Fox in the Penalty Area

Mario Salado watched the football go above the crossbar. After the shot, he seemed to have lost all strength under his feet and could no longer support his body, so he swooped down and fell to the ground.

At the same time, there was a burst of gleeful laughter from the Madrid Pirates fans in the stands.

This is for Salado.

As a talented player trained by the Catalan United's own youth training echelon, Mario Salado can be said to have been born with a golden spoon in his mouth.

Among the echelons of all age groups, they are the top ones.

Naturally, he thought he would be a star in the Catalan first-team, much like Meli enjoyed at King Madrid.

He won the best young player award in La Liga, the best young player award in Europe... everything is replicating the path that Meli has traveled, so he will definitely grow into a player like Meli in Catalan.

But he ended up not being what he and others expected him to be.

It stands to reason that he actually performed well in the first team of Catalan United, otherwise it would be impossible to win the Best Young Player Award in Europe.

It's just that compared with his target Meli and his competitor Hu Lai, his performance is really "mediocre".

Especially after seeing Hu Lai's crazy performance last season, this talented player who once wanted to beat Hu Lai has given up such an idea.

Ninety-five goals in a single season... This is really impossible to compete!

What's more, he still has the mountain of Kabangka in the team to overcome.

Obviously, the current core of the team is the Brazilian, not his "direct descendant" cultivated by Catalan.

Just like the positions of the two on the field, he is on the left side, and his range of activities is basically limited to this side.

Although Kabanka is on the right side in name, his position in the actual game is very flexible, and he can even stay in the middle.

In order to match the characteristics of Kabanka, the team even replaced their main right back Pablo Osqui, because although Osqui is a fierce defender, he is not good at assists.

So this summer, the team spent 42 million euros to introduce the young Portuguese international Rico Hidalgo from the Portuguese giants Porto United.

The Portuguese right-back is fast and extremely good at assisting. Although his defense is a bit weak, the head coach Reilly Vicente doesn't care, because Hidalgo is the one who asked the club to introduce him by name.

With Hidalgo joining, Kabanka can stay in the middle, thus giving way to Hidalgo, who has a strong assist ability.

Although this will lose part of the defensive ability, it can guarantee the team's offensive firepower.

And all this is because of Kabanka.

It is clear at a glance who is the core and who is the support.

But in fact, Mario Salado could have become the core of the team.

How did it become like this?

In the final analysis, I am afraid it is because his ability to grasp scoring opportunities is relatively poor...

Like this ball.

Kabunka has drawn almost all of the Madrid Pirates' defense, leaving him wide open and passing him the ball.

It can be said that all the cakes were fed into his throat.

But he was still able to pick his own throat and spit out the cake...

How can such a performance make the club support him as the core?

Which core will waste important opportunities in the game?

Moreover, compared with Kabanka's ability to play on the side and the center, he can only play on the side and does not have the conditions to become a core.

Hearing the roar of laughter in the stands, Mario Salado turned around and saw Kabanka giving him a thumbs up.

He was slightly taken aback.

If this situation happens in training, the Brazilian will definitely express dissatisfaction with himself, because he wasted the opportunities he created.

He has been "educated" by Kabanka in training:

"Mario, you should be like this..."

"Mario, you should..."

"Mario, you shouldn't be like this..."

"Mario, you shouldn't be like that..."

...

But when it came to the game, the Brazilian genius who claimed to be as famous as Meli was surprisingly tolerant. Not only did he not accuse him of wasting opportunities, but he also gave him a thumbs up.

What can you praise about your performance just now?

Even Salado himself felt ashamed that he wasted this opportunity.

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When Salado received another pass, there was a shout from the stands near him:

"Thank you, Salado! Thank you!"

Of course, the fans of the home team were not really thanking him, but mocking him.

And hope to use such ridicule to affect Salado's next performance.

Amidst their booing, Salado did not choose to break through with the ball, but quickly passed the ball again.

It can still be clearly seen that he was affected by the missed opportunities before, and he seemed a little lacking in confidence.

He could have broken through directly, but now he passed the football to Kabangka in the middle.

He made the pass so suddenly, Kabunka was completely unprepared, and the football flew over with great force.

At this time, the Brazilian's super sense of the ball was revealed-despite catching the ball hastily, despite Salado's strong pass, Kabanka still struggled to stop the football.

Of course, it is inevitable to stop a little bit too much.

But a high-level player can always turn emergencies that occur on the field at any time into conditions that are beneficial to him.

In other words, a player who can always make the best choice in the face of various emergencies on the court is a top player.

Kabanka is undoubtedly such a top player.

Not only did he not allow the stop to become his own mistake, but he took advantage of the opportunity to get between Ramirez and Joaquin Bella in one go!

He turned the stop ball into a pass ball!

Fortunately, Danny Drew was focused and predicted Kabanka's possible actions in advance.

So when Kabanka just kicked the football out, Drew, who was originally in the penalty area, stepped forward to meet him.

Then at the moment when Kabanka caught up with the football, he stretched out his feet to intercept.

The two faced each other fiercely at the front of the penalty area. After a muffled sound, Kabangka fell to the ground before losing his balance.

Drew's body also shook, but he still stabilized his center of gravity and quickly transferred the blocked football.

The Madrid Pirates took advantage of the situation to launch an attack.

In the end, Houlai completed the shot, but the ball was hugged by Catalan goalkeeper Tone Schulman.

Seeing Schulman embracing Hu Lai's shot, Kabanka, who was returning to defense, ran towards Salado.

Then he pulled him, covered his mouth with his hands and said, "You shouldn't have passed the ball to me just now, Mario. You should have broken through directly. You have the advantage of speed, as long as it is sudden enough, their right backs can't react .”

At this moment, Mario Salado seemed to be back on the training ground again.

As long as he performed poorly and made mistakes, Kabunka would directly criticize him publicly without waiting for the coach to stop.

Salado was very dissatisfied with Kabanka's approach at first, but the head coach couldn't stand the side of the Brazilian and fully supported him.

Salado can only slander, or occasionally stab Kabanka in a small way.

It's just that Kabanka never got angry with him, but talked about the facts and pointed out his problems, as if he didn't hear the dissatisfaction in Salado's words.

To be honest, being a long-established and talented player is always going to have a lot of self-esteem.

Being taught a lesson in front of others like this would make anyone feel uncomfortable.

So even without talking about the potential competitive relationship between the two, the relationship between Salado and Kabanka is not good.

If it was before, after being "taught" by Kabangka to play football, Salado would probably roll his eyes wildly in his heart even if he didn't say anything on the surface.

But this time, maybe it was because of the previous praise.

Facing Kabanka's criticism, Salado nodded simply: "Okay, I will pay attention next time."

Kabanka patted him on the shoulder: "Come on, Mario. You are a sharp knife, don't be blunt."

Sarato reflexively got angry: "It's so strange to hear you praise me..."

Kabanka smiled as if he hadn't heard the subtext of his words at all, turned around and ran away.

Behind him, Salado kept watching him.

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Gaspar Rosas had the ball in midfield and was about to pass it to Kabanka when Kabanka gestured to him to move the ball to the left.

Although there is actually not a very good space there, Rosas now respects Kabanka's idea very much.

Since Kabanka wants to let the team's offense go there, he will naturally cooperate.

It was just such a delay, and now Rosas has lost the best opportunity to pass the ball.

Vukovic rushed forward to grab the ball at his feet.

Rosas seemed to be still observing the situation on the left, as if he didn't see Vukovic at all.

But when Vukovic really jumped up and stretched his foot to steal the ball, Rosas's right instep turned the football to the outside of his body, turned around at the same time, and blocked Vukovic with his body.

Then he continued to dial the ball with the outer instep of his right foot, taking Vukovic as the axis, and circled for a circle.

Vukovic stretched his feet continuously to steal the ball but failed.

Every time he intercepted the ball, the ball was always blocked by Rosas' body just right, causing him to fail the interception.

After making a circle like this, Rosas faced the attacking direction again and saw the situation on the left flank.

Mario Salado is running diagonally into the ribs from the wing.

Under the harassment of Vukovic, Rosas decisively sent a through ball!

The football sprinted across the turf like a hot knife through butter and penetrated the defense of the Madrid Pirates!

Salado took advantage of his speed and forcibly broke through. The right back of the Madrid Pirates, Irazusta, came from the Catalan United, but he failed to gain a foothold in the Catalan United - he did not compete with the Argentine right back Pablo Osqui , So I chose to come to Madrid Pirates.

Facing Salado's speed advantage, he seemed a little struggling.

Even though he used both hands and feet, he still couldn't stop Salado, and Salado blocked him when he turned around!

"Salado! Salado!"

In the continuous exclamation of the commentator Sanchez, Salado received the ball behind the Madrid Pirates' defense!

Almost formed a single pole!

Seeing this, Hywell rushed up decisively and blocked his shooting angle.

Salado made a gesture to dribble the ball to the outside line, but just as he pushed the ball away, he suddenly crossed the football with his left foot!

The football almost passed in front of Hewell, but he had no time to react, and could only watch the football roll to the middle.

And there...

Catalan centre-forward Edmund Paterson is tangling with two of Madrid's Pirates centre-backs.

Then a figure burst out in front of the three of them!

"Kabangka!"

The Brazilian rushed to the goal and swept horizontally against the ball passed by Salado!

The football flew into the goal that was already unguarded!

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