King of the Zone

Off the court, the head coach of the South Korean team was very satisfied with the performance of Cheng Hai's offside due to the unified action of his two central defenders, and applauded the two defenders with a smile on his face.

Just as Cheng Hai guessed, in the eyes of the Koreans, Cheng Hai's speed is at the world record level. Let alone Asian players when fighting back, African, European and American players are equally difficult to use, and they cannot catch up with Cheng Hai.

Therefore, the South Korean team specially practiced Cheng Hai's offside in the past few days before the game. Anyway, the Huaguo team only has Cheng Hai as a striker, and the goal is relatively simple. Just keep an eye on Cheng Hai's position and the opponent's movement to pass the ball, and throw Cheng Hai behind the defensive line before the opponent passes the ball.

Just this time, he played quite well. He managed to defuse Cheng Hai's single-handed counterattack, and also strengthened the confidence and thinking of the South Korean team's defense to continue to make Cheng Hai offside.

However, they only know that Cheng Hai's off-ball running position is good, but they don't know that Cheng Hai's off-ball running position has reached the perfect level of 20 full value.

Now that he knows the Korean's tactics of intentionally making him offside, and is mentally prepared, it is not difficult for Cheng Hai to successfully counter-offside again and form a single-handedly.

Of course, it is not easy to get such a good counterattack opportunity for the second time.

On the one hand, it is because the overall strength of the South Korean team is stronger than that of the Huaguo team, and they have been playing against the Huaguo team.

On the other hand, even if occasionally the players of the Huaguo team got the ball and wanted to counterattack, they couldn't form a counterattack because of the wrong timing of passing the ball or problems with the passing technique, and they didn't cooperate well with Cheng Hai.

This is impossible to hit one by one. Even if the midfield pass masters such as Harvey and Iniesta pass the ball to Cheng Hai, they will not be able to pass the ball in place every time they counterattack.

For example, in the 15th minute, Cheng Hai succeeded in anti-offside, but the two defenders of the South Korean team failed to make him offside.

However, Zhao Xuri's big pass was too powerful, and it went directly over Cheng Hai's head and landed in the South Korean team's penalty area, where it was confiscated by goalkeeper Zheng Chenglong.

In the 22nd minute, Cheng Hai succeeded in turning offside again, but Zheng Zhi's pass route was slightly straighter, and he failed to avoid the opponent's defender. He was intercepted halfway by Huang Zaiyuan who fell behind Cheng Hai, and the pass did not reach Cheng Hai's feet at all.

This made Cheng Hai a little helpless.

In these two chances that Cheng Hai succeeded in countering offside, if the club's Shaheen or Kagawa Shinji came to pass the ball, he should be able to succeed once.

But these teammates of the Hua Guo team have nothing to do with their strength.

In addition, the Korean team put too much pressure on everyone. Even if they got the ball, they were rushed when they got the ball, and there was nothing they could do if the pass was not good.

You know, Cheng Hai hasn't scored a counterattack yet, and he hasn't even shot once. The South Korean team has already scored three times in the first 20 minutes.

It's just that the Korean team's shooting skills are far from being comparable to Cheng Hai's. Only one of the three shots hit the goal frame, and the angle was not tricky, and was thrown out by the goalkeeper Yang Zhi.

If it was Cheng Hailai who shot, at least one goal would be scored in these three opportunities.

This is the helplessness of both parties.

The overall strength of the South Korean team crushed the Huaguo team and created many more shooting opportunities than the Huaguo team, but they did not have a top striker like Cheng Hai in the final shot, resulting in repeated missed opportunities.

The Hua Guo team has Cheng Hai, a top striker with superb shooting skills, but limited by his teammates' ability to pass and cut, he cannot create too many opportunities for Cheng Hai.

This allowed the two sides to reach a superficial balance in the first 30 minutes. The strength of the Korean team made the Huaguo team feel completely different from the previous Jordan, Kuwait, and Uzbekistan.

However, although the Korean team is stronger than the Huaguo team, it is still at the Asian level.

But Cheng Hai's strength is world-class.

In the 32nd minute, South Korean striker Ji Dongyuan's shot was blocked by central defender Zhao Pengfei, who blocked the hole, and the ball landed at Zhao Xuri's feet.

Zhao Xuri didn't wait for the opponent's player to attack, and quickly passed the ball to Deng Zhuoxiang, who was returning to the defense.

Deng Zhuoxiang, who was a little sideways in the backcourt, stopped and buckled, and dodged the South Korean midfielder Koo Zizhe who was grabbing. Then, after taking a look at the frontcourt, he made a long pass with his foot sticking to the ground, and stuffed the ball straight into the South Korean team's frontcourt.

In the opening 30 minutes, Deng Zhuoxiang's pass finally matched Cheng Hai's running position and speed after several through passes that were not in place.

When Zhao Xuri passed the ball to Deng Zhuoxiang, Cheng Hai sprinted towards the South Korean team's penalty area and wanted to counter-offside.

The Koreans still insisted on making offside. At the moment Cheng Hai made an anti-offside move, the two central defenders stepped forward together, trying to keep Cheng Hai behind the defense line, so that Cheng Hai was in an offside state at the moment Deng Zhuoxiang passed the ball, frustrating the Hua Guo team's counterattack.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Hai's forward thrust was just a fake move, he didn't rush out after taking a step, but paused.

Cheng Hai paused, so that he was not offside when Deng Zhuoxiang passed the ball.

Then, after Deng Zhuoxiang passed the ball, Cheng Hai used his full "acceleration" to rush out instantly.

The two central defenders of the Korean team both raised their hands to signal to the referee that Cheng Hai was offside, but neither the referee nor the linesman said anything, but followed Cheng Hai and ran forward.

Obviously, in the eyes of the two referees, Cheng Hai was not offside in this attack.

The faces of the two guards changed drastically, and when they wanted to turn around and chase, it was already too late.

Originally, Cheng Hai was in the state of going forward, coupled with his advantage in speed, he almost instantly left behind the two central defenders who still needed to turn around.

The two could only watch in despair as Cheng Hai rushed to the frontcourt and received a long pass from Deng Zhuoxiang to form a one-handed goal.

The Huaguo team finally played a successful counterattack, allowing Cheng Hai to catch the ball and form a single-handedly.

The more than 2 Huaguo fans in the stands stood up excitedly, their eyes widened, and they looked at the field expectantly, hoping that Cheng Hai's one-handed goal would not make a mistake.

More than 1 South Korean fans booed loudly in horror, hoping to interfere with Cheng Hai's solo and shooting.

But how could Cheng Hai be disturbed?
With a system plug-in, no one in the world has as much confidence in himself as Cheng Hai.

Therefore, Cheng Hai ignored the boos from the stands, but used his full-value dribbling skills to rush forward with the ball.

He also believes that no one behind the South Korean defender can catch up to him, and he only needs to beat the goalkeeper Zheng Chenglong.

Zheng Chenglong knew that Cheng Hai liked to lob shots when he played single-handed balls, so he didn't attack very far, just a little outside the small penalty area.

If Cheng Hai lobs from this distance, it will easily fly off the crossbar or be caught by him.

At the same time, he is not too close to the goal line, and has a certain defensive ability against Cheng Hai's single-handed low shot.

However, this countermeasure can only be used against strikers with average shooting skills. Facing Cheng Hai, the top striker in Europe, Zheng Chenglong's countermeasures are doomed to fail.

It is indeed relatively risky to play lob shots, because Cheng Hai has not yet activated the lob shot skills, and lob shots are not as accurate as ground volleys.

But with such a big goal, even if Zheng Chenglong is not on the goal line and cannot be compared with kicking a penalty kick, he can't save it.

Sure enough, Cheng Hai rushed into the penalty area with the ball. When the distance between the two was only about three or four meters, Cheng Hai volleyed the far corner according to Zheng Chenglong's selection.

Because the distance is too short, it is impossible to wait for Cheng Hai to finish the shot before making a save according to the path of the ball.

Therefore, Zheng Chenglong instinctively rushed to the near corner the moment Cheng Hai shot.

As a result, the direction was reversed, the ball ran past him, and under his desperate gaze, it stuck to the far post and entered the goal.

In the 32nd minute of the first half, the Huaguo team finally broke through the South Korean team's goal, and it was Cheng Hai, whom everyone had high hopes for, who scored the goal.

The moment the ball went into the far post, the CCTV-5 commentator on the commentary booth shouted excitedly:

"The ball is in!"

"We finally scored!"

"It was Cheng Hai who scored the goal!"

"Cheng Hai received a backcourt pass from Deng Zhuoxiang and scored a single-handed goal. The Huaguo team led 1-0!"

"We have the advantage in the score!"

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The difficulty of this game was even more difficult than the previous games played by the Hua Guo team. Cheng Haidu didn't get the chance to counterattack and shoot until the 32nd minute.

Fortunately, Cheng Hai's shooting skills did not disappoint. Although this was Cheng Hai's first shot in the game, he hit it and successfully kicked the ball into the South Korean team's goal.

Therefore, not only Cheng Hai, who scored the goal, was running excitedly to celebrate, but the Hua Guo fans at the scene and in front of the TV were also clapping and cheering frantically, celebrating Cheng Hai's goal and the Hua Guo team leading South Korea by one goal.

As for the Koreans, no matter the coaches, players, or fans, they all seemed very depressed and downcast.

You know, judging from the situation, they have an absolute advantage, and they have been suppressing the Hua Guo team to attack.

Whether it is the number of shots, the number of shots on target, and the possession rate, they are all ahead by a large margin.

As a result, the Huaguo team, which scored the first goal, was the first to score.Cheng Hai's shooting skills really make people feel desperate.

For the two central defenders Cho Rong-hyung and Huang Jae-won, this conceded goal was like a bolt from the blue, giving them a heavy blow.

Although Cheng Hai has also successfully reversed offside before, after all, he did not receive a pass from his teammates to form a single-handedly. They can still deceive themselves into thinking that their offside tactics were successful.

But this time, Cheng Hai's running position was clearly aimed at their offside tactics. Through the rhythm change of rushing forward and stopping, their offside tactics failed, and then successfully received a pass from his teammates to form a one-handed goal.

If they did not consciously create an offside, but retreated early to form a defensive line the moment the ball was lost in the frontcourt, the Hua Guo team's counterattack may not be successful this time. It is entirely possible for them to destroy the ball before entering the penalty area, even if it is a tactical foul.

After all, in this counterattack, it took a long time for Zhao Pengfei to block the ball through the bullet hole, the ball fell to Zhao Xuri's feet, Zhao Xuri passed it to Deng Zhuoxiang, and Deng Zhuoxiang passed it to Cheng Hai.

If they retreat in time and decisively, it is possible to stop Cheng Hai's single-handed attack.

Cheng Hai's successful anti-offside plus goal this time made the two central defenders doubt the offside tactics.

Although they conducted a few days of special offside training before the game, but now it seems that the effect is not good. Cheng Hai's offside movement is much better than their offside.

What's more, even if they have a high success rate of offside, they are defenders, while Cheng Hai is an attacker.

They should have succeeded 5 times, but once they made a mistake, Cheng Hai successfully turned offside and caught the ball to form a single goal, that would be a huge injury, just like the loss of the ball this time.

Therefore, both central defenders looked to the coach on the sidelines, hoping that he would give him an idea.

The head coach of the South Korean team also knew that his offside tactics were difficult to produce, but at this time he could not let the defense retreat to concentrate on defense.

Because at this time they are already behind.

This is a knockout game that determines the outcome. As long as the score falls behind to the end, they have to be eliminated.

Therefore, they have to attack.

And if you want to attack, the front and back courts cannot be separated too seriously.In addition, the offside tactics have been practiced these days. If you don't use them, wouldn't it prove that you have done useless efforts these days?
The helpless head coach can only let the players continue to attack, and the back line continues to use offside tactics to prevent Cheng Hai from counterattacking.

This is a helpless choice when the score is behind and knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, but going to the tigers.

Fortunately, after a few days of special training, they had a good understanding of the offside tactics. In the following time, they destroyed the Hua Guo team's counterattacks several times, causing Cheng Hai's offside.

Although Cheng Hai also made a successful anti-offside once again, but this time his teammate's pass did not match him, and finally the ball was kicked out of the penalty area by goalkeeper Zheng Chenglong to clear the siege.

In the rest of the first half, the Huaguo team did not score a goal.

But in contrast, the South Korean team did not score a single goal.

After 45 minutes of indiscriminate bombardment around the restricted area of ​​the Huaguo team, the South Korean team did not score a goal, which was beyond the expectations of the Koreans.

When will Huaguo's defense be able to withstand South Korea's offense?
This made them a little unbelievable, but also a little depressed.

In fact, the Koreans are just unwilling to admit the fact that their offense is weak.

In this Asian Cup, the South Korean team scored 2-1 and 1-1 in the group stage, and the goals were not too many.There was only one group match against India, a 4-1 draw with four goals.

But what team is India?Scored 4 goals in India, and the Huaguo team can do it too.

Besides, in the quarter-finals, the South Korean team faced Iran and drew 90-0 within 0 minutes. They failed to score a single goal. It was only in the 105th minute of overtime that they scored a goal to eliminate Iran by chance.

Therefore, it is just an illusion that the Koreans think that they have a great advantage over the Chinese team, but in fact their performance in this Asian Cup is not good.

Besides, for the Huaguo team, under the leadership of Cheng Hai, the players have become more and more confident and their desire for the championship has become stronger and stronger. Everyone is united and they all want to reach the final and win the championship.

This is the more united mentality of the players.

In addition, in terms of real defensive cooperation, after several games of actual combat drills, everyone's cooperation is relatively tacit now.

In addition, the offense is done by Cheng Hai, and everyone else can concentrate on defense, with a numerical advantage, which can be called a bus defense.

South Korea is not a world giant like Brazil, Spain, or Germany. Naturally, there are not many options for the intensive defense of the Chinese team. It seems that the dominant offense failed to convert into goals until the end of the first half.

After the referee blew the final whistle of the first half, the two sides entered the intermission with a score of 1-0, and Hua Guo temporarily led by one goal.

After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and fought again. The South Korean team, which was behind in the score, had no choice but to continue to attack aggressively, trying to break through the goal of the Huaguo team.

But their striker was really weak in this World Cup. Even if he had the chance to shoot occasionally, he failed to send the ball into the Hua Guo team's goal.

On the contrary, it was the Huaguo team. Because of Cheng Hai's existence, every counterattack made the South Korean players and fans frightened.

After several failed counterattacks, finally, in the 56th minute, the Huaguo team made another counterattack.

However, this time, Cheng Hai had to stop and wait for the ball because his teammate's big-footed long pass did not match Cheng Hai's speed and running position, and then was caught up by the opponent's defender and blocked his way.

Although Cheng Hai used his full-value dribbling to rush left and right after unloading the ball, and repeatedly spiked the ball to get a shot from outside the penalty area, he still couldn't shoot a good angle under the interference of Huang Zaiyuan. The angle was slightly positive and was saved by the goalkeeper Zheng Chenglong.

The players and fans of the South Korean team finally breathed a sigh of relief. Some of the players who came back patted Hwang Jae-won on the shoulder to thank him for his defense this time.

Zheng Chenglong, who saved the ball to the bottom line, also received applause and encouragement from the Korean fans in the stands.

However, what they didn't expect was that they were not happy for 1 minute, and the Huaguo team grabbed the first point in the next corner kick attack and headed the ball into the South Korean team's goal.

The one who scored the goal was Cheng Hai who made them tremble with fear.

Cheng Hai's jumping and heading are all added to the full value of 20, plus the same full value of running without the ball, grabbing points, physique, balance, etc., Cheng Hai's ability to compete for headers in the penalty area is no longer inferior to any central defender with a height of 190.

So, after his teammate passed the ball and the landing point was near Cheng Hai, Cheng Hai took the crowd of two defenders as a matter of course, jumped high on the small penalty area line, grabbed the first point and shook his head to attack the goal.

Cheng Hai made a tricky angle with his full header technique.With the header so close to the goal, Zheng Chenglong didn't even react to the save, so he just watched the ball fly into the net.

In the 57th minute, Cheng Hai scored another goal and scored twice, extending the score to 2-0.

During the fierce celebration by Cheng Hai and his teammates, Huaguo fans at the scene and in front of the TV gave out even more enthusiastic applause and cheers.

In the next game, the South Korean team launched a more violent attack.

However, today's scoring luck is indeed not on the Korean team's side.

In the 72nd minute, after Cheng Hai was replaced, the Hua Guo team's intensive defense became more thorough, and the South Korean team had no way to do it.

It wasn't until the 87th minute that the South Korean team won a penalty kick through Park Ji-sung's breakthrough in the penalty area that caused a foul by the defender of the Huaguo team and tied the score at 1-2, only one goal behind.

But there is really not much time left in the game. Although the South Korean team pressed the whole line in the final stage, they still failed to break through the Hua Guo team's goal.

After 3 minutes of added time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. The Hua Guo team beat South Korea 2011-2 in the semi-finals of the 1 Asian Cup in Qatar and advanced to the final of this Asian Cup.