Chapter XXVI: The Draw

The hardest two days finally passed, and after failing the English test, Zhang Shujie didn't take the remaining subjects seriously, and he didn't know how many points he could get in the end. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info But for him, the results of serious exams and non-serious exams are not much different.

Saturday is the match day, and Yuying Middle School's opponent is Kien Middle School, a team that is not as good as football. An Rong and the players felt that they were lucky, played the fourth game, and finally met a team that was not too strong.

At present, three qualifiers have been played, and Yuying Middle School has won all six points, the same as Shin Kong Middle School, and only ranks second in Group C with a goal difference of less than the opponent. Xingyang Middle School in Group A also finished first in Group A with six points, while Longyi High School in Group B were not so lucky, losing to Enwei No. 4 Middle School in the last round and falling to second in the rankings.

In this game, Yuying Middle School is still an away game, and An Rong has higher requirements for Yan Tao, not only to complete the defensive task, but also to go to the front court when attacking, just like assisting Zhang Shujie in the first two games. Since Zhang Shujie is not there, Yan Tao can also shoot by himself when necessary.

The game is about to start, the players from both sides have entered the field, and the support group of Jien Middle School is extremely high, hoping that the team can use the power of the home field to defeat Yuying Middle School without Zhang Shujie. As the away team's Yuying Middle School, not to be outdone, worked hard to cheer for their team.

An Rong sat in the coach's seat, his face calm, not knowing what he was thinking. Wang Shihan and Zhou Ying exchanged two simple sentences, and then went their separate ways, and Wang Shihan also glanced a few times in the direction of the grandstand where the cheerleaders of Yuying Middle School were located.

Zhang Shujie is hiding in the crowd.

His foot injury has not healed, and the coach has not put him in the squad, not even a substitute for him. Zhang Shujie believes that he has recovered well from his injury, and he dare not say that it must be no problem to play the whole game, but if he persists, he can still play for half an hour. But An Rong still resolutely excluded his name and let him have a good rest.

In An Rong's own words: Jien Middle School is not strong, there is no need to let Zhang Shujie take this risk, even if the team really loses, I don't want to ruin Zhang Shujie's life for such a high school football game.

Wang Shihan knows in his heart that Zhang Shujie is more eager to play than anyone else, and more eager to be able to stand on this court. But An Rong is right, this is just a football game for high school students, and if Zhang Shujie is allowed to play with an injury, it is likely to worsen his injury, which is very likely to affect his future.

Wang Shihan still remembers that when An Rong announced the lineup list, Zhang Shujie heard the kind of surprise that he didn't even enter the bench, and he hoped that An Rong could put him on the bench and play when the team couldn't open the situation, but An Rong didn't agree. No matter how Zhang Shujie pleaded, An Rong always insisted on his opinion. For this reason, he was still a little angry with An Rong.

It's just that he doesn't understand that An Rong's purpose in doing this is to protect him. He is still very young, he still has a long way to go in the future, his future is limitless, and An Rong is unwilling to ruin this teenager's future. Wang Shihan, as a bystander, understood An Rong's intentions, but Zhang Shujie, who was the authority, did not know.

There is another reason, that is, after this round of competition, Yuying Middle School will usher in the most powerful opponent: Xinguang Middle School! Therefore, An Rong will not let Zhang Shujie play at this time.

The referee's whistle brought Wang Shihan's attention back to the court, and the game officially began.

Zhang Shujie sat next to Xiong Kui, he didn't scream like a cheerleader, he just sat quietly on a chair and watched the game, without even a little expression on his face. He used to always say that Li Mu had no passion for watching football, and now he is about to become like this, but a person who is a little depressed, don't expect him to have any rich expressions.

"Zhang Shujie, hello. ”

Suddenly there was another person in the empty seat next to him, and he was greeting him. Zhang Shujie turned his head to look and saw that this person was wearing a black T-shirt, about thirty years old, holding a pen and a notebook in his hand, I don't know what he was doing.

"You are ?......"

The man smiled: "My name is Tang Feng, and I am the text reporter of "Young Youth Cup". The one below is my colleague Gu Hua, a photojournalist. Tang Feng pointed to a man wearing a cap and a camera on the side of the court and introduced it to Zhang Shujie.

"Hello. Zhang Shujie returned the salute.

Tang Feng stretched out his hand, Zhang Shujie also stretched out his hand, and the two shook hands.

"How's your foot hurt? Is it getting better?"

"It's a lot better, but I can't play yet. ”

"See, otherwise you wouldn't be here. ”

Zhang Shujie showed a smile and did not deny it.

Tang Feng was silent for a while, and then said: "My colleague Gu Hua and I used to report on the football team of Xinguang Middle School, and now the editor-in-chief has been sent down to track and report on your team's events alone. ”

"Did you report the whole thing?"

"Yes, the whole story. ”

"So, as long as the content of the last issue of "Youth Cup" is about our school team, you wrote it?"

"Yes. ”

"Reporter Tang, you are too unkind. Even if I can't play, don't make our team too bad, right?"

Tang Feng said with a smile: "Although the content is written in a bit extreme, what I said is also the truth. ”

"Can't you just write a little more obscurely?"

"That's what we do, I hope you understand. ”

Zhang Shujie didn't give a reply, just looked at the court.

Yan Tao had already dribbled the ball across the middle line, made two combinations with his teammates, and when the ball came to his feet, he was already at the top of the arc of the penalty area.

He leaned on the opposing defender, squeezed out a gap, picked up his right leg, and fired a powerful shot into the top left corner of the goal. The goalkeeper of Jien Middle School flew up and made a save, and the ball flew out of the bottom line.

Yan Tao was a little annoyed, this ball has a lot of power, the angle is awkward, he thought that the ball would go in, and he was ready to celebrate, but he didn't expect the opponent's goalkeeper to be like a god at this moment, and he actually saved the ball.

Not to mention Yan Tao, all the players of Yuying Middle School, plus the coach, as well as Zhou Ying and Wang Shihan, thought that this goal would be scored, and even the cheerleaders cheered in advance. But as it turned out, they rejoiced too soon.

Tang Feng said to Zhang Shujie: "You saw it, right? This is the impact of your absence." Yuying Middle School's first threatening shot in the opening game was completed by Yan Tao, a defender. ”

"It didn't go in, but it was of high quality. ”

"If it were you, how sure would you be able to shoot in?"

"I can't make an accurate estimate of what didn't happen. All I can say is that I will do my best to kick the ball in. ”

That's really an ambiguous answer. ”

The players on both sides on the court were still fighting fiercely, and as time passed, Jien Middle School launched several attacks, but they were all resolved by the backline led by Yan Tao. There were two shots on goal, but both were done from outside the box and did not pose a threat to the goal.

The same is true of Yuying Middle School, whether it is Liu Fang or Pan Yongcheng, or Shen Xiaogang, who replaced Zhang Shujie, they cannot break through the opponent's city. Yan Tao was running all over the field, and his shadow could be seen in both defense and offense, but unfortunately Zhang Shujie was not there, and Yan Tao could only return again and again in vain.

Until the end of the first half, the score between the two sides was still 0-0, and the two teams had a total of seven shots on goal, except for Yan Tao's shot that was a bit threatening, the remaining six were either too positive or too off.

During the fifteen-minute halftime break, Zhang Shujie and Tang Feng also chatted without a word in the stands, Xiong Kui wanted to interject a few words, but seeing that the two were chatting so interested, he didn't bother.

"By the way, Zhang Shujie, I have a question I want to ask you. ”

"What's the problem?"

"Why does your team have a manager and a reporter on board?"

Zhang Shujie was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "You mean Zhou Ying and Wang Shihan, right?"

Tang Feng smiled: "Yes, it's the two of them." Manager, I know what he does, but what about Wang Shihan? What's going on?"

"She took a photo shoot for our team, which was then handed over to the school's press corps and published in the school newspaper. As you know, although the Youth Cup will cover the high school football league, not every student will buy the magazine, so the school newspaper is important for these students. ”

"That's right...... I'll understand when you say that. ”

Zhang Shujie nodded and said, "Yes." Didn't you say that you first reported on Shin Kong Middle School? They have a manager and an accompanying reporter on their varsity team, don't you know?"

This time it was Tang Feng's turn to be stunned: "I have reported two games of Xinguang Middle School, but I only saw one manager, and I didn't see any 'accompanying reporters'." ”

Zhang Shujie is a little strange, the unique position of "accompanying reporter" is still a method that Li Mu came up with for Yuying Middle School according to the team of Xinguang Middle School, so that Wang Shihan and Zhou Ying, the best friends, will not be separated. But why did Tang Feng say that he hadn't seen the accompanying reporters at Xinguang Middle School?

Tang Feng asked, "You can't be mistaken, right?"

At this time, Zhang Shujie smiled again: "I know what the reason is." This 'team reporter' doesn't necessarily follow the team every game, and if he has something important, he can't use it. The two games you covered may have happened to meet the accompanying reporters of Shin Kong Middle School who couldn't come because they couldn't come, so they didn't see it. ”

Tang Feng smiled and shook his head: "I didn't expect that there are such special rules in high school football now." ”

"The rules are set by people, as long as they don't violate the rules of the game, it doesn't matter how they change. ”

Fifteen minutes quickly passed in the conversation between the two, and the second half began. In this game that lacks ace scorers, there is not destined to be much excitement.

At the beginning of the second half, they launched a fierce attack, with three shots in just ten minutes, the first shot was too high to shoot a satellite in outer space, the second shot was too far off, the ball flew to the corner flag, and the third shot was stopped by Yan Tao halfway.

Seeing that the team was a little passive, An Rong also made some adjustments to the formation, from 4-4-1-1 to 4-4-2, with a diamond position in the midfield, and also used up a substitution. This trick really worked, and in the next ten minutes, Yuying Middle School also bombarded the goal of Zhuen Middle School in the outside of the penalty area with color, but not a single shell hit the target.

It was a hard time for the cheerleaders on both sides, who tore their throats to cheer on their respective teams, and some of them shouted hoarsely, but the scoreboard score was still not rewritten. In those 25 minutes, both teams had nine shots on goal, an average of one shot on goal in less than three minutes, but it could not be converted into a goal after all.

Zhang Shujie sighed silently in his heart, looked over to the bench, and saw Wang Shihan looking in his direction, because they were too far apart, they couldn't see the look on each other's faces clearly. After a while, Wang Shihan turned his head back.

Zhou Ying asked her, "Are you okay?"

Wang Shihan shook his head: "If Zhang Shujie was present, the attack just now would probably have scored, right?"

Zhou Ying glanced at An Rong before saying, "It's okay, the coach said, let Zhang Shujie rest for another week to avoid aggravating his injury." ”

"How could I not know the coach's good intentions for him? I'm just afraid that he doesn't understand. ”

"Okay, don't think about it that much. He's not stupid, even if he doesn't understand it now, he will understand it later. He's not here in this game, so it's a big deal that we end in a draw. ”

Everything was just like what Zhou Ying said, the two teams played against each other for nearly half an hour, but they failed to score, and gradually their morale disappeared. In the last few seconds of injury time, Yan Tao destroyed the ball with a big foot in the penalty area, and as soon as the ball landed, the referee blew the whistle.

At the end of the match, the final score of both sides was shown to be 0:0.

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