"Claudio! The broadcast has begun!" The wife shouted at Bellucci, who was playing with Lena in the yard at the door.

"I understand!" Bellucci hugged Lena, a strong Novena dog, and said, "Okay, Lena, you're going to watch the game! Stay here and don't go anywhere, do you know?"

Rena called out twice, then obediently lay on the lawn.

"So good!" Beluci patted Lena's head, then got up and walked towards the house, "I really didn't expect it to be hit by me, Chinese team and Italy, Yang Pan and Pirlo, hey! Which side should I cheer for?" he murmured to himself.

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Yang Pan took off his headphones and began to listen to Qiu Suhui's final arrangements.

"Although the Italian team conceded goals every game, we still cannot underestimate the opponent's defense. Yang Pan, Italy is unlikely to send two people to defend Nikkei in this game, but your pressure will not be reduced a lot, so you should still pay attention. In addition, the reason why Italy's weak offense in the first few games was that their front midfielder De Rossi was in poor form. De Rossi was suspended for accumulating yellow cards in this game, but I think this is Italy's chance. If I were Gentile, I would put Pirlo who performed well in the first two games to be the front midfielder. Pirlo was the front midfielder in the last Olympics, and he performed very well. So if Pirlo played in this game, then Li Yongle stared at him and didn't give him too many opportunities."

Li Yongle nodded. He is a member of Inter Milan's youth team, and Pirlo was also trained by Inter Milan's youth training, and his junior brother and senior brother.

"Although they only have one striker, I think everyone knows Girardino's ability very well. At the same time, they must be careful of their midfielder's assists, so the defense must cheer up and keep their attention focused for 90 minutes."

"In terms of offense, we still insist on the wing and use our overall speed to defeat them. I have studied Italian game videos. Although they are full of stars, only Pirlo has the ability to control the ball in the midfield. In other words, Italy's ball control level is not high. We have to seize a little, use speed to bring them up, and let them get over to deal with it."

Qiu Suhui threw the marker pen, and the tactical board was scratched in a mess.

"Basically, what I want to say is all about. The rest is all about grasping the game. Which team is better at seizing opportunities and taking advantage of opportunities effectively, which team will win." He glanced at the whole game and found that many players were still a little nervous. "Are you nervous?" he smiled, "Actually there is no need to put aside all the tension, and then think that this is your last game in the Olympics, and you will go home and disband after playing. In order to leave a beautiful memory, fight with all your strength! Fighting exhausted, and don't regret winning or losing! Do you know?"

"I understand!" Qiu Suhui's last words made the team members excited and shouted loudly.

"Very good, then come on the field."

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This quarter game is live broadcast all over the world. In Italy, China, and the Netherlands, countless pairs of eyes are staring at the TV screen. They pay attention to the performance of the two teams and more attention to the performance of several stars.

Pirlo (Andrea Pirlo), Alberto Gilardino, Yang Pan, Li Yongle. Perhaps their performance is enough to determine the success or failure of the game.

The referee called the captains of both sides together and signaled them to pick the coins.

Yang Pan and Pirlo shook hands politely. Although they were in AC Milan in name and were teammates, they had never met before except for meeting in the league. This teammate was just a nameless thing.

"Text or face?"

"Character."

"noodle."

The coin was thrown up and rolled on the turf. The three of them looked down at the same time, and then the referee pointed at Yang Pan. "Service Right." Yang Pan replied concisely in English.

Pirlo wants the right to pick the edge.

The two sides shook hands with each other again, and then shook hands with the three referees separately. After the process was over, the two captains returned to their half and waited for the kickoff.

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"Dear spectators! What you are seeing now is the first quarterfinals of men's football in the Athens Olympics. The two sides are the Chinese Olympic team and the Italian Olympic team. The Chinese team maintained unbeaten in the previous group stage with two wins and one draw, while Italy reached the quarterfinals with the help of the Japanese team. However, Italy has always had a tradition of slow warming up. Before the game, Italian head coach Gentile also told reporters that the Italian Olympics began from this game, and they were very confident of winning. Qiu Suhui also said in an interview that the Chinese team will not give up easily. In this way, this game will be a very fierce and exciting game!"

After Wang Jianxiang briefly introduced the situation of both sides, the game began after the referee's whistle sounded.

The Chinese team started the offense after kickoff, and their morale was strong and aggressive. This surprised many people because they believed that Qiu Suhui would definitely take a defensive position in front of Italy and use the speed of both sides of the Chinese team to wait for an opportunity to counterattack. Judging from Italy's last game against Paraguay, this Italian team often makes mistakes when facing the opponent's defensive counterattack. It is ironic that the Italian team, which is good at counterattacking, was defeated by Paraguay with defensive counterattacking.

But Qiu Suhui understood very well. Gentile was not kidding. Italy that entered the knockout stage was different from Italy that entered the group stage. At the European Youth Football Championship in June, the Italian team also lost to Russia in the first game of the group, which was called a "stigmatizing failure" by the media. After qualifying in the group, Gentile decisively changed the team, and indeed received a miraculous effect and finally won the championship. After entering the quarterfinals of the Olympics, Gentile indeed changed the team. He pushed Pirlo to the front midfielder position, shortening the distance with Girardino, avoiding the situation of Girardino being isolated and helpless again in the first three games. In addition, he could better utilize Pirlo's pass and long-range shooting ability. The formation also changed from 451 in the first three games to 4411.

In the face of more aggressive Italy, it would not work with a defensive attitude. Qiu Suhui's idea was to use the Chinese team's speed to attack Italy as soon as possible, and strive to score goals to gain an advantage. He will fight quickly and not play a protracted battle with Italy.

But doing this is actually a bit risky, because the Chinese team allocated most of their physical strength to the first half. If the situation cannot be opened, then he could not predict what the game would become as the physical strength decreases in the second half.

However, if you don’t take risks, how can you know if you will get gold or scrap iron in the end?

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Yang Pan dribbled the ball and rushed along the side road. He found that a person in front was stuck on his way forward. It seemed that he should be the person Qiu Zhi said to be the one who came to guard me. He glanced at the other party, but did not see his number and appearance clearly.

The two are approaching.

Italian left-back Moretti looked at Yang Pan nervously. This Chinese man who cannot be underestimated in the Serie A league will be his opponent today. Try to lean on it and don't let him speed up. This is Gentile's order.

Yang Pan suddenly realized that the other party did not rush up, but retreated for a while, and then followed him towards the bottom line!

Just as the two were parallel, Moretti twisted his body and suddenly leaned forward. Now the two of them were facing the same direction, entangled with each other.

Yang Pan felt the pressure given to him by the other party, and his speed also dropped. There was no way. In order to maintain control of the ball, he had to reduce the speed, because Yang Pan obviously felt that if he fought hard against the opponent in physical confrontation, he might not be able to win. Of course, he would definitely win if he gave him 100 meters and let him run, but the opponent only gave him less than 30 meters.

As the captain, it was not enough to just do it. Yang Pan raised his left hand and then stopped the football back with his right foot and turned his body along with the flow!

Moretti didn't expect Yang Pan's brakes to be so suddenly that he was not prepared at all. In shock, he lost all his gravity and fell forward.

The Chinese fans in the stands were clamoring loudly, and now is a great opportunity!

Yang Pan bypassed Moretti who fell and then made a cross!

Li Jie knew that the ball was for him, so when Yang Pan shook Moretti, he began to move towards the opponent's goal, but he soon found that his movement was slow and difficult. The reason was Matteo Ferrai, one of the three overage players, who was only 1.83 meters tall, Ferrai, who was trained in the Serie A, kept Li Jie, who was 1.9 meters tall, and the pass was finally obtained by goalkeeper Ivan Pelizzoli.

Seeing that the opportunity in the six minutes of the first half was missed, Qiu Suhui felt a little regretful. He didn't expect that Ferrari, who performed poorly in the last game, recovered so quickly. In front of Ferra who performed normally, the big Li Jie obviously didn't take much advantage. Although Li Jie was very tall and not light in weight, he had no experience and didn't know how to use his body reasonably. When he was fighting with others, his center of gravity was raised too high and he couldn't do anything at all.

Not being able to use the body reasonably and being often at a disadvantage in confrontation is a common problem for Chinese players, and Li Jie cannot be blamed.

If the ball is replaced by Girardino, it will be impossible to bear it when you see it, just turn around and avoid the defender. This is the gap between Chinese players and world-class teams!

Qiu Suhui sighed. He didn't have time to teach them how to use their bodies now. It seems that Li Jie will not pose much threat to Italy in this game today.

Unfortunately, if it were Zhang Jun... Qiu Suhui shook his head suddenly and stopped this dangerous idea. He is now leading eleven players on the court and seven people on the bench. They have been playing hard until now. Why do he still put his hope on someone who can't come at all? This is an insult to these players!

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Pellizoli threw the ball with his hand to attack, and Gianpiero Pinzi put the ball to Pirlo. Pirlo beautifully removed the ball and then advanced to the Chinese team halftime. But he soon found that he was having some trouble entering the opponent's 30-meter area, and the opponent's 1.88-meter-high midfielder seemed to have targeted him.

Pirlo slowed down his speed and he was not in a hurry to fight back. Girardino seemed to be unable to get rid of the opponent's guard's marking defense in front.

Interesting! Pirlo smiled in his heart. But do you think we can't score if we defended Alberto?

Li Yongle suddenly found that Pirlo stepped on the ball with his feet and gently pulled it backwards, as if waiting for someone. His eyes swept to Italy's left, and a blue figure wearing an Italian jersey was rushing up at high speed. "Oh! Pay attention to the left..." Li Yongle couldn't help but shout. Just as he turned his head to look at Wang Liang, Pirlo smiled slightly, stroked the ball in the opposite direction, and bypassed Li Yongle!

Immediately afterwards, Pirlo made a long shot and the football flew towards the gate guarded by Sima Hongxin!

Sima Hongxin pressed down and held the incoming ball firmly in her arms. The ball did not pose too much threat to the Chinese team. However, Yang Pan had just shook Moretti, and Pirlo used a trick to deceive Li Yongle away. The two teams tied in the first ten minutes.

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Compared with Yang Pan's active on the right, Zhao Pengyu was a bit miserable. His opponent was Italy's right-back Bowo. Bowo, who played for Roma, was a defender with strong scoring ability. However, in order to curb the attacks of the Chinese team from both sides, Gentile specifically asked Bowo and Moretti, two full-backs who were good at assisting, to stay honestly behind and try to help as little as possible. With Giuseppe Sculli on the right, he would defend with peace of mind. This arrangement made Bowo a little uncomfortable. After two encounters, he felt that the opponent had nothing except fast speed. Whether in terms of experience, technology or strength, the opponent was not of the same level as him.

Seeing Moretti having some trouble, he wanted to go over and help his teammates.

Zhao Pengyu received a pass from Lin Feng, but he still faced Bowo. When Bowo saw that it was this kid again, he had no fighting spirit.

Stuck the position and wait for him to come up. This is Bowo’s arrangement. Anyway, he will only use speed to rush hard, and he will lose the ball in one draw.

But this time, Zhao Pengyu did not drive the ball and rush forward. He slowly took the ball to observe the opponent's actions.

Scully ran to the inside to prevent Zhao Pengyu from moving closer to the middle. Now that the defense line was arranged, the opponent was waiting for the opponent to get in.

Seeing that the opponent was not going up, Bowo decided to take the initiative and went up. Zhao Pengyu was startled by Bowo's actions. He fought with his hands and tried his best to protect the football under his feet. He had tasted the opponent's strength and knew that with his foot skills, the ball would not last long.

"Damn it! Why haven't Xiang Tao come up yet?" Zhao Pengyu cursed in his heart while dealing with Bowo. While he was cursing, Xiang Tao rushed up like a gust of wind!

"Thank God, you finally... are here!" Zhao Pengyu no longer wanted to get entangled with Bowo. He sent the ball diagonally forward and ignored it.

"What!" Bowo was shocked. Before he rushed forward, he specifically confirmed that the Chinese team's left-back was still in his own defense zone. Why did he rush to him after turning around?

Xiang Tao passed Bowo from the outside, then quickly caught up with the ball, and sent a low pass into the penalty area: "Little Lizi, look at you!"

"Damn it! You're relaxed!" Li Jie grinned as if he was not fighting with the Italian defender, but pushing the train. Ferrari can always occupy the most favorable position for defense. He can't push and push, and he can't get around, and there is no way.

Of course, the ball was cleared out of the sideline by Ferrari again.

"Damn it! Little Lizi, I finally ran from behind to the front to assist you. You were OVER before you even hit the ball! It hurt my heart too much!" Xiang Tao pointed at Li Jie and shouted.

"Do it! If you have the ability, come and try to fight him!" Li Jie didn't have much intention to argue with Xiang Tao. He couldn't understand why the opponent was not as tall as himself and his weight as himself, but he could have the advantage every time he defended? Could it be that the Italian defender was born to defend?

Xiang Tao did not throw the ball outside the border to Zhao Pengyu, but threw it directly to the goal. His target was Li Jie's head: "Use the header! You are too taller to him!"

But Li Jie still couldn't jump, and the ball was pushed away by another central defender Daniele Bonera.

"Do it! Why is this?" Li Jie wailed unwillingly.

"Idiot! Lower the center of gravity and concentrate the strength on the waist and abdomen!" Yang Pan slapped Li Jie in the face.

Li Jie looked at Yang Pan and was a little surprised: "It's that simple?"

"Hmph! You will know that Jane is not simple when you actually do it." Yang Pan ignored Li Jie, who was simple-minded, and ran away alone.

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Gentile frowned. It has been twenty minutes since the first half. Except for Pirlo's long shot, Italy basically does not have an advantage. The Chinese team constantly puts pressure on Italy with speed and layered offense, which is very passive.

But he did not plan to make adjustments now, as it was still early, and he wanted to see what tricks Qiu Suhui could do.

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As Qiu Suhui asked, the Chinese team fully utilized its speed advantage and beat Italy to a point where it was a bit out of reach.

Yang Pan is in the cross!

Li Jie kept in mind Yang Pan's words, lowered his center of gravity, concentrated his strength on his waist and abdomen, and then fought against Ferrari. Ferrari also felt that his opponent seemed different from the front, so he also made a lot of effort.

"Idiot!" Yang Pan suddenly roared, which scared Li Jie. "You two are fighting bulls! Watch the ball! Ball!"

It turned out that Li Jie was just competing with Ferrari for strength, and forgot that there was time for the ball to fly. When he was competing with Ferrari, the football had already reached the point. Li Jie thought about it and it was too late to jump, so Bonella pushed the ball out.
To be continued...