But now Lu Wenbin has calmed down. He is the captain and he will encourage his teammates to fight with Brazil to win the championship.
Lu Wenbin recruited his teammates into a circle to boost morale.
His personal achievements and the leader’s aura added to his teammates’ depressed morale, which was inspired by Lu Wenbin. Everyone shouted "China will win" and entered the competition again.
The half-time game of overtime officially began.
In the stoppage time, Brazil may feel that the Imperial City helped them win the game. They launched a storm on China from the beginning of overtime.
Without striker Lei Wu, the Brazilian midfielder Sandro attacked the back of the frontcourt, leaving two central defenders to defend Lu Wenbin’s counterattack.
Sometimes Diego Silva crossed Lu Wenbin and took part in the frontcourt attack.
This is a bit of a disrespect for the China team.
However, the China team did have a very difficult defense.
China’s players are physically worse than Brazil’s, and now they are short of one man’s defense, and China’s goal is constantly facing Brazil’s attack.
But the game of substitute goalkeeper Wu Sihuo was a big surprise.
He kept blocking the whole overtime half-time for 15 minutes, and solved the Brazilian team’s four shots in the range of doorframes, and even more, there was a close-range shot in the small forbidden zone.
Wu Sihuo’s superb performance allowed China’s goal to be bombarded indiscriminately by Brazil, and kept the score of 22 until the end of overtime. China continued to retain the opportunity to give the Brazilians a fatal blow.
Chapter 6 Shocking the World, Hooking and Shooting
China didn’t get any decent chance to fight back in 15 minutes at halftime.
Only in the 12th minute, Lu Wenbin once rushed to the outside of the forbidden zone with the ball and completed a hanging shot. Unfortunately, the ball finally went a little higher than the crossbar and failed to score.
The two sides took a short break to continue the overtime half-game.
Lu Wenbin knew that he had to score a goal in the last 15 minutes of the half-time to solve the game.
Otherwise, the China Olympic team’s psychological quality, shooting goalkeeper’s strength level and so on are dragged into the penalty shootout, and China team is facing a penalty shootout 99 to lose.
In order to win the gold medal, China’s defense line must not concede a goal. Lu Wenbin must score a goal.
But now China is playing striker Lei Wu alone, and Brazil’s defender has to keep an eye on Lu Wenbin alone.
This is not only to focus on one person less, but to defend the target much simpler. If you don’t prevent Lu Wenbin’s assists, you should pay attention to his breakthrough or shooting.
This is also the reason why China did not score a goal at the half-time of overtime.
Not only that, but the lack of personnel has caused the China team’s defense line to be quite tight, and it is almost impossible to draw people to support Lu Wenbin.
Both Cao Yunding and Baal have almost changed from avant-garde to defender, and they have been helping the defense in the backcourt.
China’s counterattack can be supported by Lu Wenbin alone.
In the 19th minute, the China team was snowed and frosted. Zhao Peng, the 29-year-old main defender, got cramped in a scramble and never got up and was carried on a stretcher.
China team can be forced to make a substitution for a young substitute, and the defensive strength of Lei Tenglong has dropped again.
Well, maybe it’s knowing that the penalty in the last stoppage time of the regular game was misjudged and wronged by China’s referee. In overtime, it was a bit of a balancing act. He turned a blind eye to many foul defensive moves of China and didn’t give Brazil a ball.
On one occasion, Marjan was pushed down by the defender of China, and the referee in the district turned a blind eye and signaled that the game would continue without awarding Brazil a penalty.
China’s goal has to be kept clean, and it is difficult to maintain a draw.
However, a draw is of little significance to China. If China enters the penalty shootout, it will lose the game, lose the championship and lose the gold medal.
There was no one in front. Lu Wenbin didn’t dare to retreat to join the defense, but stayed near the midfield to find a counterattack opportunity.
Other players in the China team have been trying to defend, grab the ball and then try to kick forward for Lu Wenbin.
However, after playing for more than a minute, the players of China team’s physical strength and aim were greatly reduced. It was not for Lu Wenbin to run to the stall that they could get the ball to Lu Wenbin’s foot.
So Lu Wenbin never got a good chance to fight back at half-time.
Finally, in the 112th minute, Wu Sihuo played well again and directly held Damian’s shot in his arms.
Wu Sihuo, a China fan, didn’t squat and delay or throw the ball by hand, but got up and kicked the ball to the Brazilian half with one big foot.