Chapter 37 The Picture Shows the Poor Dagger

?Although Zhou Yi missed the goal, it frightened the Brazilian fans. Their boos in the stands were stopped abruptly by this kick.

However, the Brazilian players have no time or thought to worry. The more important thing now is to score goals quickly!

In their view, the fact that the crossbar blocked Zhou Yi's kick was a good sign, indicating that God would finally choose Brazil today!

So after the game restarted, the Brazilian team continued to launch a fierce attack on the Chinese team's goal.

Oscar made a pass from the right. Damian jumped high in the penalty area and headed the ball towards the goal. However, under the personal interference of Guo Nu, he headed high.

The ball returned to the Chinese team.

When Sun Pan took the goal kick, he did not kick the football directly into the frontcourt, but passed the football to Guo Nu.

Guo Nu passed the football to Yang Muge again. When the Brazilian players came up to press, Yang Muge passed the football to Zhou Yi.

In this way, the Chinese team passed the football forward layer by layer.

As soon as Zhou Yi received the ball, Brazilian midfielder Oscar rushed up and tried to force him.

Zhou Yi passed the football back to Yang Muge, and he cut and ran.

Yang Muge passed the football to Zhang Jiadong and developed in another direction.

It seems that the Chinese team's attack has nothing to do with Zhou Yi.

But after the Chinese team's offense crossed the center line, Zhang Jiadong passed the football to Zhou Yi.

Facing Romero's interception, Zhou Yi used a fake move to shake the opponent away and dribble forward.

How could Romero be thrown away so easily? He turned around and reached out to grab Zhou Yi's clothes.

Despite being interfered with, Zhou Yi still sent a through ball, and the football passed through the Brazilian team's defense and fell behind them, where Wu Lei received the ball.

"Single sword!" He Ping shouted excitedly.

Brazilian fans booed loudly in the stands.

Amid their boos, Wu Lei took a shot and the ball drew an arc, bypassing the Brazilian goalkeeper Gabriel and flying into the goal!

He scored so easily, which surprised the Chinese fans in front of the TV.

Because Gabriel barely made any saves.

The answer was soon revealed - why did the Chinese team score the goal so easily? Because Wu Lei was offside...

The linesman had already raised the flag in his hand, indicating that Wu Lei was offside.

Looking at the slow-motion replay, the ball was indeed offside.

But this offside is actually a bit unfair. Why is it offside? Because when Zhou Yi was passing the ball, Romero pulled Zhou Yi. This pull made Zhou Yi move a little slower. He struggled for a while and finally passed the football. With such a struggle, Wu Lei ran to the Brazilian team's back line. Behind him, he was offside.

If Romero hadn't pulled him, Zhou Yi and Wu Lei's passing and running cooperation would have been perfect, and the result might still be the same. Wu Lei received the ball behind the Brazilian team's back line. The Brazilian defenders thought the ball was offside, but in fact No, Wu Lei shot, bypassed goalkeeper Gabriel and flew into the goal. The Chinese team scored, and the goal was effective.

But now it all becomes something that can never be realized.

The reality is that the Chinese team's goal was indeed offside, there is no dispute.

"Ah, when Zhou Yi passed the ball, Wu Lei was indeed offside... But the offside was caused by Brazilian player Romero pulling Zhou Yi, but the referee Clattenburg did not make any comment on Romero's foul. The Chinese team I suffered such a dumb loss..."

In this Olympics, there were many unfavorable penalties against China, involving diving, gymnastics, cycling, badminton and other events. This made many Chinese people criticize this. In football, China’s quarter-finals The team was awarded two penalty kicks within five minutes, which even caused a stir.

So we can't blame He Ping for having some conspiracy theories, but reality forces people to wear colored glasses to view everything. If there is any slight disturbance, they will unconsciously think about the shady side. This cannot be blamed on He Ping, nor on the Chinese people who are filled with outrage online. Instead, we should inquire into the reasons for all this. Simply accusing the Chinese people of having a glassy heart is a kind of self-deprecating theory that sits on China's side from the very beginning. It is immoral and dishonorable.

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Wu Lei was still a little dissatisfied that the ball did not count, but Zhou Yi didn't say anything, turned around and ran back. His eagle eye skills could clearly see that the moment he passed the ball, Wu Lei just ran out. He lost half of his body, and it was this half of his body that made him offside.

Although he knew Wu Lei was definitely offside, he still passed the football.

The ball won't count, but it doesn't really count. Including the previous shot that hit the crossbar, the continuous occurrence of these things will definitely have an impact on the psychology of Brazilian players.

It was like a time bomb planted in their hearts, and like a thorn in their hearts. When they attack, they can't ignore it. They always think of their goal being threatened twice.

This time the Chinese team's goal was offside and the goal was invalid. But who can guarantee that the next time the Chinese team launches such an attack, it will still be offside?

These two attacks proved that when the Chinese team was besieged by Brazil, it still had the ability to counterattack and was more threatening than the Brazilian team's indiscriminate bombardment. This kind of psychological deterrence is the most important thing.

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When the game entered the 70th minute, the score was still 1:0, and the Chinese team was in the lead. The number of shots taken by the Brazilian team had increased to 18 times, but they still could not score the goal.

Menezes once again made substitution adjustments. He replaced midfielder Sandro with Pato and continued to strengthen the offense.

This substitution will further weaken Brazil's midfield defense, but who cares about midfield defense now? What's the point of not conceding a goal if you can't score?

Pato was quite amazing when he first debuted at AC Milan and won the European Golden Boy Award. However, his performance in AC Milan this season was unsatisfactory, which prevented him from playing the main role in the Brazilian Olympic team.

But despite his poor condition, his strength is still there. At critical moments, everyone will always have high hopes for him, hoping that he will suddenly wake up at this time, burst into his best form, and complete redemption.

Just like Hulk's appearance as a substitute made Brazil's offense threatening, will Pato's appearance make Brazil's offense complete the transformation from quantity to quality?

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Just when everyone had high hopes for Pato to play, the Chinese team got a chance to attack in the 74th minute.

After Zhou Yi got the ball in the frontcourt, he accelerated and dribbled the ball towards the ribs of the penalty area, but Romero followed him and did not let him have a chance to get close to the penalty area.

Zhou Yi has no speed advantage and his strength is average. It is almost impossible to succeed if he breaks through forcefully. So he just ran two steps and stopped. Romero took the opportunity to get in front of him.

Facing Romero's defense, Zhou Yi made a fake move of riding a bicycle. Romero remained unmoved, and Zhou Yi's bicycle was in vain. So Zhouyi developed horizontally and sought breakthroughs.

In this game, it was rare that he did not pass the football out immediately when he encountered an interception, but continued to control the ball.

His move also attracted more defensive attention from Brazilian players.

In addition to Romero, who had been standing in front of him, Oscar also ran from the frontcourt and wanted to surround Zhou Yi. In addition, Xiao Juan, who was on the back line, also moved his position forward and got stuck on Zhou Yi's cutting route. If Zhou Yi continues to cut inward laterally, he and Romero will form a wall to block Zhou Yi.

The three people formed a faint encirclement of Zhou Yi.

But Zhou Yi still didn't pass the football out. He was still leading it, although not very fast.

He brings the football to the center.

Xiao Juan stepped forward and blocked his position. The wall formed by him and Romero finally completely blocked Zhou Yi's way forward. At this time, Zhou Yi only had to stop and change direction.

So after Zhou Yi braked, he pushed the football behind him with the outside of his right foot. At the same time, he turned around and used his body to block the football and prevent Romero and Juan from stealing the ball.

But as soon as he turned around, Oscar rushed up. It was obvious that this was not a safe place.

Facing Oscar's stretched out leg, Zhou Yi moved the football with the outside instep of his right foot, and his body turned again, almost turning 360 degrees.

But such a turn is meaningless, because if he turns again, he will turn back to face Romero and Juan again...

But Zhou Yi was still turning, and the outer instep of his right foot moved toward the football again. Was he really going to complete a 360-degree turn?

Shouldn't football be spread around?

Everyone who saw Zhou Yi controlling the ball had this question in their mind.

But just when everyone thought Zhou Yi would continue to turn around with the ball and face Romero and Juan again, even Romero and Juan thought so.

Zhou Yi's right foot kicked the football, but unlike the two previous movements of turning his ankle that were carefully controlled, this time, his right ankle swung very fast, like the end of a whip. , bang, the football was drawn.

The football jumped out quickly, and the direction was towards the space in the ribs of the Brazilian team's defense, between Thiago Silva and Rafael!

No one expected Zhou Yi to pass the ball like this. The two consecutive movements of turning around and dodging the ball made everyone fall into a mindset, that is, Zhou Yi would continue to do this. In fact, Zhou Yi did seem to be doing this at the beginning. , but the final result is very different!

He passes the ball, not dials it!

The movement of this pass was very small and concealed, but its power was unexpectedly great. The football flew out very fast, giving the Brazilian defensive players no time to react.

He used a fake turn to conceal his intention to pass the ball, and didn't see it until the last moment!

Even Thiago Silva couldn't react. He suddenly realized it when he saw the football flying towards the space next to him. Then he reflexively jumped into the tackle, trying to block Zhou Yi's pass.

But he didn't reach it, maybe not even a quarter of a second. Before his foot reached it, the football had already passed by.

As for Raphael, he didn't even make any defensive moves, he just turned around and watched the football roll behind him. What else appeared behind him at the same time as the football...

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"He Ying!!! Ahhhhh!" He Ping roared excitedly, but despite his excitement, he did not forget to emphasize one point: "There is no offside! This ball is not offside! Zhou Yi and He Ying's passing and running were just right!" He Ying is now facing Brazilian goalkeeper Gabriel alone!"

After Zhou Yi finished passing the ball, he looked up into the penalty area and laughed when he saw He Ying receiving his pass.

The next thing was left to his roommate. He was very calm and had no worries. He believed that He Ying would not let down this wonderful pass of his.

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After He Ying caught the ball, he entered a very focused state. He didn't care about the situation around him. He didn't even look up to observe the linesman to confirm whether he was offside. His vision suddenly became very narrow. There was only the goal in front of him. On the waist side of the attacking Brazilian goalkeeper Gabriel, he saw a glowing area, that was the goal!

His body began to tilt to the left, and when the angle was not large, he raised his right foot.

In such a situation, the vast majority of players will choose to shoot the football to the far corner. The most famous and iconic shot is Henry. He will always face the goal at a small angle when approaching the left goal post. In this case, use your right foot to rub the football towards the far right goal post, and then let the football fly into the goal while grazing the goal post.

Gabriel took it for granted that He Ying would do the same, and moved his body's center of gravity to the far side in advance.

But at this moment, He Ying's right foot came down, and the straight instep didn't look like he was going to rub it at all... His instep hit the football!

The football was shot to the near corner!

Just like that, he rushed past Gabriel's waist!

Drilled through the hole between the elbow and thigh, plunged into the white glowing area, and then... disappeared into the net!

The ball went in!