When the entire audience, through live broadcast, saw a tall, unremarkable figure walk from the bench towards the goal, almost all the fans, including their opponents, were shocked.
"What's going on? Why is Wang Fanfan on the field?" On the Chinese commentary desk, the commentators were dumbfounded to see Wang Fanfan enter the game.
Only one commentator, managing to continue the discussion, said, "It's also very normal for Wang Fanfan to come on. After all, Wang Fanfan is good at defending penalty kicks. As long as he is the main defender, this penalty kick will never go in. We still have a considerable advantage!"
"But once this penalty kick is defended, the advantage is gone. Once a player is substituted, in principle, they are not allowed to re-enter the game. So Wang Fanfan must complete the remaining more than 30 minutes of the match. But how is this possible? Everyone in the world knows that Wang Fanfan he..."
"Cough cough!" A commentator coughed a few times, and the one who was speaking passionately suddenly realized and said in a slightly softer tone, "Wang Fanfan is good at defending penalty kicks. His ability to move and shoot is much worse, and he's afraid he won't be able to support the defensive burden in the coming period!"
The commentator's revised wording was very gentle. Otherwise, according to his original excited emotions, he would have directly complained that Wang Fanfan was useless except for defending penalty kicks.
And this was also a fact. Wang Fanfan had played a full game in Europe before, and as long as the opponent dared to shoot, he dared to concede. The super record of conceding more than ten goals in a single game was created by Wang Fanfan.
That was during their European league two years ago. Perhaps the coach wanted Wang Fanfan to try out his feel and let him play the whole game. As a result, it created the worst game in the history of the entire team, and once again made everyone understand that Wang Fanfan was only a god of penalty kicks. Once he entered a normal game, he would completely wilt.
Now, asking Wang Fanfan to guard the entire field is no different from suicide.
As expected, the penalty kick from Brazil in the next moment, under Wang Fanfan's defense, did not even touch the goal before being confiscated by the opponent.
But after conceding a penalty, all the Brazilians had smiles like flowers, as if they had found a great bargain.
And the head coach of the Brazilian team was laughing heartily on the bench, saying to his assistant coach, "Messi has lost his mind! In order to maintain his lead, for a penalty kick, he actually substituted Wang Fanfan."
"I don't want this penalty kick, but we will score more goals in the future. Compared to the previous goalkeeper, Wang Fanfan is a pile of... We've got this game won!"
The entire Brazilian team had almost the same idea as the head coach, so their offense became more active and proactive, almost all pushing into A.
This penalty kick was, of course, blocked by Wang Fanfan without any doubt, and then Am launched a fierce counterattack. Although this counterattack was not successful, Liu Xu had caused quite a bit of trouble for the Brazilians. If it weren't for the timely tackle by the opponent's defender, the ball might have gone in.
And after the counterattack success rate was low, the Am team started to control the ball, using this method of constantly passing the ball between players to delay the game as much as possible.
This method was very ugly, but also very effective. It wasn't until the Brazilians successfully snatched the ball back that this round of offense by the Chinese team had delayed a full 5 minutes.
When the second half reached the 27th minute, the Brazilian team once again had an offensive opportunity. Two Am defenders simultaneously blocked Tian Luo. Tian Luo attempted to pass the ball out from the side of the two defenders, keeping it low to the ground. As a result, the bodies of the two players directly fell, and the pass was blocked by their bodies.
Then the referee's whistle sounded again. Good heavens, another penalty.
"Damn it!" Although their team had gotten a penalty, for some reason, the Brazilian fans at the scene wanted to curse. The Chinese commentators, on the other hand, were all smiling. Someone even said, "Shoot, let him shoot! We'll gain an attack with this penalty, hahahaha!"
At this moment, some young French players watching the game from the stands suddenly remembered something and said nostalgically to the person beside them, "Do you remember what it was like when we played in the youth league?"
"..." The two people on this side stopped talking. These three people belonged to three different French youth training teams when they were young, and now they are all young players of the French national team, the core members of the next generation of France. And they have one thing in common: they had all played against Wang Fanfan when they were still in the youth league. Recalling the super invincible move that the Chinese and French youth training teams had used for about half a year back then, it was incredibly impressive now.
"Handball defense tactics! How can such a damned tactic exist in this world!" After Wang Fanfan saved the 4th penalty kick of the match, the Brazilian team's head coach finally understood the Am team's plan. These shameless guys actually intended to defeat them with such an outrageous and bizarre tactic as handball defense.
What was even more infuriating was that he couldn't think of a way to break this tactic now.
The Brazilian team's head coach had not watched the games played by the Chinese and French youth training teams a few years ago. If he had watched just one game at that time, he would have understood the Chinese team's intentions immediately, and would not have had to wait until now, after being blocked by 4 penalty kicks, to understand the opponent's intention.
"Handball defense tactics!" This tactic had never appeared before, and it is unlikely to appear for the second time. It will forever only be applicable to the team Wang Fanfan is in.
The core of this tactic is to use handball for defense.
That is, in defense, they are not afraid of handball at all. They even directly use handball to disrupt the opponent's attack, ensuring that the opponent doesn't even have a chance to shoot. It is an extremely powerful defensive method.
Any player who plays as a defender for a long time understands that the greatest difficulty in defending an opponent is not how to snatch the ball with their feet, but how to prevent the ball from hitting their arms when defending.
When we watch games, we often see those defenders habitually keep their arms by their sides. If they see a ball shot towards them, these players will decisively dodge it, unless they have a hundred percent certainty of blocking the ball with their chest, or even using their head to clear the ball, they would not dare to use their body to block the ball.
Is it because these defenders are afraid of pain?
Amateur games might be about fear of pain, but who cares about that in professional games? As long as they can block the opponent's goal, they are willing to be carried off on a stretcher.
The real reason these players dodge the football is because they are not confident that their arms will not touch the football.
And once the arm touches the football, the referee will directly award a penalty kick, without giving you any chance to explain.
The difficulty of defending a penalty kick is definitely much higher than that of a normal shot. Therefore, they would rather let the goalkeeper try to save the ball than give the opponent a penalty kick.
This is something a team urgently needs to avoid, but for a team with Wang Fanfan, it's completely unnecessary to worry about. Penalty kicks are the least of their concerns. If you have the ability, shoot through Wang Fanfan's goal!
So, after Wang Fanfan came on in regular time, all the defending players changed their usual timid attitude towards the football. Instead, they actively met the football with their bodies, using all possible methods to block the ball. Anyway, as long as they stopped the opponent's attack, it was enough.
If their hands touched the ball during the action, they would leave it to Wang Fanfan.
With the lifting of this operational seal, the defensive strength of the Am team's backline increased by more than five times. Moreover, the team also had Han Zi'ang, a top defender.
Up until the 38th minute of the second half, no player could break through this defensive line.
However, at this moment, news suddenly came that the Brazilian Football Association had lodged a protest with FIFA, demanding that the referee issue a red card when awarding penalty kicks and send off those players who deliberately committed handball fouls.
This kind of handball defense tactic is a foul. Even if they don't get a red card, they should at least get a yellow card.
At the same time, the entire crowd of Brazilian fans also let out a booing sound, clearly showing their extreme dissatisfaction with this handball defense tactic. But soon, FIFA gave the corresponding reply, stating that the referee's judgment was reasonable and compliant, and was entirely made in accordance with the latest football rules.