In fact, Australia did not score in the first half and fell behind the Chinese team by one goal. This situation is completely acceptable for Australian head coach Osijek.

After all, this is the home court of the Chinese team, and the Chinese team has made rapid progress in the past two years. They won the runner-up in the Asian Cup and won the Olympics. In the previous top ten matches, they tied the Japanese team away.

In any aspect, the Chinese team is definitely not an opponent that can be ignored and underestimated.

So Osijek was quite satisfied with the result of only conceding one goal in the first half.

Because he only conceded one goal, this gave him more expectations for the second half - Australia drew two draws and one loss in the first three games, so their fourth game was definitely not for taking away another defeat.

Osijek's goal is to be able to win the Chinese team away.

It's quite contradictory. On the one hand, I think the Chinese team playing at home is strong and should not be underestimated. On the other hand, I put my goal on the away game and defeated the Chinese team.

In the locker room, Osijek kept encouraging his players to tell them that they were only one ball behind and that there were still a full forty-five minutes in the second half, and they could beat the Chinese team away.

"...The performance of Chinese players in the first half will definitely make them mistakenly believe that they can easily defeat us at home. When they underestimate the opponent, it is when we defeat them!"

In the locker room of the Chinese team, head coach Gao Hongbo was also reminding the players that a goal lead is not safe, and they should be wary of Australia's fierce attack in the second half. But at the same time, this fierce offensive in Australia is also an opportunity for the Chinese team.

"As long as we can withstand their attack, we will definitely have a lot of opportunities to counterattack." This is what Gao Hongbo said to his players.

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After the second half of the game began, the Chinese team continued to attack Australia's penalty area under the leadership of Zhou Yi, and the offensive was fierce and Australia could not even pass the half. The Xi'an fans in the stands of the Zhuque Stadium also supported the team with huge cheers.

The performance of the Chinese team reminds people of the period after the Chinese team scored the goal in the first half. The offensive was like a tide, which made people excited.

Australia obviously expected that the Chinese team would launch such a fierce offensive just at the beginning of the second half, so they recovered from the entire line, stabilized their defense, and withstand the Chinese team's aggressive offensive first.

With their efforts, Australia's goal did not fall. After ten minutes, the Chinese team really slowed down again, and the players needed to take a breath.

Australia took advantage of the opportunity of the Chinese team slowing down and started their counterattack.

Faced with Australia's counterattack, the Chinese team did not fight to the death with them in the midfield, but instead retreated to a 30-meter area and fought against them near the penalty area.

This will give full play to their advantages of layer-by-layer filtering in defense, making it difficult for Australia to truly threaten the Chinese team's goal.

In this process, Zhou Yi began to look for opportunities to fight back.

Australia will definitely not be willing to lose away just like this, even if it is a draw, it will not be able to satisfy them. Because their results in the first three games were too bad. Understanding this, Zhou Yi was very confident in his judgment.

He firmly believes that Australia will continue to increase its offense, and when they are completely pressed out, it is the time for the Chinese team to counterattack. Now, we need to wait patiently.

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Australia's offense did not put all its efforts at the beginning because they also had to be wary of the Chinese team's defensive counterattack. So the back line is basically after the center line, but such an offense obviously cannot use the goal guarded by Sun Pan.

After a while of attack, Australia's offense still could not pose any threat to the Chinese team's goal, and there were not even many high-quality shots.

Seeing that the score cannot be rewritten, the anxious emotions in the minds of every Australian player are slowly growing.

They also know what goal they came to China with. If they still can't win this game, they will not win in one of the top ten games in four games, and it will be a bit unlucky to get the right to qualify for the World Cup.

Why did they choose to join the AFC? Isn’t it just to be able to enter the World Cup finals more easily? If they can’t pass the qualifiers in the Asian region, wouldn’t it be embarrassing?

And then the pressure on domestic public opinion will become very large.

After playing this game, there are five match days. Australia will be a bye in these five match days, which means there are four matches left.

If we lose to the Chinese team now, Australia will only gain two points after the game, and the gap between the direct competitors behind the Chinese team and the Japanese team will be further widened.

The Chinese team won three wins and one draw and scored ten, surpassing the Japanese team to become the first in the group, while the Japanese team ranked second with two wins and two draws. Australia only has two points, and it is probably difficult to even be ranked fourth in the group.

So if they lose this game, they will be very bad.

At the thought of this, Australian players became more and more impatient during the game.

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Before we knew it, fifteen minutes had passed in the second half, and half an hour was left before the end of the game.

In order to change the current situation of the offensive situation, Osijek decided to sell and adjust.

He asked the two wide-range defensive players to actively intervene in and participate in the offense, making Australia's offense more layered and forming a sea wolf-like offensive, layer after layer, wave after wave.

Only through such an offensive can we create enough pressure on the Chinese team's backward direction, forcing them to make mistakes and create opportunities belonging to Australia.

When even the Australian defenders pressed forward to participate in the offense, for a moment, their offensive did bring great pressure and trouble to the Chinese players, and it also caused some dangers in front of the Chinese team's goal.

Faced with these dangerous situations, Chinese-style fans and commentators were all frightened, only Sun Pan was very excited - he was finally able to show off!

Before, Australia's offense was generally of low quality, so it was difficult for him to perform well. They were all just a few saves, and it was impossible to make a difficult save.

It's different now...

Australia's desperate attack gave Sun Pan a lot of opportunities to perform.

He began to appear frequently in close-ups and slow-motion replays.

"Sun Pan made another beautiful save! Australia's offensive was a bit fierce during this period, and the three lines of the Chinese team were almost compressed into one line. This is very dangerous..." Liu Hong said worriedly.

In the Zhuque Stadium, as long as Australian players get the ball, Xi'an fans will interfere with swear words and boo. But how can Australia, which has experienced many battles, be considered a top-notch Asian team, be easily disturbed by fans? They were ready before they came to the away game to score three-pointers, and they were going to be enemies of 1.4 billion people in China.

Sun Pan was very excited during this period, and Guo Nu and Yang Muge were also very active. Zhou Yi did not appear on the screen so often, so if someone remembered him, he might feel that Zhou Yi was invisible.

But in fact, Zhou Yi was not idle either. He had been observing the situation on the court, keeping the running routes of players from both China and Australia in mind, and analyzing some rules through these records.

He felt that the right opportunity to fight back had arrived.

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After two Australian full-backs came up to participate in the offense, their offense became simpler and more direct - that is, the continuous crosses from the two sides, and the excellent header Tim Cahill jumped up to compete for the top.

Cahill's header is indeed quite threatening, but Guo Nu is not easy to mess with.

Sometimes, even if Guo Nu can't hit the ball, he will interfere with Cahill when he fights to the ball in a suffocational way, making it difficult for him to push the football to the goal comfortably.

Now, Australia made another cross from the side. Tim Cahill leaped high after sprinting to head the ball, but he collided with Guo Nu in the air. He still pushed the ball, but all his power was used to fight Guo Nu in the air. The moment he finally hit the football, it was already the end of his strength.

Sun Pan jumped in the air, stretched out his hands, and took off the football very easily.

He was still a little dissatisfied and felt that this save was not exciting enough.

Just as he was about to complain, he saw Zhou Yi winking at him outside the penalty area.

In order not to attract attention, Zhou Yi did not make any gestures, but just shook his eyes. If he was a person who didn't know Zhou Yi very much, he would be surprised and at a loss when he saw him grinning and squeezing his eyes. He didn't understand what was wrong with Zhou Yi, and whether he suddenly became epilepsy...

But Sun Pan is not that kind of person. When he saw Zhou Yi like this, he knew what he was going to do.

So he didn't bother to complain that Guo Nu didn't give him a chance to show off. He directly passed the two people, swung his arms, and threw the football out.

He did not throw it directly to Zhou Yi because there were two Australian players around Zhou Yi.

He threw the football directly on the Chinese team's forward line and to He Ying!
Chapter completed!