Chapter 11: Stop the ball
Chapter 11 Ten-meter Stop
When the two teams returned to the court, the atmosphere was obviously more tense than in the first half.
In the audience, fans beat drums and cheered wildly, cheering for the national football team while giving warm greetings to Song Wen.
The Chinese national football team players looked at Song Wen with increasingly ferocious eyes.
No one expected that the guy on the opposite side would have the leisure to confront netizens on social media during the 15-minute halftime break.
He also cursed the Chinese national football team several times.
This is intolerable. There is no need for Lippi to continue feeding them chicken soup. The Chinese national football team players are already full of confidence and are determined to win today's game.
In the second half of the game, the two sides changed sides. After the Chinese national team kicked off, they continued to use ground penetration and ball control to slowly advance.
Song Wen, who is highly valued by the national football team players, did not seem to be excited by the goal in the first half. He was still strolling like an old man.
But unlike Song Wen, other Ipswich players seemed full of energy compared to their performance in the first half.
These players are the team's substitutes, and many of them are young and full of vigor.
Song Wen's words "Why play football if you don't want to win" obviously aroused everyone's enthusiasm.
Facing the Ipswich players who began to press high, the Chinese national team seemed a little flustered compared to the calmness in the first half.
In the live broadcast room, Zhan Jun looked at the actions of the Ipswich players and said in confusion:
"Coach McCarthy is very interesting. We saw that with one man less, he chose a formation change that is difficult for ordinary people to understand. And on the back line, we can see that there are only three people left. This is a change from the initial 442 to a 343 formation. Of course, now with one man less, it should be 333. This is really hard to understand, because we know that the 343 formation itself is actually not very common, and it is also a top-heavy attacking formation. If you use such a formation with fewer people, you are really giving the Chinese national team a chance."
Hearing Zhan Jun's words, Fan Zhiyi nodded and analyzed:
"This is indeed quite strange. Logically speaking, you are leading in the first half and you are outnumbered, so you should shrink your formation and play a defensive counterattack. But he not only adjusted to a formation with a weaker defense, but also changed his tactics, choosing to have his players press high up the pitch."
In fact, this was not McCarthy's idea, but Song Wen's idea.
Song Wen knows these national football players too well.
If we really shrink the defense line and allow the Chinese national team to pass the ball back and forth, maybe they will actually pass the ball into the goal.
But once you press high up the pitch, the Chinese national team players, who have rough footwork skills, will inevitably make mistakes!
And the facts were just as Song Wen expected.
The Chinese national team failed to pass the ball more than four times at the beginning of the game and made mistakes under the high-pressure defense.
Faced with two people blocking him, the player on the left chose to make a long pass to transfer the ball to the right.
There is nothing wrong with his idea.
After all, with Ipswich one man down, choosing high-pressure pressing would inevitably lead to defensive gaps on the other side.
But the problem was that, perhaps because the grass was too slippery or the wind in the stadium was too strong, Wu Xi, who was on the right side, did not stop the ball well.
The ball landed at Wu Xi's feet, bounced lightly, and rolled ten meters away to the feet of Ipswich defender Chambers.
This stop of the ball not only stunned the fans, but even Chambers who got the ball was stunned.
It even made Fan Zhiyi in the live broadcast room stop laughing.
"Ouch! Wu Xi stopped the ball. Oh, this really can't be blamed on Wu Xi. He actually wanted to pass the ball to himself three minutes later, but he didn't expect the opposing defender to be so good at calculating and predicting it. There's really nothing we can do about it."
When netizens in the live broadcast room saw this outrageous scene, they couldn't hold it in anymore.
[No, Wu Xi, do you have springs on your feet? ]
【66666! 】
【Anyone who has played football knows that it is difficult to stop the ball when no one is pressing. Don't blame the players. Blame the ball for being too round or the grass for being too slippery. 】【The previous analysis is very accurate, but it is a little bit missing. We should also blame Song Zema. 】
[What Song Zema, it’s Song Ze. ]
【Isn't it Song Niu (Tumor) Horse? 】
[Isn't it Song Niu Liuma? ]
Song Wen doesn't know yet that he has been given countless nicknames by great netizens.
Chambers made a long pass and sent the ball over.
As the team's main defender and captain, Chambers' pass was just right, so Song Wen didn't even need to jump to compete for the header.
But at the same time, Zheng Zhi also rushed over as soon as possible.
The ball fell from a high altitude. Song Wen judged the landing point and took position. He opened his hands, leaned on Zheng Zhi with his body, then lightly touched the ball with his toes, and then immediately released the force downwards!
The ball stopped in front of Song Wen without moving!
The ten-meter stop of the Chinese national football team in the previous moment is still vivid in our minds, and the next moment Song Wen’s unloading of the ball was a direct teaching move.
Even the audience who had clear positions couldn't help but subconsciously let out an incredible exclamation.
[Damn! This ball is stopped! ]
[Is this a lesson for the Chinese national football team? 】
[Chinese national football team: Impossible! Absolutely impossible! ]
Although Song Wen got the ball, as the primary target of the Chinese national team, another midfielder and Feng Xiaoting on the back line rushed up at the first time and formed a three-man blockade against Song Wen.
Song Wen used his left foot to shake off Zheng Zhi's pull, and then faced with Feng Xiaoting who was kicking the ball, he pulled the ball and turned 180 degrees. Before four opponent players surrounded him, he passed the ball again!
McGoldrick on the other side had already started to accelerate in advance, used his body to force Zhang Linpeng away, and quickly rushed to the right side of the penalty area.
Then a low pass across the ground!
The camera moved at high speed as the players ran, and everyone stared nervously at Ipswich's striker on the other side of the middle.
Only Feng Xiaoting was about to bite his teeth off at this time!
The kid next to me started running quickly after passing the ball. In just a short while, I was almost left behind by him!
In desperation, he could only use his hands to pull it out, but the other person's body was as slippery as a loach and he couldn't hold it at all!
After seeing the cross from McGoldrick, Ipswich's substitute striker subconsciously adjusted his running frequency and body shape to shoot.
But soon, he realized that the ball was not passed to him!
He wasn't very far away from McGoldrick.
But the speed of this ball is really too fast!
And from the angle point of view, it will also make him play very awkwardly.
This substitute striker doesn't have eyes on the back of his head, but he knows that when a teammate's pass makes you feel extremely uncomfortable, then the ball is most likely not passed to you!
He didn't think much about it and continued to rush forward quickly. The moment the ball flew over, he let the ball pass between his legs!
The Chinese national team defender Mei Fang, who was following closely behind him, also ran in front of the ball and was powerless to do anything.
The ball rolled from the right to the left!
A figure suddenly rushed out from the camera!
"Song Wen! He suddenly rushed over! And shot the ball!!"
"Wow! The ball goes in!!!"
Less than three minutes into the second half, the score was changed to 2:0!
(End of this chapter)