With one ball at the bottom, the mood of the Chinese players was much more relaxed and there was no psychological pressure. The guards of the Chinese team almost played supernormal and continuously defused the Iraqis' fierce attacks.
Although Gao Xiaodong scored a goal at the beginning, a large part of his energy was put on defense. Now that the guard can keep it, Gao Xiaodong will fight back with all his strength to score another goal and lock in the victory.
The strength of Iraq is better than that of the Chinese team, but it is not so strong that the whole team is under the pressure of the Chinese team. The Iraqi players did not expect to lose the ball at the beginning. They are a bit out of order, attacking and attacking, and then pressing on the whole team, forgetting that the opponent still has a golden ball.
In the eighth minute of the game, Zhao Xu, the back half of the Chinese team, broke the ball and passed it to Gao Xiaodong. Gao Xiaodong drove straight in with the ball, killed the middle circle and went straight to the restricted area of Iraq.
Iraq players have just opened the long-range shooting lessons, see Gao Xiaodong comeback, scared left behind guards flocked to block Gao Xiaodong.
Although the level of Chinese players is low, Gao Xiaodong didn't refuse to cooperate with them because of this. When his opponents blocked, Gao Xiaodong found Qu Bo inserted the ball from the side and immediately divided the ball.
There was no one on the side to defend and Qu Bo led the ball into the penalty area.
Iraqi goalkeeper kashid was quick to attack. As soon as Qu Bo entered the penalty area, he met him and flew to Qu Bo's feet.
Qu Bo saw that kashid came forward and tried to push kashid's side, but his kick was a little slow and kashid threw the ball in his arms.
Qu Bo also fell on the turf. He hammered the ground with his fists, and he was very upset.
To see a single chance wasted, all fans of the Chinese team sigh.
"Nanny can't get the ball, you'd better come down."
"I could shoot in."
"This is to feed to the mouth not to eat ah."
"It's better for Xiao Dong to shoot himself."
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Camacho clenched his fists and leaned forward. He was ready to celebrate. Seeing the ball being saved, Camacho leaned back in his chair.
"Such a good chance! Such a good chance
Camacho murmured to himself, hoping to play in person.
Gao Xiaodong doesn't complain about Qu Bo. He knows what his teammates are. If he gives him a chance, he won't miss the World Cup finals for so many years. What he can do now is to create more opportunities.
Although Qu Bo's single shot was lost, Iraq was also scared out in a cold sweat. In the next ten minutes, Iraq was very cautious and did not dare to press on. At the same time, it strengthened its marking on Gao Xiaodong for fear that it would be hit by the Chinese team again.
When Iraq slows down, the Chinese team naturally can't wait. Time is in their hands, and it must be Iraq who can't afford it in the end.
After nearly 30 minutes in the first half of the game, Iraq lost its composure and suddenly stepped up its attack.
Left back Hussam assists to the front court, a low pass, looking for his forward Younis.
Chinese team's guard attention is very focused, Du Wei grabs before Younis to block the position, does not let Younis to snatch the landing point.
When Younis saw Du Wei blocking his way, he pushed Du Wei down from behind and headed the ball into the net.
After the goal, Younis didn't feel that he had fouled at all, and he had the cheek to celebrate.
Younis's foul is too obvious, Australian referee green can see clearly, whistling to signal that the goal is invalid.
Younis still unconvinced, he stopped celebrating, ran to ask Green why the goal is invalid.
Green had a good temper and explained to Younis that he was pushing someone for a foul.
Younis said that he was a reasonable collision, green shook his head, ignored him, and directly let the Chinese team serve the free kick in the penalty area.
When Younis questioned green, Gao Xiaodong had already taken the ball to prepare for a quick attack, but the players of the Chinese team did not have the sense of running, so Gao Xiaodong had to reach out to the front court and let his teammates run.
Seeing Gao Xiaodong reach out and point to the front court, Qu Bo and Yang Xu go to run. But at this time, the Iraqi players react and run back quickly.
Gao Xiaodong saw that there was no chance of sneak attack, so he had to pass the ball to the full back and turn to positional warfare.
The Iraqi midfield is very fierce, and their body is also dominant. The Chinese team's ball is just in the middle of the circle, and it is soon broken by the Iraqi players.
Iraq's counterattack is also very fast, Karim a long pass, Younis use the advantage of body and speed, push Du Wei from the right rib into the restricted area.
Goalkeeper Yang Zhi quickly out of the plug, Younis vigorously volley hit Yang Zhi in the face of the spring out.
Yang Zhi was stuffy for a while, half ring did not get up, fortunately Zhao Xu back in time, kick the ball out of the bottom line.
Iraq got a corner.
Iraq positional war has always been unable to score goals, set pieces become the hope of Iraqis.Karim took the corner kick, and all the Iraqi players who could fight for the header came to the penalty area to fight for the top.
The basic skills of the Chinese team are poor, but the header is OK. In those years, it was known as the Chinese team. Now it's not ambiguous. Iraq didn't get any advantage in the corner fight, and the ball was jumped by Du Weigao.
On the outside, a long-range shot from apudu went up again, and the ball flew directly to the stands.
The Chinese team got the ball right, but under the strong pressure of Iraq, their attack still did not improve. Except Gao Xiaodong who carried the ball himself, as long as he passed the ball, he would make mistakes and be hit back by the opponent.
Look at the game time to 40 minutes, the Chinese team simply shrink in the half court, waiting for Iraq to attack.
This kind of tactics is very beneficial to the Chinese team. Iraq's attack is more than half court, and there is a lot of space in the back court. In this way, the Chinese team makes fewer mistakes in passing and cooperation when they fight back. They also play two good cooperation, but Qu Bo and Yang Xu in the front court have limited ability, and they make mistakes in the front of the forbidden zone, so they can't form the chance to shoot.
Seeing that the first half was about to pass, the players in Iraq were worried. As a result, they took too much risk when attacking. Karim put the ball straight into the restricted area and wanted to find Younis. The ball was predicted by Zheng Hua at the front of the restricted area and was intercepted by Zheng Hua.
Gao Xiaodong immediately ran to the empty place when Zheng Hua broke the ball, waiting to meet Zheng Hua.
Zheng Hua is the best player in the Chinese team except Gao Xiaodong. After he broke the ball, he immediately looked up for Gao Xiaodong and saw that Gao Xiaodong ran to the empty place and immediately passed it.
Gao Xiaodong's consciousness is too advanced. When the players of both sides are still watching Zheng Hua, he runs away. When the players of Iraq want to mark Gao Xiaodong again, they are already slow.
At the speed of Gao Xiaodong, a step slower means that he will never catch up.
Gao Xiaodong took the ball down the side road at a high speed, and several Iraqi players were in hot pursuit, but not only failed to catch up, but also the distance was getting farther and farther.