Chapter 67 Hunting Wang Lie
When Sven Helden appeared at the post-match press conference, all the reporters present raised their hands before he could even sit down.
Liu Zhong whispered to Guo Xuequan: "It's useless to raise your hands, Lao Guo. You offended him badly last time, and he will definitely ignore you."
Guo Xuequan said. : "It doesn't matter, none of the reporters present today will let him go. If he doesn't order, I won't."
"You know you still raise..."
"This is an attitude, Xiao Liu. I can't give this old man the middle finger directly, so I can only raise my hand."
Guo Xuequan said this, straightened up, and raised his arm upwards Lift.
He was right. After the reporter's question-and-answer session began, all the questions asked by reporters were very aggressive, leaving him no face at all.
"Mr. Helden, are you responsible for this humiliating failure?"
"Mr. Sven Helden, would you consider resigning?"< br>
"The team suddenly collapsed after the halftime break. What did you say to the players during the halftime break?"
"In the first half of the season, you drew 1:1 with Scorsese at home. Man, the team performed very tenaciously at that time. Why did it perform like this on the road this time? It was so different from the first half of the season..."
"Wang, in the last round of the league, played against the Scorsese. He scored a hat-trick and helped Tyne win its first victory against Scorsese in the past six seasons. However, in this round of the league, without him, you lost eight goals on the road, setting a record for the club's biggest loss. record. Does this mean it was wrong to let Wang go? "In the last game, you said that your team was ranked third. Now it has fallen back to fourth. How do you feel about this? ? "
"Mr. Heldon, do you know that you led the team to the most humiliating defeat in the history of Sofu United? If this performance continues, do you think the team can repeat it? Return to the Champions League? ”
"Excuse me..."
"Mr. Heldon! Mr. Heldon..."
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"...We were on the 20th in the first half We did make mistakes from one minute to the 24th minute, so we conceded three goals in a short period of time, which was a penalty... But that kind of performance in the second half is not our style, this is not the level we should be... ...This is not Soft United, I saw eleven people losing their minds..."
Sitting on the team bus from Northumberland Football City to Leather Park Stadium, Wang Lie Wearing headphones and looking at the screen of the mobile phone, Helden couldn't help but laugh when he said this with a dark face.
His chuckle attracted the attention of teammate Matje Katic behind him. The Croatian defender leaned forward and saw the content on the screen in Wang Lie's hand.
He laughed and asked: "Isn't it refreshing to see your enemies under siege?"
Wang Lie took off his headphones and shook his head and said: "If he is not coaching Soft United, then it is true that Very relieved. "
"I think that at least in the short term, you should be happy to see the news that Soft United loses and makes a fool of yourself. After all, the Soft United club is also in Helden's 'persecution' against you. Just like Zhuopu..."
Katic talked about the past of his former club and Wang Lie's former club.
Pablo Tropp is a famous Spanish international and Barcelona Athletic star. He spent most of his career at Atletico Barcelona and was a huge success.
But in fact, he is an outstanding player trained by Madrid FC youth training. Because he did not get enough opportunities in the first team of Madrid FC, he believed that he was treated unfairly by the club management. So after the contract expired, he joined Madrid FC's archrival Atletico Barcelona as a free agent.
At Atletico Barcelona he became the main force of the team and achieved great success.
He eventually retired from Atletico Barcelona as a club legend.
Before retiring, he and Wang Lie were teammates at Atletico Barcelona for three seasons.
So Katic took Zhuopu as an example, because Wang Lie also knew Zhuopu.
Wang Lie shook his head and disagreed with Katic's statement: "Pablo's situation is different from mine. He has played for you for a short time. Although he was indeed trained by your youth training, But he has been a Merritt supporter since he was a child, so he has no feelings for you..."
The "Merritt" Wang Lie refers to is a La Liga team in Madrid, although regardless of history Neither the record nor the current strength can be compared with the top European giants Madrid FC, but because it is rooted in the grassroots and was established earlier than Madrid FC, it is the first team in Madrid, so it has a lot of fans in Madrid. Only in Madrid region, the influence is no worse than Madrid FC.
Merritt is also the mortal enemy of Madrid FC in the Madrid area.
It is not unusual for a player who has liked Merritt since he was a child to receive training in the youth academy of Madrid FC. Because similar things are very common with Madrid FC - they always search for outstanding young talents from all over the world and sign them to their youth training center for training.
Then there is no reason why they should let the talented young man at their doorstep go.
This is how Pablo Tropp was selected to enter the youth echelon of Madrid FC.
If things continue like this, he may become a star and legend of Madrid FC in the future, and he will also transform into a staunch "Madridist". And his past fondness for Merritt as a child was just a childhood anecdote of a Madrid FC legend.
But Zhuopu did not wait until the day he became a legend of Madrid FC. After just two seasons in the first team, he left the team and switched to his archrival Atletico Barcelona.
“...I’m different. I didn’t get the respect I deserved at Atletico Barcelona. It was Sofia United who gave me the opportunity to prove myself. I love this team from the bottom of my heart. Even though I I do have opinions against the club's senior management and the head coach, but I have played there for ten years...Who will be hurt the most in this 0:8 game? It's definitely not the head coach or the management, but Soft United. fans.”
"But I remember that in the last half of your season at Sof United, some fans booed you and thought you should leave."
"They are a very small minority and cannot represent all Sof United fans." Wang Lie pouted. "And they will eventually understand that what I say is true, and they will understand who is deceiving them and using them. In China, there is a proverb that 'with time, a person's heart will be revealed', which means that as time goes by, After getting along for a long time, you will know a person's true face, so when Heldon coaches the team for a while, they will know who is really thinking about Soft United and who is taking advantage of Soft United."
"How long can he continue to coach Soft United? The failure of this game is humiliating..." Katic expressed doubts.
Wang Lie thought of Jonathan Hall, the general manager of Soft United Club, and shook his head: "At least he won't be dismissed this season."
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Jonathan Hall looked at the frowning man in front of him, it was the balding team coach Sven Helden.
Hall said: "Mr. Bucker asked me to inform you that you will meet with me in an hour to talk about this game."
"Is the club preparing to use this game? Fire me because of the failure of the game?" Helden asked sullenly.
Hall shook his head: "No. But the boss needs to know what happened. Why did the team that defeated the opponent 3:0 in the last game lose this game without any resistance."
Helden was a little dissatisfied: "I also want to know why. Last night I locked myself in the study and thought about it almost all night. I also want to know why we lost like this! Our players were playing There is no fighting spirit at all! They just watch their opponents catching, passing, passing and shooting just around the corner..."
At first he just spread his hands, and then he waved his arms excitedly.
“I made five substitutions and I told them at halftime what to do in the second half... but they didn’t implement what I told them at all! You saw it. , our players' performance on the court, they seemed to have lost their souls, they were just eleven wooden posts! They were afraid of confronting their opponents, and they also lost the confidence to win the game."
Hall! He nodded, and indeed as Heldon said, the Sof United players on the field seemed to just want the game to end quickly, rather than thinking about how to get a goal back.
So he comforted the somewhat excited Heldon: "Don't worry, Sven. The boss must express his position. After all, he is the chairman of the club. If he does nothing after losing to his mortal enemy, he will only It makes the people in the club wonder whether he has lost control of the club... The management will not fire you because of the failure of this game. After all, your performance in leading the team before this is obvious to everyone. I I believe Mr. Bakker is also aware of this, and I will also explain this clearly to Mr. Bakker for you..."
Heldon's mood stabilized only after receiving the promise from the most powerful person in the club's management. : "The fact is that a defeat in one game can't mean anything. Especially this is not a normal game at all... I have canceled the holidays for everyone on the team and punished them for their performance on the court. Every Each player recognized and accepted my criticism and punishment of them. They knew that they had disgraced this great team and they also knew that they had let me down as the head coach.”
Hall nodded and said: "I will also emphasize this to Mr. Buckle..."
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Andrew Stokely's body can clearly feel the pressure coming from behind. There was pressure, and along with a muffled groan, someone slammed into me from behind.
Fortunately, he was stuck in his position, so even though he was hit by someone, he still used his legs to sweep away the flying football.
Then he heard a roar behind him.
After completing the rescue, Stokely turned around and saw Wang Lie, with an angry face, staring at him.
Stokely was startled at first, and when he came back to his senses, he was confused:
Why are you so angry?
I am your opponent, I am just completing my job.
Isn’t it normal to not score a goal during an attack?
What's there to be angry about?
Then he thought:
Are you angry because I ruined your chance to score?
Ha!
Then it will be time for you to get angry!
Because we have made tactical arrangements specifically for you today!
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“It was almost half an hour after the game started, and the score on the field was still 0:0. Wang Lie was surrounded by Brighton’s White Mountain defense, especially in Close to the White Mountain penalty area...perhaps because Wang Lie's hat trick in the last game scared the White Mountain head coach and players..."
Brighton White Mountain head coach Patrick Mandeville stood on the sidelines, Biting her fingernails nervously.
He also drew inspiration from the Scorsese's 2:3 loss to Tyne in the previous round.
At that time, Scorsese head coach Joseppe Gil asked his players to double-team Wang Lie.
It was very successful for a while, making it almost impossible for Tyne's attack to pass Wang Lie.
Mandeville also carefully analyzed the reasons for Gill's final failure.
That is to only attack Wang Lie in the midfield, not near the penalty area.
He can understand why Gill did this because he was worried that after fouling Wang Lie, he would give Wang Lie too many free kick opportunities. Wang Lie really took the lead with a free kick.
But in fact, the free kick was nearly 40 meters away from the goal. Strictly speaking, it was not within the scope of "near the penalty area" - the Scorsese successfully prevented Wang Lie from taking advantage of it close to their penalty area. A free kick was scored, but he did not expect Wang Lie to score directly with a free kick far away from their penalty area...
Mandeville gained valuable experience from Gill's failure, and he believed that Wang Lie should still be beaten Play double-team defense, but not in the midfield, but near the penalty area.
In the midfield, he will not pursue and intercept the retreating Wang Lie too much, because that will distract his defensive forces. He still wants to build a solid defense line in the defensive third zone, which is near his own penalty area.
As for the issue of free kicks, just let the players pay special attention.
Moreover, he also conducted targeted free kick defense training in the training one week before the game. From the layout of the wall to the positioning of the goalkeeper, everything was arranged in detail.
Judging from the current thirty minutes of the game, his tactical arrangements have worked. Wang Lie is surrounded by many people and has difficulty catching the ball, let alone scoring goals. He occasionally gets a few opportunities. , neither were very good. Under the close pressing interference of Brighton White Mountain defensive players, they were not sure...
But Mandeville was still very nervous and was not happy about it.
Because he knows that the game is a ninety-minute contest, not thirty minutes.
Not conceding the ball now does not mean that you will not concede the ball in the future.
Facing a top player like Wang Lie who has proven his ability time and time again, it is best not to open the champagne in advance.
He still remembers how Kofi Rost, the head coach of Hurlingham FC, became a "clown".
For this reason, when he faced questions from media reporters about Wang Lie before this game, he responded with praise and flattery.
Everything from Wang Lie’s recent performance to his historical status has been trumpeted.
I feel like I am a fan of Wang Lie...
But during the competition, he was not polite to his "idol" at all!
In addition to telling the players not to foul intentionally, he basically used all the tricks he should have on Wang Lie.
He felt like he was hunting a prehistoric Tyrannosaurus rex.
All forces must be gathered together, division of labor and cooperation must be clear, and we must work together.
The entire hunting process is long and torturous. You must concentrate on it without any slack or mistakes, and you must also pray for the blessing of the goddess of luck...
You can't really breathe a sigh of relief until you confirm that the hunt is successful and the Tyrannosaurus Rex is killed.
Before this, I had to hold my breath.
Mandeville looked up at the scoreboard on the court. In addition to the score, there was also game time.
It is now thirty-three minutes into the game.
There are still twelve minutes left before the end of the first half.
Everything seems fine so far, but he knows this type of defense is physically demanding.
During the halftime break, the team medical and physical therapy team must be arranged to give the players a massage to fully relax their muscles and allow them to quickly recover their physical fitness...
Mandeville is already considering a halftime break. arranged.
This is not to say that he does not care about the game currently going on, but that he must take precautions and prepare in advance.
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Because Wang Lie was heavily surrounded and closely monitored by the Brighton and White Mountain players.
So Tyne tried not to pass the ball to Wang Lie when attacking, but passed the ball to others.
For example, Vitini, Dean, or the Dutch attacking midfielder Van Ginkel who came forward into the penalty area.
This time Dean's cross from the right was knocked out of the sideline by a player from Brighton White Mountain. Tyne received a foul ball near the corner of the opponent's penalty area.
Right back Jacob Barnabas came up and threw the football to Dean who met him.
Then he quickly stepped back to create space and angles.
As expected, Dean had his back to the penalty area when he received the ball, and there was a Brighton White Mountain player behind him, making it difficult for him to turn around so easily.
At the same time, another Brighton and White Mountains player rushed in front of him, and the two double-teamed Dean.
Because Brighton White Mountain's overall formation is very deep when defending, they can pile up people in the defensive third zone to form a numerical advantage and attack Tyne's possession of the ball in every place. Players carry out encirclement and suppression.
At this time, Tyne needs to pass the ball to open up space and find the opportunity to pass the ball.
For example, now, after Barnabas throws the foul ball, he immediately returns to the court and steps back to widen the angle and distance.
Dean, surrounded by two men, passes the football back to Barnabas.
Along with the football came the Brighton White Mountain players who had just gone to besiege Dean.
Barnabas didn't think so much. Faced with the press, he didn't even stop the ball and just passed it in!
But actually this is not a good time to cross.
Because now in the penalty area of Brighton White Mountain, Vitini has just run from the back point to the front point to receive the ball. He must be hoping that Barnabas will pass the ball.
As a result, Barnabas passed the ball high.
The only person who can grab points in the middle is currently the offensive midfielder Van Ginkel, who occupies Wang Lie's original position.
Other than that, there were no other Tyne players in the penalty area of Brighton White Mountain.
When there are only two players, especially only one player in the middle, who can fight for the header, passing a high ball is definitely not the right choice...
But Barnabas had already passed the ball, so he could only fight for the top spot.
Van Ginkel and Brighton White Mountain center back Andrew Stockley took off at the same time, competing for the landing spot.
But none of them touched the ball.
In order to pass the ball before the defensive player could block it, Barnabas passed the ball with a bit of force...
The football flew straight through the front and middle points, and flew to... the back point .
There, Brighton White Mountain right back Amici Jean, who had been inserted into the penalty area, raised his head and watched the football take off, preparing to head the ball to clear the ball.
But at this moment the commentators exclaimed:
"King!"
"WAAAAANG——!"
"Wang Lie ! ”
The viewers in front of the TV saw Wang Lie suddenly flying in from outside the broadcast camera!
Jean, who had already taken off, felt his eyes go dark...
A figure had blocked all his sight, and he had lost track of the football!
Then he also lost his balance.
Wang Lie in the air felt as if he had bumped into someone, but he didn’t know who it was. All he could see was the football flying towards him!
Facing the flying football, he stabilized his upper body, especially his neck muscles, to keep his head straight.
When the football flies, he puts his jaw back and nods, making sure to hit the ball with his forehead, which has the largest contact area...
Bang!
He pushed it hard!
The football suddenly broke and flew towards the goal!
Faced with such a sudden header, Bailey Grant, the goalkeeper of Brighton White Mountain, did not react at all. He stood on the ground and looked up at the football flying into the goal from above his body...< br>
"Wang - Lie!!! Thirty-five minutes! He finally broke the deadlock for Tyne! Take the lead! 1:0! Tyne leads Brighton White Mountain away from home!"
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