King of the Zone

The possibility of scoring a goal at any time stimulated the players of the South Korean team to become even more enthusiastic. Not only the two wingers crossed the center line to participate in assists, but the two central defenders were also eager to try.

If it weren't for Cheng Hai's great reputation, I'm afraid they really rushed to the front to participate in the assist.

However, even so, the two central defenders, Jin Yingquan and Hongzheng, were not very focused. They didn't care much about Cheng Hai, who seemed not a big threat, but stared at the offense in the frontcourt, probably because they wanted to see their teammates' shots and goals as soon as possible!
But what makes them both depressed is that the South Korean team seems to be unlucky today and has been gaining momentum without scoring.Although there were several shots in the opening ten minutes, none of the goals were scored.

In the 18th minute, under the pressure of the Hua Guo team, the players of the South Korean team passed the ball all the way back to the feet of central defender Hong Zhenghao.

Cheng Hai jogged over and pretended to be pressing. Hong happened to smash the ball and shook Cheng Hai aside.

Hong just probably felt that he was very proud of being able to pass the well-known Cheng Hai in Europe by smashing the ball, so his desire to perform surged, and he took the ball to the half of the Huaguo team.

The other players of the South Korean team didn't care, but another center back, Jin Yingquan, approached Cheng Hai a little bit, making a close-to-mark appearance, but in fact, he didn't fully focus on Cheng Hai.

In the first ten minutes or so, the South Korean team aggressively attacked, and it was difficult for the Huaguo team to counterattack.

Occasionally snatching the ball, the Huaguo players' passing skills were not good, and they failed to counterattack.

Therefore, Cheng Hai seems to be walking in front most of the time, neither contributing to the counterattack nor withdrawing his own penalty area to participate in the defense, as if he is a redundant person.

This is a sign of incompetence in the eyes of Koreans who pay attention to running to death.

From the Korean point of view, since you have no chance to attack, then return to the backcourt to participate in defense!
Anyway, desperately.

Coupled with the history of the confrontation between China and South Korea in history, Hong just didn't care about Cheng Hai after smashing the ball past Cheng Hai. He felt that it was no big deal for him to cross the center line and participate in assists.

Anyway, Cheng Hai didn't get a chance to fight back, and he didn't seem to be threatening.

Jin Yingquan also had the same mentality. Although he made the appearance of closely guarding Cheng Hai, in fact his mind was not on Cheng Hai, but he was paying attention to the frontcourt, hoping that his teammates in the frontcourt would score goals quickly.

However, there is a saying that the sky is unpredictable.

Probably Hong just never dreamed that it was his rash advance this time, which just happened to give the Hua Guo team a chance to counterattack that had never appeared before.

After smashing the ball away from Cheng Hai, taking the ball across the half court, and passing it to his teammates, Hong just didn't rush back to his own half court to mark Cheng Hai, but stood in the Hua Guo team's half court, ready to participate in the attack.

As a result, the ball he passed this time only passed through two teammates before he made a mistake and the ball was passed a little crookedly.

Then, Lu Peng, the defensive midfielder of the Huaguo team, made a sharp forward move and cut off the ball midway. After looking at the frontcourt, he raised his leg and kicked the ball to the frontcourt with a big foot.

When his teammate made a wrong pass and Lu Peng cut the ball forward, Hong just didn't realize the danger.

But when he saw Lu Peng kicking the ball towards his own half with a big kick, he suddenly remembered that the Hua Guo team still had a striker in his own half!

But at this time, when he crossed the center line to participate in the attack, only Jin Yingquan was left in his half to mark the Chinese forward Cheng Hai!

No matter how arrogant he is in his heart, Cheng Hai is the top scorer in the Bundesliga after all, and he scored 8 goals in the first three group matches of the Asian Games. Hong just doesn't think that Cheng Hai is really no threat at all.

As a result, when he turned his head to look at his own half, he realized that Cheng Hai had already successfully reversed offside and rushed towards his team's penalty area. Jin Yingquan was left two or three meters behind by Cheng Hai.

Although Jin Yingquan was trying his best to return to the defense, he obviously didn't follow up in time when Cheng Hai started the anti-offside, and was thrown away by Cheng Hai.

Although Jin Yingquan is faster than Cheng Hai at this time, and the distance between the two sides is getting closer, but judging from Cheng Hai's speed and the direction of the ball flying in the sky, Jin Yingquan obviously cannot grab the ball faster than Cheng Hai.

I just hope Cheng Hai can't stop the ball well!
Just as Hong was thinking this way, he flung his arms and rushed towards his restricted area.

Regardless of whether he can catch up or not, as a central defender, he must act as if he is returning to defense.

If Cheng Hai didn't stop the ball well, wasted time, and was entangled by Jin Yingquan, then he might be able to catch up.

With such anticipation, Hong just tried his best to return to defense in time to catch up with Cheng Hai's defense.

However, under Hong Zhenggao's shocked gaze as he returned to defense, Cheng Hai, who had rushed to about 10 meters in front of the penalty area, stretched out his right foot while running, and easily and freely unloaded Lu Peng, the long-distance backcourt big foot in the air.

That well-timed unloading of the ball made Hong just involuntarily think of Ronaldinho, the football wizard.

Ronaldo Dinho's stop is so awesome.

But who is Ronaldinho?

He is the champion of the World Cup, Mr. Footballer of the World, Champion of the Champions League, Mr. Golden Ball, and the favorite football elf of fans all over the world!
How can Cheng Hai compare to Ronaldinho's stopping skills?
How could Cheng Hai compare to Ronaldinho's ball-stopping skills?
In fact, the problem that Hong just didn't face up to was that Cheng Hai's ball-stopping skills were not as good as Ronaldinho's, but more perfect and more pinnacle than Ronaldinho's.

Ronaldinho has no problem stopping the ball while occupying the ball's landing point and standing still, but it may be difficult for Cheng Hai to unload the ball while running like Cheng Hai.

This is because Cheng Hai's ball-stopping technique is perfect when the system is plugged in. Ronaldinho can only reach a maximum of 20, never reach 19, and it will fluctuate with the state.

The technology added by Cheng Hai's system is much more stable.

Therefore, Cheng Hai often does this kind of unloading of high-altitude balls while running, but Hong just doesn't know about it.

Then, under Hong Zhenggang's desperate gaze, Cheng Hai, who successfully unloaded the ball, was caught up by Jin Yingquan behind him, although he wasted a little time.

But Jin Yingquan failed to catch up to Cheng Hai to stop Cheng Hai, so he could only stretch out his hand to pull Cheng Hai from the side.But Cheng Hai's height of 178cm and weight of 71kg, combined with a perfect physique at full value, is no longer the only Jin Yingquan who is 74kg can move.

Cheng Hai stretched out his hand to stop Jin Yingquan, stuck him behind the side to prevent him from poking the ball with his foot, and dribbled the ball towards the penalty area.

The dribbling at 19 o'clock allowed Cheng Hai to make no mistakes in the process of dribbling the ball. He didn't wade the ball too far and send the ball directly to the goalkeeper Kim Sung-kui, nor did he wade the ball too close to slow himself down.

When Hong happened to catch up to four or five meters behind Cheng Hai, Cheng Hai had already reached the top of the restricted area.

Facing the goalkeeper Jin Chengkui who had already attacked into the penalty area, Cheng Hai did not try to dribble into the penalty area, but directly stabilized his body, resisted Jin Yingquan who was pushing around him, and directly kicked a lob shot.

The ball lifted off the ground, flew over the palm of the jumping goalkeeper Kim Sung-kui, crossed a parabola, and fell into the South Korean team's goal against the crossbar.

In the 19th minute, with the South Korean team aggressively attacking, the Huaguo team relied on Lu Peng's big backcourt assist and Cheng Hai's anti-offside ball in the frontcourt to form a single-handed lob to score the goal, rewriting the score to 1-0.

The Huaguo team, which was at a disadvantage in the situation, scored the first goal and took the lead.

Immediately, the [-] Huaguo fans in the stands who had been holding back for more than ten minutes immediately cheered and screamed, suppressing the boos of thousands of Korean fans almost inaudible.

On the court, Cheng Hai also hugged and high-fived with his teammates who rushed up to celebrate.

The players of the South Korean team are all in mourning.

Especially Hong Zhengzheng, seeing Cheng Hai who was celebrating with his teammates, felt an unprecedented humiliation.

He knew that it was his contempt for Cheng Hai that caused the loss.

If he hadn't spiked the ball before and lost Cheng Hai's self-confidence, and dribbled the ball to the opponent's half to participate in the attack, it would not have made it so easy for Cheng Hai to go offside and score the ball after receiving the ball.

Hong just gritted his teeth and secretly made up his mind that he would never step forward to participate in the attack again. He would work with Jin Yingquan to completely stare down Cheng Hai and never give Cheng Hai any chance to shoot.

However, after the game restarted, the morale of the Huaguo team, which had scored a goal, was greatly boosted, as if it had suddenly changed into a team. Whether it was offense or defense, they played much better than before.

This may be the role of self-confidence.

Although the Huaguo team is not as strong as South Korea, the pressure on the Huaguo team's defense has been greatly reduced after Cheng Hai suppressed two or three defensive players of the opponent, making them afraid to rush in and participate in the attack.

Coupled with the increase in everyone's confidence, whether it is technical moves or defensive coordination, it has become much more organized, and the scene where the South Korean team suppressed the Chinese team and bombarded them at the beginning of the game disappeared.

The two sides began to have a back and forth confrontation.

However, in terms of overall strength, the South Korean team is always dominant.Although the back line has scruples about Cheng Hai and dare not rush in to participate in the attack, the South Korean team's frontcourt is already gorgeous enough compared to the Hua Guo team.

In particular, midfielder Kim Jong-woo and striker Park Joo-young are the main players of the national team who participated in the World Cup in South Africa. They participated in this Asian Games as overage players in order to win gold medals and obtain exemption from military service.

Now that the South Korean team is behind, these two people naturally have to show their strength and demeanor of the big brothers of the Olympic team to equalize and reverse the score, and retain their qualifications to attack the finals and gold medals.

After Cheng Hai scored a goal, boosted the morale of the Huaguo team, and fought against the South Korean team evenly for more than ten minutes, the South Korean team gradually gained the advantage and once again pushed the front line around the Huaguo team's big penalty area.

The South Korean fans in the stands became active again, and seemed to see the scene where the team was about to score a goal, equalize the score, and then overtake the score.

However, the idea is beautiful, the reality is cruel.

Just before Kim Jong-woo and Park Joo-young equalized the score for the Korean team, Cheng Hai gave the Koreans another fatal blow.

In the 36th minute, the South Korean team's side attack was destroyed by the Hua Guo team's defenders and the ball went out of the sideline, and the South Korean team's front court throw-in.

A foul ball was sent out, but before the South Korean team could attack, the player who had just received the ball was intercepted by Hua Guo's defender Maitijiang with a precise tackle, and the ball was taken away without fouling.

The ball passed by Mai Tijiang just landed at the feet of Wu Xi, the midfielder. Wu Xi first smashed the ball to avoid the Korean player who was grabbing up, and then lifted the ball to the Korean team's half.

This time Hong Zheng and Jin Yingquan were quite concentrated, and they immediately retreated the moment Maitijiang hit the ball with a shovel, and did not allow Cheng Hai to turn offside successfully.

After Cheng Hai received the ball, he had to face Hong Zhenghao and Jin Yingquan's interception.

Hong just thought that there would be no problem this time.

After he yelled at Jin Yingquan, the two stopped retreating at the same time, and rushed up at the same time, trying to make a double pinch, stabbing the ball away from Cheng Hai's feet.

Or let Cheng Hai lose control of the ball.

Anyway, there are other teammates who are returning to the defense. They just need to let Cheng Haiqiu pass by and stop Cheng Hai. The ball will definitely be intercepted by their teammates.

However, they underestimated Cheng Hai's control of the ball.

With Cheng Hai's 19-point dribbling and Matthews' fake moves, in the Asian U23 Asian Games, the success rate of one-on-one breakthrough may reach [-]% or [-]%.One-on-two, there is also a probability of breaking through, although the probability may not be great.

But this one-to-two breakthrough was succeeded by Cheng Hai.

Of course, it was also because Hong happened to have a bit of arrogance, thinking that he and Jin Yingquan would definitely stop Cheng Hai if he and Jin Yingquan defended each other.

As a result, Cheng Hai first pretended to break through to the outside of Jin Yingquan, and Jin Yingquan moved to the outside involuntarily, but Hong just didn't keep up.

Then a large gap appeared between the two.

Cheng Hai tricked Jin Yingquan away with Matthews' fake move, waded the ball out of the space between the two, and then made a sudden effort to squeeze through the gap between the two.

By the time Hongzheng and Jin Yingquan discovered Cheng Hai's intentions and closed the door in the middle together, it was too late.

Like Ronaldo in the past, Cheng Hai used his powerful physique to directly knock Hong Zhenghao and Jin Yingquan away, and walked away.

Although Cheng Hai's speed is not at full value, it is not as fast as Hong Zhenggang and Jin Yingquan.

But when the two were hit by Cheng Hai and lost their center of gravity, regained their footing and started chasing back, it was too late.

Cheng Hai caught up with the ball he had waded out just now on the penalty area line, faced the attacking goalkeeper Jin Chengkui, and used the skillful Matthews fake move to shake Jin Chengkui so that he lost his center of gravity and exposed a gap, Cheng Hai kicked directly to hit the goal.

The ball flew past Kim Sung-gyu's armpit and slid into the South Korean team's goal against the far post.

In the 36th minute of the first half, Cheng Haiyan scored twice to help Hua Guo take a 2-0 lead.

In fact, when Cheng Hai forced his way out of the closed-door defense of Hong Zhenghao and Jin Yingquan, the Huaguo fans in the stands had already stood up.

After seeing Cheng Haihuang clearing Jin Chengkui, making a successful shot, and the ball flying into the net, all Huaguo fans were completely blocked.

Deafening applause, cheers, shouts, and screams sounded in Tianhe Stadium, resounding through the sky.

In the commentary seat, the commentator of CCTV-5 shouted excitedly with his loudest voice:
"The ball is in, it's in, it's in, it's in..."

"Cheng Hai broke through South Korea's closed defense against the two central defenders and scored a single-handed goal. Cheng Hai scored twice again, and the Huaguo team led 2-0."

"When the Hua Guo team was at an extreme disadvantage, it was Cheng Hai who stepped forward twice and dealt a heavy blow to the South Korean team."

"With a two-goal lead, the Olympic team may break the history of winning against South Korea and usher in the first victory with the Korean Olympic team."

All over the country, there are also countless fans using computers and mobile phones to express their admiration for Cheng Hai:

"Ahhh, it's so exciting. Cheng Hai used a Ronaldo-style way to break through the defense of the opponent's two central defenders. He forced his way out and sent the ball into the opponent's goal."

"Yeah! So exciting!"

"With another brace, Cheng Hai's total goals have reached 10. It took only 4 games, and he has almost secured the position of the top scorer of the tournament ahead of schedule."

"So what if the South Korean team is stronger than the Olympic team? Cheng Hai is enough for us! Cheng Hai alone is enough to beat the South Korean team!"

"Yes! The South Korean team must be eliminated today and let them go home."

"Hua Guo team! Must win!"

At the scene, after shouting and screaming for a while, some fans started to shout Cheng Hai's name.

As more and more people agreed, the scene where more than 5 Huaguo fans shouted Cheng Hai's name in unison deeply shocked everyone on and off the field.

The South Korean players and fans just woke up and realized that they had made a big mistake when they underestimated Cheng Hai before.

Regardless of the first ball or the second ball, the root cause of conceding the ball is actually their arrogance and self-righteousness.

If they left enough people in the backcourt, Cheng Hai's slow speed would not be able to score a single-handed goal!
It's a pity that I only realized it at this time, and it's too late to regret it!
They are already two goals behind.

To get back the two-goal deficit and stop Cheng Hai from scoring, the situation is already very serious for the South Korean team.

But no matter what, the game still has to go on.

It is impossible for them to voluntarily surrender and admit defeat.

There is no option to surrender in the Korean dictionary.

They can only continue to fight.

However, there was too little time left for them in the first half.

Wanting to attack, but also worrying about Cheng Hai's terrorist counterattack, the South Korean team couldn't fully devote themselves to attacking in the last few minutes, and naturally there was no effect.

After 1 minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half. The two sides entered the intermission with a score of 2-0. The host Huaguo team led by two goals.