Chapter 1102 Greetings from Morikawa
When Osvaldo was still doubting what he saw, a thunder sounded over the stadium:
"HUUUUU!!!"
Hu Lai has finished his celebration.
The sound of thunder woke Osvaldo up, and he came back to his senses with a jolt. He turned around and asked the assistant coach, who was still holding his head in pain and regret for losing the ball, to shake people on the bench.
"Let Yonezawa Masao prepare to play!"
As a head coach, he reacts very quickly and decisively. There was no hesitation, I knew immediately what I should do.
As the team's midfield organizer, Masao Yonezawa is the main force of Royal Cathorn. But before this game, he did not choose to start Masao Yonezawa because he wanted to focus on defense in the away game.
Then Masao Yonezawa, who is not good at defense, will naturally have to be removed from the starting lineup.
However, Masao Yonezawa was not completely left at home, but went out with the team.
Deep down in his heart, Osvaldo is still looking forward to winning away from home.
Besides, one more offensive player means more preparation. In this way, if something unexpected happens during the game, you can be considered prepared.
Osvaldo's decision proved to be correct.
Now he needs to replace Masao Yonezawa and regain control of the midfield.
In fact, Osvaldo didn't need to be so anxious. After all, his team had just conceded a goal, and the score was only 0:1. There was still a long time left in the second half, so there was no need to go all out to equalize the score now.
Besides, even a score of 0:1 is not necessarily unacceptable.
After all, this is an away game, and we are facing a team like Leeds City that is good at attacking. Losing only one goal is already a very good result.
But Osvaldo's substitution was not for offense.
Or not just for offense.
He's there for defense.
After Leeds City scored, their morale was boosted, and they would definitely step up their attack - Osvaldo would not think that Leeds City would slow down and recycle their defense after taking the lead.
Under such circumstances, if Royal Cathorn continues to defend, it is very likely that it will not be able to hold on.
After all, losing the ball dealt a blow to the players' mentality and morale.
At this time, if we continue to defend according to the previous tactical requirements without making any adjustments, Royal Cathorn's defense will be in chaos when Leeds City attacks Adapted to Royal Caterhorn's defensive tactics.
Therefore, a substitution must be made, and a midfielder like Yonezawa Masao, who usually plays the main role at Royal Cathorn, must be replaced. He has skills. Use his skills to help the team control the ball, allowing the players to gradually recover from the panic after losing the ball.
So Osvaldo quickly made such substitution adjustments.
At the same time, after stabilizing the situation, Yonezawa Masao's presence on the court also gave Royal Cathorn the capital to counterattack.
At that time, we can seize the space left by Leeds City's attack and send a through ball; or take advantage of the Leeds City attack's exhaustion and let Yonezawa Masao organize the offensive to turn against the visitors. Even if they can't score, at least they can prevent Leeds City's offense from being so unscrupulous, thus reducing the pressure on Royal Cathorn's defense.
It can be said that it accomplishes multiple things with one stone.
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Hu Lai has finished celebrating with his teammates and is running back to his half.
At this time, Masao Yonezawa was already standing on the sidelines, listening to the instructions of their head coach Alvaldo.
Seeing this scene, Hu Lai winked at Junpei Morikawa next to him: "Morikawa, the opportunity has come!"
Junpei Morikawa glanced towards the sidelines, shook his head and said: "The boss did not arrange any specifically targeted tasks for me."
The implication is that if Clark doesn't make adjustments, then he will still play according to the requirements Clark gave him before the game, and will not act without permission just because of Masao Yonezawa.
This is the rigid side of Morikawa Junpei that I mentioned before.
But at the same time, this is also his valuable advantage. As a defensive player, you must understand that the most important thing in defense is not personal ability, but tactical discipline.
If every defensive player follows their own ideas and ignores the team's tactical discipline, then the team's defense will be in name only.
In other words, Morikawa Junpei is an ordinary iron rod. If you put it in the hands of ordinary people and swing it around, if you can swing it into a big windmill, you are considered a good player. But it's just an iron rod.
But when it fell into the hands of Sun Wukong, it became the "Ruyi Golden Cudgel" that frightened countless demons and ghosts.
The key is whether it can be used.
If Clark is indifferent to Royal Cathorn's substitution adjustments, or responds slowly. Then Junpei Morikawa will still follow the previous tactical requirements and protect Jay Adams and Pete Williams. As for what Masao Yonezawa will do after he comes on the court, that is not what Junpei Morikawa has to consider.
He won't go beyond the limits.
If Masao Yonezawa performs well and Leeds City concedes a goal... Even if Junpei Morikawa is responsible, he will admit it, but he may make the same choice next time...
As soon as Junpei Morikawa finished speaking, he heard Peter Williams calling Hu Lai: "Hu, the boss is looking for you."
Hu Lai looked around and saw Clark gesturing to him on the sidelines and shouting at the same time: "Let Morikawa freeze him!"
He pointed at Masao Yonezawa who was still on the sidelines.
Simple and clear, you can understand it at a glance.
Hu Lai nodded, turned around and said to Morikawa Junpei: "The mission is here. The boss wants you to freeze Yonezawa Masao."
Junpei Morikawa looked up at his seniors in the national team and nodded:
"Okay."
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Royal Catalon did not make a successful substitution immediately, because until they kicked off and restarted the game, Yonezawa Masao was still being pulled by head coach Osvaldo to talk non-stop.
It seems that Osvaldo has many instructions for Masao Yonezawa, and it is not just as simple as patting him on the shoulder and saying to him, "Go up and kick like usual."
Just when Osvaldo pulled Masao Yonezawa to arrange tactics for him, Leeds City's offensive on the field did not diminish at all.
Just as Osvaldo had worried, Leeds City, who had taken the lead, attacked fiercely, while Royal Cathorn, who lost the ball, was demoralized and had a hard time defending.
Leeds City fans in the stands cheered one after another, one wave after another.
If you don't watch the game and just listen to the sound, every time Leeds City fans cheer, you may think that Leeds City has scored again...
It was not until five minutes later that Real Caterun's full-back Benjamin Maldonado kicked the football directly out of the sideline very close to the baseline under the pressure of Camara, and the game entered the dead ball stage.
Masao Yonezawa came running.
In the stand box, when he saw Masao Yonezawa coming on, Hiroto Motegi straightened his back slightly and looked down.
Two Japanese players were about to meet, but he didn't change his posture just for this.
Because this is the daily routine of Japanese football, it is not worthy of his excitement at all.
The reason why he paid a little attention was because he could finally see Masao Yonezawa's performance in this game, so that he wouldn't run in vain... half the time.
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After Masao Yonezawa came on the field, he followed coach Osvaldo's request and took the initiative to ask for the ball from his teammates.
After the ball comes, control it under your feet and then pass it out.
It's just that he didn't always pass forward, but mainly made cross passes and back passes.
The purpose of this is to stabilize the rhythm and avoid being stunned and scattered by Leeds City's fast rushing and attacking.
This was obviously Osvaldo's instruction.
Masao Yonezawa also did a great job.
I don’t know if this is one of the characteristics of Japanese players, that is, they have relatively good tactical discipline...
When Hu Lai saw Masao Yonezawa's performance after he came on the field, he was reminded of that Asian Cup game.
As the midfield organizer of the Japanese team, Yonezawa Masao has a high appearance rate. But his performance in that game was not as good as his performance in this game.
Maybe it's because of different mentality during the game, or maybe the tactical requirements of the club and the national team are different.
In short, Masao Yonezawa, who is wearing the Royal Cathorn jersey, is obviously more comfortable with the ball on the court than when he is in the national team.
This is normal.
Due to many factors such as different tactics, different player positions, different strengths of teammates, etc., a player's performance in the club team and the national team is often very different.
Those who can play a core role in the club may not even start in the national team.
And someone who plays a leading role in the national team may just be a substitute when he returns to the club...
Masao Yonezawa still has a relatively small gap. He is the main player in Royal Cathorn and the Japanese national team, and he is also a midfield organizer.
With Masao Yonezawa controlling the field after coming on the field, Royal Cathorn's performance has improved visibly.
Led by Masao Yonezawa, the players tried to play slow against fast.
Generally speaking, La Liga team players have very good small skills. Therefore, when watching the live broadcast of La Liga games, I often see that little-known players from small teams and newly promoted teams can play tricks in front of players from wealthy teams, and make the expensive wealthy players dance around.
The Premier League teams are slightly less capable in this area, especially the small teams that are also ranked low, and they still pay attention to simplicity and directness.
The speed is fast and the confrontation is fierce, but the skills on the feet...can't be complimented.
This is the style of football in different countries.
Once Royal Cathorn slowed down the pace, Leeds City's aggressive attack just now became obviously not so scary.
Fast and slow are always enemies on the football field, just like a spear and a shield.
Leeds City want to use their own speed to deal with Royal Cathorn. Like a sharp spear, it stabbed the Royal Cathorn directly.
If the latter follows Leeds City's pace, sooner or later the opponent will lead them into the ditch. That's why Osvaldo replaced Masao Yonezawa, a player who can hold the ball, deliberately slowing down the pace and dampening Leeds City's energy. Let Royal Cathorn's defense turn into a bottomless swamp, causing Leeds City's spear to get stuck in the quagmire and be unable to extricate itself.
It seems that initial results have been achieved.
Until Masao Yonezawa picked up the ball in midfield and was knocked to the ground by Junpei Morikawa who suddenly came forward...
The whistle sounded.
Foul by Junpei Morikawa.
But Royal Cathorn's smooth passing and control was interrupted by this harsh whistle.
"Junpei Morikawa was so rude to his national teammate Masao Yonezawa! He actually committed a foul directly! And it was a foul that went more than ten meters forward and ran directly from the back midfielder position to the front midfielder position... Obviously, he He didn't think about cutting the ball off at this moment, he was giving Masao Yonezawa a blow!" Shen Lang said.
Yonezawa Masao didn't expect that Morikawa Junpei would silently run for more than ten meters and knock him to the ground. He fell to the ground and stared at Morikawa Junpei with wide eyes.
After the latter got up from the ground, he directly extended his hand to Yonezawa Masao and said in Japanese: "I'm very sorry, Yonezawa-senpai. But I am a Leeds City player now."
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PS, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I wish everyone a happy holiday! (End of chapter)