Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 1024 Atlanta
After the first half of the game, the atmosphere in the stadium became even more enthusiastic. Although many Chinese fans were hoarse, they still waved the red flags in their hands vigorously to cheer for their home team.

In today's first half, the fans saw the hope of victory. Perhaps, they could take more than one point from Costa Rica today.

Yu Dong hasn't watched the Chinese team's game for a long time. The tactical execution of the current Chinese team is beyond his expectations. There are also young players in the team, including Zheng Zhi, who are very aggressive, and The competitive state is particularly good, from the inside out.

Due to the promotion of Deep Space Corporation, many domestic players are now playing abroad. Among the more than 20 players who participated in the World Cup this time, two-thirds of them are playing abroad, and most of them are in the UK.

Those who cannot play in the Premier League play in low-level leagues such as League One and League Two. There are many levels of football leagues in the UK, and there is always one suitable for these players. level clubs.

Yu Dong believes that the best way to develop Chinese football at this stage is to send more players abroad to train. The domestic junk league will only waste time for young players.

Facts have proved that his idea is correct. Young players have experienced in a truly professional and systematic football league, and their level has improved very quickly. Personal skills may not be greatly improved, but their mentality and tactical thinking must not be small.

Amid the deafening cheers, Yu Hua leaned close to Yu Dong's ear and asked, "Member, do you think we can get three points today?"

Yu Dong smiled and responded loudly, "Anything is possible, the boys played well today."

"I think I can win, do you want to gamble?" Yu Hua said with a smile.

"I also think I can win, how can I bet?"

"Then bet on who will score first?"

Yu Dong nodded, "That's fine, I think our side should score first."

Yu Hua waved his hand, "No, no, no, if this game is to be exciting, then Costa Rica should score first, and then we'll catch up for a tie. At the last moment, we'll take a set-piece and we'll overtake, or be more aggressive, Costa Rica. Leading twice, we equalized twice, Costa Rica failed to attack at the last moment, we seized the opportunity to fight back and overtake the score."

Yu Dong gave a thumbs up, "You're not watching football, you're writing scripts here."

"Haha, anyway, I bet that Costa Rica will score first, and then we will overtake."

"What bet?" Yu Dong asked.

"If you lose, borrow their drums and play a round later."

Yu Hua pointed to a Chinese fan who brought a drum not far away and was beating it right now.

Yu Dong nodded, "No problem, what if you lose?"

"If I lose, I will donate five footballs to each of your hope primary schools in deep space."

"A football is calculated at 30 yuan, and a school is 150 yuan. You have to think about it clearly. We have a lot of hope primary schools built by deep space cooperation."

"It's just small money."

……

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. Because the Chinese team was almost successfully counterattacked at the last moment of the first half, Costa Rica was more cautious in the choice of attack. Naturally, the pressure on China was less, and the rhythm of both sides began to slow down. .

The Costa Rica team relies more on the abilities of central midfielder Rodrygo and forward Wanchope. The overall tactical level is relatively average, so when faced with difficulties in attacking, they have no good way to take the Chinese team.

In the first half, Rodrigo and Wanchope performed very well. They repeatedly put pressure on the defense of the Chinese team, but they were resolved every time. In the second half, their physical strength dropped significantly. If they don't go together, the whole becomes weak again.

On the other hand, the Chinese team played methodically and without rush.

In the 10th minute of the second half, the Chinese team made a sudden attack. Zheng Zhi broke through with the ball, and then passed the ball to the right midfielder Shao Jiayi. The high world wave went straight to the dead corner of the goal.

Shao Jiayi's left-footed shot has always been very good. The head coach put him on the right in this game in the hope that he could cut inside and shoot. However, there was no good chance to cut inside in the first 60 minutes of the game.

At this moment, Shao Jiayi finally found an opportunity, and he didn't waste the opportunity, directly converting the opportunity into a goal.

After the ball was caught, Shao Jiayi was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he quickly ran towards the corner. Even Yang Chen ran to the corner before him, waiting for him to celebrate.

The atmosphere at the scene was pushed even higher by this goal. The sound of drums and cheers filled the entire stadium, and even the clouds over the stadium seemed to be shaken away by the cheers.

The celebration lasted for a while, and the players of the Chinese team returned to the game under the urging of the referee.

Because there are only more than 20 minutes left in the game, if Costa Rica wants to get three points, they must score at least two goals, so after the kick-off, their desire to attack is very strong.

It's just that Costa Rica's offensive power is indeed mediocre. As long as the Chinese team's formation remains, they will not be able to attack at all.

After attacking like this for more than ten minutes, they went all out, then declined again, and exhausted three times. Costa Rica's morale was gone at all, but the Chinese team looked at the loopholes occasionally.

In the last 5 minutes, the head coach actually replaced three young players one after another.

This action startled the fans at the scene, for fear that the three points they got would be wasted because of a problem with the substitution.

But the result was completely different from what the fans thought. After the three new young players entered the field, the Chinese team directly changed their tactics and began to play ball possession and small cooperation in front of Costa Rica, firmly controlling the situation on the field. Although the score was only one to zero, there was nothing Costa Rica could do.

When he saw this, Yu Dong couldn't help giving a thumbs up. Although he only won one goal, the performance of the Chinese team beat Costa Rica today.

Until the end of the game, there was no accident. In the end, the Chinese team defeated the Costa Rica team [-]-[-] and got their first victory in the World Cup, a big start.

After the game, Yu Hua excitedly grabbed Yu Dong's hand, "Wai Yuan, don't beat the drums yet."

Yu Dong smiled, "Okay, I'll go beat the drums."

After finishing speaking, Yu Dong walked towards the drum.

A big shirtless man was beating a drum excitedly. After Yu Dong walked over, he waved his hand in front of him, "Brother, can you lend me a drum?"

The big man didn't hesitate at all, and directly handed the drumstick to Yu Dong, "No problem, buddy, come and play twice."

Yu Dong took the drumstick and went up to strike the drum.

The big man was a little tired from knocking just now, and he can relax a bit now that someone is changing shifts. He looked at the Chinese team players who were still celebrating on the field, and hugged his friends excitedly, and then he returned to Yu Beside Dong, watching Yu Dong beat the drum.

Yu Dong's drumming is of course an amateur, the big man said with a smile, "Dude, you don't usually play this."

"It's true that I haven't played much." Yu Dong nodded, "Not as good as you guys."

The big man waved his hand, "It's not that difficult, just tap and add, the main thing is to listen to it."

After chatting for a few words, the big man suddenly stared at Yu Dong, "Dude, why do I feel that you look familiar?"

Yu Dong laughed, "There are stickers all over your face, don't you all look the same?"

The big man shook his head, "It's not the same, your eyes are different, and your voice is also familiar, I don't know where I heard it before."

Yu Dong didn't speak.

Seeing that Yu Dong didn't talk to him, the big man went to pull a friend over, pointed at Yu Dong and said a few words to the friend, who also stared at Yu Dong seriously, and then the friend slapped his thigh, "This is not Yu Dong! "

"What?"

The big man was also a relatively reckless person, he directly leaned in front of Yu Dong, and asked loudly, "Are you Yu Dong?"

Yu Dong smiled and didn't hide any more, "It's me.",

"It's me" made the big man open his mouth wide, and his friend also covered his mouth to shake people, and after a while, a circle of people surrounded the drum.

Yu Dong didn't worry when he saw such people surrounding him, and continued to beat the drum seriously.

……

Yu Dong and the others followed the Chinese team bus in the end, otherwise it would be difficult to get out of the stadium.

A big victory, both the players and the coaches are full of smiles, today they have made history, the Chinese team entered the World Cup finals for the first time, and the first game completed the pre-match. expect.

Before coming to Korea, someone said that the Chinese team has a three-level task this time, scoring a goal, scoring a point, and winning a game, and it will be completed today.

Now they can even look forward to qualifying from the group.

In this group of four teams, except for Brazil, the other three teams are not very strong. If there is no accident, the Brazilian team will win all of them.

In this way, there are three remaining teams, whoever can score six points will be able to securely qualify.

Now that the Chinese team has won the first game, they still have some advantages. As long as Turkey can be defeated in the next game, the Chinese team will be able to qualify for the second place in the group.

If the Chinese team draws with Turkey later, it is still very promising. It depends on the result of the match between Turkey and Costa Rica.If Turkey wins, the Chinese team and Turkey will have a goal difference of four points. If Costa Rica wins or draws, the Chinese team can directly qualify.

If the Chinese team loses to Turkey later, there is still hope of qualifying in theory, as long as Turkey loses to Costa Rica.

The next game of the Chinese team is four days later, against Brazil. The Chinese team's tactical thinking in the game against Brazil is relatively simple, that is, defensive counterattack.

The head coach team has studied Brazil for a long time, and it is unlikely that they want to beat Brazil, but it is still possible to achieve less losses. Brazil is very strong, but their offense is not impossible to contain.

Especially Brazil just played against Turkey and only won Turkey with a score of [-] to [-].

……

Four days later, the match between the Chinese team and the Brazilian team was spent in a boring atmosphere. In the end, the Brazilian team won the game [-]-[-].

Although the result is that the Brazilian team won the game, if you only look at the atmosphere on the scene, it will only make people feel that the Chinese team won the game and only lost one goal. The strategic goal of the Chinese team has been completed. Now the Chinese team has two games With three points and zero goal difference, they rank No.2 in the group.

The next day is the game between Costa Rica and Türkiye.

It is reasonable to say that there will not be many spectators for this game, but the entire stadium was basically full that day, and all the fans who came were Chinese fans, because this game is very important to the Chinese team.

The Chinese team cheered for Costa Rica throughout the game, allowing Costa Rica to feel the home atmosphere in the far east.

However, Türkiye was also very tenacious, and in the end the two sides drew one to one.

This result is still acceptable to Chinese fans. Now that the Chinese team has four points, in the next match between the Chinese team and Turkey, the Chinese team can qualify as long as they draw.

This time, the Chinese team stood firm, not only did not lose the chain, but overfulfilled the task, and finally won the Turkish team 2-[-], becoming No. [-] in the group, and also the second best in the group.

Except for their group, none of the second place in the other groups won two games. Turkey and Costa Rica were in a bad situation. Both of them only got one point, and they got it from the other side. .

On June [-], the Chinese team played against Belgium in the quarter-finals.

In this game, the Chinese team fought against Belgium for 120 minutes and dragged the game into a penalty shootout. Unfortunately, in the penalty shootout, the Chinese team made two consecutive mistakes and lost to Belgium three to four.

Originally, before the game, the fans had already looked down on the game. It was the Chinese team who dragged the game to a penalty shootout, which made the fans hopeful, but in the end, the hope was shattered.

In the end, the Chinese team fell to the top [-], but they left the stadium with their heads held high. These few games made the whole world know the Chinese team.

Several outstanding players in the team have also received the attention of major league clubs, especially Zheng Zhi. After the game, people from La Liga's Atletico Madrid contacted Deep Space Company, hoping to discuss Zheng Zhi's transfer. .

For this transfer, Yu Dong is still very concerned, because there are some Chinese players studying abroad, but they have not gone to La Liga. If Zheng Zhi can go to Atletico Madrid, he can be regarded as No. 1 in China's La Liga.

Moreover, the Atletico Madrid team is more suitable for Zheng Zhi, not too strong. Atletico Madrid has been in the Second Division for the past two years and was only promoted this year.

With such a team, Zheng Zhi was able to play games in the past.

……

After watching the game in Suwon, Korea, Yu Dong flew to Atlanta. June [-]th is the release date of his new book, and he will hold a signing event in Atlanta.

If the Chinese team can enter the quarterfinals, Yudong will fly to Gwangju when the NO. , to participate in the Telecom Equipment Show in Atlanta.

(End of this chapter)