The strongest blade in football

Chapter 131 Multiple Harvests (5000 words chapter)
The schedule of the Asian Youth Championship is very intensive.

The national youth who just finished the second round of the group, at 10:7 pm on October 2, ushered in the last opponent of the group, the Thai national youth team.

China has advanced one round ahead of schedule, while Thailand has lost two games in a row and was eliminated one round ahead of schedule.

So this game became a real tasteless one.

Su Maozhen carried out a lineup rotation, but decided to let the frontcourt "Trident" play for half an hour in the second half.

The purpose is to let Wang Nuo and Zhang Xizhe and Wu Lei establish some basic tacit understanding through the game.

The match between the national youth team and the Thai team is also the last chance for the national youth team to adjust the team before the knockout round.

Because after entering the knockout rounds, the outcome is determined by one game, and there is no fault tolerance.

As we all know, in the previous two Asian Youth Championships, the national youth team at that time was promoted from the group with a record of victory, but they were accidentally eliminated in the first round of the knockout round twice.

The curse of the semi-finals of the Asian Youth Championship was thus born.

For the new national youth who are aiming to return to the World Youth Championship, if the first round of the rematch is the first big test, then the China-Thailand battle is their last chance to test themselves.

At the beginning of the game, the performance of the national youth team who came off the bench was disappointing. The midfielder lacked effective organization and made frequent pass errors. Wang Nuo, who was on the bench, shook his head again and again.

What is even more shocking is that in the 35th minute of the first half, after the Thai team failed in an attack, the national youth team's defense also made a mistake.

On the 15th, Zheng Kaimu tried to clear the siege with his big foot and was blocked by his opponent. When Zheng Kaimu tried to control the ball again, he stepped on the ball...and fell down!

Stepped on the ball in the penalty area and fell!

Wang Nuo watched helplessly as the small forward of the Thai team accepted the gift with a smile and calmly pushed the ball into the goal!
With this goal, the Thai team also took a 1-0 lead.

Wang Nuo had seen all kinds of mistakes, but he couldn't imagine such a low-level one appearing on the national team.

what's the situation?
Wang Nuo felt that it was outrageous. The Thai players looked about the same size as his U15 teammates in Brussels. Like middle school students, they would be nervous and make mistakes when they were slightly oppressed by them?
Moreover, the morale of the Thai team improved significantly after scoring the goal, and the overall cooperation was continuously formed in the frontcourt impact. The Chinese team has been obviously suppressed by the opponent.

"Let me go up, Coach."

Seeing this, Wang Nuo was anxious and walked up to Su Maozhen to ask for a job. Now that he has returned to China, he doesn't want to stand by and watch.

"You just finished playing the game the day before yesterday. If you go up now, the knockout match in two days will be affected, right?"

Su Maozhen was a little reluctant.

"It doesn't matter, I'll keep kicking."

In fact, Wang Nuo didn't say what was in his heart. In his opinion, the intensity of this match was far worse than Manchester City's training match.

For this kind of game, he pays attention to the distribution of physical strength, and there is no problem in one game a day.

"Well, be careful, don't get hurt."

Su Maozhen finally agreed and replaced Wang Nuo in advance.

As soon as Wang Nuo came on the field, he immediately retreated to the midfield to get the ball to help the team stabilize the situation.

In Manchester City, his possession of the ball was stable enough, and he was rarely intercepted. When he returned to the National Youth League, he was even more stable.

He stood in the middle, and while sorting out the attack, he took advantage of the opportunity and used his sharp running position and breakthrough to create great panic for Thailand.

Wang Nuo rushed with the ball like a small tank to them, with a height of 1.8 meters [-], but his feet were quick and agile.

When he rushed to the penalty area of ​​the Thai team, it seemed that an adult strong man was beating a group of children.

Before the end of the first half, Wang Nuo used No. 21 Li Lei's long-range shot to let go, and easily made a supplementary shot into the net, helping the Chinese team equalize the score.

For a player like Wang Nuo, the Thai national youth really have no choice but to cry without tears.

He shouldn't be in this kind of game.

In the second half, Thailand simply sent two people to keep close to Wang Nuo, keeping close to each other, but the effect was minimal. Wang Nuo was not something they could guard against.

In the 56th minute, after stealing the ball from the midfielder, Wang Nuo quickly moved forward.

Wu Lei picked the ball forward from the baseline and made a pass. Zhu Jianrong outflanked to the goal and easily scored with a header. The score became 2-1.

In the 71st minute, Wang Nuo's frontcourt press caused a mistake by the Thai defender, and he countered on the spot and entered the penalty area.

Facing the attacking goalkeeper, a flash of lightning flashed through his mind, why not do something that would shock everyone's jaws?

Wang Nuo didn't shoot in a hurry, but waited for the goalkeeper to go down to the ground to catch the ball quickly, and then faced the goal with a flower arrangement kick!

Wang Nuo's left and right feet are balanced, and his body flexibility is also good. This move is purely playful.

The power of this kick was not strong, the football happened to pass through the fingertips of the goalkeeper who got up and made a second save, and rolled into the gate against the post!
3 is better than 1!

Once again, Wang Nuo single-handedly killed the game.

After scoring the goal, Wang Nuo stood on the spot, smiled and opened his arms, waiting for his teammates to rush over and hug him one by one.

Wang Nuo actually didn't think the ball was so great, but his teammates all showed exaggerated expressions, especially Wu Lei, who jumped up and crossed his legs on Wang Nuo's waist.

Even the audience was no longer reserved, they rarely saw this kind of shot. Of course, most of the celebrations were still just applause, but they stood up from their seats anyway!

There was also a fat man with a huge voice, who led the audience in the whole stand to shout a simple chant. He called Wang Nuo, and the fans followed suit.

"Wang Nuo, awesome!"

"Wang Nuo, awesome!"

"Wang Nuo, awesome!"

Hearing the voices of the fans, Wang Nuo felt a strange feeling in his heart. Although today's game was easy, everyone regarded him as a hero.

"Brother, you are so handsome!"

Wu Lei followed Wang Nuo to the middle circle with a look of admiration, waiting for the Thai team to serve.

He also scored twice against Saudi Arabia in the first game, but it is impossible to play such a dominant game like Wang Nuo and make the opponent despair.

Football is an eleven-person sport, but there are always some top stars who have an extremely important impact on the course of the game.

Wang Nuo, who scored four goals in two games, was simply a cheating tool for the Chinese team in the Asian Youth Championship.

In the end, the Chinese team reversed Thailand 3-1 in the last game of the group stage, won all three games, and entered the knockout round with their heads held high.

The first opponent they faced in the knockout round was their old enemy North Korea.

Historically, the two teams have played against each other in 7 matches in the main match and preliminaries of the Asian Youth Championship. The Chinese team has 1 win, 2 draws and 4 losses, and is at a disadvantage.

This summer, North Korea's senior team played in the World Cup and showed their faces in front of fans all over the world. They can almost draw with Brazil, and they can also be scored 7 goals by Portugal, but no matter what, they have done well all year good.

This Asian Youth Championship determines who can get the tickets for next year's Columbia World Youth Championship, and the North Korean side attaches great importance to it.

In international competitions, the North Korean team has always been full of spiritual attributes. They regard qualifying as a political task, because only in this way can they be worthy of that great leader.

Two-thirds of the members of the North Korean national team are soldiers, and it is built on the basis of the most powerful People's Army club in the country.

The players have a particularly hard-working spirit and can resolutely implement the coach's ideas, so the whole team is very united.

On the afternoon of October 10, the National Youth Team and the North Korean National Youth Team competed fiercely for tickets to the World Preliminaries.

After the game started, the battle on the field was really "intense"!
The playing style of the North Koreans is different from that of the youth teams that the national youth team encountered before. They don't have much possession of the ball, but they play very aggressively, especially when they are defending.

And once they get the ball, they can quickly hit the ball to the hinterland of the Chinese team's penalty area through quick pass and cut cooperation, making Su Maozhen really sweat.

The players of the national youth team were obviously a little afraid of North Korea's style of play. They were timid when attacking and nervous when defending. Although the first half was a goalless draw, the North Koreans had an advantage on the scene.

The only bright spot of the Chinese team is still Wang Nuo, who is like a sharp knife at the forefront of the striker, creating quite a lot of threats.

In the first half, opponents No. 6 Li Rizhen and No. 3 Zhang Songhe exhausted a lot of energy to fight Wang Nuo, and received a yellow card from Wang Nuo respectively.

And Wang Nuo also paid the price——

In a collision, he accidentally had close contact between his knee and the ground. Fortunately, he used his arm as a cushion when he fell with great experience.

But in the remaining ten minutes of the first half, his knees have been aching, which indirectly affected his performance.

During the intermission, the entire national youth team was immersed in an inexplicable atmosphere.

However, Wang Nuo paid more attention to his knees.

He touched the painful part. At first he thought it was the iliac meridian on the outside of the knee, but the team doctor looked at it and said it was not, it was just a common bruise, and spraying some aerosol would be fine.

"Is it really okay?"

"Absolutely no problem!"

Looking at everyone's eager eyes, what else could Wang Nuo say, he chose to trust the team doctor.

After being treated by the team doctor, as soon as he played in the second half, the pain in his knee was no longer so painful, and Wang Nuo could start running and dribbling freely again.

At the same time, the North Korean team's defense against Wang Nuo did not relax in the slightest.

No. 3 Jang Song-hyeok of the North Korean team was replaced with a yellow card, and the "boy" who came up was still staring at Wang Nuo, just like the first half.

Wang Nuo guessed that this was probably his political task for this game.

The new guy looks definitely more than 20 years old, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes look like a farmer who has been working in the fields for a long time.

This looks really anxious, Wang Nuo thought.

Wang Nuo will not sit still, he is constantly looking for opportunities, but unfortunately the support from his teammates is very little, and in most cases, he will fall into a solo fight.

But Wang Nuo was not impatient at all. He patiently moved, passed, and defended. He was waiting for the opportunity.

The North Korean players' defensive attention has always been highly concentrated, but as long as they relax for two or three seconds, it is enough for Wang Nuo to solve the problem.

Finally, in the 70th minute of the second half, Wang Nuo received a throw-in from the right side, cooperated with Zhang Xizhe to hit the wall, and then shot hard with the instep of his right foot, and the ball went straight to the dead corner of the goal!
The Chinese team is ahead!

Only 3 minutes later, Wang Nuo once again broke through the goal of the North Korean team with a powerful long-range shot.

Rewrite the score to 2 to 0!

Once again, Wang Nuo scored twice in the game again!

There was not much time left, and the North Korean players launched a counterattack like crazy, pinning the National Youth Team in the penalty area and being unable to move.

Su Maozhen commanded everyone to retreat across the board, and Wang Nuo also wanted to defend.

However, when he was walking back slowly, he suddenly felt a needle-like pain in his knee.

Wang Nuo stopped quickly and tried to walk a few steps, but the pain still persisted.

A bad premonition flashed in Wang Nuo's mind.

He glanced at the big screen in the distance, and the game was over in 5 minutes, so he waved to the coaching area quickly.

The National Youth Team made substitution adjustments. Wang Nuo, who contributed six goals for the third consecutive game, walked slowly to the sideline amidst prolonged applause.

The North Korean athlete got impatient and pushed Wang Nuo behind his back, causing Wang Nuo's leg to hurt even more.

This move angered Wang Nuo, and he gave an elbow when he turned around.

Ten minutes later, Wang Nuo, who had received a yellow card, sat in the locker room in a depressed mood. The team doctor in front of him also had an unnatural expression.

"What's going on, isn't it an ordinary bruise?" Wang Nuo said in a bad tone.

"Did you have any old knee injuries before?" The team doctor didn't answer Wang Nuo's question. After a few seconds of silence, he asked back.

"What do you mean! Can you do it?" Wang Nuo was completely angry. "During the halftime break, you didn't figure it out at all, right! Are you fucking fooling me? Trick me into playing first?"

At this time, the game was over, and people came back one after another. Seeing Wang Nuo swearing, they hurried over to appease him.

"I'm just asking a question, why are you so angry." The team doctor knew he was wrong and muttered.

"Now, right away, I'm going to check."

Wang Nuocai didn't care how many people were in the locker room, he only knew that whenever he bent his legs, his knees would hurt.

"I'm angry because you fooled me. I'm angry because you, as a team doctor, don't take athletes seriously and try to shirk responsibility!"

Seeing so many people watching, the team doctor tried to quibble, but was stopped by Su Maozhen.

This young marshal is a standard Shandong man, and he gave the team doctor a scolding in front of everyone in the locker room.

Then, the team leader Li Xiaoguang immediately contacted the car and sent Wang Nuo to the hospital for examination.

Wang Nuo also contacted the assistant and the Manchester City team doctor immediately.

He is a huge investment for Manchester City. Before departure, Mancini told Wang Nuo to take good care of his body.

The team's games are very intensive. After Wang Nuo's national team match day, there are still many games to play.

In a sense, after the transfer of 1250 million euros, Wang Nuo's knees did not belong to him, and the club management dominated them.

An hour later, the result came out. It was not a bruise, but the problem was not particularly serious. It was a false alarm.

The opinion given by Manchester City team doctor Jimmy is that a week must be rested.

The problem now is that after this victory over North Korea, the national youth team has already won the ticket for next year's World Youth Championship, but it is only two games away from the championship of the Asian Youth Championship.

Sometimes people tend to become greedy. Wang Nuo wondered if the coaches and leaders would want him to continue playing in the next game.

Fortunately, Manchester City team doctor Jimmy has a tradition of being cautious. He treats players more as patients than as goal machines.

Therefore, Wang Nuo communicated with Mino and his father on one side, and on the other side, at the request of team doctor Jimmy, Wang Nuo gave Jimmy's number to the head coach and asked Jimmy to talk to Su Maozhen.

Su Maozhen passed the number 10 in the Manchester United youth team and was favored by Ferguson. He almost got on the 92 golden generation train.

After retiring, he studied in Manchester in 2003, obtained a coaching certificate, and obtained a master's degree in business management from Soford University, so he can speak English well.

On Wang Nuo's side, both Mino and Wang Zhongguo insisted that he rest after the game, and Wang Nuo himself understood that his body was his own, and he was the one who made the final decision.

He can refuse to play, and he can even shout: "No, I can't play, I'm in real pain."

But Wang Nuo wants things to be resolved in a more rational way.

He hung up the phone, Su Maozhen and Jimmy were still communicating, Wang Nuo didn't bother to listen to what they had to say.

They stand on different positions and represent different interests, and this kind of dialogue can easily break out into conflicts.

Manchester City's team doctor Jimmy knows how to take care of his players. He is obviously not happy that the national team left him a mess, and Su Maozhen is burdened with the pressure passed on to him from all aspects.

What Wang Nuo didn't expect was that their conversation was very calm, and they seemed to be reasonable people, and they finally reached an agreement: Wang Nuo will not participate in the semi-finals of the Asian Youth Championship between China and South Korea, and take a rest.

Wang Nuo was a little surprised by Su Maozhen's retreat. He thought it was his turn to refuse in the end, but he didn't expect the head coach to take the initiative to take the matter down.

Su Maozhen's expression was not very good, and he picked up his mobile phone again, and made a call to someone. A few minutes later, his expression turned pale, and he told Wang Nuo to let him rest in peace.

"You scored six in three games! The task of the national youth team has also been completed, and you have made great contributions to entering the World Youth Championship again! Rest assured, no one dares to say anything."

"Let's leave the rest of the competition to the other dolls, so that they won't be too proud."

"If you're injured, just take care of it. There's nothing to say."

Therefore, Wang Nuo stood on the sidelines in the Sino-Korean war.

A few days later, the national youth team regrettably lost the game 1-3 and failed to advance to the final.

Fans on the Internet shouted that it was a pity. Many people scolded the North Korean team, causing Wang Nuo to be injured, which indirectly caused the Chinese team to lose.

Some voices commented under Netease News that Wang Nuo should win glory for the country, "grit your teeth and persevere."

These people's comments were directly scolded by many violent brothers——

"I broke your leg, so you have to grit your teeth and persevere."

"Hold on to your mother B, silly B!"

"Dog, do you want to make Wang Nuo the next Dong Fangzhuo or Wang Chu?"

Seeing these vulgar words, Wang Nuo laughed happily.

When he returned to China this time, he felt the passionate love of the fans, saw the true strength of the domestic youth team, made a good friend, and helped the team enter the World Youth Championship with six goals.

There is also good news that the knee injury will not affect the next Premier League game. He will fly back to Manchester soon and continue to work hard for the main position.

On the day he left, enthusiastic fans came to the airport to see Wang Nuo off again. This time, there were obviously more people than when he returned to China, and it could be called a farewell.

The goals and efforts made by Wang Nuo on behalf of the National Youth League have undoubtedly narrowed the relationship with the fans.

For domestic fans, Wang Nuo is no longer that strange genius who competes in the European arena, but a child of his own family who truly belongs to the motherland.

"Come on, Wang Nuo!"

"behind you!"

"Play well over there, you are the best!"

"See you at the World Youth Championship in August next year!"

Amidst the farewell sounds of the fans, Wang Nuo felt a strong warmth in his heart.

He has never been so proud of being Chinese as he is today, and he is surrounded by a strong sense of belonging.

Wang Nuo earnestly signed for everyone, waved goodbye to everyone, and embarked on the next journey firmly.

(End of this chapter)