King of the Zone

Zhao Peng's tackle was very sudden. The two Kuwaiti defenders did not react as fast as Cheng Hai, so after a little delay, they were approached by Cheng Hai and were about to overtake them.

At this moment, the ball that Zhao Peng shoveled fell to Zheng Zhi's feet.

Zheng Zhi looked at Cheng Hai's position before receiving the ball, and then sent the ball to the frontcourt with a long pass before the opponent's counter-attack.

Zheng Zhi's pass was very good. He was not touched by anyone in the middle and was passed to the frontcourt smoothly.

And Cheng Hai also surpassed the back line composed of two central defenders in Kuwait at the moment of Zheng Zhi's pass, succeeded in anti-offside, then rushed to the frontcourt and received Zheng Zhi's long pass to form a single-handedly.

Although a defender who was close to Cheng Hai stretched out his hand to pull Cheng Hai, he was still thrown off by Cheng Hai's strong physique and unparalleled explosive speed.

If there was a risk of being overtaken by the opponent after Cheng Hai's counter-offside success in the past, then no one can catch up to him now.

The perfect dribbling technique at full value allows Cheng Hai to run with the ball, and his speed will not decrease much. Not only will the defender behind him not be able to catch up, but he will be thrown farther and farther.

It was the same this time. After Cheng Hai succeeded in countering offside and received Zheng Zhi's pass to form a one-handed attack, the two Kuwaiti central defenders chasing behind could only watch his back eat ashes, and they were completely powerless to stop Cheng Hai's single-handed attack.

The next thing was simple. Knowing that Cheng Haiai had single-handedly lobbed the shot, the Kuwaiti goalkeeper did not attack too far this time. He only stood a little outside the penalty area line, trying to avoid being lobbed by Cheng Hai.

But can this stop Cheng Hai from shooting?
impossible.

With Cheng Hai's shooting skills, his ground volley is safer than his lob shot.

After dribbling the ball into the penalty area, Cheng Hai swayed to the right first, causing goalkeeper Halliday to think that Cheng Hai was going to break through to the right, and subconsciously jumped to the right.

As a result, Cheng Hai immediately volleyed in the opposite direction with the inner instep, and the ball was drawn to the lower left corner.

Halliday, whose center of gravity was shifting to the right, couldn't react in time, and couldn't even make a save. He just watched the ball pass by his other side and slid into the lower corner of the goal against the left post.

In the 38th minute, Cheng Hai scored another goal and scored twice to help Hua Guo take a 3-0 lead.

The Huaguo fans in the stands were all crazy, waving the national flag and cheering excitedly in the stands.

Leading by three goals, the first group match was basically won.

Kuwait also knows that with this score, it is impossible not to attack.

Therefore, after the game restarted, the Kuwait team launched a fierce attack, trying to score a goal as soon as possible and get back a point.

It's a pity that their strength is not good enough, and in order to defend Cheng Hai, the starting players are all defensive.

Even if you want to fight back at this time, it is too late.

Coupled with the need to guard against Cheng Hai's counterattack, the defensive players in the backcourt cannot concentrate on attacking, resulting in even less threat to the offensive force.

Until the end of the first half, Kuwait failed to score a goal. The two sides entered the intermission with a score of 0-3. The Huaguo team temporarily led by three goals.

The intensity of the Asian Cup is indeed slightly stronger than the Asian Games. Although Cheng Hai has increased his physical fitness, Cheng Hai is still a little exhausted after scoring the second goal. In the last few minutes, Kuwait failed to create a counterattack threat when Kuwait aggressively attacked.

At the same time, Cheng Hai was also very weak when he was off the field. Except for a few teammates who had seen Cheng Hai fall into a deep sleep during halftime, the coach of the national football team and other new teammates were a little worried.

In the end, Cheng Hai's performance also shocked these people.

Despite being in a noisy stadium environment, Cheng Hai fell into a deep sleep as soon as he lay down, sleeping soundly, which made the other players of the national football team envious.

After 10 minutes of deep sleep, Cheng Hai recovered a lot of energy, and he was able to hold on for another 10, [-], [-] minutes in the second half.

After a 15-minute break at halftime, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

Although Kuwait, which was behind by three goals, made substitutions and adjusted two people in a row, adding a striker and an offensive midfielder, facing Cheng Hai, who became energetic again after a 15-minute break, the opponent's defense still did not dare to press aggressively.

Naturally, such an attack could not break through the Hua Guo team's goal.

After the start of the second half, Kuwait's most threatening shot appeared in the 54th minute. After a series of wonderful cooperation, they passed the ball into the penalty area. Forward Badr received a wonderful pass from his teammate in the space on the right side of the penalty area and kicked the goal.

There is no one on the way of Bader's shot for the time being. If the ball is played well, it may lead to a goal.

It's a pity that Bader missed this excellent shooting opportunity, his shooting skills were not as superb as Cheng Hai's.

In order to ensure that the shot was within the range of the door frame, he did not dare to pursue the angle.

As a result, although the volley had strength and speed, it had no angle. It was slightly straight and was thrown out by the goalkeeper Yang Zhi of the Hua Guo team.

As time went on, Kuwait, three goals behind, became more and more anxious.

Finally, both full-backs overwhelmed the center line to participate in the attack, leaving only two center backs in the backcourt to prevent Cheng Hai's counterattack.

However, both of them lagged behind Cheng Hai in terms of physique, off-the-ball running position, speed, etc. Even two people could not completely prevent Cheng Hai from dying.

European clubs can't do it, let alone Kuwait?
Moreover, as a striker, Cheng Hai does not need to succeed every time, nor can he succeed every time, because it is impossible to cooperate with his teammates so well every time.

But as long as it succeeds once, it can form a huge threat and even score a goal.

In the 63rd minute, 18 minutes after the opening of the second half, the Hua Guo team finally stole the ball and played an excellent counterattack opportunity.

Although Deng Zhuoxiang's pass did not make Cheng Hai stand alone, it also left Cheng Hai with only Kuwaiti defender Amir in front of him after receiving the ball.

Another defender Fadil was left behind by Cheng Hai's running position.

Of course, not far away.Once Cheng Hai fails to break through Amir in time, Fadil will immediately return to defense and attack Cheng Hai with Amir.

But will Cheng Hai give Fadil a chance?
will not!

His dribbling and Matthews feints are full value.

Although this breakthrough action was a bit simple, but with Cheng Hai's speed, explosive power, and physique, even if the opponent guessed Cheng Hai's intentions, it was too late to stop him.

Sure enough, after Cheng Hai received the pass from Deng Zhuoxiang and turned to face Amir, he immediately used the dribbling at full capacity and Matthews' fake moves.

In the end, he was deceived by Cheng Hai's fake action.

Cheng Hai broke through from the left side of Amir in an instant. Fadil, who was about to return to the defense, saw that it was not good, and directly shoveled over, wanting to keep Cheng Hai with the ball, even if he fouled.

Now they are three goals behind, but as long as Cheng Hai is off the court, there may not be a slight chance of tying the score.

But once Cheng Hai's counterattack is allowed to break through the past and form a single-handed attack, with Cheng Hai's shooting skills, there is a high probability of scoring a goal. Hua Guo's four-goal lead is enough to completely kill the game.

Even if Cheng Hai goes off the field, it is impossible for Kuwait to regain the four-goal gap against the Hua Guo team.

Therefore, Fadil took the risk of fouling to keep Cheng Hai.

However, he couldn't even realize his wish to get a card, because Cheng Hai's explosive power exceeded his expectations.

With full physique and acceleration, Cheng Hai's starting reaction and speed are completely the first in the world. Before Fadil's flying shovel hits Cheng Hai, Cheng Hai has already taken the ball away.

Fadil's flying shovel did not knock down Cheng Hai in the end, but brought down his teammate Amir, and both of them completely lost the possibility of chasing back.

Cheng Hai took the ball towards Kuwait's penalty area without hindrance. The Kuwaiti fans in the stands booed anxiously, hoping to influence Cheng Hai's performance.

But to no avail.

Cheng Hai quickly dribbled the ball to the front of the penalty area.

Facing a one-handed goal, the goalkeeper is so helpless.

Halliday didn't attack last time, but was easily angled by Cheng Hai.This time he chose to attack, but Cheng Hai chose to lob before entering the penalty area.

The ball lobbed by Cheng Hai lifted off the ground, crossed the head of Khalidi, who was jumping and trying to save, drew a parabola in the air, and fell into their goal under the desperate eyes of Kuwaiti players and fans.

In the 63rd minute of the second half, Cheng Hai scored another goal and staged a hat-trick, helping the Hua Guo team to seal the victory 4-0.

There is no suspense in this game.

In the 68th minute, Cheng Hai was replaced by Gao Lin by Gao Hongbo, which caused warm applause from all Chinese and overseas Chinese fans when he left the field.

After Cheng Hai left the field, Kuwait finally breathed a sigh of relief and launched the most ferocious attack across the board.

However, the Huaguo team's double defensive midfielder configuration is still very powerful. Coupled with Zheng Zhi's experience, the defense line is well protected. Kuwait has not been able to break through the Huaguo team's defense line.

Instead, in the 85th minute, after several failed counterattacks, the Huaguo team got a corner kick through a counterattack, and then Dewey overwhelmed the crowd in the penalty area, grabbed the first header and headed the ball into Kuwait's goal.

The Chinese team took a 5-0 lead.

After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. The Hua Guo team beat Kuwait 5-0 in the first round of the Asian Cup group match, ranking first in the group with a goal difference of 3 points and taking the initiative to qualify for the group.

After the game, the news of Cheng Hai's hat-trick in his national football debut spread throughout Asia, and some European media also reported it.

Although the Asian Cup is far inferior to the European Cup and America's Cup, it can be regarded as an intercontinental competition, and there is still some attention.

Especially Cheng Hai, who has his own attention.

In addition, this was also Cheng Hai's first game in the senior national team of China, and he performed a hat-trick, which was a good gimmick, so it attracted a lot of reports from domestic and foreign media.

Of course, foreign media reports are not as good as Huaguo.

A 5-0 victory made domestic fans as excited as Chinese New Year.

"It's so cool, 5-0, how long has it been since I saw the national football team play such a hearty game!"

"It's all thanks to Cheng Hai. Without Cheng Hai, the national football team would never have scored this score. It's fine if we don't lose."

"Cheng Hai's contribution is naturally the greatest. After all, he staged a hat-trick, but it would be too much to say that it is all due to him. I watched the live broadcast and found that other players performed well. For example, Zheng Zhi and Dewey, who also scored goals, performed very well both offensively and defensively."

"Well, I feel the same way! Today's game feels much more organized than before, unlike previous games that looked like a mess."

"Maybe this is Cheng Hai's leadership role, so that everyone has a backbone, knows what they should do on the court, and has confidence in the game."

"Not bad! I think the same is true. The decision of the national football team to make Cheng Hai the captain is really correct."

"Before I thought Cheng Hai was a little younger, and I wondered if he could be qualified for the captain's position, but now it seems no problem."

"Yes! Cheng Hai has strength, fame, and prestige. As the captain, he can hold the field, everyone is convinced, and he has a backbone. If this continues, the national football team may really create a new history of the Asian Cup!"

"Shhhhhhhhhhh, keep a low profile!"

"low profile!"

After a hearty 5-0 victory, not only the media and fans, but also no one in the team questioned Cheng Hai's strength and captain's position.

Not even the discomfort and disbelief in my heart are gone!

Everyone knows that once they achieve a historic breakthrough in the Asian Cup under the leadership of Cheng Hai, then everyone will become heroes.

Although the biggest hero is Cheng Hai, but they can also get some credit, right?

In the next two days, everyone will be more active in training, full of anticipation and fighting spirit for the next group match.

Although the next opponent is the host Qatar, everyone swept away their previous worries and was full of confidence in the victory of this game.

In a blink of an eye, a few days passed by, and the second round of the group stage officially started.

The first game was Uzbekistan VS Kuwait. After 90 minutes, Uzbekistan beat Kuwait 2-1. Two consecutive victories and 6 points took the absolute initiative to qualify for the group.

Although it has not qualified ahead of schedule, it is almost the same, just look at the results of the Huaguo VS Qatar match.

As for Kuwait, it is the same. The two-game losing streak is basically out early. Even if there is still a theoretical possibility of qualifying, it is already very small. It also depends on the result of the Qatar VS Hua Guo team.

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After losing 0-2 to Uzbekistan in the first round, Qatar, as the host, had no choice but to attack, and only by winning would it be possible to keep the hope of qualifying.

Although Cheng Hai of the Hua Guo team started the game and was a huge threat, Qatar had no choice but to choose to attack from the beginning of the game.

With Cheng Hai's off-ball running position, grabbing points, and speed, the Hua Guo team is naturally the most suitable for defensive counterattacks.

Now that the opponents took the initiative to attack, the Huaguo team naturally pushed forward and launched a defensive counterattack.

As the host, Qatar fans naturally have an absolute numerical advantage in this game, and the Qataris are also more adaptable to their own stadium and weather, and their combat effectiveness is much higher than that of Kuwait.

Amidst the cheers and cheers from the home fans, Qatar's offense still played very threateningly.

In just 5 minutes of the opening, Qatar made a cross from the side. Forward Sebastian followed up in the middle to grab the first point. With a header, he headed the ball towards the Hua Guo team's goal.

Fortunately, goalkeeper Yang Zhi played well this time and made an excellent save, lifting the ball over the crossbar.

Subsequently, Qatar's corner kick failed to grab the first point, and was cleared by Hua Guo's central defender Zhao Peng who pushed out of the penalty area.

Although this attack failed to break through the Hua Guo team's goal, it still attracted applause and cheers from tens of thousands of Qatari fans in the stands.

Next, Qatar continued to attack violently.

They want to score goals, they want to win.

Sometimes, however, things don't go their way.

Qatar's offense was quite effective and created a lot of threats, but the Huaguo team, which mainly defended and counterattacked, played steadily and basically resolved Qatar's offense, at least they did not lose the ball.

This is what some of the media and fans said, the role of Cheng Hai's Dinghai magic needle. Under the leadership of Cheng Hai, the Huaguo team showed something different than before. Both offense and defense had a lot of rules.

While solidly defending, the Huaguo team naturally did not forget to counterattack.

With Cheng Hai, a world-record runner, the Hua Guo team has a natural advantage when it comes to counterattacks.

Although everyone often passes the ball poorly, or the timing of the pass is wrong, resulting in the passing and cutting positions not being able to fit together.

But once the cooperation is in place, it can form a threatening counterattack.

After several failed passes and cuts, in the 16th minute, the Hua Guo team finally cut off Qatar's ball, and Deng Zhuoxiang sent a long pass that was just right.

Cheng Hai used his perfect off-ball running position and speed to overtake Qatar's back line at the moment Deng Zhuoxiang passed the ball. He succeeded in anti-offside and was not flagged by the linesman.

The next thing is simple.

Cheng Hai received a pass from Deng Zhuoxiang at the front of Qatar's penalty area to form a single shot, and then faced the attacking goalkeeper Burhan on the line of the penalty area and volleyed from a close angle.

Although Burhan made a save, he was still a step late and failed to touch the ball. In the end, he could only watch the ball pass by him and get into the goal against the post.

In the 16th minute, the Hua Guo team took advantage of an opportunity to steal the ball and counterattacked. Cheng Hai opened the scoring and took a 1-0 lead. The situation of the host Qatar was even more passive.

Huaguo fans, who have been suppressed by the fans of the host country Qatar by taking advantage of their numbers, can finally raise their voices loudly and celebrate with warm applause and cheers.