Chapter 843 Isn’t it just about scoring goals?
"Penalty kick?! Penalty kick! Yes, that's right, it's a penalty kick! Only twelve minutes into the second half, Leeds City, playing away from home, suffered another blow! Quinn fouled Palacio in the penalty area... Slow down It can be seen from the camera that his leg did trip up Palacio... There is no problem with the penalty!”
Amid huge cheers, Stan Park Rangers players rushed up to hug Palacio to celebrate winning the penalty.
Leeds City players surrounded the referee.
However, there is indeed no problem with this penalty. Even if they surrounded the referee, it would not help.
Head coach Tony Clark looked solemn on the sidelines.
He said so much during the halftime break, I feel like this penalty kick is enough to reduce the effect of his words by half...
But what can be done?
Complaining about the referee?
Slamming this as Stan Park Rangers' home advantage?
Obviously, this is not the referee's problem, his own player did commit a foul.
The Leeds City players on the field quickly realized that nothing would be changed, and in the end they honestly exited the penalty area and accepted the result.
At this time, Stan Park Rangers captain Bogarde was already standing in front of the penalty spot holding the football, preparing to take the penalty kick.
The cheers above Stan Park subsided slightly, giving Bogarde some peace of mind so he could concentrate on taking the penalty kick.
Soon, with a whistle, Bogarde started to run!
Bogarde's signature powerful kick!
Although Leeds City goalkeeper Van de Ven judged the right direction, he still failed to save the penalty kick because the football was flying too fast!
"GOOOOOOOAL!! Harry Bogard!! The decisive penalty! Stan Park Rangers takes the lead for the third time in this game!"
After scoring the goal, Bogarde did not run wildly to celebrate. Instead, he stood on the penalty spot and waved his fist vigorously to celebrate the goal.
His team-mates swarmed him, hugging him and celebrating wildly in the Leeds penalty area.
Leeds City goalkeeper Van de Ven angrily picked up the football from the goal and threw it into the center circle. Then he put his hands on his hips and looked helplessly at the Stan Park Rangers players who were celebrating crazily in front of him.
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Brooks on the sidelines did not celebrate the goal with the coaches around him this time, but looked very calm.
He even said to the assistant coach around him: "Don't be too happy, let's see if we will concede the goal immediately after scoring the goal!"
It’s no wonder he was so careful, Leeds City really struggled a bit in the first half...
The Stan Park Rangers players ended their celebrations and returned to their own half, where the game restarted.
Brooks raised his wrist and looked at his watch. Three minutes had passed since Bogarde scored, and Leeds City failed to score this time.
After another three minutes, Brooks raised his wrist to look at his watch again. The score was still 3:2.
Three minutes and six minutes, this is the time it took Leeds City to equalize twice before.
And now they haven't scored.
However, Stan Park Rangers had the upper hand.
But Brooks was not completely relieved yet. He still stood on the sidelines with a solemn expression.
Until another four minutes passed, ten minutes after Bogarde's penalty kick, the score was still 3:2, and Leeds City still failed to score.
Brooks felt relieved.
Under high pressure, Leeds City could only rely on long passes or through balls to organize their offense. This greatly reduced their offensive success rate and they had only a handful of opportunities to threaten Stan Park Rangers' defense.
After stabilizing the lead, the next thing to do is to score another goal and expand the lead to two goals.
In this way, the pressure on Stan Park Rangers players will be reduced a lot.
And Leeds City will also lose fighting spirit. After all, they can still chase after being one goal behind. How can they catch up after being two goals behind in the away game?
Thinking of this, Brooks shouted from the sidelines and made a gesture to the players who were looking over to continue to press. The players are asked not to relax just because they are ahead by one goal, but to continue to implement the tactics formulated before the game.
I believe that after conceding two goals in the first half, Stan Park Rangers players should also know that facing Leeds City, a one-goal lead is not safe.
Indeed, even when being pressed high by Stan Park Rangers, Leeds City are still looking for opportunities to attack forward, although many times their passes look like they are just being kicked...
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Ben Grist passed the football back to Pete Williams at the back line.
Williams turned around after catching the ball. Kamara on the sideline immediately started to advance at high speed. Upon seeing this, Johnson Law turned around and retreated to catch up with Kamara.
Upon seeing this, Williams did not pass the football, but tried to dribble forward himself. The midfielders of Stan Park Rangers immediately came up to surround him. This was exactly Stan Park Rangers' high pressing tactic.
Midfielder Schneider turned and chased back, while right midfielder David Conlon stepped forward to block Williams.
When Williams caught the ball, nearby Jay Adams immediately started running forward. He went around the side and then turned directly in front of Williams.
After Williams saw his movement, he did not pass the ball immediately. Instead, he rushed to the center and deceived David Conlon, while completely exposing the space behind him.
Then he made a through ball and passed the football to Adams who was running in front.
At this time, Adams was already in an unguarded space.
Upon seeing this, Stan Park Rangers' center back Zach Gordon quickly stepped forward to press - because of Stan Park's high-pressing strategy, their three lines were pressed very high, and the center backs were basically on the center line.
Jay Adams didn't throw the ball immediately after receiving the ball, even though wideout Fareq Quinn was already up.
He still controlled the ball and waited a moment, because Williams had not yet reached the position...
After a while, Gordon was pressed on, and he could only turn around to protect the football. It seemed that there was nothing he could do.
He then passed the football to Quinn who came in behind.
At the same time, he shouted to Quinn: "Pass forward!"
Although his back was facing the direction of the attack, before passing the ball, he had already caught a glimpse of Williams running forward at high speed from the corner of his eye before passing the ball, running into the space after Gordon came up!
Since Kamara's forward penetration took away the full-back Law, there is no need to worry about offside at this time.
After receiving the ball, Quinn pushed the football diagonally forward, which was the huge space behind Gordon!
“Beautiful coordination!”
As the commentator shouted, Williams accelerated toward the football.
Because Gordon has moved forward, another central defender Jacobs can only fill in the ribs to defend Williams.
At the same time, Johnson Law, who was originally guarding Kamara on the wing, decisively dropped Kamara and returned to the center, intending to flank Williams with Jacobs.
Gordon sprinted hard to return to defense, and defensive midfielder Bogard also accelerated back to the center back line, acting as a temporary center back, keeping an eye on... Hu Lai.
He did not go to Lorenzo because in his opinion, Hu Lai, who had scored twice in this game, was obviously a much greater threat than Lorenzo.
Seeing that their team's defense was in trouble, Leeds City's counterattack was quite threatening. The home team fans in the stands immediately used deafening boos to make noise and interfere with the attacking Leeds City players.
When 55,000 fans collectively booed, the stadium instantly turned into a noise hell!
Despite the boos, Pete Williams did not lose his cool. While chasing the football, he did not forget to turn his head to observe the situation in the middle.
The other Stan Park Rangers players were quickly returning to defense, running desperately into the penalty area.
He glanced at Hu Lai again and found that Hu Lai was followed by Bogarde, and the synchronization rate between the two reached almost 100%. Nine times out of ten, the pass will be interrupted by the opponent, and the best result may be that it will be entangled. After other Stan Park Rangers players have returned to defend, Leeds City has also lost the best opportunity to attack.
He can also pass the football to the wing to Kamara.
But why go to the wing when you can go to the middle?
Williams remembers the head coach’s call at halftime.
So after catching up with the football, he swung his left foot and swept the football sideways towards the center!
But instead of passing it to Hu Lai in the middle, it was passed to Jay Adams who inserted in the back!
Jay Adams, who had previously served as a temporary pivot, rushed forward after Quinn passed the ball.
Just running into position now!
"Adams!"
After receiving a pass from Pete Williams, he suddenly paused and came to a sudden stop. Immediately after returning to defense, Stan Park Rangers midfielder Matthews Schneider dodged past him!
"Good shot!"
After Jay Adams shook Schneider away, he gently pushed the football forward, then raised his right leg and fired from the penalty area line!
The football flew forward quickly against the turf of Stan Park, plowing a shallow ravine.
Goalkeeper Victor Lemos stepped on the ground to pounce, reaching the lower left corner of the goal with one palm!
But before he could get it, the ball went into the goal!
"Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh -!!! Unbelievable! Oh my God! This is incredible! Leeds equalized for the third time in this game! This goal Team...this team is amazing!" Commentator Cox screamed in the commentary box. "So why are they ranked second in the league? Is it simply because of good luck? Of course not! Look at their performance in this game. How many teams can do this? Three times behind, three times Evening! Stan Park Rangers tried their best to kill them! ”
Lemos, who fell to the ground, turned his head and saw the football in the goal, his eyes widened.
Captain Bogard turned his head and looked at the goal, and Hu Lai's cheers rang in his ears. It was a Chinese sentence he couldn't understand...
When head coach Brooks saw the ball thrown, he jumped up: "Damn it! Damn it!! What's going on?!"
He asked angrily to his coaching bench, but no one on the coaching bench opposite him could give an answer. Most of them had their heads in their hands and sat on the coaches' chairs.
In fact, this time Stan Park Rangers performed better than before. They held on for fifteen minutes after taking the lead, and then were equalized by Leeds City again...
Tony Clark hugged Sam Randall and shouted in his ear: "There is a show, Sam! We have a show!! This is Stan Park, but we are not afraid of the Rangers!" (End of Chapter)< br>