host must win

Chapter 518 Penalty?

After 3 minutes, Japan organized a frontcourt attack again, this time it was Hidetoshi Nakata, he ran back in the penalty area, stopped his teammate's pass with his chest, and then pushed the football to the far corner with a kick!
Li Leilei threw himself horizontally, holding the opponent's shot firmly with his hands like iron clamps, and put it in his arms directly in the air, then fell to the ground and curled up, protecting the football in his heart!

A set of beautiful standard goalkeeper moves!

Huang Jianqiang praised: "Beautiful save! Li Leilei made a beautiful save!"

Being able to make a well-informed commentator like Huang Jianqiang shout like this, it naturally shows that Li Leilei has something to say about this.Generally, in the face of this kind of shot, the goalkeeper will choose to use a single palm to push the football out of the baseline, or knock it into the air.

Although this will give the opponent a corner kick or a chance to make a direct shot, there is no way. This is the only way to deal with it, because this is the subconscious saving action of most goalkeepers. They can block the football as soon as possible. Not bad, not to mention being able to hug the football directly.Li Leilei gave another answer besides this - I grabbed the football with both hands, no matter it is a corner kick or a supplementary shot, I will not give it to you!
Although Hidetoshi Nakata's kick was a push instead of a volley, the power of the shot was not great.But it is still very difficult to be able to catch the football directly in the air.

The most rare thing is that Li Leilei is not the kind of tall goalkeeper with long arms. He is only 1.8 meters tall, which is very short for the goalkeeper position.But his quick action and quick response made up for his lack of height, and also allowed him to grab the starting goalkeeper position of the national team when the original starting goalkeeper Liu Yunfei was not in good condition.

After completing the save, Li Leilei took a step forward, rounded his arms, and threw the football to the midfielder, to Zhou Jie who was pulling to the side.

Zhou Jie tried to turn around after receiving the ball, but the Japanese player who jumped up knocked the football out of the sideline.

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Li Leilei was very excited to regain the starting opportunity after many years, and his performance was also very good.Especially when the Japanese team is leading the offense, he can be said to be the most two-eyed one of the Chinese team, and he has a general style. He is simply the Chinese version of Casillas.

"mine--!!"

With a loud roar, Li Leilei jumped up high, raised his hands, and took off the football in the air.

Beside him, whether it is the central defender Zheng Zhi of the Chinese team or the opponent's Atsushi Yanagisawa, they all fight for loneliness and become his background board.

After landing, Li Leilei took the football into his arms with one hand, and then quickly threw the ball with his hand to launch a fast break.And the Japanese team's naturalized national footballer Sandu, who had rushed to defend him, was shaken by Li Leilei, then turned around and chased him back.

"Li Leilei intercepted Japan's cross, and then he threw the ball to launch a counterattack, Zhou Jie——!"

Accompanied by Huang Jianqiang's loud explanation, the cheers over the workers' stadium rolled up to the peak.

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After the Chinese team scored a goal, they completed their first strategic goal so far.

The second goal is of course to strive for another goal, and there are two ways to achieve this goal.The first one is, of course, taking advantage of the opportunity of scoring the first goal, making persistent efforts, attacking Japan's goal and scoring another goal in one go.But if this path does not work, then slow down the pace, stabilize the formation first, and don’t be attacked by the opponent because of the blind pursuit of offense. After stabilizing, deal with Japan slowly and look for opportunities patiently.

Simply put, the first method is a blitzkrieg, and the second is naturally a protracted war.For these two tactics, the Chinese team has made plans in advance.

From the current point of view, the blitzkrieg has failed, and it will naturally turn to a protracted war.

The Chinese team and Japan began to see-saw in the midfield. The two sides had offense and defense with each other, but because of their respective excellent defensive performances, neither scored.Until the end of the first half, the score was still 1:0, and the Chinese team temporarily took the lead at home.

Amidst the cheers of the Chinese fans in the Workers' Stadium, the Chinese players left the field collectively, entered the tunnel, and went to the locker room.In the tunnel, their jerseys were tightly stuck to their bodies due to sweat, their faces were still stained with grass clippings, their socks were collapsed, and their shin pads were pulled out to hold them in their hands...their images were all a bit embarrassing, but Those eyes were piercing.

As long as they win the Japanese team at home, the Chinese team will basically be able to enter Germany!

Relatively speaking, the Japanese team was cornered.Because Iran's opponent in this round is North Korea in Group B, it is very likely that Iran will score 3 points at home.

In this way, after 4 rounds of group matches, the Chinese team will continue to lead the standings with 3 wins and 1 tie with 10 points, the Iranian team will rank second with 3 wins and 1 loss with 9 points, and the Japanese team will have 1 win and 1 tie 2 losses, the gap with the Chinese team and Iran continues to widen, and it also means that if they want to directly qualify for the World Cup finals next summer, they not only need to win all the next two games, but also have to count on the Chinese team to win At least not to lose to Iran away!

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At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Chinese team launched a fierce offensive against the Japanese team's goal, just as everyone predicted.

After all, under such circumstances, there is no secret what tactics the Chinese team will adopt.Anyone who knows a little bit about penalty kicks knows what the Chinese team will do.Since they used the rush to score a goal at the beginning of the first half, they will naturally repeat the trick in the second half.

The Japanese team made a targeted defense.This time the Chinese team's continuous attack failed to result in a goal, giving the impression that their offense was obviously not as threatening as it was at the beginning of the first half.

After the Japanese team withstood the fierce offensive of the Chinese team in the opening stage, they began to counterattack.

"San Duzhu forcibly broke through! The speed is really fast!"

When the three capital masters broke through the defense of the Chinese team's right defender Sun Jihai on the side, there was a burst of exclamation from the stands, because the three capital masters had already taken advantage of the situation and entered the penalty area!

Zheng Zhi hurried up to fill his seat.

Facing him, Sandu Lord suddenly slowed down, making a sudden stop and cutting inward.After deceiving Zheng Zhi to turn around, he suddenly buckled the football to the baseline with his right foot, trying to break through.

Zheng Zhi didn't think too much about it, so he stretched out his feet reflexively to stop him.But as soon as he stretched out his feet, his brain suddenly became agitated. When he realized something, he quickly retracted his legs and raised his hands at the same time.But it was too late, he had already kicked Sandu Lord's feet, and after the opponent screamed, he lost his balance and fell to the ground while breaking forward!
The referee's whistle could not be heard amid the huge boos at the scene, but everyone could see his gesture - he pointed his finger at the penalty spot!
"Penalty kick?!" Huang Jianqiang was taken aback. The second half had only started 10 minutes ago!

"How could this be a penalty?" He Wei also questioned subconsciously. He thought that the three masters were flopping.

(End of this chapter)