Chapter 191 Hu Lai’s Talent
Chongwen Middle School's football tactics are characterized by various skillful combinations of passing and cutting. This tactic is based on the fact that every player involved knows when and how to do what they should do in this system.
For example, when should you choose a more conservative cross pass and return pass, and when should you choose a risky through ball?
When should you go up to meet your teammates, and when should you open up space laterally?
This kind of tactical requirement is actually very demanding for high school teams, and there are very few teams that can do it. This is related to the fact that Chongwen Middle School has sent many players to the echelon of professional teams before the national competition, so that Chongwen Middle School will move closer to the requirements of professional teams in terms of training, which in turn makes Chongwen Middle School become the best player in the country. A famous football school.
In the past, when Chongwen Middle School faced other opponents, because of its superior strength, it was naturally able to stay awake and calm at all times, and calmly used passes and runs to mobilize opponents. They are always in a dominant position, and their opponents are confused and enraged by their passing.
When their opponents lose their minds, they can calmly harvest goals and victory.
In turn, there aren't many teams that can mess up their own position and lose their minds.
Even in the finals of the last national competition, when Chongwen Middle School and Shuguang High School competed for the championship, it never happened like this. At that time, Chongwen Middle School was using their best pass and ball control to fight against Shuguang High School, and they still maintained basic tactical discipline until they lost the game.
The only time before that they were so unlucky in a competition was back in the first round of the last national competition, when their opponent was Shuguang High School. As the defending champion, Chongwen Middle School, which was proud to underestimate its opponent, was caught off guard by Chen Xingyi from the very beginning. After losing the ball first, it panicked. If it tried to get nervous again, it would end up being at a loss.
In the end, they lost to Chen Xingyi in the chaos, and were eliminated by Shuguang High School, which participated in the national competition for the first time.
However, at that time, Chen Xingyi relied on his superhuman performance and hard power to plunge Chongwen Middle School into chaos. Even if they are eliminated, when the players of Chongwen Middle School talk about Chen Xingyi, they will sincerely feel that this kid is qualified to be our opponent of Chongwen Middle School, and some of them have admiration and sympathy for this powerful opponent.
Hu Lai, on the other hand, used his "despicableness" to make the Chongwen Middle School players furious. It is estimated that after this game is over, if Chongwen Middle School is really eliminated, then all the players and supporters of Chongwen Middle School will only gnash their teeth when talking about Hu Lai, wishing they could eat his flesh raw. It is impossible to say anything good about Hu Lai who defeated them.
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When Chongwen Middle School lost its cool and launched an attack, it was not easy for them to play the cumbersome pass-cutting and running tactics they were good at, and then use the pass to create space and then send the football over.
Several times they clearly had opportunities, but the Chongwen Middle School players on the field did not continue to pass the ball. Instead, they chose a simpler and rougher style of play that was obviously not in line with their habits. For example, take a long shot directly, or make a high pass from the wing.
Off the court, Xu Fengjiang was very dissatisfied with the players' performance. He kept roaring on the sidelines, waving his arms, and using exaggerated body movements to express his anger.
But it doesn't help.
He can only and must make adjustments with substitutions. When Zhang Lijie came back from warm-up, he immediately pushed him to the sidelines and replaced him.
In addition to Zhang Lijie, he also used up all three substitutions in one go, replacing players who were obviously out of control and could not be brought back, but who could still keep their heads above water.
Through this operation, with less than ten minutes left in the game, the Chongwen Middle School team finally gradually returned to normal and had a certain immunity to Hu Lai's deliberate provocation.
However, Li Ziqiang also made his adjustments at this time. He replaced more midfielders and defenders, and made the entire formation retreat. Instead of maintaining a high press to compress the midfield space as before, he replaced Choose to compress the space near the penalty area to prevent the players from Chongwen Middle School from getting too many opportunities when they are desperate to attack.
At this time, Li Ziqiang drove the bus from midfield to his goal and blocked it tightly.
As for Hu Lai.
It is difficult for him to directly intercept the ball from Chongwen Middle School players during defense, and his physical condition does not allow him to use his body to interfere with the opponent's players getting the ball. He can only do everything possible to waste some time when the ball is controlled by Dongchuan Middle School. .
This is the only contribution he can make as he is not good at defense.
Chongwen Middle School pressed forward in the last few minutes of the game and bombarded Dongchuan Middle School's goal.
The Dongchuan Middle School players all returned to the 30-meter area. If the ball was transferred to their feet, they would kick the ball to the front sideline with a big kick, trying to kick the football out of the sideline. They would rather give the opponent a backcourt foul ball. , and will never let Chongwen Middle School get the frontcourt foul ball.
The substitutes on both sides nervously got up from the bench, stood up, and looked anxiously at the court.
The two head coaches also stood on the sidelines, staring in the same direction.
After all, Dongchuan Middle School only leads by one goal. As long as Chongwen Middle School can score a goal and equalize the score, their morale will be boosted. In this way, even if the game is dragged into a penalty shootout, they will have an even greater advantage.
After all, excluding that stupid mistake, Marin is an excellent goalkeeper and has good penalty kick skills.
At the last moment of the game, even the goalkeeper Marin rushed to the frontcourt and participated in the team's offense. He did not rush directly to the goal of Dongchuan Middle School at the beginning, but crossed the center line to participate in the team's attack. The passing organization allows the central defender to directly press into the penalty area of Dongchuan Middle School and act as a center, and then allows the midfield teammates to push forward to continue the pressure.
But this had little effect. In the end, he simply went into the penalty area and used his height and header to become a center.
Not to mention, he actually got a chance to compete for the top spot once.
When he threw the football toward the goal, the football was firmly held by Meng Xi with both hands, and he didn't even give Chongwen Middle School a corner kick.
After Meng Xi got the ball, he saw that the opponent's goalkeeper almost rushed to him. The goal behind must be blank, so he didn't hold the football on the ground for a while and waste time, but directly kicked it. Kick the football towards the Chongwen Middle School goal.
Marin is also a goalkeeper, so of course he knows what Meng Xi is going to do. It will definitely be too late for him to turn around and run back. At this time, there is only one solution, and that is to simply stop Meng Xi from kicking the football out!
So he also followed Hu Lai's example and reached out to pull Meng Xi who was about to release the ball, causing the latter to fail to kick out the big kick.
The referee's whistle then sounded, calling Marin a foul.
Marin did not argue for himself in front of the referee, nor did he shake his head in frustration. After the foul, he turned around and ran back - he was afraid that Dongchuan Middle School would get another free kick...
After seeing Hu Lai's despicableness, he now had to use the greatest malice to speculate on his opponent.
Seeing the embarrassed figure of Ma Lin running back with his head buried in his chest, the commentator sighed: "Ma Lin, who is in his senior year of high school this year, this is his last high school national competition and his last chance to win back the national championship for Chongwen Middle School. In When Chongwen Middle School won the national championship, he was not a member of this team, but when he was a high school freshman, he was not a member of the team. After he had secured his position as the main goalkeeper of the defending champion, he never expected that he would suffer a heavy blow when he participated in the national competition for the first time. He was eliminated in the first round... After learning from the pain, he led the team to make a comeback again and reached the final, but We lost to our old rivals Shuguang High School and Chen Xingyi in the finals..."
Although the game is not over yet, when the supporters of Chongwen Middle School in front of the TV heard that the commentator had begun to review Marin's high school football career in this way, they had a very bad feeling - maybe this national football powerhouse I can’t even make it to the finals this time...
When Marin finally ran back to his goal, even though he didn't even take a breath, he still tried his best to assume a defensive posture, preparing to deal with Dongchuan Middle School's free kick.
He believed that the goalkeeper from Dongchuan Middle School would definitely kick the football over with a big kick. Even if he couldn't score, he could still try to waste a little more time.
After receiving the ball, he must drive the ball to the frontcourt again and continue to organize the offense.
But he didn't wait for the football. What he waited for was the referee's three whistles.
In the huge noise of the stadium, these three whistles were not even obvious. When the first whistle sounded, it was covered up by Marin's own heavy breathing, and he didn't hear it at all.
The second whistle was drowned in the roar from the stands.
It wasn't until the third whistle that Marin heard it, and through the referee's gestures, he understood the meaning of the whistle.
The game is over. The runner-up in the last national competition lost in the semi-finals this time.
But they don't have to pack their bags and go home the next day because there's still a third-place final to be played.
But the national championship dream was completely out of reach for them.
The captain of Chongwen Middle School panted and looked at the cheering Dongchuan Middle School players in the frontcourt with dull eyes.
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"Okay, the final opponent is here." Chen Xingyi patted his thigh and stood up from his seat, "It's time to go back."
Sun Yonggang noticed that Chen Xingyi had a clear smile on his face when he said this, so he asked curiously: "You seem to really hope that Dongchuan Middle School will enter the finals?"
"Yes, the last final was against Chongwen Middle School. I really don't want to see them again this year, especially I don't want to see Marin's face. I'm tired of aesthetics. This year, I'll have an opponent I've never encountered before. It'll be a lot fresher." Good?”
Chen Xingyi said as he walked down the stairs and walked outside the stadium.
Sun Yonggang asked the photographer to follow him quickly, but he stood at the top of the steps and cast his eyes on the court.
The substitute players of Dongchuan Middle School have rushed onto the court and are celebrating wildly.
And Hu Lai, who performed well in this game, was hugging his teammates, arms around each other, and jumping up and down.
Although he was a bit far away, he couldn't see the expression on his face clearly.
But Sun Yonggang believed that this young man must be smiling happily at this moment.
So he laughed happily, then looked down at his feet, and stepped down the steps step by step.
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People in the stands had already left, but Dai Zetao was still sitting in his seat, placing an open notebook on his lap and writing on it with a ballpoint pen:
"...Although Hu Lai is not superior in physical fitness, he is very good at playing football with his mind. He will carefully observe the opponent's performance in the game and not miss every detail that can be exploited. Sometimes, in order to win and To score goals, we will do whatever it takes within the limits of the rules.”
After writing this, Dai Zetao put down his pen and looked up at the court again.
Players from both sides were already lining up to shake hands with each other.
Although he was far away and couldn't see the players' facial expressions clearly, he could still tell that the players from Chongwen Middle School still had a lot of resentment towards Hu Lai.
evidence?
Almost every Chongwen Middle School player who shakes hands with Hu Lai will turn his face away, not looking at the person shaking hands at all, and the handshake movements are also very perfunctory. Basically, he will withdraw his hand immediately after it touches Hu Lai's hand.
He has heard the saying "lose when you lose", but does this count as "win but lose"?
Dai Zetao shook his head. How could this kind of performance be considered a "loser"? I'm afraid only the players and supporters of Chongwen Middle School think so.
Everyone else, as long as they have watched this game, will think that Hu Lai is the best player in this game and the hero of the Dongchuan Middle School football team's victory.
Thinking of this, Dai Zetao lowered his head and picked up the pen and continued to write in his notebook:
"...Although he is only a sophomore in high school, he has surprisingly rich game experience, and his understanding of the game is completely beyond that of his peers. I think physical fitness can be trained, and football skills can also be trained, but this understanding of the football game and intelligence It is difficult to train a good mind. This, together with his ability to run without the ball, constitutes his best football talent." (End of Chapter)