Chapter 458 Everyone is the best
Since the start of the game, the shouts in the People's Stadium have not stopped - the passion of Chinese fans ignited by the national anthem has not faded.
Every time a Chinese player gets the ball, no matter what the circumstances are, the Chinese fans in the stands cheer.
Even if the Chinese fans did not boo the Japanese players specifically, such a scene is enough to make every Japanese Olympic team player feel tremendous pressure.
Similar scenes also appeared in the Chinese team's matches against Palestine and Vietnam.
When the Chinese team took the lead in scoring, the fans cheered thunderously. The cheers continued, creating great psychological pressure on the players of the two teams, which affected their performance in subsequent games.
Their final defeat must have something to do with the fanatical atmosphere at the Chinese team's home court.
However, the home atmosphere is now more intense than before. Although it has created huge pressure on the players of the Japanese Olympic team, their performance has not been affected by this.
After the game started, the Chinese team's offensive became more fierce. The Japanese Olympic team was temporarily on the defensive, but they did not panic at all.
This also led to the fact that although the Chinese team's offense was very strong, it did not really threaten the Japanese Olympic team's goal.
The Japanese Olympic team this time is not exactly the same as the Japanese Olympic team in the East Asian Cup last year. The original Japanese Olympic team was not actually the strongest lineup. Also for the purpose of inspecting newcomers, the Japanese Olympic team Team head coach Sato Koichi has recruited some new players or former fringe figures.
For example, Junpei Morikawa, who was beaten to death by Hu Lai in the game, was a complete newcomer to the national team.
The Japanese Olympic team players currently participating in the U23 Asian Cup are all the top 23 selected by Koichi Sato from Japan.
They represent the strongest lineup in Japanese football in the under-23 age group.
After all, this U23 Asian Cup also serves as the Olympic qualifiers. In order to ensure that the Japanese Olympic team can participate in the Olympics, Sato Koichi does not dare to neglect.
Among these young Japanese players, like Hu Lai and Chen Xingyi, they are the best trained by the national high school football competition system. For example, the top star of this team, the talented Japanese midfielder Tatsuya Sugiyama, is well-known from the Japanese national competition. As the number one star in Japan's national competition, he has naturally entered professional football and has attracted the attention of many European clubs. It is said that after playing in the Olympics, he may go to Europe to play football.
In addition to players like Tatsuya Sugiyama, the Japanese Olympic team also has many players who came from the training system of Japanese professional football clubs. Their goalkeeper Hiroki Ueshima is an outstanding representative here. He is a player trained through professional football club echelons and has never participated in the national competition of Japanese high school students.
Japanese football, which walks on two legs, has risen rapidly and has now become the dominant player in Asian football. They are also the objects for Chinese football to learn and catch up with.
Now, as a student of Japanese football, Chinese football finally has its own rising star after nine years of campus football reform.
Today's game feels like a competition between students and teachers.
After watching the game for more than ten minutes, the commentator He Feng couldn't help but sigh at the power of Japanese football: "I have to say that our Chinese fans are really awesome today, and the home atmosphere they created is terrifying. But the Japanese players But they still performed very steadily. They played steadily and slowly dealt with us without falling behind..."
Yan Kang added next to him: "Sugiyama Tatsuya is truly one of the best young players in Asia. After his organization and sorting, the overall performance of the Japanese team is better than ours... He can be a metronome when retreating, and he can be a metronome when moving forward. Directly using long shots to threaten our goal, many times we have to use two players to defend him... At the same time, we are organizing Offensively, we encountered trouble again... Although Guo Junfu started this game, he was injured in the game against Qatar, as he was frequently targeted by Qatari players. In the semi-finals, he played with injuries. Until now The injury is not completely healed... In this game, he met the tenacious Morikawa Junpei again..."
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Guo Junfu still remembers how head coach Shi Wuyuan described his opponent in this game, Junpei Morikawa, to him before the game.
"He is like your shadow."
Now he felt that Director Shi's description was so apt and hit the nail on the head.
Guo Junfu has also played in many games in the Chinese Super League. He is not rich in experience, but it is also the first time for him to meet an opponent like Junpei Morikawa.
It was as if she was clinging to him, following him every step of the way.
Unless he retreats, the opponent will not follow.
But as long as he enters the opponent's defense zone, which is also the area where he can best play his role, he will definitely be targeted by Junpei Morikawa.
The feeling that whether he had the ball or not, there would always be a defensive player around him made Guo Junfu very unhappy.
In addition, he was injured on his foot, which made it even more difficult to get rid of the opponent.
He remembered that in last year's East Asian Cup, Hu Lai was also stared at by this person and failed to score a goal in the first half.
Naturally, he also remembered how Hu Lai broke the opponent's defense in the end.
So he planned to imitate Hu Lai and try to use strength to suppress the opponent.
However, he found that Junpei Morikawa has improved a lot in strength compared to last year. The most important thing is that as a midfielder, he does not actually need to emphasize physical confrontation like a central defender.
Many times, Junpei Morikawa always kept a distant distance from him, defending by anticipating the timing of the attack and Guo Junfu's movements in advance. At the same time, his tenacious style made it difficult for Guo Junfu to get rid of him smoothly, even if he got the first blow. If he gets past him, he will immediately appear next to him again, using his hands and feet to interfere with and defend him.
Guo Junfu even felt that Director Shi should not compare this person to a "shadow", but to a "little strong" - the whole person is just like the five bronze strong men in Saint Seiya, exuding the feeling of "being knocked down again and again." "Stand up for the first time" the middle two breath.
Especially when he saw the look in Morikawa Junpei's eyes, this feeling became even stronger.
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"For his age, he is already a very good defensive midfielder..."
Although Shi Wuyuan had studied Morikawa Junpei before the game and gave Guo Junfu the necessary reminders, when it came to the game, he saw that Guo Junfu was still under the defense of Morikawa Junpei, as if he was trudging through the swamp. He still couldn't help but sigh like this.
"It's all Hu Lai's fault!" Li Zhifei muttered beside him.
Shi Wuyuan couldn't help laughing when he heard it.
This is a joke that only appeared in this U23 Asian Cup, and he has heard about it.
In the final analysis, it is because Hu Lai took the initiative to exchange jerseys with Junpei Morikawa after winning the East Asian Cup last year.
In later interviews, Morikawa Junpei expressed his gratitude to Hu Lai more than once.
Originally a new Olympic player who was almost collapsed after being beaten by Hu Lai, he gained courage and strength in this way, and actually changed positions after returning to Japan. From a mediocre central defender to an excellent defensive midfielder...
As a result, in this U23 Asian Cup final, the Chinese team had such a strong opponent for no reason.
However, Shi Wuyin also knew that Li Zhifei did not really blame Hu Lai. When this meme became popular on the Internet, few people who used this meme truly believed that Junpei Morikawa would make the Chinese team suffer.
In fact, the person who poses the greatest threat to the Chinese team is Tatsuya Sugiyama. It can be said that if the Japanese Olympic team does not have Tatsuya Sugiyama, even with Junpei Morikawa present, the threat to the Chinese team will plummet.
Of course, if the Chinese team is still the same Olympic team that played in the East Asian Cup last year, then if Junpei Morikawa really freezes Guo Junfu, it will indeed pose a huge threat to the Chinese team.
Because the Chinese Olympic team only had a midfield engine like Guo Junfu, and the entire team's offense had to be organized by him.
If he is frozen, it means that the Chinese team has lost the ability to organize offense.
But it's different now. The Chinese Olympic team's offense does not necessarily rely on Guo Junfu's organization in the midfield. In addition to the offensive midfielder organizing the offense, they also have other offensive methods. For example, directly use the two wingers, or rely on the tacit understanding between the front three.
This was reflected in the Chinese team's match against Qatar after Guo Junfu was sent off, and the Chinese team's match against Palestine.
Especially the offensive combination of Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai. Many times, there is no need for Guo Junfu to pass the ball from behind, and sparks can fly between the three of them.
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Guo Junfu understands very well that with his current physical condition, it is very difficult to completely get rid of the opponent, No. 14 Morikawa Junpei, and calmly organize an attack.
He thought of the task assigned to him by Shi Shi before the game - if he can organize an offense, he can play normally. But if you can't organize the offense, then change your tactical positioning and change from an organizer to a transitioner. You are mainly responsible for distributing the football without thinking about how to organize the offense.
How to break through the Japanese team's defense and threaten the Japanese team's goal is left to Trident.
Although this will make him feel that his importance has been reduced, under today's circumstances, it is also a helpless move. What is more important than myself is the victory of the team and winning the U23 Asian Cup.
He knows very well that if he continues to be the organizer of the Chinese team's offense, the team's offense is likely to be stuck here.
When Junpei Morikawa rushed to defend him again, Junfu Guo missed the ball from his teammate directly to Hu Lai, who retreated behind him to meet him.
Let Morikawa Junpei pounce on nothing.
Hu Lai passed the football to Luo Kai nearby, and then he quickly turned around and moved forward, taking away the Japanese team's defensive players and leaving Luo Kai empty.
Upon seeing this, Luo Kai did not pass the football to Hu Lai who had inserted into the penalty area, nor did he dribble the ball himself. Instead, he stretched his right leg on the spot and shot directly from a long distance!
The football flew forward quickly against the turf, towards the Japanese team's goal.
Goalkeeper Hiroki Ueshima fell to the ground and pounced on the football, using his fingertips to deflect the flying football out of the baseline...
"Luo Kai's long shot... Oh, what a pity! Hiroki Ueshima made a wonderful save and blocked the football from the bottom line... This was the most threatening shot of the Chinese team after the start of the game. Hiroki Ueshima made a little save. Embarrassed, the Chinese team also got a corner kick! ”
In the broadcast, Luo Kai, who completed the shot, felt a little regretful that he did not score. He was holding his head in his hands.
At this moment, he heard Hu Lai shouting at him: "Hey, can you do it?"
Luo Kai glared at the boy, then turned around and shook his head with a smile.
Because he remembered the scene when he and Hu Lai participated in the national competition together, it seemed familiar, and the boy asked him the same question.
Fast forward four years, they are still teammates, but both the jerseys they wear and the opponents they face are completely different. But without this kid, would he be where he is today?
(End of chapter)