When the players on both sides came on the court, the TV broadcast footage gave the top star of the two teams. The Chinese team was Zhou Yi, while the Brazil team was Neymar. Zhou Yi was also the captain of the Chinese team, while the Brazil team was not Neymar, but Thiago Silva.

Neymar has been famous for a long time, but he has always played football in Brazil. It was rumored that he was coming to Europe to play football a long time ago, but in the end it was always rumored. Many people think that Neymar should play football in Europe so that he can grow faster. But some people think that Neymar is still young, and playing football too early is equivalent to forcing the growth of the seedlings. Brazilian geniuses always can't wait to go to Europe at the age of seventeen or eighteen. At first, they performed very well, but when their characteristics are familiar, when their bodies cannot keep up with the requirements of European football, their performance will be reduced.

The most typical example is the striker Pato, who is also in the Brazilian Olympic team. When he first entered Serie A, his performance was amazing. He was considered Kaka's successor, and a world-class superstar was rising.

As a result, Pato's performance in AC Milan last season was very average. Because his performance in the club was not good enough, he was not even the main player in the Brazilian Olympic team and could only be a substitute.

So we have argued whether to go to Europe early or late.

Zhou Yi is not concerned about the future development of young Brazilian players. However, he feels that Neymar does have some shortcomings because he has been playing football in Brazil.

People only see Neymar's superb personal skills and speed, but ignore the long-term playing football in Brazil that has caused him to have poor cooperation awareness and love to eat alone. In addition, his physical ability to fight is also very bad.

Zhou Yi's physical confrontation ability is not a strong point, but after more than three seasons of training and tempering in Europe, it is much better than when he first came to Europe. Now he is no longer overwhelmed by his opponent on the court.

But looking at Neymar's legs as thin as a bamboo pole, it really makes people worry that he will shake his legs first when doing fake moves...

Perhaps in the eyes of some people, it will cost a very heavy price for the Chinese team to defeat Brazil, and it depends on luck. But in Zhou Yi's mind, this game is not that dangerous for the Chinese team.

He has simulated this game many times in the virtual world, and the Chinese team's disadvantage is not as great as everyone thinks. As long as the tactics are used reasonably, the Brazilian team is not unbeatable.

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After Zhou Yi and Thiago Silva completed all the pre-match procedures, he returned to his half. His teammates were waiting for him. They formed a circle, and there was a gap in this circle. When Zhou Yi came back, the gap was filled.

"Okay, they kick the ball first." As soon as they came back, Zhou Yi reported to everyone about the results of guessing coins, and he won the right to pick the side. "From the moment they got the ball, we have to go up and force them to create pressure. After grabbing the ball, we will pass it forward and fight back! They must have not entered the state at the beginning of the game. They have a high opinion of themselves and will definitely look down on us, so they will play casually. This is our opportunity. Take them off guard!"

"Okay!" The teammates responded in unison.

Then Zhou Yi stretched out his hand and enlarged it to the middle of the circle, and others folded their hands one after another.

"One, two, three! Come on!"

Everyone shouted in unison.

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In the eyes of outsiders, the Chinese team just held a simple pre-match encouragement ceremony. Before the game, everyone formed a lap and shouted twice, which was nothing strange.

Moreover, Brazil has not done this, which may indicate that the Chinese team, as a challenger, must yell a few words in the face of Brazil to muster up the courage to challenge the powerful Brazil.

After all the Chinese players stood in their positions, the Brazilian team's kickoff players had been waiting in the middle circle for a long time.

The referee whistle sounded and the game began!

"The game begins! Spectators, welcome to watch the last semifinals of men's football in this Olympics! Against both sides are the Chinese Olympic team and the Brazilian Olympic team! In another semifinal that ended earlier, the Mexican Olympic team from Central and North America lost to the Japanese team with a score of 1:2 and has already entered the finals ahead of schedule. This game will determine another final place..." With the referee's whistle, He Ping also began to comment continuously.

"Our National Olympic team is wearing red jerseys on the court, while Brazil wears their traditional yellow and green jerseys. Both sides have not made any adjustments to the starting lineup in this game. The Chinese team continued their starting lineup in the last game against the South Korean team..."

He was talking, after the Brazilian team drove the football out on the court, they did not immediately play forward, but chose to pass it back.

The Chinese team did not choose to shrink their defense, but bravely followed the football and pushed out.

With a few passes, the formations of both sides gradually opened.

When the Brazilian team was down, Mark Laurenson, a commentator from the British BBC TV station, was praising the Brazilian team's lineup: "Although the Chinese team performed well and there are as many as five players playing in Europe, from the lineup, I think Brazil is more advantageous. To be honest, I think it is already very good for the Chinese team to reach the semi-finals and should not be too much. Facing the strong Brazil, the Chinese team's psychology may be affected... Of course, the charm of football lies in its unpredictability..."

Mark Laurenson's words were not finished, and He Ping was still reporting the starting list of the Chinese team.

Brazilian players moved the football that was originally on the left side to their right side.

The right back, Rafael, who played for Manchester United, used **** to transfer the ball from the other side to steadily take the ball he transferred from his teammates, but he did not immediately pass the ball, although Thiago Silva was not far behind him.

But he took the football under control.

This is a change for Brazil, who has been passing the ball and down his feet before. This change was keenly captured by Zhou Yi.

He immediately waved his arms and directed his teammates loudly: "Press up and force him!!"

The person closest to Raphael was the left midfielder of the Chinese National Olympic Team, Zhang Jiadong, quickly posted it from behind, but Raphael still did not pass the football, and he was still in control of the ball.

Seeing that he was targeted, the Brazilian players also came up to pick him up.

First, Oscar ran back from the frontcourt and approached him in the inside. Then Thiago Silva also pulled to the sideline to create an angle for Raphael to pass the ball.

But the Chinese team immediately made a targeted arrangement. He Ying in front pulled to the side and got stuck between Raphael and Thiago Silva, cutting off the passing route of Raphael's return to Thiago Silva.

At the same time, Zhang Jiadong stepped up his pressing against Raphael behind him, which put a huge pressure on him, making it difficult for him to control the football at his feet.

He can only pass the football now. But who to pass it? Thiago Silva is no longer possible. Raphael glanced at the Oscar who retreated to the inside to pick up his Oscar. The two were very close, which was a good pass option.

So Raphael passed the football horizontally to the inside line under Zhang Jiadong's close press, intending to pass it to Oscar.

But just as the football was passed to the Oscar, a red figure suddenly appeared between Raphael and the Oscar!

It's Zhouyi!

When Oscar retreated to pick up Raphael, no one noticed that Zhou Yi had already accelerated and rushed up. He expected that Raphael would definitely pass the football to Oscar, and he just needed to cut off the passing line at the right time!

Sure enough, he took the lead in intercepting the football from Oscar!

When Oscar discovered Zhou Yi, he reached out to help Zhou Yi, but Zhou Yi squeezed behind him.

After the steal, Zhou Yi did not continue to dribble the ball. After he temporarily withstood the impact from Oscars, he immediately kicked the ball and passed it to the middle!

When the football was just passed by him, he was finally knocked to the ground by Oscar...

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He Ying clearly saw Zhou Yi's movements and his tacit understanding with Zhou Yi, letting him know what he should do next - he did not wait in place, but turned around and ran towards the middle while Zhou Yi cut the ball with one kick.

Sure enough, he had just run to the middle and Zhou Yi's pass arrived. If he were a little late, he would not have received Zhou Yi's goal.

And now... he received the ball without any defense!

And in front of him is a huge gap between two Brazilian centrebacks and their left back!

In order to meet Raphael, Thiago Silva had already pulled to the side. Juan in the middle naturally had to pull to the ribs to fill Thiago Silva's position, but Brazil's left-back Marcelo did not come to the penalty area in time and was still in his original position.

I'm afraid he would never have thought that Raphael would make a pass mistake and would affect him. So it's understandable that he didn't move.

But the result of his doing this was that there was a huge gap between Juan and him. This gap happened to be captured by the Chinese team!

When He Ying received the ball in the middle, Juan hurriedly made up for the position in the middle, but it was a little late...

"Look at this ball - He Ying! He received a pass from Zhou Yi, this is a one-on-one!" He Ping threw away the starting list he was mindful of just now and shouted excitedly. "Opportunity!"

Amid his roar, He Ying took a step forward and just arrived at the penalty area line. Juan had not yet played back. Thiago Silva had just run back to the penalty area, while Marcelo was watching the show from a distance, or he didn't react at all.

On the penalty area line, He Ying took a decisive footing!

The football rushed forward quickly against the turf and was shot at the lower right corner of the goal.

Brazil's goalkeeper Gabriel stood there without even making a save. He turned his head and watched the football run past him, and then... dived into the net!
Chapter completed!