Chapter 863 A desperate move
Tony Clark stood on the sidelines nervously and looked at his watch from time to time.
The game has reached the 77th minute, and the score is still 2:2.
Leeds City temporarily tied with Warship Harbor at home.
He has used all three of his substitutions, the last of which was right-back Josh Lawler, replacing substitute forward Lloyd Kerry.
In this way, Leeds City scored 244 from the previous 442.
Yes, you read that right, it is indeed 244, not 442 - the original left back Farrak Quinn did not receive the center to form a back three with Ben Grist and Teddy Bradford. He was pushed to the midfield by Clark and became a full midfielder. At the same time, Ismail Kamara's position was further improved, forming a four-forward lineup with Hulay, Lorenzo, and Lloyd Kerry, who had just been replaced.
Kerry and Lorenzo played center forward, while Kamara and Hulay played inside forward, roaming beside the two centers, looking for opportunities.
At the same time, on the two wings, Quinn, who has strong assist ability, took over Kamara's original job on the left wing, and Charlie Porter was still on the right wing. Make full use of the characteristics of these two people who are good at passing, and pass the football into the penalty area of the warship port. Then Lorenzo and Kerry compete for the first point, while Hulay and Kamara control the second point.
At the same time, the two central midfielders, Williams and Adams, must keep up in time, shorten the distance from the striker, control the third landing point, prepare for the second attack, and directly hit long shots when they see the opportunity.
This was the desperate adjustment "Crazy" Clark made in the last ten minutes of the game.
"Except for the goalkeeper and defender, almost all other Leeds City players have passed halftime. Even the two central defenders are standing on the center line. Such a scene looks really spectacular... Ha!" Commentator Ma Hugh Cox laughed, "But this is indeed an adjustment that Tony Clark can make! So crazy, so desperate..."
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"He is indeed the 'Crazy' Clark..."
French head coach Nicolas Dufresne of Battleship Port expressed this emotion while watching the game going on on the court.
"This is completely a win-or-lose attitude... I suspect that in the football rules that Clark understands, there are only two outcomes of the game: win or lose." Assistant coach Peter O'Connor next to him shook his head. "I know why he wants to win so much, but he doesn't want to think about it. What if he loses instead of winning? Should we take advantage of their opportunity to counterattack?"
The space in Leeds City's backcourt is as big as the vast African savannah, and it is a normal response to attack them with all their strength.
But Dufren shook his head: "No, Peter. At least not now. If we try to fight their counterattack now instead of concentrating on defense, then we may be scored first by Leeds City before the counterattack succeeds. ...Believe me, they have the ability.”
When O'Connor heard this, he also felt that what Dufren said was reasonable, so he stopped mentioning the counterattack.
Last season's Leeds City would not have given him such an impression, but this season's Leeds City have proven that they have this ability with the second-highest number of goals in the Premier League.
Although he verbally rejected the assistant coach's opinion, Dufren began to seriously consider the possibility of sneak attack on Leeds City.
Warship Port's performance this season has been relatively poor. After thirty rounds of league play, they only ranked ninth with 43 points.
With seven rounds left in the league, it is basically impossible to qualify for the Champions League next season, which means to get the top four in the league - currently fourth in the league is Tramed, with five points. Eighteen points. There is a fifteen-point difference between the two teams, and there are so many teams in between. It is impossible for Battleship Port to get fourth place.
But there is still a chance to compete for fifth place in the league and qualify for next season's Europa League.
Because the points between fourth and fifth in the league are almost the same - the fifth-placed North London Wanderers have 49 points, only six points more than Warship Harbor.
So why not give it a try?
Of course, this requires Warship Harbor to defeat Leeds City in this game first.
Thinking of this, Dufren glanced at the game time, and then said to O'Connor: "Withstand Leeds City's attack first, and then we will try to counterattack in the last five minutes of the game."
O'Connor nodded.
The game is now almost eighty minutes long, and we actually can’t wait much longer.
Battleship Port is not a team that is good at defense, but there is still no problem for five or six minutes.
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"Clark chose a very radical approach. He hoped to defeat Warship Port. But this also hid hidden dangers. If he was attacked by Warship Port and lost the game, it would be troublesome..." He Feng saw that the battle was stalemate, Leeds City attacked with all their strength, and Warship Port shrank into its own penalty area and set up a bus, so they said so.
He was really worried about this.
Stan Park Rangers were tied by Liverpool United yesterday. If Leeds City can defeat Warship Harbor, the point difference between the two teams will suddenly shrink from the previous six points to four points.
But if you focus on winning, you end up losing the game... The point difference is actually a trivial matter. After all, even if you lose the game, the point difference will only change from six points to seven points.
It's just that the feeling of watching the opportunity slip through your fingers is not good, and it is also a blow to the team's morale.
With only seven rounds left in the league, if there is a drop in morale, it is entirely possible for the team's performance to collapse...
"Clark, the head coach, has his crazy side. It can be said that Leeds City's current ranking in the league has a lot to do with his style. But this kind of madness is also a double-edged sword..." Yan Kang also analyzed beside him. "Of course, people who can achieve great things have a crazy side to some extent. But we must also be mentally prepared. While enjoying the benefits of madness, we must be prepared to bear the price of madness..."
"A crow's mouth!" Xie Lan, who was in front of the TV, couldn't help but cursed when he heard Yan Kang's words.
She could only use this method to slightly relieve her tension.
She hopes that her son can win the Premier League championship with the team, because that is such an amazing thing!
With the possibility of winning the championship, second place in the league, which was originally considered pretty good, has become unpalatable.
She has never been the calm type of fan like her husband and TV commentators. She always sits on her son's side, cheering him on.
So she didn't care what it was in fact or what it should be in theory, anyway, she just wanted her son to win.
But during this time, she was actually very unhappy watching football.
Since Hulay scored his first Premier League hat-trick of the season against Stan Park Rangers away from home, the defensive resistance he has encountered in the game has increased.
After that, Leeds City won six more games, but Hulay only scored one goal.
So much so that some media said that this was Hulay's lowest scoring efficiency after joining Leeds City.
On the one hand, there are few goals, and on the other hand, Hu Lai is always heavily defended by the opponent during the game and plays poorly. As Hu Lai's biggest fan, Xie Lan no longer feels the same "exhilaration" as before when watching his son play.
Seeing my son come back with no results time and time again, I felt anxious and angry and heartbroken.
In order to keep his wife calm, Hu Lixin also analyzed for her that all the "treatment" his son is receiving now is normal because he has performed so well in the Premier League this season. Moreover, such treatment is not necessarily a bad thing for Hu Lai. On the contrary, he can learn a lot from it and continue to make progress.
Intellectually, Xie Lan felt that her husband was right, but emotionally she was still unhappy.
He was originally far ahead in the league's scorer list, but now he is being caught up by his opponents - last season's league golden boot Marvin Stones has now scored 19 goals in the league, only three points behind Hu Lai. ball.
This makes the ownership of the league's golden boot yet again suspenseful.
There have been four goals in the game so far, but none of them have been scored by her son.
So Xie Lan still felt unhappy.
When Hulay assisted Kamara to score Leeds City's second goal, the commentator was still there cheering: "This is Hulay's second assist in the Premier League this season! Beautiful assist!"
Sheran has no idea what there is to cheer about in assists - if my son can score, why should he pass it out?
Hu Lixin glanced at his wife and knew from her expression that she must still be unhappy that Hu Lai didn't score.
However, he told his wife everything that needed to be said, and he had no control over what she thought.
I won’t persuade you anymore, lest your married life will be difficult...
Hu Lixin thought in his heart, looked back and continued to watch the game.
The game is about to enter the last ten minutes, but his son, who has played two national team games, is still on the court. He has played in the starting lineup until now and has not been replaced.
It can be seen that head coach Clark still trusts Hu Lai. At the same time, Hu Lai can indeed divert more defensive attention from the opponent on the court and create opportunities for his teammates.
What his wife values is that his son's goals help the team win, but Hu Lixin does not care so much whether Hu Lai scores or not, as long as the team can win in the end.
In the live TV broadcast, Hu Lai seemed to think so too. He had just picked up the ball in the penalty area with his back to the goal and passed the football back to Williams who was pressing up, and the latter completed a shot.
Unfortunately, the penalty area was full of people, and the football shot by Williams hit the leg of Warships defender Timo Brandon and bounced to the other side.
His wife's dissatisfied sigh sounded in his ears, but Hu Lixin nodded approvingly.
His son is not a "lone wolf" who only thinks about scoring his own goals.
Hu Lai is a point-grabbing shooter, and Hu Lixin still hopes that his son will learn to share opportunities with his teammates. Even if it is not for any tactical needs, doing so can actually share his defensive pressure.
He glanced at the game time in the upper left corner of the TV screen.
80:48
The game officially entered the last ten minutes.
The score was still tied at 2:2. (End of chapter)