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Bhutan's home stadium is an artificial turf football field, and the stands can only accommodate a few thousand fans. Facing a "strong team" like the Chinese team, Bhutan's home court is naturally packed.

When Xia Ze and the others entered the locker room, it looked a bit shabby, but it was still tidy, with bandages, drinking water, and other items in place. It can be seen that Bhutan did not neglect the Chinese team.

"Listen everyone, you are facing a team composed of amateur players in this game, but I hope you can go all out and don't neglect them just because the opponent is an amateur team!"

Before the game, Lippi spoke in the locker room.

"The opponent's turf is artificial turf, which may have some influence on us. But I don't want this to be an excuse for your poor performance. I didn't set goals for you in the first half, but I want to see a game that makes you feel satisfied. result."

After Lippi finished speaking, he left the locker room and entered the court first.

The national football players who had just returned from warming up, after listening to Lippi's lecture, were silently thinking in their hearts that the next game should open the scoring as soon as possible and score enough goals in the first half, otherwise they will have to score again during the intermission. Facing Lippi hair dryer.

After all, in Bhutan's last game, they lost to Hong Kong, China by a score of 0 to 7, and the strength of the Chinese team is undoubtedly higher than that of Hong Kong, China, and because of some political factors in recent times, domestic The fans are also very eager for the Chinese team to be able to compare with the Hong Kong team in all aspects.

Therefore, Hong Kong, China won Bhutan 7-0 in the last game. The number of games won by the national football team today must not be less than this number.

Before leaving the locker room, captain Zheng Zhi also gave a speech to encourage morale, and the eleven starting players and the remaining substitute players left the locker room and entered the stadium.

Today's starting lineup is the same as in training, because the opponent is weaker, Wu Xi, who is both offensive and defensive, is used as the midfielder, and Huang Bowen and Cai Huikang are temporarily sitting on the bench.

Zheng Zhi is the captain on the field, while Xia Ze is wearing the No. 2o jersey, which is his jersey number in the club.

Among other players, Zhang Wei wears No. 4, Ai Huang wears No. 11, Wu Lei wears No. 7, and Gao Bo wears No. 9.

After both sides played the national anthem, the game officially began.

As predicted before the game,

From the very beginning of the game, the Chinese team had a firm grip on possession, keeping Bhutan in their own half.

Bhutan also understands the gap between itself and the Chinese team. From the beginning, the tactic is to hide and defend, that is, to put the bus.

Only one player was left to harass in front, and the other players shrank to the 30-meter area of ​​their own half to defend, and a bus was set up in front of the goal.

The player who stayed in the frontcourt to harass the Chinese team's defense was a player who had tried out for a professional team.

From the very beginning, the national football team has launched a fierce attack, but the players of the national football team have made frequent mistakes in passing and receiving the ball in this game. Some balls are obviously easy to hold, but when they reach the players' feet, they stop at half a person's height , Lost the best time at once.

In fact, the players of the national football team also want to stop the ball well, control it and pass it well, but they are too uncomfortable in this field.

Although they have adapted to the artificial grass in Kunming for ten days, the artificial grass in Bhutan is shorter than the artificial grass in Kunming.

The difference between artificial turf and natural turf is that the rolling speed of the pass is much slower, and the speed and magnitude of the rebound after the ball hits the ground are also completely different from natural turf.

Two different types of artificial turf have different reactions.

It is precisely because of such subtle differences that the players of the national football team are a little at a loss.

A lot of passing and stopping should be just right on the natural turf, but after the artificial turf, either the strength is too strong, or the strength is insufficient. In short, it is impossible to pass in place.

On the other hand, the Bhutanese players, who are used to playing in such an environment and field, are much more accurate in judging where the ball will land than the players of the Chinese team.

Coupled with their shrinking defense, they did not give the Chinese players much room to get the ball in the frontcourt. Whenever the national football players stopped the ball too much, they would immediately pounce on them, and then the national football players passed the ball in a hurry. It becomes a mistake.

The long-range shot is because the force is too strong or the distance is too far, and the effect is not very good.

As a result, the first half lasted for 20 minutes. Although the national football team was in control of the ball, they hardly threatened the opponent's goal.

This made the commentators of various TV stations begin to criticize the national football team, thinking that this was the ugliest 20 minutes of the national football team, even uglier than when they lost to Thailand 1-5.

Lippi's face on the sidelines was also livid. He had already explained to a team member before the game that he would go all out. But I didn't expect the players of the national football team to play so badly.

Facing an amateur team, within 20 minutes of the game, there was no way to score!

Is this still the Chinese national team with six overseas players?

"Xia Ze, try a long-range shot. You don't need to use a lot of force. As long as you have a certain amount of strength, use a tricky angle." When the Chinese team's long-range shot failed again, captain Zheng Zhi came up and told Xia Ze.

After hearing Zheng Zhi's words, Xia Ze looked at the opponent's goalkeeper and immediately understood.

Just now he also tried two powerful shots, and thought that his feet were hard enough, but they were all blocked by the opponent's defender.

Now after listening to captain Zheng Zhi's words, I realized that if you want to score a goal, you don't need to use your best every shot.

The opponent's goalkeeper is an amateur goalkeeper, and he is not even 1.8 meters tall. Some long-range shots from tricky angles are impossible for the opponent to catch.

Just now I was thinking about exerting my strength, and it was indeed like the head coach Lippi said, treating the opponent with the most prudent attitude. But it is not the best way.

Captain Zheng Zhi is much more experienced than himself after all, so he can see through the shortcomings at a glance.

Xia Ze nodded and took the ball to reorganize the attack.

The opponent's defender is still tightly defending, and there is no way to penetrate into the opponent's penalty area. After Xia Ze took the ball and broke through a midfielder, he came to the top of the penalty area. With a fake move to open the space, he kicked a long shot .

Before kicking, he had already observed the position of the opponent's goalkeeper, and he stood in the middle, which was quite satisfactory.

Xia Ze didn't make any effort, but used the arch of his foot to make a curved ball, which directly bent to the upper right corner of the goal!

When the opponent's goalkeeper noticed Xia Ze's shot, he had already moved and swooped.

Although the speed of the ball was not fast, the opponent's goalkeeper flew all the way and couldn't touch the ball.

Whoosh! !

The ball crossed the ten fingers of the opponent's goalkeeper and went directly into the net.

1 to 0, the Chinese team finally broke the deadlock!