Chapter 419 Reincarnation

“aoaooaoaooaooooo——”

The cheers from the Spartak Arena were overwhelming. Except for the Argentine fans who were slumped in their seats, most of the fans stood up and made huge cheers like a tsunami, shouting wildly for Li Qing's achievement of being the youngest hat-trick player in the history of the World Cup.

Compared with his previous calmness, Li Qing, who performed a hat-trick, was somewhat ecstatic.

Before the game, he knew that there was a youngest hat-trick player in the World Cup held by Pele, so he also tried to score more goals in the first round against Argentina, so when the expected goal was achieved, clarity would naturally burst out and it would be difficult to suppress.

Li Qing was happy, and his teammates were even happier.

England and Argentina have played against each other five times in the World Cup. The first encounter between the two teams was in the 1962 Chile World Cup. At that time, England, which lost in the first round of the group, defeated Argentina 3:1 in the second round and squeezed out Argentina as the second in the group to qualify for the group.

Four years later, in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in England, England defeated Argentina 1:0 with a final shot by English player Hurst in the second half.

The third encounter between the two teams took place in the 1986 Mexico World Cup, when Argentina and England met again in the quarter-finals. This encounter made Argentine superstar Maradona the king of football. One of his two wonderful goals became the top goal in the World Cup so far, and the other goal was the famous God's hand, which was impressive.

The 1998 France World Cup quarter-finals was the fourth encounter between the two teams. Affected by Beckham's red card, England lost to Argentina in the penalty shootout and was eliminated.

The fifth encounter between England and Argentina was in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. In the second round of the group stage, England defeated Argentina 1:0 with Beckham's penalty kick, which put the two teams in an advantageous position.

The sixth encounter was the 2018 Russia World Cup group stage, but compared with the past five games, the score of this game seems to be easier to distinguish, or it gives people a sense of clear strength and weakness.

Of course, if you watch the game process, you know that England's big lead over Argentina is due to Li Qing's super performance, which actually has little to do with England as a whole.

The first goal was a header, the second goal was a precise long pass from Li Qing, the third goal was a powerful long shot, and the fourth was a direct free kick.

If Li Qing hadn't played, England might have scored, but they would never have led Argentina...

So the English players who were leading by three goals were ecstatic and rushed towards Li Qing who contributed three goals with great excitement.

The joy of one side set off the sadness of the other side. Messi and other Argentine players looked lost, as if they had lost something crucial.

The live director switched the camera to the Argentine football king Maradona sitting in the VIP seat.

The fans sitting in front of the TV could feel that Maradona was in great pain. He pulled his hair with both hands, and it was obvious that he was very disappointed with the game.

Argentina's head coach Sampaoli squatted in the coaching command area. Before the game, he vowed that defeating England was just a matter of time. There were still more than 20 minutes in the game, and he really didn't know what to do.

The players' fighting spirit dropped to the freezing point. They didn't know whether they could score a goal, and they would definitely continue to lose the ball.

If Argentina lost to England by a large margin under his coaching, there would be no way to make up for it even if he resigned.

"What should I do?"

Sampaoli had not thought of a solution until the English players who celebrated the goal returned to their own half one after another.

The game was restarted with a whistle from the referee Irmatov. Argentina, led by Messi, seemed to have not recovered from the loss of the ball. The team's offense was disorganized and the defense was full of loopholes.

Fortunately, England was leading by a large score and focused on consuming the game time reasonably.

Li Qing had no desire to score against Argentina, which had almost no resistance. For him, scoring goals was a shame.

Unless Argentina scored again, he was thinking about the two sides developing peacefully and waiting for the game to end.

The next game process was relatively dull. England, which was leading by three goals, basically gave up the attack and focused on consuming the game time reasonably.

Argentina, which was behind by a large score, did not recover from the blow until the 80th minute, but it was obviously too late. England had already made targeted deployments against Argentina's possible counterattack.

In the 86th minute, England was ready to make the last substitution adjustment.

Rashford stood next to the fourth official, who had already adjusted the substitution number. The red Arabic number was ‘10’, which meant that the next player Rashford replaced was Li Qing.

Southgate’s substitution idea was very obvious, which was to let Li Qing get a rest while receiving applause from the fans.

“aooaoaooaooooooooooo——”

The English fans at the Spartak Arena obviously noticed the number displayed on the electronic substitution board, and the overwhelming cheers and thunderous applause resounded through the sky: “papappaaaaaaa——”

As the game was still going on, Rashford had to wait until the dead ball appeared before he could come on as a substitute. The on-site director was very professional, and the screen was given to Messi who was attacking with the ball. As the captain of Argentina, he had the responsibility to help Argentina score before the end of the game.

Even if he couldn’t equalize the score, at least he could save some face.

Even if he was facing two or three people defending him head-on, Messi decided to give it a try.

He never expected that when his attention was focused on Henderson, Milner and Ashley Young in front of him, a white shadow suddenly flashed from the right side, so fast that he had no time to react.

Or, as he got older, his reaction was a little slower than when he was young.

The situation in a football match changes rapidly, and a slight delay of 0.1 seconds will result in a different result, so when Messi wanted to protect the ball, it was too late, and the ball was passed to Henderson in the middle by Li Qing.

He Wei, the commentator of Tianchao Channel 5, suddenly raised his voice by eight octaves; "Li Qing!"

At the same time, Messi also knew who had poked the ball away from his feet through the Arabic numerals and English letters behind him.

"aoaooaooaoaoooooo——"

The English fans in the audience burst into even louder cheers, resounding throughout the Spartak Arena.

Li Qing, who had completed the interception, did not stay in place, but braked on the spot, twisted his waist and turned around, and faced the direction of attack again.

Henderson didn't stick to the ball. He passed the ball and the ball rolled towards Li Qing's running route.

Messi, who lost control of the ball, ignited the fire of unwillingness to admit defeat in his heart, turned around quickly, and chased Li Qing.

So, the fans at the scene saw a scene of blood boiling.

The black number 10 chased the white number 10 madly, just like the end of the second round of the 2017-2018 Champions League semi-final.

It's just that the positions of the two were swapped this time, or in other words, this is a reincarnation.