King of the Zone

After finishing all the group matches, the Huaguo team became the biggest dark horse.

It's not that the Hua Guo team became a dark horse by qualifying first in the group. Because of Cheng Hai's existence, the Hua Guo team qualified first in the group as everyone expected.

This was predicted before the Olympic Games even started.Even if it is not [-]% for the Hua Guo team to qualify first in the group, it is a high probability event.

After all, Cheng Hai's strength, at the U23 level, is really too buggy.

Even if the Hua Guo team is a weak team in Asia, the Olympics is a world-class competition, Mexico is strong, and Switzerland is also a European team, but Cheng Hai's strength alone is enough to improve the strength of the Hua Guo team on both offense and defense by several levels, and then beat Mexico and Switzerland.

Therefore, the Hua Guo team qualified first in the group, which is not considered a dark horse, and it is not shocking enough.

让人震惊的是，华国队在三场比赛里全部打出了3-0、5-0、5-0的大比分，总共进了13个球，还一球未失。

This is scary.

You know, except for the Hua Guo team, even Brazil, which scored the most goals in the group stage, only scored 9 goals in total in three games, and also conceded 3 goals, with a goal difference of only 6.

This is already the most goal difference among the other 15 teams in the group stage except the Hua Guo team.

With the background of five-star Brazil, it is normal to score the most goals and have the most goal difference.

In addition, apart from the Hua Guo team, Japan is the second team in the group stage that has not conceded a goal.

但没有丢球的华国队进了13个球，日本却总共只进了2个球，靠两场1-0和一场0-0苟到小组第一出线，与华国队的表现相比根本不值一提。

The astonishing scoring efficiency of the Huaguo team, as well as the impeccable defense, shocked the media and fans.

"Olympic men's football group stage is over, the Hua Guo team scored 13 goals and conceded 0 goals, accumulating 9 points and qualifying for the first place in the group! "

"Cheng Haijin led the Huaguo team with 8 goals and 3 assists to win all three games and advance to the knockout round with the first place in the group! "

"Scoring 13 goals and only conceding 0 goals, the Hua Guo team became the team with the strongest offense and the least conceded goals in the Olympic Games! "

"The Hua Guo team, led by Cheng Hai, scored 13 goals and conceded 0 goals in the three group matches, becoming the favorite to win the championship! "

Yes, after the group stage, the Hua Guo team, which scored 13 goals without conceding a goal, became the favorite to win the championship!
Before the London Olympics, the Hua Guo team's odds of winning the championship only ranked sixth among the 16 teams. Although it is not bad, it is not a big favorite.

Because the Huaguo team's other players and background lowered the Huaguo team's winning odds, the Huaguo team's sixth place was almost entirely supported by Cheng Hai alone.

After the group stage, the Huaguo team, which is extremely terrifying on both offensive and defensive ends, suddenly soared to No. 2 in European gaming companies, second only to the Brazilian team that also won all three games and has the so-called "successor to Pele" Neymar.

Although the offensive and defensive ends of the group stage were not as dazzling as the Hua Guo team's performance, the background of the Brazilian team still allowed them to firmly occupy the position of the number one favorite to win the championship.

Even though the Hua Guo team scored more goals than Brazil, conceded fewer goals than Brazil, and Cheng Hai, the world's number one superstar, was in charge, but the Hua Guo team lacked the background of the World Series, in the eyes of gaming companies, the probability of winning the championship is still not as good as Brazil.

But even so, it was enough to make the Huaguo media and fans ecstatic.

The team's first qualification has created a new history of Huaguo football.Being recognized by European and American gaming companies and becoming the favorite to win the championship naturally made everyone extremely excited.

Many people originally held the mentality of qualifying and entering the semi-finals, but now they have been cultivated to hope that the Hua Guo team will win the championship.

The World Cup champion is not delusional for the time being, but the Olympic champion can still think about it with Cheng Hai's dominance on both offense and defense.

After all, even Europeans and Americans regard the Huaguo team as the favorite to win the championship. The Huaguo media and fans should not belittle themselves.

In the anticipation of the Chinese media and fans for the Olympic team, at 8:4 on August 14th, with the whistle of the England referee Clattenburg, the quarter-final match between the Chinese Olympic team and the Senegal Olympic team officially started at Wembley Stadium in London.

The offensive and defensive capabilities of the Hua Guo team in the group stage, and Cheng Haijin's 8 goals and 3 assists as the king of the ball, all made this quarter-finals attract the attention of countless people.

Wembley Stadium, which can accommodate 9 people, has more than 8 seats in addition to thousands of Senegalese fans. More than 5 Chinese fans have taken up more than 2 seats, and the remaining [-] seats have also been occupied by London citizens who like Cheng Hai.

If it weren't for Cheng Hai's attractiveness, and the passion for football of Chinese fans traveling thousands of miles away, Wembley Stadium, which can accommodate 9 people, would definitely be dissatisfied.

After all, this is only the quarter-finals, not the final final to determine the championship.

The confidence of the fans of both sides in the result of the game can be seen from the number of spectators: Many Senegalese fans themselves did not believe that they could beat the Hua Guo team, so they only came to the scene to cheer for Senegal.

The Huaguo fans firmly believe that Cheng Hai can at least lead the team to beat Senegal to advance to the semi-finals. Therefore, more than 5 Chinese fans from England and overseas Chinese who flew all the way to London came.

The entire Wembley Stadium was rendered into a sea of ​​red, and the stands were full of flying red flags, as well as portraits and banners of Cheng Hai, cheering for the Hua Guo team.

After the start of the game, the Senegal Olympic team with a formation of 541 retreated as a whole. Except for the lone striker who stayed in the frontcourt to put pressure on the Chinese team's back line, the others all retreated to the 30-meter area of ​​the goal to defend.

The deterrence of the Hua Guo team and Cheng Hai is too great. Let alone a confrontation, Senegal does not even dare to fight back. It can only shrink back carefully from the beginning of the game, deploying heavy troops to defend, hoping to defend the goal.

If you can keep the ball clean, and then the lone striker scores a counter-attack goal, that would be the ideal result.

If unfortunately the 0-0 score is defended to a penalty shootout, it is also an acceptable victory.

The confrontation is definitely not as good as Cheng Hai and the Huaguo team, so Senegal puts all their hopes on defense and delaying time.

At the beginning of the game, Senegal had a high morale, was active in running, and fought fiercely. With the accumulation of personnel in the backcourt, even Cheng Hai could not do much. Therefore, after more than 20 minutes, the Huaguo team still hadn't scored a goal.

During this period, Senegal already gave Cheng Hai a free kick in a good position because of a foul on Cheng Hai who was breaking through with the ball. Unfortunately, Cheng Hai failed to send the ball into the goal.

But with this example, Cheng Hai deliberately strengthened dribbling and breakthroughs in the following games, striving to draw fouls and free kicks from the opponent.

His various full-value dribbling and breakthrough skills make it difficult for him to lose the ball even if he fails to break through.And once it breaks into the penalty area, it is a great threat.

Therefore, Senegal strictly defended Cheng Hai and did not allow him to drive straight into the penalty area to complete the shot.

Cheng Hai has undoubtedly become the Huaguo player with the most fouls on the court.

To the dissatisfaction of Huaguo players and Huaguo fans, the English referee Clattenburg's penalty for Senegal's foul in this game was quite soft.

In other words, his penalty is somewhat biased towards Senegal.

Judging from the progress of other Olympic events during this period, the Chinese delegation suffered a lot of unfair penalties in this Olympic Games.

The first three group matches were not obvious, but in this quarter-final, the referee was an Englishman, and the unfair penalty received by the Hua Guo team was quite obvious.

Especially for Cheng Hai's fouls, Cheng Hai never flopped, so many fouls caused the ball to change hands, and Clattenburg didn't call it.

Once the Hua Guo team controls the ball and continues to attack, Clattenburg will call Senegal's foul.

This is not to favor the Hua Guo team, but to deliberately interrupt the Hua Guo team's offensive rhythm, so that Senegal can prepare for defense in an orderly manner.

As for more serious fouls, even if Cheng Hai was pushed, pulled down, or knocked down, Clattenburg did not show a yellow card.

This is also one of the reasons why the Hua Guo team has not scored a goal more than 20 minutes into the game.

It is really that the referee Clattenburg is too biased towards Senegal, making them more and more unscrupulous to use tactical fouls to block the Hua Guo team's offense without taking too much risk of cards and free kicks.

However, there is one thing that Clattenburg and the Senegalese players may not have expected.

That is, Cheng Hai is different from other football players, he seems to never get injured, no matter how the opponent hits him, they can only pull and trip him at most, but they can't make him get injured.

On the contrary, if the opponent is not paying attention, he will be injured in the collision.

Because Cheng Hai's physique is too strong, with the blessing of the system, he is definitely the number one in the world that no one else can achieve.Whether it is bone hardness, muscle density, or impact resistance, they are all unique.

So, after Senegal worked hard to defend for more than 20 minutes, in the 28th minute, Cheng Hai first broke through an opponent's player through his personal skills, and then passed the opponent's No.2 player by colliding with his teammates against the wall.

Seeing that Cheng Hai was about to receive the ball from his teammate hitting the wall and was about to hit the penalty area at the front of the penalty area, Senegalese defender Sis rushed from the side with a flying shovel, trying to destroy the ball.

Because of Clattenburg's previous law enforcement standards, Sith's shoveling action was quite aggressive and resolute.

As a result, Cheng Hai moved faster than him. He flicked the ball forward one step at a time, but Sith failed to touch the ball and knocked Cheng Hai to the ground instead.

Although Cheng Hai's physique is full, he is not a robot or a tumbler. If the opponent shovels fiercely, he will still hurt and fall down if he is shoveled on him.

However, at present, he will not be seriously injured.

This time, Cheng Hai was shoveled by Sith on his left ankle, which was supported on the ground. He suddenly lost his center of gravity and fell down.

Moreover, Sith's flying shovel from the side was quite ruthless. Although Cheng Hai didn't have his leg broken by the shovel, he still felt a burst of pain.

Therefore, in the process of falling down, Cheng Hai didn't have time to consider whether he would crush someone, but in the process of falling to the ground, his whole body fell on Sith's body while clutching his feet.

Unfortunately, Cheng Hai, who fell down, hit his elbow on the forehead of Sith, who slid under Cheng Hai with the flying shovel.

Sith and Cheng Hai both screamed.

Cheng Hai hugged his left ankle and screamed in pain, while Sith rolled over with his head in his arms.

But it was always Sith who fouled, and he looked aggressive, as if he was going to break Cheng Hai's leg.

Therefore, the moment Cheng Hai fell down and hugged his ankle and screamed in pain, the fans at the scene and in front of the TV would not care about Sith being hit on the forehead by Cheng Hai's elbow, and they all angrily cursed Sith who was flying the shovel.

The Huaguo players on the field were even more excited. Some rushed to the referee and signaled Sith for a serious foul;

The Senegalese players hurriedly protected Sith, and some players felt that Cheng Hai elbowed Sith, and quarreled with Huaguo players, and a group fight was imminent.

Fortunately, the referee team was quite decisive. Not only the referee Clattenburg, but also the two line referees rushed into the field immediately to help the referee maintain order.

Cheng Hai lay on the ground for a while, and the team doctor who was called into the field rubbed it for a while, sprayed some desilting and swelling spray, and then stood up.

As for Sith, who was shoveling Cheng Hai, his brow bone was cracked by Cheng Hai and bled.

But his flying shovel was too serious. Under the eyes of everyone, even if he was injured and looked more innocent, he could not wash away the fact that he fouled maliciously.

Therefore, Clattenburg still had to show him a yellow card before he was carried off on a stretcher.

Senegal was forced to use up a substitution in the 28th minute of the first half, and also gave the Hua Guo team a free kick in the frontcourt with excellent position and distance.

The position of this free kick is about 24 meters away from the goal on the right outside the arc top of the penalty area. Regardless of the distance or angle, it is very suitable for hitting the goal directly.

In particular, Cheng Hai's shooting and arcing skills made Senegalese goalkeeper Mane quite nervous. He sent a full lineup of five people to seal the near corner tightly. He himself stood outside the midpoint of the goal line and was ready to pounce.

There is speculation in Ma Xin's heart that Cheng Hai should use his arc technique to hit the close corner with a high probability.

Therefore, although Mane stood at the far end of the midpoint, in fact, he was already prepared in his heart to rush to the near end immediately when he saw Cheng Hai kicking his feet.

Cheng Hai's shooting skills are really good. Most of the shots go straight to the dead corner. If you don't predict the shift in advance, it is difficult to save.

When Mane nervously directed his teammates to line up the wall, the Huaguo audience on the scene and in front of the TV stared nervously at Cheng Hai in front of the penalty spot, praying that he would make the penalty.

Everyone can see that the referee Clattenburg's law enforcement standards in this game are more biased towards Senegal, resulting in Cheng Hai and the Huaguo team not scoring a goal until this time.

And this free kick, which is about 24 meters away from the goal and has an excellent position and distance, is an excellent opportunity for Cheng Hai to score.

If this goal can be scored and the score leads, then Senegal will not be able to keep it.

Because this is a decisive quarter-final, no matter how good and how good Senegal's defense is, if the score of 1-0 is maintained until the end, it will be Cheng Hai who advances.

Therefore, this free kick opportunity is quite rare.

Cheng Hai naturally knew this too.

What's more, he was quite dissatisfied with the referee's judgment scale in this game, and he was quite angry.

But he knows that his responsibility is to lead the Olympic team to the final and win the championship, instead of arguing with the referee.

The referee had already favored Senegal. If Cheng Hai confronted the referee again, Clattenburg might send him off with a red card.

That's the end of the Olympic journey of the Chinese Olympic team.

Therefore, although Cheng Hai was always angry with Clattenburg's penalty, he did not explode. Instead, he forced himself to calm down and look for opportunities to shoot.

Goals and victories are the biggest counterattacks against Clattenburg's preference for law enforcement.

This free kick is a rare opportunity.