Chapter 15: Steward General (1)
At the end of the first half, the Scottish club team came off the pitch with black faces, especially Keswick and Landale. In the past 45 minutes, FC have blown them out of the wing, and the breakthrough is the section where Keswick and Landale are defending. This is actually Gao Yi's command error, Keswick and Landale originally belonged to the nature of playing tickets, it should be after the team locked the win, let them play to enjoy the winning atmosphere, but Gao Yi used them as official players, and also partnered the two together.
But who would have thought that? The other party was able to launch a round of counterattack with the momentum of mourning. After all, when the game restarted, everyone treated them like a piece of meat on the chopping board.
Back in the shed, the club's caddies served cornwater, a slightly sweet drink that contains about six to seven percent carbohydrates, which can be emptied by the stomach in 10 minutes, refueling without causing sharp fluctuations in blood sugar levels.
Everyone was silent, and the loss was certainly a reason, but it was not a sign of physical exertion. The game dragged on until three o'clock, and it was almost four o'clock in the half, and the energy intake at ten o'clock in the morning had already been exhausted.
"In the second half, I didn't have to play with Landale, let's change to other players." Keswick took the initiative.
Gao Yi shook his head. It was as if the two of them were the cause of the first-half defeat, and this is not the way to be friends, and they didn't come to play the last game today. If this game is really lost, Gao Yi would rather blame all the blame on himself.
"We insist. To be honest, Landale and I are almost out of fitness and if we play in the second half, we're definitely going to drag the team down. We thought it was fun and we could easily participate in it, but it was obviously not, it required more effort and sweat, and we were clearly not qualified......"
"I left you on the field because I needed you," Gao Yi saw that the more he said, the more outrageous he became, he began to criticize himself, and hurriedly interrupted him, "We are now 2-1 behind, and we can only attack in the second half, so we need you on the field." You know, when we were building the team, our main focus was to build up the defenders, so we were all physically strong, physically strong. But most of us, as far as I know, with the exception of Jimmy and I, have either played rugby or cricket before, and don't have much experience in football, and are still able to do it defensively through training. But there's so much more to focus on offensively, so I need you and David. I remember you played as a striker at Trinity College, right? ”
"Yes, it's supposed to be a striker, everyone likes a striker, doesn't they? But when I played in the academy, I wasn't the best in a team with six or seven strikers. Keswick replied unconfidently.
"That's enough, you're going to dribble, right? You can pass people, you can shoot, don't you? ”
"Of course, these are basic skills."
"That's fine, as long as you can do that, you're better than most of us."
"David, you're also playing as a striker, right?"
"Yes, but I really can't run at all." Landale replied hoarsely, it seemed that he was really out of strength, and he was almost out of strength to speak.
"So in the second half, you don't have to run at all, I want you to stay in the opponent's big box, you don't even have to move, just stand there. When the ball comes, don't touch it even if it falls at your feet because you're definitely in an offside position. When the other attackers, me, Hal or Jimmy, overtake where you are, you run towards the goal, or move sideways, and then we'll pass the ball back to you, and then you can choose to knock it back to us or just shoot it with your feet. ”
"Then I'd better knock the ball back. However, if the ball can be passed a little higher, I think I can try my header and my header should be pretty good. ”
"Don't worry, I'll definitely give you a good pass when the time comes." Gao Yi glanced at his bald head, which was half bald just after thirty, and said.
"Jimmy, let's work together as usual, whether to pass the ball to Hal or David, it's all up to me, you don't have to worry about it." Gao Yi said to McPherson.
McPherson nodded in understanding.
Then Gao Yi turned to everyone else and said: "Everyone just needs to keep their position in the second half, don't worry too much about the opponent's attack, because in the second half they will take a defensive position, which can be seen from the situation after they took the lead in the first half, they adopted the same tactics of defensive counterattack as us, which is why I want to strengthen the front line." In the second half, my advice to everyone was to be focused, because the other side was likely to take advantage of our lack of attention and make a surprise attack on us. For example, in the first five minutes of the game, or at the end of the game. In fact, we use these tactics a lot, and now we need to prevent them from using them against us. ”
For these players, Gao Yi doesn't need to be polite, nor does he need any verbal encouragement, emotional comfort, etc., just give orders directly. These players receive a fixed allowance of twenty-five dollars per game, and another twenty-five dollars per half if they have the opportunity to play. In other words, after these five games, even the substitutes who have never played can earn 125 yuan, and the main players who have played in the two games can get 375 yuan. It is precisely because of this money that Gao Yi can point to them wherever he wants. Otherwise, in this era when everyone wants to be forward, how can it be so easy to obediently let so many people stay behind to set up an iron bucket formation and play defensive counterattack.
The club spent a full 5,000 oceans on this, and the so-called victories were actually piled up by money. Fortunately, there are two giants standing behind the club, Jardine Matheson and Yesson Shipyard, if you change to a team with no money, Gao Yi can only wash and sleep if he has a way.
Gao Yi is the backbone of this team, and after he made up his mind, the military spirit stabilized, and even Keswick's face looked much better.
However, Gao Yi is far less confident than he looks on the outside, he felt it on the field just now, the FC team has fully studied his own team, and has made targeted layouts, including various off-board moves, and they are even very likely to have developed undercover agents in their own team. Otherwise, it's hard to explain why they were so determined to play Keswick and Landale's side, and didn't make any temptations at all, as if they knew from the beginning that they were a loophole; In addition, when the fight just now, all the injuries of the opponent were the main force in the main force, otherwise Gao Yi would not have sent Casewick and Landale so early, it was precisely because there was a gap in the main players that they would have the opportunity to play first.
If it's a normal game, even if it's a final, if you lose, you lose. But today, there are so many stories happening, there are so many topics to talk about, if you lose again, it will be really embarrassing. It's not so easy to set off the backdrop of someone else's success, especially when it comes to the backdrop of the Austrian Fico who he put down. It's really scary to think about it, this guy can really do anything for the handicap, and he will do everything, if it weren't for his own spicy hand today, it is estimated that he would be the one who is there.
But now, he has no other way to think, the other party has taken the lead, he can only hope that the opponent's physical fitness will really collapse as he expected in the second half, after all, no matter how much he sends spies, it is impossible to learn his training methods. Without reasonable training for physical reserves, without proper diet for nutritional reserves, and without pre-war special supplies for blood sugar reserves, he did not believe that the other party could hold on for another hour. You know, they've been draining their stamina from the beginning of the siege of Blake, including the brawls that followed, including the offense in the first half.
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Gao Yi ran slowly in his own half with the ball, no one came to grab his ball, and the opposing players were on the other side of the halfway. As he expected, the opponent played a defensive counter-attack, or more accurately, only the defense did not counterattack.
Gao Yi stopped the ball on the halfway line for a moment, then knocked the ball forward, and rushed to the opponent's tight defensive formation alone. Both Keswick and Landale have proven to be useless. Keswick couldn't pass the ball at all after he got the ball, he was slow, and although his dribbling skills were not bad, he was out of action when the opponent caught him. As for Landale, his bare brain couldn't even stand on a fly, and the ball used to be like a splash, and he didn't know where it flew when he wiped it, and passed it to him to roll the ball, and he mixed garlic under his feet, and he could knock himself down.
And these two guys, it's okay not to feed them the ball, and they can't let them see that they are treating them like mascots.
However, five minutes ago, Gao Yi had already switched to solo mode, because nearly half of the second half had passed, and there was no time for him to squander at will.
Keswick and McPherson were both raising their hands to ask for the ball, and Gao Yili ignored them. Their role now is to help him contain and take away one or two players from the opposing team, so Gao Yi assigned them the task of stepping forward and pretending to be actively involved in the attack.
Gao Yi stabbed the ball diagonally, then changed the line and accelerated past one of the players, and then grabbed the ball before the two defenders who came over to touch the ball, and then jumped up and jumped out of the crack in the door where the two were about to close, but the next moment another defender had already kicked the ball back into Gao Yi's half of the court with a big kick.
Gao Yi crossed his waist, panting, he looked around, and always felt that something was wrong. Suddenly, he noticed that two of the three players on the opponent's last line of defense were standing there with their waists crossed, gasping for breath, knowing that they had not been involved in the defense at all.
Gao Yi carefully recognized their faces, he knew all these guys, and they had defended him on the front line just two or three minutes ago. Gao Yi turned his gaze to the position a little earlier, and there were also faces he knew, and finally he turned his attention back to his side, remembering the faces of the players who had defended him just now, and saw that the other party's hairs stood on end.
Then Gao Yi attacked twice, until a new batch of faces appeared in front of his eyes-
It's clear that the opponent is playing wheel battles, which is exciting good news, which shows that the opponent's physical strength is indeed about to run out as he expected, even if he needs to rotate in order to cope with the impact of his alone.