Chapter 767 Encountering a Hard Trouble
"... Leeds City, who are playing at home in this game, still adopted active offensive tactics. From the beginning of the game, they continued to attack London Bridge's goal. London Bridge, on the other hand, chose a defensive counterattack in a targeted manner. They first stabilize their defense and then plan to counterattack... For London Bridge, they have a very fast forward Park Suntae, who is indeed very suitable for defensive counterattacks..."
When commentator Cox said this, the game had already gone on for twenty-five minutes.
The score on the field is still 0:0.
Overall, Leeds City had the upper hand and had many attacking opportunities, but failed to break through the London Bridge goal.
London Bridge's defense has been very good. They are famous in the Premier League for their good defense.
Coupled with a forward like Park Soon-tae who has a speed advantage, the defensive counterattack is even more powerful.
However, although Park Soon-tae is fast and has good dribbling skills, his final kick is not very interesting. Therefore, he only scored one goal in the Premier League this season - the goal he scored against Abion in the last round of the league.
Fortunately, Park Soon-tae scored the goal, otherwise he would still be in a drawless state when facing Hu Lai in this game. The Korean reporters in the media gallery will feel a little embarrassed because of this...
London Bridge was on the defensive and had few offensive opportunities, so it was normal that no goals were scored.
Leeds City has been attacking and has many offensive opportunities, but has not scored. This has something to do with the performance of their main forward Hu Lai.
"...Hu Lai tried more long-range shots from outside the penalty area today, but his shooting aim was not very good..." He Feng said worriedly. "But there is nothing we can do. Even when he is shooting from a long distance, there will be London Bridge players around him to interfere with the defense. In such an intense physical confrontation, it is really not easy for him to shoot on target..."
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As a Chinese commentator, you naturally have to stand by your players at all times. Once he performs poorly, you have to find excuses for him. Only in this way can you be considered a qualified Chinese commentator.
He does not need to criticize Hu Lai, because Hu Lai's past performance is good enough, and these good performances allow him to now have a death-free gold medal.
It is very hypocritical to talk about objectivity and neutrality at this time.
Yan Kang was also looking for reasons for Hu Lai's frequent long shots outside the penalty area: "London Bridge, which used defensive counterattacks in this game, strengthened its defense in the penalty area. Most of the time, their players shrank very deeply. It was packed with people and there was almost no room to move, so it was normal for Hu Laira to come out and take a long shot..."
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Park Suntai turned his attention to Hu Lai, feeling a little proud - he guessed it right, and Hu Lai's number of long-range shots increased significantly in this game.
Because he reminded his teammates, London Bridge was now well prepared and guarded Hu Lai without any temper.
His long-range shot never hit the door frame!
Is this your interpretation of swastika?
Seeing Hu Lai holding his head in his hands who was just annoyed that he had missed another kick, Pu Chuntai smiled slightly in his heart.
He felt that the bad breath before and after the top twelve games was finally released a little.
I didn’t expect that the same trick would be useless to me, right?
Goalkeeper Bueno, who was standing in front of the London Bridge goal, retracted his gaze and looked behind the goal. The ball boy had already thrown the football into the court immediately, but he ignored it and turned his attention to Hulay.
He was a little confused.
According to Park Soon-tae, Hu Lai should be capable of long-range shooting. Otherwise, if he wants to shoot from long-range, he can just shoot from long-range. What should he be particularly concerned about?
It was precisely because he listened to Park Soon-tae's story about Hu Lai's performance in the match against the South Korean team that he guarded against Hu Lai's long shot as if he were facing a formidable enemy.
But since the beginning of the game, Hu Lai has already had three long-range shots, but look what he shot...
Three long-range shots never hit the door frame.
The kick just now was even more ridiculously high.
He at least made saves on the first two long-range shots. Although he missed them, as a goalkeeper, this was enough to express the importance he attached to Hu Lai's long-range shots.
With this third kick, he didn't even have the interest to raise his hand in greeting. He just turned his head and watched the football fly towards the rear stands.
This is different from what Park Suntae said before the game...
The long shot was a long shot, but with this level of long shot, it might be a bit difficult to threaten my goal.
Does this also need to be taken care of?
He shook his head, picked up the ball that rolled to his feet, and prepared to take the goal kick - if he didn't take the kick, the referee would think that he was deliberately stalling for time, and there were already sporadic boos in the stands.
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"Hu's state today..." In front of Leeds City's coaching bench, assistant coach Sam Landill shook his head and sighed.
"Didn't I tell you, Sam?" Tony Clark said.
Randhir asked in confusion: "What did you say?"
"He once told me that he hoped to take the opportunity to confuse the opponent and make the opponent think that his long-range shooting level is quite average..."
Clark told Randhir everything he talked to Hu Lai that day.
After listening, Randhir had a...complex expression on his face: "It's really what he can do!"
"In this game, London Bridge strengthened its defense in the penalty area, which did not leave much room for Hu to move in the penalty area. It happened that his long-range shot could come in handy. But now, Tavares should still be Arrangements were made for Hu Lai's long shot. The London Bridge players were obviously focused on defending Hu Lai's long shot. , you see that every time he takes a long shot, there are players from London Bridge approaching him, and he is hardly given much time to prepare for the shot, so every long shot is shot very hastily, so I think Hu must have taken advantage of it... ...Hopefully his performance will make the London Bridge defenders relax their vigilance..."
He said this with a glance towards London Bridge manager Portuguese Miguel Tavares.
Tavares stood expressionless on the sidelines watching the game, showing no emotion on his face about the current situation.
It's normal, the game has only started less than thirty minutes, so no one can tell what will happen next.
In fact, Tavares was feeling gratified for his players in his heart - they really faithfully implemented their tactical arrangements, even better.
Did more than I asked for.
Before the game, I asked them to focus on marking Hu Lai and look at their performance in the game. Even when Hu Lai took a long shot from outside the penalty area, they did not let it go easily...
If we continue to play like this, when we use tight defense to make Leeds City's offense come back time and time again, they will definitely become more and more impatient. At that time, it will be our time to counterattack. Now just have to be patient!
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When Julela came out to take a long shot, it was not exactly because he wanted to take a long shot. Another very important factor was that London Bridge did a good job defending in the penalty area.
Especially their two central defenders, both in terms of personal ability and mutual understanding, are among the best in the Premier League.
George Birx and Tim Martin are not only the main center back pairing at London Bridge, but also the main center back pairing in the England national team.
Tim Martin is 1.96 meters tall, has excellent height, good header ability, and first-class frontal defense. The disadvantage is that it turns slowly and runs slowly.
Even though Birx is 1.88 meters tall, which is close to 1.9 meters, he is quite flexible despite his thin body. His flexibility makes up for Martin's shortcomings. The two complement each other and work well together. A pair of iron gates that form London Bridge and England's world-famous bridge.
This is the first time Hulay has played against this "golden partner" on the back line - when he moved to Leeds City last season, all home and away games between Leeds City and London Bridge were played.
From the start of the game, he felt the pressure from these two world-class centre-backs.
When the two men looked down at him, it was like a giant looking at a dwarf.
Hu Lai's physical confrontation ability, which has been improved through hard training, is of no use in front of these two central defenders, especially Tim Martin - his little strength is simply not enough.
And once he wants to use his running position to bypass Martin, he will encounter the flexible Birx again.
The latter is tall and has long legs. Even if he is temporarily pulled away by half to one height by Hu Lailai, he can still catch up with him in one step by taking advantage of his long legs.
Hu Lai didn't mean to only shoot long shots from outside. He also tried to look for opportunities in front of the goal. As a result, once he seemed to have got the opportunity, but just when he started to shoot, the football was blocked by Birx. He stretched his leg to poke it off, causing his kick to miss, and almost pulled his knee down...
To be honest, even though he currently ranks first in the league's scorer list, it does not mean that he can equal the Premier League.
He also had times when his opponents were so defensive that he couldn't score a goal for the entire game.
There have also been scenes where perfect scoring opportunities were blocked by the opponent.
He is neither omnipotent nor invincible.
When he meets Birx and Martin, he will also be helpless.
That's why he took the initiative to pull out of the penalty area to look for long-range shot opportunities.
In this way, you can stay away from the opponent's two perverted combinations who have a tacit understanding and seem to have an affair, or you can use your running position to pull the opponent out of the penalty area, and you can also create opportunities for your teammates to get into space.
As a forward, scoring goals is of course the most important task, but if sometimes the task cannot be completed, the same goes for creating opportunities for teammates.
For example, his small body cannot take any advantage against Martin, so he can leave Martin to captain Lorenzo and go against Birx himself.
Then let the remaining teammates take charge of the offense.
This person can be Jay Adams who inserts from behind, or it can be Pete Williams who can pass and shoot.
Or the slippery Ismail Kamara.
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