Godfather of national football

Chapter 165 The first match against Argentina ([-])
During the intermission, the players returned to the locker room one after another, and Li Guo was the last one to return to the locker room.

"dong dong dong,"

Everyone was taken aback, since Li Guo was the last one to come back, who is knocking on the door?

Chen An and Robin are here, shit, hell.

"dong dong dong,"

Li Guo unscrewed the door, and in front of him was a familiar face, Fan Zhiyi.

"So it's Lao Fan," Li Weifeng said kindly, the two of them used to be comrades who played football together.

Fan Zhiyi was not polite, and walked in directly, "Director Li, I want to take a look."

Li Guo nodded, but Li Guo didn't like this very much, the locker room was a forbidden area for the team, even former national team heroes were not allowed to enter.

Fan Zhiyi said straight to the point: "I'm proud of you. I couldn't have imagined that you and Argentina could become like this."

The big guys laughed and thought to themselves, "Are we really that good?"

Maybe according to Fan Zhiyi's standards, the national football team is very strong, but Li Guo doesn't think so. Li Guo winks at Chen An, and Chen An invites Fan Zhiyi out with an excuse.

"Okay, what I want to say is, don't listen to Lao Fan's nonsense. There is no result in a football match, and no matter how beautiful the process is, it's an ass."

Li Guo is telling the truth, but everyone still prefers what Fan Zhiyi said. In fact, Li Guo is afraid that the players will have this kind of thinking-just do your best.

The Chinese are used to saying that it is good to do your best, but in fact, many times this has become a complete excuse, an excuse to comfort yourself.

Li Guo raised a finger: "One point, my goal is still the same, one point."

After setting the goal, Li Guo began to arrange tactics. First of all, he used the old generals to attack. In the second half, he replaced Sun Jihai and Zheng Zhi, and replaced them with Ji Ke and Hao Junmin.

The formation changed to 442, returning to the Chinese team's style of play in the Milu era, with Ji Ke and Chen Gelin one high and one fast.

Li Guo explained the key points of tactics, and the players understood. In short, what Li Guo meant was one sentence, either to play high or to play fast. Anyway, the simpler the game, the better.

*****
At the beginning of the second half, Li Guo changed two people in a row, and Maradona's eyes lit up. This kind of situation is rare. Could it be that Li Guo still refuses to accept it?
Looking at it again, the big tall man seemed to be a newcomer, and he had never seen him in the Olympics. Maradona turned to look at his disciple Palermo, and thought: "Hey, I also have "tall" people."

In the second half, Argentina didn't care too much about how the Chinese team would play. They still had the ball. As long as Argentina kept the ball under their feet, no matter how the Chinese team changed, it would be a waste of effort.

Li Guo is not worried about this. Li Guo has always felt that possession of the ball is useless. What is useful is running without the ball. In this regard, Li Guo is very similar to Ferguson.

The Argentine players on the court were comfortable with the ball, and the Argentine substitutes on the sidelines also came out to warm up. Li Guo saw that they were all fierce players.

Milito, Aguero, Pastore, and the three were jogging on the sidelines, talking and laughing. It felt easier than the warm-up match.

Di Maria made a 45-degree diagonal pass after breaking through from the wing. Higuain grabbed a header and the ball hit the Chinese team's goal post heavily.

The small smoking gun missed the opportunity to score twice, and the Chinese team also escaped.

****
When the game advanced to 25 minutes into the second half, the score was still 1-0. Li Guo sensed Argentina's weakness, and that was the newly replaced Veron.

Veron played well in Serie A and was known as the best organizational midfielder, but his state plummeted after he went to Manchester United. The main reason is that Veron's skills can only be brought into play when the confrontation is not fierce, and the high confrontation of the Premier League makes Veron unable to find North.

Li Guo gestured for Fang Suo to "take care" of Veron.

Mascherano, who was replaced on the sidelines, has already noticed that things are not good. He wants to remind the coach, but it is not easy to speak, because most coaches don't like to be directed by others.

Veron turned around and pulled the ball with a cool movement, but suddenly found himself surrounded. Before he could react, Fang Suo had already rushed over. Veron touched the ball with his instep and wanted to flick it lightly, but Fang Suo dribbled the ball and kicked it.

With a sound of "ah", Fang Suo shoveled the ball to Hao Junmin.

Veron was complaining, but the referee ignored him. It is true that his own movements were too slow.

Hao Junmin gave it straight to Chen Gelin, who, under the defense of Burdisso, knocked the ball with his heel and returned the ball to Hao Junmin.

At this time, Hao Junmin, Chen Gelin, and Ji Ke formed a triangle, which fully opened up Argentina's defense line. Li Guo knew that the opportunity had come!

Hao Junmin curved the ball into the penalty area, and Demichelis was defending against Ji Ke. Ji Ke was not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf, and leaped high, overwhelming Demichelis, and headed the ball towards the goal.

Romero pounced and missed Kiko's header.

"The ball has been scored!" The first to jump up was Fan Zhiyi in the stands.

That year, the Chinese team failed to score a goal in 3 games, which was a lifelong regret for Fan Zhiyi, but today, the Chinese team finally broke the first goal of the World Cup, a historic first goal!
After the goal, Ji Ke raised his right hand and rushed towards Li Guo, Li Guo also rushed towards Ji Ke at the same time, and the two embraced passionately.

"Head, I did it, I am the No.1 in the history of the Chinese team."

"Yes, you did it. After 100 years, everyone will see you in textbooks, Ji Ke, the No.1 goal in China's World Cup."

The other players ran over and ignored them, pushing Li Guo and Ji Ke to the ground, and then pressed them up. The Chinese players piled up like a hill.

Many fans in front of the TV were in tears. In 2002, the Chinese team hit the goal post against Brazil but failed to score. No one thought that eight years later, the Chinese team's first World Cup goal came.

The Chinese team was so excited that they didn't end their celebration until the referee and the linesman all came to remind them.

"Head, are you okay?" Ji Ke asked.

Li Guo covered his waist, thinking: "Damn, who was behind me just now forcibly pushed me down, almost bent my waist."

"It's okay, if you get another one, even if I break my waist, it's worth it."

******
When the game resumed, the morale of the Chinese team was boosted and they organized a few more attacks. Seeing that things were not going well, Lao Ma immediately replaced Tevez with Pastore and added a bodyguard for Veron in the midfield.

The pressure was suddenly thrown to Argentina. Maradona knew very well that if the first game was tied by the Chinese team, he would be scolded to death by the domestic fans. He is usually so arrogant, isn't it because he once led Argentina to win the World Cup.

Maradona called Aguero over and whispered a few words in his ear. It was probably not good, so he went to his son-in-law, and Aguero and Messi could fly on both wings.

(End of this chapter)