The Ball at Your Feet

Relying on Mexico's defeat by the Brazilians, in the group match, the Chinese team was upset with success and entered the Confederations Cup semi-finals. China is naturally beaming. Originally, in this Confederations Cup, before I came here, I thought that the Chinese team would not be able to get out of the line... In fact, in terms of strength, it is indeed out of line. If it weren’t for the Mexican team’s unlucky encounter with the Brazilians to show off, the Chinese team’s final result would certainly not be able to qualify. The final result is probably to rely on defeating the now completely degraded Greece to retain the last bit of face.

After eliminating Mexico, the Mexican team was naturally full of complaints. They defeated the Chinese team, they are definitely better in terms of strength. However, in the group stage, they were eliminated because of the competition system. How could they be reconciled?

But the Brazilians unreasonably lost to Mexico and tied China, but there is no alternative. Although Mexico also implicitly accuses Brazil of releasing water when it is against the Chinese team, the Brazilians are too lazy to argue about this: What if we release the water? We qualified, and you were eliminated. And to put it bluntly, even if it is for the sake of winning the championship, if the Brazilian chooses a team that will qualify in the group stage, the Brazilian will definitely choose China. After all, China is weaker. Who is willing to let a strong opponent qualify?

At the same time, in another group, the winner was also divided. The host German team entered the knockout round with the runner-up Argentina team from South America.

"In this Confederations Cup, there are only two championship teams in the knockout stage, and one of them is the Asian champion."

This is where the media are most dissatisfied. The North American champions, Australian champions, African champions, and European champions have all been eliminated. Instead, the German team, which played as the host, and Argentina, which have been added because the Brazilians have won the World Cup and America’s Cup champions, have qualified. I feel that the quality of this Confederations Cup may not be as high as imagined.

After qualifying from the group, the Chinese team also met their opponent-the German team.

This opponent silenced Zhao Yaning for a long time.

If you say the good side... well, the German team is now at the lowest point in history, and the strength of the team can be said to have reached the worst time. Klose, Ballack, Kahn, these are all of them can be regarded as famous world-class players. Although other players are also very good players, but in terms of absolute strength, there is indeed a gap in grade. And if there is anything more to be happy about, it is at this time that their most threatening player, Klose, has missed the Confederations Cup due to injury. And Kahn also gave Lehmann the start of the national team because of various problems within the German team.

It is not unreasonable for the current German team to be unceremoniously referred to as Barack’s "one-man team" by the media of other countries.

As for their other players, Deisler had suffered serious injuries after all, and his recovery has not been very good. As for Schneider, Flins, Mertesacker, Lehmann, including their naturalized Brazilian forward Kuranyi, it is hard to say that they are first-class players. Podolski, Schweinsteiger and others, as young rookies, are not very satisfactory: in any European power, it is impossible to give the position of the main force to a team to play in the second division. , But in Germany, Podolski entered the national team as the core of the Bundesliga champion. This situation is enough to explain their current dilemma.

In fact, since the victory over England in 2000, the German team has not won 14 consecutive games against the world's top teams. The results of four draws and ten losses can even be said to be pitiful.

After playing against a team like Brazil, it stands to reason that the strength of the German team is nothing to the Chinese team. However, there is still a problem.

However, if there is something that makes the Chinese team feel unhappy-although Germany's record against the world's strong teams is a mess, but against the underdogs, Germany's record is almost not upset. Unlike the Brazilians who often convulsions, their football has always been steadily showing all their strengths. They can't beat the strong, but they won't lose to the weak team. It is also by never being soft on the underdogs, so that their FA points are always very high.

The Chinese team is just a legendary underdog...

In fact, such a team is precisely the most troublesome. Excellent physical strength, strong execution ability, excellent coordination, and high tactical literacy. Although there is no particularly good speed and technology, but not afraid of confrontation, not afraid of headers, and not afraid of tactics to drag the penalty. When I was in the national team, I was most afraid of meeting.

Stronger than Brazil, there are also times when the big-name forwards are in bad shape. After all, the Chinese team is a weak team. If you encounter such a team, you can still gamble on luck, but when you encounter Germany, you are accustomed to minimizing the element of luck and relying solely on strength to determine the outcome of the team. It is inevitable that people are desperate.

As the host, Germany sits on the home court advantage, and although the Germans are facing a weaker team like China, they did not say anything too much. On the contrary, the "Kicker" magazine praised Zhao Yaning and Klins. In an interview, Mann also said that the German team should not underestimate the enemy, and should go all out. He also looked up to Zhao Yaning, his younger brother who played for the Monaco club.

This made Zhao Yaning even more speechless. It's too hard to say how much the Chinese team can win for a serious team.

At the time of the game, the German lineup, the goalkeeper is Lehmann, and the four defenders are Friedrich, Mertesacker, Huth and Schneider. In the midfield, they sent Flins as the midfielder, Ballack played as the front midfielder, Schweinsteiger on the left, Dessler on the right, and Podolski on the forward line. And Kuranyi.

Klinsmann didn't play a double defensive midfielder in the end. However, although Ballack is an attacking midfielder, his defensive ability is also good. Moreover, Schweinsteiger can also participate in the defense, Podolski can also pull the side at any time, and their playing style can be considered balanced offensive and defensive.

On the Chinese team’s side, the goalkeeper is still Liu Yufei, the back line is Sun Xiang, Li Datou, Du Wei and Sun Jihe, while in the midfield, the Chinese team is sent by Zheng Zhi and Li Gang, Zhao Yaning is on the left, and Shao Jiayi is in the center. , Qu Bo is on the right, and veteran Hao Dapao is still on the front line.

However, compared with the other side, it is really shabby-and, this is the worst German team in history.

Although the lineup was not good, Zhao Yaning immediately used his strength at the beginning of the game to shock the Germans.

After the kick-off, Zhao Yaning launched an assault directly from the center. After passing Flys's interception, Zhao Yaning faced Hut who came to intercept him, and passed him with an acceleration kick. Then, he pressed Mertesa Ke passed the ball.

Although the pass was pretty good, Hao Dapao was old after all and did not keep up with his speed. Lehman's attack was very timely and he held the ball in his arms.

The opening goal was almost scored by the Chinese team, and the Germans immediately realized Zhao Yaning's greatness. When Zhao Yaning got the ball again, Ballack immediately posted it, and Flins also began to pay attention to Zhao Yaning, for fear that he would eat the defense line raw.

Is this kind of treatment reasonable? Zhao Yaning said something in his heart. In the entire world football, few dare to defend him one-on-one. Except for Lyon's Essien, Chelsea's Makelele relied on his own ability to defend Zhao Yaning most of the time, and most of the others relied on team cooperation to defend him. Without the ability to guard against the sky, and thinking of defending him one-on-one, it is absolutely impossible. Although the Germans are strong, most of the players are all based on the overall strength of play. In terms of defensive ability alone, none of the current German midfielders can defend Zhao Yaning alone.

But although the Germans focused on guarding, Zhao Yaning did not care too much. Ballack had a lot of energy in defending Zhao Yaning, which was enough to make the German team's attack collapse in half. Although Dessler still has a considerable technical advantage on the wing, because there is no header expert Klose on the front line, it is difficult for Germany's advantage to be converted into a goal for a while.

At this time, Zhao Yaning thought more about how to break through the opponent's tight defense by relying on his own organization.

The German team is very strong, but there are still problems in the back line. One of their biggest problems is that the speed of the back line is seriously insufficient.

This can be said to be a problem that has always existed in the German team. The Germans are limited by their physical conditions and there are few fast players. The German defender pays attention to tall stature and confrontation, and the speed is even worse. And their main central defender, Mertesacker, is arguably the one with the most serious problems.

If we talk about head-on confrontation, his strength is not weak. Not to mention his size, frontal defense is also extremely good, not many people can beat him head-on one-on-one. But the speed of his turning is really a tragedy. Haipia of Liverpool, where Zhao Yaning is located, is a slow-turning defender, but when Zhao Yaning saw Mertesacker now, he suddenly felt that Hypia was still full of agility...

On the Chinese team’s side, in the face of an opponent like Germany, Hao Dapao was extremely tightly guarded by the opponent’s tactics. He could not play the role of grabbing points. It is estimated that he can’t count on it. The Chinese team is proud of it, and it can be called in Asia The strongest header is a waste in Germany. However, the speed of Qubo ~www.ltnovel.com~ may still be tried.

He has played in Ligue 1 for three years-although Ajaccio has always been a relegation team, he has been playing more than 20 games every year, with an efficiency of four or five goals. But speaking of physical strength, speed and assault ability, he definitely has a set. He was originally a player with more obvious characteristics, and his speed was the only thing he relied on in such a game.

So, let’s try, if my passing is good enough, his speed, plus Mertesacker’s turn...

When he got the ball again, Zhao Yaning smashed the ball to get rid of Ballack, and then gave the ball to Shao Jiayi. Shao Jiayi did not hesitate and passed the ball back. Zhao Yaning rushed forward two steps. When Mertesacker moved forward to the penalty area line, Zhao Yaning suddenly hooked his left foot behind his right foot and passed the ball. Got out.

The ball is a half-high. Mertesacker wanted to block it with a header, but when he realized that he couldn't catch the ball, he wanted to turn around, but it was too late.

Qu Bo rushed behind him, and when Mertesacker turned around, he was already three meters away.

Facing Lehmann, Qubo knocked, Hao Dapao received the ball and kicked it directly into the goal.

"The Chinese team scored a goal!!! The Chinese team took the lead!!! The excellent cooperation of the frontcourt allowed the Chinese team to take a 1-0 lead!"

That's it! Zhao Yaning clenched his fists, you are really strong, but don't let me seize the opportunity, as long as I seize the opportunity, I will never let it go easily!