A 50-year-old stadium.

On this stadium, the Chinese team and Guoan team have a lot of vanity, and the unbeaten Gongtai was once famous in China.

In fact, fans who know a little about football know that the outcome of a friendly match is not valued by European and American giants at all. Only those who play seriously will play seriously. Faced with European and American giants who play seriously, let alone wealthy families, even second-rate teams can abuse the Chinese team to the ground.

This is not self-deprecating. Before this Olympics, the Chinese team had not scored a goal in a major event in the world football world and won a victory.

Today, Gongsports and Chinese teams finally have the opportunity to clear their names - in the quarterfinals of the men's football match of the Olympics, the Chinese team will face the European giant Italian team.

In the group stage, the Chinese team won two wins and one lost, qualifying with the second in the group, Italy won two wins and one draw, and qualifying with the first in the group.

In terms of strength alone, the Chinese team is definitely weaker than the Italian team, but in terms of experience, the Chinese team is definitely stronger than the Italian team. There is no over-age player over 23 years old in this Italian team. Because the only over-age player, Luo Jin, has returned home, and the wings of the Zebra Legion, is also returning home with him. This absolute main player in Italy was also injured.

Although the experience is a little worse and the Chinese team still has home advantage, Italian head coach Karasic is full of confidence in advance. He joked that the Chinese team only has experience in losing and not winning. Although Italy has no over-age players, they have been through many battles in the European Youth Championship. As long as there is no referee factor, they are not afraid of the Chinese team at all. Karasic also cited the example of Italy losing to the South Korean and Japanese World Cup in 2002, saying that Asians like to do some off-set tricks.

The Chinese team did not have a verbal battle with Italy because such things cannot be explained and debated. The more they talked, the more they became, the more they couldn't explain it. In the game against Belgium, the Chinese team was almost hacked at their doorstep, so it would be better to keep silent and speak with your feet.

The match between China and Italy was the first quarterfinal match to begin, and the game kicked off at 18 pm.

The starting lineup of the Italian National Olympic Team is a 4321 Christmas tree formation. This formation is commonly used by AC Milan. Goalkeeper 1-Viviano, defender: 2-Mota, 6-Chriscito, 15-Boketi, 3-Decereri; Mile back: 7-Montolivo, 5-Cigalini, 4-Nocerino; Front midfielder: 10-Jovenco, 11-Rosci; Forward: 14-Aquafresca

The starting lineup of the Chinese team is a 442 formation: goalkeeper: 1-Qiu Jun defender: 4-Sun Hai, 5-Wan Jun, 3-Xiao Ting, 2-Tan Song forward: 10-Chen Yu, 8-Zheng Hua, 6-****, 7-Hao Jun forward: 11-Dongfang Zhuo 9-Yang Lin.

Everyone was surprised to see Tan Song appear in the official competition again. Although Tan Song's red card ban has passed after playing Brazil, Tan Song's broken son's leg is too bad. Most fans thought that Tan Song would probably not appear in the Olympics again. Unexpectedly, Yin Shengtie sent Tan Song out again.

At this time, even Poet He couldn't help but complain: "Besides, the employment of people is not conservative, isn't Yin afraid that Tan Song will get red cards if he is crazy? Italy is not Belgium. If he plays one less person, the Chinese team will be doomed."

Yin Shengtie on the sidelines was also uneasy. It was mainly Chen Yu's suggestion that Tan Song starts. Yin Shengtie and the team committee originally meant to be used for Weiwei, but Chen Yu believed that after Tan Song kicked the Belgian player that day, he was notorious and was helpful in deterring his opponents. He put his heart in his favor. Any player would feel timid when he met Tan Song. It was good to make his opponent dare not perform freely when his level was inferior to his opponent. And Chen Yu said that he had talked to Tan Song deeply and that Tan Song would not do such stupid things again.

Yin Shengtie had absolute trust in Chen Yu, but he couldn't believe that Chen Yu could completely subdue Tan Song, but the players had already played, and Yin Shengtie could only leave it to fate.

The Italian team kicked off first. When facing the Chinese team, Italy seemed very relaxed. After the kickoff, they quickly pressed forward from three lines, trying to give the Chinese team a warning.

The Chinese team has studied the Italian team to the core in the past three days. They watch videos every night to discuss every starter in Italy, and conduct simulation exercises during the day to find ways to deal with Italy.

After in-depth understanding, they felt that this team of Italy is not as strong as they imagined, at least not as strong as Belgium, which is full of main players. The reason why it looks much stronger than Belgium is mainly because of the bonus effect of the Italian national team. In addition, Italy is in a better state and its opponents are relatively weak.

Judging from the European Youth Championship, Belgium is the semi-finals, while the Italian team did not qualify in the group.

Of course, whether this is strong or not is certain for Belgium, it is better than the Chinese team.

Facing the Italian team, the Chinese team adopts tactics to fight against the Italians best at defensive counterattacks, rather than taking the initiative to attack. This is called using the same method to control the person, or using the best skills to control the person.

There is a saying that the defensive genes of Italian players are engraved in their blood, and the Chinese team's attack power cannot be seen in front of Italian defense.

This team of Italy looks strong in the group stage, which is against Honduras and South Korea, but not against Cameroon. Cameroon was sent off a player, and Italy was unable to break through the African Lions.

Faced with the Italian team's attack, the Chinese team honestly stationed in its half to press. Except for Chen Yu, Zheng Hua and Sun Hai, the other players will never easily control the ball in their own defense zones, and will not give the Italian the opportunity to intercept the ball and launch a fast attack.

Watching videos and simulation training can’t be compared with real swords and guns. In the 5th minute of the game, Italy got a good opportunity.

Montolivo made a long pass on the right side of the midfield. Qiao Wenke unloaded the ball wonderfully on the left side of the penalty area and shook Drovo's defense and dodged the shooting space. Unfortunately, with the interference of Chinese players, Qiao Wenke's low shot hit the side net.

This is the cooperation of two of Italy's most star-like and creative players. After this attack, the Chinese team strengthened their defense against both of them.

In 3 minutes, Italian midfielder Nocerino intercepted the ball and handed the ball to Montolivo. Montolivo kept passing the ball and assisting the forward full-back Mota. Mota broke through the speed and screwed the ball into the penalty area. Forward Aquafresca beat Wan Jun and headed the ball, but unfortunately it did not hit the right goal.

These two attacks were very skillful, and Montolivo's strength was immediately exposed to the Chinese team's eyes. Then the Chinese team's forward Yang Lin deliberately retreated to interfere with him, not giving him the opportunity to pass the ball easily.

Yang Lin's shooting ability is not strong, with Yang Feiji's nickname, but he is powerful and fast, and is relatively diligent. He can play in full accordance with the coach's requirements. Today, Yin Shengti asked him to pay attention to defending Montolivo, so Yang Lin kept harassing Montolivo, and sometimes even followed Montolivo to the front of his penalty area, which made Montolivo very angry. He really couldn't figure out what if a striker didn't score a goal.

Compared with the hardworking Yang Lin, Dongfang Zhuo, who is also very fast, is lazy, but his body and shooting ability are stronger than another substitute striker Jiang Ning, so he became the main starter.

Dongfang Zhuo's task is relatively simple, which is to wander in the front court, and if you have the opportunity, you will rush back, and if you don't have the opportunity, you will take the ball and hand it over to Chen Yu who was in front.

Montolivo is Italy's backcourt engine, and he instigated many of Italy's counterattacks. Today, the Chinese team played a defensive counterattack. Montolivo's long pass ability did not have much room to play. In addition, Yang Lin kept pestering him, Montolivo's point was almost ruined.

Italy's offense is mainly based on Qiao Wenke, who is 1.64 meters tall and nicknamed Atom Ant, Qiao Wenke is the absolute core of all teams of Juventus. Such a short figure can become the core, and his technical awareness is definitely not to mention that he can get the ball in the frontcourt of the Chinese team. The tall Chinese players have no way to use him to encircle Qiao Wenke with the advantage of the number of people. However, Qiao Wenke also has a good pass, which makes the Chinese team's defense very difficult. If it weren't for the Italian frontcourt players' personal abilities, the Chinese team might have conceded the ball.

Since he was ready to defend himself, seeing Qiao Wenke so active, Chen Yu changed positions with Zheng Hua without hesitation and returned to the midfielder to defend Qiao Wenke.

Chen Yu is 1.80 meters tall, with a super speed, a powerful body, and a very fast movement frequency. The only thing that is inferior to Qiao Wenke is that he is not flexible enough. However, although Qiao Wenke can temporarily use his flexibility to deal with Chen Yu, it will be difficult to create murderous intent.

The Chinese team strangled Italy's front and backcourt engines to death, and Italy's offense soon became silent, and they could only fight with the Chinese team in the midfield that was not nutritious.

This is the scene that the Chinese team hopes to see. The Chinese team is weaker, and it is very cost-effective to survive until they play a penalty shootout with Italy, not to mention that they have their own small plans.

Italy cannot accept the result of a draw with the Chinese team. As a team that is good at defensive counterattack, after being seen to death by Montolivo and Giovanko, they had to go forward to attack the Chinese team's iron barrel formation.

The Chinese team is still at a disadvantage, but they have successfully allowed their opponents to play in ways they are not good at, and to see the opponent's most threatening players. No matter what the result is, this is already a tactical success.

After resisting the Italian attack, the Chinese team began to try to counterattack.

In the 25th minute, Chen Yu used his physical advantage to cut Qiao Wenke's ball at the front of the penalty area, and then passed the ball to Zheng Hua in the frontcourt for a long pass. Zheng Hua stopped the ball and took two steps and passed the ball to Dongfang Zhuo.

Dongfang Zhuo's speed advantage is still very obvious when he has a large space. He dribbled the ball at high speed to Italy's penalty area and directly shot from a long shot, but the ball missed the post.

Five minutes later, Yang Lin also got a chance, and he poked the bottom line from the snatch point seven meters in front of the goal.

The fans in the stands and Yin Shengtie on the sidelines shook their heads repeatedly, and were speechless at the shooting skills of Dongfang Zhuo and Yang Lin.

Commentator He Shiren sighed: "The physical conditions and skills of the two strikers of the Chinese team are definitely good in Asia. It doesn't matter if the awareness is poor, and the whole Asia is poor. However, the ability to seize opportunities in front of the goal is too urgent, as if the opportunity is not money. If they can have half of Chen Yu's shooting skills and one-third of the shooting skills, the Chinese team won't have to play so hard."

Although the forwards cannot seize the opportunity, the Chinese team is not in a hurry. What they have to do today is to waste Italy's death. Scoring early goals inspiring Italy's fighting spirit is not necessarily a good thing. As long as the counterattack can form a deterrent, Italy's offense will not dare to be unscrupulous, and the Chinese team's defensive pressure will be smaller.

Sure enough, the Italians, the ancestor who defended and counterattacked, quickly felt the crisis. They did not dare to push forward too far, nor did they dare to put all their troops into the attack, and tried their best to attack while ensuring the safety of the defense line.

Offense and defense are a pair of contradictions. With more people defending, fewer people attacking. With more energy investing in defense, less energy will be used to attack and less pressure will be placed on the opponent.

In the 45th minute of the first half, Italy occupied 70% of the ball possession time, but the number of shots was only twice more than the Chinese team, and they were unable to score a goal. This made them feel that the Chinese team was more difficult than the Korean team. They didn't understand why such a Chinese team never beat the Korean team.

Italy was disappointed to go back to the locker room to discuss countermeasures, but the Chinese team did not leave immediately. They walked around the stadium to express their gratitude to the fans, and then went back to the locker room to rest.
Chapter completed!