On the evening of June 29, the Bernanbuco Stadium in Recife, Brazil.

In the fourth game of the World Cup quarterfinals, China vs. Costa Rica.

When the game reached the 36th minute, Costa Rica cleared the ball in the backcourt and kicked the ball directly near the center line. Feng Xiaoting defeated the opponent's forward and headed the ball back.

The old captain Zheng Zhi was suspended for a red card, and the midfielder Wu Xi was qualified and formed three midfielders with Zhou Haibin and Chen Tao.

Zhou Haibin just received the ball and immediately passed the ball to the left.

Left defender Jiang Zhipeng quickly sprinted forward along the left side. After receiving Zhou Haibin's pass, he watched the situation ahead. Facing the Costa Rican player who came to defend, he flicked a shot and suddenly rushed forward. After a little distance, he made a big arc on the left foot and made a diagonal pass of forty-five degrees on the left.

Jiang Zhipeng's diagonal pass directly aimed at the back of the goal. In the penalty area, Yang Yang also instantly threw away the Costa Rica defender as fast as possible, rushed forward quickly, and before everyone, facing the falling ball, he gently paddled his right foot and directly padd the ball to the left of the goal.

Costa Rican goalkeeper Navas flew to the right and blocked the near corner, but unexpectedly Yang Yang deliberately shot a far corner, which made him unexpectedly want to use his foot to block. As a result, Yang Yang's shot was half-high and he played very smartly.

Finally, the ball quickly entered the goal of Costa Rica.

One to zero!

The entire Pernanbuco Stadium was immediately boiling!

Thousands of Chinese fans who came from a distance cheered in the stands and sang the national anthem.

Yang Yang turned around excitedly, ran along the way, pointing at the Chinese fans in the stands, and finally slid on the sidelines.

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The first half ended with a goal, and after the second half of the game, the Chinese team continued to maintain a steady and steady tactic.

Costa Rica's offensive efficiency throughout the first half was extremely low, and she didn't even aim at the goal, but even so, the Chinese team still didn't dare to be careless.

Yang Yang, who had put on the captain's armband, kept reminding his teammates repeatedly to pay attention and pay attention.

Always stay focused!

At the same time, he is also actively looking for opportunities.

In the 51st minute, the Chinese team launched another attack. Jiang Zhipeng stepped forward from the left side of the attack. After Hao Junmin took the ball from the left side of the penalty area, he did not make a cross from the bottom, but dunked the ball back and passed it horizontally to the middle of the front of the penalty area.

Yang Yang stopped the ball with his right foot, pulled his left foot and shot angrily, directly pulling the ball into the lower left corner of Costa Rica's goal.

Navas reacted quickly and flew out, but it was still beyond the reach of the whip.

Two to zero!

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In the 66th minute, Costa Rica defender Adulte fouled while defending Yang Yang, amassed two yellow cards and was sent off with a red card, which made Costa Rica fight alone.

At this point, the game has basically lost its suspense.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated Costa Rica 2-0 with Yang Yang's double score.

Both teams are defensive and play in a rather average way, but Yang Yang's two goals are relatively beautiful.

After defeating Costa Rica 2-0, the Chinese team entered the quarterfinals of the World Cup for the first time!

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As soon as the game ended, not only were the thousands of Chinese fans coming to Pernambuco Stadium excited, but the whole country was also joking in China far away in Asia. Countless fans cheered wildly. Fans in major cities couldn't help but take to the streets to cheer for the Chinese team's performance in Brazil.

This is the first time in Chinese football history!

This is another breakthrough in the World Cup results!

Although this is not the first time that an Asian team has entered the quarterfinals of the World Cup, both South Korea and Japan have achieved such results as early as the South Korean and Japanese World Cup, and even the South Korean team has reached the semi-finals.

But everyone knows how that transcript came about, so no one is willing to mention it.

But this time the Chinese team reached the quarterfinals, it was worthy of its reputation, relying on their real strength and performance.

From group stage to knockout stage, the opponent's strength is indeed not strong, but Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Greece and Costa Rica are also frequent visitors to the World Cup and strong teams.

Among them, Costa Rica beat Uruguay, Italy and England to qualify as the top group. If this team is not strong, then what are these three traditional strong teams that have won the World Cup?

Domestic fans and media have praised the national team, especially Yang Yang's performance.

Since Brazil drew 1-1 against Chile in the quarterfinals, but defeated his opponent in the penalty kick, Neymar did not score, so Yang Yang has now surpassed Neymar and Messi with five goals and topped the World Cup scorer list.

This also made countless fans cheer for Yang Yang.

In the other three games in the quarterfinals knockout round, except for Brazil's draw with Chile 1-1, but defeating his opponent at a penalty, the Netherlands reversed Mexico 2-1 with the goals of Sneider and Hunteral.

Colombia defeated Uruguay 2-0. Midfielder James Rodriguez, who quickly became popular in this World Cup, scored twice, shining and achieving amazing results. At the same time, he also tied for the first place in the scorer list with five goals, which made James Rodriguez famous.

But in the midst of the jubilation, there were also many voices of doubt.

Both Asian teams and are in East Asia. Japan and South Korea have always regarded China as their mortal enemies. In recent years, China's performance has made rapid progress, and legendary superstars like Yang Yang who are enough to be recorded in the history of world football have emerged, which has made them even more jealous.

In this World Cup, Asian teams were wiped out except China.

But when they returned from the World Cup, they heard the news that the Chinese team defeated Costa Rica 2-0 and entered the quarterfinals of the World Cup for the first time, which made them both envious and jealous, and their domestic media had all kinds of remarks.

For example, the Chinese team is Yang Yang's team alone and so on.

The most unified statement is that the Chinese team will stop in the quarterfinals.

The media in South Korea and Japan firmly believe that since the Netherlands defeated Mexico, the Chinese team will face the Netherlands in the quarter-finals knockout round, so it is difficult for the Chinese team to go further and stop in the quarter-finals, which will tie the results Japan achieved in the South Korea-Japan World Cup that year, but it is inferior to South Korea's semi-finals.

The media from both countries have listed a lot of data and evidence, showing that the Chinese team is all-round behind in the Netherlands and has no chance of winning, because the Netherlands is the runner-up of the last World Cup and almost won the championship.

Sneider, Robben, van Persie, Kuyt... Even players such as Hunterlaer and De Jong are all well-known European stars. Head coach Van Gaal is also the coach who has been famous in Europe for many years and is very familiar with Yang Yang.

More importantly, Alihan has coached the Chinese team for many years, and the Chinese team is deeply influenced by Dutch football, so in the eyes of Korean and Japanese media, this is a bit like a student being tested by a teacher.

But after all, students are just students. Whether it is overall strength or the individual ability of players, it is difficult for China to compete with the Netherlands.

The dissatisfaction remarks from Japan, South Korea, Australia, and media around the world have made domestic fans feel dissatisfied. Even in China, there are many voices that the Chinese team has no chance of winning against the Netherlands.

"Even if we have Yang Yang, the world's number one, even if we act tenaciously, the gap in strength is huge, which cannot be compensated by any means. Stopping in the quarterfinals is a satisfactory and even surprising result."

On the evening of July 5, the quarter-finals knockout match at Xinshuiyuan Stadium in El Salvador, Brazil seemed to confirm this common view from the outside world, that is, China has no power to fight back.

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Almost from the beginning of the game, the Chinese team was fully restrained.

Captain Zheng Zhi returns, and the Chinese team once again plays a three-middle formation in April and May 1st. The midfielder is lined up with Wu Xi, Zheng Zhi and Zhou Haibin's three-middle midfielder, Hao Junmin and Chen Tao are separated from the two wings.

Queros's troops were deployed in one purpose, that is, to guard against each other.

From the first minute, the Netherlands kept attacking the Chinese team's goal.

Sneider, Robben, Kuyt, Vlaer, De Jong, and even Van Persie, who had a great conversation with Yang Yang before the game changed his face at the beginning of the game, and they all attacked the Chinese team's goal fiercely.

Yang Yang retreated into the 30-meter zone from fifteen minutes, which shows how much offensive pressure the Chinese team is under.

Queiroz has provided the team with an iron barrel-like defensive tactic. To a certain extent, under the strong offensive pressure of the Netherlands, the Chinese team has no chance to counterattack.

Everyone in the team gritted their teeth and persevered, while the Dutch team was constantly creating opportunities and creating threats.

The situation on the field was one-sided, the Chinese team's penalty area was in a panic, and the goal was shaky, but everyone in the team was gritting their teeth to support it. Even Yang Yang returned to the penalty area many times to defend, which shows how passive the situation on the field was.

But even so, both sides still played to zero to zero in the first half.

The Dutch are more cautious and dare not overstress them.

But the situation changed again in the second half, and Van Gaal began to increase his investment on the offensive end.

The Netherlands team won consecutive free kicks in the frontcourt. Sneider scored two direct free kicks in 15 minutes, and once hit the left post and once hit the crossbar, they almost scored.

The extremely passive scene made Chinese players extremely painful on the court. Everyone gritted their teeth and persevered, and everyone stood inside and outside the penalty area, blocking their opponents from before the goal.

Starting from the 70th minute, Van Gaal made a substitution, replaced it with a new force, injecting fresh blood into the offense, but the Chinese team still guarded the enemy strictly and would never move half a step easily.

At this moment, all the people have truly felt Queiroz's transformation of Chinese team's defense in the past four years, especially the cultivation of players' tactical qualities. In the words of bystanders, this Portuguese, who is good at cultivating young players, treats international players as young players and constantly instills various tactical knowledge and defensive awareness.

This ultimately helped the Chinese team to block the Dutch bombing.

Ninety minutes later, both sides entered overtime by zero to zero.
Chapter completed!