Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

On January 14, 2012, in the second round of the FA Cup Winners' Cup, FC United was away again, against Grisby City in the National League, Grisby City did not underestimate FC United who was one level lower than themselves, the game accidentally used the tactics of defensive counterattack, Vardy and Mane and others fell into the trap as soon as they took the ball in front, Lu Wei was not in a hurry when he saw this, adjusted the tactics so that the midfielder took turns to insert into the box to cooperate with the strikers, and finally successfully won the away victory. Suarez's long-range shot from the edge of the box helped the team reach the last 32 of the FA Cup Winners' Cup, with the next round of opponents also National League side Port South, which will be played on 4 February.

FC United, who returned to the league, scored another win and a draw, a 2:1 game 1:1, but Rod Ilsden also won and drawn, and did not get close to the score, but third-placed Brenttree City has caught up, only 3 points away from Rod Ilsden, there are currently 9 rounds left in the league, and the championship battle is extremely fierce.

FC United is also divided at this time, whether to continue to play in the FA Cup Winners' Cup, the rest of the cup schedule is scheduled in the middle of the week, that is, FC United have to undergo the test of a week of double matches, and by the end of the season, the player's physical reserve is not as good as before, although the second to fifth place in the league can also play the promotion play-offs, but Lu Wei and the coaching staff agree that to upgrade is to win the championship, there are too many uncertainties in the play-offs, The remaining opponents in the cup are basically the teams of the National League and League Two, although FC United are not afraid of opponents in the National League, but they still win more and lose less against the League B level.

In the end, Lu Wei decided to set the goal of the cup as the FA Cup Winners' Cup round of 16, and the opponent of the next round is struggling for relegation in the league and will not put too much energy into the cup, and the reasons Lu Wei said at the meeting made the coaching staff unable to refute it, "As a team that wants to be in the North-South League, if we lose to the team relegated in the National League, we will have no face to stay in the National League next season, and the FA Winners' Cup must win Southport." "

Sure enough, the game against Port del Sudport was not much resisted, FC United won the game 2-0 without blood, and it was McManus and McReis who scored for the team, and the team's top scorer Vardy has not scored in six consecutive games, the last time he scored was in 2011.

FC United, who were back in league ready to compete at full strength, drew again, clashing with Solihull 90 minutes later. In this game, the whole team played very chaotic, completely without rhythm, if the opponent had not forgotten the goal, I am afraid that FC United would have ushered in a crushing defeat, but the 0-2 result also annoyed Lu Dawei, and top scorer Vardy continued his bad form.

After the game, Lu Wei called Vardy to the office to find out why Vardy was not in form, knowing that in the original history, Vardy was only taken away by Leicester City this season in the National League.

"Jamie, you should know the reason for the team's poor performance recently, right?"

Vardy looked at Lu Wei and said with some guilt: "Sorry, head, I haven't scored for a long time, I have a lot of responsibility for the team not winning, I don't know what's wrong, bad luck, the shot is always deflected."

"Don't be nervous, Jamie, I don't blame you, scoring goals is not your task alone, I asked Sur to collect the video of these matches, come and sit here and watch with me, let's analyze the reasons why you can't score recently."

Lu Wei said and turned on the video in the computer, the team's video equipment was already bought under Lu Wei's instruction is a relatively good video equipment on the market, the video picture is also very clear, the game in the video is the 34th round of the match against Boston United, after the club staff edited only retained the game footage related to Vardy.

The video is full of images of Vardy in the game, and in the 7th minute, Vardy received a cross from McReth and deflected the ball over the ball under the interference of the defender. In the 11th minute, Jamie Vardy took off the defensive pass from Suarez with his run, paused and pushed into the far corner to be saved by the goalkeeper. In the 19th minute, the shot in the box was too high and there was no threat to the goalkeeper. In the 32nd minute, Vardy broke through in the middle and his final shot was blocked by the defender with his leg extended. In the 45th minute, Jamie Vardy picked up the ball with his back at the edge of the box, tangled with the defender and fired a rushed shot. In the 69th minute, the opposing defender came to the top, Vardy received the ball with no one around, took two steps to adjust the shot was saved by the goalkeeper, in the 74th minute, the shot was saved, in the 89th minute, the long-range shot hit the defender and was cleared.

In order to collect these match information, Lu Wei specially hired a camera team to serve the team, each game has up to 6 cameras dedicated to capturing the activities of FC United players in the game, and then integrate the editing after the game, and finally hand it over to Lu Wei, this is the prototype of FC United's match video team, in Lu Wei's plan, this team will be an indispensable force for FC United on the road to the Premier League, and the team will gradually take shape as the team upgrades.

After the video, Lu Wei looked at Vardy, "How, see what the problem is?"

Vardy thought for a moment and shook his head.

Lu Wei took a piece of paper from the table and handed it to him, "This is your latest month's game data and last November's game data comparison, your number of shots is similar, respectively 7.8 and 7.6 per game, but the number of shots on target is 1.6 less, and this is your running distance, 0.9km less than in November, 5.2 more passes, 3.7 more mistakes, and another data is that you compete with the opposing defender, which is twice as many as before." Looking at the data, think back to the scene when you played, and did you find anything.

Although Vardy was surprised by these detailed statistics, which he had never seen before in the amateur league, he did not think too much, and after thinking about it for a while, he said uncertainly: "I feel that my shooting is not as easy as before, and there are always people next to me to interfere.

"Yes, if you find out." Lu Wei snapped his fingers and continued, "Since December, you and Sadio have been targeted, the other side always defends you in a staring way, Sadio and Jack have speed, and they are wingers, there is a lot of space on the wing, it is not easy to be targeted, but you have to face two defenders in the middle of the way, and the pressure is greater, so you are always disturbed when shooting, but this is only one of the reasons, there are several opportunities to go solo and face the goalkeeper You didn't take advantage of it? Vardy

was silent, Lu Wei opened a video and said, "You now have too many adjustment actions before shooting, you look at this ball, after stopping, you obviously have time to shoot, you also take an extra step forward, this step is not only lost the best time to shoot, the angle has also become smaller, the goalkeeper is fully prepared, the opposing defender also follows, sometimes the striker does not need to think so much about shooting, I don't require you to hit every ball to the dead corner, as long as the goalkeeper can't save it, This is a sports battle, not a penalty shootout, opportunities on the pitch are fleeting, you have to firmly grasp the best scoring opportunities, and there is more running, don't fix yourself in the center position, this will make it easier for defenders to defend, opportunities are run out instead of waiting, your teammates can never get the ball to your feet, opportunities have to be fought for by yourself, you have to create by yourself, you are not a center who can only pestle in the box and wait for teammates to pass, you are a sharp knife inserted into the enemy's ribs, You're an assault scorer who can tear through your opponent's defenses.

Vardy swept away the previous dullness and nodded quickly as if he were suddenly cheerful, "Got it, head, I will fight for it, I will definitely score in the next game."

Lu Wei smiled and sent Vardy away, thinking that our top scorer was coming back, but he was not happy with a smile, "No, Vardy will be taken away by Leicester City this summer after he returns to scoring form, I hope their scouts only inspect the national league and not investigate, Vardy I still want to use two more years." "