Vol 4 Chapter 1192: First quarterfinals

In the evening of June 29, the Recife Stadium in Recife, Brazil.
In the fourth round of the World Cup Sixteen Eliminations, China played against Costa Rica.
When the game reached the thirty-sixth minute, Costa Rica made a backcourt clearance and kicked the ball directly near the center line. Feng Xiao pressed the opponent's forward header and returned.
Old captain Zheng Zhi was suspended due to a red card, and Wu Xi, a midfielder, qualified and formed three midfielders with Zhou Haibin and Chen Tao.
Zhou Haibin just received the ball and immediately scored the ball to the left.
Left-back Jiang Zhipeng quickly sprinted forward along the left-hand road. After receiving Zhou Haibin's score, he watched the situation ahead. After facing a Costa Rican player who was defending, he shot forward and suddenly rushed forward, pulling away a little distance. Afterwards, the left foot pocketed a 45-degree diagonal pass from the left with a large arc.
Jiang Zhipeng's oblique pass directed directly behind the goal, and in the penalty area, Yang Yang also quickly broke away from the Costa Rican defender at the fastest speed, sprinting forward quickly, grabbing before everyone and falling down The ball of the right foot, a light pad on the right foot, directly to the ball toward the left side of the goal.
Costa Rica goalkeeper Navas flew to the right to block the near corner, but Yang Yang did not deliberately hit a far corner, which made him unexpected and wanted to get out of the way. As a result, Yang Yang's foot shot was Half-height, very smart.
In the end, the ball quickly got into Costa Rica's goal.
One to zero!
The entire Pernambuco stadium was boiling!
Thousands of Chinese fans who came from far away cheered and sang the national anthem in the stands.
Yang Yang turned around excitedly, ran along the way, pointed at the Chinese fans in the stands, and finally knelt on the sidelines.
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The first half ended with a goal lead. After changing sides in the second half, the Chinese team continued to maintain a steady and steady tactics.
Costa Rica's offensive efficiency was extremely low throughout the first half, and there wasn't even a shot that was aimed at the goal, but even so, the Chinese team still dared not care.
Yang Yang, who was wearing the captain's armband, repeatedly reminded his teammates that they must pay attention and pay attention.
Stay focused all the time!
At the same time, he is actively looking for opportunities.
In the 51st minute, the Chinese team once again launched an attack. Jiang Zhipeng inserted the attack from the left and Hao Junmin took the ball on the left side of the penalty area. Middle road.
Yang Yang stopped the ball with his right foot and pulled his left leg to shoot the ball directly into the lower left corner of Costa Rica's goal.
Navas responded quickly and flew himself out, but in the end it was still unattainable.
Two to zero!
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In the sixty-sixth minute, Costa Rica defender Adult fouled while defending Yang Yang. He accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off with a red card. This forced Costa Rica to have one less player.
At this point, the game has basically lost its suspense.
In the end, the Chinese team defeated Costa Rica 2-0 with Yang Yang's scored twice.
Both teams are defensive and play more generally, but Yang Yang's two goals are more beautiful.
After defeating Costa Rica 2-0, the Chinese team entered the quarterfinals of the World Cup for the first time!
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As soon as the game ended, not only the thousands of Chinese fans who came to the Pernambuco stadium but also the Chinese nation as far away as Asia were also jubilant, countless fans cheered wildly, and fans in all major cities couldn't help themselves On the street, cheering for the performance of the Chinese team in Brazil.
This is the first time in the history of Chinese football!
This is another breakthrough in World Cup results!
Although this is not the first time the Asian team has entered the World Cup quarterfinals, as early as during the Korea-Japan World Cup, South Korea and Japan have achieved such results, and even the South Korean team has reached the quarterfinals.
But everyone knows how the report card came from, so no one wants to mention it.
However, this time the Chinese team reached the quarterfinals, but it is worthy of the name, relying on solid strength and performance to score.
From the group stage to the knockout stage, the opponent's strength is indeed not strong, but like Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Greece and Costa Rica, are also regular World Cup regulars, strong teams.
Among them, Costa Rica beat Uruguay, Italy and England to qualify as the top team. If the strength of this team is not strong, what are the three traditional strong teams that have won the World Cup?
Domestic fans and the media have praised the national team, especially Yang Yang's performance.
Since Brazil drew Chile one-on-one in the round of 16 rounds, but defeated their opponents with a penalty kick, Neymar did not score, so Yang Yang currently overtakes Neymar and Messi with five goals to reach the World Cup scorer list .
This also made countless fans applaud Yang Yang.
In the other three games of the round of 16 in the elimination round, in addition to Brazil's one-on-one draw with Chile, but the penalty defeated the opponent, the Netherlands lost a goal first, with Sneijder and Huntelaar's progress. The ball reversed Mexico 2-1.
Colombia defeated Uruguay two to zero, and this time the World Cup quickly became popular midfielder Hames Rodriguez scored twice, shining brilliantly, and achieved amazing results. At the same time, he also scored five goals , Tied with Yang Yang for the top scorer list, which made Hames Rodriguez famous.
But in the midst of the joy, there was no lack of doubt.
They are both Asian teams and East Asia. Japan and South Korea have always regarded China as a dead enemy. In recent years, China has made rapid progress, and there have been legendary superstars like Yang Yang who are enough to be included in the history of world football. Endlessly.
In this World Cup, apart from China, Asian teams can be said to be annihilated.
But when they returned from the World Cup, they heard that the Chinese team defeated Costa Rica two to zero and entered the quarterfinals of the World Cup for the first time. This made them envious and jealous. Their domestic media are all kinds of speeches. Have.
For example, the Chinese team is like Yang Yang ’s own team.
The most unified statement is that the Chinese team will stop at the quarterfinals.
The media of South Korea and Japan firmly believe that because the Netherlands defeated Mexico, the Chinese team will encounter the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, so it is difficult for the Chinese team to go further and will stop at the quarter-finals, which will tie Japan to South Korea and Japan. The results achieved during the World Cup, but inferior to South Korea's semi-finals.
The media of both countries have listed a lot of data and evidence, showing that the Chinese team is facing all-round backwardness in the Netherlands, without any chance of winning, because the Netherlands team was the runner-up in the last World Cup, almost won the championship team.
Sneijder, Robben, Van Persie, Kuyt ... Even if Huntelaar and De Jong and other players are also well-known European stars, coach Van Gaal is also the head coach of Europe for many years and is very familiar with Yang Yang.
More importantly, Alihan has coached the Chinese team for many years. The Chinese team is deeply influenced by Dutch football, so in the opinion of the Korean and Japanese media, this is a bit like the students are being tested by the teacher.
But after all, students are just students. Whether it is the overall strength or the player's personal ability, it is difficult for China to compete with the Netherlands.
The declining speeches from Japan, South Korea and Australia, as well as the media around the world, have made domestic fans dissatisfied. Even in China, there are many voices that the Chinese team has no chance of facing the Netherlands.
"Even if we have Yang Yang, the world's number one, even if we act tenaciously, the gap in strength is huge. This can't be compensated anyway. Stopping at the quarterfinals is a satisfying and even surprising result. "
And on the evening of July 5th, the quarter-finals in the new water source stadium in Salvador, Brazil, also seems to confirm the general view of the outside world that China has no way to fight back.
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Almost from the beginning of the game, the Chinese team was fully restrained.
The captain Zheng Zhi returned, the Chinese team once again played a four-for-one three-waist formation, the midfield discharged Wu Xi, Zheng Zhi and Zhou Haibin's three-waisted midfielder, Hao Junmin and Chen Tao separated on two wings.
Queiroz's formation has only one purpose, which is to guard against death.
From the first minute, the Dutch team kept attacking the Chinese team's goal.
Before the game, Sneijder, Robben, Kuyt, Vlar, De Jong, and even Van Persie, who had a great conversation with Yang Yang, changed their faces at the beginning of the game, and all faced fiercely toward China. The team's goal attacked.
Yang Yang retreated into the 30-meter zone from 15 minutes, which shows how much offensive pressure the Chinese team is under.
Queiroz expelled the defensive tactics of the iron bucket for the team. Even to a certain extent, under the strong offensive pressure of the Netherlands, the Chinese team has no chance of counterattack.
Everyone in the team clenched their teeth and insisted, while the Dutch team is constantly creating opportunities and creating threats.
The situation on the court was one-sided. The Chinese team's restricted area was loud and the goal was crumbling, but everyone in the team was grappling with their teeth and even Yang Yang returned to the restricted area for defense many times, showing how passive the situation is on the field.
But even so, the two sides still played zero to zero in the first half.
The Dutch are more or less cautious and don't dare to overdo it.
But the situation changed again in the second half, Van Gaal began to increase investment on the offensive end.
The Netherlands won consecutive free kicks in the frontcourt. Sneijder scored two free kicks in the fifteen minutes. As a result, he hit the left post once and hit the crossbar. He almost broke the goal and scored.
The extremely passive scene made Chinese players extremely painful on the field. Everyone clenched their teeth and insisted that everyone stood in and out of the penalty area, blocking their opponents in front of the goal.
From the beginning of the seventy minutes, Van Gaal made substitutions, replaced with new forces, and injected fresh blood into the offense, but the Chinese team is still strictly guarded and will not easily move half a step.
At this moment, all talents have truly felt Queiroz's transformation of the Chinese team's defense in the past four years, especially the cultivation of player's tactical literacy. Using a spectator's statement, this Portuguese who is good at training young players is to take the international As young players, we constantly instill a variety of tactical knowledge and defensive awareness.
This, in the end, helped the Chinese team stop the Dutch bombing.
Ninety minutes later, both sides went into overtime zero to zero.
In the first half of overtime, the Netherlands changed two players in a row and continued to increase the offensive. After the Chinese team also changed one, they continued to guard against the deadlock. Finally, they successfully dragged the score of zero to zero into the second half of extra time.