Chapter 297

African teams have a characteristic, that is, the players have strong individual abilities, but poor tactical discipline and teamwork.

When they are crazy, even world-class teams like Brazil and Spain will be bitten off by them.

But when they are weak, they may not even beat an Oceania island team.

This is related to the physical and cultural qualities of African players.

African players generally have good physical fitness and strong personal strength. When playing with the wind, they can kill gods and Buddhas.

But they have low cultural quality, low tactical understanding ability, low emotional control ability, and are not good at fighting in adversity.

Therefore, with the idea of ​​despising the Chinese team, Nigeria gave the Chinese Olympic team a three-pronged attack at the beginning, which made the Chinese players and fans a little shocked.

Although Okonkwo's cross from the bottom assisted Odemwenji's header and did not score, it did make the Chinese team sweat.

But as the game progressed, the Chinese team gradually stabilized the situation under the blessing of Jiang Xiaolin's team aura and 100% overall on-the-spot state, and no longer gave Nigeria the obvious threatening offensive opportunities.

Although the Nigerian players are stronger than the Chinese players, the Chinese players are obviously better at teamwork when they are at full value, which is a greater advantage than the Nigerian players who fight alone.

In the 5th minute, Okonkwo wanted to make a comeback and break through from the side again to assist, but he was blocked by Hao Junmin when he broke through, and then Zhou Haibing took the opportunity to step forward and intercepted the ball that Okonkwo dribbled out halfway.

Okonkwo's second intention to break through from the side to assist was in vain.

In the 7th minute, Nigeria switched to the other side again, and winger Okoronkwo broke through from the side and made a cross, but this time Odemwengi did not grab the first point again.

He was stuck behind Feng Xiaoting and did not even touch the ball.

The ball was headed out of the penalty area by Zheng Zhiyi.

In the 8th minute, Nigeria did not even pass the ball into the 30-meter range of the goal. The ball at the feet of winger Ensofor was shoveled away by Zhou Haibing with a decisive and accurate flying tackle.

Ensofor was knocked to the ground by Zhou Haibing, and kept rolling to indicate that he was injured, and asked the referee to penalize Zhou Haibing for a foul.

Unfortunately, the referee ignored him and ran to Nigeria's half with the rolling ball.

The ball shoveled out by Zhou Haibing fell at Wang Yongbai's feet.

At this time, because of Nigeria's massive attack, its backcourt was almost completely empty. Only two central defenders, Apam and Adrie, stood on both sides of the center circle, and did not form a double defense against Jiang Xiaolin who might counterattack.

So, at the moment when Zhou Haibing passed the ball at Ensofor's feet to Wang Yongbai, Jiang Xiaolin turned and rushed to the gap between Apam and Adrie: he wanted to force an offside before the two surrounded him.

Without even looking, Wang Yongbai knew that Jiang Xiaolin must have started to rush to the opponent's half.

This is the Chinese team's counterattack routine.

Coupled with Jiang Xiaolin's keen ability to run without the ball, a super-fast counterattack speed is a must.

Therefore, facing the ground ball shoveled by Zhou Haibing, Wang Yongbai did not stop the ball to adjust and be disturbed by the opponent's players, but directly made a long pass over the top and kicked the ball to the Nigerian backcourt.

The ball flew into the air, crossed the center line, flew over the heads of Jiang Xiaolin, Apam, and Adriye, and fell to the front court.

At this time, Jiang Xiaolin was about to complete the offside against the last line of defense formed by Apam and Adriye.

Apam and Adriye were naturally not blind. When Zhou Haibing shoveled the ball and Jiang Xiaolin rushed to the gap between them, they had already begun to retreat and move closer to the middle, preparing to block Jiang Xiaolin.

Although African players have poor tactical discipline, that is only relative to top teams such as Germany and Italy.

No matter how bad they are, they are professional players and can still do basic defensive actions.

For example, the two retreated and moved closer, trying to block Jiang Xiaolin's route, and called on other teammates to quickly return to defense and clear the ball.

However, the two misjudged Jiang Xiaolin's speed.

Of course, it was not a misjudgment in fact.

According to common sense, even if Jiang Xiaolin's speed reached the level of Ronaldo and Owen, it would not be enough to break through the two people's encirclement and blocking.

After all, the two of them have a positional advantage, and the defense line they formed is closer to Nigeria's backcourt than Jiang Xiaolin.

But Jiang Xiaolin's speed exceeded the common sense of Apam and Adrie.

Whether it is the starting speed or the subsequent sprint speed, Jiang Xiaolin is much faster than they expected.

Jiang Xiaolin's full value "acceleration" and "speed" skills, a single item isIt is the highest value in football history.

Added together, it is much faster than the speed forwards in everyone's impression, such as Ronaldo and Owen.

So, in the moment before Apam and Adriye completed the encirclement, Jiang Xiaolin actually knocked Adriye away and broke through the encirclement of the two.

Whether it was the Nigerian players, fans, and coaches on or off the field, their faces changed drastically.

Adriye, who was knocked off by Jiang Xiaolin, was powerless.

But Apam next to him could still make up for it.

When his face changed drastically, Apam immediately rushed forward, stretched out his hand to grab Jiang Xiaolin's right hand that was swung back, and wanted to pull Jiang Xiaolin to the ground.

In this way, pulling someone from behind to block the opponent's possible single-handed attack, even if it is still very far from the penalty area, will definitely be a yellow card.

But Apam can no longer care about so much.

Because he and Adriye are the last line of defense, and the other teammates have not returned to defense yet!

As long as Jiang Xiaolin rushes over and receives the ball, he will definitely have a one-on-one chance.

Then Nigeria's goal is likely to lose the ball.

Even if he looks down on Asian players and Chinese players, Apam dare not look down on Jiang Xiaolin, who has scored 11 goals and ranks first in the scorer list in this Olympics.

Therefore, despite the danger of being shown a yellow card by the referee less than 10 minutes after the start of the game, Apam also made a pulling foul.

However, what shocked him was.

His outstretched hand had already grabbed Jiang Xiaolin, and he had already squeezed him to death, but he couldn't pull Jiang Xiaolin down.

Although Jiang Xiaolin's steps were messed up, he did not stop, let alone fall back.

Instead, Jiang Xiaolin dragged Apam forward half a meter, then shook his hand violently, threw his hand away, and then left in a cloud of dust.

Apam was dragged to the ground, and could only look at Jiang Xiaolin's back in despair.

Although Adrie, who was hit by Jiang Xiaolin just now, staggered, he stabilized his body and chased after him, but he couldn't stop Jiang Xiaolin.

Because there was no obstacle in front of Jiang Xiaolin.

As for the other teammates who returned to defense, they just ran to the line with them, and there were still two or three body lengths away from Jiang Xiaolin, and it was impossible to catch up.

Apam seemed to have seen the scene of Jiang Xiaolin going to the meeting alone and easily shooting and scoring.

In fact, it was true.

After using the terrifying speed to forcefully break through the closed defense of Apam and Adrie, Jiang Xiaolin's eyes immediately became smooth.

The Nigerians were indeed too careless and underestimated the Chinese team too much. Both full-backs rushed to the front court, resulting in no one to defend the two central defenders in the backcourt after Jiang Xiaolin broke through, and even a person who could interfere and threaten could not be found.

Wang Yongbai's long pass had already landed in the front court, bounced on the ground, and then bounced forward.

But it did not roll into the penalty area, but was still far away from the penalty area line, so the Nigerian goalkeeper did not dare to rush out to clear the ball, and could only passively wait for Jiang Xiaolin's arrival.

About ten meters away from the penalty area line, Jiang Xiaolin caught up with the ball, used his full-value ball-stopping skills to easily unload the ball, and then stepped forward.

Even the closest Nigerian full-back Adefemi was still four or five meters away from Jiang Xiaolin, and was still diagonally behind, and it was impossible to block Jiang Xiaolin's shot.

This was a perfect single-handed meeting.

Goalkeeper Fan Zejin, who attacked the penalty area, looked nervously at Jiang Xiaolin who was rushing with the ball. He could only passively squat, constantly adjust his position, try to expand the defensive area, and wait for Jiang Xiaolin to enter the penalty area and throw Jiang Xiaolin's foot ball with all his might.

But all these were in vain. In front of Jiang Xiaolin's superb shooting skills, Jiang Xiaolin was almost infallible in this kind of single-handed ball.

Sure enough, before entering the penalty area to give the opponent a chance to catch the ball, Jiang Xiaolin made a lob shot outside the penalty area and lifted the ball over Fan Zejin's head.

Fan Zejin tried his best to jump up and save the ball, but he couldn't get the ball. He could only watch in despair that the ball flew over his palm, then drew a parabola and fell into the goal behind him.

The fans who had already stood up and stretched their necks to look at the Nigerian goal suddenly burst into applause and screams like a landslide.

The commentator was even more excited and screamed wildly in the commentary booth.

In fact, as early as when Zhou Haibing successfully tackled the ball, Jiang Xiaolin turned to counterattack, and Wang Yongbai passed the ball, the commentator had already sensed something and began to explain with an expectant tone:

"Zhou Haibing successfully tackled the ball, and Ensofor fell to the ground, but the referee ignored it."

"Good shot!""The ball fell at Wang Yongbai's feet, and Wang Yongbai passed the ball to the front court without stopping."

"Jiang Xiaolin turned and counterattacked."

"Nigerian central defenders Apam and Adrie are moving closer to each other, preparing to close the door and block Jiang Xiaolin's running route."

"Oh my God, Jiang Xiaolin is too fast!"

"Rush! Jiang Xiaolin really rushed!"

"Jiang Xiaolin forced his way through Apam and Adrie's closed defense."

"Single-handed, Jiang Xiaolin caught up with the ball, and the Chinese team got a crucial single-handed opportunity."

When Jiang Xiaolin lobbed the ball outside the penalty area, the commentator explained at the loudest voice:

"Locking! Jiang Xiaolin shot!"

"Jiang Xiaolin did not enter the penalty area, he chose to lob outside the penalty area."

"The football flew over the goalkeeper's head."

Then, when Pi The moment the ball fell into the Nigerian goal, the commentator screamed wildly:

"The ball is in! The ball is in! The ball is in... "

"The Chinese team scored a goal!"

"It was a counterattack from Jiang Xiaolin, a one-on-one lob shot from Jiang Xiaolin!"

"The great Jiang Xiaolin, the world superstar Jiang Xiaolin, broke the Nigerian goal with a light lob shot in a one-on-one counterattack in the 8th minute!"

"Nigeria pressed the Chinese team for several minutes but failed to score a goal. The Chinese team broke the Nigerian goal with just one counterattack from Jiang Xiaolin."

"1-0, the National Olympic Team leads Nigeria 1-0!"

In the commentator's hoarse commentary, the Chinese fans who had been frightened by Nigeria's crazy attack since the beginning of the game finally completely released the pressure and depression in their hearts, and cheered excitedly to celebrate.

The crazy cheers and screams of more than 100,000 Chinese fans inside and outside the stadium could be heard from far away.

On the field, Jiang Xiaolin, who scored a goal in the first counterattack, also seemed very excited. He rushed to the sidelines and slid to celebrate passionately, which aroused an even more enthusiastic response from the fans in the stands. Then he was pulled down by his teammates who came later and pressed him down to celebrate.

As for the Nigerian players who had been suppressing the Chinese team from the beginning to now and thought they had the advantage on the field, they were stunned and looked very confused.

They couldn't figure out why they had suppressed the Chinese team for several minutes but didn't score a single goal. And the Chinese team, with just one sneak attack, scored a goal and led them.

This is simply too unfair.

However, there is no such thing as fairness in football matches, and the stronger team does not necessarily win.

Otherwise, the Chinese team would not have eliminated Italy unexpectedly and advanced to the semi-finals.

The Nigerian players didn't understand this, and they were full of underestimation of the Chinese team, so they were even more confused.

They thought the Chinese were really lucky.

Therefore, after the Chinese team finished celebrating and returned to their own half, after the game resumed, Nigeria did not change its style of play, nor did it restrain itself, but used a bigger and more fierce attack to attack the Chinese team's penalty area fiercely.

They thought that the Chinese team scored first just by luck, and they didn't score just because they didn't attack fiercely enough.

In the 10th minute, winger Ensofor made a cross from the bottom, and the forward Arogir who followed up in the middle was just a hair's breadth away from catching up with the ball. He watched the ball fly past him and then was saved by goalkeeper Qiu Shengjiong.

If Arogir touched the ball, there was a high probability that a goal would be scored.

This made the Nigerian players feel even more unlucky, and they also felt that as long as they continued to work hard, perhaps they could welcome their first goal.

Unconsciously, they didn't notice that their overall formation had been pressed higher and higher, and the backcourt was completely empty.

If the Chinese team used Jiang Xiaolin's speed to counterattack again, their penalty area and even the goal would be in danger again.