Fox in the Penalty Area

"Judging from the starting list announced by the Chinese team before the game, the Chinese team played a three-back formation in this game. Now as the game progresses, we can clearly see the positions of the Chinese team players on the field. It's 352!"

About five minutes after the start of the game, He Feng and Yan Kang told the audience about the overall formation of the Chinese team just shown on the game screen.

"Yes. The starting goalkeeper for this game is Hao De. Although Lin Zhiyuan, who was injured before the Asian Cup, has returned from injury, he is still in the recovery period and is looking for form. So this time Coach Dillon did not recruit Lin Zhiyuan .Yao Huasheng, who was injured in the Asian Cup, also did not enter the continuation list of this year's national team. So the three defenders are Wang Guangwei, Mao Junzheng and Liu Yan."

Yan Kang introduced.

"The defensive midfielders are Jiang Wanqing and Xia Xiaoyu, who are the captains of the Chinese team in this game. The front midfielder is Zhang Qinghuan. To everyone's surprise, Luo Kai and Chen Xingyu, who were originally playing wingers, appeared in the position of full-backs in this game. They are even further back...up front, Hu Lai and Zhou Zijing start together..."

In front of the TV, Shi Wuyin's wife was a little surprised: "Aren't Luo Kai and Chen Xingyi playing wingers, but wingers?"

Shi Wuyin stared at the clear 352 formation on the screen and nodded: "The famous coach is worthy of being a famous coach. This arrangement is very ingenious. Letting the two wingers retreat will solve the problem that Zhou Zijing can't play with Hu Lai at the same time... Dillon is really the right guy to lead this team."

"But Luo Kai and Chen Xingyi are willing to accept it? They are forwards, they have always been forwards, and now they have suddenly become midfielders... and judging by the position arrangement, I am afraid they have to go back when they are defending. To be a full-back. Doesn’t this require a lot of their physical fitness? Are they willing?” At any rate, his wife has watched football with Shi Wuyin for so many years, and some things can still be seen.

Shi Wuzhen shook his head with a smile: "If it's Old Dong, then he can't do it. But Jorge Dillon can do it. Only a big-name coach like him can make Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai accept the arrangement of changing positions." .Their position is retreated. Of course, they will take on more defensive tasks, but at the same time, they also have room to play their characteristics. After all, it can be seen in the Asian Cup that the opponent will no longer give them so much space to break through with the ball... …

"In my previous set of 433, whether it was Chen Xingyi or Luo Kai, they still had to keep cutting inwards to get closer to Hu Lai. But now with this set of 352, Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai don't have to go to the middle, they can be in the middle. Sidewalk activities, make full use of the width of the court to widen the opponent's defense, and increase the distance between the opponent's defenders. Zhou Zijing, Hu Lai... and even Zhang Qinghuan have created a one-on-one with the opponent's defender, or even multi-player Few opportunities come, it can be said to be quite clever.”

After listening to Shi Wuyin's explanation, his wife stopped asking questions and continued watching the game.

In the TV broadcast, the Chinese team is holding the ball across the half.

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Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai occupied the two sides of the court, one on the left and one on the right, almost standing close to the sideline, stretching very wide.

So the players of the South African team had to pull out their defensive formation to take care of the wing defense.

It's like spreading pancakes, not only spreading them big (to stretch them out) but also spreading them thin (the formation is compressed tightly).

The middle road is not so dense.

Xia Xiaoyu, who was in control of the ball, passed the football back to Wang Guangwei, and he started to go forward.

After Wang Guangwei received the ball, he directly made a long pass to find Zhou Zijing in the middle!

Zhou Zijing was on the line of the penalty area, with his back to the attacking direction, opened his arms, stuck South African central defender Sanel Vesur firmly behind him, and then jumped up to fight for the top.

Vesur stopped him from pushing the ball into the danger zone. But Zhou Zijing didn't want to do that either. He headed back and threw the football back to Zhang Qinghuan outside the penalty area.

As soon as Zhang Qinghuan received the ball, a South African midfielder blocked him in front of him.

Hu Lai, who was on the line of the penalty area, suddenly started to run forward and raised his hand to ask for the ball.

He attracted another South African central defender, Ricardo McCawley, to retreat, and also attracted the attention of most South African players.

"Hu Lai moved forward!"

The commentator He Feng shouted, drawing the attention of the audience to Hu Lai.

As a result, Zhang Qinghuan didn't pass the ball to him, but knocked it sideways!

Xia Xiaoyu rushed in from outside the TV screen and shot the ball!

"Xia Xiaoyu shot from a long distance—!"

Hu Lai, who was running forward, turned around and saw the football shot by Xia Xiaoyu flying towards him. He happened to be on the flight path of the football!

He hastily retracted his waist, barely letting the football pass behind his waist!

The football went through the gap between him and South African defender Ricardo McAwally!

Suddenly killed South African goalkeeper Seri Sangre!

It was too late for him to make a save, and he could only watch the football fly into the goal not far from him!

"Eh?! This goal...is this goal scored?!" The wife pointed at the TV and turned to Shi Wuxian for confirmation.

But he found that her husband was staring at the TV screen in a daze, with a look that he hadn't expected.

The voice of the commentator He Feng was delayed for about half a second: "This goal is beautiful! Only six minutes into the game, the Chinese team scored!!"

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Xia Xiaoyu himself was stunned for a moment. After seeing the football flying into the goal, he didn't raise his arms and shouted, but wanted to confirm whether it was true.

This is just the beginning!

We just scored?

Brother Hu should not be offside, right?

It's no wonder that Xia Xiaoyu was so unsteady. It's really that everyone didn't expect the Chinese team to start so smoothly.

After a few days of high-intensity training, the physical strength of the national team players is not that good-if there is data visualization, the current physical strength of the national team players may be around 70%.

Playing this game in such a state, many people dare not have too high expectations for the game.

South Africa is certainly not very strong, but the Chinese team is not currently in the best condition.

The players went on the field expecting to fight South Africa for 90 minutes...

It turned out that it was just the beginning... Six minutes later, they took the lead!

If the referee hadn't blown his whistle and pointed his finger to the middle circle, everyone would not have believed it.

Even the cheers from the stands were a beat behind.

After the sound, it is like a torrential river, endless.

Amidst the huge roar, Hu Lai rushed to Xia Xiaoyu first, hugged him and shouted: "Beautiful shot, Xiaoyu!"

Xia Xiaoyu was still a little confused: "Brother Hu, did you touch the ball?"

Hu Lai patted him on the head vigorously: "What are you thinking! I didn't touch it, you entered it!"

Xia Xiaoyu's eyes widened: I'll go, did I score a goal? !

Everyone swarmed up and surrounded the two of them.

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"The one who scored the goal...has Hu Lai touched the ball?"

He Feng didn't dare to give a conclusion, he was in the commentary seat, he couldn't see clearly from a distance.

I just saw Xia Xiaoyu suddenly take a long shot, the football passed by Hu Lai, and finally flew into the goal... I don’t know if this is Xia Xiaoyu’s goal, or if Hu Lai changed the line slightly. Because the South African goalkeeper Sangre's performance is as if he did not expect the flight trajectory of the football. This kind of performance usually occurs when the football changes.

But they soon saw that Hu Lai did not run to the corner flag area to do his signature celebration, but turned around and ran towards Xia Xiaoyu.

At the same time, other teammates also ran towards Xia Xiaoyu.

So He Feng came to the conclusion based on his experience: "Xia Xiaoyu scored the goal! A long-range shot went straight through the goal of the South African team! Jorge Dillon's Chinese team, the first goal came from Xia Xiaoyu!"

Soon televised replays of the goal confirmed his "talk from experience":

In the slow motion shot from the angle behind Xia Xiaoyu, it can be clearly seen that Hu Lai is dodging the ball. His pass just passed the football. It caught both South African centre-back Ricardo McWillie and goalkeeper Seri Sangre by surprise!

So the latter's strange performance when he lost the ball was not because the football hit Hu Lai and changed direction and caught him off guard, but because he didn't expect the ball to leak from Hu Lai's waist at all!

He might have changed the line in defense of the football hitting Hu Lai...

He should have studied Hu Lai, knowing that he might suddenly appear on the flight path of the football, change the direction of the football slightly, and hit the goalkeeper by surprise.

It's just that he didn't expect that this time, he let...

What do you let!

At this moment, the South African goalkeeper Sangre may be crazily complaining about Hu Lai.

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When the players of the Chinese team finished celebrating and returned to their own half, the live broadcast broadcast:

"The Chinese team leads the South African team 1:0!"

The fans at the scene responded with huge cheers.

"Scorer - Xia Xiaoyu!!"

The cheers continued, even louder.

However, in a certain area of ​​one of the stands, the dozen or so fans who were cheering were stunned.

"Did I hear you right?" Xia Wu confirmed to the relatives around him, "Just now the broadcast said 'Xia Xiaoyu the goal scorer'?"

The other party nodded: "It seems to be..."

"Quick, quick!" Xia Wu who reacted hastily pulled up the rope in his hand, and at the same time signaled his companions to raise their hands high, and a red banner was raised in their stands.

These people are Xia Xiaoyu's relatives and friends, including Xia Xiaoyu's parents' relatives and friends in Dongchuan and Jincheng.

The Zhonghua Cup was held in Jincheng, which gave Xia Xiaoyu's relatives and friends the opportunity to cheer on the scene.

They also hope that Xiaoyu can perform well in the game and deserve their support at the scene.

But even they themselves didn't expect that Xia Xiaoyu would score a goal in this game, and still...be the first!

The goal time was so early that they didn't even have time to hang up the banner. Now it can only be used as a temporary railing by hand, and it is displayed by hand.

Xia Xiaoyu's parents were also behind this banner, trying to raise their arms, and raised the banner as high as possible, and then higher.

Although this completely blocked them, so that they could not see the situation on the court. But that's not important, the important thing is to make this banner visible to my son!

As if telepathic, Xia Xiaoyu in the field suddenly turned his head to look this way, cast his eyes straight over, and saw the banner that was obviously larger than the normal banner.

Being held up, floating.

On a banner more than ten meters long, he could clearly see the big characters:

"Come on Xiaoyu! Let's watch you play football!"

The banner was raised high, covering those who held the banner, and he could not see their faces.

But he knew that his lovely relatives must be behind this banner.

So he raised his arm and waved to the banner in the stands and the people behind the banner.

Thank you for watching me play football!