Chapter 1944 "Weakness" in the defense

Nigeria coach Ebubelia Oladebo found that the Chinese team had made personnel adjustments to the central defender during the half-time break.

In place of a very young centre-back.

According to the information, the No. 5 central defender of the Chinese team is only twenty years old.

In fact, even if Oladebo doesn't read the information, he can guess how young the opponent is just by looking at the immature face of the central defender...

Generally speaking, central defenders need experience, so the age should not be too young, unless they are really talented.

But is the No. 5 central defender of the Chinese team a genius?

When Oladebo was studying the list of the Chinese team before, he knew that this young defender of the Chinese team named "Qin Qi" played in Germany and played for the Bundesliga team Frankfurt White Hart. But he did not play even a minute on behalf of the Bailu first team.

This is obviously not the performance that a talented player should have.

If he is really a great talent, he should be the main player in the Bailu first team.

After all, Frankfurt White Hart is not a strong Bundesliga team.

Oladebo quickly walked to the sidelines and gave instructions to the players on the field. He pointed to Qin Qi, who had just run onto the field, and asked the players to use the No. 5 of the Chinese team as a breakthrough to attack in his direction.

His move ushered in the attention of the coach of the Chinese team.

The assistant coach of the Chinese team, Keili Sekeros, told the head coach Dillon: "Nigeria will focus on attacking Xiaoqi."

Dillon said: "Normal, unless Oladebo's brain is flooded... But this is also a good thing for us. It is better to let Nigeria only focus on one direction than not knowing where they will start."

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After the start of the second half of the game, Nigeria did put the main direction of attack on the side guarded by Qin Qi, the right side of the Chinese team, and the left side of Nigeria.

They made no secret of their intention, which was to take advantage of Qin Qi as a loophole in the Chinese team's defense.

This made those Chinese fans who were already worried about Qin Qi's playing even more worried.

At the same time, some fans commented on the Internet:

"Dillon is such a stupid move! Liu Yan played well, why did you replace him? Why did you say that Liu Yan was slow and couldn't deal with the Nigerian striker... But in fact, he didn't concede a goal. In the first half, China The team is 2:0!"

"That's right! Sudden adjustments to the back line now are equivalent to suddenly removing a building block from the original solid and balanced defense line, breaking the original balance, and it may be more prone to accidents!"

"I feel like Dillon is drifting. Do you think that with a two-goal lead, you can change some young players to exercise? But the problem is, this game is a life-and-death battle for Nigeria! The two-goal lead, in fact Not as big as I thought…”

"If Qin Qi is blasted by Nigeria, how should he adjust? It's impossible to replace Mao Junzheng, right? Isn't it slower?"

Just as the fans were worried, Qin Qi was indeed under great pressure on the court.

Unlike Liu Yan in the first half, Qin Qi had to face not only Nigerian left winger Ibrahim Opoku in his defense zone.

Their right winger Emmanuel Akuwa will also often make substitutions with Opoku, and come here to attack Qin Qi with different styles of speed.

Opoku is purely fast, unreasonably fast.

On the other hand, Akuwa is fast and subtle-because his foot skills are better, he will first use his delicate foot skills to open the space, and then suddenly accelerate to throw the defender away.

The strategies for dealing with these two men are completely different.

Defending Opoku, if you hesitate to start, you will be thrown away in an instant.

Defending Akuwa, if you make a move too early, you may also be swayed by the opponent's fake move...

In short, for a young central defender who is only 20 years old, this can be said to have started in hell.

"Opoku... speed up directly! It's so fast!"

Accompanied by the cheers of the Nigerian fans and the screams of the Chinese fans in the stands, Opoku started on the sidewalk on the spot, and turned the football diagonally into the penalty area, and was about to enter the penalty area.

Qin Qi hurriedly turned around and chased after him, while reaching out to grab the opponent's arm or jersey.

His speed is indeed faster than Liu Yan, so fortunately he was not thrown away by Opoku at the first start...

But he was also stuck halfway.

Seeing that the opponent is about to drive the ball into the penalty area.

Qin Qiyi gritted his teeth and shoveled it down!

Fortunately, this time he tackled the ball first!

The football was shoveled out of the baseline by him.

Opoku lost his balance and fell to the ground.

He yelled, trying to get the referee's attention, and earned Nigeria a free kick from the edge of the box.

But the referee pointed to the corner flag area, signaling Nigeria to take a corner kick.

"Xiaoqi, good job!"

Wang Guangwei shouted to Qin Qi who got up, and gave him a thumbs up at the same time.

Facing Wang Guangwei's praise, Qin Qi did not show a smile on his face, but remained stern, without any reaction.

At this moment, his heart was beating violently.

He was afraid of his tackle just now-if he was later, he would have tackled the opponent's foot.

Then maybe I will receive a red card just after playing.

I almost became... a national sinner!

"Okay, Xiaoqi! Come on!"

Wang Yuan in the stands didn't know her son's inner drama at this moment. She only knew that her son had just made a wonderful defense.

So she excitedly cheered for him in the stands.

Unlike his wife, Qin Lin, who was sitting on the coaching bench of the Chinese team, looked at his son's tense face, and he followed suit.

In his opinion, this is not a normal behavior.

Yu Jintao, who was standing next to him, was cheering for Qin Qi's defense, but when he turned his head, he saw Qin Lin also had a straight face, and teased, "Hey, you two, father and son, are really carved out of the same mold! Even the expressions are exactly the same!"

Qin Lin glanced at him without explaining.

It's really hard to explain the worries in his heart to others.

Maybe it will be considered "hypocritical" by others.

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Although an attack was blocked by Qin Qi, Nigeria did not shift its offensive position because of this.

Coach Oladebo stood on the sidelines, waving his arms, signaling his players to keep attacking from that side.

It didn't take long for Nigeria to make a comeback, this time with Akuwa.

Akuwa's speed is not slow, but his foot skills are better than Opoku's.

Facing the defense of Qin Qi and Cui Zexu, he didn't rely on speed to break through directly.

Instead, he stepped on the bicycle first, and then suddenly used the outer instep of his right foot to move the football sideways to the middle, as if to cut inward.

Cui Zexu moved the center of gravity first, and took a step back, which created a gap in the blockade formed by him and Qin Qi.

Akuwa kicked the football back with his right foot, and then singled out Qin Qi.

Facing Qin Qi, he shook his upper body, as if he wanted to forcefully kill Qin Qi and Cui Zexu.

Qin Qi moved closer to Cui Zexu, trying to fill the gap between his teammates.

But in doing so, he gives up space between the baselines.

Akuwa was actually aiming at this side.

He dialed the football to the bottom line with his right foot and accelerated the breakthrough!

Qin Qi immediately turned around and chased after him.

But he has already been thrown away by Akuwa by almost half a body.

Seeing that the opponent was about to enter the penalty area, Qin Qi was a little anxious, and he stretched out his hand to Akuwa's shoulder.

Didn't hit it the first time.

By the time he touched Akuwa's shoulder again, the latter had already rushed into the penalty area.

Qin Qi pushed Akuwa's shoulder back with a little force, and at the same time used his body to speed up and overtake him, preparing to stick to his opponent again.

But just as he reached out and pulled back, Akuwa seemed to be grabbed by a huge force during a high-speed sprint, and his whole body leaned back, frozen in place.

After being frozen like this for about a second, he fell on his back!

And the uncontrolled football rolled out of the bottom line...

"Eh?" He Feng was stunned for a moment, a little afraid to speak for a while.

Is this a foul?

How powerful is Qin Qi's hand?

Is it a flop?

It was actually a flop, right?

Instead, the fans booed loudly.

Whether it is Chinese fans or Nigerian fans, they are booing to express their dissatisfaction.

Chinese fans think that Nigerian striker Akuwa is diving~lightnovelpub.net~ Nigerian fans think that Qin Qi fouled.

In the storm of boos, the referee's whistle was almost inaudible.

But his gestures, everyone can see clearly!

I saw him waving to the penalty spot!

"Penalty kick!" The Nigerian TV commentator shouted excitedly, "Qin Qi, a young central defender of the Chinese team, fouled Akuwa! This is a penalty without a doubt! His hand really caught Akuwa shoulders, and there is a backward movement!"

He Feng questioned in an unbelievable tone: "Is this a penalty kick? Qin Qi's action wouldn't make Akuwa fall down so obviously, right? And judging from Akuwa's actions, he even I was stunned for a moment before I realized that I should have fallen... Isn't this too fake?!"

Qin Qi stood on the spot, turned his head to follow the figure of the referee, and looked at the penalty spot in the penalty area.

His brain hadn't reacted yet, and he still kept raising his hands.

This action is to show everyone that he didn't move his hand just now, but now it looks more like...a hand raised in surrender.

(end of this chapter)