After the match restarted, the Chinese team had no better way to break through Brazil's goal. The Brazilian team also seemed intent on slowing down the pace. After a ten-minute stalemate on the field, the first half ended. When Merk blew the whistle for the end of the first half, he heard a huge cheer from the Chinese fans. But the German still held the football in his arms with a straight face, leading the three referees off the field.

The Brazilian players were in good spirits, but the Chinese players all had their heads down, walking quickly towards the locker room. They didn't know what fate awaited them in the locker room, nor did they know how to face Li Suisheng—who risked being sent off to prevent the opponent from scoring, giving the Chinese team a chance to breathe. But the result was still 0:1, and they were behind.

The locker room door was pushed open. Li Suisheng, who was also a little uneasy, looked up at the door, but unexpectedly, Coach Qiu Suhui was the first to enter. He breathed a slight sigh of relief. Now that the Chinese team was behind, he was still wondering if it was all because he was sent off early. What should he do when he saw his teammates later? Now it was good that the head coach came in first, so at least when other players came in, they would focus on the head coach instead of him.

Qiu Suhui looked at Li Suisheng's nervous face, and then smiled at him. But he didn't say anything. He turned around to fiddle with the laptop, busy with his own things.

Li Suisheng automatically moved towards the corner. He didn't want to be the focus at this time.

Disordered footsteps came from the corridor outside, but apart from the footsteps, no one spoke. It seemed that everyone was in low spirits.

Yang Pan was the first to push the door in, and his stern expression startled Li Suisheng. Fortunately, as Li Suisheng expected, Yang Pan's eyes were attracted to Qiu Suhui as soon as he came in, and the expression on his face eased slightly. "Coach Qiu." After greeting him, he casually found a chair and sat down.

The main force followed in, and a lot of people poured in all at once. They all greeted Qiu Suhui respectfully after seeing him, and then found their own seats. Wang Yu only had Xiang Tao and Krew by his side. Everyone still couldn't forgive his behavior.

Zhang Jun was the last to come in. After entering with his head down, he didn't even greet Qiu Suhui and sat directly at the door. After everyone came in, Qiu Suhui motioned for Hu Li at the door to close the door.

Everyone knew that Qiu Suhui was going to explode. He must be very dissatisfied with the first half. In fact, not only him, but even the players themselves felt that they had performed terribly.

To their surprise, Qiu Suhui personally turned off the lights, and then played the video they had watched before the game again.

After the video was played, the picture was frozen on the last second. On the black screen, the white words "We are the champions" were so clear, so clear that they were a little dazzling.

Then Qiu Suhui suddenly turned on all the lights in the locker room. This time he turned on the lights directly without warning, causing many people to squint their eyes. They were still a little unaccustomed to it.

"I thought it was a very clever move to show you this before the game. I thought you could learn something useful for your game from it. Now it seems I was completely wrong. I don't think there is anything wrong with Li Suisheng's foul. It's the referee's business if he wants to give him a red card. There are always many unpredictable changes on the football field. But look at your performance after that! It really makes me feel ashamed!" Qiu Suhui's tone suddenly rose, scaring many players into a shiver. "I'm racking my brains off the field to think about strategies to change the tactics, but you're fighting among yourselves on the field! I really want to show you the video of the first half. You'll all be ashamed yourselves! A team that is playing in the World Cup final, in front of hundreds of millions of viewers, is not thinking about how to defeat the opponent, but about how to attack their teammates! Look! Look at your seats now!"

He pointed to Wang Yu, who was all alone, with only Xiang Tao and Krew by his side.

"What has been the foreign perception of us Chinese all along? One Chinese is a dragon, a group of Chinese are worms! Your performance in the first half explained this sentence very well." Qiu Suhui nodded. "Very good, so what are you going to do in the second half? Continue to show the world the law that 'a group of Chinese are worms'?"

These players were all middle-aged, and they were still young and energetic. How could they stand Qiu Suhui's belittling? "Coach Qiu... we know we were wrong, but we also guarantee that this kind of situation will never happen again in the second half." As the captain, Yang Pan needed to stand up at this time and take all the responsibility, even though he didn't do anything wrong at all. On the contrary, he did a great job.

"That's right, that kind of problem will definitely not happen again. We will definitely win this game!" An Ke echoed.

"An Ke!" Qiu Suhui ignored Yang Pan, but directly called An Ke's name.

"Ah?" An Ke was stunned.

"I just happen to want to talk about you. I gave you the command of the defense line, but it's not for you to attack your teammates at will. Take a look at yourself in the first half, what was your attitude towards Wang Yu?! That's your teammate, but you treated him like an enemy! And you! There is no trust at all on the field!" Qiu Suhui looked at the other players who were silent with their heads down with some annoyance.

The atmosphere in the locker room gradually became depressing, and Li Suisheng, who was in the corner, felt like he was sitting on pins and needles. He knew that everything was due to his red card. He stood up to speak: "I'm sorry, Coach Qiu. Actually, it's all my fault. If I hadn't fouled, maybe there wouldn't have been so many things... Maybe I should have trusted An Ke more. He would definitely have been able to save Adriano's shot... I was the one who didn't trust my teammates..."

Qiu Suhui interrupted Li Suisheng's self-blame: "Sit down, this matter has nothing to do with you. You did a great job. When I said that when you left the field, it was definitely not to comfort you. If I were you, I would have unhesitatingly slid in that situation. Don't say anything else. Take a good rest here." When speaking to Li Suisheng, his tone was much gentler.

Li Suisheng was a little embarrassed and had to sit back down. For a while, no one in the locker room spoke. Everyone was silent, only heavy breathing.

Xiang Tao felt something was wrong with Wang Yu beside him. He looked down and was surprised to find water stains on the floor in front of Wang Yu, who was lowering his head.

That was definitely not sweat, because no one could sweat so much in an air-conditioned room...

"Hey, kid..."

Wang Yu's sobbing grew louder and louder, and was finally discovered by the people in the room.

"I'm, I'm sorry... The one who should really say sorry is me. Asheng, I'm sorry, I was really afraid of getting a card at that time, so I didn't foul in time... I'm sorry!"

"Kid, you..." Xiang Tao went to turn Wang Yu's shoulder, but was stopped by Zhang Jun opposite him. He shook his head at Xiang Tao, signaling him not to disturb Wang Yu for now.

"Everyone, I'm also very sorry! It wasn't easy for us to get here all the way, but we have to face failure because of my mistake. I know everyone very much wants to get this championship. I've implicated everyone, I'm sorry! At this time, I'm off the field, it should be more effective to have Li Suisheng stay on the field, right? I'm sorry! I don't think I deserve to be your teammate..."

"What are you talking about?" Zhang Jun suddenly interrupted Wang Yu's self-blame. "There are still forty-five minutes left in the game, how do you know we are facing failure? How do you know you have implicated us? And why do you think you don't deserve to be our teammate?"

Zhang Jun's three consecutive rhetorical questions startled Wang Yu to raise his head, with two clear tear stains on his face.

A white towel suddenly hit Wang Yu's face. "Tsk! A grown man, what are you crying about? How useless." An Ke retracted his hand. "Wipe it clean. I don't want the defender protecting me in front to be a sissy who only knows how to cry in the face of difficulties. Your task in the second half will be much heavier than in the first half." After saying that, he tilted his head and sat back down.

Although Coach Qiu had just told him not to speak anymore, Li Suisheng still decided to boldly say a few words in the face of this situation. "I don't blame you, kid, really. Because that tackle decision was my own decision. As a center back, that was the only thing I could do at the time. It has nothing to do with you. And instead of crying and blaming yourself here, you might as well cheer up and deal with the second half of the game. You have to know, you are my replacement. If you don't perform well, I will lose face."

Li Yongle also stood up: "I believe in my midfield partner." With just this sentence, he had clearly expressed his position.

"Zhang Jun is right, we are only one goal behind now, and we still have forty-five minutes, so how can we say we are going to lose the game?" Yang Pan said, "So what if we have one less person? If each of us ten people runs a little more than usual, and does a little more, won't we be able to make up for the loss of Asheng not being there? Especially you, kid, you have to do more than others."

Wang Yu was no longer crying. Under the gaze of so many people, he also felt that it was very embarrassing to continue crying. He just bit his lip tightly and nodded non-stop. What else could he do besides nod?

Seeing this scene, Zhang Jun, who spoke first, smiled—his purpose had been achieved.

Qiu Suhui turned to look at Hu Li, and he saw a gratified smile on the other person's face. He himself also smiled lightly.

"Ahem!" After coughing, Qiu Suhui said, making everyone focus their attention on him again, "Alright, that's the end of this matter. I won't pursue it anymore, but you have to take care of yourselves. Next, let's analyze the situation in the second half. The situation is very unfavorable for us, but it's not completely without a solution..."