Chapter 172: Defense and Counterattack

During this period of chaos in the Chinese team, Lippi has stood on the sidelines with a frown.

Just when he asked the translator to come over and was about to shout to the players on the field, he saw Li Qingshan's actions.

Although he couldn't hear Chinese clearly, it could be seen from Li Qingshan's movements what his purpose was.

Lippi waved his hand and sat the interpreter back down, while he himself continued to stand on the sidelines. He is going to watch and see how the players on the pitch are doing.

When Zeng Cheng won a cross from the opponent, he threw the ball to Li Qingshan.

Lippi nodded.

The current Chinese team needs to stabilize the rhythm and not let the South Korean team, which is full of morale, raise the rhythm. Li Qingshan, on the other hand, controls the ball at his feet, and his strong body can easily stabilize the center of gravity and protect the football under the pressure of the Korean players.

And Li Qingshan's ability in the air can make it easy for the players of the Chinese team to find him - Li Qingshan is like a moving lighthouse, the players only need to move forward, as long as the direction and distance are not too outrageous. Li Qingshan can always control the ball.

Now Li Qingshan's stopping skills have been honed for many years, and he can easily choose different stopping skills according to the direction, height and speed of the incoming ball, and under the interference of defenders.

Li Qingshan has never stopped training basic skills such as stopping the ball, receiving the ball, and passing the ball.

As a professional player, since he decided to eat this bowl of rice, Li Qingshan has not relaxed his basic skills training.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, Li Qingshan is just a center forward who is as strong as a beast, and has excessive physical dependence - he has too many goals that rely on his unreasonable body to crush and score.

But when people look at the muscular striker, they tend to overlook his technical progress over the years.

With the help of the football training camp, Li Qingshan has five times more training time than ordinary people. Except for some special skills, Li Qingshan spends almost half of his daily time on basic technical training.

Scoring from free-kicks is beautiful, dribbling is exciting, ghostly runs and scoring in unnoticed areas can send chills down the spine.

However, the foundation of all this is based on the sound foundation of basic skills.

Li Qingshan is a very sober man, he has never been complacent about what he has achieved so far, and on the first day he decided to break into professional football, he realized that his weakness was there.

There is no special shortcut to basic skills, and only through uninterrupted practice every day can we see progress over the years.

Now Lippi can see very clearly that when Li Qingshan was still in Guangzhou Evergrande, he would never have the current foot skills.

Just like Feng Xiaoting's big foot clearance before, Li Qingshan barely caught up with this weakness, it looked like the football was about to fly out of the sideline, but Li Qingshan's long legs stretched out, and with a light cushion of the instep, the ball was safely parked in the area under his right foot, so that the Korean team players who rushed forward to defend could only be separated by him on the side of their bodies, and there was no way to reach the football.

Great ingenuity is reactive. Such a seemingly simple action to stop the ball is not easy to accomplish.

If it was Li Qingshan a year ago, he would be more likely to stretch out his long legs and push the ball out of bounds.

As long as possession falls to Lee Than-Sing, it will be difficult for South Korea to snatch the ball unless a foul is taken.

But everyone knows the power of Li Qingshan's set-piece attack, and the South Korean team easily does not want to give the Chinese team too many set-pieces unless it is absolutely necessary.

And if they put too many people into stealing the ball at Li Qingshan's feet, Li Qingshan will be able to pass the ball out again.

In a scramble against three or four people, Li Qingshan picked the ball with his right foot behind the South Korean team's defense after protecting the ball.

They know that if they continue to play like this, let alone score another one, they will concede a goal.

The South Koreans were forced to abandon the onslaught and the game reverted to its previous situation, with the only difference being that now the Koreans have a one-goal lead.

For the Chinese team, they must attack, otherwise this rhythm continues, of course, the South Koreans can accept it, and the score of 1-0 can also ensure that they enter the semi-finals.

In terms of the overall strength of the two teams, the South Korean team is of course stronger than the Chinese team, but the presence of Li Qingshan gives the Chinese team an advantage in the forward. Especially when the football is in the air, the advantage of the Chinese team is particularly great.

Therefore, when the team needs to attack, the players will remember Li Qingshan's aerial dominance.

Especially the international players who have been teammates with Li Qingshan, they have no doubt about Li Qingshan's absolute control ability in the sky.

Therefore, with the last five minutes of the first half remaining, the Chinese team finally began to launch a wave of attacks.

The way for the Chinese team to launch an attack is very simple, that is, let Yue Hai and Yu Chao shrink to the middle, and then launch a long pass directly in the backfield, and wait for Li Qingshan to control the high-altitude ball, Yue Hai and Yu Hanchao are ready to step forward at any time to grab two penalties and shoot directly, or pull and disturb the direction of the South Koreans for Li Qingshan.

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"Now that the Chinese are attacking with long passes, do they expect this backward tactic to break through our Taiji Tigers' goal?" The Korean commentator mocked with some earthlessness.

The reason why he is not confident is because the Chinese team, which uses "backward tactics", frequently threatens the goal of the South Korean team during this time.

In the forty-third minute, Li Qingshan stopped the long pass in the backfield on the penalty line, distributed the ball to the side, Zhang Linpeng crossed from the bottom, Li Qingshan followed the header and flicked it, and the football flew out of the bottom line from the edge of the foothold.

"Li Qingshan!! Header!! ”

"Ahhh Duan Xuan slapped his thigh regretfully on the commentary seat.

After completing this attack, the Chinese team did not completely retreat, Yue Hai, Yu Chao, and Li Qingshan directly in front, restricting the defenders of the South Korean team from taking the ball, under the pressure of the three, goalkeeper Kim Jin-hyun did not dare to pass the ball directly to the defenders, and could only drive forward with a big foot.

Kim Jin-hyun's big ball was pushed back by Mei Fangyi's head, and Lee Qingshan stretched out his leg and stopped the ball at his feet.

In the final stage of the first half, the Chinese team formed a simple suppression of the South Korean team.

The first half was about to end, and Li Qingshan realized that this was the best time for the Chinese team to score, because at this time the South Korean team seemed a little chaotic, and they were a little unprepared for the Chinese captain's style of play.

After taking the ball, he looked left and right, and made another side.

The Chinese team has played this routine several times, and the South Korean team's full-back does not doubt him, and is also ready to pull away to the side to interfere with the Chinese team's crosses.

But Li Qingshan's ball did not pass to the side, but did it halfway through, and gave the ball to Huang Bowen, who caught up from the backcourt!

This season, Huang Bowen frequently scored goals through long-range shots, especially when facing South Korean teams in the AFC Champions League, Huang Bowen scored several quite beautiful long-range shots, so when he saw Huang Bowen preparing to shoot at the goal, Zhang Xianxiu hurriedly stepped forward to block.

Now the players responsible for defending Li Qingshan are pulled by other Chinese team players, and only Kim Yingquan is left.

Therefore, when Huang Bowen faked a real pass and picked the ball into the penalty area, Jin Yingquan had no way to stop Li Qingshan from turning around.

In such a one-on-one situation, let alone Kim Young-kwon, there are not many central defenders in Europe who are sure to stop Li Qingshan from turning without fouling.

But Jin Yingquan didn't dare to foul now, because by the time he reacted, Li Qingshan had already entered the penalty area!

He can only pray now that Kim Jin-hyun can take a step faster than Lee Qing-cheong and clear the ball.

However, his wish was destined to be disappointed, Kim Jin-hyun and Lee Qing-san rushed to the ball almost at the same time, but Lee Qing-sang-sheng was tall and long-legged, and before Kim Jin-hyun pounced, he had already stretched out his foot and stabbed it, and the football rolled into the goal from Kim Jin-hyun's armpit!