Lin Hai Ting Tao

Chapter 1129 Did He Flub It...?

Chapter 41

In the forty-first minute, Zhou Yi received the ball at the edge of Spain's penalty area. He first turned and passed the ball back, then ran back himself, while He Ying also retreated a little.

As a result, Spain's defensive line pressed forward as a whole—they didn't want to give Zhou Yi and He Ying room to turn around.

Yang Muge, with the ball behind, saw Zhou Yi retreat a certain distance, so he passed the ball back to him again.

Zhou Yi raised his arms, ready to receive the ball.

Xabi Alonso immediately stuck to him, not allowing him to turn around.

Facing the incoming ball, Zhou Yi's body turned slightly to the side, while the outside of his right foot cut the ball, and the ball flew past him and Alonso, drawing an arc straight to the space behind Spain's ribs!

Because of He Ying's retreat, Spain's defense followed and pressed out, leaving a large gap there!

And Zhou Yi accurately found that gap while facing away from the direction of attack!

"Oh! Good ball!" Liu Jianhong couldn't help but exclaim.

Cheers also erupted from the Chinese fans in the stands.

The ball flew over the heads of the Spanish defenders in the air, and fell straight into the gap behind them.

At the same time, Yan Min relied on his excellent starting speed, suddenly accelerated, and killed behind the Spanish defenders, chasing after the ball!

At this time, the Spanish goalkeeper Reina decisively abandoned his goal and rushed out to meet the ball. If he was fast enough, he could save the ball before Yan Min, and even if he was a little slower, he could block Yan Min's shooting angle. With a very small angle, Yan Min would hardly have any room to shoot.

But Yan Min didn't want to shoot...

Relying on his excellent explosiveness and speed, although he was farther from the ball, Yan Min still caught up with the ball before Reina. He did not stop the ball to adjust, nor did he shoot directly. Instead, he jumped up and used the outside of his right foot to flick the ball towards the center, crossing it!

"Yan Min...cross!"

He Ying followed up in the center, wanting to grab the ball, but he was firmly suppressed by the Spanish center-back Albiol, and their arms were entangled together. He Ying had no way to accelerate and rush up.

At the same time, Sergio Ramos cleared Yan Min's cross out of the baseline with a big foot!

"Dangerous! Ramos made a key defense! Reina's choice to attack was right, it can only be said that Yan Min's speed is too fast..." The Spanish commentator felt that he was repeating this word all the time during this period, but there was no way, who made the Chinese team's offensive more fierce during this period?

He Ying, who failed to get the point, raised his arm and appealed to the referee Shukralla, believing that Albiol pulled his arm, which prevented him from getting the point, so Albiol committed a foul by pulling someone and should be penalized with a penalty kick.

However, Shukralla did not agree with this view, and he shook his head at He Ying.

He Ying was helpless and could only spread his hands.

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Because of Ramos's clearance, the Chinese team won a corner kick, and Zhou Yi ran to take the corner kick.

At the club, Zhou Yi is not the number one set-piece taker. If Royce and Sahin are there, taking corner kicks is usually their job. But this does not mean that Zhou Yi can't take corner kicks. For a player with excellent long-passing ability, taking corner kicks is not difficult.

It's just a matter of whether you want to or not.

At the club, Dortmund has many players who are suitable for taking corner kicks, and Zhou Yi doesn't need to compete with others to take on all the work.

But the situation is different in the national team. Apart from him, it is really difficult to find a better set-piece taker.

So in the Chinese national team, Zhou Yi has to take care of all set-pieces except for direct free kicks and penalty kicks.

Corner kicks, whether left or right, are his job.

When Zhou Yi ran to take the corner kick, he gestured to Yan Min, signaling him to come over.

Yan Min guessed that Zhou Yi should be taking a tactical corner kick, that is, a short corner kick, which requires someone to come up and respond, so he ran up.

His move naturally attracted the attention of the Spanish players.

Because Cazorla is short, he did not enter the penalty area to participate in the defense. Now that Yan Min has pulled out, he can just go up to help defend, so he stuck to Yan Min, intending not to let him turn around easily.

After Zhou Yi placed the ball, he got up and saw Cazorla behind Yan Min, but he didn't care.

He looked up at the penalty area, where everything was ready.

No one was pushing or shoving, and no one was hugging each other.

The referee blew the whistle in his mouth.

Zhou Yi ran up and passed the ball to Yan Min, who came up to meet him.

Then he quickly ran out of the corner flag area and绕向 the front of the penalty area from the outside.

After receiving the ball, Yan Min did not immediately pass it back to Zhou Yi, but tried to dribble the ball himself, but he was forced by Cazorla and could not turn around, so he could only dribble to the wing, and just brought it from the penalty area to the wing.

And in this process, Zhou Yi also ran to the outside of the big penalty area corner.

Yan Min completed the turn near the sideline, but was unable to get rid of Cazorla.

Seeing this, he no longer hesitated and directly passed the ball to Zhou Yi.

As the ball rolled towards Zhou Yi, the Spanish players who were originally in the penalty area pressed forward, partly to create an offside trap, and of course to force Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi quickly turned his head and glanced into the penalty area, then, facing the ball passed by Yan Min, he swung his left foot.

Looking at his posture, he is going to shoot directly!

The closest Spanish player is Koke. This player, who plays for Atletico Madrid, has played against Zhou Yi's Dortmund in the Champions League in the past two seasons.

Especially in the season before last, he still clearly remembers. When Dortmund played at home, when the entire Dortmund team could not do anything to Sun Pan, who was guarding the goal, it was Zhou Yi's sudden long shot from outside the penalty area that created a world wave and blasted into the goal guarded by Sun Pan, thus eliminating Atletico Madrid.

So now seeing Zhou Yi swinging his foot outside the penalty area again, how could the string in his heart not be tense?

He rushed towards Zhou Yi, wanting to block Zhou Yi's shot with his body.

At the same time, Spanish goalkeeper Reina in front of the goal also locked his eyes on Zhou Yi, and lowered his center of gravity, making a gesture of preparation to save.

In addition to them, the other Spanish players couldn't help but turn their eyes to Zhou Yi. The TV broadcast, the TV audience, the fans at the scene, and the coaches and substitutes of both sides all fixed their eyes on Zhou Yi.

I saw Zhou Yi's left foot hit the ball, the ball绕过了 Koke who rushed up, and flew towards the goal!

But soon everyone found that the flight path of the ball was wrong. Zhou Yi's shot, in theory, the ball should go straight to the goal, but he kicked an outward-spinning arc. If the ball flies like this, it will fly parallel to the goal...

Isn't this shot too inaccurate?

Did Zhou Yi mishit?

Many people were stunned.

Because the ball was spinning outwards, Spanish goalkeeper Reina in front of the goal did not attack to get the ball, because he could not get the ball at all, this was not a ball within his control range.

At the same time, the Spanish players in the penalty area were also unsure about the ball—it seemed that this shot would pose no threat to the ball, and if they just let it fly past, it would fly out of the baseline.

But Ramos vaguely felt something was wrong.

A voice in his mind told him that he should clear the ball.

But the ball was fast and high. When Ramos realized something was wrong, the ball had already flown over his head. He could only twist his head and turn around with the ball, and then he saw a terrifying scene—at the far post of the goal, the ball was falling rapidly. At the same time, a Chinese player in a red jersey rushed up, then jumped up in a diving header, heading towards the ball that just happened to fly over!

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"Yan Min passed the ball to Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi shot directly without stopping the ball... Oh, this ball was mishit... Guo Nu?!" Liu Jianhong also thought that Zhou Yi had made a mistake at first, but when his sight moved with the ball to the far post, he was surprised to find that there, Guo Nu jumped up and headed the falling ball!

So at this time, his mind suddenly understood—what mishit? This is clearly a premeditated feint to the east and attack to the west, posing as if to shoot, but in the end kicking a precise cross!

Guo Nu, who was at the far post, was not marked at all, and Reina was in front, and had not had time to return to the defense at the far post. Although the angle was not large, what was in front of him was the Spanish team's completely open goal!

He doesn't even need to exert too much force, as long as he can guarantee that he can head the ball correctly.

With a bang!

His diving header headed the ball towards the goal!

Without any suspense, the ball flew into the Spanish goal from the far post!

"Guo Nu!!! Guo Nu!!! Oh, beautiful! Beautiful! The Chinese team broke the deadlock and took the lead!" Liu Jianhong almost jumped up from the commentary booth excitedly. "At the end of the first half, the Chinese team took the lead! Guo Nu! He scored his first goal in the World Cup!"