Chapter 219: China's national football team's defense is tested by the world's best
"what!"
With a scream like a pig being slaughtered, Gao Lin fell to the ground.
When Ronaldinho saw that his free kick hit someone, he was so scared that he ran over to check the situation.
Fortunately, Gao Lin just screamed loudly, and after a careful examination, it was found that there was nothing serious.
"I can't do it anymore, I'm seriously injured and I can't get better without a jersey!"
Gao Lin grabbed the corner of Ronaldinho's clothes and refused to let go, and kept saying some weird things!
"Okay, okay, I'll exchange jerseys with you after the game is over!"
Seeing that the other party was fine, Ronaldinho breathed a sigh of relief and agreed to all the reasonable and unreasonable requests raised by Gao Lin.
It was originally a friendly match, so it was very normal to exchange jerseys with the opponent. Although he didn't know the opponent at all, with Ronaldinho's broad mind, he would not reject others just because he didn't know them.
Brazil's siege continued. In the 37th minute, Brazil once again played a wonderful combination in the frontcourt.
Ronaldo passed the ball back to Emerson in the penalty area, who volleyed with his right foot from 22 meters in front of the goal, but the ball went slightly over the crossbar.
A minute later, Emerson fouled Lin Feng near the center circle. Zheng Zhi sent the free kick into the Brazilian team's penalty area. Lin Feng and Gao Lin jumped at the same time to compete for the header, but unfortunately neither of them could get the ball and it was cleared by the Brazilian players.
In the 40th minute, Brazil made a breakthrough on the wing. Kaka passed the ball to the right and Cafu shot from a small angle but the ball went over the crossbar.
The first half of the game was coming to an end. Although the Brazilian team made as many as 11 shots in the entire first half, the Chinese national team's goal remained standing.
这场比赛的正常比分应该在0:3甚至0：4左右，但直到现在，场上的比分仍是0:0.
This made the Chinese national football fans who came to the scene very happy. Every successful defense and every counterattack by the national team received thunderous applause and cheers from them.
Time passed by little by little, and just when everyone thought the first half would end in a draw, the situation on the field took a sharp turn for the worse in the last minute of the game.
In the 44th minute, Brazil got the ball in the backcourt and launched a quick counterattack.
After Emerson was intercepted by Zheng Zhi in the midfield, he immediately passed the ball to the right. Cafu took two steps and made a low pass to Kaka in the middle.
Kaka made a beautiful kick, stopping and passing, dodging Li Weifeng who was trying to steal the ball, and then hit an excellent arc ball with the inside of his left foot from 24 meters in front of the goal, and the ball went straight into the upper left corner.
The goalkeeper had no way to deal with this shot and the score became 1:0. Brazil changed the score in the last moments of the first half.
"Brazil scored, the goal was scored by Kaka!"
"This is a reflection of personal strength. Kaka stopped the ball, dribbled past the defense, and adjusted his moves very smoothly. He barely wasted any time. The goalkeeper was standing too close to the right and there was really nothing he could do about the ball."
"The Chinese national football team still needs to stay focused and can't let their guard down just because the first half is about to end. When Emerson suddenly sped up in the middle when he got the ball just now, Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe should have fouled him!"
Seeing the Brazilian team score, the two commentators sighed repeatedly.
Although they expected Brazil to take the lead, both of them felt a little uncomfortable about the goal conceded by the Chinese national team, as they felt it was lost too easily.
I had managed to get through such a difficult situation before, and now I clearly had a hope of drawing with the opponent, but because I was not focused and was a little slack mentally, I let the opponent take the lead so easily. This is obviously not right.
"Fortunately, this is a friendly match, and winning or losing is not the most important thing, but this lesson must be learned. Next time in an international competition, we must not make such a mistake again!"
The reason why the commentator mentioned this is mainly because there are Asian Cup qualifiers this year. For the Chinese national football team, this is the most important game at this stage.
Zhu Guanghu was also very dissatisfied with the goal. His face turned pale and he sat back in the coaching seat, already thinking about substitutions for the second half.
In the first half stoppage time, the Chinese national team launched another threatening attack. After Lin Feng completed a series of passes with Gao Lin and Zhao Junzhe on the right side of the rib, he dribbled the ball to the front of the penalty area and his long shot from 25 meters in front of the goal missed the near post.
At the end of the first half, the score was fixed at 1:0, the number of shots for both sides was 12:4, and the number of shots on target was 5:3.
Brazil also led in ball possession, with the Chinese national team only having 37%.
These were all within everyone's expectations before the game. It is normal to see such data from the Brazilian team.
In fact, the head coaches of both teams were not very satisfied with the results of the first half of the game, so during the half-time break, both teams made personnel adjustments.
Zhu Guanghu chose to replace Zhao Junzhe and Li Jinyu with Chen Tao and Zhao Xuri.
Only Gao Lin is left at the front of the attack line, and the other troops are concentrated in the midfield. The second half will be mainly based in the midfield.
This is actually a wise choice. Facing a strong team like Brazil, there is not much difference between having a single striker or two strikers. Once the midfielder cannot get the ball, the striker becomes a decoration. At this time, too many forwards will squeeze out the number of people in other positions and reduce the strength of the midfield and defense.
The reason why Gao Lin was kept to replace Li Jinyu is that a striker like Li Jinyu is really not useful when playing against the Brazilian team. He has no speed, no height, and cannot compete with the opponent's defender in terms of physical strength.
On the contrary, he is not as effective as a striker like Gao Lin who has his own characteristics!
At the beginning of the second half, the Chinese team significantly strengthened their pressing in the midfield and frontcourt.
In the 49th minute, the Chinese team found an opportunity on the wing. Gao Lin was knocked to the ground by Lucio when he was dribbling towards the penalty area, but the referee did not make any comments.
The Brazilian team took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack. Zhao Xuri, who came on as a substitute, was a ruthless man with few words. With a fierce tackle, he forced Emerson to give up control of the ball and the opportunity to attack.
On the sidelines, Brazil coach Pereira shouted at the players on the field, apparently asking the Chinese players to pay attention to their steps.
The Brazilian team will play in the World Cup next. If they get injured here, they will have no place to cry.
Fortunately, apart from Zhao Xuri's tackle just now, both sides played relatively peacefully throughout the game.
The Chinese team knew that the Brazilian team was afraid that injuries would affect the World Cup, so they specifically reminded them before the game to pay attention to fighting and fouling, and to avoid injuries as much as possible.
But Lucio committed a foul first. Zhao Xuri saw Gao Lin fall in the opponent's penalty area, and the opponent not only ignored him, but also took the opportunity to launch an attack, so he kicked the opponent. But even so, he retracted his force in advance when he kicked out. If he really wanted to kill him, Emerson would have no chance to dodge.
With an additional defensive midfielder in the midfield, the Chinese national team's waist has become stronger.
The midfield's control has become significantly stronger and the time of possession has begun to increase.
In the 52nd minute, there was another multi-party stranglehold in the midfield. This time, with the cooperation of Zhao Xuri, Zheng Zhi successfully stole the ball from Ronaldinho through positioning and physical confrontation.
After successfully stealing the ball, Zheng Zhi made full use of his advantage of broad vision and made a long pass directly to Gao Lin who was at the front.
Zhu Guanghu chose to keep Gao Lin and replace Li Jinyu, and his value was demonstrated.
Facing Zheng Zhi's long pass, Gao Lin was able to keep his position, stop the ball with his back to the goal at the front of the penalty area and control the ball.
Although he does not have the ability to get rid of the ball, he can act as a fulcrum, pass the ball to other teammates and create offensive opportunities for them.
Lin Feng is the fastest and has the strongest personal strength, so Gao Lin naturally chose to pass the ball to Lin Feng.
But the Brazilian team also restricted Lin Feng the most. Before Lin Feng could catch the ball, many nearby defensive players rushed towards him. If it was the first half, Lin Feng would probably have to fight hard, but after Chen Tao came on the court in the second half, Lin Feng had another choice.
He pretended to catch the ball, but suddenly stepped over the ball and deliberately gave the ball to Chen Tao who was following up from the side.
This realistic fake move sprained everyone's waist.
With Lin Feng's cover, Chen Tao got the ball almost without any interference. At this time, Gao Lin, who had passed the ball, had also turned around and was about to walk into the penalty area.
Seeing this, Chen Tao immediately sent him a low pass and sent the ball into the penalty area from the right.
The pass was very extreme and the Brazilian defender almost destroyed the ball.
Gao Lin finally received the pass from Chen Tao successfully, but his speed was not fast enough and he failed to shake off Juan, another Brazilian defender next to him.
The two were almost running side by side. Gao Lin did not dare to carry the ball too far. After hurriedly adjusting a few steps, he volleyed the ball into the near corner with his left foot from 12 meters away from the goal.
Dida quickly fell to the ground to save the ball, but Gao Lin's shot was too powerful and caused Dida to lose his grip.
Seeing the goalkeeper lose the ball, Gao Lin rushed forward to try to make a follow-up shot, but Lucio got there first and cleared the ball out of the baseline.
This was the best scoring opportunity the Chinese national team had since the start of the game.
The scene was filled with sighs from Chinese football fans!
If Gao Lin was a little faster and had shot with his right foot, the goal would have been scored.
But you can't blame him for this, as he's not a speedy striker to begin with, and to be able to make a shot of this quality without using his dominant foot, you really can't ask for more.
Brazil coach Pereira's expression became serious for once. He could clearly feel that the Chinese team was becoming a bit difficult to deal with in the second half.
In the past few minutes, judging from the situation on the field alone, the Chinese national football team actually suppressed the Brazilian team.
If they continue playing like this, maybe the Chinese national team will be able to equalize the score!
Thinking of this, Pereira could no longer sit still. He called Ronaldinho and Robinho over and gave them instructions in person.
After the Brazilian team made tactical adjustments, the offensive situation changed slightly.
In the 56th minute, Carlos and Kaka made continuous transfers on the wing. In the end, Kaka attracted the firepower, but Ronaldo completed the final shot.
The alien's condition today was really average. His shot in the penalty area hit the right post of the goal and flew out of bounds.
People who watched this shot shook their heads, unable to understand why the aliens back then had become like this!
"I originally thought that the Alien's poor performance in Real Madrid last year was to save his strength for the World Cup, but now it seems that he has simply become worse!"
"Oh, I hope the aliens can adjust quickly. The World Cup is about to start. If they continue to compete in this state, the Brazilian team's forward line will be in trouble this year!"
Pereira was also very disappointed with Ronaldo's condition. Ten minutes later, he chose to replace Ronaldo and completely handed over the offensive responsibility to Ronaldinho, Kaka and Robinho.
This adjustment actually brought an unexpected surprise!
In the 67th minute, Kaka made a straight pass from the right rib, Cafu kicked the ball, Ronaldinho broke away from Sun Jihai's defense, and made a rare diving header from 9 meters in front of the goal, using a method he was not very familiar with, and headed the ball into the goal.
The score became 2:0, and Brazil scored another goal with Ronaldinho's goal, expanding the lead.
After scoring the goal, Ronaldinho seemed particularly excited. Scoring a goal with a header was very new to him.
Ronaldinho is not short, so he should have certain heading ability.
But because his footwork is too solid and even fancy, he rarely faces the dilemma of having to use headers.
This goal loss was a big blow to the Chinese national team. The Brazilian team's offense had just regained momentum during this period, and now they have conceded another goal. The opponent's morale instantly soared, and the pressure on the Chinese national team became even greater.
The Brazilian team took a two-goal lead and the whole team was extremely relaxed, and started to play some fancy moves.
In the 74th minute, Robinho used a dazzling bicycle kick to get past the defender and completed a volley from 25 meters away from the goal on the right.
His cycling was nice, but his shooting was really outrageous.
The ball was off target, it was such a waste of the beautiful bike.
Compared to Robinho's flashy bicycle kick, Kaka's long-range shot is so simple and yet full of threat!
In the 77th minute, Kaka made a sudden shot from the outside, forcing Li Leilei to make a difficult save.
Although the Chinese national football team was very passive during this period, it also launched attacks that threatened the Brazilian team's goal.
In the 79th minute, there was another long pass from the backcourt. This time, Lin Feng intercepted the ball and went straight to his teammates in the frontcourt.
Gao Lin headed the ball to the wing, Sun Jihai dribbled the ball to the bottom line and made a cross into the penalty area. Gao Lin overpowered Brazilian defender Lucio and got the first point, but he did not head the ball well and it flew directly out of the goal.
At the end of the game, the offensive of both sides began to decrease.
After all, it was a friendly match, and with the winner already decided, no one wanted to continue wasting energy.
A few minutes later, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. In the end, thanks to goals from Kaka and Ronaldinho, the Brazilian team defeated the Chinese national team 2:0.
Both teams were able to accept this result.
The Brazilian team got off to a good start and also used the game as training to improve the team's condition.
Although the Chinese team lost in the end, they were able to hold out for so long under the fierce attack of the Brazilian team and only lost two goals in the end. For the Chinese national team's defense line, it can be said that they have passed the test.
Moreover, the Chinese team played well in offense in this game. The young players in the team were not intimidated by the opponent's title when facing the world champions, and they still dared to fight and fight hard. This was unanimously recognized by the fans after the game.
After the game, Ronaldinho fulfilled his promise and actually exchanged jerseys with Gao Lin.
Lin Feng found Adriano and exchanged jerseys with him.
Kaka originally wanted to exchange jerseys with Lin Feng, but when he saw Lin Feng went straight to Ade, he had to give up and finally exchanged jerseys with Chen Tao.
After all, it was a friendly match, and we won the game.
Although most of the players did not know each other before the game, as long as the other party took the initiative to propose a swap, most of the Brazilian players would agree, which was very graceful.
(End of this chapter)
