Minamino Takumi had to go down, and the one who came up was Kubo Takehide.
"Jiu Jianying is here. He is also a striker with very strong technical ability."
"This is a player who came from La Masia's youth academy. He later returned to China and played for a while before joining Real Madrid."
"If he didn't have the strength, it would be impossible for Barcelona and Real Madrid to take a fancy to him at the same time, even for the Asian market."
"We cannot think that the Japanese team's forward strength has declined just because Minamino Takumi is gone. This is definitely not the case."
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As soon as he saw that the Japanese team had made some adjustments, Lippi quickly took action.
The players' physical fitness is declining, and it is impossible for these eleven players to play the entire game, but for Lippi, there are not many adjustments he can make.
He replaced Wu Xi with Chi Zhongguo. Wu Xi covered a large area in this game and was carrying a yellow card. Now is the perfect time to adjust.
What was quite surprising was that Lippi then replaced Hao Junmin with Wu Lei.
He actually switched to playing as a double forward.
Shouldn't they be defensive? I thought they were replaced by defensive players.
Now it has been changed to a double striker.
"Lippi still wants the Chinese team to continue scoring goals. Doesn't he think two goals are not safe enough? But it's okay. Simply defending is too stressful anyway. It's better to put two forwards in front and let the Japanese team's two defenders
Don’t dare to come up.”
Yes, that's what Lippi thinks.
The famous handsome man is so arrogant and courageous.
If the two forwards are in front, they can suppress the opponent's full-backs. The two full-backs will not dare to press forward unscrupulously. Behind them, there is the passing master Luo Wu who has the ball and may send the ball in front at any time to create a counterattack.
I guess Mori Yasuichi didn't expect Lippi to do this, but now he has no choice but to focus on offense.
After the game resumed, newly arrived Takuma Asano immediately took the ball in front and broke through.
Maybe he was thinking of using his physical advantage to bully the Chinese players, so he lowered his head and rushed towards Huang Bowen, but Huang Bowen's frontal defense was quite strong. The ball passed by, but Asano Takuma's body remained on the lawn.
The Japanese team won a chance to set the ball in the frontcourt, and it was Takuma Asano who took the kick, but he directly kicked the ball.
Luo Wu returned to the front of the penalty area to get the ball. When Osako Yuya came to press him, he poked the ball to Chi China in front.
Chi China did not dare to send the ball rashly to the front, but gave it to Zhang Linpeng on the wing.
Zhang Linpeng directly hit the ball over the top to find Wu Lei, but Wu Lei was directly blocked by Hiroki Sakai, and the ball returned to the Japanese player.
But Hiroki Sakai was a little impatient, and the long ball he sent lost his accuracy, and the ball was also won by Huang Bowen of the Chinese team.
Huang Bowen handed the ball to Chi China again. This time Chi China saw Luo Wu and quickly kicked the ball over. The distance was very close, but the force was so strong that Luo Wu almost failed to stop.
It was obvious that Chi China was very nervous, otherwise his actions would not have been so bad.
But just because of this, Asano Takuma came over with a flying shovel, and Luo Wu fell on the turf.
He committed a foul.
The referee gave him a verbal warning.
But Luo Wu didn't get up, and it looked like he was really shoveled hard by this guy.
The game could only be temporarily suspended while the team doctor came in to examine Luo Wu.
After struggling for more than a minute, Luo Wu stood up again. Nothing happened. It seemed that he was stalling for time.
However, not long after the restart, Luo Wu continued to control the ball and passed near the center line to face Takuma Asano who had just fouled.
After getting off the four-legged bicycle in front of him, he gently turned to the right, and then took a small step forward, without being in a hurry to dribble the ball forward.
Asano Takuma came over and bumped him with his left shoulder, causing Luo Wu to fall to the ground again.
The referee's whistle sounded again, and this time he took out a yellow card to warn Asano Takuma.
I was given a verbal warning just now, but this time it must be a yellow card.
Unexpectedly, Luo Wu rolled on the turf again.
The Chinese team doctor was very understanding and then ran into the stadium and checked him again.
The Japanese players were dissatisfied again. Genki Haraguchi came over and forcibly grabbed Luo Wu's arm, hoping to pull him up. This aroused the anger of the Chinese players.
Huang Bowen quickly ran over, slapped Genki Haraguchi's left arm away, and then squeezed in front of him.
He successfully attracted Genki Haraguchi's attention, and Genki Haraguchi immediately took a step forward and pushed Huang Bowen with his chest.
Huang Bowen took two steps back and stood still, but Chi China quickly rushed in.
At this time, Wei Shihao on the left also ran over, forced his way to Huang Bowen, and then pushed Yuankou Yuanqi.
The referee hurried over and blew his whistle.
"It's urgent, it's urgent, the Japanese team players are anxious."
"Haha, I didn't expect this day to happen to them, but Wei Shihao must be careful. This guy has a quick temper, so he must not fall into other people's traps."
Fortunately, Wei Shihao did not make any next move. He showed great restraint. After the referee came over, he gave Genki Haraguchi a yellow card.
The scene quickly calmed down.
As a result, everyone saw Luo Wu standing well on the grass again, with no problem at all.
Well, I am still specifically disgusted with Japanese players.
The Japanese fans in the stands let out deafening boos, and they were also very dissatisfied.
In the end, the game resumed, and the Chinese team entered a positional battle. Luo Wu retreated and received a return pass from Chi China.
Asano Takuma came up again, but this time he obviously didn't dare to make any random moves. Instead, Luo Wu pulled the ball back and accelerated, rushing up from beside him.
Tang Anlu rushed forward immediately, but Luo Wu's right foot arch suddenly shook forward!
The ball flew straight forward from his feet, flew half a meter above the turf for a short distance, then suddenly fell to the ground and bounced, then jumped behind the Japanese team's defense!
Takelei, who had just made his debut, cleverly took a step across the middle, got rid of Hiroki Sakai who was marking him, and successfully got the ball.
Central defender Yoshida Ma quickly ran over to block the ball, but Wu Lei calmly rubbed the ball to the back point.
Because he saw that Wei Shihao was in a good position.
Unexpectedly, Nagatomo Yuto actually leaned towards the middle, giving Wei Shihao the opportunity to get in behind him.
As a result, Wei Shihao easily stopped the ball on the left side. When Nagatomo Yuto turned around to defend, Wei Shihao had already rolled a ground ball, and a round of scimitar went around the two central defenders. The ball was actually passed again.
Returning to Wu Lei's side, Wu Lei directly met the ball with the arch of his right foot and pushed the ball.
The ball flew into the lower right corner of the goal.