Vol 4 Chapter 31: Lucky hit

Costa Rica is able to stand out from the death group, and it is still the top of the group. Only three goals in the three group matches with Mexico and Belgium became one of the teams with the fewest goals in this World Cup group match. The defense is definitely outstanding.
as predicted!
In the fourth 1/8 final in the Pernambuco Arena, the Chinese team's offensive was met by Costa Rica's stubborn resistance, and even once Costa Rica used a familiar fast counterattack rhythm to appear and conceded a goal.
Fortunately, Tang Zheng and Yan Junling played well to keep the goal safe.
Especially Tang Zheng, he spared no effort to make up for the huge empty space caused by the lack of movement of his defensive players.
"The Chinese team must be more patient in attacking, otherwise, once a bigger problem is exposed, even Tang's ability will be helpless."
British Sky commentator Andy Gray frowned and said solemnly.
"Really." Commenter Martin Taylor nodded his head slightly: "Don's reading ability is super strong, but the place he is recognized by the world is the offense. Should Marcelo Lippi take a risk and move Don's position towards Premise? Give him more offensive opportunities. "
Andy Gray turned his head and looked at Martin Taylor, saying something meaningful: "My old man, the Chinese team is still 0-0 with Costa Rica. Marcelo Lippi's football philosophy is to stabilize the defense first, then wait for the opportunity. Looking for a chance to counterattack, and then using the control of the midfield to find the defensive empty of the two ribs on the defensive end of Costa Rica in the case of counterattack, but ... from the point of view of the game, it did not work. "
"That's natural, but Tang didn't organize an attack in the frontcourt. The Chinese team lacked creativity in attacking. Artemisia played more positions in Schalke 04. He was a right-hander, his front waist was not suitable for him, and he was at the forefront. It ’s too bad, there is no way to form a long distance connection with Tang. I think if the Chinese team has a strong center, the score has now changed ... "
To be fair and reasonable, and to be fair, Andy Gray no longer entangled this issue with the old partner Martin Taylor, but instead shifted the topic.
At the same time, the fanatical atmosphere of the Pernambuco Arena became more and more fanatical as the game progressed.
In addition to the outstanding defensive performance of Costa Rica, the offensive end also showed the absolute strength of the death group. The cooperation of Captain No. 10 Ruiz and Joel Campbell frequently threatened the Chinese team's goal.
However, with the passage of time, defensive players led by Tang Zheng gradually adapted to Costa Rica's position to attack and counterattack routines, and gradually became handy in defense, no longer as panic as the beginning of the game.
As the defensive pressure becomes smaller, Tang Zheng can choose to push forward when the Chinese team attacks.
Of course, Tang Zheng's forward pressure is limited.
Costa Rican captain Ruiz has rich game experience, Campbell is fast, and the two cooperate with each other. Once the teammates of the frontcourt cooperate and make mistakes, defensive problems will be exposed.
Tang Zheng's ability to read the game is right, but he needs time to chase back.
If the forward pressure is limited, even if the teammates pass mistakes in the frontcourt, he can make up for it in time.
This is the fundamental reason why Tang Zheng entered Costa Rica's 30-meter offense area in addition to corner offense and set-up opportunities in the first 20 minutes.
Despite this, Tang Zheng also got two long shots.
The first long shot caused Costa Rica fans in the stands to explode with great exclamation. If it was not the goalkeeper Navas who responded quickly, Tang Zheng's long-range long shot at about 35 meters from the goal was likely to form a goal.
The second long shot slightly missed the goal post, but also surprised the Costa Rican fans in a cold sweat.
As a result, Costa Rica coach Pinto took advantage of a dead ball to explain to the two midfielders Borges and Bolacino not to receive the queen mother, the two must have a depth of defensive space to prevent Tang Zheng from getting a long shot again.
The parallel position of Costa Rica's double center avant-garde changed into a deep position, although Tang Zheng's long-range space was limited, but Tang Zheng likes to use his brain when playing football. He realized that Borges and Bolacino have a decisive choice of deep positions. Pass.
Hao Junmin did not play well in the front waist position, but it does not mean that he was not capable.
The reason why Lippi put Hao Junmin in the front waist position does not require him to pass out very penetrating straight plugs. Lippi only needs to use Hao Junmin to take advantage of his good running position and wide vision. Split the ball to the side.
Both Lu Liang on the left and Wu Sanshi on the right have very fast speeds, especially Lu Liang on the left. His combination of speed and technology is quite perfect, and the striker is Gao Lin and Wu Sanshi on the right. Comparable.
In the 23rd minute, Hao Junmin received Tang Zheng's goal with his back facing the goal and directly transitioned to Lu Liang who broke the space on the left.
Suddenly, two defensive players, Dias and Tejeda, appeared in front of Lu Liang.
Everyone thought that Lu Liang would use superior foot technology to choose a breakthrough, so Dias held Lu Liang to break the route to the bottom line, and Tejeda stood on the route that Lu Liang might possibly cut inward.
At this moment, Lu Liang's right foot, which frequently touched the ball, suddenly kicked the ball back with the outside of his foot, and the football rolled towards his side to attack the left rib about 30 meters from the bottom line.
The live guide gave another vision shot at the first time. A Chinese player wearing a red number ten shirt appeared in the lower right corner of the broadcast screen.
"Tang Zheng--"
Yang 5 narrator He Wei subconsciously shouted.
Borges moved along with Tang Zheng, but taking into account the key instructions of the head coach Pinto before the match, the attention of the defender Lu Liang's full-back Tehda focused on Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng originally wanted to pretend to take the ball forward and then let the ball to the right foot, then the long pass was transferred to the offensive right.
But his vision was wide. Yu Guang noticed that Lu Liang ran diagonally to the exposed space between Dias and Tejeda, and Duarte, one of the three central defenders, was still some distance away from Lu Liang.
This ... is a good pass!
Tang Zheng made half of the ball, Tejeda and Borges subconsciously closed the inside line, blocking the angle of Tang Zheng's pass to the dangerous area of ​​the arc of the big penalty area.
Tejeda and Borges did very well in defending the right flank defense. If according to the Chinese team's previous offensive rhythm, Tang Zheng would really pass the long pass, but Tang Zheng noticed Lu Liang's running position and chose to happen change.
Tang Zheng's right foot pulled the ball to the left, then quickly retracted the right foot, the calf swing was extremely small, the action was quite concealed, the right foot toe lifted the ball upward, the football from Tejeda and Borges I saw flying to the left corner of the big restricted area.
"Aoao--"
Chinese fans in the Pernambuco Arena subconsciously raised the volume, as if the sound effect was turned to the maximum sound, and a deafening roar broke out.
Lu Liang also had a broad vision. During the running, he noticed that striker Gao Lin came to the top of the penalty area and was ready to receive the ball. So instead of taking the ball forward, he dropped the falling soccer ball on the outside of his right foot. Give Gao Lin.
Perhaps Gao Lin's goal shooting is not superb, but the ability to do the ball is even outstanding in the whole of Asia.
He leaned against the defender Gonzalez, who tried to go around the front defense, with his body and open right arm, and then used his left foot arch to put the ball to the right rear, that is, the rib between Gonzalez and Duarte. Department empty.
Lu Liang, who passed the ball to Gao Lin, ran in that direction!
Duarte turned his back to the goal, Lu Liang was facing the goal, and was facing football, so Duart knew that he could not let Lu Liang pass, so he pulled Lu Liang down the line of the big penalty area, and Lu Liang fell into the penalty area because of his inertia. Bounced the ground in the penalty area, and then came out of the bottom line.
It's just that nobody cares about football anymore, but Swedish referee Jonas Eriksson!
Gao Lin and Hao Jun Min, who were close to the head referee, rushed excitedly, including captain Zheng Zhi, and ran to pressure the head referee, hoping that the head referee could take a penalty kick.
Costa Rican players saw the Chinese players actively complaining, worrying that the referee would be under too much pressure and sent a penalty kick to the Chinese team.
The referee, Jonas Eriksson, smiled and rejected the Chinese player's penalty appeal, bypassed the players of both sides, ran to Costa Rica's left major penalty area line, bent over and sprayed the foam spray on the big penalty area line, indicating Duart's foul was outside the penalty area.
Free kick.
Immediately, he took a yellow card from his pocket and gave Costa Rica player Duarte.
Because once Lu Liang enters the penalty area and receives Gao Lin's pass, it will be a 100% goal, and the yellow card is the most basic penalty.
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The live guide gave a slow-motion replay, and I have to say that Duart's foul was very timely. If we take another step back to pull Lu Liang down, it will be a 100% penalty!
Yang Wei, the 5th commentator, said with great regret: "If Costa Rican defender Duarte can take another step back, it would be great!"
Guest Palace Gong Lei said with a smile: "The referee can give us a penalty kick, which is good, but our sports offense also played well. I believe that the Chinese team can organize an attack through the Costa Rica defense line, and the next game time will be the same can!"
"Yes!" While Tang Zheng was playing football, He Wei continued: "From Tang Zheng to Lu Liang, to Lu Liang to Gao Lin, Gao Lin then passed to Lu Liang. As for Costa Rica's defensive players, it's too late to choose, which means that we can focus on one pass in the core offensive area in the next game time! "
At the same time, Tang Zheng looked at the Costa Rican players who were out of the six-person wall after setting up the football, and then looked at the goalkeeper Navas through the ball, his brows closed.
Thirty meters or thirty meters away from the goal is conducive to Tang Zheng's style of positioning ball master force, but too close to him somehow unable to get down.
Choosing a deciduous ball's kicking method is very demanding on the control of the footwork, because the football is not enough to fall after the football jumps over the wall.
It is also possible to use the arc on the inside of the instep, but Navas's line technology is very good. Unless it has both strength and angle, it is difficult to form a goal.
After thinking about it, Tang Zheng finally chose to play a trick ...
"Beep ~"
A whistle sounded from the referee's mouth. Tang Zheng walked up in two steps and lifted his right foot. The center of gravity of the body naturally turned to the left. The left arm was raised to maintain balance.
Tang Zheng is leaping high in Costa Rica's wall!
In fact, most Costa Rican players jumped, but Campbell, the second man on the left, did not jump.
In fact, Campbell was ready to take off, but when Captain Ruiz took off, his right elbow hit Campbell's left rib, so that Campbell's movement was stagnant.
No one thought that Campbell, who had not taken off, would instead become the savior of Costa Rica's goal.
Campbell looked at the ball, subconsciously changed the shape of his right foot, and used his foot arch to vigorously sweep Tang Zheng towards the near corner of the goal kicking the football out of the right sideline.
Campbell, who finished the siege, felt a lingering hand and touched his forehead. Fortunately, Captain Ruiz was careless when he took off, otherwise ...
Captain Ruiz did not know that his right elbow reached Campbell. He saw the football out of the sideline, turned around and hugged Campbell excitedly, shouting: "Joel, great! You saved the team!"
Tang Zheng's vigorous shot was close to the turf, the rolling direction was towards the near goal, and the goalkeeper Navas was standing close to the far corner, which means that the goalkeeper Navas is likely to be caught by surprise.
Campbell would n’t naturally say to the captain the stupid saying,
It ’s your elbow reaching my left rib.
He did n’t blush and said:
Actually I guessed it ~ EbookFREE.me ~ did n’t force the goalkeeper Gas made a wonderful save, so there were not too few commentators focusing on Tang Zheng's third game hit so far, including Yang 5 commentator He Wei.
But the British Sky commentator Martin Taylor regretted: "Tang ’s choice is very smart. If Joel Campbell can take off with five other teammates at the same time, I think that the amazing performance of this World Cup, Kailoor Navas, is difficult. This free kick from Tang's foot. "
Football did not cross under the wall, and the assumption was difficult to become a reality. Andy Gray did not have time to make up for the possibility of follow-up. His words changed: "Perhaps ... the luck of the Chinese team ’s goal has not yet arrived."
Since the Chinese team almost used the offensive left rib to break Costa Rica's solid back line, Costa Rica's defensive focus has gradually been placed on the right.
Lippi, the head coach of the Chinese team, frowned, and Costa Rica's ability to enter the round of 16 was certainly not a cause of luck, it was their own strength.
The ability to make up for defensive loopholes is too strong!
But Costa Rica has their Zhang Liangji, Lippi also has his ladder!
Taking advantage of the chance of a dead ball, Lippi made a gesture towards Lu Liang.
Then the fans in front of the TV found that Lu Liang and Wu Sanshi had a position swap when the Chinese team was again attacked by the defender.
Yang Wei's commentator He Wei is full of expectations for this transposition: "Lü Liang's impact ability does not need to be said. He has proved himself in the Bundesliga and the Champions League! Coupled with Zhang Linpeng's assist ability, I believe that the Chinese team's next threat attack will be in Start on the right! "
Along with Zhang Linpeng and Lu Liang's tacit cross-matching crosses on the right, Costa Rica head coach Pinto's heart was raised again.
If Gao Lin's grasping ability is too poor and Navas makes a save, the Chinese team has at least one goal ahead!