King of the Zone

Although there are people who are close to marking, but the football field is changing rapidly. Players suddenly start, stop and change direction, turn around and run a lot. No one can really close to other people, unless they directly hug each other tightly.

But that's foul, it's impossible to actually do that.

Therefore, in the 82nd minute, after Cheng Hai played for more than half an hour, he and his teammates finally played a wonderful pass and cut cooperation.

Of course, there must be an element of accidental luck, but this cooperation allowed the fans on the scene and in front of the TV to see Cheng Hai's true running level.

Cheng Hai didn't participate in the attack at the beginning, because although he had excellent stopping skills, his passing skills were poor.

Therefore, he just kept jogging and moving inside and outside the penalty area. The speed was not fast and the range of motion was not large. The two defenders who were closely marking him were not thrown away.

With the shrinking defense of the Japanese team, the Hua Guo team is not only a central midfielder, but also a midfielder and a full back. They are constantly using passes to mobilize the Japanese team's defense.

This time, the Hua Guo team rarely made any mistakes. Through the continuous passing and cutting of everyone as a whole, the ball was sent to the front of the penalty area, and the Japanese team's defense line appeared a little loose.

Park Sung, a Korean player wearing No. 10 jersey, is one of the two ethnic minorities in the Olympic team. He has good physical fitness, good skills, is good at breakthroughs, and is very good at assists.

This time, it was he who took the ball from the right and passed it to his teammate in the center, but he dunked the ball to the bottom line, and then broke through the opponent's full back to the bottom.

When the opponent's full-back chased back desperately and wanted to block Park Sung's pass, Park Sung made a pass about four or five meters away from the baseline, which attracted the Japanese full-back to fly out to block the hole.

In the end, Pu Cheng made a false fax dunk again and dunked the ball back.

The Japanese full-back couldn't hold back anymore and slid past him.

Pu Cheng smoothly dribbled the ball to the penalty area.

Originally, everyone was planning to pass and receive the ball before, but Park Sung broke through the inside and disrupted the Japanese team's defense.

The defensive players in the center had to pull sideways to block Pu Cheng's inside cut, but Pu Cheng did not try to break through this time. When he was close to the penalty area line, he made a timely inverted triangle pass and passed the ball to the back row to insert full-back Zhang Linpeng.

As for the selection of generals among the short guys, Zhang Linpeng is considered to be a part of the Olympic team who is a little bit famous and the fans are a little familiar with.

Therefore, Zhang Linpeng still has some strength.

After receiving the pass from Park Sung, although he didn't dare to break through with his own skills like Park Sung did, he cooperated with Wu Xilai at the top of the arc of the penalty area in a small area in a small space, successfully passed the defender blocking him, entered the penalty area, raised his leg four or five meters to the right of the penalty area of ​​the penalty area, and made a shot.

Pu Cheng's breakthrough from the side, and Zhang Linpeng and Wu Xi's two-to-one cooperation into the penalty area completely disrupted the Japanese team's defense.

After all, it is only an Asian-level U23 team, not the Italian national team.

Therefore, in the face of Hua Guo's continuous breakthroughs and passing and cutting moves, and Zhang Linpeng also entered the penalty area and made a shooting posture, the Japanese team's defenders and goalkeepers panicked.

At least three defenders in the penalty area rushed towards Zhang Linpeng, some tried to tackle the ball, and some tried to fly to block the hole of the gun.

The other players also involuntarily focused on Zhang Linpeng who was about to shoot.

Goalkeeper Shunsuke Ando also stood on the right side of the goal when Park Sung broke through on the right side, preventing the Hua Guo team from shooting.

After Zhang Linpeng and Wu Xi broke into the penalty area one after another, he even squatted down and was ready to save.

However, just when everyone in the audience thought that Zhang Linpeng, who had already entered the penalty area, was really about to shoot, Cheng Hai, who was in the large penalty area on the left, first took two steps towards the small penalty area, causing defender Yuki Baoto who followed him to think that Cheng Hai was going to grab a shot, so he posted it.

As a result, Cheng Hai suddenly stopped, and immediately backed away, briefly throwing away Bao Teng You Ji who was beside him.

The moment Cheng Hai retreated, Zhang Linpeng, who was shooting from the right, fell down, but instead of shooting, he flicked his ankle and passed the ball to the left.

Everyone looked in the direction of the ball rolling, only to find that the left side of the Japanese team's big penalty area was empty under the Hua Guo team's constant passing and cutting scheduling and breaking the map.

Although there was Bao Teng Youji who was closely guarding Cheng Hai just now, he was thrown away by Cheng Hai's back and forth running back and forth, and he was in an unguarded gap.

And Zhang Linpeng's pass was sent to Cheng Hai just right.

Bao Teng Yuji, who was just thrown away by Cheng Hai, was the closest to Cheng Hai, and he wanted to block Cheng Hai's shot with a flying shovel.

But this time, Cheng Hai didn't stop the ball and shoot. Instead, he used his 20-point full stop technique to avoid Yuki Baoto, who was tackled on the ground. He slightly dodged a shooting gap, and then volleyed the ball into the lower left corner of the Japanese team's goal before other defenders rushed over to block the shooting route.

Although the goalkeeper Shunsuke Ando had rushed back from the right, he still couldn't catch up. In the end, he could only watch the ball fly into the net.

In the 82nd minute, the Hua Guo Olympic team played a series of pleasing team passes and cuts in the frontcourt. In the end, Zhang Linpeng made a fake shot and sent the ball to Cheng Hai's feet, and Cheng Hai scored the goal successfully.

Cheng Haiyan scored twice to tie the score from 0-3 to 2-3.

Now, only one goal behind, Hua Guo's hope of equalizing the score increased immediately.

Immediately, deafening applause and shouts sounded in the stands, and countless Huaguo fans screamed excitedly, venting their excitement in their hearts:
"Oh my god, Cheng Hai scored again!"

"I only came off the bench during the half-time break, and that's a brace!"

"Awesome! Awesome! Too awesome!"

"Cheng Hai did not disappoint us!"

"It's only been a few days since I returned to China, and I don't have much cooperation with the Olympic team. In the first game, I came off the bench and scored twice! Cheng Hai deserves to be a top striker in Europe!"

"It's so cool!"

"It can't be said that there is no cooperation at all. I think I played this ball very well!"

"It's nothing more than a blind cat hitting a mouse! If it wasn't for Cheng Hai, the others standing in that position would have been blocked by the opponent's defender blocking the shot. How could Cheng Hai stop the ball first to avoid the opponent's defender's tackle before hitting the goal? Even if he hits the goal, the accuracy will not be so high. There are too many examples of the national football team not scoring in front of the goal."

"Not bad!"

Amidst the excited applause and discussions of Chinese players and fans, the situation of the Japanese team is indeed more serious.

Although a group has two direct qualifying places, even if the game is equalized by the Hua Guo team, it is no big deal.

However, the historical grievances between the two countries and the competition between national teams of all levels in Asia made it absolutely unacceptable for the players of the Japanese team to be equalized with a three-goal lead.

After contemplating for a while off the court, the head coach of Japan's U23 called the nearest players to his side and gave the latest tactical instructions.

After the players of the Huaguo Olympic team finished celebrating and the game resumed, everyone found that the Japanese team had shrunk even more, and it seemed that they were planning to hold on to their one-goal advantage until the end of the game.

Having just tied the score to 2-3, the morale was boosted, and the Hua Guo team, who wanted to make persistent efforts to equalize the score, naturally unceremoniously pressed all the members on the Japanese team and bombarded the Japanese team indiscriminately.

Even the two central defenders stood near the center circle, and occasionally crossed the center line to participate in the attack.

The situation of the two teams and the first half came upside down, completely reversed.

The Chinese fans in the stands were also watching with excitement. The national anthem and songs singing about the motherland were sung in turn, cheering for the Olympic team. No one scolded the Olympic players anymore.

Everyone is united and wants the Olympic team to make persistent efforts and equalize the score.

However, when the Hua Guo team was pressing forward and bombarding the Japanese team indiscriminately, the Japanese team followed the instructions of the head coach to shrink the formation more and attract the Hua Guo team to press forward.

After all, it was already the 82nd minute when Cheng Hai scored. Even with stoppage time, it was only a little over 10 minutes before the end of the game.

If the Japanese team scores another goal, it will definitely kill the game.

However, the Huaguo team didn't notice this from top to bottom. Everyone was still immersed in the expectations and actions of scoring the second goal, boosting morale, preparing to make persistent efforts, bombing indiscriminately, and scoring the third goal to completely equalize the score.

Soon the time came to the 88th minute. During the Huaguo team's triumphant attack, the excited goalkeeper Wang Dalei stood at the top of the arc of the penalty area, looking like he wanted to rush up to participate in the team's attack.

However, at this moment, Wu Xi made a mistake in passing the ball to Cheng Hai. Wu Xi's intention to pass the ball was seen through by Takamitsu Toyama, the midfielder of the Japanese team.

Toyama Takamitsu's tackle fell to the feet of midfielder Kota Mizunuma.

Just as Toyama Takamitsu was about to shovel the ball, the Japanese team's left midfielder Hotaru Yamaguchi, who was in the front position at this time, immediately turned and ran.

Instead of rushing towards the Huaguo team's half court, but consciously avoiding the Huaguo team's players, they ran out of a gap about four or five meters away from the center line.

The Japanese team's counterattack in defense was premeditated.

Forward Nagai Kensuke retreated to the vicinity of the penalty area to participate in the defense, just to paralyze the Hua Guo team's defense and make them think that the Japanese team had completely given up on the counterattack.

In fact, the Japanese team put their hope of counterattack on the forwards on both sides.

Now, the long-awaited opportunity of the Japanese team finally appeared.

Wu Xi's pass was blocked, Hotaru Yamaguchi also ran out of space, and Hua Guo's goalkeeper Wang Dalei stood outside the penalty area, still far away from the goal.

Therefore, Wu Xi was intercepted by Toyama Takamitsu with a shovel and landed at the feet of Kota Mizunuma. Kota Mizunuma did not stop and adjust, and passed the ball directly, and sent the ball to Hotaru Yamaguchi.

Even up to this time, the Hua Guo team goalkeeper Wang Dalei hadn't realized the danger.

He thought that Hotaru Yamaguchi was still in the Japanese team's half. Even if he wanted to counterattack, he would have to break through with the ball, form a single shot, kill near the penalty area and then shoot.

Therefore, Wang Dalei was still facing the frontcourt, and he didn't immediately turn around and retreat towards the goal. He just took two steps back slowly, and retreated to the line of the penalty area.

But this distance is not enough.

Facing Kota Mizunuma's pass, Hotaru Yamaguchi, who had already planned and observed Wang Dalei's position, did not stop the ball at all. He ran up two steps, swung his thighs, and kicked the ball with all his strength before the Huaguo defender Yang Boyu who rushed from the side to try to steal the ball.

Hotaru Yamaguchi took a direct shot from four or five meters away from the center line in his own half.

The ball lifted off the ground in an instant, passed Yang Boyu's outstretched toes, quickly flew into the sky, and then fell towards the Hua Guo team's goal after crossing a parabola.

And Wang Dalei, when Hotaru Yamaguchi had finished shooting and the ball had avoided Yang Boyu's attempting to destroy the foot and flew towards the goal behind him, he woke up like a dream, turned around in panic and rushed back towards the goal.

However, how can a person's running footsteps catch up with the speed of a ball?
When Wang Dalei just ran to the line of the small penalty area, the ball had already fallen.

Although Wang Dalei took off reluctantly and tried to get the ball out of the crossbar, but he retreated too late, and the place where he jumped was too far from the goal line, and he didn't reach the ball at all.

The ball flew into the net through the huge gap between Wang Dalei's barely stretched palm and the crossbar.

In the 88th minute, amidst the indiscriminate bombardment of the Hua Guo team, the Japanese team took advantage of a counterattack opportunity, and Yamaguchi Hotaru completed an ultra-long-range lob shot from a distance of more than 50 meters, directly hoisting the ball into the Hua Guo team's goal.

This shocking ultra-long-range lob shot not only silenced the more than 5 home fans who were still cheering for the Hua Guo team just now, but even many reporters, commentators, and even the fans of the Japanese team became dumbfounded.

In the Asian U23 level competition, such a goal is simply unheard of.

Hotaru Yamaguchi scored a classic goal that is estimated to be permanently engraved in the history of the Asian Games, while the Hua Guo team and goalkeeper Wang Dalei became the eternal background emperor.

Wang Dalei, who had said before the game that he wanted to seal the opponent, not only got his face swollen, but was even stepped on the ground by the opponent and rubbed hard.

Lost face!

The point is that it was already the 88th minute, and Hotaru Yamaguchi's goal made the score between the two sides 2-4, and it was impossible for the Huaguo team to equalize the score again.

Not even with Cheng Hai.

Amid the jubilant celebrations of the Japanese players, the Huaguo team, whose morale was high just now and vowing to equalize the score, looked downcast, and no longer had the energy to attack with all their strength just now.

Especially the goalkeeper Wang Dalei, who has been lying in the goal, buried his head in the turf, and did not get up.

Obviously, everyone has been hit hard.

But there was one exception, and that was Cheng Hai.

Although he has never played an official game for such a long time, the intensity of the Asian Games is not as strong as in Europe. The Japanese U23 players did not put too much pressure on Cheng Hai, and his physical fitness was not exhausted.

Looking at the dejected teammates, Cheng Hai did not sigh with everyone, but ran to the backcourt quickly, rushed into the goal, slapped Wang Dalei on the shoulder, and said, "Da Lei, what are you doing? Get up, the game is not over yet!"

Wang Dalei heard Cheng Hai's voice, raised his head and was about to speak, but Cheng Hai had already picked up the ball that Hotaru Yamaguchi had kicked into the goal, and ran towards the midfield.

The players of the Hua Guo team gradually raised their heads one by one, looking at Cheng Hai who rushed to the backcourt to pick up the ball and ran back to the center line.

Cheng Hai ran to the middle circle with the ball in his arms, put the ball on the center point, and then shouted to his teammates who were watching him: "The game is not over yet, there is still time! Come back to me and get ready for the game!"

Wu Xi, Lu Wenjun, Pu Cheng, Lu Peng, Zhang Linpeng...

Everyone looked at Cheng Hai, who was standing in the middle circle and was ready to kick off, sniffed, took a deep breath, and then slowly walked back to their own half.

In the stands, this conceded goal did not cause the fans of the Hua Guo team to yell.

Because although the Hua Guo team's indiscriminate bombing in the final stage did not score, it still made the fans very enjoyable to watch.

In addition, Hotaru Yamaguchi's ultra-long-range lob shot shocked everyone, and they were stunned for a while, speechless.

Even if there were fans who wanted to scold Wang Dalei, after seeing Cheng Hai's actions, they swallowed the curse words back.

Seeing Cheng Hai rushing back to the goal, picking up the ball and placing it in the middle circle, and the Olympic players slowly walking back to their own half, ready for the rematch, a fan's voice suddenly sounded from the stands:

"Hua Guo team! Must win!"

Gradually, more and more people agreed:

"Hua Guo team! Must win!"

"Hua Guo team! Must win!"

After a while, all the fans shouted in unison: "Hua Guo team! We must win!"

More than 5 people cheered at the top of their lungs, soaring into the sky!
In the commentary seat, the commentator of CCTV-5 shouted tears and explained:
"It's so touching! When the Olympic team was 2-4 behind by two goals and the game was about to end, our fans finally stopped cursing, but chanted the slogan 'Hua Guo must win'."

"This is a belief, a long-lost belief!"

"Don't believe in the belief that you will win in the end because you lose or fall behind for a while!"

"And this belief! It was brought by Cheng Hai!"

"In the case of being scored by an opponent with such a stunning ultra-long-range lob and two goals behind, Cheng Hai did not hang his head like most teammates, but rushed back to the goal, picked up the ball and put it back in the middle circle, ready to continue the game."

"Under Cheng Hai's call, the Olympic team members all recovered from the frustration of losing the ball. Even Wang Dalei, who had been conceded four goals, looked high-spirited at this time, and he didn't have the feeling of burying his head in the turf just now."

"This is a high-spirited and positive spirit!"

"Whether it is the Olympic team or the fans, this moment shows a long-lost belief and mental state!"

"Maybe, we will lose this game! But, I see a bright future!"

"Maybe we can look forward to where the Olympic team will eventually go in this Asian Games, and we can also look forward to the results of the adult national team in the Qatar Asian Cup in January next year."

"It's nothing else, just because Huaguo football now has Cheng Hai!"

"Hua Guo team! Must win!"