Almighty legend life

Chapter 578 First Battle

On June 2002, 6, the World Cup Stadium in Gwangju, South Korea.

The players of the Chinese team stepped into the arena with a strange mood, but the cheers that erupted in the arena made them a little less nervous. After all, they were playing at home. In the stands of the stadium, the supporters of the Chinese team were more than their opponents Much more, and because of Liu Han, the Chinese team also has a lot of supporters in South Korea.

"Friends in the audience, the game is about to start. This is the first performance of Chinese football on the stage of the World Cup. Let us wait and see what the result will be."

In the sandy playground of a school in a small northern town, a lot of high school students huddled together in the corner. The boy in the middle was holding a small radio, and the radio was broadcasting the World Cup match between the Chinese team and Costa Rica.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, the less you can hear if you squeeze together."

Due to the small size of the radio, the sound is also a little bit lower, and the more than two dozen big boys can't hear clearly when they are crowded together.

"What's Liu's position? Did Liu play as a striker?"

At the outermost edge of the crowd, a short boy was asking loudly.

"Fart, Liu must be a midfielder in the national team. If he plays as a striker, no one will pass him the ball."

The classmates next to the boy immediately criticized their friends.

"Don't make noise, I can't hear you."

It was [-]:[-] in the afternoon. This was the time for the first class of the school in the afternoon. Although the national team's participation in the World Cup has attracted the attention of all the people in the country, the students still had no chance to watch the live broadcast. They gathered together to listen to the radio High school students have the opportunity to listen to the game because the first class is physical education.

In the economically underdeveloped small northern town, football is probably only a game played by children who are not good at learning.

(The author was listening to the game on the playground, so I skipped a class, but in the end, a group of guys scolded the national football team for half a year)
The game officially started after the referee's whistle, and the Chinese team attacked first.

The striker passed the ball given to him by Zhao Junzhe to the foot of midfielder Liu Han, and the Chinese team formed and launched an attack towards the Costa Rica team.

Because the game has just started, the Chinese team does not know much about the strength of the opponent. Although the formation is conservative, it is still necessary to properly test the attack.

Liu Han did not pass the ball after the midfielder took the ball. Instead, he dribbled the ball forward and passed the ball to Li Xiaopeng on the right after easily passing Costa Rica forward Wanchope.

After taking two steps, Li Xiaopeng encountered the opponent's midfielder Carlos Castro's pressing, but at this time Liu Han was already in place, and Li Xiaopeng passed the ball to Liu Han's feet calmly.

The Chinese team played more cautiously at the beginning, but the Costa Rica team appeared to be much stronger. Their formation is 352, and the midfield press is particularly urgent.

Liu Han tried to use his personal ability to break through the opponent and then create opportunities for the Chinese players, but the Costa Rican players moved very aggressively. Liu Han was directly knocked down by the opponent when he just passed the middle circle. In the World Cup, the player's The movements are no longer so restrained.

After that, the Chinese team sent a free kick to the front of Costa Rica's penalty area through Liu Han's pass, but Zhao Junzhe's shot was ridiculously high, and the physical condition of the Chinese team players was still particularly tight.

After the first contact, Liu Han felt the characteristics of the opponent. The physical fitness of the Costa Rica players is much higher than that of the Chinese team players, and the skills at their feet are quite good. If it is really about strength, the opponent is actually better than the Chinese team The team is stronger.

Next, the Costa Rica team took advantage of their physical advantages to frequently find confrontations with the Chinese team. Their players are very fast, and they can easily break through the Chinese team's players without using their feet. Therefore, it is very difficult for the Chinese team to defend. Don't stop a Costa Rica player from making a foul.

In the 10th minute of the game, the Costa Rica team took a corner kick and Wanchope completed the first threatening goal of the Costa Rica team. Wanchope's header hit the crossbar of the Chinese team and jumped out of the bottom line. The Chinese team escaped. Passed a catastrophe.

Although fortunately the opponent did not score, the Costa Rica team's suppression of the Chinese team still made all the supporters of the Chinese team break out in a cold sweat.

Faced with such a situation, Liu Han had to retreat to the backcourt to participate in the defense. He asked Li Gang to mark the opponent's No. [-] midfielder Centino, while Liu Han himself frequently checked for gaps in the Chinese team's defense.

With the help of Liu Han, the Chinese team's defense began to stabilize, and the players gradually adapted to the rhythm of the game. The two wide players Sun Chenghai and Wu Chengying specially arranged by Horton for the Chinese team gradually began to move toward the Costa Rica team. The backcourt launched a counterattack.

However, in the No. 15 minute of the first half, the Chinese team encountered an unexpected situation. Sun Chenghai dribbled the ball along the right side in a counterattack. He was attacked by Costa Rica midfielder Carlos Castro. He shoveled directly to the ground, and then Sun Chenghai wailed in pain. He seemed to be seriously injured.

The team doctor of the Chinese team rushed to the field, and after a simple inspection, he gestured to the head coach Horton to make a substitution. The Chinese team lost a general at the beginning of the game.

Although the referee finally showed the yellow card to Costa Rica's Carlos Castro, but this cannot make up for the loss of the Chinese team.

Faced with the situation that had to be replaced, Horton simply replaced the midfielder Zhang Xiaorui. Horton is not worried about Liu Han in defense, so it is necessary to strengthen the ball-holding ability of the Chinese team in the midfield.

The departure of Sun Chenghai caused a subtle change in the mentality of the players of the Chinese team. Originally, they were quite nervous about the World Cup, but now the teammate's injury and the wanton behavior of the opponent's players have aroused the fighting spirit of the Chinese players. .

The players of the Chinese team, who were no longer nervous, gradually began to push the defensive line outward. At the same time, under the long pass from Liu Han's backcourt, the Chinese team also launched several good attacks. Although they did not have much effect in the end, they still Let the Costa Rica team not dare to press too much.

Although the Costa Rican players have good physical fitness and foot skills, their attitude towards the game is much looser than that of the Chinese team. When facing Liu Han's defense, the Costa Rican players who had suffered a lot before began to linger With Liu Han organizing the offense, this made their offensive efficiency drop a lot. After all, as long as Liu Han sits in the penalty area, it will be difficult for the Costa Rica team to attack.

After two or three head-on encounters with Liu Han in the frontcourt, Wanchope didn't dare to rush too far ahead. Liu Han's defense left a big shadow on the player who played for Manchester City.

(End of this chapter)