After the first round of the World Cup group stage, the only ones who won the African team were Ghana, who was in the same group as the Chinese team. The Asian teams won the two teams, Japan and South Korea, defeated Cameroon 1:0, and South Korea won 2:0. They showed the world fans the style of the old Asian team.

The overall performance of European teams is average, with only four teams, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Slovenia, winning the ball, while the American teams have fewer, but they have won three games. In addition, Paraguay tied Italy, Uruguay tied France, and the United States tied England, which can be said to be a heroic performance.

This is the second time that the Chinese team has participated in the World Cup finals. With a superstar like Chen Yu, he was beaten by the German team at 4:1. Before the game, many people regarded the Chinese team as a dark horse, but now they are disappointed. They think that the overall Chinese team is too bad. Even Chen Yu is not enough to make China qualitative changes. This is very different from Shevchenko's Ukraine. Although Ukraine did not enter the World Cup finals before the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the players' level is very high, while the Chinese team's personal abilities are too different.

Originally, in Group D, the Chinese team's qualifying odds were the last. After the first round of the game, the Chinese team's group qualifying odds were almost on par with North Korea, New Zealand and Algeria.

There are three games in the group stage. If the first round is not played well, the second round is very important. If the two rounds cannot be played well, fate will not be in your own hands.

The host South Africa faced the South American powerhouse Uruguay in the second round. South Africa tied with Mexico in the first game. In this round, he was extremely eager to win, but Uruguay played very well and fully utilized the South Africa's eagerness to score goals. He fought a counterattack, led the score and stabilized the defense. He scored two goals in 80 minutes and stoppage time, defeating the host 3:0. South Africa lost and draw in two games, and in the other game, Mexico defeated France 2:0. In this way, after two rounds, Mexico and Uruguay took the initiative to qualify in the group, and the fate of South Africa and France, which also draws and loses one, can no longer be in their own hands.

The Korean team in Group B defeated the Greek team in the first round. They had ambitions to reach the top 16 again, but they were hit by Argentina. The 1:4 score made the Koreans finally understand what a world-class team is.

In another game, the Greek team knew the shame and bravely defeated Nigeria 2:1, and the hope of advancing increased significantly.

After two rounds, Argentina, who won two consecutive games, basically qualified, while South Korea won and Greece won and lost. There was still a fight in the last round. Nigeria lost both games, and hope for advancement could only be based on defeating South Korea, while Argentina defeated Greece at the same time.

The second round of Group C was very friendly, with draws in both games. England tied two consecutive games with a big hit, which was really shocking. Slovenia, who won and tied one by one, took his destiny into his own hands.

The match between Germany and Serbia in Group D began first. I thought it was a game without any suspense. There was no problem with the German team beating Serbia early, but the Serbians did not believe in evil. They defended tenaciously and finally succeeded in an upset, defeating the German team 1:0, and seizing the first move to qualify.

Serbia's upset made the situation in Group D mess up.

Originally, they all thought that the German team had a qualifying place. When Germany beat Ghana in the last round, it might not fight hard, so Ghana did not have to defeat the Chinese team, and it would be acceptable to draw. However, now Ghana must defeat the Chinese team to ensure the qualifying in the group. If Ghana cannot defeat the Chinese team and Serbia defeats the Chinese team, and Ghana cannot defeat the German team in the last round, then Germany and Serbia will qualify.

The match between Ghana and the Chinese team moved to the Royal Banfoken Stadium in Rustenburg. This stadium was just built this year and can only accommodate 38,000 people.

This is a life-and-death battle between the Chinese team. Although the Chinese team is weak, many Chinese fans still want to see Chen Yu lead the Chinese team to create miracles. Therefore, there were almost more than 10,000 Chinese fans on the scene, which was much more than Ghana's fans.

The starting lineup of the Chinese team is exactly the same as the starting lineup of the German team in the last game, but the formations in the actual game are different. Gao Fei, Zheng Hua, and **** are still in front of the two central defenders, but Chen Yu and Shao Gang's positions are slightly ahead of the way, forming a 4321 formation.

This is a Christmas tree formation. Of course, the Chinese team's technical and tactical abilities are much worse than AC Milan. The purpose of this is just to further increase Chen Yu's threat to Ghana's goal.

Garner shipped a 4231 formation: 22-Kingston/4-Panthir, 19-Adi, 8-Hornasan-Mensa, 2-Salpe/6-Annan, 12-Tago, 21-Assamoa, 23-P-Boateng, 13-Anyu/3-Gian

This formation is exactly the same as Ghana defeated Serbia in the first round. Although there is only one striker, because of the black man's speed and impact, it actually poses a great threat to the opponent's goal.

Ghana's strength is beyond doubt. Being able to defeat Serbia is definitely not comparable to the Chinese team, but this is not Ghana's strongest lineup. Ghana's biggest star Essin missed the World Cup due to injury, while another star Montari recovered from an injury and was in poor condition and could only play as a substitute. Now Ghana's most famous stars are Boateng and Asamoa.

But even without Essin and only half of Montari, Ghana's overall strength is stronger than that of the Chinese team.

Influenced by the scores of the German team and the Chinese team, the Ghanaians did not take the Chinese team seriously. They attacked fiercely at the beginning and were very eager to score goals early and end the game, and firmly grasp the initiative to qualify in their own hands.

The Chinese team is very clear about their situation. They have lost a game and have lost a lot of goals. In this game, whether it is a loss or a draw, they will not be behind Ghana. If they want to qualify in the group, they must win Ghana. At the team meeting before the game, Forardo and the coaching team clearly put forward the goal, and strive to win in this game and maintain the hope of qualifying.

Of course, the tactic of the Chinese team to compete with Ghana is to fight back.

The Chinese team's defensive counterattack is not useful to the German team, which is similar to paper-based ones. That's because the German team has a big man, excellent headers, and comprehensive physical strength and skills suppress the Chinese team. The Chinese team really can't defend it, but Ghana is different.

The Ghanaians are indeed good in their skills, their physical fitness is strong, their explosive power and speed are good, but after the Chinese team is intensively defending, the Ghanaians' speed and personal breakthroughs are not very useful.

Even if you can get a chance to set pieces, Ghana's players' head abilities are incomparable to those of the German team. Even if you are not much better than the Chinese team, the title of Chinese head squad is not for nothing, so Ghana's team will not have much threat to obtain a set piece.

After the start of the game, the Chinese team honestly occupied their own half and fought a defensive counterattack. Once they encountered danger, they would foul and refused to give the Ghanaian a chance to break through to their own penalty area.

Faced with the Chinese team's tenacious defense, the Ghanaians did not have any good opportunities. They saw that they had a lot of time to control the ball and often made beautiful breakthroughs in the midfield. They often had to play with Chinese players at their feet from time to time. However, once they arrived at the 30-meter area of ​​the Chinese team, they could no longer attack and could only harass them outside through their boots.

This scene is very familiar to Chinese fans, because at the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese national Olympic team beat the African eagle Nigeria to death.

Of course, the Chinese team will not only defend but not attack. Without counterattack, there will be no defense. The Chinese team has been looking for opportunities to counterattack. However, after the start, Garner was still cautious and the Chinese team did not find an opportunity to counterattack.

After fifteen minutes of the game, the score was still 0:0. Ghana only had three long shots, which did not pose any threat to the Chinese team's goal. This made the Ghanaians a little anxious. They increased their offense, attacked around the Chinese team's penalty area, and increased breakthrough crosses on the wing.

Under Ghana's strong attack, the Chinese team's defense struggled. The Ghanaian got consecutive shots and once faced goalkeeper Zeng Lei's push shot in the penalty area, but Ghana's striker's striker was average and he didn't seize three good opportunities at once.

Although there was no goal, the continuous creation of murderous intent still made the Ghanaians a little lost. The Africans were originally free and lacked discipline, and they played very well. They soon forgot to defend. They thought of breaking through the Chinese team's goal as soon as possible, causing disconnection between the three lines, with the midfielder and the forward pressing the front and dragging the back line behind.

Although the Chinese players do not look at their average football skills, they are just as good as the three African brothers. They did not forget to counterattack in the crisis. In the 23rd minute of the game, Garner made a wall-like cooperation mistake at the front of the Chinese team's penalty area. The ball was cut off by the Chinese team and passed to Sun Hai's feet. Sun Hai passed it to the gap between Garner's midfielder and the defender without hesitation. He did not even look at the positions of Chen Yu and Qu Bo. He believed that some of these two people must go to this gap.

Sure enough, Qu Bo ran away from this gap. Chen Yu had just retreated to defend and was running over at high speed, but he was one step slower than Qu Bo.

Qu Bo headed the ball to Chen Yu, turned around and ran forward, wanting Chen Yu to give him a straight pass or over the ball.

However, the Ghanaian defender turned around and chased back very quickly. Although Qu Bo is known for his speed in the Chinese team, he cannot get rid of Ghanaian defender Adid.

Qu Bo couldn't get rid of Adid, so Chen Yu didn't dare to pass the ball, so he could only drive the ball forward and break through.

Garner's other central defender, Hornasan, did not dare to rob, so he quickly retreated and waited for the support of the full-back.
Chapter completed!