Fox in the Penalty Area

Zhang Qinghuan originally wanted to turn to the left immediately after receiving the ball, and pass the football forward after getting rid of the Olympiad.

But just as he caught the ball, he felt a violent pain coming from behind him.

He staggered and almost missed the ball.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly. Although he was knocked out, he hooked the football and continued to protect it. Therefore, Osay failed to steal the ball in the first pass.

But Orsay didn't just let him go, but continued to charge behind, using both hands and feet to prevent him from properly controlling the ball.

Faced with such a collision, it was not easy for Zhang Qinghuan to barely keep possession of the ball, and it was even more impossible to organize an attack.

It is not good for Zhang Qinghuan and Sarria to continue to barely hold the ball.

So instead of continuing to hold on, he took advantage of Osai's foot to poke the ball again, and at the same time bumped into him, he fell to the ground with a howl.

The referee's whistle sounded, and as Zhang Qinghuan expected, he called the Orsay foul.

Players with high golf quotient will not blindly pursue success, but will first think about how to lose so badly when they cannot succeed. Although this attack was not successful, at least it did not allow the King of Madrid to regain possession of the ball right. The king fouled, and the ball was still controlled by Sarria.

This is the choice a smart player should make when facing a difficult situation.

However, Zhang Qinghuan was not happy with his success in keeping the ball, on the contrary he was still frowning.

Because their head coach Casas was right.

During the half-time break, the players of Sarria were very happy. On the one hand, it was because the rivals of the same city, Catalan United, had three goals scored by the pirates at their home court, which made them very happy. On the other hand, of course, it was because the Pirates led the Catalan United by three goals, which damaged the morale and confidence of the King Madrid players.

This can be seen from the last few minutes of the first half of the game-the Kings players were a little distracted at that time.

Saria's offense almost threatened the King's goal.

So the Saria players all thought that the second half must be their chance.

However, the head coach Casas seriously warned the players to set up the bus after the start of the second half and wait for the King of Madrid to attack.

"...do you think the score over there is good news for us? No, it's the opposite. I tell you, if the Pirates and Catalan United fight fiercely and stalemate, it will be good news for us. But now, The Pirates have already led the Catalan United by three goals, which will allow the Kings to turn their attention back and direct their anger on us. So at the beginning of the second half, the Kings will definitely attack violently. They are not chasing victory, they are just pure want to vent their anger."

Then Casas made a series of tactical arrangements, basically all of which were to strengthen the defense.

After the start of the second half of the game, as expected by Casas, the King, who was playing at home, launched a stormy offensive against Sarria's penalty area.

Sarria recovered across the board, even if he attacked, he could only rely on counterattacks, or set-piece opportunities like now.

The place where Zhang Qinghuan was fouled was in Sarria's half, but Sarria can take this opportunity to push the football forward.

Putting the bus does not mean not attacking at all. If you have the opportunity, you still have to harass the opponent's back, otherwise the King of Madrid will become more and more unscrupulous.

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Sarria's side was temporarily suppressed by the king.

At the Sagrada Familia, the Pirates and Catalan were also locked in a stalemate.

Catalan manager José Bernal managed to salvage his team's low morale at half-time.

And coincidentally... the example he uses to boost morale is also the allusion to the 1994 Champions League final between the King of Madrid and the Albanian Munich.

Based on this, encourage your players-since the king can do it, why can't we do it? Is it that our Cathay Pacific is not as good as the king?

So even if you are behind by three goals in the first half, it definitely doesn't mean the game is over!

So when the second half started,

The Catalan United launched an attack on the pirates again.

The Pirates, who had a three-goal lead, didn't take it too far. Instead, according to the request of the head coach Palos during the intermission, they played steadily and did not attack the Catalan United. But they didn't shrink back to the door in one breath to set up the bus, and gave up the space at the front of the penalty area.

Facing the Catalan United, which is better at passing and controlling, the Madrid Pirates still chose to entangle with them in the midfield.

In particular, the Madrid Pirates have Maxi Carey and Juan Ramirez, two masters in the front and back, ensuring that the Madrid Pirates can not fall behind in the midfield.

This is a very correct decision, and it was this decision that allowed the Madrid Pirates to face the fierce offensive of Catalan United in the second half and not fall into a passive position.

Anyway, the Pirates lead by three goals, so they don't have to worry at all. As long as the current balance of power can be maintained and the Catalan United slowly deal with each other, as the game time goes by, the balance of victory and defeat will gradually tilt towards the Pirates.

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This time Zhang Qinghuan finally rushed the football to the diagonally forward side before Osai pounced on him.

Saria's midfielder Mikel Lecco quickly sent the ball forward with a long diagonal pass after receiving the ball from the wing.

In front of the striker Carlos Torrado accurately judged the football landing point, he grabbed the point next to the king's central defender Peralta, and dribbled the ball towards the king's goal!

When he just dribbled the ball into the penalty area, he kicked and shot.

Peralta, who followed him, shoveled directly when he saw this, but he didn't want to shovel the football directly, but to allow his feet to appear on the path of the shot.

He succeeded, and Torrado's shot hit Peralta's feet, changed direction and flew out of the baseline!

"Sarria played a good attack, but Torrado still couldn't get rid of Peralta!"

On the coaching bench of the home team, the coaches of the King of Madrid didn't care much about the offense and defense that just happened.

What they care about is the news from the other side.

"The Catalan United has made great efforts..."

"Just now Camp Noza's shot hit the post..."

"It's not enough, if they don't score as soon as possible, it still doesn't help..."

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The exclamation of the Holy Family Stadium spread in the air.

Just now Camp Noza's long-range shot was rejected by the Sagrada Familia's own goal post.

The Catalan fans were happy for nothing.

Coach Bernal stood on the sidelines and applauded the attack.

Although it is a pity not to score, he still hopes that this attack can boost the morale and fighting spirit of the players.

If he hit the goal post this time, maybe next time he will directly rub against the goal post and fly into the goal?

Camp Noosa's kick really inspired his teammates.

So when the game continued, the Catalan United further strengthened their offensive, trying to completely take control of the midfield.

In order to cooperate with the team's action to seize control of the midfield, Catalonia's defense line further pressed forward and kept an appropriate distance from its own midfield.

This is one of the characteristics of the pass control team-they can't get out of the three lines, and they can't play pass control.

When the back line is pressed up, the space behind him will naturally increase.

So when Carey received the ball in midfield, he didn't pass the football back as before to delay the rhythm, but passed the ball directly behind the Catalan defense line, trying to counterattack.

The football was kicked high by him, flew over the heads of the Catalan players, and fell straight to their backcourt.

Hu Lai ran wildly in front, chasing the football.

"The pirate's chance to counterattack! Hu Lai!! The ball is not offside!"

Before Carey passed the ball, Hou Lai suddenly started a horizontal run, taking away Catalan central defender Paul Fortune. Then he suddenly changed direction and went straight behind the Catalan defense!

"Single knife!!"

After seeing Hu Lai's movement, Yan Yan and the others in front of the TV shouted one after another, but their bodies seemed to be frozen—maintaining a forward leaning posture, staring at the TV screen motionlessly, and their fists did not know when Clenched.

Just a few minutes ago, they were still screaming at Camp Noosa's goal post.

Now their eyes widened in anticipation of what happened next.

When Hou Lai was running towards the Catalan United penalty area, the Catalan central defender Joel Jimenez was running wildly, running diagonally towards Hou Lai from the center.

But he's a little slower. However, Catalan left-back Francisco Calderon noticed the Madrid Pirates' intention to counterattack earlier, and had already returned to the defense from the front along the wing, closer to Hou Lai than Jimenez.

Hu Lai, who was running with his head buried in his head, first looked up at the goal in front of him. Catalan goalkeeper Cordero was originally outside the penalty area. Following Carey's long pass, he quickly retreated, but he retreated to the big goal. In the restricted area, there is no further retreat.

Then Hu Lai looked back at Calderon, who was returning to defense, and the opponent was getting closer and closer to him.

Finally he looked up and found the football - it had passed over his head, flew in front of him, and was falling.

A black figure appeared in the corner of Hu Lai's left eye, and he felt a gust of wind blowing towards him from the right rear.

He knew that the two pursuers on the left and right were coming soon.

The opportunity is fleeting, and it is impossible for him to stop the ball and adjust it.

The football had dropped in front of him, then bounced up again.

It's just that the ball didn't fly forward quickly, but bounced slowly.

Hu Lai adjusted his pace, slowed down a little, and then swung his right leg in the face of the rising football!

Calderon reached out to grab Hu Lai's shoulder, but was knocked away by Hu Lai's right arm swinging back!

With nowhere to draw his strength, he even staggered a bit...

As for Jimenez, after he ran so fast, he was still about three or four meters away from Hu Lai. He couldn't do anything, he could only watch Hu Lai's straight right foot hit the football with the instep!

Boom!

When shooting, Hu Lai was on the right side of the court, about 34 meters away from the straight line of the goal.

If he wants to stop the ball and then dribble towards the Catalan goal, then this will be a very long and difficult road.

[To be honest, I have been using Mimi to read and update books recently, switch sources, read aloud with many timbres, and both Android and Apple are fine. 】

But now, for football in the air, that's just the blink of an eye!

Seeing Hou Lai kicking and shooting directly from outside the penalty area, the Catalan goalkeeper Cordero jumped into the air and waved towards the flying football.

But the football flew high above his hand, and then fell rapidly!

"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!"

Sanchez's growls switched seamlessly.

Because the football has passed Cordero, who is flying in the air, and crashed into the goal behind him!

"My God!" He Feng couldn't help exclaiming, "Hat-trick! Hu Lai's hat-trick! He helped the Pirates lead Catalan United 4-0 in the away game!! There is no suspense for the league championship this season No more! No more!"

This time, he excitedly forgot about not wanting to lose his character, and directly yelled out his true thoughts!

In front of the TV, Yan Yan violently waved his arms, forgetting that he still held a can of beer in his hand.

As a result, all the beer was spilled.

But no one cared, he didn't care, and neither did anyone else.

Some people even followed suit and spilled the wine in their hands.

There was a mix of cheering and screaming in the room. (to be continued)