Chapter 100 - The weirdest reversal football match in history (1/2)

Translator: Lionwwang  Editor: Lionwwang

Everyone knows China football team is not that good. They always lose the important matches. Especially to South Korea team, there’s almost no victory record before.

I take the beer glass and look at Nongda Park’s face. No wonder he is so confident. Like Winson says, look at the odds, it’s obviously not manipulated. The result seems pretty much sure.

If there’s no the ring on my hand, even kill me, I still wouldn’t have such confidence in China men’s football team!

The China men’s football team is too weak. Everyone knows it. Even Nanny, a woman who doesn’t understand football, also looks at me with a worried face.

I do not care, just look at the TV.

The signal comes from ESPN. First, the soccer commentators introduce the two sides’ lineup, and then they analyses the match against history and technical and tactical characteristics of both sides. Then the match begins. The Red Devil Cheerleading Team of Korea almost fills the whole stadium with roars.

Five minutes after the start, the Korean team almost scores. A China defender carelessly kicks the ball to a Korean striker’s feet. The Korean is raising his leg to shoot, causing a lot of the screamings on the spot.

China team’s goalkeeper is OK, he’s jumping to the left and hold the ball.

For the next 20 minutes, the game is almost one-sided. Korean players are almost surrounding the China team’s forbidden zone. Fear ambush at every tree and tuft of grass.

China team is suffering a crushing defeat. The players begin to breathe heavily one by one. But the ball just always passes two or three times and then will be snatched by Korean players.

In the first half, China team’s only threatening attack comes from the only striker. He’s been waiting for a long time, finally got a long pass. He immediately ran with the ball at the fastest speed. Then he raised his head to observe. His eyes flashed and he shot furiously at the front of the penalty area. With the wind, the ball whistled like a shell and flew directly to the corner flag…

The referee blows the whistle at the end of the half and enters the halftime.

Nongda Park is probably quite happy. He has an indifferent face and a hint of unconscious delight. The beer in front of him has been finished. He takes a deep look at me. I just say nothing.

The second half starts, the situation is changing abruptly!

South Korea team passes the ball twice in the first two minutes, opens up the gap of China defenders, uses China defenders’ mistake to burst into the penalty area and shoot. The score changes to 1:0.

Five minutes later, the Korean striker finds a chance to shoot a long shot in front of the penalty area, and the score changes to 2:0.

It is South Korea odds of two balls handicap, which means they just need one more goal. Gamblers who bet on South Korea’s winning can wait to count their money. From the present situation, this possibility is infinite.

Nongda Park has ordered another glass of beer. He raises a full glass of beer, gives me a distant gesture, with the smile on his face.

I’m just standing calm, taking out a cigarette and light it.

I believe in the magic of the ring!

Sure enough, five minutes later, situation is changed!

Originally two goals down in the second half, the players of the China team have abandoned, most of them have returned to their own half to defend. Suddenly, in a China defender’s big foot clearance, the ball goes straight over the half-court, unexpectedly accurately lands at the foot of the striker!

He’s running with the ball at once!

A South Korean defender is coming up. The striker is beginning to stumble. Somehow, the defender slips on the grass and falls down. As a result, the two collides and the football flies straight out of the bottom line.

China team’s corner kick.

After the corner kick, the China team rushes several top headers into South Korean team’s penalty area. The South Korean goalkeeper roars and hits the ball with both fists. Under the eyes of tens of thousands of spectators, the ball hits the forward’s buttock accurately and then flies into the net.

2:1 China team pulls back a goal.

“Cool! It’s so coquettish to score a goal with the buttock!” I have a good drink of beer.

Two minutes later, China team comes back again!