive strategy is to make He Ying active.

If He Ying is not confident or some other reason and is away from the outside, then this game will be very difficult.

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He Ying remembered what Zhou Yi said to him before the game. He still didn't quite understand why Zhou Yi knew so well about Australia, but now he knew that this was not the time to figure out this issue. Anyway, he had seen the "miracles" that Zhou Yi showed many times, and he just had to cooperate with Zhou Yi.

He looked around and saw that as Zhou Yi "prophesed" by him, the Australian players were not very strict with him. When Zhou Yi took the ball, everyone's eyes were naturally directed at Zhou Yi, and he didn't notice that they were still moving around him.

It's really underestimated.

If He Ying had been angry before, although he would not show it from his expression, he would be angry, and there was a fire burning in his heart. In essence, he was a proud person. He was different from Zhou Yi, Sun Pan, Yang Muge, and Guo Nu. They used to be like **silk characters. Zhou Yi was a student and an amateur player; Sun Pan was a gangster who was rushed to the football team for a fight in a basketball team; Yang Muge and Guo Nu were both marginal figures who were not valued in their respective club youth teams.

Only He Ying is a team that has attracted much attention since his youth player age. He has never been absent from the national youth team at all levels and the national youth team as long as they are not injured. In that reality show, he was a well-deserved star.

Of course, I would be more proud of having such a brilliant past and outstanding talent.

But now, He Ying's heart has been much calmer. Since Zhou Yi's strong rise, his star light has been taken away a lot. Everything he encountered in Barcelona has also made him feel more peaceful, which will help him understand some questions he could not understand before, such as "I have such a good talent, why is he not as good as Sun Pan now?"

Because he is too ambitious and thinks that he has outstanding talent, he should follow the path of genius. Joining La Macia and finally choosing to stay in Barcelona are all based on this psychology. He always feels that only Barcelona can deserve his talent.

In this regard, Sun Pan's choice was much more rational. He chose to go to Chelsea's youth training camp because Chelsea was most interested in him and had the greatest sincerity. He followed him and observed him many games, but he was not interested in others.

When he arrived at Chelsea, after the youth team played, because the first team had goalkeepers like Cech guarding the goal, it would be difficult for him to play even if he was in the first team, so it would be better to go out on loan. In order to be able to play in the game, he even was willing to go to the third-level German league team. If it were He Ying, without Zhou Yi's persuasion, he would even feel that going to the Spanish Second Division was embarrassing.

But Sun Pan played his own world in the German C League and attracted the favor of Atletico Madrid with his outstanding performance. Sun Pan himself also felt that although he performed well in the German C team, it was still difficult to squeeze Cech down in the first team of Chelsea, so he chose to continue to be loaned, went to Atletico Madrid, which he had been observing for a long time.

In this way, he can play at Atletico Madrid naturally.

At Atletico Madrid, with sufficient competition opportunities, his talent has room to play, and his status naturally rises.

To put it bluntly, if you don’t have the opportunity to perform, no matter how talented you are, it’s just a “concept” that you can’t perform.

And now there is a chance in front of He Ying. He has no chance to show his talent in the club, but in the national team, the head coach trusts him, stares at the huge public opinion pressure of the people across the country, and continues to let him start.

This is a lot of pressure, but it is also an opportunity.

As Zhou Yi said - when an opportunity appears in front of you, you must seize it to be qualified to talk about it later.

Seeing Zhou Yi who was deeply trapped in a siege, the retreat would make He Ying lose the opportunity to charge forward, but it gave him an opportunity that might be a change in his career.
Chapter completed!