Chapter 338

Jiang Xiaolin received the ball near the center circle in his own half, but he took the ball with his back to the attacking direction, so he was not a big threat.

However, the Japanese players did not dare to be careless. The two defenders at the center line immediately retreated to prevent Jiang Xiaolin from using his speed to break through.

The defensive midfielder Endo Yasuhito stopped three or four meters in front of Jiang Xiaolin, ready to intercept Jiang Xiaolin's breakthrough.

After Jiang Xiaolin turned around, he used full-value dribbling to move the ball forward, but because of Endo Yasuhito's interception, Jiang Xiaolin did not increase his speed to the highest level, nor did he use the ball-pass or fried meatballs to break through. He just controlled the ball under his feet and moved forward slowly, forcing Endo Yasuhito to defend and retreat.

But this situation actually made the Japanese more relieved. Everyone was afraid that Jiang Xiaolin would use his speed to eat Endo Yasuhito alive after receiving the ball, and then break through the two full-backs to form a single shot.

Once Jiang Xiaolin formed a single-handed meeting in a quick counterattack, the Japanese team's goal would be lost.

Although Endo Yasuhito did not dare to stop and scramble for the ball at Jiang Xiaolin's feet, and could only defend and retreat, he was actually secretly happy in his heart, thinking that he had successfully blocked Jiang Xiaolin's quick counterattack.

If he waited another second or two, the teammates rushing over from both sides would form a siege with him on Jiang Xiaolin. With three people scrambling, they could not only stop Jiang Xiaolin, but also possibly snatch Jiang Xiaolin's ball and counterattack.

However, he did not see that the two Chinese team's wing forwards, Hao Junmin and Du Zhenyu, had already rushed to the front side of the field without being marked, had crossed the center line, and approached the defense line formed by the two Japanese full-backs.

Among them, Hao Junmin's speed was a little faster, and he was almost level with the defense line of the two full-backs.

But the two full-backs did not dare to intercept, because the central defender had just gone up to compete for the corner kick and had not returned to defense. If they intercepted Hao Junmin and Du Zhenyu on the side, the center would be empty.

After all, the goal is in the middle, and if the middle defense is empty, it will be even more dangerous.

Therefore, they could only watch Du Zhenyu and Hao Junmin rush across the center line and rush to the empty Japanese backcourt side, but they could do nothing.

On Jiang Xiaolin's side, when he saw Hao Junmin was about to surpass the back line composed of two Japanese full-backs, before the Japanese players on both sides surrounded Endo Yasuhito, he pushed the ball to the left to form a gap, and then made a diagonal pass of more than 20 meters to the left forward Hao Junmin.

Endo Yasuhito looked in the direction of Jiang Xiaolin's pass, and was immediately shocked.

As a result, just as he was distracted, Jiang Xiaolin rushed over from his other half of the ballless running position and rushed to the Japanese penalty area at full speed.

When Endo Yasuhito reacted and turned to chase, he had been left behind by Jiang Xiaolin, and even his teammates who returned to defense had surpassed him and chased Jiang Xiaolin.

But in fact, except for the two full-backs who were dragging in the backcourt, no one could stop Jiang Xiaolin at this time.

Jiang Xiaolin, who was running without the ball, reached his maximum speed and rushed towards the Japanese team's penalty area like a whirlwind. A large number of Japanese players who were returning to defense were left further and further behind him, and the Chinese team had formed a three-on-two situation in the frontcourt.

Jiang Xiaolin immediately broke the Japanese team's defensive system through a pass.

When everyone thought that the Chinese team only relied on Jiang Xiaolin to counterattack, Du Zhenyu and Hao Junmin's wing insertion put the Japanese team in a huge crisis.

The Chinese fans in the stands had already stood up, waiting excitedly and expectantly for the Chinese team's attack to bear fruit.

After Hao Junmin received the ball on the wing, he saw that no one from the two defenders was splitting to intercept him, so he made a move to kill diagonally towards the penalty area.

This made Japan's right back Atsuto Uchida feel entangled.

Jiang Xiaolin in the middle has already rushed up, only more than ten meters away from them, and is about to rush into the penalty area.

And Hao Junmin, who was dribbling the ball on the side, also rushed diagonally to the penalty area. If he was not intercepted, Hao Junmin would dribble into the penalty area, and the threat would be more direct.

There was no way, Uchida Atsuto was forced to give up intercepting Jiang Xiaolin in the middle, and moved a few steps to the side, ready to intercept Hao Junmin's cut-in shot.

However, Hao Junmin's cut-in was just an illusion, to force the opponent to distract and defend him, and reduce the difficulty of Jiang Xiaolin's header in the middle.

Seeing Uchida Atsuto moving to the side, Hao Junmin stopped cutting in and rushed straight to the bottom line with the ball.

Uchida Atsuto was in a dilemma again, not knowing whether to continue blocking Hao Junmin or return to the middle to intercept Jiang Xiaolin.

But Jiang Xiaolin and Hao Junmin did not give him a chance to consider.

Jiang Xiaolin soared to the full speed, evencan participate in the Olympic 100m finals. Endo Yasuhito and others behind him have been left behind by Jiang Xiaolin by six or seven meters.

When Uchida Atsuto was hesitant, Jiang Xiaolin had already rushed to the top of the penalty area. Uchida Atsuto, who retreated to the side of the penalty area, could not stop Jiang Xiaolin even if he wanted to defend.

In the middle penalty area, there was only one left-back, Komano Tomoichi, who was nervously looking at Jiang Xiaolin and Hao Junmin, trembling in his heart, hoping that Hao Junmin's cross would go out of the baseline.

But things did not go as he wished. No matter what, Hao Junmin was a professional player and the main forward of the Chinese team. He still had the ability to cross from the bottom.

Especially now that there was no one defending, it would not be ridiculous.

Seeing that Jiang Xiaolin had reached the top of the penalty area and was about to rush into the penalty area, Hao Junmin kicked the ball and kicked it out.

Komano Tomoichi's prayers fell through.

Hao Junmin's cross was not unexpected. The ball passed over Uchida Atsuto's head and fell to the penalty spot in the penalty area.

At this position, the Japanese team only had one left back, Komano Tomoichi, defending.

The key is that Komano Tomoichi is only 172cm tall, 13cm shorter than Jiang Xiaolin's 185cm. How can he defend?

The two central defenders were still eating dust behind Jiang Xiaolin, desperately returning to defense, but they were still nearly ten meters away and could not catch up at all.

Komano Tomoichi could only try his best to occupy the landing position, and wanted to block Jiang Xiaolin, and not let him jump to compete for the header.

But with such a big difference in height, Jiang Xiaolin had too many choices, how could Komano Tomoichi defend?

Jiang Xiaolin did not try to grab the landing point in Komano Tomoichi's eyes.

Because of his height and jumping ability, the landing point in Komano Tomoichi's eyes was different from the landing point in Jiang Xiaolin's eyes.

Jiang Xiaolin rushed diagonally to Komano Tomoichi, jumped high, successfully grabbed the first point, and headed the ball into the Japanese team's goal.

Komano Tomoichi only realized when Jiang Xiaolin rushed diagonally to him and jumped. The landing point he grabbed had no effect on Jiang Xiaolin at all.

Jiang Xiaolin's height and bounce allowed him to jump before Komano Tomoichi to compete for the header.

At this time, Komano Tomoichi realized it belatedly and wanted to reach out and pull Jiang Xiaolin down, but it was too late.

Jiang Xiaolin's strong physique and balance ability made him almost unaffected by Komano Tomoichi in the air, and he headed the ball smoothly to the upper left corner of the Japanese team's goal.

The full-value header technique and the almost uninterrupted attack made Jiang Xiaolin's header very high quality, almost going straight to the dead corner.

Originally, this header was in the penalty area and was very close to the goal.

Jiang Xiaolin's header and the rebound speed of Hao Junmin's pass made the ball powerful and fast, and it reached the goal in almost an instant.

Goalkeeper Kawaguchi Nohuo was not tall enough and his arms were short. Although he made a save, he was still far away and could only watch in despair as the ball flew into the goal from the intersection of the crossbar and the uprights.

In the 13th minute of the first half, Jiang Xiaolin received Hao Junmin's cross from the bottom in the first counterattack of the Chinese team, and smashed the door of the Japanese team with a powerful header, helping the Chinese team to lead 1-0 at home.

In the commentary booth, the commentator from the sports channel of China National Television had already stood up.

When the commentator saw the ball Jiang Xiaolin headed into the goal, he excitedly screamed:

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

"Beautiful!"

"Neat and neat!"

"The Chinese team took advantage of the Japanese team's corner kick to make a classic quick counterattack!"

"Jiang Xiaolin opened the scoring and scored the first goal for the Chinese national football team!"

"The Chinese team is leading the Japanese team 1-0!"

In the stands and in front of the TV, countless Chinese fans cheered and applauded and screamed in celebration.

Jiang Xiaolin on the court also excitedly rushed to Hao Junmin and gave him a warm high five to celebrate. Then, the two were surrounded by other teammates who caught up and celebrated together.

As for the players, coaches and fans of the Japanese team, they were dejected and shook their heads helplessly.

They attacked for more than ten minutes and shot the goal several times, but they still couldn't hit the goal frame. As a result, the Chinese team broke their goal in the first counterattack.

Jiang Xiaolin's speed, ability to grab points, jumping, heading skills, etc. in this attack are all amazing, and it feels like he is in a different dimension from the Asian team.

Jiang Xiaolin's strength has far exceeded the Asian level.

Japanese fans can only lament in their hearts that the Chinese team is really lucky to have JiangXiaolin is a super football genius.

Jiang Xiaolin and others celebrated for more than 20 seconds before returning to their own half, waiting for the Japanese team to kick the ball in the middle circle and the game to start again.

After the game restarted, the Japanese team, which was already behind in the score, had no choice but to continue to press forward.

The Chinese team played a more resolute and decisive defensive counterattack.

In the 15th minute, the Japanese team played a wonderful continuous wall-to-wall cooperation in the frontcourt and tore open the Chinese team's defense. The front midfielder Nakamura Kengo ran out of space on the right side of the top of the penalty area and completed a very high-quality shot without interference.

The ball passed through the penalty area like a sharp arrow and flew towards the Chinese team's goal.

Goalkeeper Song Zhenyu was already out of reach. The fans of the Japanese team had already stood up and were ready to celebrate the goal, but the ball hit the post and bounced back into the penalty area. It was kicked out of the sideline by the central defender Feng Xiaoting.

Nakamura Kengo's shooting skills are still a little bit worse than Jiang Xiaolin's.

If Jiang Xiaolin had shot this ball, he would have almost certainly hit the goal frame and scored a goal.

It's a pity that the Japanese team created this gap and shooting opportunity with their exquisite passing and cutting.

After this dangerous situation, the Chinese team was more careful in protecting the dangerous area, and the Japanese team could no longer create such a good shooting opportunity.

It was not until the 24th minute that the Japanese team passed the ball to the top of the penalty area through an inverted triangle pass after cutting in from the side, and got another shooting opportunity.

Unfortunately, the forward Hasebe Makoto who shot this time didn't even touch the goal post, and it went directly off the post.

Although the Japanese team had been pressing the Chinese team in the game situation, Jiang Xiaolin actually involved most of the Japanese team's defensive players in the midfield.

In addition, the assist from Hao Junmin's cross from the wing in the last counterattack made the two full-backs not dare to press forward. The Japanese team's offensive firepower was seriously insufficient. Not only did they fail to score, but they also failed to make a threatening shot.

It was not until the 32nd minute that the Japanese team successfully sent the ball into the penalty area through a wonderful breakthrough and passing and cutting movement. Forward Keisuke Tamada made a high-quality shot in the ribs of the penalty area.

This shot also successfully hit the goal frame, and the angle was not mediocre, and it was a bit tricky.

But this time goalkeeper Song Zhenyu made a contribution.

Before Keisuke Tamada ran into the penalty area to receive the ball and shoot, he had predicted and moved in advance.

Then when Keisuke Tamada received the pass from his teammate and shot without stopping, he also rushed out at the first time, touched the ball in time, and saved the ball from the bottom line.

Keisuke Tamada, who was ready to celebrate the goal, looked at Song Zhenyu in surprise, shook his head helplessly, and was extremely disappointed.

This time, the Japanese team did not dare to have both central defenders run into the penalty area to compete for headers, and only one of them came in.

It was too difficult for one person to compete for headers in the penalty area of ​​the Chinese team, whose average height reached 182.

In addition, the Japanese team's corner kick was not sent in place, and it was naturally headed out of the penalty area by the Chinese team's defender, and a counterattack was launched.

Unfortunately, Japan's counterattack against China was well prepared this time. Jiang Xiaolin's man-ball separation with Endo Yasuhito did not work. Endo Yasuhito made a gambling-style flying tackle and touched the ball, shoveled the ball to his midfield teammate, and stopped Jiang Xiaolin's breakthrough and counterattack.

The game continued, and the Japanese team continued to use their superior personal skills and team cooperation to put pressure on the penalty area and goal of the Chinese team.

But because their finishing skills were far worse than Jiang Xiaolin's, they never scored a goal.

On the Chinese team's side, in addition to the midfield and backcourt players who focused on defense, Jiang Xiaolin would sometimes retreat outside the penalty area and use his full positioning to interfere with the Japanese team's passing and cutting movements.