Chapter 286

Soon, the time came to 21:00 on the evening of August 15, 2008, and the match between the Chinese Women's National Olympic Team and the Japanese Women's National Olympic Team in the Beijing Olympic Women's Football Knockout Tournament officially started at the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center.

In the eyes of countless Chinese fans, the women's national Olympic team did not bring victory to everyone.

In the 14th minute, the Japanese team took advantage of a corner kick opportunity and scored a header by Sawa Homare. In the 78th minute, Nagasato Yuki scored a goal.

The Chinese women's football team fell behind in the whole game and finally lost to Japan 0-2, missing the semi-finals and ending the journey of women's football in the Olympics.

This is also the 9th consecutive year that the Chinese women's football team has missed the semi-finals of the world championship since winning the runner-up in the 1999 Women's World Cup in the United States.

The defeat of the women's football team is very sad, and it also casts a shadow on the men's football game the next day.

No matter how rationally everyone thinks that the Chinese team will definitely not beat Italy, everyone can't help but have a glimmer of hope in their hearts, hoping that the Chinese team will perform exceptionally well and eliminate Italy to enter the semi-finals.

But the women's football match made everyone realize the reality: Chinese football is so weak.

Even the former World Cup runner-up can't enter the semi-finals, let alone the Chinese men's football team, which is a stubborn team.

It was in such an atmosphere that at 18:00 on the afternoon of August 16, the Chinese men's Olympic team welcomed the quarter-finals with the Italian Olympic team at the Beijing Workers' Stadium.

Although everyone knew that the Olympic team was abused and eliminated more often, the tickets for this game were still bought up by Chinese fans early, and countless Beijing citizens came from all directions, wanting to buy a high-priced ticket from scalpers to watch the game.

Regardless of the outcome, no fan wants to miss the first elimination match of the Chinese men's football team in the world championship.

Even if you know you are going to lose, everyone has to come to watch.

This is the first time that the Chinese Olympic team has come to the host city of this Olympics, Beiping, after the group stage. The citizens of Beiping are also supporting the players of the Olympic team who performed well in the group stage with practical actions.

The stadium was almost filled with enthusiastic Chinese fans long before the game started. There are only a few thousand Italian fans, and they seem so alone in the Beijing Institute of Technology, which can accommodate more than 60,000 people.

There is no doubt that in this Olympics, as the host, the Chinese team will play at home wherever they play, and will receive the maximum support from domestic fans and spectators.

When the Chinese team led by Jiang Xiaolin began to warm up, they were loudly and warmly welcomed by the fans in the stadium, and the atmosphere was very strong.

Of course, the Italian players have seen the world and will not be surprised by this situation.

If it was the Chinese team in the first two games of the group stage, they might have cheered up to deal with it.

But after the test of the Brazilian team in the last group stage, it was proved that the Chinese team was still the Asian team, and the first two games were just a burst of bad luck.

Compared with Italy, the Chinese team is far behind in terms of experience and technical and tactical level.

The Italian players are confident that they can defeat the Chinese team today, advance to the semi-finals, and finally reach the finals and win the championship.

In their opinion, meeting the Chinese team in the quarter-finals is simply the best draw.

Although the Chinese team is the host and will inevitably face the pressure of home fans, the strength of the Chinese team is the weakest among the eight teams in their opinion, and it is the easiest to pass.

Except for Jiang Xiaolin, none of the other Chinese team players caught the eyes of the Italians.

They believe that as long as Jiang Xiaolin is defended, the Chinese team will not pose any threat at all.

Everyone is very confident about this.

If it were other teams, they might not be confident in defending Jiang Xiaolin, but for Italy, which is the best at defense, this is not a problem, and the coaching staff has already made targeted arrangements.

Compared with other players of the Chinese team, Jiang Xiaolin's strength is too high, and he stands out from the crowd. Other players simply cannot form a good cooperation with Jiang Xiaolin.

As long as Jiang Xiaolin is defended, most of the Chinese team's attacks can be basically ended.

In the face of Italy's chain defense, no matter how strong Jiang Xiaolin is, what can he do?

Can he fight against the entire Italian team and break through the entire Italian defense?

Impossible.

As for the attacks of other Chinese team members, what can they do even if they are allowed in?

Do they have the superb shooting skills like Jiang Xiaolin? Can they pose a real threat to Italy's goal?

No.

Therefore, the Italian players seemed very relaxed during the warm-up and seemed confident about the game.

In contrast, the Chinese players on the other side seemed a little nervous and cautious.

Although they seemed to be facing another world powerhouse Brazil,They were not too nervous, and their on-the-spot condition was 85%, but that was because they had already qualified in advance when playing against Brazil, and the win or loss of the last game was not very important.

So they were very relaxed at that time.

But today's game was different. If they lost, they would be eliminated and go home.

Even if more media and fans analyzed that the Chinese team would lose more than win, as professional players, they still wanted to try and win this quarter-final.

Moreover, everyone had personally experienced the feeling of being in full form in the first and second games of the group stage.

If they could play in that state at that time, the Chinese team might not have no possibility of overthrowing Italy.

So everyone was cautious and nervous in warming up before the game, preparing for a decisive battle with Italy later.

As the time slowly approached 18:00, Jiang Xiaolin first made a desperate bet and spent 6 attribute points to increase the "long pass" of 18 to the full value of 20 points. This is already a top-level pass master attribute in football that has never been seen before and will never be seen again.

Even the long pass attribute of Beckham, Xavi and others can't reach this level at most.

This time, the points were actually added for less than a week, but Jiang Xiaolin decided to take a risk and added two points to the maximum value at once. Even if someone found that his progress was too weird, they couldn't care so much.

Anyway, his progress speed* has long been known to everyone, and no scientist has really caught him for slice research.

The reason why Jiang Xiaolin took such a risk was that he also knew that Italy would definitely focus on him.

And with the Italians' proficiency in chain defense, he might find it difficult to get a good single-handed opportunity.

In this case, it is better to leave the chance of shooting to teammates.

As long as the status of teammates is increased to 100%, and then the ball is passed, teammates can also threaten the Italian goal.

This is why Jiang Xiaolin took the risk to increase the long pass attribute to 20 full value before the game.

In addition, Jiang Xiaolin also added one point to the "pick-up pass" of 15 points, adding it to 16 points.

Although not very *, it can be used occasionally.

After completing the point addition, Jiang Xiaolin still had 87 attribute points left.

Next, the team entered the field, played the national anthem, took a group photo, and chose sides. After completing the side selection, Jiang Xiaolin turned on the team halo to check the overall on-site status of the Chinese team.

Perhaps the players were too nervous about the first World Series knockout match. This time, the on-site status of the Chinese team was much lower than the previous game against Brazil, even lower than 80%, with only 77% on-site status.

If there was no team halo of Jiang Xiaolin, and the on-site status was used to compete with Italy, the Chinese team, which was not as strong as the opponent, would definitely be slaughtered by the opponent by a large score, just like the Chinese team was slaughtered 4-0 against Brazil in the Korea-Japan World Cup.

Fortunately, the Chinese team still has Jiang Xiaolin, a cheater with a system plug-in.

Jiang Xiaolin spent 30 attribute points without hesitation, increasing the team's 77% on-the-spot status to 100%, and then chose to use the team aura to apply 100% of the on-the-spot status to everyone in the team.

Suddenly, the players of the Chinese team suddenly felt clear-headed, and a feeling of the first two games of the group stage came to their minds.

Everyone suddenly felt that it seemed that the bursting on-the-spot status in the first two games of the group stage had returned to them.

Looking at each other again, it seemed that everyone had regained that peak state.

Suddenly, the players of the Chinese team were much more confident.

With such an on-the-spot status, perhaps the Chinese team really has the possibility of overturning Italy!

After Jiang Xiaolin filled up the on-the-spot status of the Chinese team and used the team aura, the game was about to begin.

At 18:00 on the afternoon of August 16, 2008, with the referee's whistle, the quarter-finals of the Beijing Olympic Men's Football Tournament between the Chinese Olympic Team and the Italian Olympic Team officially kicked off at the Beijing Workers' Stadium.

Italy, which had the right to kick off, kicked off first, but they were not in a hurry to attack. Instead, they passed the ball back to the backcourt and kicked it a few times, pulling out the Chinese team's formation, and then began to pass forward to attack.

At the beginning of the game, Italy's attack was not fast, and they were trying to test it.

But even if it was a test, they thought they could easily push the attack to the front of the Chinese team's penalty area.

Unexpectedly, the ball was stubbornly intercepted by the Chinese team just after it passed the center line, and it was blocked back, and it was even unable to pass through the midfield, and was forced to pass it back to the backcourt.

This surprised all Italians, even the fans, reporters, and commentators in the stands.