Fox in the Penalty Area

v1 Chapter 92: "Strategic Depth"

Andrei Kalashnikov, who had just been put on the field, was eager to make contributions. Facing Ion Martinez's defense, he chose to break through with the ball directly, wanting to eat his opponent raw with his own speed.

But he underestimated Ion Martinez, who was able to win the World Cup with the Spanish national team.

Just as he was wading the ball out, Ion quickly turned across and cut in before he could pick up the pace, separating Kalashnikov from the ball.

Because the timing is just right, it is not a blocking foul.

After blocking Kalashnikov, Ion regained control of the ball.

Faced with Kalashnikov's personal interference behind him, he first made a fake move to turn towards the penalty area. After successfully deceiving the other side to deflect the center of gravity, he immediately used the outer instep of his right foot to push the football towards the sideline Turn the direction, and at the same time turn your body to that side, just passing Kalashnikov!

It was too late for Kalashnikov to turn around again, and was blocked by Ion.

After Ion took the ball and ran two steps forward, after attracting the defense of King Madrid's midfielder Albin Estrom, he crossed the football to Joaquin Bella who responded to him in the middle.

Nineteen-year-old Kalashnikov was too young for Ion Martinez.

Ion is not difficult to defend against.

But captain Juan Ramirez is under a lot of pressure.

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"Merry!"

"Merry!"

"Merry!"

In the commentary booth, commentators from all over the world shouted the same name in different languages.

At the same time, thunderous cheers were heard in the stands of the Crown Stadium.

On the court, Meli is playing against Ramirez.

His left foot slid across the football, a simple step on a bicycle, because the movement is concealed and the foot lift is very small, so it is very deceptive.

People don't know whether he really wants to turn the football to the left, or it is a fake action of pedaling a bicycle.

Ramirez was unmoved by the gesture.

Sure enough, Meli was just a fake move, and his right foot swung towards the football again.

Ramirez judged that Meli should come for real this time, and he raised his foot to intercept.

But just when he lifted his foot, Melly's foot touched the football one step ahead of him, and he poked the football lightly with the toe of his right foot!

The ball went between Ramirez's legs, piercing his crotch!

Ramirez's reaction was fast enough, turning around at the first time, while opening his arms slightly to block Melly behind him.

But when he realized that he might not be able to stop Meli, Ramirez also immediately made a decision-he shoveled directly to the football!

Meli took the football out one step ahead!

He didn't completely destroy the football, he just shoveled it farther away and Meli was able to keep chasing the ball.

But his shovel undoubtedly broke Melly's original rhythm of dribbling the ball. He had to speed up again and pay a higher price to try to regain the ball.

This greatly increased Melly's offensive cost.

Not to mention that Ramirez's shovel also stabbed the football closer to the Pirates' central defender Moreno.

Moreno only needs to step up to get the ball earlier than Meli.

He made a posture to clear the siege with his big foot, but when his foot really touched the football, he suddenly withdrew his strength and pushed the football past Meli who jumped up to block it. Prequel - At this point the Pirates are still thinking about using counterattacks to contain the King of Madrid's offensive, rather than being scared and can only kick the siege.

Having played for two seasons under Parotti, who emphasized pass control, the Pirates players know very well that successful defense is definitely not about giving up the ball.

Only by controlling football on your side can you increase your team's chances of winning the game.

Meli's attack failed this time. He didn't stay where he was and sighed, but quickly turned around and fought back—there was not much time, and he didn't have time to play a bitter scene here.

With less and less game time, the King of Madrid's chances of winning this game are also getting slimmer.

Scoring three goals in a row is not impossible, though difficult, when there are less than thirty minutes left in the game.

But when there are still fifteen minutes in the game, if you want to score three goals in a row, or against a team like the Madrid Pirates, it is basically equivalent to a fantasy.

So the more pragmatic idea now is to be able to score two goals in a row and equalize the score.

At the very least, you can't lose to your sworn enemy at home.

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Meli retreated to the center of the midfield, and Royvi just wanted to use his dribbling ability to drive the King's offense.

The original offensive midfielders Dudu Carlos and Albin Estrom retreated further and fell to the position of the midfielder.

The midfield configuration has changed from the original inverted triangle to the positive triangle.

But this does not mean that the King of Madrid's offensive will slow down, on the contrary, it will become more fierce.

Although the Madrid Pirates midfielder Damian Daya who was replaced was on the right, he actually came up to help Ramirez defend, so he often had to retreat to the center.

In this way, the Madrid Pirates had only right back Jose Irazusta on the right side, and the King's left back Brazilian international Russell Fonseca frequently came up to participate in the offense and put pressure on the Pirates.

In response to such a situation, Parotti adjusted on the spot and asked forward Di Kunzo to follow along to the side to defend, to curb Russell Fonseca's crazy insertion.

Leaving a Hu Lai in the middle is a kind of "strategic deterrence". Warn the two central defenders of the King of Madrid, don't press easily, we still have the strength to threaten your goal.

In this way, the game time passed quickly in the confrontation between the two teams who came and went and saw each other's tricks.

In the last ten minutes of the game, the king's offensive became even more frenzied. Damian Daya, who came off the bench, blocked Meli's attack with a foul and a yellow card, helping Ramirez share the pressure. Otherwise, it might be that Ramirez got a card this time, and then two yellows turned one red, and he was sent off directly...

Even Hu Lai retreated to the center line and participated in the defense.

In the 84th minute, he chased Meli, who retreated to take the ball, and seemed to have a direct dialogue with the Argentine.

But he ran two steps and was left behind by Melly.

Fortunately, with the joint defense of the pirate players, they still withstood the King's offensive.

Just as the football flew out of the bottom line, Hu Lai sat down on the ground and waved to his nearest teammate, Joaquin Bella: "Quick, Joaquin, I have a cramp!"

Bella hurried up to press his legs for him.

Seeing this, the goalkeeper Heywell pointed in the direction of Hu Lai and signaled to the referee that there was an emergency on the field.

Then he just stood there and didn't ask the ball boy for the ball, even though the ball boy had thrown the ball back on the field, he didn't see it.

He made up his mind that if the situation on Hu Lai's side was not handled well, he would not kick off.

There was a lot of boos in the stands, but I don't know if it was aimed at Heywell or Hu Lai...

The referee signaled the game to be suspended, and he turned around and ran to see the situation on Hu Lai's side.

The boos from the stands grew louder.

When the referee ran over, Hu Lai was grinning on the ground.

The referee asked: "How is it? Do you want the team doctor to come up and check?"

Hu Lai quickly waved his hands: "I'll be fine soon, I'll be fine soon..."

Then he said to Bella: "It's all right, Joaquin. Help me up..."

Joaquin Bella lowered Houlai's cramp left leg and pulled him up from the ground.

Hu Lai tried to take two steps by himself. Although he was still limping, he still nodded to the referee: "I'm fine, sir."

The referee nodded, ran back to the front again, and signaled Heywell to take the goal kick.

The Belgian national goalkeeper ignored the football that had been thrown into the field, and turned to ask the ball boy for the ball—such a blatant delay of the game was naturally stopped by the referee. He pointed to the football already in the penalty area and motioned for Hywell to use that ball.

Heywell reluctantly walked over to place the football...

Fortunately, in the second half, behind the Pirates goal was not the North Stand where the diehard Kings fans gathered, otherwise he could clearly hear the cordial greetings from those fans to the 18 generations of his family ancestors.

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At the same time, Parrotti said to assistant coach Valentine on the sidelines: "Let Ruiz warm up."

Valentine turned his head and ran over to yell people from the bench.

"Madrid Pirates' substitute striker, Sanabria Ruiz, was called up from the bench by the assistant coach to warm up. It seems that he intends to replace Hu Lai..." He Feng noticed the situation on the sidelines and told the front of the TV The audience analyzed.

"Hu Lai struggled with cramps in this game. You must know that cramps are very rare for Hou Lai. This shows how intense the Madrid derby is... This game was indeed very intense. The high-intensity physical confrontation between the two sides started from the game. The first minute has continued until now, the Madrid Pirates currently have four yellow cards in the team, and the Kings also have three yellow cards... Fortunately, there have been no red cards in this game so far..."

"At this point in the game, the Pirates are actually getting closer and closer to winning their first victory at the Crown Stadium in the past four years... Counting injury time, the remaining time should not exceed ten minutes. The King of Madrid It is difficult, almost impossible, to score two goals in a row during this period!"

What He Feng said was a little deadly, but no one cared about it.

Because everyone thinks he is right.

Thanks to Hulei, the Pirates now have a two-goal lead.

In other words, the Madrid Pirates have enough "strategic depth."

Even if they failed to defend and conceded a goal in the last few minutes, it would not affect the final result.

Even the King of Madrid players were a little discouraged.

Melly is still looking for opportunities.

It seems that he has no idea that even if he can score a goal, it will not change the result of the King's defeat.

He dribbled the ball on the left and tried to break through, but the ball was poked out of the sideline by Irazusta.

Meli immediately turned to the caddy for the ball.

The home ball boy also understood and quickly threw the football to him.

After receiving the ball, Melli turned around and threw the football into the field~lightnovelpub.net~ But at the same time, the referee's whistle sounded—he signaled Melli to wait a moment before taking the ball out of bounds, because there was another Something happened.

Hu Lai sat down on the ground again, holding his left leg with both hands, with a painful expression on his face.

He has another cramp.

Melly spread her arms and sighed helplessly.

Why can't he see that Hu Lai is deliberately delaying time?

But what's the use of seeing it?

Just like the boos that sounded in the sky at this time, it was deafening, but it couldn't change anything.

The King of Madrid is doomed!

(end of this chapter)

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