Godfather of national football

Chapter 359 The first match against Chile ([-])

Sampaoli is a character coach, and his substitutions are also very personal. He replaced two starters at once.

Gutierrez and Valdibia came on the field. Both of them are midfielders, which is equivalent to changing the battery.

Li Guo squatted on the side of the court, looking at the gaps exposed by the Chilean team on the court, he felt itchy in his heart. He also knew that the Chilean team was fishing, but fish have been willing to be caught since ancient times, mainly because of the benefits.

Li Guo wanted to win the first match, he dreamed of it, Li Guo wanted to shout in front of the camera, "I am the one who led the Chinese team to win the first match of the World Cup," then he could surpass Milu.

But pressing the attack means that the defense will have more gaps, and it may not even be possible to keep the draw. Sangpaoli has laid the bait, and it depends on whether Li Guo is willing to fight in the end.

In the end, Li Guo decided to take a gamble. The Chinese team's midfield began to press up, and the two teams formed a balance in the midfield.

On the other side, Sanchez and Vargas have been pressing the Chinese team's defense line. Between offside and non-offside, their existence is a sticking point for the Chinese team.

The Chinese team got a few chances after pressing on, and the Chilean team soon played a very good counterattack. Sanchez took away Zhou Dun, and Vargas went in offside. For a while, the Chinese team's defense was torn apart.

This was caused by Li Guo's risk, but Li Guo didn't have time to regret anything. Vargas had already faced Wang Dalei with the ball. With a flick of his ankle, the ball flew past Wang Dalei and flew into the far corner of the goal, 2 to 1!

Li Guo covered his face with his hands, the gamble failed!But before Li Guo was upset, Chen An shouted excitedly: "Li Guo, look at the line judge."

Seeing the flag raised high by the linesman, Li Guo was excited, "Offside?"

Sanchez and Vidal rushed over to reason with the linesman, "Is this ball offside? Is this ball offside? Is this ball really offside?"

The linesman didn't change his face, he only communicated with the referee, Li Guo looked up at the big screen, and finally remembered that it is not allowed to play controversial scenes in the stadium, but it doesn't matter, anyway, the referee makes a decision.

Li Guo also changed immediately, replacing Liao Lisheng, replacing Ji Ke, Chen Gelin retreated to Liao Lisheng's position, then replaced Yin Di, replaced by Li Weifeng, Yin Di consumed too much today, and was a bit lost in the second half.

After the substitution, the Chinese team resumed their defensive counterattack. Ji Ke has always been a fulcrum of the Chinese team's forward line, often playing the role of cavalry. This kind of high center forward is a scarce resource.

Li Guo looked at his watch. It was 70 minutes and there were still 20 minutes left. Li Guo asked Ji Ke to take the ball in the frontcourt and delay as much as possible. After 80 minutes of the game, the Chinese team will launch a general attack.

Ji Ke stood in the opponent's half, like a giant fortress, using his body to protect the ball, and even one or two Chilean players couldn't break it.

Vidal came over, and Ji Ke continued to dribble the ball to the sideline, using the sideline to cover, and it was even more difficult for Vidal to steal the ball. Vidal stretched his legs under Ji Ke's crotch, but Ji Ke's legs were longer. In the end, Vidal could only push, and received a yellow card for it.

Li Guo finally discovered another characteristic of Ji Ke, that is delaying time, if this kid does not attack and concentrates on protecting the ball, no one will be able to take his ball away.

Ji Ke and Chen Gelin, the two spent a full 10 minutes, and the game entered 80 minutes, and the decisive battle came.

Sang Bao took advantage of the last substitution spot, and Li Guo also replaced Zheng Zhi with Park Shuang.

When the ball reaches Park Shuang's feet, it will delay as much as possible, and when it reaches Chen Gelin's feet, it will organize an attack.

Pu Shuang and Chen Gelin attracted a lot of attention in front of the penalty area. At this moment, Chen Gelin kicked the ball and passed the ball to Lin Zhijian on the right. The latter made a cross from the wing and the ball found Ji Ke. The Chinese fans at the scene were excited. Ji Ke had an absolute advantage in height in front of the opposing defender.

However, the South American defender made a lot of small moves. When the jump height was not enough, the opponent pushed Ji Ke.

After landing, Ji Ke was very angry, but it was obviously impossible for the referee to call a penalty for such a ball, so Ji Ke could only give the opponent a hard look.

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In the 88th minute of the game, Chile's chance came, and Vargas won a free kick in front of the penalty area.

Zhou Dun knows how good Sanchez's free kick is. He scored a beautiful free kick in the national derby last year, with a long distance and a large arc.

Zhou Dun was worried, so he ran back and whispered something to Wang Dalei, telling Wang Dalei about Sanchez's usual habit of taking free kicks, but in fact, if the free kick really hits the corner, the goalkeeper has nothing to do.

Sampaoli walked up and down the sideline nervously. This is probably the last good chance for Chile in this game. It would be great to have a chance to kill the Chinese team.

After hearing Zhou Dun's words, Wang Dalei just lined up a crowd of 5 people and deliberately released the far corner to Sanchez. This is another psychological warfare.

Of course, in order to prevent Sanchez from not shooting in the end, but passing the ball, other Chinese players also marked the Chilean players in the penalty area.

At the end of the first game of the World Cup, everyone was very nervous. Sanchez looked at the referee, took a deep breath, and then ran up. The ball he kicked took the far corner deliberately released by Wang Dalei.

And Wang Dalei also threw it out ahead of time, but Sanchez's footwork was really good, and the ball still went towards the dead corner.

"I got it, I got it," Duan Xuan roared in the commentary, as if Wang Dalei had saved a penalty.

Sanchez covered his face. Perhaps he was praying that he would never meet the Chinese team again. His luck in this game was really bad.

The game entered stoppage time, and the stoppage time was 3 minutes. Sampaoli and Li Guo were in perfect sync. Both squatted on the sidelines of the court and held their chins. They were not reconciled, but there was nothing they could do.

In the end, after a stalemate battle, the two sides drew 1-1 and each scored one point. The Chinese team achieved a fairly good result, but still did not get a good start to the World Cup.

After the game, Sampaoli left the pitch straight away, refusing to shake hands with the referee. He felt that the offside was false. The referee stole the Chilean victory. Li Guo and the players ran to the stand where the Chinese fans were, celebrating with the fans.

Li Guo shouted, "Team China."

Fans in the stands yelled "come on."

After a brief interaction, Li Guo returned and shook hands with the referee, and then he was about to prepare for the post-match press conference. He didn't want to offend the officials of FIFA with his temper like Sampaoli did. He should save his character now.

(End of this chapter)