Champion’s Heart

After the ninety minutes are over, before the start of overtime, players from both sides will enjoy a few minutes of rest. Because the rest time is too short, no one will go to the locker room to rest. Everyone will come to their bench coach. In front of the banquet, sit on the ground.

Zhou Yi is now sitting on the ground, while the Chinese team's physical therapist is massaging his thigh muscles to relax the muscles and relieve fatigue.

He is really tired now.

Since the start of the Asian Cup, the Chinese team has played five games. Zhou Yi started every game and played the entire game without missing a minute.

This is the first time since he became a professional player. Before in Dortmund, whether in the youth team or the professional team, he had never played five consecutive games because his physical fitness did not support him to do so. Although his physical fitness has made great progress in the past two seasons, because Dortmund is also fighting on multiple fronts this season and needs rotation, Zhou Yi has not been able to start five consecutive games and play the full 90 minutes.

This is the first time he has done this in the Asian Cup and it is a new experience for him.

Gao Hongbo has no choice. The Chinese team's lineup is not as thick as Dortmund. He can only rely on Zhou Yi, and he must rely on Zhou Yi.

Although he positioned the Asian Cup as a training ground, and it is true that the starting lineup is different in each game, Zhou Yi is the unbeatable main force. Zhou Yi is also the only reason why he dared to rotate like this and still reach the semifinals.

Moreover, the cup competition has a dense schedule. From January 8 to January 25, five games were played in 18 days, with an average of nearly three and a half days per game. This is equivalent to three consecutive weeks. Double match a week.

The physical demands will of course be very high.

Zhou Yi himself is not the kind of person who is born with good physical fitness. It is normal to feel tired now, but he is still persisting.

In order to prepare for overtime, the team's doctor massaged him desperately, hoping that he could rest better and last longer.

Because the current Chinese team has used up all three substitutions. If Zhou Yi can't run anymore. There is no one available, he can only stand on the court, so the Chinese team has one less person to deal with Australia. That's too dangerous.

While the players were resting, Gao Hongbo took the time to explain the overtime strategies to the players.

In fact, the strategy is also very simple.

The physical strength of both sides was greatly exhausted by this time.

It is definitely impossible to maintain the rhythm of a ninety-minute game in overtime. Usually one team attacks the first half. In the second half, another team attacks. Even Australia couldn't have the physical strength to support their onslaught in the thirty minutes of overtime.

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The five-minute rest time flew by quickly, when Zhou Yi got up from the ground and prepared to play. Gao Hongbo stopped him.

No matter what the result of this game is, thank you very much for your contribution to the national team. Zhou Yi. He said.

Zhou Yi wondered: High Zhi, are you preparing words to comfort me after failure?

His breath was still a little uneven when he spoke.

I just don't want you to get too stressed out.

There's no pressure, High Finger. We've all reached the semi-finals. What's the pressure left? But we will still go to the finals, so High Finger, you'd better prepare your victory speech in advance. Ha!

After saying that, he turned around and went on stage.

Gao Hongbo looked at his back and fell into deep thought.

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After overtime begins. It is Australia that kicks off, so naturally Australia should take the initiative at this time and launch an attack on the Chinese team's goal.

This is the routine of countless overtime games.

But the actual situation is somewhat different from the norm.

Because soon when the ball fell to the feet of the Chinese team, the Chinese team actually took the initiative!

Under the leadership of Zhou Yi, they launched an aggressive offensive towards Australia's goal, forcing Australia to withdraw its defense across the board and huddle in its own half to resist the Chinese team's attack, hoping to rely on intensive defense to block the Chinese team's advance. ball, while waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.

Fighting positional warfare and breaking through dense defenses are a headache for many people.

When Zhou Yi got the ball, Australian players immediately rushed up to closely mark him, preventing him from giving the football away easily.

At the same time, they also pay attention to their feet when pressing to avoid knocking Zhou Yi to the ground. If the referee blows a well-positioned free kick, that would not be good.

After all, there are still two free kick masters in the Chinese team. Deng Zhuoxiang once used an elevator kick to break the goal guarded by Lloris in the warm-up match against the French team. Hao Junmin just used a free kick in the Asian Cup group stage. The ball broke through Uzbekistan's goal...

Therefore, although the Australian players pounced very hard, they did not dare to knock Zhou Yi to the ground.

For Zhou Yi, he realized that this might be an opportunity.

The opponent pounces very hard because he doesn't want him to pass the ball well. What if he doesn't pass the ball?

Yes, don't pass the ball, dribble the ball yourself to break through!

After the Australian players pounced on him, they did not dare to make too much physical contact with him. This gave him the space and opportunity to break through!

So in the 99th minute, when his teammates passed the ball to him and Australian midfielder Jedinak also rushed up, Zhou Yi did not choose to stop the ball, but turned his right foot sideways, with a slight angle. When the football hit me, it didn't stop at my feet. Instead, it bounced out...forward!

At the same time, Zhou Yi kicked his legs hard and rushed out, just passing by Jedinak who was rushing up!

When he passed by like this, Zhou Yi could even see the stunned expression on the opponent's face - obviously he didn't expect that Zhou Yi, who always passed the football in front of the penalty area, would actually... rush to the penalty area behind him. !

Zhouyi! Breakthrough! Liu Hong exclaimed.

In his exclamation, Zhou Yi rushed towards the penalty area.

His sudden breakthrough really surprised the Australian players, so their reaction was half a beat too slow. When they were about to rush forward, they saw Zhou Yi leaning to the left, raising his right foot, as if It's about passing the football to the right!

The Australian defender Neil who was lying in front of him quickly glanced over there, and there was indeed a gap there!

Thinking of Zhou Yi's precise and deadly passes, Neil, who originally wanted to attack him, hesitated. Should he cut off this passing route first?

He turned his body to the side of the space.

When Zhou Yi saw the opponent's side, when his right foot came down, it was not a pass, but... a slight dunk to the left!

Just squeezed past Neil!

Neil saw Zhou Yi suddenly change direction and break through. He reflexively wanted to stretch out his hands and feet to trip Zhou Yi, but with his hands and feet stretched out, he remembered that he was now on the line of the penalty area. This was a It's a very, very sensitive place. If you foul here, there is a high possibility that you will be awarded a penalty kick!

With the flash of lightning in his mind, Neil's hands and feet froze in the air, and he could only watch helplessly as Zhou Yi rushed in!

Zhou Yi just brought football into the penalty area!

At this time, the Australian players just woke up from their dreams and turned around and rushed over.

If viewed from the air, Zhou Yi is like a human magnet, instantly attracting all the Australian players around him who are of the same polarity to him.

At this time, Australia's penalty area is almost empty. Whoever Zhou Yi passes to can create a shooting opportunity.

But Zhou Yi did not pass the ball, but took advantage of the encirclement to take advantage of the situation before it closed!

The football slipped out from the gap under the feet of the crowd and rolled against the turf towards the near corner of the goal!

When Schwarzer saw the football rolling out of the encirclement, he quickly fell to the ground and jumped sideways, but the speed of the football that was pushed out by Zhou Yi was even faster...

When he fell completely to the ground, the football had rolled into the goal behind him...

In the 100th minute, the Chinese team took the lead!

Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi -!!! Liu Hong was a little hysterical and roared desperately. Beautiful! Beautiful! So beautiful!! 2:1! The Chinese team took the lead! They led Australia in overtime!! They have a chance to defeat their opponents and reach the finals!! Every time at the last moment of the game, the original physical strength A poor Zhouyi often produces amazing performances. I think this kind of moment can be defined as a 'Zhouyi moment'!

In front of the TV, countless Chinese fans were also hysterical.

Zhou Jianliang was among them. His face turned red and the veins on his neck bulged.

As a Chinese fan for so many years, when was the last time you felt so happy?

I have long forgotten...

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After scoring the goal, Zhou Yi emerged from a group of stunned Australian players, only to run into Gao Lin.

Gao Lin hugged him and knocked him to the ground. Then Hao Junmin pressed on him. More Chinese players were running on the way. They screamed with excitement, as if they had seen an idol girl.

The Chinese players on the bench also rushed out of their seats, like a row of frightened birds. The waving arms are like flapping wings.

Gao Hongbo put his fists in front of his chest and waved them vigorously. Behind him were the members of the coaching staff who were already hugging each other.

Everyone was venting their emotions and roaring desperately until their throats were hoarse. (To be continued.) Activate new URL