The Chinese team is still relatively suitable for intensive defense tactics. The two central defenders Wan Jun and Xiao Ting are both 1.87 meters tall, the midfielder **** is 1.85 meters tall, and even the two full-backs are more than 1.88 meters tall. When the set piece is set, when the two forwards come back, almost all the men in the penalty area are over 1.85 meters tall. Even if these people are amateur players, it is not so easy to break into one stop in the penalty area.

At the beginning, Nigerian players also became furious. They did not dare to take a high ball and hang into the Chinese team's penalty area, so they kept using breakthroughs and long shots to attack the Chinese team's defense line.

Nigeria has indeed strong personal abilities and strong physical strength. Chinese players cannot defend against Nigerian players one-on-one at all, and can only adopt fouls and blocking tactics.

However, the referee in this game is British, and the law enforcement standards are relatively loose, which is very beneficial to the Chinese team. When Chinese players defend, they have many major foul actions, such as pulling jerseys, pushing people, and hugging people. As long as it is not an injury, the referee will ignore it.

The Chinese team players slowly figured out the referee's law enforcement standards, and with home fans cheering, they took small moves when defending, deliberately angering Nigerian players.

Nigeria's players' breakthrough ability is definitely among the top three of the 16 participating teams. The intensive defense of the Chinese team is really difficult to stop them. Unfortunately, they met a British referee with a very relaxed law enforcement standard, allowing Chinese players to foul unscrupulously, which directly reduced Nigeria's breakthrough ability by half.

Nigerian players saw that the breakthrough did not work, so they had no choice but to go on the wing and kicked a high ball towards the Chinese team's penalty area, allowing their teammates to create chaos in the Chinese team's penalty area.

Originally, Nigeria thought that the Chinese team's defenders and midfielders were so tall and had the title of Chinese headers. It is probably not easy to make a shot with a high ball. Unexpectedly, although the Chinese team's players are very tall, they have slow speed and poor confrontation. Their two forwards, Odumvingi and Ensoford, can often get the opportunity to head.

Especially in the 18th minute, their full-back Adefermi headed the ball from the back point to the goal post, which made the Nigerians fascinated by crossing. They felt that crossing and heading were probably the best way to break the intensive defense of the Chinese team.

The Chinese team actually hopes that the Nigerians can take high-altitude balls. Compared to the Nigerians' explosive breakthrough, it is actually less difficult to defend high-altitude balls. Although Nigerians can often grab the landing point, it is difficult for them to stand up with the interference of Chinese players. It seems like they will seize the opportunity next time. In fact, if they are not lucky, they may never be able to grasp this opportunity.

Although the breakthrough causes greater lethality, it rarely gets shots after all. Although the long pass and rushing efficiency is low, it can often head the ball. This feeling that looks closer to scoring is like a drug that makes short-sighted Nigerian players addicted to them. They crossed the whole first half, crossed the wing, crossed the 45-degree angle, crossed the backcourt... The Nigerian team, who broke through sharply and smoothly in the group stage and quarter-finals, disappeared, and now it seems that an English team appears on the court.

Nigeria is so obsessed with crossing that surprised the head coach of the Chinese Olympic team on the sidelines. He even thought that Nigeria has used high-altitude balls as secret weapons in the past few days.

The commentator He Shiren teased: "The Chinese team once again used a magic weapon for intensive defense. In addition, they also gave the Nigerians drugs and turned them into an African header team. Is Nigeria's header really good?"

The first half ended and the score was zero to zero.

Visitor team locker room

Nigerian players were resting and scolding the referee for blowing the black whistle. The Chinese team played football too rudely. Head coach Siasia stood at the door with a gloomy face and didn't speak for a long time.

Xiyacia didn't think about how to play in the second half. In fact, there were only a few moves to break the intensive defense. Even if Manchester United, Liverpool, Barcelona were to play against the Chinese team, Mourinho and Ferguson were to command, it was nothing more than long shots, set pieces, and personal breakthroughs. The difference was that the giant teams were more efficient.

In the first half, Nigeria also shot a long shot, set balls, personal breakthroughs, high balls were also suspended, and the effect was similar, and no goals were scored. Xixia didn't know which style of play could be? He broke through the Chinese team's goal in the second half.

After some thought, Xiyashi felt that it would be better to try all kinds of methods, so he said: "The opponent has adopted the most conservative and shameless tactics, which is a severe test for our attack power. However, I believe that you can break through the Chinese team's goal and break the intensive defense. In the second half, everyone should try actively and attack boldly. The earlier the goal, the better. If you really can't score, wait until the overtime game. Don't press too far to prevent being sneak attacked by the Chinese team. They attacked a goal at the last moment in the quarter-finals and eliminated Italy..."

Xiyashiya arranged the tactics for the second half, pointed out the solutions to various possible situations in advance, and then left the locker room.

Home team locker room

Yin Shengtie's expression was very relaxed, and the players also talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was completely different from the game with Italy.

Undoubtedly, this game is more important and the opponent is stronger, but the Chinese team is not under pressure for results now, and they will be praised in the end, and their mentality will definitely be completely different.

In addition, Nigeria played a bit funny in the first half. Originally, they were best at personal breakthroughs, but this group of brainless black men actually played a long pass for more than half an hour, as if they were heading very **.

Yin Sheng Railway: "Although the General Administration did not put pressure on us, we should have the determination to create history. We are the largest and strongest country in Asia, and the football record should be maintained by us. After the first half, you also saw Nigeria's strength. They are stronger than us, but in football matches, teams with strong strength may not necessarily win, Italy is stronger than us, but we eliminated them..."

In the first half, Nigeria was beaten in a mess. The Chinese team finally saw the gap between themselves and the strong team. However, with the experience of eliminating Italy, they respected the strong and hoped to defeat the strong, rather than surrendering in front of the strong.

Yin Sheng Railway: "We are not as strong as our opponents, so we can only defend intensively, but intensive defense does not just accumulate numbers. You must run, shout, complement each other, and score more team goals. In the last game, we were eliminated in Italy in the last stage. This time we still play like this and strive for the final goal..."

Speaking of this, Yin Shengtie looked at Chen Yu, Sun Hai, and Zheng Hua, "The task is very heavy, it depends on yours."

Chen Yu smiled and said, "If Nigeria still had the funny style of playing in the first half, the possibility of us eliminating them is not that they eliminated our little ones."

Yin Sheng Railway: "The opportunity is right in front of us. We will try our best to fight. Whether we can seize it depends on God's arrangement."

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After the halftime break, the game continues to begin.

Neither side made a substitution, and the game scene did not change much from the first half. It was Nigeria who tried every means to attack, while the Chinese players defended by any means.

Such a game is definitely not good, because it is even worse than the training match. There is a chance to shoot in every round of the training match. Such a half-court offense and defense basically ends with fouls and clearance. I don’t know how many minutes it takes to have a chance to shoot.

The Chinese team fans are in it, and they are concerned about it. They can’t care whether they look good or not. As long as there is a good result in the end, even if the process is bad, it will be the best game.

Nigeria has used all 108 offensive postures, but no matter how they attack, they cannot break the Chinese team's goal. What annoys the Nigerians even more is that the Chinese team's small moves have never been stopped in a game, which is even more South American than South American players. They don't understand why ancient civilizations with good reputations have been so dirty and despicable.

After the game was 65 minutes, Nigeria still scored no goals. Head coach Siasia could no longer hold back. He replaced No. 10 Isaac with No. 7 Ogbuk, used Achebe to switch to Okronco, and replaced two players who were stronger than defense in a row to continue to strengthen the offensive.

Substitution is like changing swords. The Chinese team has been defending for so long and has adapted to Nigeria's style of play. Nigeria suddenly changed two players, and the style of play has changed. The Chinese team's players did not keep up with the pace for a while, and Nigerian players found a chance to shoot.

The newly replaced No. 10 Isaac made a breakthrough and fell to the ground when the Chinese team committed a foul and forced the ball out.

When the referee was good for the offense, he did not stop the game and allowed Nigerian players to continue the attack.

Nigerian striker Ensoford received the ball and inserted it from the ribs into the Chinese team's penalty area at high speed.

Just when Isaac fell to the ground, the Chinese players were stunned for a moment. In this moment, Ensoford rushed to the front of the penalty area. In a hurry, he fell to the ground and put a shovel, trying to intercept the ball or person on the penalty area line.

But the Africans' explosive power is really good. Ensoford accelerated again, Wan Jun's tackle was empty and was rushed into the penalty area by Ensoford.

The air in the stands almost solidified in an instant, and the nervous hearts of the Chinese fans almost jumped out of their chests. Those who believe in Buddhism asked for the Buddha's blessing, those who believe in Christ prayed for God's blessing, those who believe in nothing prayed for Ensoforre's garlic under their feet, or Qiu Jun showed his courage and saved Ensoforre's single sword.

Chinese goalkeeper Qiu Jun obviously cannot count on anyone, he can only rely on himself. When Ensoford rushed into the penalty area, he also rushed out of the small penalty area at high speed and shot straight to Ensoford's ball under his feet.

Ensoford had several shots before but failed to hit the goal range. This time he was less confident in his footwork. He changed the ball and dodged Qiu Jun's attack.

The goalkeeper's defense area is very large, and Ensoford had to push the ball larger, but in this way, the goalkeeper has passed. By the time Ensoford catches up, the ball is almost at the bottom line and the shooting angle becomes too small.

Ensoford had no other choice but to shoot at a low angle to the far corner of the goal.

The footwork of professional players is unspeakable. Under normal circumstances, they can hit wherever they point, but now they are defenders who are rushing to shovel over by their opponents. Without extraordinary physical and psychological adjustment ability and a super good sense of ball, it is difficult to make high-quality shots.

The ball did not roll into the goal net as Ensoford imagined, but rolled out of the bottom line against the far post.

Such a good opportunity was lost, and Ensoford kneeled in the penalty area with regret.

When Ensoford passed the goalkeeper, Nigeria's head coach Siasia was angry. He felt that Ensoford was too sticky and didn't shoot with a single shot. He passed by a goalkeeper and was simply taking off his pants and farting for trouble. Seeing the ball lost, Siasia was so angry that he kicked the windshield hard, wishing he could go up and slap Ensoford.

The Chinese team survived the death. Some players and fans were happy, some were lucky, some were shocked, some were angry, some were suspicious, and some were extremely complicated.

At this time, the Chinese team needs to stabilize the most and cannot be conquered by Nigeria like this, otherwise they will definitely collapse.
Chapter completed!