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Chapter 1346: A Great River with Wide Waves (Act II: Sleeping)


At 4:30 p.m. on June 25, 2006, at the Gödalm Stadium in Stuttgart, the sky was clear.The stadium of more than 54,000 seats is full of red and yellow as far as the eye can see, of which red occupies 60% of the stands, yellow occupies only 20%, and a fifth of the seats are reserved for German spectators in variegated clothes, isolated between red and yellow.Before the opening, fans from China and Ecuador also had a small verbal altercation outside the stadium.Ecuadorian fans provoked honest Chinese fans and made a squinting gesture, and domestic fans didn't know what it meant, and thought it was a gesture of goodwill.But among the fans who came to watch the game, many of them were overseas Chinese living in Europe and the United States.Fortunately, the German police were strong, and the Chinese fans, who were outnumbered, did not wait for them to fully understand and rush up, and the police separated the two sides.But the aftermath of the incident came out anyway, and the news circulated among nearly 30,000 Chinese fans.In addition to the indignation, what most Chinese fans perceive is absurdity."

Discriminating against us?

Don't look at yourself what color it is!

”The national team, who was completely unaware of all this, was silently warming up on the field, and everyone only noticed that in the main stand, directly behind the coaches' seats of the two sides, the crowd of red jerseys occupied a huge square, and the family seats of the Chinese team were there.As for the other flags, banners, and so on, they are all over the place, and you can't see them.At 4:40, the two sides returned to the locker room after warming up, and the atmosphere on the court gradually increased.At 4:50, the Chinese team in red jerseys and the Ecuador team in yellow jerseys came out of the locker room at the same time, each player pulling a small ball boy and standing in the players' tunnel without squinting.As FIFA officials violently pushed open the fence gate, the two sides walked out in turn, stepping into the hustle and bustle.Standing in the center of the stadium, Wang Ai and Zong Lei are on one side, in the middle is the international player who started this time, the sky is still blue overhead, and there are red human heads in front of and behind him, and the faces cannot be seen clearly, only when the national anthem sounds, he suddenly returned to the home field.Wang Ai lost again when guessing the side, Wang Ai won one of the four games, but fortunately, Ecuador did not pretentiously ask for an exchange or something in the venue where they dispersed to warm up, everyone understood that this little trick was useless.As a result, the Chinese team played from right to left in the perspective of the main stand.At 17 o'clock, Bai Guanghai and Wang Ai, who got the right to serve, were already standing in the middle circle, and Belgian referee De Bricker looked down at the table below and blew the whistle for the second knockout game of this World Cup.The flow of people in the yellow jersey spread out and lunged forward, while the flow of people in the red jersey stretched slowly and the strength settled in the rear.As soon as the opening game, the tactical thinking of the two sides in this battle was clearly displayed, the Chinese team was based on defense, and Ecuador intended to attack in the opening game.Football repeatedly scrambles and destroys in midfield.Among European and South American players, the physical confrontation ability of Chinese players is not on par with Ecuador, but they are stronger than Ecuador in terms of overall cooperation.Ecuador is more confident than the Chinese team in terms of small coordination of three or two people.Except for Ali Hahn and Hao Haidong, Zhang Yonghai and others on the bench, most of the coaches are standing, and most of the Chinese fans are also standing, even if everyone has a seat.Because everyone knows that they are here today to witness history.The situation of the Chinese team is gradually unfavorable, this Ecuadorian national team is very strong, and Ecuador, which also entered the knockout round for the second time in the World Cup, is obviously very happy to draw the Chinese team as an opponent, the team's tactical layout is confident and bold, and the players' desire to attack is also very strong.The Chinese team put the opponent to attack first according to the pre-game arrangement, Bai Guanghai wandered in the opponent's guard line alone looking for opportunities, Wang Ai was connected back and forth near the middle circle, Shao Jiayi and Zheng Zhi of the double back waist took on the heaviest task since the start of the game, and the cooperation between the two was still slightly rusty.This reflects the drawbacks caused by the frequent changes of the Chinese team: how much inconvenience it gives to the opponent, it will also disadvantage itself.The battle is changing, and it is a seven-wound fist.Of course, from a more macro perspective, this is also the growth of the Chinese team, and the constantly changing lineup is self-explanatory, training players, and even improving the ball quotient of the entire Chinese football industry.The game was uneventful, the voices of the Chinese fans had gradually subsided by the opening five minutes, and the Ecuadorian team had completed a low-quality goalmouth outflank, but the cross was interfered with by Xu Liang, and the football went out of the air on the bottom line.In addition, Ecuador does not have many ways to deal with the tight Chinese defensive system, and of course, the counterattack effect of the Chinese team is also average.Wang Ai was destroyed by the opponent's double bag when he received Shao Jiayi's direct plug in the midfield, and the counter-robbery was also unsuccessful."

Is this going to be a boring game?"

Duan Xuan of the second live broadcast group of CCTV Sports Channel of the German World Cup couldn't help but ask in the commentary."

It's good to win."

Ma Mingyu, who served as a special guest host for the first time, obviously didn't adapt to the rhythm very much, and said concisely.Due to the two knockout matches to be played today, Huang Jianxiang and Tao Wei, who have been presiding over the on-site commentary of the Chinese team, were arranged to go to the second half of the night in the German world to explain the battle between Italy and Australia, and Duan Xuan and Ma Mingyu finally got their turn to have a good errand."

That's right, the World Cup, the hero is judged by victory or defeat.Yesterday's Anglo-German battle was not very pretty. ”Duan Xuanyan said insincerely: "So, Captain Ma, can you comment on the opening minutes, who has a greater hope of winning?"

”Old Ma: "......

Don't call me captain, I'm retired, it's terrible for Xiao Wang to know. ”"What?

You don't recognize you as an old captain?

”"No, but what if he's going to beat me?

It's not four years ago, this old arm and legs, it's okay to move your mouth. ”In the ridicule of the two, the old horse cleverly dodged the request that made him predict.The evenly matched game is impossible to predict at all, the slap in the face is too fast, Lao Ma has just opened up the second front of his career, and he doesn't want to hang up so soon.seemed to confirm Lao Ma's worries, and before two minutes of the ridicule between the two, a seemingly insipid change on the court actually rewrote the score.Ecuador's No. 14 Castillo was strongly intercepted by Sun Jihai in the middle of the bottom, and in desperation, he turned around and handed the player to the middle, and No. 20 striker Tenorio met the half-high ball in the corner of the penalty area and shot directly at the goal.A ball hung straight into the dead corner, and Zong Lei didn't react at all.0:1!

The audience fell silent.()