Chapter 26 Missed Opportunities in a Row

Yang Chen hit the goalpost and missed the chance to equalize the score, which had a certain impact on the morale of the Chinese team. The Turkish side got a chance to breathe, and recovered from the passive situation of being suppressed by the Chinese team in the previous ten minutes.

Get angry.

In the remaining ten minutes of the first half, the two teams were evenly matched and the situation reached a deadlock. The Chinese team failed to score an equalizing goal, and Turkey wanted to expand its lead again.

The purpose was not achieved either.

In the 30th minute, Yin Jun was pulled down by Emre while dribbling the ball from the right. Emre was given a yellow card. Since he accumulated two yellow cards, even if Turkey finally advanced, he would not be able to participate in the 1/8 finals.

In the 34th minute, Li Tie fouled Hakan Unsar and was also given a yellow card. This also meant that even if the Chinese team advanced to the knockout round, Li Tie would also be suspended.

In the 36th minute, Turkey also suffered another heavy blow. Their starting goalkeeper Rustu was injured and could not continue the game. Turkey was forced to replace him with substitute goalkeeper Omer.

Turkey's starting goalkeeper Rustu is no longer tall, only 1.85 meters tall, which is considered short for the goalkeeper position, but their substitute goalkeeper is even shorter, only 1.79 meters!

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As the first half came to an end, the Chinese team stepped up its attack again, hoping to equalize the score before the halftime break.

In the 37th minute, the Chinese team launched a quick counterattack. Yin Jun sprinted on the right wing and sent a cross, but the Turkish defender took the first kick and controlled the ball before Chinese forward Su Maozhen.

Two minutes later, the Chinese team made a comeback. Yin Jun used his sharp breakthrough to win the opportunity to cross from the right. This time he chose an inverted triangle to pass to the ribs and found Li Tie who was advancing, but Li Tie's shot was blocked by

Block out the bottom line.

The Chinese team changed another tactic for this corner kick. It was still a variant of the first corner kick tactic. Yang Pu, who took the corner kick, kicked the ball out, but Yin Jun, who was at the front point, did not choose to get out of the way because he found the Turkish penalty area.

The defense in Li was very tight, so he chose to control the ball and looked like he was going to make a pass.

However, after attracting two defensive players from Turkey to defend him, Yin Jun chose to use his heel to knock the ball to Yang Chen behind him.

Yang Chen still had no chance. After receiving the ball, he made a gesture to take it out, but suddenly passed the ball back to Yin Jun. Yin Jun once again passed the ball diagonally and found Li Tie in the corner of the penalty area.

When Li Tie received the ball, there were no Turkish defensive players within five meters of him, because the defensive players were attracted by Yin Jun and Yang Chen outside the penalty area, as well as Li Weifeng and Du Wei in the small penalty area, and Su Maozhen at the top of the penalty area.

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However, under extremely loose starting conditions, Li Tie's shot failed to hit the target.

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After being suppressed by the Chinese team and attacking for several more minutes, Turkey also launched a counterattack.

In the 40th minute, Turkey launched an offensive, and the Chinese team actively defended. Even Su Maozhen returned to the front of the penalty area.

In the attack against Turkish midfielder No. 10 Basturk, Chinese team Su Maozhen fell into a disadvantage and was succeeded by his opponent. However, Su Maozhen reached out from behind to pull his opponent, which was noticed by referee Ruiz.

, then the whistle was blown, giving Turkey a well-positioned free kick in the frontcourt.

Turkey's No. 8 Tugayi took the free kick, but his free kick failed to cross the Chinese team's wall and was pushed back by Wu Chengying in the wall.

However, the ball's placement was controlled by Turkey, which continued to organize the attack. Umit Davala made a pass from the right, Li Weifeng made a short clearance, and Basturk shot over.

In the 43rd minute, Tugayi made another pass from the right. Two balls suddenly appeared in the field. The referee suspended the game and dropped the ball. Hassan generously kicked the ball out of the baseline.

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At the end of the first half, the Chinese team attacked again.

Su Maozhen pulled a pass from the right, Yang Pu outflanked the back post, and Fatih was the first to push the ball out of the baseline. The Chinese team got the fourth corner kick opportunity in the first half, and the distribution was very even, two on the left, two on the left

One is on the right.

The Chinese team once again used an unpredictable corner kick tactic. Yin Jun stood at the intersection of the penalty area line and the bottom line. Yang Pu pushed the corner kick from a distance and rushed towards the penalty area quickly.

Yin Jun used his body to resist the two Turkish players behind him and passed the ball in front of Yang Pu.

After getting the ball, Yang Pu quickly broke into the penalty area and fell to the ground under Fatih's defense. Yang Pu complained to the referee about Fatih's foul, but the Colombian referee gave Yang Pu a yellow card. He thought that Yang Pu was

Fake points.

This penalty made the Chinese team very dissatisfied, especially Yang Pu, who was fouled. After seeing the referee give him a yellow card, he almost rushed to the referee to get angry. Fortunately, he was hugged by Yin Jun who was close at hand.

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Yang Pu's mood is understandable. On the one hand, it is because the opponent did commit a foul, and the Chinese team deserves a penalty kick, so the Chinese team is likely to equalize the score; on the other hand, this yellow card is likely to cause him to be in the upcoming game.

was suspended in the quarter-finals, provided that the Chinese team can successfully advance.

After Yin Jun pulled Yang Pu back, he went over to negotiate with Ruiz, saying that his teammate definitely did not dive, and he saw it clearly.

But Ruiz did not change his penalty. It was unlikely that he would change the penalty at this time. After all, if Yang Pu had not dived, it would have been a defensive foul by the Turkish defensive player, and the Chinese team should have received a penalty kick.

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At this time, the big screen on the scene began to play back the slow motion of the contact between the two players. The slow motion capture was very clear. When Yang Pu broke into the penalty area, the Turkish player Fatih who was guarding him did have physical contact with Yang Pu. His

His feet blocked Yang Pu's path.

Ruiz's penalty is questionable.

After watching the slow-motion replay, the nearly 50,000 spectators at the scene booed, mixed with national curses in various dialects, and greeted the Colombian referee who made the controversial decision and his female relatives.

In the media area in the stands, reporters from all over the world also expressed doubts about this controversial penalty, believing that this penalty is likely to determine the outcome of the game and may cause major controversy afterwards.

This penalty was awarded during the injury time of the first half. Shortly afterwards, Ruiz blew the whistle to end the first half.

1:2, after continuously missing excellent scoring opportunities and deserved penalty kicks, the Chinese team entered the halftime break with a 1-goal disadvantage.
Chapter completed!