Vol 4 Chapter 3: Warm up 2 losing streak

The first half of the international friendly match between Chile and the Chinese team ended at 0: 0. This score was somewhat unexpected. After all, the overall strength of the Chilean team at home should be superior, even if the Chinese team has the world-class superstar Tang Zheng.
Football game is a team sport.
The course of the game is more in line with the overall strength of both parties. The Chilean team took the initiative and the Chinese team was passively defensive.
However, Tang Zheng's ability is super strong, the ability of midfield interception, replacement, tandem, organization, transition and long pass are very outstanding, so the Chinese team can still pose a certain threat to Bravo's goalkeeping within the limited possession time. .
Fifteen minutes after the halftime break, the enthusiasm of the Chilean National Stadium remains, and players from both sides have returned to the stadium one after another in preparation for the second half of the game.
Tang Zheng and Sanchez, the pair of former river bed teammates, put their shoulders together, talking and laughing.
However, with the whistle of the referee, the two entered the game with real swords and guns. Frequent physical confrontation caused a huge loud voice from fans on the scene.
The most easily resonating football game is the intense physical confrontation except for the speed.
Although Sanchez is not tall, but the strength of the plate is stable, and he does not fall against Tang Zheng's body, and sometimes he can still gain a certain advantage with his dexterous body.
Of course, Tang Zheng's ability to grow into a world-class star certainly has his own defensive experience. In the face of Sanchez, an offensive player with excellent speed and strength skills knows how to target defense.
Moreover, Sanchez's technical characteristics have long been formed, Tang Zheng knows the roots, so defense is more effective.
So after the second half, Sanchez's performance did not improve significantly, so that the head coach Sang Baoli frowned in the coaching area of ​​the home team, and then turned his head to communicate with the assistant from time to time.
Five minutes before the start of the second half, although the Chinese team was passively defending, Yan Junling had not yet tested the goal.
As the game progressed, Sanchez gradually gave up his personal breakthrough and chose to cooperate with his teammates.
Immediately, he found that the team's offense became more and more stable. Tang Zheng chose to abandon large-scale activities in order to avoid errors in the core area, so as to ensure the safety of the central defender.
After all, Zheng Zhi's age is high and his running ability is greatly reduced. The young Tang Zheng must shoulder greater defensive responsibilities.
Yang 5 commentator He Wei watched the Chinese team continue to defend, Shen Sheng said: "Too defensive is not suitable for the current Chinese team, you must have an offensive, Lu Liang and Wu Sanshi are very good counterattacks, Hao Junmin also has He has a strong ability to fight back, so should Lippi advance Tang Zheng's position a bit? "
As soon as the speech fell, Zhang Linpeng passed the ball from Vidal to Sanchez on the right and poke out the sideline. The referee whistle to signal a request for a substitution on the sidelines, and the broadcast screen immediately followed.
Cai Huikang stood at the side of the court on the third, and the red display number was the 19th, which means that the captain Zheng Zhi was replaced.
He Wei's voice changed: "Oh? Pure defensive midfielder Cai Huikang replaced captain Zheng Zhi? Is Lippi trying to strengthen the defense? In fact, replacing veteran Zheng Zhi is completely understandable. An hour has passed since the game, and it is now the first game of the Chinese team. There is still one week left for the first match of the Brazil World Cup group stage. Zheng Zhi, who is preparing for the World Cup after participating in the Super League, needs a good rest ... "
In fact, Lippi withdrew Zheng Zhi in addition to taking into account Zheng Zhi's physical condition, that is to hope to continue to investigate the players, the official twenty-three list has not been submitted to FIFA, the 26 players must bring Eliminate three people.
Cai Huikang's ability is good, but the state is not stable recently.
Lippi's tailor-made formation for the Chinese team is four two three one, Tang Zheng and Zheng Zhi are the first choice of these two positions, and on the bench there are Wu Xi and Zhao Xuri who can attack and defend well.
If Cai Huikang is unstable, he is unable to win the twenty-three roster.
It is worth mentioning that Zheng Zhi handed the captain's armband of the left arm to Tang Zheng before he came off the court, and he was the captain on the field.
However, this picture is the result of many fans' imagination. Now Tang Zheng is very famous all over the world, and the relationship within the team is very harmonious, all admiring Tang Zheng.
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Just less than a minute after the substitution was completed, the Chinese team lost the ball.
After Bidal inserted the ball and organized the attack forward, Tang Zheng made up. If Zheng Zhi was present, he would keep a safe distance from Tang Zheng to make up for Tang Zheng ’s empty space behind him, but Cai Huikang had just come off the bench and had not found it. The game felt so I didn't realize it.
Bidar's right foot kicked, and the football was given to Tang Zheng's side and back, which is the vacuum zone between Tang Zheng and Cai Huikang.
Vargas retreated and Cai Huikang stepped forward to defend too late. Vargas kept the ball for Sanchez and then quickly turned around.
Sanchez faced the goal front, but he didn't take the ball forward, but pushed the ball with his right foot to the forward lane where Vargas turned forward.
"Aoao--"
Suddenly, a huge shout of Chilean fans sounded over the National Stadium.
Cai Huikang's stature is not high, but the tonnage is very heavy, the turn rate is slow, and even the fans behind Vargas have not been pulled.
Feng Xiaoting had to leave his zone and defend Vargas head-on.
At this moment, Valdés stopped the ball on the right foot and paused. The outer foot quickly gave the ball to Feng Xiaoting's original position.
Sanchez was very alert. He crossed the penalty area diagonally from the attacking right rib and then received a pass from Vargas's right foot outside the foot and wiped into the penalty area.
Even though Yan Junling abandoned the goal for the first time, but failed to save the team, Sanchez's right foot shot low through the crotch.
1: 0
Lippi shook his head in front of the visiting team coach, Cai Huikang was a first-rate defensive midfielder in the Chinese Super League, but it was not enough to look at the international arena.
The body is strong enough, but the dealer can't keep up, I don't know what the defensive midfielder really means.
There are many things that cannot be taught in football games, and players need to understand it themselves.
This is also the fundamental difference between ordinary players and excellent players.
Obviously, Cai Huikang has been eliminated by Lippi from the World Cup twenty-three list.
The defensive turnover Cai Huikang realized, he turned to look at the coach Lippi, then shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Tang Zheng, the captain on the field, walked in front of Cai Huikang, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted: "You just played, and you haven't found the rhythm of the game. I believe Lippi won't conclude your performance so early. It is the top midfielder in the domestic league. As long as the game is not over, you have a chance to win back, you know? "
Cai Huikang looked up at Tang Zheng, his sincere eyes all conveyed hope, so he nodded vigorously: "I know."
The score was behind, the Chinese team continued to make personnel adjustments, Yang Xu and Yu Chao replaced Gao Lin and Lu Liang, and continued to investigate the players.
In Lippi's heart, Gao Lin and Lu Liang no longer need to inspect, they both have the ability to appear in the World Cup.
Although Lu Liang is still very young, the European top league experience is quite rich, and even in the Champions League quarter-final peak matchup, it has amazing performance. His ability is currently unmatched by domestic players.
Gao Lin has no experience in the European top league, but his performance in the forward position is incomparable to other domestic players. In addition, Lippi has coached Guangzhou Evergrande and has a good understanding of the ability of Guangzhou Evergrande player Gao Lin.
Although the other positions of the Chinese team are still being adjusted, Tang Zheng has always remained on the court.
Because in Lippi's tactical system, Tang Zheng is irreplaceable.
Anyone can be replaced, Tang Zheng cannot.
Lippi made adjustments to his offense, apparently to cope with the situation if he was behind Colombia in the second round of the World Cup group stage, but the weaker Chinese team was forced by defensive pressure to organize an effective attack.
However, as Cai Huikang entered the game, his interception ability in the midfield gradually showed.
Even in times when Tang Zheng was unable to defend, he was able to complete the defense on his own, making the head coach Lippi watching the game on the sidelines very surprised.
To know that he has completely rejected Cai Huikang when the team lost the ball, but if Cai Huikang's performance can continue to be stable, it can definitely be taken.
Compared to Wu Xi and Zhao Xuri, Cai Huikang's pure defensive ability is stronger, and he will not do anything beyond his ability, which is the most important characteristic of defensive midfielder.
In the 70th minute of the match, Chile made consecutive substitution adjustments, and core players such as Vidal and Sanchez were replaced one after another.
For Chile's coach Sang Pauli, the Chilean team also needs to examine other players.
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As Chile's main core players came off the court successively, Cai Huikang's defensive ability was gradually reflected.
The relationship between defense and offense is close, and the pressure on defense is slowly decreasing. Tang Zheng's focus can finally be put on the team's frontcourt offensive organization.
His work no longer restricts the transition and controls the rhythm, and begins to increase the front pressure.
It is true that the strength of the Chilean national team is stronger than that of the Chinese team, but this is based on the overall gap between the strongest teams of the two teams.
Now that the core players of Chile have been off the court continuously, the overall strength has dropped significantly. In contrast, the changes of the Chinese team are not particularly large.
Compared with the strongest lineup, the current lineup ability is not worse, after all, Tang Zheng sits in the middle.
Tang Zheng, who is fully defensive, can become a world-class defensive player, but what really makes the world know him is his outstanding offensive ability.
The defense can remain undefeated, but it cannot win.
Cai Huikang can guarantee the safety in front of the central defender, Tang Zheng can rest assured to support the frontcourt offensive.
Yu Chao's offensive ability is incomparable to that of Lu Liang, but he has rich game experience and is more accurate in passing.
Yang Xu's comprehensive ability in the center position cannot shake Gao Lin's position in Lippi's heart, but he has the upper-air advantage that Gao Lin does not have.
Although Yang Xu's body is not strong enough, he is good at using his body and is very accurate in judging the placement of the football. It can become the fulcrum of the offensive offense and make the Chinese team's attack more three-dimensional.
In the blink of an eye, the game came to 80 minutes, the Chinese team controlled the situation under Tang Zheng's active running, and even once suppressed the home team Chile.
During this time, Tang Zheng won two long-range opportunities, and the quality was very high, forcing Bravo to continuously contribute wonderful saves, which made the home fans subconsciously create a huge scream of "Oh-oh-".
Yang Wei, the 5th commentator, was obviously very happy. He said excitedly: "The Chinese team's offense slowly threatened Bravo to guard the goal under the organization of Tang Zheng. I believe that the Chinese team will surely equalize the score by continuing this attack!"
Unfortunately, Yu Chao launched a quick counterattack after a forced breakthrough on the left and the goal was blocked.
Due to Tang Zheng's forward position, it was obviously too late to catch up, and Cai Huikang's speed was slow. Orellana received Isla's precision pass to break through Feng Xiaoting, and then scored at a low angle from the right side of the penalty area.
2: 0
He Wei, who also had hope for the Chinese team's offense, sighed: "The strong team is called the strong team because they can seize the limited offensive opportunities."
Chinese fans sitting in front of the TV are not difficult to hear the depression in He Wei's words. After all, the Chinese team has an advantage during this time.
The most threatening shots of the Chinese team all come from Tang Zheng. That is to say, with the core players such as Lu Liang and Hao Junmin leaving the game, only Tang Zheng can make threats, while the other players have limited capabilities and can not seize the opportunity.
Because Tang Zheng passed the ball to both Yang Xu and Yu Chao during this period, but they both splurged out due to lack of ability when the opportunity appeared.
Time passed by one minute and one second. The Chinese team fell behind Chile by two goals, so even if there was a risk of losing the ball in the back defense, coach Lippi still signaled Tang Zheng to attack boldly. .
The Chilean coach looked at the passive game situation and did not make adjustments to the defense, but strengthened the offense, hoping to use the offense to suppress the Chinese team.
Combat at home and dominated by strength, there is no reason for the Chinese team to show off their power here!
However, when the Chilean team made adjustments, there was a problem with the defense line ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Tang Zheng assumed a true pass at thirty yards away from the door. Realizing that he thought Zhang Linpeng was offside, he raised his right arm to remind the referee that Zhang Linpeng was offside, but the referee did not raise the flag!
In other words ... not offside!
After two seasons, Zhang Linpeng's training and assisting ability in Porto has been greatly enhanced, and the high-speed stop is just right, which also laid the groundwork for his next high-quality pass.
After the Chilean team's entire back line realized that Zhang Linpeng's counter-offside success was too late, and Zhang Linpeng's pass from the bottom line and the right side of the penalty area was very simple. He passed the football to the penalty spot.
Yang Xu ran over the head at the previous point, but he attracted two central defenders to attract enough firepower for Wu Sanshi who remained on the field.
In addition, in the past, Zhang Linpeng ’s crosses all chose to vigorously sweep towards the middle of the restricted zone, so that the Chilean defense line was insufficiently prepared.
Wu Sanshi was known for his ghostly running position in Basel. He happened to be on Zhang Linpeng's pass line, and then completed a one-foot shot without being marked.
Bravo responded extremely fast, but had no choice but to get too close and his height and wingspan were limited.
The football hung in the bottom right corner of the goal, the Chinese team pulled back to the city.
Then the game restarted, the Chilean team gradually controlled the game with the adaptation of the substitute players, but Tang Zheng's defense was in place, coupled with Cai Huikang's excellent performance, the 2: 1 score continued until the end of the game.
Although the Chinese team eventually lost to Chile and ushered in a two-game losing streak in the warm-up before the start of the World Cup, from the perspective of the game, Chinese footballers and fans are full of confidence in the Chinese team's World Cup prospects.
A hot Tang Zheng can lead the Chinese team forward.