At 16 o'clock in the afternoon, outside the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, as the 18 o'clock match time approached, a large number of Chinese fans wearing red and colorful clothes suddenly appeared on the streets looking for food after taking a rest during the day.
After eating and drinking, these Chinese fans began to flood the streets and rushed to the competition venues with great vigor. Along the way, drums, suonas, gongs and other folk instruments were played, which attracted the enthusiastic and bold Russian people to boo.
At this World Cup, the most eye-catching thing outside the stadium is the variety of celebration instruments and methods of Chinese fans, which has made countless foreign fans exclaim.
"Hello, sir, may I disturb you for a moment?"
"Gah! Oh! Reporter! Do you want to interview? Sha Leng Ma Le'er, what do you want to ask? Brother, I will tell you everything I know, and I will tell you everything!"
Outside the Nizhny Novgorod stadium, Wei Bowen, holding a CCT5 logo in his hand, was looking for interview targets among the crowded crowd of Chinese fans.
After a while, he took aim at a strong man with a red ribbon on his head and a Chinese flag on his waist. He was two meters tall and had strong muscles in his arms.
This young man in his early thirties revealed the coordinates of his Novice Village as soon as he opened his mouth, as well as his incurable disease of being a socially awesome person.
The strong smell of Northeastern slag and the smell of green onions made Wei Bowen, who was dumbfounded, rub his nose and said: "Sir, I am CCTV reporter Wei Bowen. What do you think of this game?"
expect!"
"Ah! That's what you're asking?" The young man looked at Wei Bowen with a look of disgust, "Oh my god, I thought you were going to ask something!"
"I have no expectations for this game. If I can win, I will win. If I can't, I will lose!"
"Being able to reach the knockout round scares the pants off me!"
"In today's game, as long as we show the magnanimity of our great country, it will be okay even if we lose!"
"Let me tell you, on the day we qualified, I wanted to buy some firecrackers in Sochi and drag them along the street to celebrate, but they were sold all over the city. Guess what I ended up using to celebrate?
of?"
"For what?" Wei Bowen was completely confused when he encountered such a talkative person, and the pace of the interview was diverted by the powerful Northeastern dialect.
"I went to the gun store to buy two flower traps, and there were two hundred shuttles facing the sky..."
Hearing these words, the corner of Wei Bowen's mouth twitched crazily. He looked up at the dim night sky. Even though he knew that this guy was talking about trains, he still couldn't help but feel happy.
After a while! The interview ended, and the young man left refreshed, leaving Wei Bowen with a messy face, who seemed to have not recovered yet.
"Wow! Brother, please give me the microphone back!"
"..."
"Hahaha……"
Looking at Wei Bowen chasing away from the direct camera, this scene made the three game commentators He Wei and Liu Jianhong in the domestic live broadcast room who were connected with Wei Bowen, as well as the invited Zhang Lu, Su Dong, and Fan Zhiyi, burst into laughter.
Slap the table.
"So eloquent!"
"I have a feeling these two are going to become famous!"
"I know he's bragging, but I can't resist it for no reason!"
"Is this a pregame sketch show?"
"..."
Countless fans who were watching the CCT5 channel at home also burst out laughing and left messages on the barrage. They didn’t see the reporter doing the interview, but instead they were led by others, and in the end the microphone was taken away.
"Actually, what this player said also illustrates the current attitude of our fans. If you can win, win, if you can't win, you will be defeated, but you must show momentum!" He Wei, who stopped laughing for a while, said.
Next to him, Liu Jianhong nodded and continued: "In the many pre-match interviews conducted by our frontline reporters, more than 80% of the fans' attitude towards this game is that if they can win, they will win. If they lose, it doesn't matter. They all expressed that they do not expect the Chinese team to be able to win."
Having reached the top 8, they are very satisfied now!"
"..."
After chatting for a while, He Wei turned the topic back to this game.
"Director Zhang, come on, please start your performance!"
"Haha..." Hearing He Wei's sudden humor, everyone else was happy.
Zhang Lu glanced at the manuscript on the table in front of him, smiled helplessly, organized his words, and quickly entered the pre-game analysis state, smiling: "This game is a difficult test for us.
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"In terms of the paper strength of both sides, we only have Mo Yang, uh, Lele, and Wu Lei who are playing in the five major European leagues!"
"As for Croatia, maybe some fans who watch less football will think that they only have Modric as a world-class midfielder? We also have Mo Yang, who is not inferior to him at all!"
"But it's not true. Compared with France, although Croatia is not a star-studded group, their other main players are the absolute main players in the upper reaches of the five major leagues and even wealthy clubs, and they are all world-class players!"
After Zhang Lu finished speaking, Su Dong answered in time, "Yes, for example, Perisic and Brozovic who play for Inter Milan, Rebic who is on loan to Fiorentina, Mandzukic from Juventus, Sturt from AC Milan.
Rinic and Atletico Madrid's Vrsaljko and so on!"
"So from a player perspective, our disadvantage is huge!" Zhang Lu nodded and continued his analysis, "Maybe some fans will say that we can win by relying on the beautiful defensive counterattacks we played in the previous few games!"
"That's right!"
"This is a way, but! Croatia's defense was tight and orderly in the group stage, and with the physical advantages of their players, we are also not dominant, so we want to find gaps in the defensive counterattack. This is difficult, I
Personally, I think, personally, the best way to pry open the Croatian goal is to make full use of set pieces!"
As soon as Zhang Lu finished speaking, the players from the two teams led the ball boys onto the field in the live broadcast footage.
The starting lineups of both sides also appeared on the live broadcast in advance.
Croatia:(4141)
Goalkeeper: Subasic
Defenders: Vrsaljko, Lovren, Vida, Strinic
Midfielder: Brozovic
Midfielder: Rebic, Modric, Rakitic, Perisic
Forward: Mandzukic
"This is just the basic formation. The positioning of the Croatian players has to be judged according to the game!"
"In the midfield, the combination of Rakitic and Modric is the strongest link in Croatia! One is the main attacker and the other is the main defender!"
"On the forward side, compared with when Mandzukic was young, although Mandzukic has begun to decline in all aspects now, Mandzukic is now more sophisticated in terms of breakthroughs and crosses on the wing, as well as his role as a fulcrum in the frontcourt."
"Especially his positive attitude towards the game. He often counterattacks in the frontcourt and often creates excellent opportunities for himself and the team!"
"As for the defense, Lovren is Mo Yang's teammate in Liverpool. I won't go into details about this guy's performance. He is a centre-back who is both steady and joyful. And the Croatian full-back partnership of two, one old and one young, is very good.
They also performed well in the first three rounds of the group stage!”
China:(433)
Forwards: Hao Junmin, Bai Lele, Wu Lei
Midfielder: Zheng Zhi, Mo Yang, Wu Xi
Defenders: Gao Zhunyi, Li Ang, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng
Goalkeeper: Yan Junling
"Lippi still lined up 433 for this game, but we don't know exactly how to play it yet. Lippi's 433 formation was very floating in the first three games, and he didn't seem to have a fixed tactical play."
"But in this game, he made rotations in defense. Not only did he replace full-back Jiang Zhipeng, center back Mei Fang was also rotated by young Li Ang."
After the words fell, there was a brief silence in the live broadcast room.
Whether it's He Wei, Zhang Lu, or Fan Zhiyi, they are all very aware of Lippi's helplessness in this rotation.
The Chinese team is so short of players that Mo Yang and the others have to start consecutively.
Not long after, with the whistle of the famous Argentinian whistler Nestor Pitana, the showdown between Croatia and China officially began.
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