Chapter 1942 Gain the upper hand

After overcoming the fierce offensive of the Chinese team in the first ten minutes of the game, Nigeria was finally able to make some threatening counterattacks.

First, Ibrahim Opoku attacked the Chinese team's right center back Liu Yan on the left rib.

Before Cui Zexu fully returned to defense, Opoku singled out Liu Yan.

Facing Liu Yan's defense, he didn't even make a fake move, he just moved the football forward, and then started to accelerate on the spot. When Liu Yan turned around, Opoku was almost a body away from him...

Fortunately, Wang Guangwei predicted the difficulties Liu Yan would encounter here in advance, and came to help defend in time, forcing Opoku to force a cross and lose his aim. The football was cleared with a header from the Chinese team's left center back Cai Shuyi.

Nigeria's offense did not end here, they mastered the second point and reorganized the offense.

However, in the face of the Chinese players who had already settled down, Nigeria could not organize any effective offensive, and then was intercepted by Ou Yangjin in the back and forth, and lost the ball.

The Chinese team counterattacked.

The same failed, and it was replaced by Nigeria's counterattack.

Still relying on speed, the Nigerian player made a long pass to find the forward teammate in front of him after stealing the ball.

Of course, they didn't pass it on casually.

This wave of Chinese team's counterattack came from Chen Xingyi's left side. When Nigeria counterattacked, they consciously passed the football to the space behind Chen Xingyi, looking for another player who was fast and at the same time The technique is also more delicate Emmanuel Akuwa.

Akuwa and Cai Shuyi started a "race" on the wing, and in the end Akuwa won the ball and caught the ball before Cai Shuyi.

At this time, Cai Shuyi has been pulled out of the penalty area and turned into a full-back.

So Xia Xiaoyu returned to the penalty area and temporarily played as a central defender.

At the same time, Chen Xingyi quickly returned to defense, and came to restrict Akuwa's breakthrough together with Cai Shuyi.

Facing the defense of two people, Akuwa was not afraid at all. He used the feint of his upper body and feet to change the rhythm, tricking Cai Shuyi to steal the ball first, and then he gently knocked the football to the side with the outer instep of his right foot!

Immediately afterwards, he kicked the football out with his left foot, and just ran diagonally towards the bottom line!

Fortunately, Chen Xingyi's starting speed was fast enough. Seeing Cai Shuyi being swayed, he immediately rushed forward, forcing Akuwa, and finally chased back near the baseline, and then stretched out his feet to block Akuwa's cross. bottom line.

"Damn it, it's dangerous!"

In front of the projection screen, Yan Yan let out a long breath.

"Nigeria players' individual combat ability is really strong, just like this one-on-two, and they can make a corner kick..."

"How did such a team lose to Spain 1:3?" Tang Xiuyuan asked curiously.

"It's gone." Yan Yan said.

Tang Xiuyuan looked at her boyfriend again, and Chu Yifan nodded: "Well. Basically, the defeat in the World Cup, if it is not because of a big gap in strength, then the loss is probably due to a wrong mentality. Nigeria should It was after the draw with Italy in the first game, and seeing us beat Spain 3-0, I felt that the defending champions were nothing more than that. Their last game was an onslaught of troops from the beginning, unlike now, they just fought back honestly..."

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Nigeria's corner kick was saved by their centre-back Kennedy Homero, but the ball flew high over the bar.

The referee gave a goal kick.

Jorge Dillon adjusted after being repeatedly threatened by Nigerian counter-attacks.

He asked the Chinese team to slow down the pace, and Chen Xingyi and Cui Zexu retreated and played as full-backs.

Slowly dealing with Nigeria.

Nigeria to fight back?

Then don't let them fight back.

Anyway, now that the Chinese team is one goal ahead, there is much more room for maneuver in tactics.

If Nigeria is not in a hurry, then the Chinese team is not in a hurry either.

At least the first half is not in a hurry.

After Chen Xingyi and Cui Zexu took their positions, the overall formation of the Chinese team also recovered.

The tempo slowed down noticeably.

The game became less beautiful and exciting than the first ten minutes.

But Chinese fans don't care.

In the face of victory, it doesn't matter whether you play well or not!

As long as the group can qualify, even if the "10-0-0 Dafa" is sacrificed in the end, it doesn't matter if the scene is extremely embarrassing.

After the Chinese team shrank their formation and slowed down the pace.

Nigeria didn't immediately press on and attack.

The head coach Ebuberia Oladebo worried that this was the Chinese team's "lure the enemy to go deep", so he did not make adjustments, but continued to let the team play defensive counterattacks.

During this period of time, the pace of the game between the two teams slowed down, and the football was mostly spinning back and forth in the midfield, making it difficult to threaten each other's goals. The game scene is not good either.

This stalemate lasted until the thirtieth minute.

Fifteen minutes before the end of the first half, Nigeria has no way to continue to defend and counterattack. They want to use this time to strengthen their offensive and see if they can score a goal.

It would be great if we could equalize the score in the first half.

Seeing this scene, Dillon laughed off the court. He covered his mouth with his hands and said to Jin Tao, "Look, they really can't wait any longer."

After speaking, he got up from his seat and walked to the sidelines.

Although he didn't speak, the players of the Chinese team knew what it meant.

Always be on the lookout for counterattack opportunities!

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"After Nigeria's offensive started, the Chinese team's defensive pressure was a bit heavy. But this is also a good time for the Chinese team to counterattack. As long as we can tighten the fence, sooner or later we can find opportunities to counterattack..."

In the face of the Chinese team's staunch defense, Nigeria could not fight back, they could only attack by force.

Zade Okuye, as Nigeria's center forward in this game, must hold the ball in the penalty area of ​​the Chinese team in order to create opportunities for his teammates.

But this time he took the ball slightly to the left of the penalty area, and was immediately intercepted by two Chinese players.

Cui Zexu and Liu Yan blocked Okuye from the front.

Seeing that there was no way to pose a threat, Okuye planned to turn around and protect the ball.

But just as he turned around, the third Chinese player, midfielder Ou Yangjin, appeared in front of him, and stretched out his foot to poke the football away from his feet!

The football was stabbed to Liu Yan's side, and he quickly passed the football forward to Xia Xiaoyu who retreated to respond.

Xia Xiaoyu turned around and dribbled the ball forward, and saw Zhou Zijing pulling to the right in the frontcourt, while Hu Lai pulled to the left.

They pulled left and right, pulling both Nigeria's central defenders to the wing.

In this way, the middle road is a huge gap!

But Xia Xiaoyu didn't directly pass the football to the center, it's true that there is space there, but the problem is that there are no Chinese players there...

He passed the football to Zhou Zijing in Labian.

At the same time as he was passing the ball, Chen Xingyi, who was supposed to be on the left, had already moved to the middle, and he was going forward into the space!

Because he passed the ball while moving fast, Xia Xiaoyu's pass was not very accurate, and he passed behind Zhou Zijing. So Zhou Zijing could only turn his back to the attacking direction to get the ball.

Just as he was catching the ball, Chen Xingyi started to speed up!

Because Zhou Zijing was facing the half of the Chinese team, he saw Chen Xingyi's advance.

So instead of trying to turn around and dribble the ball by himself, he knocked the football sideways with his left foot to the middle space behind him!

"Zhou Zijing...beautiful oblique plug! Chen Xingyi hastened!"

Seeing the football being passed to Chen Xingyi, Nigerian central defender Kennedy Omero, who was defending Hu Lai on the right, immediately turned around and rushed towards Chen Xingyi.

As for the other Nigerian player who was chasing behind Chen Xingyi, he slowed down and gave up his position when he saw Omeruo going up to defend Chen Xingyi. He was really unable to catch up... He is from the Chinese team Chasing all the way to the front of the penalty area, sprinting at high speed for tens of meters, he is not a speed player himself, it is really terrible.

Chen Xingyi caught up with the football, striding forward to the ball.

When he took the second step, Homero finally stuck up, and at the same time reached out to disturb Chen Xingyi.

At this time, Chen Xingyi just ran to the line of the big penalty area.

Faced with Homero's interference, he neither chose to continue dribbling the ball nor to shoot, but used his right foot to divide the football horizontally to the left!

There, Hu Lai, who was completely unguarded, faced the rolling football, raised his bow and set his arrows, supported his left foot, and opened his right leg!

"Holly!"

Goalkeeper Arturoma struck down the six-yard line to block Houlai's shot angle, thinking that Houlai would hit the far corner - which is what most forwards would choose.

But Hou Lai kicked a near corner!

In a hurry, he quickly got off the ground and blocked the football with his hands.

He did, but it didn't change anything...

The ball flew past his fingers, rolled past his feet, and ended up hitting the inside of the near post and into the net!

"Good goal! Hu Lai scored again! He scored twice in this World Cup! His form is really hot! Four goals~lightnovelpub.net~ Ranked No. 1 on the World Cup scorer list one!"

"The Chinese team leads Nigeria 2:0! We have the upper hand in qualifying!"

In fact, the Chinese team only needs to draw with Nigeria in this game to qualify.

Because of the match between Spain and Italy, no matter what the result is, it will have little impact on the Chinese team.

In the case of a tie with the Chinese team, Italy won, and they took the first place in the group with seven points. Spain has three points, and the points are not as good as the Chinese team with four points.

Italy lost, Spain got the first place in the group with six points, China and Italy both had four points, but the Chinese team had the advantage in goal difference.

Italy and Spain tied. Italy scored five points to qualify for the first place in the group. China and Spain both scored four points. With a dominant goal difference, the group qualified second.

So Hu Lai scored twice, which is tantamount to double insurance for the Chinese team's qualifying situation.

Even if Nigeria chases two goals in a row and equalizes the score, the Chinese team can still qualify by virtue of goal difference.

And Nigeria wants to chase two goals in a row, so far, how difficult is it?

(end of this chapter)