Chapter 550 World Cup(1/2)
Although Yang Xiaozhuang failed to lead the "Red Devils" to dominate Europe again this season, he is still recognized as the number one star in the world. His edge is unstoppable. With the national football team he led, he is also regarded as the team with the most potential to become a dark horse in this World Cup.
The situation in Group G where the Chinese national football team is still very serious. The other three opponents in the same group are Spain, France and the United States.
Among these three opponents, except for the American team's strength, the French team and the Spanish team are both traditional strong teams, and even these two teams have the possibility of becoming the leader in the World Cup.
On June 14, the Chinese national football team ushered in its first group match, and its opponent was... Team USA!
This time, the national football team encountered the American team, and the whole team also put in full force to deliver a victory for the Chinese people!
This is really not just the expectation from the General Administration of Sports that the Chinese national football team can play style and win!
The Chinese national football players who bear the expectations of the Chinese people did not disappoint the Chinese people. As the leader of the team, Yang Xiaozhuang did not leave any regrets. In this game, Yang Xiaozhuang not only scored one goal in 15 minutes and 62 minutes, but also... also completed the assist hat!
In 19 minutes, 31 minutes and 59 minutes, Yang Xiaozhuang gave Zhang Yuning two assists and Shi Ke one assist.
In the end, Yang Xiaozhuang participated in all five goals of the national football team, making the first contribution to the first victory of the national football team's World Cup finals, and was also named the best player on the spot after the game.
Naturally, the Chinese national football team scored 5 goals, and on the court it was also because of the tactical arrangement of the old coach Xu Dapao. During the game, he always adhered to the tactical arrangement of hard attack and desperately scoring goals.
Therefore, the US team has many offensive opportunities, and the US team's No. 11 center Jordan Morris also scored a hat trick in the game, but his efforts alone have always been difficult to make up for the overall strength gap between the two sides.
After winning the first game, the national football team's domestic approval rating has increased unprecedentedly, and even hundreds of millions of fans are encouraging the national football team, hoping that they can compete for another game in the remaining two group matches, so that the national football team will definitely get the right to qualify in the group.
In this regard, Xu Dapao, the old coach of the Chinese national football team, seemed very calm. He said in an interview with the reporter of the team: "The Spanish team and the French team are both world's top teams. The gap between us and them cannot be made up by just one Yang Xiaozhuang. When facing these two opponents, it is obvious that we are the weak side, but we are definitely not without opportunities. As long as we have proper tactics, there are still opportunities to qualify in the group."
In the match between Spain and France on the 15th, the two world championship-level teams fought a century-long battle, and the confrontation between two teams with countless stars attracted the attention of fans around the world.
However, the game was very slow and anxious. The two teams were not competing for who had stronger attack power, but competing for who had stronger defense ability and who would make mistakes first.
In the 90 minutes of the entire game, the two teams' shots combined were only 7 times, the Spanish team twice and the French team five times, but... the French laughed to the end.
With two counterattacks from Mbappe and Martial, the Frenchman scored one goal in the first and second half and finally defeated Spain 2-0.
In the past, the World Cup group stage games were still very passionate, and once there was a collision between the strong teams, they would play very fiercely, but this time it was not like this.
Spain's coach Gracia also expressed his considerations after the game: "We all know that among the four teams in Group G, there is a spoiler who is not a seed team. The overall strength of the Chinese team is not strong, but this team has the most goal-scoring player in the world. This means that no matter who faces the Chinese team, there will be a chance of losing. So if we want to qualify in the group, the outcome of the game between us and the French team is very important. I believe that the French coach Mr. Wenger's idea is the same."
Two years ago, the seventy-year-old "professor" Wenger came back, picked up the French team's coaching stick, and led the French team to 8 games and 8 wins in the World Cup, easily entering the World Cup.
The "Professor" with rich coaching experience is obviously very clear that the Chinese national football team with "God Yang" has infinite possibilities, so he took the attitude of playing the knockout match when facing the Spanish team. In the 90 minutes of the game, he only gave the Spanish team two shots.
Facts have proved that Gracia and Wenger's fear of the national football team is correct. On June 19, the national football team and the Spanish team played the second game of the Group G group stage. As a result, the national football team, which was playing defensively counterattacked the national football team with a score of 2:1 with the goal of Yang Xiaozhuang and Zhang Yuning, defeated the Spanish team with a score of 2:1 and won the second victory in the group stage.
In another game later, France defeated the United States 3-0 and won the second group stage victory.
In this way, the third group match between the Chinese national football team and the French team will not have any impact on the qualifying situation in Group G. These two teams have already obtained the right to qualify in Group G in advance.
Now, domestic fans were completely happy. The Chinese national football team not only won the game in the World Cup finals, but also won two victories and directly reached the semi-finals of the World Cup. This... is satisfying!
Even if the Chinese national football team was eliminated after entering the quarterfinals, the fans were already satisfied with the performance of the Chinese national football team. Qualifying in the group... isn't that bad enough!?
The head coach of the national football team, Xu Dapao, was also clear. In the last game of the group stage, facing the powerful French team, the national football team did not fight hard with their opponents at all, and directly lost the game with a score of 1:5.
After entering the top 16, the first and second in Group G will cross the front and second in Group H, and the four teams in Group H are Uruguay, Wales, Nigeria, and Ukraine. The current situation is that Ukraine has qualified by 2 wins and 6 points, and Uruguay has ranked second with 1 win and 1 draw. In the third round of the game, they cannot lose to Ukraine at least, so as to ensure that they have the right to qualify in the group.
If Uruguay loses to Ukraine and Wales beat Nigeria in the last game, because they tied with Uruguay in the front, the two sides would have a goal difference.
So to outsiders, Uruguay must fight against Ukraine in the last game, but the result is... Uruguay does not seem to want to anger Ukraine at all. They did not perform radically in the game, and Ukraine could also accept a draw to ensure its first place in the group. What's more, Uruguay's strength is not weak, so the two sides "tactfully" shaved a 0:0 draw.
Then... Ukraine is first, Uruguay is second!
So the first opponent of the Chinese national football team after entering the quarterfinals became Ukraine, while the French team, the number one in Group G, has to face the strong South American rival Uruguay!
After learning that the national football team was about to face Ukraine, everyone from top to bottom of the national football team breathed a sigh of relief, because with the personal ability of the national football team, once they encountered an opponent with stronger personal ability like Uruguay, they would be at a disadvantage in all aspects. On the contrary, when facing an opponent with less outstanding personal skills like Ukraine, the national football team really did not have the ability to compete.
Just as the Chinese national football team completed three games of the World Cup group stage and began to prepare for the next knockout round, Manchester United officially announced a transfer news... Belgian star Andreas Pereira, who had been at Manchester United for twelve years, just received a offer from Paris Saint-Germain.
"Paris Grande" offered a sky-high price that Manchester United could not refuse, with a down payment of 120 million pounds. According to the performance of Belgian stars, the future transfer fee can be up to 170 million pounds!
Not everyone can offer such "sky-high prices". At present, it is Manchester City, a rich team like Paris Saint-Germain, which can offer because they don't care about money at all, and they even play football to burn money.
This is not even comparable to Real Madrid!
At this stage, Paris Saint-Germain is indeed losing money. After they sold Mbappe to Manchester City, the team urgently needed to introduce a sufficient number of stars to supplement it. Otherwise, both fans and players would be dissatisfied. After all, no one wants to see the team's overall strength decline.
So... Andreas Pereira, a Belgian star with comprehensive skills and super strength, entered the vision of "Paris Grande". Even though they knew that they would pay more if they wanted to poach people from Manchester United, that's what they did!
And this time, even Woodward was powerless because Paris Saint-Germain directly negotiated through the Glaze family, and Andreas Pereira's value was only about 60 million pounds. Paris Saint-Germain directly gave the price doubled, and it may even rise to almost three times in the future. It would be a hell for Glaze not to sell people!
For Manchester United supporters, they are staring at Yang Xiaozhuang now. As long as Manchester United's "King" does not leave the team, everyone else will sell whoever they are willing to sell. Even the team's second-ranked star B fee, or Martial, etc., it doesn't matter. As long as they sell them all in one breath.
Sell all?
It's simply impossible!
With the current value of these Manchester United players, if the Glazer family sold all the people in one go, the entire European football market might not be able to hold on!
Manchester United spitted, it would be simple for Paris Saint-Germain to conquer Andreas Pereira. It was nothing more than whether the money was given enough. As long as you give a high enough salary, how can you be irresistible loyal?
However, Yang Xiaozhuang's mind was not on the club. Now he just wanted to strive for good results for the national football team wholeheartedly. He just called Andreas Pereira and sent blessings to the self-media. The rest... had nothing to do with him.
Chapter 550 The closest time!
On June 28, the confrontation between the Chinese national football team and Ukraine began...
Before the game, the coach and players of the Ukrainian team expressed their confidence in this game. After all, compared with the French team, the national football team's strength is far inferior to that of the French team. Even if the national football team has a well-deserved world number one star like Yang Xiaozhuang, it is actually far less terrifying than the French team.
But the fact is... Yang Xiaozhuang's personal ability has really reached the point where he can dominate the game by himself!
Just 1 minute and 30 seconds into the game, Yang Xiaozhuang received a cross from the right from the small penalty area and knocked the ball into the Ukrainian goal. Unfortunately, the ball was blown offside by the referee from Bahrain, Bilar.
Judging from the slow motion, Ukraine's defense is really very caring for Yang Xiaozhuang, and his thoughts are also very unified when creating offside. Yang Xiaozhuang's offside position only has one more shoulder head than his opponent in running, but... it is indeed offside.
After this experience, Yang Xiaozhuang, who had already experienced many battles, immediately understood the opponent's tactical intention, which was to use offside tactics to limit himself.
There are no big-name stars in the Ukrainian team now, but they all play in Europe. In general, the players' personal abilities are still above the national football team, and they are also very clear that their team's defense cannot limit the performance of Manchester United's "Kings" in one-on-one situation, so... create offside!
In any case, in the eyes of most people, Yang Xiaozhuang's performance in the national football team was originally limited by the strength of his teammates. There is always a phenomenon of "disconnection" between him and other people in the national football team. He is always not at the same pace in terms of passing and running. Even though Xu Dapao, the old coach of the national football team, has been working hard to change this situation in the past two years, the effect... is not ideal.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! It can be seen from this goal just now. If Yang Weifeng, who was sent out, can be faster than the top line, the goal will become a perfect goal.
But after knowing the opponent's idea, Yang Xiaozhuang began to consciously change his playing style on the court. After all, his style is comprehensive. Although the most eye-catching thing is his goal-scoring ability, Yang Xiaozhuang can do a lot of things in other aspects.
In the 31st minute, after constantly pulling the side to attack the opponent, the corner kick created by Yang Xiaozhuang brought the first goal to the national football team. Under his involvement, Zhang Yuning smashed the corner kick from his teammate into the Ukrainian goal.
The Chinese national team's 1-0 lead did not last long. After the Ukrainian team used a set piece to mobilize the Chinese national team's defense horizontally in 37 minutes, their forward Shapalenko scored the ball.
Although the leading advantage was equalized, the national football team's momentum was indeed not affected at all, because they could see that Yang Xiaozhuang's condition was completely unfair today, but his way of contributing to the team has changed, from his previous main attacker to a setter.
The game entered the second half. Yang Xiaozhuang, who had completely left the middle on the court, kept rushing against the opponent's defense on two sides, dribbled the ball from the right in the 51-minute counterattack of the Chinese national football team and ran forty meters from the right, rushed to the right side of the Ukrainian small penalty area before sending a cross. The ball flew to the left post, and Zhang Yuning, who was hit by the horse, easily pushed the ball into the lower left corner of the goal... 2:1!
For such a "nanny ball", it is difficult for Zhang Yuning to spit out the ball. It is really only one meter away from the goal. Even if the defender clears the ball, it is very difficult for such a ball.
The national football team, which is leading again, dare not relax at all. They will still launch an attack immediately if they have the chance in the game. The direction of the attack is also very clear. They are constantly looking for Yang Xiaozhuang who is circling on both sides of the frontcourt, and they don’t have to worry about it after handing the ball to him.
After Xu Dapao took over the national football team again, he always built the team around Yang Xiaozhuang. However, after he discovered that when Yang Xiaozhuang was the team's terminator, he could not find a point in the team that could really tear open the opponent's defense line, he had a long talk with Yang Xiaozhuang and readjusted the tactical style of the national football team.
When encountering weak opponents, as long as the national football team's offense can hit the opponent's penalty area, Yang Xiaozhuang does not need to participate in the team's offense and is honestly responsible for sending the ball into the opponent's goal.
But once you encounter a strong opponent, if the national football team's offense cannot tear open the opponent's defense line, then Yang Xiaozhuang has to cooperate with the team's needs and stand up and become the team's knife to tear the opponent's sword and score... it will be handed over to Zhang Yuning!
In today's game, Ukraine's strength is here, so Yang Xiaozhuang needs to make some contributions!
In the 63rd minute, Yang Xiaozhuang once again tore open the opponent's defense from the left and drove into the Ukrainian penalty area on the left, he saw the Ukrainian right-back Kuwait Institute flying from the left.
So... Yang Xiaozhuang jumped up to avoid it!
At this time, the referee's whistle was already in his mouth. He was hesitating whether to award the penalty, but the next moment he saw the ball was shoveled to the right by Kuwait, and a figure wearing a red national football jersey was waiting there... Zhang Yuning!
Dong!
Zhang Yuning did not hesitate and shot the ball into the lower left corner of the Ukrainian goal again... 3:1!
As a shooter, Zhang Yuning's goal-scoring ability is far less perverted than Yang Xiaozhuang, but he really played in this game today. When his opponent put all his attention on Yang Xiaozhuang, he naturally felt a little relaxed in his defense. However, Yang Xiaozhuang was not afraid of any pressure at all. The opponent kept a close eye on him. He just scored fewer goals or no goals. He pulled and impacted on the two sides on the court... That was his old job!
After the Chinese national football team led by two goals, Xu Dapao immediately made tactical adjustments and strengthened his tactical intention of defending and counterattacking through substitutions. Although the Chinese national football team failed to score again in the remaining game time, the Ukrainian team scored another goal in the 85th minute of the game. However, they still scored a 3:2 score with Zhang Yuning's "hat trick" and entered the quarterfinals of the World Cup without any danger!
The national football team achieved a historic breakthrough and reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup. This not only caused domestic football fans to fall into crazy celebrations, but also surprised fans around the world... The national football team has really risen!
Although Yang Xiaozhuang was born before, how many fans around the world would think that the national football team was a threat?
After all, it is not so easy for a top star to change a team. Even a world football king like Maradona can do nothing but sublimate the Argentina team of the past. At that time, he also had talented players such as Canigia and Batistuta around him.
But the national football team...there is only one Yang Xiaozhuang!
At best, Zhang Yuning is one of his helpers!
However, this national team that has no sense of existence in the eyes of other fans has entered the quarterfinals of the World Cup this time. And the person who scored the most goals in the team is not Yang Xiaozhuang, the "God Yang", but Zhang Yuning, who has scored 7 goals, has ranked first in the World Cup scorer list. After this World Cup ends, his net worth will inevitably rise sharply!
But just when outside fans praised Zhang Yuning wildly, he had already attributed his contribution to Yang Xiaozhuang more than once in the national football team. No matter in any occasion, anywhere, or who he faced, Zhang Yuning would say that he scored more goals, but just borrowed Yang Xiaozhuang's light, just because Yang Xiaozhuang created opportunities for him.
In fact, although the fans of the national football team are singing praises for Zhang Yuning's performance, real professionals can see the essence clearly because this is not complicated. Zhang Yuning still has personal strength, but it definitely cannot reach such a height and ranks first in the World Cup scorer rankings. This is by no means a reflection of his true strength.
As the world's number one star, "God Yang" only scored three goals in four games. Look at his assists... everything will be clear!
"God Yang" is still in a brave state, and there is no saying that he can limit his performance on the field. However, this time he moved from the front of the stage to the backstage, making his teammate the most popular one, but this way... it is even more troublesome!
Even if Yang Xiaozhuang was pulled from the scoring position to the wing, his scoring ability was still there. If anyone really ignores him because he scored few goals now, then wait and see!
In addition to the accident of the Chinese national football team, there is also an uninvited guest in the quarterfinals of this World Cup...Costa Rica!
In addition to these two teams, the other six teams are Germany, France, England, Brazil, Italy and Portugal. Just these European teams, even Brazilian teams from South America, who would not know the horror of "God Yang"!?
After entering the quarterfinals, the Chinese national football team was really lucky. The opponents they encountered were not strong enemies such as Brazil, France, England, Italy, and Germany, but... Portugal!
To be continued...