host must win

Chapter 26
Yang Chen hit the post and missed the chance to tie the score, which had a certain impact on the morale of the Chinese team.Turkey, on the other hand, got a respite from being passively suppressed by the Chinese team in the previous ten minutes.

In the remaining ten minutes of the first half, the two teams were in a balance of power on the scene, and the situation also reached a stalemate.The Chinese team failed to score an equalizing goal, and Turkey's goal of expanding its lead again failed.

In the 30th minute, Yin Jun dribbled the ball from the right and was pulled down by Emre in a quick breakthrough. Emre was warned by a yellow card. Due to his accumulation of two yellow cards, even if Turkey finally advances, he will not be able to participate in the 1/8 finals.

In the 34th minute, Li Tie fouled Hakan Yunsar and was also given a yellow card. This also made Li Tie also subject to suspension even if the Chinese team advanced to the knockout round.

In the 36th minute, Turkey also suffered another heavy blow. Their starting goalkeeper Rustu was injured and could not continue the game. Turkey could only be forced to replace him with substitute goalkeeper Omer.

Turkey's starting goalkeeper Rustu is not tall anymore, only 1.8 meters five, which is already considered short in the goalkeeper position, but their substitute goalkeeper is even shorter, only 1.7 meters nine!
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At the end of the first half, the Chinese team stepped up their attack again, hoping to equalize the score before entering the intermission.

In the 37th minute, the Chinese team played a quick counterattack. Yin Jun sprinted from the right and sent a cross, but the Turkish defender took the lead and controlled the ball before the Chinese forward Su Maozhen.

After 2 minutes, the Chinese team made a comeback. Yin Jun used his sharp breakthrough to win a cross from the right. This time he chose an inverted triangle pass to the ribs and found Li Tie who was going forward, but Li Tie's shot was blocked. Block out the bottom line.

The Chinese team changed another tactic for this corner kick, which is still a variant of the first corner kick tactic. Yang Pu, who took the corner kick, took the ball, but Yin Jun, who was at the front point, did not choose to let go because he found the Turkish penalty area Li's defense is very tight, so he chooses to control the ball and make a look like he is about to make a bottom pass.

However, after attracting two defensive players from the front of Turkey to defend him, Yin Jun chose to knock the ball to Yang Chen behind him with his heel.

Yang Chen still had no chance. After catching the ball, he made a gesture to take it out, but suddenly passed the ball back to Yin Jun. Yin Jun slanted again and found Li Tie in the corner of the penalty area.

When Li Tie received the ball, there were no Turkish defensive players within five meters of him, because the defensive players were all attracted by Yin Jun and Yang Chen outside the penalty area, Li Weifeng and Du Wei in the small penalty area, and Su Maozhen at the top of the big penalty area. .

However, under the extremely loose kicking conditions, Li Tie's shot failed to hit the target.

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After being pressed and attacked by the Chinese team for a few minutes, Turkey also launched a counterattack.

In the 40th minute, Turkey launched an offensive, and the Chinese team actively returned to defense. Even Su Maozhen returned to the front of their own penalty area.

In the assault against the Turkish midfielder No. 10 Basturk, Su Maozhen of the Chinese team fell into a disadvantage and was succeeded by his opponent. However, Su Maozhen stretched out his hand from behind and pulled his opponent, which was seen by the referee Ruiz , then blew the whistle and gave Turkey a free kick in the frontcourt in a good position.

Turkey's No. 8 Tugayi took the free kick, but his free kick failed to cross the Chinese team's wall and was pushed back by Wu Chengying in the wall.

But the landing point of the football was controlled by Turkey, and Turkey continued to organize the attack.Yumit Davala made a cross from the right, Li Weifeng made a clearance not far away, and Basturk made a supplementary shot high.

In the 43rd minute, Tugayi made another cross from the right, and two balls suddenly appeared in the field. The referee suspended the game and dropped the ball. Hassan kicked the ball out of the baseline generously.

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In the last stage of the first half, the Chinese team attacked again.

Su Maozhen pulled a cross from the right, Yang Pu outflanked the back post, Fatih headed the ball out of the baseline first, and the Chinese team won the corner kick for the fourth time in the first half, and the distribution was very even, two on the left, two on the left. one on the right.

The Chinese team once again resorted to unpredictable corner kick tactics. Yin Jun stood at the intersection of the penalty area line and the bottom line. Yang Pu pushed the corner kick from a distance and rushed towards the penalty area at the same time.

Yin Jun resisted the two Turkish players behind him with his body and passed the ball to Yang Pu's front.

After Yang Pu got the ball, he quickly broke into the penalty area and fell to the ground under the defense of Fatih.Yang Pu complained to the referee about Fatih's foul, but the Colombian referee gave Yang Pu a yellow card. He thought Yang Pu was cheating by flopping.

This penalty made the Chinese team very dissatisfied, especially Yang Pu who was fouled. After seeing the referee gave him a yellow card, he almost rushed to the referee to get angry, but he was hugged by Yin Jun who was close at hand. .

Yang Pu's mood is understandable. On the one hand, because the opponent did foul, the Chinese team deserved a penalty, so the Chinese team is likely to equalize the score; Suspended in the eighth-finals of China, the premise is that the Chinese team can advance smoothly.

After Yin Jun held Yang Pu back, he went over to negotiate with Ruiz, saying that his teammates absolutely did not flop, and he saw it clearly.

But Ruiz did not change his penalty. At this time, he is unlikely to change the penalty. After all, if Yang Pu did not flop, it would be a defensive foul by the Turkish defender and the Chinese team should get a penalty.

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At this time, the big screen on the scene began to replay the slow motion of the contact between the two players just now. The slow motion capture was very clear. When Yang Pu broke into the penalty area, the Turkish player Fatih who was defending him did have physical contact with Yang Pu. His The foot blocked Yang Pu's forward route.

Ruiz's penalty is questionable.

Nearly [-] viewers at the scene booed all over the place after watching the slow-motion playback, mixed with national curses in various dialects, and greeted the Colombian referee and his female relatives who made the controversial decision.

In the media area in the stands, media reporters from all over the world also expressed doubts about this controversial penalty, thinking that this penalty is likely to be the penalty that determines the outcome of the game, and it may cause major controversy afterwards.

This penalty was already in the stoppage time period of the first half, and shortly afterwards, Ruiz blew the whistle for the end of the first half.

1:2, after consecutive missed excellent scoring opportunities and deserved penalty kicks, the Chinese team entered the intermission with a 1-goal disadvantage.

(End of this chapter)