Fox in the Penalty Area

Scott Brooks stood in the empty locker room, looking up at the wall-mounted TV.

It was showing highlights from the first half of the match between Leeds City and Boscombe.

Hu Lai's two goals were played repeatedly, and the commentator Cox joked about this screen: "I don't know if Leeds can win Boscombe away, but now it is clear that Stan Park Rangers have felt When it comes to tension - I'm sure there's no way they don't know what's going on here!"

Hearing Cox's laughing voice, Brooks turned off the TV.

He doesn't know what will happen in the second half, but judging by the momentum of Leeds City, unless they collectively lose their minds, they should not lose to Boscombe in the away game.

It would be nice if Boscombe drew with Leeds at home...

After turning off the TV, Brooks stood in the locker room with his head bowed, lost in thought.

He was thinking for a while when the players returned to the locker room, how to tell these players to minimize the impact.

It is impossible to conceal the past.

The players are not stupid, and they will know everything as soon as they use their mobile phones to surf the Internet.

It's not like decades ago, when you enter the locker room, once the door is closed, you don't know what's going on outside.

Even Brooks, a head coach with high prestige in the team, cannot force everyone not to use mobile phones.

And doing so will make it appear that you are afraid of Leeds City.

So blocking is worse than sparse.

Facing the players who already know that Leeds City are two goals ahead of Boscomb, what can be said to turn a "bad thing" into... a "good thing"?

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"Guys! You did a good job! But now is not the time to celebrate!" Tony Clark slapped his hands hard after entering the locker room and said loudly.

Beside him, the players of Leeds City were busy changing their clothes, taking off their shoes and socks. The locker room was so lively that the head coach's voice was not so obtrusive.

But this does not mean that everyone did not take the words of the head coach to heart.

In fact, they are also very clear,

Now is not the time to celebrate victory.

Is it safe to lead by two goals at halftime?

Other teams may think so, but for the Leeds City players who have been indoctrinated by Clark's crazy ideas for a long time, they don't think that a two-goal lead at halftime is a safe score.

After all, in their cognition, scoring two goals in 45 minutes is not incredible or too difficult.

When Clark said this, he didn't let the players stop what they were doing and look at him to listen to him. He knew the players must have listened.

"You must always remember that this is their home court, and they are fighting to avoid relegation. They were stunned by us in the first half, but at the same time we woke them up, so they will definitely fight back in the second half ... It doesn't matter if they counterattack, let them attack. We will fight their counterattack!"

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"It's not time to give up yet! There's still half a game left! Although Leeds City has a strong offensive power, their defense is also notoriously bad!" Boscomb coach Alex Himmel said in the locker room Ri waved his arms vigorously, using exaggerated body movements to enhance the appeal of his words.

Boscomb, who ranks third from last in the league, has no way out if he wants to stay in the Premier League. Every opportunity of home games is very precious. Only three points must be scored at home, so as to be able to complete relegation in the remaining four rounds of the league.

But after the start of the game, the team entered the state slower than the opponent, allowing Leeds City to seize the flaw and score two goals in a row.

"And I promise you! Leeds City must think they have won now! The second half will inevitably relax, and then it will be our chance! So don't give up, keep attacking!"

Himmel growled loudly in an uplifting tone, as if this would give the players more energy.

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After a fifteen-minute intermission, the second half began.

Neither team made substitution adjustments.

As soon as the game started, Boscomb launched a fierce attack on Leeds City.

Boscomb's players are also very clear that the team is now cornered and there is no way out. There is no other way but to beat Leeds City at home.

Seeing the team's desperate charge, the Boscomb fans in the stands kept singing and shouting to cheer for the team.

Although they are not very satisfied with the team's performance this season, but at the critical moment, the fans will still stand firmly with the team at this time-no one wants to be relegated.

Boscombe's reaction was expected by Clark-it's no secret, anyone who knows a little bit about penalty kicks can guess what Boscombe will do-the Leeds City players followed the coach's instructions during the intermission. Arrangements to deal with:

Let the opponent attack, and then Leeds City fight their counterattack.

They have a fast player like Kamara, which is suitable for quick counterattack tactics.

Through consecutive attacks, Boscombe got a corner kick.

They took a corner kick, the central defender McAdrey grabbed the point in front of the goal, a powerful header!

The football flew towards the right post of the goal. Leeds City goalkeeper Van Deven was beyond his reach and could only look at the ball and sigh!

But Leeds City right-back Josh Lawler, who was guarding the goal post, jumped up in time and rubbed the football with his head, making Boscomb's attack miss the goal!

"Wow! Lawler has done a great job!" He Feng heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the ball.

Although Leeds City is currently leading by two goals, even if Boscombe scored a goal, they would still be ahead. But in the home court of the relegation team, it is best not to give them any hope, otherwise the relegation team will really risk their lives for relegation.

Once they score a goal, their morale will be boosted, and the intensity of the offensive will double in a short period of time. One careless move, and Leeds City may give up their two-goal lead. At that time, the morale of the two teams was completely reversed, and some things were beyond the control of Leeds City...

"Boscombe has won corner kicks consecutively. This period of time is relatively dangerous for Leeds City. We must hold on!" Yan Kang said next to him.

Boscombe also seemed inspired by the corner he almost scored just now, pressing all the way up, save for goalkeeper Piers Thompson, there was only one player, and their left back Noah Dyer stayed behind and also pressed. over the center line.

Five Boscombe players squeezed into the Leeds penalty area, and three others stood on the line of the penalty area.

When the corner kick was taken, the Boscombe players in the penalty area tried their best to push the Leeds City defenders towards the goal. point!

But none of them could reach the ball, because the football allowed Leeds City's commanding height of the penalty area, Ben Grist, to head it out first!

Grist's header was powerful enough to clear the siege. He pushed the football up to a distance of more than 20 meters and flew towards the middle circle of the field.

Noah Dyer, a Boscomb player who had been dragging behind to protect, ran forward and raised his foot to stop the ball.

But when he stopped the high ball, he didn't stop it all at once, but let the football bounce high after landing...

Seeing this, Dyer hurriedly took a step forward, ready to stretch his feet before stopping, but a figure had already killed in front of him!

And he just noticed it now!

"Kamala—!!"

Amidst the enormous din, Dyer lifts his foot to kick the football!

Kamara leaned forward faster than him, risking being kicked in the front goal, and headed the football out before Dyer!

Dyer, who kicked empty, lost his balance and fell to the ground!

Although he got up quickly and turned around to chase, Kamala had already left him far behind, with a difference of about six or seven meters!

He is chasing football!

"Kamara...beautiful!! Leeds City's counterattack is coming!!"

The uproar over the stadium instantly switched to boos.

It turned out that Hu Lai, who was near Kamala, gritted his teeth and chased after seeing this, although his running speed would definitely not be able to catch up with Kamala—even if Kamala was running with the ball now, Hu Lai wanted to catch up Neither was easy for Kamala.

And it's hard to imagine that when Kamara became the most prominent Leeds City player, he would still pass the football out...

Hu Lai didn't stop, but instead sprinted harder, pushing his slow speed to the limit. Run out a diagonal line, gradually approaching the middle of the court.

Boscomb midfielder Lee Wilmott, who hadn't rushed in before on the line of the penalty area, had originally retreated with the football. At this time, seeing Kamara break the ball to fight back, he quickly accelerated to chase back.

He and Dyer became the two Boscombe players closest to Kamara and the most likely to catch Kamara.

But just as the two of them were driving side by side and chasing after each other, they suddenly found that there was an extra person coming from the side...

The man was gradually approaching them, squeezing into the running route in front of them bit by bit!

It was Hu Lai!

"Hu Lai is trying to keep up with Kamala! But he... they seem to be colliding!"

He Feng exclaimed.

Dyer was the first of the two to be blocked by Hou Lai. In order to avoid colliding with Hou Lai, he had to brake suddenly and bypass Hou Lai from the side.

However, Hu Lai seemed to be unaware of what happened behind him, and still cut in obliquely, just in front of Wilmot again, and then slowed down as if exhausted.

Wilmot could only step on the brakes, and he almost hit Hu Lai!

Hold!

Wilmot scolded in his heart for this behavior of forcibly changing lanes and merging lines without turning on the turn signal in advance.

He and Dyer were blocked by Hu Lai, and they had completely lost Kamala. They could only watch Kamala dribble the ball into the penalty area through Hu Lai. Facing the attacking goalkeeper Thompson, he raised his left foot, rubbed the football into an arc, bypassed the fallen Thompson, and flew into the goal behind him!

"Ka-ma-la-!!! What a beautiful goal! What a sharp counterattack! Leeds City played a textbook-like quick counterattack! Kamara dribbled the ball for more than 50 meters and broke Bo Scoom's goal! 3:0! Leeds City leads Boscombe with three goals in the away game... The outcome of this game has almost lost suspense! With the state of Leeds City in this game, it is almost impossible for them to win The current score was reversed by Boscomb!" Matthew Cox yelled with all his strength.

After scoring the goal, Kamara bypassed the goalkeeper and ran to the corner flag area to celebrate the goal. He turned around and saw Hou Lai behind him, and quickly hooked him happily——Kamara who went all the way to complete the shot Ra didn't know what was happening behind him as he ran with the ball.

Hu Lai laughed and rushed forward, and the two hugged each other.

Dyer was on the sidelines, annoyed that his stoppage error gave Leeds such a counterattack goal, and he knelt on the turf in front of the goal with his head in his hands. Wilmot cast his resentful eyes on Holly.

He thought of Hu Lai's running position in front of him and Dyer just now. Suspected that the opponent ran like this on purpose, just to block Kamala's and Dyer's defense...

Although as a center forward, it is normal to rush all the way to the middle of the penalty area and try to participate in the offense during the counterattack. But Wilmot just had an intuition, he believed in his own judgment even more - this kid must be playing tricks on purpose!

In fact, he and Dyer were indeed disturbed by Hu Lai's running position, and failed to catch up with Kamara in front of the penalty area.

If he can catch up with Kamara outside the penalty area, then he would rather be sent off with a red card than let Leeds City's quick counterattack end outside the penalty area!

But now, although he is still on the court, the score has become 0:3... The morale and fighting spirit that Boscomb finally gathered in the second half gradually dissipated in this classic fast counterattack of the opponent.

When the goal was replayed, He Feng and Yan Kang couldn't help laughing when they saw Hu Lai running wildly all the way to Wilmot and Dyer: "Hu Lai's running position ...What a thief!"

"That's right! I think he might not want to respond to Kamala, but to help Kamala pick and roll, hahaha!"

Xie Lan in front of the TV turned her head and asked her husband: "Does he really think so?"

Hu Lixin shook his head: "I don't know. But he did choose a very... thief."

The son on TV is celebrating with Kamala, a big smile on his like face.