The Ball at Your Feet

"This ghost place in South Africa is really bad enough."

Even though Zhao Yaning has rarely complained about the surrounding environment, after seeing the environment in South Africa, he still had to complain about the environment in this place.

Zhao Yaning has been here for a long time, and he doesn't understand why he wants to play here: the place where he plays is the plateau, and the playing environment is very poor. At the same time, the urban environment is also in a mess. Going to play in other places, at least can go out and see, but here, the poor security environment in South Africa determines that they can only stay in hotels and are not allowed to go anywhere else.

How can such a city host the World Cup? Zhao Yaning also has no complaints about this.

However, playing a game in such a city, the opponents of the game are not too strong, and this is what makes him most happy. The current Chinese team needs to play more against strong teams in order to be able to verify their strength. There are fewer Confederations Cup teams and a good group. Basically, half of the foot has entered the knockout round. It is always good to be able to play a few more games. of.

The grouping of the Confederations Cup this time is still very easy to deal with. China is lucky and is not assigned to the more difficult group. In their group, they are the European Cup champion Spain, the Asian Cup champion China, the Oceania champion New Zealand and the host South Africa. In contrast, the other group, South American champion Brazil and World Cup champion Italy, are two powerful players. The United States and Africa champion Egypt in the Americas are not so easy to deal with.

And under this grouping, China's competition is much simpler. Although it is estimated that Spain cannot be beaten, but against South Africa and New Zealand, the Chinese team will not fail, right?

But Zhao Yaning thought very well, but in the first game, he almost made him play abnormally.

"What sound is this?" Zhao Yaning looked around, a little surprised, "Is this sound too scary?"

"This is Vuvuzula. Brother Zhang gave me one. It's fun, but I really didn't expect it to be so unpleasant when so many sound together..."

This traditional African musical instrument is obviously beyond China's ability to endure the players. Zhao Yaning ran on the court, as if there was a buzzing sound in his ears for ninety minutes. Fortunately, the New Zealanders on the opposite side seem to be even more miserable. They also made mistakes and made it difficult to play well. This made the Chinese team's usual style of playing a good thing.

The Chinese players have always lacked on-court communication. This is something that all foreign teachers have repeatedly emphasized. Zhao Yaning usually pays attention to this problem, but no matter how loud he shouts alone, others still remain silent-they are cheeky when they lose, but they become thinner when they shout on the court. However, this game has also become a good thing-anyway, there is buzzing everywhere, let's not communicate with anyone.

The opponent's poor cooperation, this naturally became an opportunity. Since there is a chance, don't show mercy. Zhao Yaning immediately took the ball and set off an attack, and the opponent was a soft persimmon like New Zealand. Less than 30 minutes after the opening, Zhao Yaning used a long distance to break through the opponent's gate.

"It seems that there is no problem in taking New Zealand lightly in this game."

The champion of Oceania has always been Australia in the past. Because Australia has joined the AFC, this time the Australian champion has become New Zealand. Their strength, speaking of it, is really not strong. After all, without Australia, their best is to fight for the championship with Tahiti. The strength is really not strong. The game against the Chinese team is really bad. After losing a goal, their problems became more serious. Soon, Hao Junmin scored the second goal. Then, Zheng Zhi kicked and scored, and the Chinese team won the first game 3-0.

"The most important thing for us to come here is to adapt to the game. Regardless of the venue, the environment, or the vuvuzela, we all have to adapt. After we get used to it, we will come here again next year. There are some advantages. Although the advantage is not big, it is better than nothing. Accumulating experience will be of great benefit to us."

The reason why Zhao Yaning would say these things to the team is because he knows that the Chinese team will not be able to win the next game.

The opponent is the Spanish national team. At a glance, Ramos, Casey and other teammates, Alonso, the former teammate, Villa’s super player in the league, plus Torres, Capdevila and Senna— These people added to the Barcelona team with Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, and Pique as the central axis. Even if Real Madrid play, they will feel a headache, let alone the Chinese team? When he was at Real Madrid, Zhao Yaning didn't have to worry about what went wrong. Looking back, it is all the problem. If the Chinese team can play Spain, then there will be a ghost.

However, at the beginning of the game, Zhao Yaning discovered that Spain's control was quite tight. They always keep the ball in the backcourt, rarely take the initiative to attack, and rarely play aggressively. This surprised Zhao Yaning, he really couldn't see that it was necessary to do so. After all, the Chinese team does not have any strong ability at all, worry about assault? The Chinese team only has Zhao Yaning who can assault, and with a little help, he can block him. Worried about anti-robbing? The Chinese team does not have the physical strength to grab the frontcourt. If they can hold down the grab for 90 minutes, the Chinese team won't have to be so wretched. In any case, Zhao Yaning does not think that Spanish play is necessary.

However, after doing nothing in the first half, when it was time to get off work, Villa relied on a rapid impact to score a goal, Zhao Yaning suddenly understood.

The Chinese team is verifying its own strength. Isn't Spain training its troops? Moreover, their attitude makes Zhao Yaning feel a little bit shivering: they are so cautious and cautious to deal with a team like the Chinese team. This is really a lion fighting a rabbit, and they have used their best. With this attitude and approach, they seem to really aim for the World Cup. It seems that I really have to be more careful with them and think about how to break it.

"Your coach is very thoughtful."

After losing 0-1, Zhao Yaning also said to Cassie. Cassie smiled, but didn't say much. It's not just the coach who thinks big?

After this game, the Chinese team immediately ushered in the third game against South Africa. In this game, the Chinese team did not make any more mistakes-South Africa lost to Spain and defeated New Zealand. Like the Chinese team, they both accumulated three points, but had one less goal difference. After this game is won, the Chinese team can basically enter the knockout round. Therefore, the Chinese team played a lot harder.

At the end of the game, it didn't win either-a 1-1 draw became the final result. But Zhao Yaning was also quite surprised, "The host country of the World Cup has never fallen out of the top four. In 2002, South Korea was a strong champion. This kind of South Africa is really not so strong. By next year, it will be in the top four? Is this a joke?"

"Who said it must be South Africa? Any African country is not a landlord country?"

In this case, Zhao Yaning will be stagnated. Also, with FA's character, they can do this kind of thing...

After the end of this game, the Chinese team, which ranked second in the group with four points from the three games, also entered the knockout round. When Zhao Yaning was rather helpless, after entering the knockout round, the first opponent was the Brazil team.

In another group, Italy was upset and eliminated, and Brazil and the United States entered the group's first and second place. The Chinese team is the second in the group, and it is the Brazil team that has to be dealt with.

"Brazil’s current coach is Dunga. The style of play is...very European."

Since the Brazilian coach replaced Dunga, his style of playing has become more European. Dunga is a pragmatic coach, and he asks for results, not for viewing. Ronaldinho was a self-styled player. Ronaldinho was expelled from the national team by him. He didn't want anything that took a lot of effort. He relied on more European players to form Brazil.

And now, what Zhao Yaning fears most is a pragmatic strong team...

"Dear friends, this game is China vs. Brazil. We don’t need to introduce the players of the Chinese team. Brazil’s lineup, this game, is goalkeeper Cesar, and the defense is Maicon and Lucy. O, Juan, Santos. The midfielders are Melo, Gilberto, Ramirez with three midfielders, Diego starts as a midfielder, and the forwards are Fabiano and Robinho. Obviously, the Brazilian team is very good. Attach importance to the Chinese team. They have a 4312 formation. Except for Kaka who was injured and did not play, the others are the main players. This also shows their determination to play..."

Brazil is almost the main player. Except for Kaka's injury and stop, Marcelo has no main position because of his loss. The others are basically the best players in their respective positions. Obviously, Dunga and Bosque have the same mindset, expecting the lion to fight the rabbit and succeed in one fell swoop.

Zhao Yaning now does not want to receive such attention. As soon as Brazil came up, it controlled its advantage on the scene. In the third midfielder, Ramirez did almost nothing, just to watch Zhao Yaning, this guy with good physical strength was responsible for being close to the body. And in this way, the Chinese team was directly pressed to the backcourt, and there was no resistance anymore-this kind of play made Zhao Yaning quite helpless, and the Chinese team really couldn't do it when they met a real strong team.

This is not possible. Once we meet a strong team, we can't win, so what kind of football can we play! Spain is the same, Brazil is the same, so what else do we play!

Zhao Yaning understood that someone entangled him in order to prevent him from organizing well and forcing him to make a forcible assault. After all, the possibility of a person breaking through a defense line is very small. However, Zhao Yaning also had his heart down at this time, and everyone else had already done their best, so what if I just made a big surprise!

Since the lion fights the rabbit, the rabbit is in a hurry and will bite!

In the opening ten minutes, the Brazilians have been bombarding indiscriminately, but they have never been able to break the gate of the Chinese team. Soon, Zhao Yaning found a chance. After receiving the ball once, he suddenly accelerated. Leis immediately grabbed his clothes~www.ltnovel.com~ but Zhao Yaning found the opportunity and hit him, directly forcing him to let go. Then, he quickly adjusted his center of gravity and started a surprise attack on the backcourt.

Now that I have held it, I will try to fight back.

"Zhao Yaning's counterattack... Merlot!"

Dunga takes defense very seriously, and this time, the interception he sent out is also the butcher player Melo. Zhao Yaning's breakthrough was very quick. Moreover, when he saw Melo coming over, he quickly drew aside, but Melo shoveled over, and when Zhao Yaning avoided his feet, his feet suddenly lifted. Get up, kick it over!

"I'm going!" In an instant, the commentator's mouth suddenly burst into dirty words, "Zhao Yaning was overturned by Merlot--this is not a defense at all, this is a naked kick! Zhao Yaning was kicked to the ground. , This is a red card action, a 100% red card action!"

Melo's kick was an absolute foul. When Zhao Yaning avoided the tackle, he lifted his leg and kicked Zhao Yaning's calf directly. This kick flipped Zhao Yaning, and he immediately got into trouble.

Zhao Yaning helped his teammates stand up, and he also saw the previous result: Melo received a red card and was fined.

This is a great opportunity!

Despite the pain in his leg, Zhao Yaning wanted to stand up, but he jumped with painful teeth before standing still. However, even so, he was quite happy to look at the crowd: Brazil was sent off in the opening 20 minutes, this game, there is great hope!