Chongwen School's football tactics are characterized by a variety of skillful passing and cutting combinations, which are based on the fact that every player involved knows what they should do and when in the system, and how to do it.

For example, when should you choose a more conservative horizontal pass and return pass, and when should you choose a risky straight stopper?

When should you go up to pick up your teammates, and when should you open up space horizontally?

This kind of tactical requirements are actually very demanding for high school teams, and there are very few teams that can do it. This is related to the fact that Chongwen Middle School has sent many players to the echelon of professional teams before the national competition, so that Chongwen Middle School will move closer to the requirements of professional teams in terms of training, which in turn has made Chongwen Middle School a well-known football school in the country.

In the past, when Chongwen Middle School faced other opponents, because of its superior strength, it was natural to stay sober and calm at all times, and calmly use passing and running to mobilize opponents. They are always in the ascendant position, and the opposition is embarrassed by their passing.

When the opponent loses his mind, they can calmly reap goals and wins.

In turn, there are not many teams that can make a mess of their own and lose their minds.

Even in the final of the last national competition, when Chongwen Middle School and Shuguang High School competed for the championship, they never did this. At that time, Chongwen Middle School was fighting with Shuguang High School with their best passing and possession, and they still maintained basic tactical discipline until they lost the game.

The only time they were so uncomfortable in the competition was back in the first round of the last national competition, when they were against Dawning High School. Chongwen Middle School, which is proud of the defending champion, was caught off guard by Chen Xingyi as soon as it came up, panicked after losing the ball first, and then wanted to be nervous but made himself at a loss.

In the end, they lost to Chen Xingyi in the chaos, and they were also eliminated by Shuguang High School, which participated in the national competition for the first time.

However, at that time, Chen Xingyi relied on his superhuman performance and hard power to plunge Chongwen Middle School into chaos. Even if he is eliminated from the competition, when the players of Chongwen Middle School talk about Chen Xingyi, they will feel in their hearts that this kid is qualified to be the opponent of our Chongwen Middle School, and some of them admire and cherish this powerful opponent.

And Hu Lai used his "despicable and shameless" to make the Chongwen Middle School players angry. It is estimated that this game is over, and if Chongwen Middle School is really eliminated, then all the players and supporters of Chongwen Middle School will only grit their teeth when it comes to Hu Lai, eager to eat his flesh raw. It is simply impossible to have any good reviews for Hulai, who defeated them.

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Chongwen Middle School, which has lost its coolness, is not easy to play the cumbersome passing and cutting runs that they are good at, and then use the pass to pull out the gap and send the football over.

On several occasions, it was clear that there was a chance, but the Chongwen Middle School players on the field did not continue to pass the ball, but chose a simpler and rougher style of play that was obviously not in line with their habits. For example, a long-range shot with your feet or a high cross from the wing.

Off the pitch, Xu was very unhappy with the players' performance, and he kept roaring on the sidelines, waving his arms and using exaggerated body movements to express his anger.

But that won't help.

He can only and must make adjustments with substitutions. When Zhang Lijie warmed up and came back, he immediately pushed him to the sidelines and replaced him.

In addition to Zhang Lijie, he also used up all three substitutions in one go, replacing players who were obviously out of control and couldn't be adjusted back, and he could still stay sober with his brain.

Through this operation, with less than ten minutes left in the game, the whole team of Chongwen Middle School finally gradually returned to normal, and they also had a certain immunity to Hu Lai's deliberate provocation.

However, Li Ziqiang also made his adjustment at this time, he replaced more midfielders and defenders, and let the overall formation retreat, no longer maintaining a high position to compress the midfield space as before, but choosing to compress the space near the penalty area, so that the players of Chongwen Middle School did not get too many opportunities when they were desperate to attack.

At this time, Li Ziqiang drove the bus from the midfield to his goal and blocked it tightly.

As for Hulai.

It is difficult for him to directly cut off the ball of Chongwen Middle School players in defense, and his physical condition does not allow him to use his body to interfere with the opposing player's ball, so he can only waste some time when the ball is in the hands of Dongchuan Middle School.

That's the only contribution he can make as a defender.

In the last few minutes of the game, Chongwen Middle School pressed all the way and bombarded the goal of Dongchuan Middle School.

The players of Dongchuan Middle School are all recycled to the 30-meter area, if the ball is transferred to their feet, then a big foot to the front court sideline, strive to be able to kick the football out of the sideline, and would rather give the opponent a backcourt throw-in, and never let Chongwen Middle School get the frontcourt throw-in.

Substitutes on both sides nervously got up from the bench, stood up, and looked anxiously at the pitch.

The two managers were also standing on the sidelines, staring in the same direction.

After all, Dongchuan Middle School only has a one-goal lead, and Chongwen Middle School can boost morale as long as it can score a goal and equalize. That way, even if the game is dragged into a penalty shootout, they will have the advantage.

After all, excluding that stupid mistake, Marin himself is a good goalkeeper and has good penalty saving skills.

At the end of the game, even Marin, the goalkeeper, went to the front court and participated in the team's attack - he did not rush directly to the goal of Dongchuan Middle School at the beginning, but crossed the middle line to participate in the team's passing organization, so that the central defender could directly press into the penalty area of Dongchuan Middle School as a center, and then let his midfield teammates also go forward and continue to maintain pressure.

But this had little effect, and he ended up simply in the penalty area, using his height and header to play as a central striker.

Not to mention, it really made him fight for the top once.

When he threw the football towards the goal, the football was firmly held by Meng Xi's hands, and he didn't even give a corner kick to Chongwen Middle School.

After Meng Xi got the ball, he saw that the opponent's goalkeeper almost rushed to him, and the goal behind him must have been blank, so he didn't lie on the ground with the football for a while, wasting time, but directly kicked the football towards the goal of Chongwen Middle School.

Marin is also a goalkeeper, of course he knows what Meng Xi is going to do, let him turn around and run back, it will definitely be too late, there is only one solution at this time, that is, to simply stop Meng Xi from kicking the football out!

So he also learned from Hu Lai, and reached out and pulled Meng Xi, who was about to release the ball, causing the latter to fail to kick this big kick.

The referee's whistle then sounded, blowing for a foul on Marin.

Marin didn't argue for himself in front of the referee, nor did he shake his head in frustration, and after the foul he turned and ran - he was afraid that Dongchuan Middle School would get another free kick and send it soon......

Having seen Hulai's despicability, he now had to speculate on his opponent with the greatest malice.

Seeing the embarrassed figure of Marin running all the way back with his head buried in his head, the narrator sighed: "Marin, who is in his third year of high school this year, this is his last national competition in high school, and it is his last chance to win back the national championship for Chongwen Middle School." He was not a member of this team when he won the national championship at Chongwen High School, and when he sat in the position of the main goalkeeper of the defending champion as a freshman player, he never expected to suffer a heavy blow in his first national competition and be eliminated in the first round...... After learning from the pain, he led the team to make a comeback and reached the final, but lost to his old rivals Shuguang High School and Chen Xingyi in the final......"

Although the game is not over yet, when the supporters of Chongwen Middle School in front of the TV heard that the commentator had begun to look back on Marin's high school football career in this way, they had a very bad feeling - maybe this national football powerhouse will not even make it to the final this time......

When Marin finally ran back to his goal, even though he didn't even catch his breath, he tried to put on a defensive posture and prepared to deal with a free kick from Dongchuan Middle School.

He thinks that the goalkeeper at Dongchuan Middle School will definitely kick the football with a big kick, and even if he can't get in, he can try to waste a little more time.

After receiving the ball, you have to push the ball to the front court again and continue to organize the attack.

But he didn't wait for the football, but for the referee's three whistles.

The three whistles weren't even noticeable in the midst of the pitch's loud noise, and when the first whistle blew was muffled by Marin's own heavy gasps, he didn't hear them at all.

The second whistle drowned out the sound of the stands.

It wasn't until the third whistle that Marin heard it, and through the referee's gesture, he understood the meaning of the whistle.

The competition is over, and the runner-up of the last national competition has lost in the semi-finals this time.

But they didn't have to pack up and go home the next day, because there was still a third- or fourth-place final to play.

It's just that the dream of a national championship is completely out of their reach.

The captain of Chongwen Middle School panted and looked at the cheering Dongchuan Middle School players in the front court, his eyes blank.

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"Okay, the final opponent is out." Chen Xingyi patted his thigh and stood up from his seat, "It's time to go back." ”

Sun Yonggang noticed that Chen Xingyi had an obvious smile on his face when he said this, so he asked curiously: "You seem to want Dongchuan Middle School to enter the finals?" ”

"That's right, the last final was played by Chongwen Middle School, and I really don't want to see them again this year, especially I don't want to see Marin's face. Aesthetic fatigue. How nice is it to change to an opponent you have never met before this year? ”

Chen Xingyi said as he walked down the stairs and towards the outside of the stadium.

Sun Yonggang beckoned the photographer to hurry up, but he stood at the top of the steps and set his eyes on the court.

The substitutes from Higashikawa Middle School have already stormed the pitch and are celebrating wildly.

And Hulai, who did well in this game, is hugging his teammates, hooking shoulders and bouncing.

Although the distance was a little far, it was impossible to see the expression on his face clearly.

But Sun Yonggang believed that the boy must be smiling happily at this moment.

So he laughed happily, and then looked down at his feet, and walked down the steps step by step.

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There were already people in the stands who had left the stadium, but Dai Zetao was still sitting in his place, putting an open notebook on his lap and writing on it with a ballpoint pen:

“…… Although Hulai is not physically superior, he is very good at playing with his head. He will carefully observe the performance of his opponent in the game and not miss every detail that can be exploited. Sometimes, in order to win and score goals, they will do whatever the rules allow. ”

Writing this, Dai Zetao put down his pen and looked up at the court again.

Players from both sides were already lining up to shake hands with each other.

Although he was far away and couldn't see the facial expressions of the players, he could still see that the players at Chongwen Middle School still had a lot of grudges against Hu Lai.

Evidence?

Almost every Chongwen Middle School player who shook hands with Hu Lai would turn his face away, not looking at the handshake object in front of him at all, and the handshake action was also very perfunctory, basically retracting Hu Lai's hand immediately when it touched it.

He'd heard the saying "lose and lose", but does this count as "win and lose"?

Dai Zetao shook his head, how can this kind of performance be regarded as a "loser"? I'm afraid that only the players and supporters of Chongwen Middle School will think so.

And everyone else, as long as they watched this game, will think that Hulai is the best player of this game and the winner of the Dongchuan Middle School football team.

Thinking of this, Dai Zetao lowered his head and picked up the pen and continued to write in the notebook:

“…… Although he is only in his second year of high school, he has surprisingly rich experience in the competition, and his understanding of the competition completely exceeds that of his peers. I think the physicality can be trained, and the football skills can be trained, but this understanding of the game and the intelligence of the mind are very difficult to develop, and that, along with the ability to run off the ball, constitutes his best football talent. ”