Fox in the Penalty Area

David Miller, John Falkingham, and Lewin, the "White Rose" fan organization, stood on the north stand of the Flanders Stadium and stared at the field dumbfounded.

Not only them, but also the fans in the stands all around the stadium.

Only the Wiggerston fans in the southwest corner stand pointed at the field, with a smile on their faces.

Matthew Cox is a well-informed and experienced narrator, but facing the scene in front of him now, he is also a little short of words.

He said in an uncertain tone: "The home game between Leeds City and Wiggerston is about to start, and the players from both sides are already in place... Uh, the players from Wiggerston should be in place, I don't know the players from Leeds City Is our current position considered to be in place..."

In the TV broadcast, Wiggerston's players were all standing in their respective positions, with the striker at the forefront, but did not enter the center circle because they did not kick off. The midfielder is some distance behind the striker, behind it are four defenders in a line, and finally the goalkeeper stands in the penalty area, but not in front of the goal, but a little bit outside, to the big box line.

This is a standard player position before the kick-off of a game. Through this position, it is often possible to see at a glance what formation the team is adopting.

Unlike Wiggerston, the players of Leeds City did not stand like a normal team, but all stood on the center line...not "all", but not too much.

There are a total of eight Leeds City players concentrated on the center line near the center circle.

Standing in the center circle was Hu Lai who kicked off, and outside the center circle were occupied by seven other Leeds City players on the left and right sides, of which there were as many as four on the left and three on the right.

Behind the center line, apart from the goalkeeper van der Ven, there are only two players, one is the central defender Teddy Bradford, and the other is the midfielder Jay Adams.

"What... what formation is this? 118?"

"What crazy idea did this 'lunatic' Clark come up with?"

After looking at each other in blank dismay, the reporters in the media seat asked such questions, and some people already lowered their heads and recorded on their mobile phones:

"...Leeds City manager Tony Clarke is called 'crazy'. And against Wiggerston, he once again exceeded our expectations and showed an even crazier side: his The team concentrated on the center line before the start of the game. This scene not only stunned the reporters in the media seats, but also shocked Wiggerston as the opponent..."

A close-up of Wiggerston's head coach, Roger Beale, frowns and looks at the field in bewilderment and bewilderment.

Apparently, this sixty-six-year-old handsome man also couldn't understand the operation of the young man next door.

Then the TV broadcast screen cut to the sidelines in front of the coach of the home team. The head coach Tony Clark, who was standing on the sidelines waiting for the game to start, was talking to his assistant coach, but because the two of them covered their mouths during the whole conversation, So no one knows what the two of them said.

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"Tony, sometimes I wonder if you are Hu's distant relative..."

"Why do you say that, Sam?"

"Because Hu just said that casually,

You actually let the whole team practice such a tactic. If it is not related to him, why do you spoil him so much? Randall covered his mouth with one hand and shrugged his shoulders with the other.

Clark covered his mouth and said with a smile: "But you have already seen the specific effect of this tactic in training, and it is indeed effective."

Indeed, judging from the results, Hu Lai's whimsical kick-off tactic is really useful.

Although at first when he brought it up, everyone thought he was joking, but few people took it seriously.

Only two people, Tony Clark and Matt Dorn, thought it was worth a try as Holly said.

So the whole team actually cooperated with Hu Lai to realize the tactics he casually mentioned on the training ground...

"The question is not whether it works, the question is that you believe what he says, Tony..."

"Anyway, even if what he said is wrong, we don't have much loss. This tactic is not complicated to train, even as a kind of adjustment during training." Clark covered his mouth and shook his head, with a smile on his face .

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"The game hasn't started yet, and the players from both sides are already in place. But the situation in Leeds City is a bit different..."

He Feng's voice came out from the speakers, but Wang Guangwei and Zhang Qinghuan, who were sitting in front of the projection screen, had a strong sense of déjà vu.

That is, this scene seems familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere...

"Boy Hu Lai..." Qin Lin shook his head and sighed beside him.

Zhang Qinghuan thought about it, and he slapped his thigh: "Isn't this the scene when we played the FA Cup with Poseidon when we were in the Chinese Premier League? It's just that we used corner kick tactics at that time, but now Leeds City is kicking off..."

"'Tiannv Sanhua' tee shot?" Wang Guangwei also recalled.

Zhang Qinghuan nodded: "I guess this must be Hu Lai's idea!"

Wang Guangwei covered his face and smiled: "At first I thought he was just messing around with Shining Star, because Director Zhao is his godfather. Now it seems that he also has a godfather in England..."

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After the initial astonishment, the players on Wiggerston stared at the Leeds City players in front of them with mocking eyes.

It seemed that they were not competing with players from a professional team, but a group of clowns who usually performed in the circus to make people laugh.

What is this for? Get together and wait for the whistle to sound, and then people climb and build ladders?

Any fool can see that Leeds City wants to rush forward after kick-off, and then take advantage of the chaos to win.

But in this way, wouldn't there be empty spaces behind them?

As long as I can stop their pass and directly counterattack, Leeds City may kick off twice in a row within a minute...

This way of kicking off is simply nonsense!

Others looked to Tony Clark on the sidelines.

Some people on the Internet said that this person is a "madman", and many Wiggerston players are still a little puzzled. Now they all agree that Clark is indeed a "madman".

Because ordinary people's brains can't think of such a stupid "tactic".

At this moment, Hu Lai, who was standing on the foot of the football in the middle circle and was about to kick off, said loudly to a group of Wiggerston players who couldn't hide their smiles: "Guys, I advise you to kick off in a while." Don't move the ball. Because you will come back here to tee off soon, why waste your energy?"

Hearing what Hu Lai said, several Wiggerston players on the opposite side looked at each other, and couldn't help laughing.

It was like hearing a very funny joke.

When they look at Hu Lai again, they are no longer looking at clowns, but at idiots-don't think we don't know what your kid wants to do? Don't you just want us to stand still and let you attack?

But you actually think that just saying a few words so casually can make us stand still?

How stupid!

They just laughed out loud when they heard a crisp whistle!

Game start!

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When the whistle sounded, Hu Lai turned around and passed the football back.

When he passed the ball, the Leeds City players who were standing on the center line were like a 100-meter player who heard the starting gun, rushing to Wijston's penalty area!

Hu Lai himself quickly turned around after passing the ball to keep up.

Wiggleston striker John Joe brushed past him, speeding towards Leeds City centre-back Teddy Bradford, who had received the ball behind Houlay, who had just slammed the ball down before giving way. go aside.

Next to him, Jay Adams took a step forward and kicked the football that Bradford had trampled on.

A long pass!

Almost as soon as the football went flying, John Joe flew in the air, stretched out his foot to block it, and missed it!

The football flew high and flew straight to the left side of the front field.

There, Leeds City's starting centre-back Ben Grist turned his back to the attacking direction and jumped up!

Grist is the tallest player on the field for Leeds City, with a height of 1.95 meters and outstanding header ability.

The most important thing is that Leeds City sprinted in such a sprint that it disrupted Wiggerston's defense. They watched Grist jump up and head the ball, but there was no Wiggerston player around him to interfere. Fight for the top.

Grist headed the ball easily and slid the football back.

After rubbing the ball, Grist looked back and saw that Kamara had rushed into the penalty area in the direction of the football flight.

He knew that he had completed the task assigned to him by the boss, and he laughed while he was still in the air.

The first difficulty of this set of tactics is to allow the football to be accurately passed to the top of Grist's head, making full use of his height and good header advantage.

So the long pass was handed over to Adams, who has good long pass ability.

But if Grist can't put the football smoothly to the teammates who come in behind, then the tactic will fail.

Of course, Grist didn't want everyone's well-planned tactics to die because of him. Seeing that he had lived up to everyone's trust, this simple and honest central defender let out a sigh of relief.

"Grist - back! Leeds kick the football into Wiggleston's box! Ismail Kamara runs in!"

With Cox's exclamation and the louder cheers in the stands, Kamara caught up with the football that bounced forward after landing.

Wiggerston's central defender Paul Godric rushed forward to block Kamara.

At the same time, goalkeeper Karen Nugent also quickly moved to the near corner of the goal, lowered his center of gravity, opened his arms, and tried to block Kamara's shot angle.

Kamara, who was catching up with the football, did not shoot, but used the outside instep of his right foot to pick the ball from the air directly to the middle!

Godric tried to jump up to head the ball away, but he jumped too short to touch the ball...in other words, he went over the top!

"Eh? Opportunity—!" He Feng became excited when he saw this scene in the studio, because he also saw that just behind Godric who took off was Hu who had already inserted into the door. Lai!

Hu Lai also took off, facing Godric's missed football, a lion shakes his head!

Behind him, another central defender of Wiggerston, Liam Feeney, didn't take off at all, but watched Hou Lai, who was close at hand, complete a header. Maybe he himself didn't expect that the ball could actually hit the goal!

Goalkeeper Nugent had no time to pounce back at this time, he could only turn around in embarrassment, watched the football fly into the goal he was guarding, and then sighed angrily.

The entire Flanders stadium boiled up!

Cox yelled amidst the huge cheers: "What an incredible goal! Leeds City scored in just ten seconds! This is the fastest goal in the Premier League so far this season! Unbelievable! Leeds City The nonsense tactics have received miraculous results! The players of Wiggerston seemed to be petrified by Leeds City's all-over attack, and almost everyone didn't know how to deal with it..."

Hou Lai, who scored the goal, did not run to the corner flag area to make his iconic celebration, but rushed to Kamara who passed the ball to him, and hugged him to celebrate the goal.

Not only him, but other Leeds City players also flocked and hugged each other.

They don't have to run too far, because they have gone all the way to the frontcourt since the kickoff and haven't returned yet.

Everyone worked together to turn Hu Lai's whimsical idea into reality, and really used this joke-like tactic to score and take the lead!