After returning to the hotel, the members of the National Olympic Team first celebrated their qualification for the group stage, and then watched together the battle for the first gold medal of the London Olympics: the women's 10-meter air rifle final.
In the end, 23-year-old Chinese girl Yi Siling won the first gold medal with a score of 502.9, beating Polish player Pogatzka's 502.2. Another Chinese player Yu Dan won the bronze medal.
Chinese athletes won two of the three medals, including Yi Siling's first gold medal at the London Olympics.
When two five-star red flags were rising slowly at the competition venue, the "British Royal Artillery Barracks", and when the majestic "March of the Volunteers" sounded on the field, Lu Wenbin secretly clenched his fists: he also wanted to help China win a gold medal in the Olympics.
Then, after resting for a night in Coventry, the entire Chinese team returned to London the next day.
China's third round match will be at London's Wembley Stadium, against Gabon.
The men's football match schedule at the Olympics is very tight, with almost one match every three days.
Having already qualified, the Chinese team will naturally not send out all their main players to fight Gabon. They need to save enough energy for the quarter-finals.
Therefore, in the third round of Group B match between China and Gabon held at Wembley Stadium in London on August 1, the Chinese team rotated most of the lineup, even the goalkeeper was replaced by Wu Sihuo.
Of course, Lu Wenbin, the mainstay of the team, will continue to start.
As long as Lu Wenbin is there, the Gabonese team will not dare to attack aggressively. Even if they attack, with Lu Wenbin's auxiliary defense, the Gabonese team's success rate will be greatly reduced.
After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 2-1, and the Chinese team won by one goal.
Although Gabon took advantage of the lack of strength in China's substitute lineup and scored a goal, they were ultimately defeated by Lu Wenbin's two goals.
Lu Wenbin's existence makes many opponents feel helpless.
The Chinese team advanced to the quarterfinals with a record of 9 points after winning three games and ranking first in Group B. The Mexican team also advanced to the quarterfinals after defeating Switzerland in the last round, while Switzerland and Gabon went home together.
After the third round of group matches, Lu Wenbin also received the system reward for qualifying from the group: 1 million experience points + 10 skill points.
Adding the single-game experience gained in each game, Lu Wenbin's experience rose to level 19, 19.353 million/20 million, and he only needed 650,000 to upgrade.
As long as you score a goal and win in the quarter-finals, you can upgrade and get extra points again.
As for the 10 skill points obtained from the group qualifying mission, Lu Wenbin naturally added them to the position selection skill without hesitation, bringing his position selection attribute to 12 points.
After all the group stage matches were over, the teams that advanced to the quarterfinals were all decided, namely Britain and Senegal in Group A, China and Mexico in Group B, Brazil and Egypt in Group C, and Japan and Honduras in Group D.
China's Olympic team's opponent in the quarter-finals has also been announced: Senegal.
This is an African country. Senegal is quite strong as it was able to beat Uruguay in Group A and qualify together with England.
However, compared with the host England, the favorites to win the championship Brazil, Mexico, etc. in the quarterfinals, Senegal's strength is still much worse. The Chinese team with Lu Wenbin has a great chance of winning.
The top four are waving to the Chinese team.
Most media from various countries are also optimistic about the Chinese team. After all, at the U23 level, Lu Wenbin alone is enough to defeat a team.
Senegal is not a strong team, they just had luck and beat Uruguay to reach the quarterfinals.
Just like in the previous game, the Chinese team rotated most of its main players, but Lu Wenbin scored twice alone, helping the Chinese team to beat Gabon, which had only fielded its main players, with a score of 2-1.
This is also one of the reasons why the Chinese team is listed as the favorite to win the championship.
However, on August 4, 2012, at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, when the quarter-final between China and Senegal officially began, Senegal did not shrink back to defend against China, but took the initiative to attack from the beginning of the game.
This caught the Chinese team off guard.
The media all said that the Chinese team was stronger than Senegal. Everyone thought that Senegal would shrink its defense and counterattack. Even Gao Hongbo thought so!
I didn't expect Senegal to take the initiative to attack.
Aren’t they afraid of Lu Wenbin and the Chinese team’s counterattack
Fortunately, the Chinese team's tactics are 4231 defensive counterattack, based on defense and then counterattack. They will not launch a large-scale attack at the beginning of the game, but will stabilize the defensive formation first and see the situation.
Senegal had three shots in ten minutes at the start, but only one was on target due to the Chinese team's defense, and the power and angle of the shot were not good, so it was easily confiscated by Zeng Cheng.
On the contrary, the Chinese team launched a very threatening attack in the 6th minute, but Wu Lei wasted Lu Wenbin's through pass, and his final shot slipped out of the goal.
After withstanding Senegal's opening attack, the Chinese team stabilized its position. Everyone gradually realized that Senegal only looked aggressive, but was actually much weaker than Mexico, which the Chinese team encountered, and was at most on par with the Swiss team.
Moreover, the discipline of African players is worse than that of the Swiss team. Many good balls are passed, but Senegalese players choose to break through by themselves, only to be intercepted or unable to break through, wasting time.
After discovering that Senegal was just a facade, the Chinese team increased the number of counterattacks while maintaining a stable defense.
In the 17th minute, Senegal's attack was interrupted again.
This time it was central defender Du Wei who intercepted the ball from the opposing forward Konate and passed it to Zhang Linpeng, who initiated the attack.
The moment Zhang Linpeng successfully intercepted the ball, Lu Wenbin immediately turned around and rushed towards the opponent's half, approaching the opponent's back line earlier than Wu Lei.
Then, at the moment when Lu Wenbin was about to be offside, Cao Yunding, who had passed one person on the wing after receiving the pass from Zhang Linpeng, immediately passed the ball to him at a 45-degree angle. Lu Wenbin successfully made an offside move and received the ball behind the Senegalese defense line.
However, Lu Wenbin did not stop the ball well and it went a little too far. Seeing this, Senegalese goalkeeper Mane immediately rushed out of the penalty area to destroy the ball.
But Lu Wenbin's speed was too scary.
If Lu Wenbin were to participate in a sprint competition, he might be able to run under 10 seconds, which would definitely be unique in the football world and no one could match him.
Although Mane knew that Lu Wenbin was fast, he still did not anticipate his speed enough in a fast-paced game.
Not only did Lu Wenbin start at full speed to shake off the pursuers behind him, he also made a Marseille turn to pass Mane before the goalkeeper.
Mane, who rushed out of the penalty area and was unable to catch the ball with his hands, could only watch Lu Wenbin pass him and score into the empty goal.
Lu Wenbin scored the first goal for China in a counterattack in the 17th minute, China 1-0 Senegal.