The Ball at Your Feet

Zhao Yaning also analyzed this question before the game: How much better is Ukraine's strength than the Chinese team?

Although they have a world ranking of fifteenth can be used as a reference, but this world's fifteenth, it must be an overestimation of Ukraine-things like world rankings, after all, are not very reliable.

If the strength of Ukraine has to be compared, Zhao Yaning feels that as a country of the former Soviet Union, they should be lower than Russia, which has not reached the World Cup finals.

If the Chinese team with Zhao Yaning is a third-rate team in the world, then Ukraine and the Chinese team are even stronger, but at most they are only strong in the first half, between the second-rate and third-rate. Of course, Zhao Yaning’s grading habit is that the first gear is the level where it is possible to win, the second gear is the level where it is possible to enter the semi-finals, and the third gear is the group qualifying level-he is not interested, and then divides into eight. Strong 16th.

Although Ukraine is good, their strength, let alone the first-tier countries like Italy, Germany, France, Brazil, and Argentina, is even slightly worse than second-tier teams such as Mexico, England, Portugal, and Cameroon. . It is estimated that they see that the opponent they are facing is the Chinese team, and they are more excited than China sees to face them. Maybe at this time, they are still cheering.

However, Zhao Yaning also relaxed his mentality at this time: now, the Chinese team is the only remaining Asian team, and the other national teams have all been out of the group stage, and without exception, they are out of the bottom. When the Chinese team can get to this point, Zhao Yaning's pressure is gone. In the following games, winning is considered a profit, but it doesn't matter if you lose.

At this time, the domestic media gave very high hopes for this game. After all, Zhao Yaning has performed very well in the previous games. Whether it is technical or physical condition, he has adjusted to the best. , For this World Cup competition, it is obviously also prepared. It was able to squeeze the French team and win the group first, and the opponent in the knockout round changed from Spain to Ukraine. The morale of the Chinese team has also reached its peak. The current Chinese media naturally hope that the Chinese team will step further. The crucial step is to win a knockout match.

"As long as Zhao Yaning can persist in showing his high level, he will be able to successfully lead the Chinese team to the quarterfinals! Although Ukraine has Shepchenko, Shepchenko is old after all, and he has experienced a match-fixing case. After that, Shepchenko’s current state will definitely be affected. At this time, Zhao Yaning has a great opportunity to defeat Shepchenko. In 2005, Zhao Yaning had already failed Shepchenko once, and this time, Zhao Yaning would definitely let him. Shepchenko is uncomfortable!"

The attitude of the Chinese media is very optimistic, and most of the European media think it is difficult to judge who will win this game.

"From the perspective of overall strength, Shepchenko's Ukraine is naturally higher. But from the perspective of personal status, Zhao Yaning's state in this World Cup is really too good. The goal for the French team The ball is absolutely great, Vieira, Makelele, Saniol, Thuram, Abidal, Barthez-scored a thousand miles in such a defense line. The ball, this goal is obviously one of the few bright spots in this tournament. Later, in the game against Switzerland, the grab point in the penalty area was even more shocking. The speed and explosive power are definitely football history. It’s rare. Zhao Yaning’s state is so good, with four goals in three games. Such a state is rare. The existence of such a player is enough to make a weak team extremely threatening. The Ukrainians Whether he can defend Zhao Yaning or not will be the key to determining the outcome of the game."

In the 16-to-8 match, apart from the Netherlands and Portugal, France team Spain, there is no matchup between the strong and the strong. Therefore, this pair of matches, which can be called the two weak matches, has attracted a lot of attention. : Both teams are called one-person teams by the media. In this World Cup, Ukraine made it to the knockout round for the first time, and the Chinese team also qualified for the first time. The performance guarantees the results of their respective teams, they have met now, and it is also extremely popular.

At the beginning of the game, as the whistle blew, Zhao Yaning immediately felt that this was the case: Ukraine's strength did not have an overwhelming advantage against the Chinese team.

The best of them is a pair of strikers on their forward line. Shepchenko naturally goes without saying, and Voronin is also a very good striker. Milan is a strong team, Bremen is also a strong team in the Bundesliga. With the presence of the two of them, Ukraine's strength was naturally given a high look.

The Chinese team did not dare to relax for the two of them. In this game, the Chinese team did not have the kind of slack they had against Togo. They almost played with the energy against France, and it was very difficult for Ukraine to cut holes in the Chinese team for a while.

This is also consistent with people’s impression: these two teams are actually very wretched. They can advance more not on their excellent attacks, but on their defensive stability and the star players. The individual of the field shines. What they are used to is not to play against the enemy, but to win with one goal.

But this kind of game is also beautiful: everyone wants to see, whose star is more dazzling.

This happened to be what Zhao Yaning wanted. What he wants is exactly how to play such a game with few goals. After all, when playing against a strong team, what Zhao Yaning needs to do is almost one person to break through the opponent's entire defense line. If it can be successful once or twice, Zhao Yaning has this confidence, but if it is a big score game, it will be a continuous breakthrough. Ten times eight times, Zhao Yaning didn't believe that he could do it.

But Ukraine's defense is really good. It can stand out from Europe, the most difficult region of the World Cup. Obviously, only one Shepchenko is not enough. Zhao Yaning tried to break through twice, but the opponent's defense was very tight, and there was no teammate around him who could open up or cooperate with the pass. After trying twice in a row, they failed to succeed. Although Zhao Yaning now has superhuman abilities and consciousness, the opponent is also very aware of tortoises: they just guard the backcourt steadily, and the number of people deployed near the penalty area has always exceeded five people, and what Zhao Yaning needs is too much. It's hard to get in with this kind of play after halftime. Once again staged the lone ride of thousands of miles against France? Zhao Yaning believed that if he dared to do that, the opponent would dare to knock him down even if he got a red card.

Throughout the first half of the game, Zhao Yaning did not find a suitable opportunity. Ukraine played very steadily. Instead, Zhao Yaning's most feared of this style of football.

But soon, when the second half of the game started, Zhao Yaning discovered that their game style had changed.

"It seems that Ukraine wants to attack now."

At this time, the Ukrainian team had already made it out. After a few simple passes, they easily kicked the ball through half the court. This move made Zhao Yaning also a little excited, he also began to carefully observe the opponent's backcourt area.

He didn't participate in defense in the past. He knew that at this time, what he should do is not to participate in defense, but to prepare for offense.

On the front court, Daewoo started this game. His condition has not been very good. These games have played a little bit poorly. Zhao Yaning doesn't expect much from him. But on the backcourt, the Chinese team is already the strongest. Zhao Yaning's only idea now is to let them find a way to pass himself a ball so that he can make a decent attack.

Shepchenko got the ball in the frontcourt at this time. He was hit by Zhao Junzhe and Li Datou at the same time. He tried to break past Li's big head, but Li's big head grabbed his jersey, making him unsuccessful. Shepchenko can choose to fall at this time, but he still thinks about making a goal with his own strength.

He tried to get rid of the entanglement of Li's big head, halfway out of his position, and then kicked the ball towards the goal.

Du Wei blocked this. After he took the ball down, he kicked it directly into the frontcourt. Zhao Yaning immediately rushed up, the ball did not fall well, but Zhao Yaning still grabbed the first point, and then accelerated one step and rushed directly to the Ukrainian backcourt.

"Zhao Yaning got the ball! Zhao Yaning started a high-speed impact! He rushed very fast!"

Zhao Yaning was running at full force at this time. There were three players near the opponent's penalty area. There were not many people, but they were standing very well. They stubbornly pinched Zhao Yaning's inner cutting line, forcing Zhao Yaning to run to the bottom line.

At this time, Daewoo appeared in front of the goal. Almost no one was defending by his side, except for the goalkeeper to put some energy on him, and the guards let go of him.

What should I do?

Zhao Yaning still chose to pass.

His position was too bad, he was almost forced to the bottom line, a zero-degree position, and it was too difficult to shoot from such a position. But Daewoo's position is less than ten meters in front of the goal. In such a place, his chances are great.

Although I have doubts about Daewoo's state, at this time, handing the ball to Daewoo is the best choice as a professional player.

Kick, pass!

Zhao Yaning’s false action of a shot obviously deceived the defender very well, and when he retracted his foot~www.ltnovel.com~the right foot gently pushed the ball, pushing the ball from the gap Get out. The pass was concealed enough that the guards did not have time to react. Even the goalkeeper missed the ball. When Daewoo received the ball at the point behind the goal, his front was already wide open.

Kick, shoot!

Accompanied by a loud cheer, Zhao Yaning could see that Daewoo kicked the ball into the net facing an empty shot. This is the best chance since the opening, Zhao Yaning did not choose the wrong person to trust, Daewoo scored the goal, and the Chinese team got a 1-0 lead!

"Daewoo scored a great opportunity! We can see that he faced almost an empty goal and scored the first goal for the Chinese team with a very good attitude! The Chinese team is now 1-0 ahead. Now, the Chinese team is ahead of Ukraine!"

Daewoo raised his head and shouted to the surroundings. Zhao Yaning also showed a smile: He didn't expect that this ball could be scored. But the moment the ball went into the net, he was extremely excited.

At least I proved that as long as I am willing to help them and have confidence in them, they can still give me back. I can feed them out, which is a huge help to myself. Now, let me see if we can win this game!