Chapter 1948 The thing about another stadium

Nigeria's head coach, Ebubelia Oladebo, saw the players looking distraught on the court, so he shouted anxiously on the sidelines, while waving his arms vigorously, and told the Nigerian players with exaggerated body language:

Don't panic! hold on! We still have a chance!

As a legend of Nigerian football, Oladebo's status in the minds of Nigerian players is very lofty.

With his continuous reminders, the Nigerian players finally gradually stabilized their mentality.

Their offense has also gradually returned to the level before losing the ball.

The focus of the attack was still on Qin Qi.

In the eyes of Oladebo, Qin Qi is still the biggest problem in the defense of the Chinese team.

As long as the pressure is kept on him, the young centre-back is bound to make mistakes again.

If Nigeria still wants to create miracles, attacking Qin Qi is indeed the only feasible way.

Qin Qi began to bear tremendous pressure here again.

But unlike before, Qin Qi is no longer uneasy, but eager to try.

He is not Lin Zhiyuan's kind of person who likes to show off, but he really hopes that Nigeria's attack will be more violent.

Because he still remembered what Wang Dui said to him:

To trick Nigeria into killing!

If he can keep Nigeria's offense firmly on his side, it will be his great contribution to the team's defense!

Ibrahim Opoku faced Qin Qi and used the previous method to deal with it.

He forced a breakthrough directly by speed.

But just before he started it, Qin Qi had already predicted his intention, so he started it ahead of time!

Now Opoku's speed advantage is negated...

Opoku, who failed to speed up in time, was posted by Qin Qi.

The latter still had action this time, but he did not hesitate to let Opoku break into the penalty area.

Instead, before he entered the penalty area, he stopped people with his hands and feet.

Opoku wanted to push the football away, but was half a beat too late, allowing Qin Qi to block the football first. He kicked against Qin Qi, lost his balance, almost fell to the ground, and lost the ball...

Opoku opened his arms, protested to the referee, and signaled Qin Qi to foul.

But the referee was indifferent this time and ignored him.

Qin Qi, who broke the ball, ignored him and quickly passed the football under his feet.

The Nigerian player Opoku who conceded the ball is still babbling behind him.

Qin Qi didn't even look at him, and continued to participate in the game.

The defense zone he was in was attacked fiercely by Nigerian players, and he didn't have the heart to argue with opponent players.

Besides, he's not Brother Hu...

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Seeing Nigeria staring at Qin Qi's side, the Chinese team's defense also shifted its focus to Qin Qi's direction.

At this time, Nigeria suddenly changed the direction of attack - they hit the ball back to the other side!

Cai Shuyi, who was originally defending there, was caught off guard and was seized by the opponent to form a shot!

"Be careful! Dangerous!"

"Hey Lin Zhiyuan! Beautiful! Beautiful save! He saved Okuye's shot!"

Fortunately, Lin Zhiyuan, the goalkeeper of the Chinese team, was very focused and did not relax his vigilance against enemies coming from other directions just because Nigeria had been besieging Qin Qi's side.

Faced with Nigeria's center Zade Okoye's shot, he dived and saved the football from the baseline.

Although Nigeria was given a corner kick, it did not allow the opponent to score directly.

After the corner kick was taken, Ou Yangjin cleared the football header before everyone else, and did not let Nigeria's corner kick threaten the goal guarded by Lin Zhiyuan.

The Nigerian head coach Ebubelia Oladebo, who was on the sidelines, saw that this attack failed to score a goal. He regretted that he leaned back and almost sat on the ground.

It is his order to the team to make the team suddenly turn when attacking.

He also saw that the Chinese team focused their defense on Qin Qi's side, and planned to use the Chinese team's psychological blind spot to catch the opponent by surprise.

He almost made it, if it wasn't for the focus of the Chinese goalkeeper...

There is no foolproof tactical arrangement in football matches, and he made this temporary adjustment because he wanted to catch the Chinese team by surprise.

If he didn't succeed, he would have lost his best chance.

He would not expect such an opportunity to be like a wholesale, and there will be another one.

That's why he was so excited and regretful, because what his team missed was not just a scoring opportunity in the game...

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"The Chinese team scored again..."

"They lead Nigeria 3:1!"

"It looks like they will be the first to qualify from this group..."

In the stands of the Crown Stadium, some Spanish fans are discussing what happened in another stadium.

But such people are very few.

Most Spanish fans don't care what's going on in the other stadium.

Because the result of the match between China and Nigeria will not affect the match between Spain and Italy at all.

Regardless of the outcome of the match between the Chinese team and Nigeria, whoever wins the two teams, Spain and Italy, will qualify for the group stage.

Italy's conditions are slightly more relaxed - they can qualify as long as they draw.

But to be on the safe side, it is certainly impossible for the Italian team to set the goal of this game as a "draw".

The reason why these Spanish fans pay so much attention to the Chinese team's game is because they are pirate fans.

In their expectations, this group should be the Chinese team and the Spanish team to qualify together.

Now that the Chinese team has secured the qualifying places ahead of schedule, it's Spain's turn next.

but…

Looking at the ongoing game on the field, a group of Spanish fans frowned and worried.

Almost seventy minutes into the game, the score was still 0:0.

The Spanish team still did not break through the goal of Italy.

"Damn Albertazzi! Is he on drugs!"

The Spanish fans in the stands complained.

"When we played against the Turin Bulls, we didn't think that Albertazzi was so good..." Someone asked such a question.

The companion next to him reminded him: "Nonsense, don't you see who is the striker of the pirates?"

"Ah... Hu!" The man suddenly realized.

"And who is Spain's striker now?"

"Ah... **** Mario Salado, and incompetent Pablo Alegria..."

The Spanish fans in the stands sighed.

This is really a hopeless reality.

When their club side met the Italian side in the Champions League, they were able to break through the goal guarded by Albertazzi with Hou Lai. This even made them think that Albertazzi was nothing more than that, just a vain name. In fact, he is far less powerful than the legend says.

But now they know very clearly that it is not that Albertazzi is too weak, but that the pirates with Hu are stronger and can break through the goal guarded by Albertazzi.

The Spanish team, which has weak offensive firepower, is really helpless against Italy, which is good at defending to the extreme...

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After replacing Caesar in the second half, Italy's offensive was indeed stronger than in the first half.

However, because Caesar was closely defended by Spanish players, and his physical function is indeed not as good as before, there are very few opportunities to get it.

However, as long as Caesar has the ball, the boos of the Spanish fans in the stands will still ring non-stop.

On the one hand, they don't like Caesar, on the other hand, Caesar's reputation for many years still makes Spanish fans a little afraid...

A boo is the best "yes" an enemy can give.

In the last game, Caesar used a goal to kill the Chinese team, which also made the Spanish fans remember deeply.

No one dared to underestimate the person in front of him just because Caesar hadn't performed well yet.

Otherwise, the Chinese team will be a lesson for the past.

Caesar did not stay in the penalty area, he withdrew and raised his hands to his teammates for the ball.

And no sooner had he done so than Juan Ramirez appeared beside him.

So Caesar didn't do anything with the ball anymore, but passed the ball passed by his teammate, and passed it directly to another teammate without stopping the ball.

Then he turned and ran into the penalty area.

This time Ramirez did not continue to follow him.

He is a defensive midfielder, not a central defender. Compared with Caesar, the Italian midfielder Marco Rossini who is now holding the ball is obviously more threatening.

He lowered his center of gravity and stood in front of Rossini, ready to fight.

Rossini looked at the bandages on Ramirez from his thighs to his knees, but he still didn't choose to force a breakthrough.

The man in front of him is far more tenacious than imagined.

Even if he was injured, Rossini did not dare to take it lightly.

He passed the football away.

Pass to Italian right-back Luca Brienza.

When the football rolled towards Brienza, Caesar was driving in front of the goal. He also raised his arm and motioned for Brienza to pass the ball to himself.

After Brienza caught up with the football, he made a direct cross!

He didn't continue to dribble, which would give Spanish players a chance to block him, but it is still difficult to control the accuracy of direct crosses, so it is difficult for such crosses to directly pose a threat...

But if the football is passed to Kaiser, it will be hard to say.

Even if the current Caesar has lost his sprint speed due to the decline in physical function, as a standing center, Caesar still has good jumping and header abilities.

If the Italian team only uses Caesar as a standing center, it can still threaten Spain's goal.

That's why when Caesar raised his hand for the ball, he was immediately surrounded by two Spanish defenders.

No one dares to underestimate the "Emperor" in the restricted area!

Brienza sends the ball straight to Spain's goal!

Caesar jumped up with two Spanish players at the same time, and he still grabbed the spot in the double-team!

But at the same time, under the close defense of two Spanish players, it is difficult for him to push the football towards the goal and pose a threat...

But what if he didn't intend to head the ball in the first place? !

"Caesar - header cross!"

Caesar headed the flying football towards the center!

There is the weakness of the Spanish team's defense!

There ~lightnovelpub.net~ appeared another Italian striker Danielle Di Kunzo!

He is leaning over and burying his head, pushing the flying football towards the goal!

Spanish goalkeeper Rodriguez Bakker turned over and rushed back, his eyes revealed horror!

He really didn't expect that "tyrant" who was always chasing his own goals would choose to pass the ball to his teammates when he had the opportunity to shoot himself!

"Di Kunzo!"

Amidst the trembling shouts of the Italian commentator, Di Kunzo hit the football firmly on the forehead!

This striker, who was not known for his ability to seize opportunities in the Madrid Pirates, faced the ball that was almost fed to his throat, but he still pushed the football into the goal!

Barker was not able to touch the ball!

He pounced back but only caught a cloud of air!

At the 73rd minute of the game, the defending champion and the host Spain team fell behind Italy with a score of 0:1!

(end of this chapter)