Chapter 1469 Defending Hu Lai is a difficult task

Chapter 1469 Defending Hu Lai is a difficult task

Melly passed the ball to Cantero, and Cantero chose to push directly into the far corner from the corner of the penalty area.

But he pushed it off target and did not hit the door frame.

Lin Zhiyuan jumped out without touching the ball, and the football flew directly out of the baseline.

Cantero, who missed the opportunity, put his head in his hands, then turned around to apologize to Melli and gave him a thumbs up to indicate that he had passed the ball well.

Mellie shouted at Cantero: "It's okay, Ramon. Let's continue!"

He chose to comfort his friend and not put too much pressure on him.

But in fact, deep down inside, Melly was under a lot of pressure.

Even though Argentina equalized the score, the situation did not develop in their favor.

Because the Chinese team did not fall into chaos and collapse after conceding the ball.

Although from the scene, Argentina did have the upper hand, the Chinese team was very methodical in its defense.

Moreover, they still have the energy to attack, threatening Argentina's defense and making Argentina afraid to attack with all its strength.

Compared with the offensive firepower, the defense of this Argentina Olympic team is indeed weaker.

Enzo Monteya and Geronimo Rojas are both main players in their respective clubs, but their cooperation is not tacit enough, and there will be problems in the connection between the defensive zone and the defensive zone.

There is nothing that can be done about this. After all, Montea is an over-age player and only came to the team to train together ten days before the start of the Olympics. If you want to cultivate enough tacit understanding, how can ten days be enough?

Of course, in the previous games, the guard partnership formed by the two performed quite well and there were no major problems.

But now they are facing Hu Lai.

This is a guy who not only has outstanding personal abilities, but is also cunning by nature.

Not that easy to deal with.

Argentina has already conceded two goals, and Melly doesn’t know if they will continue to concede goals...

As a forward, it is impossible for him to return to his penalty area to defend Hu Lai every time he defends.

All he can do is to score goals as soon as possible, break the delicate balance and put the Chinese team into panic.

So Cantero wasted the opportunity he created. How could he really not care?

I just said that so that Cantero would not bear too much pressure.

Meili turned around and ran back. As he expected, the Chinese team's No. 6 defensive midfielder followed him again.

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"Here, here!" Hu Lai shouted while suddenly running sideways.

Although Monteya couldn't understand what Hu Lai was shouting, he knew what Hu Lai was going to do, so he quickly followed.

Sure enough, Zhang Qinghuan passed the football over.

Upon seeing this, Montea quickly stuck to Hulay and squeezed the opponent with his body to prevent him from easily getting the ball.

But Hu Lai didn't catch the ball, but let the football pass directly under his crotch!

After missing the ball, he accelerated and ran forward, made a big circle, and sprinted towards the penalty area.

Monteya didn't dare to neglect, he just glanced back at the football, and his body still followed Hu Lai.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zhou Zijing, who had also withdrawn from the penalty area, receiving the ball.

Combined with Hu Lai's movement, he concluded that Hu Lai wanted to seek cooperation with Zhou Zijing - he rushed forward, and then Zhou Zijing passed through, and he just caught the ball and threatened the goal...

So Monteya's hands were constantly entangled with Hu Lai's arms, and his feet kept moving.

Zhou Zijing didn't pass the ball over. While catching the ball, he gently knocked the football over with the outside instep of his right foot. After widening the shooting angle laterally, he took off and shot!

Bang!

Hu Lai, who had already rushed into the penalty area, not only did not stop because of his teammates' shots, but also accelerated!

In front of the goal, Argentina goalkeeper Penalva jumped into the air. Before he could stretch his body, the football hit his arms.

He could only make a save reflexively, and the football hit the edge of his palm, bounced back, and flew in the direction of Hu Lai!

Hu Lai was about to shoot, but Monteya, who was following him, took the first step and hit the bottom line...

"Montea! He made a crucial clearance! He followed Hu tightly and didn't let him have a chance to make a follow-up shot!"

Amid the exclamations and cheers of the Argentine fans, Montea got up from the ground, breathing heavily and with his heart beating fast.

He was extremely lucky that he followed Hu Lai all the way to the goal and didn't give up halfway, otherwise he would have had to watch Hu Lai celebrate his goal...

Although he made a successful rescue, Montea was not happy at all. Because he knew that this was just an attack that he had to defend in a long game, and now was not the time to celebrate.

He will not be like the Chinese goalkeeper opposite, who will celebrate grandly every time he saves a shot.

He knows very well that when defending Hu Lai, he has to remain tense until he hears the final whistle.

To be honest, it was tiring, but there was nothing else to do.

He already understood this when he competed with Leeds City in the Premier League.

In fact, if he had a choice, he would rather choose to fight against a rough guy like Zhou Zijing than Hu Lai.

But he had no choice. Compared with Geronimo Rojas, who is still playing in Argentina, Enzo Monteya, who has had experience playing against Hulay, is the most suitable candidate to defend Hulay.

If it had been Roxas, it might have turned into a disaster...

Not only was Hu Lai not angry after losing the chance to make a follow-up shot, but after hearing Monteya's heavy breathing, he asked with concern:

"How are you, brother? Are you okay? It's not even seventy minutes, brother, why are you out of breath so much? Tsk, is the current physical training in Warship Port so stretched? Oh, I forgot , you just finished playing in the Premier League and came to the Olympics, didn't get enough rest? Okay, I understand you, to be honest, I do too. It's very tiring. It's hard for anyone to come to the Olympics after playing for a season. Brother, why do you want to come to the Olympics? Meili, I know that the kid only has gold medals in his eyes. What about you? The gold medal? You guys really work hard, unlike me, I’m just satisfied if I can get a medal..."

Monteya took a deep breath, but still held it in and ignored Hu Lai.

This is another important reason why he doesn't want to fight Hu Lai...

Those rumors on the Internet about not talking to Hu Lai when competing against him are simply childish!

Is this a problem you can solve without talking?

If you don't speak, he can continue to chatter in your ear.

What does Monteya feel like?

It was like playing football surrounded by a swarm of flies.

These flies won't cause you any substantial harm, but if you keep hearing the "buzzing" sound in your ears for a long time, it's inevitable that anyone will feel restless.

Sometimes Enzo Monteya is curious, how does Hulay keep talking while playing football?

If he wanted to, he could go on and on, even if there was absolutely nothing to say.

But if Hulay is born like this, Monteya doesn't believe it, because not every game is like this. Judging from media reports, Hulay off the court is not a talker.

So he deliberately used this method to interfere with the defender.

Absolutely disgusting!

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Melly dropped back to midfield and raised his hand to ask for the ball.

At the same time, he turned back to observe the situation behind him, and sure enough he saw the Chinese team's No. 6 defensive midfielder behind him.

When he realized that he had turned around, he grinned.

Melly withdrew his gaze and looked at his teammates in the backcourt.

Defensive midfielder Dino Sosa got the ball in behind, and it was he who had intercepted Zhang Qinghuan's ball about ten seconds earlier.

Now the Chinese team is in the stage of switching from offense to defense. This is Argentina's opportunity!

Because this transition stage of attack and defense is the most prone to problems.

He waved vigorously, reminding Sosa to pass the ball straight up.

Because he retreated relatively deep, there was a lot of space behind him, so Ou Yangjin had little effect on his personal defense. He can knock the ball directly behind him, then turn around and accelerate to catch up with the football.

This move is much more useful in the midfield than at the front of the penalty area.

Sosa saw Melli waving to him, so he did not continue to dribble forward, but chose to pass the football to Melli.

After all, when it comes to offensive advancement, Melly is much more professional than him, a defensive midfielder.

Xia Xiaoyu was originally in the stage of switching from offense to defense. He should quickly return to the defensive position, but just when he was about to do so, he took another look at the situation around him.

He saw Mellie dropping back and raising his hand for the ball.

He didn't know if the Argentinian player holding the ball would pass the ball obediently, but he decided to take a gamble.

So Xia Xiaoyu temporarily changed his decision to retreat and rushed towards Meili horizontally.

Just then, Sosa passed the ball over!

So... isn't this a coincidence?

When Melly saw the football rolling toward him, he turned back to confirm Ou Yangjin's position and found that the opponent was almost close to him, and there were some small pulling movements on his hands.

He didn't care very much, but decided to act according to the original plan - if the opponent really pulled him down, he couldn't escape a yellow card.

As a defensive midfielder, if he has a yellow card on his back, he will be stuck in the next game and will not be able to perform well.

So no matter what, Merry won't lose.

Unexpectedly, when he turned around, he saw someone suddenly in front of him!

"Xia Xiaoyu! Steal! Good shot!!"

Xia Xiaoyu stood in front of Melli, stretched out his foot, and was blocking the ball passed to Melli...

Melly stared at this scene with wide eyes. Unexpectedly, the football was intercepted halfway!

Xia Xiaoyu, who stole the ball, looked up and saw Zhang Qinghuan not far ahead.

So after he caught up with the football, he did not dribble the ball, but directly used his right foot to poke the ball to Zhang Qinghuan, who turned in front to meet him.

At this time, both sides were switching offense and defense. Argentina originally switched from defense to offense, but now the ball was suddenly intercepted and forced to switch from offense to defense again.

Therefore, the positional relationship between people is very messy.

In order to further expand their chaos and not give Argentina a chance to react, Xia Xiaoyu had to increase his speed.

After passing the ball, he accelerated and ran forward.

While sprinting, Xia Xiaoyu did not forget to continue to look up and observe the situation ahead.

Because the transition between offense and defense happened suddenly, Argentina's defense had many loopholes.

He needs to find his path and figure out what to do before he has the ball again.

This requires him to make judgments based on the results he observes as quickly as possible.

It was in this flash of lightning that Zhang Qinghuan's ball was passed over, and Xia Xiaoyu also withdrew his gaze and prepared to catch the ball.

The moment he looked up, he had already seen the open position and passing route. Now all he had to do was to send the football!

Facing the ball from Zhang Qinghuan from the side, Xia Xiaoyu passed the ball directly without stopping!

His right foot pushed a through ball!

The ball ran towards the gap between Argentinian left-back Ramilo Guzman and centre-back Geronimo Rojas.

There is Zhou Zijing running wildly!

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As a high center forward, Zhou Zijing's speed is not his specialty, especially his slow starting speed.

But he had already started before Xia Xiaoyu passed the ball - to be precise, when Xia Xiaoyu passed the football to Zhang Qinghuan, he started to sprint towards the ribs of the Argentinian defense, so the disadvantage of slow start speed can now be eliminated Ignore.

After he picked up his speed, Xia Xiaoyu sent a through ball.

It's like a heavy truck has finally been put into high gear and can ride freely!

Zhou Zijing strode towards the football that had been passed into space.

The Argentine left back Guzman was pushed to the outside by him and was trying to accompany him.

Rojas in the middle also quickly pounced on the football, trying to clear it before Zhou Zijing received the ball...

Xia Xiaoyu passed the ball to a place that made Argentina's defense particularly uncomfortable - the ribs of the penalty area.

If Zhou Zijing is not interfered with and defended, he can shoot directly after receiving the ball!

Rojas chased the football diagonally, and Guzman chased after Zhou Zijing.

The goals of all three are the ball, and the competition between them attracts everyone's attention.

The commentators became excited, and He Feng shouted: "Xia Xiaoyu's through ball! Zhou Zijing!"

The Argentine commentator exclaimed: "Zhou is in danger! Rojas!"

Goalkeeper Penalva pressed up from the front of the goal to the small penalty area line to block Zhou Zijing's shot.

Three against one!

Zhou Zijing is trapped in a tight siege!

Even if he has caught up with the football, the starting space and shooting angle left for him are already very, very small...

But Zhou Zijing still rushed forward without slowing down at all, and then he raised his right leg.

Rojas also raised his leg and kicked the football.

The two collided directly!

The football rolled out from them sideways and toward the center!

"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU——!"

"Hu Lai——!!!"

Yan Yan shouted excitedly in front of the TV: "Hule Hule Hule Hule Hule Hule Hule!!"

Amid everyone's shouts, Hu Lai rushed to kill him!

Behind him, Monteya shoved the football with his feet through the people...but he knocked down Hulay first!

In other words, Hu Lai was not shoveled down by him, but fell down on his own initiative - shovel shot!

He shoveled the football towards the goal before Montea could!

It was too late for Penalva to turn over and rush back. He could only watch the football fly into his goal!

※※※PS, it’s still the third update today! Asking for a monthly ticket!

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