Godfather of national football

Chapter 598 Fighting Nigeria ([-])
The players of the Chinese team took advantage of the dead ball to return to the sidelines to drink water. Li Guo patted the heads of several players as encouragement.

Li Guo knew that Nigeria was playing crazy. Facing African teams, Chinese players had no physical advantages.

After kick-off, the players on the field don't need the head coach to say anything, they know what to do.

Under Zhou Dun's organization, the frontcourt players of the Chinese team accelerated the passing speed. Only by speeding up the passing speed can the Chinese team players avoid being kicked.

When the ball reached Qu Bo's feet, he hesitated for a while, and sure enough, the opponent came up. But Qu Bo was small, so he had the advantage at this time. With a bump on the sole of his foot, Qu Bo turned around and passed the opponent. In this way, the Chinese team tore a hole on the right side of Nigeria.

Nigeria's defense was impeccable, so when the right side was empty, Nigerian players in other positions had to come to fill in. Nigeria's defense was loose, and this was an opportunity for the Chinese team. Chen Gelin, Zhou Dun, and Lin Zhijian were all inserting into the penalty area.

Li Guo was also sweating for Qu Bo. The ball seemed to have a good chance, but Qu Bo's problem was that he couldn't make the cross.

After getting down to the bottom line, Qu Bo's legs were about to go weak. He looked in the middle and made a strong pass.

The ball was passed well, at least it didn't fly, Chen Gelin was also in place, and the central defender Avazem, who played for Porto, jumped up to fight for the top.

When Avazem touched the ball, Chen Gelin seemed very excited. He kept clapping his hands, which meant that the opponent had handballed in the penalty area.

The referee hesitated, but then the baseline referee informed him in his headset, so the referee ran to the penalty spot and awarded a penalty!
The Nigerian players surrounded the referee again, and they pointed to the half of the Chinese team, meaning why didn't you judge Moses for that move just now.

The referee was expressionless, and his gesture was very firm, penalty kick!
Judging from the slow-motion playback, Avazem did touch the ball with his hand, probably out of desperation, but it didn't matter if he didn't touch the ball.

The penalty kick is both a pressure and an opportunity for the Chinese team. Chen Gelin stood in front of the ball, Li Guo and the people on the bench all stood up. Everyone may be more nervous than Chen Gelin.

Nigeria's goalkeeper Ikomei jumped around the line and tried to interfere with Chen Gelin, who chose not to look at him.

The referee whistled, and Chen Gelin started to run. Chen Gelin was going to kick the middle of the goal vigorously, which was a bit risky.

In fact, Ikemei was also guessing how Chen Gelin would play. In the end, his sixth sense told him that Chen Gelin would probably choose to play in the middle.

The ball Chen Gelin pulled out made a whirring sound, but Ikemei didn't move at all. He guessed it right!

"It's a pity that Ikemei didn't move at all. He just bet on the middle lane, and he was right," Liu Jianhong said regretfully.

Li Guo turned around and shook his head. There was nothing wrong with Chen Gelin's choice, it's just that the opponent's luck was a bit too good.

After saving the penalty, Ikome seemed to have saved the Nigerian hero. His teammates ran over to pat his head and rub his face.

"Great, the penalty was saved and we won."

Chen Gelin kept turning his head to look at the goal. It was a pity. What a great opportunity. There was a big difference between scoring and not scoring.

Nigeria coach Henot Rohr is a very suggestive person, in other words, he is a very superstitious person.

He felt that the Chinese team's failure to score a penalty kick was arranged by God, and he also conveyed this psychological hint to the players on the field.

"Even God wants us to win!"

The failure to score a penalty kick was still a blow to the morale of the Chinese team. Coupled with the high morale of Nigeria, it formed a siege situation against the Chinese team for a while.

"Li Guo, we have to find a way, the team members are under a lot of pressure now," Chen An said.

Li Guo also knew it, but he could only hope that the players on the field could resist and then organize a counterattack. In other words, he could not lose the ball again.

Mikel took the ball in front of the penalty area. When he looked up, the defense of the Chinese team was in place. It just happened that the foot feeling came. Mikel took a kick directly in front of the penalty area. It can only be said that it went smoothly. Mikel’s kick was really good. The ball went straight to the upper left corner of the goal.

Wang Dalei jumped to the side, held the general with his fingertips, the ball flew out of the baseline, and the audience exclaimed, "It's so dangerous!"

Li Guo jumped up nervously, the trajectory of the ball was flying towards the goal, but fortunately Wang Dalei reacted quickly.

When the goal was not scored, Mikel became nervous. He beat his chest with both hands, like an African gorilla. I don't know if he was annoyed or vented, but it might also be provocative.

"The Chinese team is under too much pressure these few minutes," Li Zibing said.

"Yes, it's good to push through. This is what a strong team should do, and it's time to test the Chinese team."

Nigeria got a corner kick, and Musa ran to the corner flag area. In the penalty area, Nigerian players were fighting for positions with Chinese players.

Several high points of the opponent were watched by the Chinese team, such as Ishinacho and Mikel.Moussa kicked the ball after the run-up, and the ball drew a large arc in the air. This kind of ball is to avoid being picked by the Chinese goalkeeper.

Sure enough, Wang Dalei didn't attack either. The ball was too weird. He quickly bypassed the middle of the penalty area and then flew to the back point.

It's Iheanacho again!

When Li Guo saw it, his heart sank. It wasn't Zhou Dun, Li Heng, Yin Di, or even Fang Suo who were guarding Ishinacho, but Mu Fei.

Mu Fei was smart, he knew that it would be impossible to confront Ishinacho head-on, so he swooped in front of Iheanacho to get stuck.

Ishinacho was careless, his position was blocked, and he couldn't shoot when the ball flew over, unless he pushed Mu Fei away, but that was another foul. In desperation, Iheanacho "hands off".

"Oh my god, Nigeria scored again. Could it be that the Chinese team is behind 0-2?" Li Zibing couldn't believe what happened before his eyes.

But Liu Jianhong noticed the situation on the field. The Chinese players seemed to be crazy. Experience told Liu Jianhong that there might be problems with the opponent's goal.

Mu Fei was the one who saw it most clearly. Ishina Qiao obviously shot the ball in with his hands. Mu Fei was explaining to the referee excitedly.

There were too many people in the penalty area, and the referee could only ask the bottom line referee for help. In the end, the bottom line referee told the referee that Ihenacho did use his hands.

So the referee declared the goal invalid, and the Chinese team took a free kick in the backcourt. At the same time, the referee ran to Ishinacho and gave him a yellow card for deliberately handballing.

The Nigerian head coach glanced at Li Guo, and cursed in his heart: "The Chinese team is really a fucking lackey."

(End of this chapter)