Fox in the Penalty Area

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When the Chinese players returned to their own half, the Argentine players had already stood in their positions and waited for the game to start.

Meli didn't stand in the middle circle to watch the game. It was his friend Ramon Cantero who stepped on a football in the middle circle and waited for the kick-off.

Cantero stepped on the football and looked at Hou Lai who had returned to his own half.

He couldn't help but think of the words that this man held his hand before the game started.

"And you are very unfortunate, because your opponent is me."

When he first heard that sentence, he thought it was just Hu Lai's deceit and posturing.

Now he feels as if he has been slapped hard...

What he thought was an arrogant bastard, he never expected to actually do it... He did something that even Merry failed to do.

Not only five goals in nine minutes, but also a hat-trick in this game.

Because Cantero kept staring at Hu Lai, the latter seemed to find his gaze, so he shrugged and smiled at him again.

Cantero looked away angrily, and then secretly swore in his heart that he would definitely let Hu Lai know how good Argentina is in the next game!

Not long after the referee blew his whistle to restart the game, the fourth official held up a sign indicating four minutes of stoppage time on the sidelines.

This also means that Argentina has only four minutes to save their precarious qualifying situation-at this moment, neither the head coach Rosas nor the players care about taking the second place in the group to meet Spain.

As long as they can qualify in the group, so what if they want to beat the host to death?

The Argentine Olympic team has specially recruited a super talent like Meli this time, so the ambition is naturally great. Their goal in this Olympics is to win the gold medal. Argentine football has won the World Cup and the Copa America in history, but it has never won the Olympic Games.

Although the gold content of Olympic football is far less than that of the World Cup, its influence is also far worse. But after all, it is the Olympic Games, the top multi-sport event for human beings, and no one can refuse the title of Olympic champion.

When Meli announced his participation in the Madrid Olympics, the Argentine fans were ecstatic. They all felt that there was a great hope of winning the gold medal this time, and the only opponent might be the host.

Unexpectedly, the team is now facing the possibility that they may not be able to qualify for the group stage...

After the game restarted, the noise in the stands was much smaller because nearly half of the Argentine fans did not make a sound.

The TV broadcast cut to the stands of the stadium, and the Argentine fans who appeared in the camera were almost as if they were produced on an assembly line, all of them held their heads in their hands and looked in the direction of the stadium in silence.

It's completely different from the previous performance that was excited for almost the entire game.

They also seemed to have foreseen Argentina's fate of being eliminated from the competition, and were desperate because they didn't know how to change this outcome.

Usually, when the fans find themselves appearing in the TV broadcast on the big screen at the scene, they will actively respond to the camera by waving and smiling at the camera, but now the Argentine fans appearing in the TV broadcast , no one smiled at the camera.

The Argentine players on the field also realized that they had half stepped off the cliff.

In order to save themselves, they launched the most violent offensive to the goal of the Chinese team.

The Chinese Olympic team, on the other hand, recovered after scoring a goal, retracted into their own defensive third area, and then set up a bus in front of the goal, building a Great Wall of flesh and blood.

I really used my body to block Argentina's attack.

Wang Guangwei once again received a long-range shot from Meli with his chest.

The football bounced off and flew for almost a dozen meters, which shows the strength of this kick.

But this time Wang Guangwei didn't lie on the ground clutching his heart and couldn't get up.

Although he was suffering, he still insisted on getting up from the ground and re-entering the game.

Because he didn't know if the Argentine players would take the initiative to kick the football out just because he fell to the ground. Didn't they do that the previous time? Then at the last moment, the Argentine players who are red-eyed may not do so.

"There is not much time left for the Argentine Olympic team!" Yan Kang said this sentence before He Feng, and then secretly said "cool" in his heart-he never thought that he would have the opportunity to take This sentence applies to the Argentina team!

He Feng couldn't help laughing when he heard this sentence, but he quickly tightened his expression and said in a very serious tone: "You must persevere in the last few minutes! You must not give up all your efforts at the last moment. what!"

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"Hold on! Hold on! Hold on!" Xie Lan repeated in front of the TV, and without saying a word, she waved her fist slightly.

She was cheering on her son's team like this.

She wasn't the only one who did this. At this moment, in front of TVs all over the country, countless people were doing the same thing, cheering for the Olympic team in various ways, hoping that they could keep the score.

And these same people, before that, hoped that the Olympic team could keep the score of 2:2, and felt that being able to draw with Argentina was enough for them to be happy for a whole year.

Now they all regard the draw as a defeat.

Sure enough, it is easy to go from thrifty to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal...

In front of the 100-inch projection screen, no matter whether it was Qin Lin or Zhang Qinghuan, whether it was Xia Xiaoyu or Qin Qi, even Wang Yuan stood up. No one could sit and watch the match anymore.

They were so nervous that they didn't say anything. The five of them stared at the game broadcast screen silently and focused, waiting for the whistle and the excited voice of the commentator.

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The game was 93 minutes and 42 seconds, and there were still 18 seconds before the end of the game.

Meli took the ball in the frontcourt and tried to force a breakthrough into the penalty area.

When in front of him were three players from the Chinese Olympic team, and behind him was Hu Lai.

He was surrounded by four Chinese players.

Even so, no one can easily steal the ball from his feet.

He moved the football to the left to avoid Li Chengwu's interception, and at the same time he pulled the football back, allowing Gao Ruimin to kick in the air.

After pulling back, he pushed the football forward again, pulling the ball in a V shape, trying to get rid of Hu Lai behind him.

In the blink of an eye, he only faced Du Wanqing alone.

He moved the football forward and accelerated to break through Du Wanqing head-on.

Du Wanqing made a shovel, but Mei Li took the first step to poke the football away!

"Meli passed four people! It's dangerous!!"

Wang Guangwei rushed over to block Meli's way forward, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, because Meli had already entered the penalty area. If he sent a penalty at the last moment, he would really be a sinner...

He didn't even dare to lift his hands, with his back behind his back, for fear of being touched by the football.

Meli swung his left foot up to shoot, but Wang Guangwei dared not ignore it, so he raised his foot to block it.

As a result, Meli's left foot fell and feinted behind the football.

When Wang Guangwei wanted to lift his foot to block again, Meli's movements were very fast this time, and he shot a low shot, which really shot the football towards the goal!

"Meli shoots—!"

"Meli Meli Meli Meli...Meli-!!!" The Argentine TV commentator chanted Meli's name in a row, as if calling God.

Amid the exclamation of the audience, the football ran towards the far corner of the goal against the turf.

Lin Zhiyuan, who had just moved to the close corner to block the angle, saw the football approaching during the movement, and immediately fell to the ground and threw himself sideways!

He didn't know if he could touch the ball, but anyway, he gave it all up, and a 1.9-meter-tall man fell to the ground at an astonishing speed.

Then he felt his fingertips touch the football!

Get out of my way!

Everyone, including Meli herself after the shot, was staring at the football.

The speed of the ball was so fast that almost no one saw whether Lin Zhiyuan made the jump... They stared at the football with wide eyes, it was rubbing and rolling on the turf, and it was running towards the back post.

From Meli's eyes, the football was slightly deflected to the outside of the goalpost...

He felt like his heart was about to stop beating.

In the hearts of many people, it seems that a very long period of time has passed since Meli took the shot, but in fact it is less than half a second, which is the blink of an eye.

The football rubbed against the outer edge of the back post and slipped out of the bottom line!

Meili's knees softened, as if she lost the strength to support her body in an instant, and knelt on the ground.

Looking back, Wang Guangwei clenched his fists when he saw the football rolling off the baseline, and Liu Yan who was beside him shouted: "Strike!"

Lin Zhiyuan, who was lying on the ground, turned his head to confirm that the football flew out of the bottom line. Instead of getting up from the ground and waving his fists to show the limelight, he let out a sigh of relief.

Cantero rushed out of the baseline, picked up the football that bounced off the billboard, and ran directly to the corner flag area—he actually didn't know if Lin Zhiyuan really touched the football, but it must have happened at this time. It came from a corner kick, after all, this may be the last chance for the Argentine team to attack...

But he just ran to the corner flag area, and before he put the football down, he heard the referee's whistle from behind him.

One sound.

Twice.

Three times!

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"The game is over!!! The game is over!!" In the noisy stadium, He Feng couldn't really hear the referee's whistle, but he kept staring at the referee and observing his gestures. When he saw the referee When he raised his right hand to point to the sky, and then lowered it to point to the middle circle, he could finally confirm that the game was over, so he immediately announced the news in the commentary.

"The Chinese Olympic team defeated the Argentine Olympic team 3:2 in the third group match! We got the right to qualify for the group!! We are qualified!!"

The substitute players of the Chinese Olympic team who had been waiting on the sidelines ran into the field with open arms, while the players of the Olympic team on the field behaved differently. Some raised their arms high to celebrate the victory, while others lay on their backs on the turf and waved Fist, and someone jumped up and hugged the nearest teammate.

"The history of Chinese football must have this day! August 14, 2024! The Chinese Olympic team created a new history and record at the Madrid Olympics! After the first group match, I once told the audience friends We said that you are welcome to witness history with me...but I was wrong, now is the real witness of history! The rare glory and highlight moment in the history of Chinese football is today! It was born!"

In front of the TV, Xie Lan and Hu Lixin hugged each other tightly, she burst into tears and kept crying.

Hu Lixin patted her on the back lightly, without saying a word.

"...Under the circumstances that no one was optimistic about before the game, the boys of the Olympic team overcame many difficulties and created their own miracle! This miracle not only belongs to Hu Lai who scored a hat-trick, but also belongs to Lin Zhiyuan, who always saves Melly's shot, belongs to all the Olympic team players who tried their best to stop Melly and Argentina's attack despite being in a mess... Today, you are no longer the object of ridicule and teasing! Today, you can stand tall and be proud and proud of yourself! Because you are heroes to all of us! We are proud of you!"

Wang Yuan secretly glanced at her husband, and saw that he was smiling and clapping his hands.

His son Qin Qi yelled beside him.

Zhang Qinghuan and Xia Xiaoyu ran out of the living room, perhaps kneeling down to celebrate again...

There are only three of them in this house.

Wang Yuan felt that the knot in her husband's heart that had been brooding all this time seemed to have been untied.

"...Tonight, at this very moment, Chinese fans in the capital, in Shanhai, in Lingnan, in Jincheng, in Yunyang...in countless Chinese domestic cities, please allow me...please authorize me to represent you , Pay tribute to the young people of the Olympic team in front of you! Thank you! Thank you!"

Li Ziqiang sat on the sofa, folded his arms around his chest, looked at the flickering fluorescent TV screen, and let out a slow breath.

Chen Mo, who was watching the game at his home, remembered what Zhao Kangming said after the first group match - Hu Lai is the one who can break the darkness.

Yan Yan and the middle-aged uncle raised their respective glasses in the bar, smiled at each other, and knocked the glasses together.

"...No matter what is waiting for you ahead, on the future journey, please remember how amazing you are today! Please keep going, young people, keep going. And we will always cheer for you! "