Fox in the Penalty Area

Restricted by his overall strength, Kotien, who has been famous in European football for many years, has been unable to participate in the World Cup finals. This is considered by many fans and the media to be a great loss for the World Cup.

Before each World Cup, the media will select the "strongest team" who missed this World Cup, and Vitaly Kotien will definitely be on the front line.

Kotien can be regarded as an "outlier" in the current Ukrainian national team whose style of play is rough, direct, and simple.

He is only 1.75 meters tall. Although he is not the shortest in the current Ukrainian national team, he can also be classified as "short".

Although he is not dominant in height and strength, his feet are extremely good, which seems a bit out of tune with the current style of the Ukrainian national team.

However, under the guidance of the Ukrainian national team coach Viktor Yarmolenko, he has integrated into this team very well, using his excellent skills to become the team's offensive engine.

In Paris Egerres, Cotien is a striker. In the Ukrainian national team, he is more like a midfielder.

The priority of playmaking is higher than his own scoring.

But that doesn't mean he can't score.

After all, not having a sword in hand and having a sword are two different things.

When the team can't start the situation, he will also try to use his personal ability to solve the problem.

Just like now.

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"Ketien made a beautiful turn around, wiped away Gao Ruimin's defense, and he went into the penalty area... shot—!"

Accompanied by He Feng's exclamation, Lin Zhiyuan threw himself sideways, saving Ketian's shot past the baseline.

After completing the save, he took advantage of the situation and rolled on the ground, turned over again, then slapped his hands vigorously and shouted at his teammates to boost morale.

He only played 30 minutes in the last game and still conceded a goal.

He conceded another goal in this game.

But at this time, he obviously couldn't care less about whether scouts from Germany's Westin Athletic would be watching his performance in the stands, and he wouldn't worry about gain or loss just because he lost the ball.

Now he is concentrating, only focusing on his current performance in the game.

Whether he can be favored by Westin Athletic or whether he can have the opportunity to play abroad is not something he considers.

After Ke Tien performed well, Yao Huasheng and Wang Guangwei stepped up their defense against Ke Tien. As a result, the latter immediately passed the football to his teammate, and the teammate completed the shot, forcing Lin Zhiyuan to make another save to seal the football out of the baseline. A corner to Ukraine.

Ketian's ability to pass and shoot made the Chinese players particularly uncomfortable in defense.

Although he is only one person, he can contain the entire defense line of the Chinese team.

He is not fast, but he is very good at his feet, so he is not afraid of the Chinese team shrinking their defenses and playing positional warfare.

Unlike his partner Mendy Payet in front of Eger in Paris, he doesn't need to have a lot of space or run distance.

As long as the ball is at his feet, whether it is passing the ball or shooting, it can create a huge threat.

Even if he holds the ball in place, he can make the defensive players around him dare not act rashly.

That's the great thing about Vitaly Kotien.

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"Cortien!"

"Kirtien! Be careful..."

"Oh, it's dangerous—! It's Kirtien again!"

During this period of time, CCTV commentator He Feng and guest commentator Yan Kang frequently mentioned the name of Vitali Kotien.

It seems that he is the brightest boy in the audience.

Of course, the corresponding Lin Zhiyuan's name was not uncommonly mentioned.

Although Lin Zhiyuan performed very well, the defensive side was always passive.

In the fifty-eighth minute of the game, Ketian made a gesture at the front of the penalty area to pass the ball to his teammate. After tricking Wang Guangwei to stretch his foot to intercept the pass, his right foot wrapped around the football and turned around suddenly to the other side. , a wonderful spoon turn!

Ke Tien, who threw off Wang Guangwei, dribbled the ball into the penalty area, facing the attacking goalkeeper Lin Zhiyuan,

Choose to kick the foot and rub the far corner.

The football made a very exaggerated arc by him, bypassing Lin Zhiyuan's ten fingers, and it was about to fly out of the baseline from the outside of the goal post, but turned back again!

Get into the upper back corner of the Chinese team's goal!

"Oops!" He Feng and Yankang Lu sighed in unison, "We still lost the ball! Ke Tien's personal ability is really outstanding - he just pretended to pass the ball with a very large range of motion. Generally speaking, the ball will definitely be passed in that direction, and it is no problem for Wang Guangwei to defend his pass. But who would have thought that he would be able to retract his movements when his body's center of gravity was seriously tilted... I have to say, This is the ability of the only Ukrainian superstar Vitaly Kotien!"

After scoring the goal, Kotien shook his fist at his teammates, asking them to continue their efforts.

The live broadcast shouted affectionately: "The goal has been scored!! Ukraine leads China 2:1, and it was Vitaly who scored the goal——"

All the fans in the audience shouted in unison: "—Kirtien!!!"

Despite never being able to lead the national team to the World Cup finals, Vitaly Kotien still enjoys a very high status in the hearts of Ukrainian fans.

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"This is not a problem with our tactics, it is a victory of individual heroism." Shi Wuyin said to Li Zhifei off the court. "Even if it's the defense of the French team, it's hard to defend against Kotien's ball just now."

During the halftime break of the French team, Shi Wuyin made a major adjustment to the lineup. And he didn't even change a player at halftime.

It can also be seen from this point that Shi Wuji's attitude towards the second warm-up match is more serious than the first. Different from the purpose of feeling the atmosphere in the first game, he seriously wanted to test his team's tactics in front of Ukraine in the second game.

Therefore, he kept the lineup intact to the greatest extent, instead of making frequent substitutions, allowing the players to go on the court like a revolving door to feel the atmosphere of the game for ten minutes or tens of minutes.

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After Kotien's goal, Ukraine continued to attack the Chinese team's goal.

In response to this situation, Shi Wuyin adjusted his tactics and asked the Chinese team to shrink and fight against counterattacks.

In fact, defensive counterattack will be Shi Wuyin's standard tactics for the Chinese team in the World Cup.

After all, the Chinese team is weak, and the opponents will basically press up to attack, and it is only natural to play defense.

Seizing this opportunity to exercise the team's defensive counterattack tactics is also in Shi Wuyin's plan.

He didn't feel regretful or dissatisfied with the team conceding the ball.

For Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai, two players with fast speed and strong individual combat ability, the defensive and counterattack tactics seemed to be tailor-made, and they couldn't be more suitable.

Luo Kai, who scored a goal, has been in good form in today's game. Now that his tactics are suitable, he is more active.

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Wang Guangwei jumped up in the penalty area and headed the Ukrainian cross. Hu Lai quickly ran to the second point and passed the football back with his feet before the Ukrainian player.

It was given to Zhang Qinghuan who rushed out of the penalty area and adjusted his direction.

After Zhang Qinghuan received the ball, he swung his foot and slapped the ball to the left.

Luo Kai's activeness made Ukraine's defensive center of gravity slightly tilted to Luo Kai's right side. In comparison, Chen Xingyi on the left was under much less defensive pressure.

It was for this reason that Zhang Qinghuan passed the football to Chen Xingyi instead of Luo Kai.

He didn't pass the football to Chen Xingyi's feet, but kicked it as far away as possible, so that Chen Xingyi could give full play to his speed advantage and race against the opponent's full-back for 100 meters.

"Chen Xingyi is so fast!"

Accompanied by He Feng's praise, Chen Xingyi gradually surpassed the Ukrainian full-back Gennady Sergichuk who was neck and neck with him. This speed advantage visible to the naked eye makes people's blood rush.

The Ukrainian fans in the stands screamed, which stimulated Chen Xingyi to move even faster.

He caught up with the football first, then swung his left foot, as if he was about to pass directly.

Serge Chuk quickly threw his whole body out of the center of gravity, flying his legs to intercept his cross.

But Chen Xingyi just feinted his shot, even though he swung his kick so far that it was absolutely impossible to fake it. He still took it back abruptly, just like Kotien did just now!

After taking his left foot back and following the trend, he dunked the football in the opposite direction!

At the same time, his whole body was almost lying on the ground, and he used his hands to support him, so he stopped the car without slipping and falling to the ground.

But Serge Chuk did not have such good luck. He fell to the ground and slid past Chen Xingyi...

"Pretty!"

Chen Xingyi supported his body with his hands, then got up to catch up with the football, and threw the ball inside, towards the Ukrainian penalty area!

At the same time, he looked up and looked inside.

Luo Kai, who was active on the right side before, has already reached the middle of the penalty area and has become a center forward!

He looked at Chen Xingyi, who also saw him, and passed the football to him.

At the same time as Chen Xingyi passed the ball, Luo Kai suddenly accelerated and sprinted forward.

This brought Ukrainian centre-back Andrey Arzanov, who had followed him, over.

But Roman Sergey, who was guarding the inside line, took a look at Hu Lai first, and found that he was far away in the ribs and did not follow.

He confirmed that the ball was passed to Luo Kai, so he also rushed forward, forming a double insurance with Arzanov. The former stuck to interfere with Luo Kai, while he blocked the opponent's shooting route.

Luo Kai, who rushed up, swung his foot towards the football and shot...no!

He only made half of his shot, swung his feet but didn't continue to swing his legs, but let the football go through between his legs!

"Rocky - leaked?!"

He Feng was very surprised, not to mention the two Ukrainian central defenders who were close at hand, they were caught off guard.

Roman Sergey's eyes turned with the football, and then saw Hu Lai who swung his feet in front of the football!

"Hu-lai-!!"

Shot without stopping the ball!

Goalkeeper Kotyarov was also shaken by Luo Kai's shot. Now it was too late to adjust his focus and return to make a save. He could only watch the football fly into his goal with his body tilted!

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After Hu Lai finished his signature celebration, he just hugged and celebrated with his teammates who came up to celebrate.

Chen Xingyi, Zhang Qinghuan, Gao Ruimin... even Wang Guangwei, he just hugged each other.

Then he saw Luo Kai standing in front of him.

Hu Lai froze for a moment, he didn't expect Luo Kai to come up and hug him...

But soon he realized that he was thinking too much, Luo Kai didn't come to hug and celebrate with him.

He said to Hu Lai with a half-smile: "I have half the credit for your ball, and now we are even!"

Hu Lai retorted: "You didn't even touch the ball, what's wrong with you!"

Luo Kai snorted coldly: "Then you didn't touch my goal just now."

Hu Lai didn't expect Luo Kai to be waiting for him here, he grinned: "Be careful!"

"I don't want to owe favors." After Luo Kai finished speaking, he turned and ran away.

Hu Lai said behind him: "You will have no friends like this..."

Luo Kai turned to look at him: "No, I just don't want to owe you favors."

Hearing what he said, Hu Lai rubbed his chin and thought, does that mean that every time the national team plays in the future, as long as I let this kid owe me a favor first, he will assist me no matter what in the game?