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Chapter 376 An All-round Victory
In the first half, when the scene was passive for most of the time, the Chinese team surprisingly took a two-goal lead. The goals of the two starting forwards helped them establish a huge advantage. Therefore, on the way back to the locker room, the players were all smiling and ran back to the locker room briskly.

The faces of the Japanese players are not so good. They have the upper hand but are behind by two goals. Their striker’s ability to grasp opportunities is indeed inferior to that of the Chinese team, especially when the Chinese team focuses on defense and has sufficient defensive strength in the penalty area.

Dai Guangming watched the players of the Japanese team walk into the locker room dejectedly, and saw a few Japanese players look at Long Bisheng as if they were monsters. He couldn't help but sneered in his heart. He knew Long Bisheng's physical fitness clearly.

In the first half, the Japanese team uncharacteristically used a few players with excellent physical fitness to collide in the midfield. It did play a huge role to a certain extent. However, when they faced Long Bisheng, they thought they could win with their bodies.

Thinking of this, Dai Guangming looked at the players of the Japanese team with pity, and walked into the locker room quickly.

In the locker room, Ding Yu praised the players’ performance in adversity in the first half, but at the same time criticized the midfielders’ lack of control in the midfield. He asked the players to change their style of quick counterattack and long pass in the second half, and to fight against the opponent in the midfield. Although the Japanese team is strong in the midfield, is the Chinese team poor?Don't you even have the courage to compete with the opponent in the midfield?
His rhetorical question made several midfielders feel ashamed and angry, and they began to clamor to completely overwhelm each other in the second half of the midfield battle, restore the reputation of the Chinese national team midfielders, and revive the reputation of Nie Feideke and other seniors.

Ding Yu looked at the performance of the players with satisfaction. It seems that the victory of this game can be expected, but he wants more. In Asia, the Chinese team needs to establish their absolute prestige. Although everyone knows that Chinese football is the number one in Asia, they cannot gain the upper hand in some aspects. Football in West Asia is declining. The secret of uniqueness; South Korea relies on their perverted narrow national pride. Although their national pride often makes them a joke internationally, it makes their players tenacious enough to compare with the Germans in sports competitions; as for Australia, countless players who play in Europe are their greatest capital.

Therefore, in this kind of face-to-face confrontation, when the victory is almost guaranteed, Ding Yu hopes to defeat them in the strongest aspects of the opponent, such as defeating the Japanese team in midfield control and technology, which will greatly improve the image of the newly formed Chinese national team.

Of course, he also knew that a two-goal lead in the first half did not mean that he could win the game. However, in the first half, the Chinese team relied on defensive counterattacks to defeat the Japanese team. Takeshi Okada will definitely think that the Chinese team will continue to insist on defensive counterattacks in the second half.

So Ding Yu did the opposite and strengthened the control of the midfield. Firstly, it could surprise the opponent, and secondly, if he entangled too much in the midfield, the rhythm of the game would become not so fast. After entanglement, the second half of the game time passed unknowingly...

Sure enough, after the start of the second half, the Japanese team, eager to attack, did not expect that the Chinese team would start to adopt the tactics of controlling the midfield. Although they were not as good as their opponents in terms of coordination, the personal skills of Dai Guangming and others were not inferior to their opponents. Dee, it is still possible to pass the ball to an unguarded teammate in time.

In particular, Dai Guangming showed the skills he honed in La Liga to the fullest. Makoto Hasebe, who was able to control his offensive threat in the first half, began to feel more and more strenuous. Although Dai Guangming, who was five years younger than him, was not as strong as the opponent, after strengthening the frontcourt running in the second half, Makoto Hasebe soon became out of breath.

The defense is always passive. The opponent runs at will, and you have to keep up. Both physical and energy consumption are much greater than offensive players. In addition, Dai Guangming is 22 years old, which is when his physical fitness is full. Makoto Hasebe is 27 years old.

Taking a deep breath, Makoto Hasebe saw Dai Guangming received Du Zhenyu's pass again, and greeted him with trembling in his heart.

Ito Kotaro saw that Makoto Hasebe's footsteps were a little weak, and immediately rushed up with Makoto Hasebe, intending to intercept the ball together. In previous games, Chinese players would always split the ball as soon as they saw two players rushing towards him, but this time Dai Guangming did not do so.

Seeing Hasebe Makoto and Ito Tortaro rushing towards him one after the other, Dai Guangming first made a fake pass to lure Hasebe Makoto to stretch out his feet to steal the ball, but then quickly pulled the ball back, and then moved forward to dodge Hasebe Makoto.

As soon as Hasebe Makoto got out of the way, Boss Ito arrived. Seeing the other party rushing towards him, Dai Guangming took a big stride to catch up with the ball, stepped on the ball, turned half and half, pulled the ball to the side, and lightly dodged past Ito Koutaro!
"Two people in a row! Beautiful Marseille turn!" The commentator of the CCTV sports channel broadcasting the game roared loudly. Although the game led by two goals, the Chinese team scored goals by relying on the overall and counterattack. Such a good show in the middle of the field has never happened.

After connecting the two of them, Dai Guangming's spirit was lifted, and there was an open land in front of him, which was enough for him to gallop as much as he wanted!

Dai Guangming moved forward quickly with the ball. The other defenders of the Japanese team were restrained by Long Bisheng and Sun Bing in front. Suddenly, no one came up to defend him. When he advanced to the 30-meter area with the ball, he looked up at the situation in the penalty area, suddenly swung his left foot while running, and shot directly from a long distance!

I don't know if it was intentional or a coincidence, this powerful long-range shot just flew towards Long Bisheng, and Long Bisheng subconsciously stepped aside. He blocked the sight of the goalkeeper of the Japanese team and failed to observe Dai Guangming's shot. When he saw the ball flying over Long Bisheng, it was too late to react.

"Dai Guangming took the ball forward and took a long shot! Long Bisheng made a pass... Beautiful! Beautiful! The goal was scored, three to zero! This goal happened in the No.607 minute. This is a goal that sealed the victory! We will enter the finals of the Asian Cup for four consecutive times! Although it is not comparable to Saudi Arabia's five consecutive Asian Cup finals, we can fully expect that in the next two Asian Cups, we can break this record!"

The Chinese team's performance in the Asian Cup so far is to enter the finals four times and win the championship twice. This result is still a bit worse than that of Saudi Arabia and Iran, which won the championship three times. But as the commentator said, with the current momentum of the Chinese team, it is not too difficult to break this record.

The loss of the third goal made the Japanese team lose confidence. Ding Yu didn't want the players to waste too much energy. The game in such hot weather was a great test for the players' energy, so shortly after leading by three goals, he changed three players in one breath.

The Chinese team, which replaced the entire central axis, began to shrink its defense. After that, the Japanese team's onslaught finally came to fruition. Keisuke Honda made up Takayuki Morimoto's shot in front of the goal.

But this goal happened in the No.807 minute of the game... With the defensive ability of the Chinese team and the attacking ability of the Japanese team, it seems impossible to give the Chinese team another black 3 minutes.

Takeshi Okada can only shake his head and sigh at this. His players are hardworking, but the obvious flaws in the two links of forward and defender made them lose the game without being at a disadvantage. What made him even more annoyed was the third goal. If the first two goals were due to the correct tactics of the Chinese team, then the third goal was a manifestation of the Chinese team's all-round suppression-the goal scored after passing two players in the midfield, this kind of goal should be scored by the Japanese team!

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Ding Yu came to shake hands with Takeshi Okada with a smile on his face. His team not only won the game, but also won an all-round victory.

(End of this chapter)