| Chinese men's ice team scored their first Winter Olympic goal at the Winter Olympics

▲ In the men's hockey group stage, the players of the Two Teams of China and Germany fought fiercely.

On the afternoon of February 12, the Chinese men's ice hockey team welcomed the second opponent in the group stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics , the German team, the runner-up of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the fifth place in the world. China scored in the second and third quarters, losing 2-3.

The German team has participated in the Winter Olympics 16 times, winning 1 silver and 2 bronze, and is a traditional strong team. In the last competition, the team advanced all the way to the final in a historic way. However, due to a large number of local outstanding players being poached by the NHL (North American Professional Hockey League) after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, this time they failed to compete with the team, and the overall strength of the team decreased compared with the previous session. In the first match, Germany lost 1-5 to Canada, which had won at the last Winter Olympics.

The Chinese men's ice team, currently ranked 32nd in the world, made its debut in the Winter Olympic Games since the Chinese Ice Association joined the International Ice Federation in 1963. In the historic Winter Olympics debut on February 10, the Chinese men's ice team lost to the United States by a score of 0-8. However, the players began to fight tenaciously, only conceded one point in a single quarter and created a threatening offensive performance several times, which still made people retain an expectation. After the game, forward Ying Rudi bluntly said that the team did not play at its best level in the last two quarters, and the next two group games must be carefully summarized and come up with better performances.

The Chinese team did it. In this battle, the two teams began a fierce scramble. The Chinese team, which was not superior in strength, waited for the opportunity to counterattack while strictly defending, but failed to resist the tidal attack of the opponent. Following the goal of the striker Peeta in the goal of the goal of the melee, the German defender Brante drove straight into the goal of the Chinese team and scored the ball from a small angle after the goal of the goalkeeper in 13 minutes and 33 seconds. At 16 minutes and 24 seconds, Holzer scored again with a long-range shot. After the first quarter, the Chinese team fell behind 0-2, and the number of effective shots on goal was almost three times that of the Chinese team.

In the second quarter of 4 minutes and 41 seconds, German player Müller fired a long-range shot, and forward Cahun leaned on the defender in front of the Chinese team to swing and touch the ball, and the ball changed course and entered the net. However, the Chinese team, which was three goals behind, did not repeat the mistakes of the first game, but became more and more courageous, creating dangerous situations in front of the opponent's goal several times, and even a shot hit the goal frame, and the scene did not fall behind. At 19 minutes and 14 seconds in the quarter, the home team's offensive attack finally came to fruition, and the forward general Fu Shuai scored a supplementary shot into the net to make the score 1-3. It was also the first goal scored by the Chinese men's ice hockey team in the main event of the Winter Olympics.

The Chinese team's offensive has not stopped there. In the third quarter, forward Wang Taylor seized the opportunity in the front field battle, and received another point from the captain Ye Jinguang's pass, rewriting the score to 2-3. Since then, both sides have not been able to score again, and the Chinese team lost to the last runner-up with a one-goal difference, although it suffered two consecutive defeats, but its performance was obviously better than the previous one.

Photo by Fang Fei, reporter of the Winter Olympics

Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporter Wang smiled

Edited by Han Ye

Process Editor Liu Weili