Chapter 61: Seeing Hope
When the first half finally ended under the referee's whistle, the players of the Shenzhen team walked off the field with their heads down, with confusion and frustration on their faces, as well as a hint of relief. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
This kind of negative expression was the same even on the faces of Yan Feng and Lin Fan, the two people who had always been the most combative. It's hard to imagine.
In fact, the period from the time the goal was conceded to the end of the first half was an ordeal for the players of the Shenzhen team. A kind of pre-boiling with no hope in sight.
The goal conceded in the first 40 minutes of the first half sent Shenzhen's morale to the bottom. It's all about defending, and it's even going to concede goals. It's just a matter of conceding a goal, the problem is that the Yanbian team has always maintained a fast pace, and the pressing style of play without considering physical strength has not changed throughout the first half. Who can stand this?
After conceding the goal, the Shenzhen team, which had lost its spirit and morale, could not organize a decent defense at all. It's worse than defending before conceding a goal. It's like a man who has been knocked to the ground, allowing his opponent to sit on him and throw punches at will, but he doesn't know how to fight back.
In this case, it is useless to let Yan Feng and Lin Fan work hard and desperately defend in the position of the back waist. In the end, they could only watch the Yanbian team continue to bombard the Shenzhen team's goal from all directions.
If it weren't for the home goalposts, two goals were blocked. Then in the first half, the Shenzhen team will concede three goals in a row in just ten minutes, and then it will be completely desperate.
Although the Shenzhen team is lucky to have escaped the catastrophe, the hopeless game has made the players desperate from the heart.
In the locker room, Li Yi looked at the dejected appearance of the players, and felt helpless for a while, but there was no expression on the surface. When he saw Lian Yan Feng and Lin Fan, the two players who had the most fighting spirit in the past games and would never admit defeat easily, he also lowered his head and looked disappointed at this moment, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Park Tae-ha, this opponent is really not simple. A relegated team was stunned to become a super-squad.
In the mid-to-late 90s, Park Tae-ha was the main player of the South Korean team, and his Korean team never lost to the Chinese team once. It can be said that 'Koreanophobia' began during that period.
Now Park Tae-ha has become the head coach of the Yanbian team, with a group of Korean players, playing in a Korean-style style. Does he want to bring another 'Koreanophobia' to Chinese football?
Li Yi thought about his opponent, the playing style of the Yanbian team, and then the strength of the Shenzhen team, and he also felt a sense of powerlessness in this situation at this time.
Although he feels powerless, as a coach of a team, anyone can despair, but he can't.
He can't despair, he has to find a way to find hope. And where is the hope?
He knew from the beginning that with the current strength of the Shenzhen team, facing the imposing Yanbian team, he was not an opponent at all, as long as he could prevent it, it would already be a victory. The problem is that now we can't defend it, we are already behind, and if we want to keep a point, we have to launch more attacks. However, today's Shenzhen team does not have the capital to fight against the Yanbian team at all. If you continue to defend, you will definitely die, and if you attack it, you will die even worse.
Can you really only admit defeat?
The Yanbian team is not invincible, and there must be hope, but where will it be?
Li Yi kept cheering himself up, his eyes scanning back and forth over the players. When his eyes subconsciously stayed on Yan Feng and Lin Fan, a spiritual light flashed in his mind.
Li Yi's biggest discovery and hope this season lies in these two people. Lin Fan, with comprehensive skills and a good view of the overall situation, and Yan Feng has an extraordinary body and strong sweeping power. One offense and one defense, it is a tacit and complementary strong combination. At the same time, they all have one thing in common, which is that they are super fast. In the current Chinese League, Li Yi has not found any players who are faster than these two.
That's right, that's the only advantage of the Shenzhen team. There are no super-fast players in the Yanbian team, and no one can catch up with Yan Feng and Lin Fan. That's the only thing you can take advantage of.
Li Yi finally sorted out his thoughts, and a determined expression appeared on his face. He clapped his hands to draw the players' attention.
'Heads up, I don't think I need to say more, have we experienced less of this first-half deficit this season? I can't even remember how many times I've said the same thing in the dressing room. ”
Well, yes, haven't we experienced that very little? The players were thoughtful. If it weren't for the fact that they didn't feel hopeful today, they wouldn't have been so discouraged.
"Falling behind in the first half, chasing back or even overtaking in the second half, I think you must remember it many times, right?"
Yes, this kind of thing has happened many times. There seems to be some hope in the players.
"I know that the rhythm of the Yanbian team today made you very uncomfortable and made you feel powerless. Isn't it?" Li Yi looked around at the players, saw that the players nodded, and continued. "But is this kind of Yanbian team invincible? I think, absolutely not. ”
"Last season, they were still relegated, and the Sun Springs team couldn't be registered, so they were lucky to stay in the Central League. Don't look at them as the leaders now, they seem to have become very strong. ”
"Yes, they've really gotten stronger this year and they've been unbeaten until now. But by no means invincible. They just changed the Korean coach and changed the Korean style of play, but the people are still those people, and there is no essential change. We were able to defeat these people last year, but will we definitely not be able to defeat them this year?"
"That's right, they're still these people, but with a different coach, no matter how powerful the coach is, they can't make them all supergods. They weren't as scary as we thought, and we definitely hope to beat them. Captain Wang Dong also encouraged everyone in a timely manner.
"Your captain is right, they have nothing to fear. They can keep this rhythm for half the game, even 50 minutes, 60 minutes, but can they keep it for 70 or 80 minutes? That's absolutely impossible. Li Yi is still very happy that Wang Dong can come out at the right time to boost morale.
"yes. "That's right. "We still have hope. ”~~~
The players finally regained some confidence and shook off their fear of the Yanbian team. What people are most afraid of is not seeing hope, not how strong the opponent is.
"And we have the advantage that they don't have, which is that we have two super fast players. Li Yi said and looked at Yan Feng and Lin Fan who were sitting together.
Yan Feng and Lin Fan had already regained their confidence when Li Yi boosted their morale, and at this time, facing the emperor's gaze, their eyes were burning with a raging fighting spirit.
"In the second half, we have to make good use of the speed of Yan Feng and Lin Fan and resolutely play defensive counterattacks. Next, we're going to arrange it like this''''''"
After the encouragement and rearrangement of the halftime, the Shenzhen team, which had slightly recovered its morale, was finally no longer depressed. When they re-entered the court, they also had a little more fighting spirit on their faces.
In the second half, the Shenzhen team completely set up a bus, and the defensive formation was more dense than in the first half. The position of Fei Yu in the front waist moved back, and formed a midfield iron triangle with Yan Feng and Lin Fan's waists no more than ten meters apart. The two front wing-backs have also been moved back sharply, forming the wings of a central triangle. And only Wang Zihua was left in front of him.
"What is the Shenzhen team doing? They are all behind, and they are even putting up a bus?" Park Taixia, the head coach of the Yanbian team, felt a little unbelievable when he saw the Shenzhen team put on such a dense defensive formation in the second half.
He originally thought that the backward Shenzhen team would definitely attack in the second half, because if the backward side did not want to make progress, it would definitely lose. As long as the Shenzhen team attacks, then the Yanbian team will have more opportunities, and at the same time, they will no longer have to maintain the high intensity and high rhythm of the first half. After all, it is impossible to maintain that style of play for too long, and if it is like this all the time, it will soon be able to drag you through the decline in physical fitness.
Unexpectedly, in the second half, the Shenzhen team not only did not attack, but also put five players in the midfield to defend, what is this trying to do? This made Park Tae-ha have no clue for a while, he really couldn't figure out what Li Yi wanted to do.
The Yanbian players on the pitch felt even more incomprehensible. They continued to play in the first half, but they soon found that they couldn't attack in the face of a much more dense defence than in the first half. There is a feeling that a dog bites a hedgehog and has nowhere to put its mouth.
Because the formation of the Shenzhen team is more dense, so many troops are invested in the small space, which greatly compresses the Yanbian team's space for display. The space is smaller, and it is not so easy to run and pass. Coupled with the crazy strangulation of five Shenzhen team players in the middle court, the Shenzhen team's defense became very solid for a while, but the Yanbian team's attack could not be used.
Without space, the Yanbian team's running and fast pace can't play. Slowly, the pace began to slow down. As soon as the rhythm slowed down, Yan Feng's sweeping power came into play, and he began to be able to easily foul the foul, and he was also able to destroy the ball.
In the 55th minute, Yan Feng finally successfully broke the ball from the feet of Yanbian team defender Steve.
Yan Feng immediately gave the ball to Lin Fan, and after Lin Fan received the ball, he faced Li Hao, a player of the Yanbian team who had been forced in time, and deducted it very calmly.
After deducting Li Hao, he kept in mind Lin Fan, who Li Yi instructed at halftime, and insisted on advancing with the ball. And the faster it goes, the faster it goes, and it quickly raises the speed. In the face of another Yanbian player who came to defend him, he easily slammed it with a change of direction, and then continued to press forward firmly.
The players of the Yanbian team did not expect Lin Fan to break through with the ball by himself, and he broke through so resolutely and quickly. For a while, there was a bit of confusion in the defensive formation.
Taking advantage of this short-term chaos, Lin Fan actually rushed through the center circle with the ball himself, and then buckled the defense of the back of the Yanbian team.
When Lin Fan used his speed to connect the three people and rushed to the front, the back line of the Yanbian team finally stabilized. In this case, Lin Fan did not continue to rush forward, but suddenly shot from a distance before the defenders came over.
"Bang!" the ball flew out like a cannonball, shooting straight towards the Yanbian team's goal.
This long-range shot was very sudden, powerful and fast, which surprised the backfield players of the Yanbian team. When Yanbian goalkeeper Yin Guang reacted, the ball had already flown into sight.
It's a pity that the ball still shot a little right, Yin Guang couldn't catch it for the first time, and the ball was out of his hand. Unfortunately, there were no players from the Shenzhen team in the penalty area at this time, and the ball was quickly pressed into Yin Guang's arms.
"Oh, I almost got in, alas. Lin Fan hugged his head and regretted.
"It's okay, Lin Fan, there is still a chance, you will definitely be able to enter next time. After running back to the midfield, Yan Feng came over to comfort Lin Fan.
Although this goal was not scored, it also shocked the Yanbian team in a cold sweat. But more importantly, this goal made the players of the Shenzhen team see hope, the hope of scoring goals, and the hope of recovering the score. If there is hope, there will be fighting spirit, and with fighting spirit, there will be combat effectiveness!