Chapter 596： Strong opponent

The Brazilian team’s continuous offense has put a lot of pressure on the Chinese team. The Chinese team only counterattacked twice in the first 20 minutes.

One of them was that Lu Wenbin ran the ball for a long distance and was destroyed after halftime. Another time, Wu Xi passed the ball to Wu Lei. As a result, Wu Lei was not fast enough and was first cleared by central defender Silva, which failed to pose a threat.

The Brazil team made five shots in the first 20 minutes, averaging one shot in four minutes, which is quite scary.

Of these five shots, two hits within the frame. Had it not been for luck, Brazil would have scored the lead.

As the captain, Lu Wenbin felt a lot of pressure and kept retreating, running back and forth to participate in the defense, using his fairly good position selection and full-value defensive skills to help the team keep the goal.

However, Lu Wenbin's defense is not in the team's training and game plan.

His usual defense is only frontcourt interference and delayed defense, as long as it can delay the opponent's offensive speed, instead of being a defensive midfielder or even a defender in the backcourt.

Now Lu Wenbin retreats deeper than usual, but it has somewhat affected the coordination between the Chinese team's defender and midfielder.

Because Lu Wenbin did not form a long-term understanding on defense with his teammates in the backcourt.

In the 23rd minute, when Lu Wenbin fell to the ground again near the corner of the penalty area to tackle the ball at Alex's feet and destroyed the opponent's wing attack, Lu Wenbin was called to the court by the coach Blazevic. side.

Blazevic was extremely nervous and pressed Lu Wenbin’s shoulders and said: "Lu Wenbin, you are too far back, you are the front waist, not the back midfielder. Your position too far back not only prevents our counterattack from going up, but also affects it. In order to achieve the defensive coordination between our defensive midfielders and guards. Your position needs to be advanced a little bit, just interfere in the midfield, and we must also let our defense line have a place to play the ball after grabbing the ball. Your main responsibility It’s a goal, not a defense."

Blazevic's tension is understandable, because he is afraid of Lu Wenbin playing big cards and does not understand his tactical instructions.

If Lu Wenbin insisted on going his own way, he would have nothing to do.

Replace Lu Wenbin? It's better to surrender and admit defeat.

Besides, he didn't dare.

He now dares to replace Lu Wenbin, he will have to dismiss the get out of class as soon as the game is over, regardless of whether the Chinese team wins or loses.

Fortunately, Lu Wenbin is not an arrogant person who does not listen to persuasion.

After a little recollection, Lu Wenbin discovered his mistake, and the coach's statement was correct.

Although his defensive ability is very good, a deeper retreat can really give the Chinese team's defense more help, as evidenced by not allowing the Brazilian team to score in more than 20 minutes.

However, his interference with the defense is also real, and the two conflicts. In fact, the defensive strength he brought to the Chinese team's defense has not been improved much, and there is a lot of luck in not losing the ball.

On the contrary, because of his excessive retreat, the Chinese team's counterattack was almost completely scrapped. This is not worth the gain.

Therefore, Lu Wenbin nodded firmly, and said: "I understand, coach, I listen to you!"

Blazevic happily patted Lu Wenbin on the shoulder, pushed him onto the field, and continued the game.

After the game restarted, Lu Wenbin did not retreat to the big penalty area or even went to the penalty area.

In this way, although the strength of the rear defense has decreased a bit, it has not dropped too much because of the tacit cooperation of the rear defense training game.

The offense in the midfield is sharper because of Lu Wenbin's presence.

In the 29th minute, Zhang Linpeng struggled with the risk of injury and grabbed the first point in a battle with Oscar, and gave the ball to Lu Wenbin.

Then Zhang Linpeng was knocked to the ground by Oscar, but the referee did not stop the game because the ball fell to Lu Wenbin's feet and the Chinese team began to counterattack.

In line with the principle of favorable offense, the referee followed Lu Wenbin and rushed towards the Brazilian team at halftime.

This time Lu Wenbin was closer to the center line, with only one midfielder Sandro beside him, only two central defenders in the backcourt, and one of them had to defend Wu Lei.

This is the advantage of standing a little bit forward.

If you go further, even if Lu Wenbin gets the ball to counterattack, he will face the interception and timely return of the opponent's more midfielders and full-backs.

This is the reason why coach Blazevic asked Lu Wenbin not to be too far behind, just to retain the possibility of such a counterattack.

Now, the opportunity has come.

Although Sandro posted it as soon as Lu Wenbin received Zhang Linpeng’s header, but Lu Wenbin’s dribbling skills, speed, and body were so good that Sandro couldn’t find a chance to steal the ball. Haunted Lu Wenbin trying to delay his offensive speed.

But things backfired. Although Lu Wenbin's speed was a little slower, he was still not slow enough to allow other Brazilian players to come back and participate in the defense.

When Lu Wenbin and Sandro entangled while advancing, Wu Lei followed up 20 meters away, involving the defense of central defender Juan.

There is only one Silva in front of Lu Wenbin who retreats and defends, ready to spot the opportunity to cut Lu Wenbin's ball with Sandro.

As the distance approached, just as Lu Wenbin was about to reach the penalty zone line, Silva, who was slowly retreating, suddenly stood up and made a landing tackle.

Already about to enter the restricted area, Silva had to make this action outside the restricted area: the restricted area is too risky.

Even if he fails the tackle now, there is still Sandro entangled in, and Lu Wenbin will not be completely unguarded.

Sandro next to him also increased his pulling and pushing actions at the right time, trying to make Lu Wenbin lose his center of gravity and create opportunities for Silva to steal the ball.

However, the experienced Lu Wenbin saw through their intentions, and when Silva suddenly fell to the ground, he lifted the ball up, then jumped sharply, and stepped over the fallen Silva.

Although Sandro was a little staggered when he landed, he successfully broke through Silva's interception, and Sandro was temporarily thrown off by Lu Wenbin because of Silva's interference Lu Wenbin staggered to catch up with the landing ball, grabbed a stabbing shot before the attacking goalkeeper Gabriel, and kicked the ball from Gabriel's crotch.

Gabriel's legs were clamped and he touched the ball, but did not knock the ball out of the goal frame.

In the desperate eyes of countless Brazilians, the ball passed through Gabriel's crotch and rolled into the goal with a slight change of direction.

Lu Wenbin finally scored a counter-attack goal and the Chinese team took a 1-0 lead.

In the commentary booth, countless Chinese and foreign commentators suddenly yelled:

"Gooooooooooooooooooooooal..."

"The ball is scored, a counterattack from Uranus superstar Lu!"

"The Brazilian team bombarded the Chinese team for 30 minutes, but it was Lu who led the first goal!"

"Lu defeated the Brazil team alone!"