Chapter 12: The boy is smart

Today's training is only available in the morning, and the total duration of the training is one and a half hours.

After fifteen minutes of warm-up, the team began to practice attacking routines.

First of all, the assistant coach explained the specific training content to the 11 players who participated in the training.

Chen Mo will hold a magnetic tactical board, use a small chess piece with a magnet to change positions on the board, and tell the players how to run and how to pass.

Then let the players involved in the training go to the field and review the passing route he just talked about without any defense.

Finally, eleven players are called to be the opponent, and when there are defensive players, the attacker is asked to train the offensive routine.

Today's training is all about attacking routines.

There are three routines for everyone to train.

The first is to encourage full-backs to cross, asking players to take advantage of the width of the field to move in time and be good at exploiting the opponent's weak side of the defence.

The second trick is also to encourage full-backs to cross, but the focus is on using space on the flanks to compress the opposition defence in the middle.

The third routine was specially instructed by Zhao Kangming to be modified by Chen Mo. The aim of the training is to encourage players in the middle of the midfield to pull wide to cross, and to encourage strikers to insert the space behind the opposition to receive the through ball, using the space between the opposition midfield and the defence to create usable space.

After the offensive routine training, there is a 45-minute 11-on-11 match, which is divided into three quarters, and each quarter of the game practices a routine.

Generally speaking, the selection of 11 people for offensive routine training may be more or less indicative of which 11 people will be the starters in the next game in the mind of the head coach.

Although it is not 100% certain, the probability is very high, and even if there is an adjustment, it is only a fine-tuning, and the personnel adjustment in one or two positions is unlikely to be a large rotation of eleven people.

After all, the purpose of today's training is to allow the team to conduct routine drills for the opponents in the next game, if they are replaced by another group of people before the game, then what is the point of today's training?

So when the head coach was selected before the start of training, everyone cheered up and hoped that they would be selected.

"Goalkeeper Yu Zhiming, central defenders Li Tielin and Wang Guangwei, left wingback Liu Binwei, right back Zhang Hao ......"

The names of these guys are exactly the same as the starting line-up in the previous game, but the names have changed since the midfield.

"Midfielders Waters, Qin Lin, Leng Jinyu, Ma Wenyi."

Shi Junde was replaced by Qin Lin from the starting lineup, and Leng Jinyu is also likely to return to the starting lineup in this game after playing as a substitute in the last game.

Shi Junde is a midfielder who is good at defense, and Leng Jinyu is stronger in attack than defense. In the last game, Zhao Kangming arranged this because he needed the team to defend the goal away from home and strive to force the Tongqi Eagles. Therefore, in the midfield, it is all players who are good at defense.

But against Kunyang City, if the shining stars want to win, they naturally can't arrange four defensive players in the midfield.

George Waters is one of only two outside players in the Sparkles, who can play in the middle or on the wing, has a good long-range shot, and is generally biased towards attack.

Qin Lin is both offensive and defensive, and is responsible for organizing the offensive while defending, or his main task is to organize the offense. After all, Zhang Qinghuan, who was originally in charge of this task by the team, is still in the detention center......

Leng Jinyu is a midfielder from a winger, fast, good at breaking through, and can cross. You need to step up your attack, and he's going to need to play.

Marven has good strength, can run well, moves fiercely, and is an excellent midfield engineer in defense. He has the same positioning as Shi Junde, but he has stronger sweeping ability than Shi Junde and has more defensive coverage. When there can only be one full-time defensive midfielder, Zhao Kangming will give preference to him over Shi Junde.

This arrangement is reasonable, but Shi Junde is still a little uncomfortable, and when he hears that there is no name for him, he pouts.

Next is the selection of the striker, which is not a suspense.

Although the strikers of the flashing stars are collectively in a variety of long-term and short-term goal droughts, there are only a few people who can have a chance to play, and foreign player Macaulay Murphy, as the team's current top scorer, will definitely play as long as he is not injured.

And his partner is naturally Lai Zekai. No matter how far his goal tally drops this season, he will still start because no one else has done better than him.

In this process, Zhao Kangming has not arranged other strikers to take his place, but the performance of others is not much better than Lai Zekai...... So no matter what, now Lai Zekai is still the team's main striker.

"Forwards, Murphy and Hulai."

Originally, Lai Zekai planned to walk out of the team, but he had just taken one foot and was stunned, because he reacted that the head coach did not call his name!

Instead, Hulai in the team ran out with a smile and walked into the group of people who were going to participate in the training.

Not to mention Lai Zekai, even the other players are incredulous about the head coach's decision.

Hulai has only been in the team for a week, is he about to start?

Isn't that too early?

Others thought of a rumor that Hu Lai and head coach Zhao Kangming were old acquaintances, and at first they thought it was just nonsense, but now they suddenly believe it.

Because the manager did it too obviously......

There are also people who are not surprised, such as Qin Lin and Wang Guangwei.

Wang Guangwei naturally knows Hulai's level very well, and he is naturally not surprised by the head coach's arrangement. Anyway, a few other strikers can't solve the problem, so why not let Hulai try?

Qin Lin was not surprised, because of the first training after coming to Shining Star, he felt that there was something special about this kid named Hu Lai.

Since he can see it, there is no reason why Coach Zhao, who knows Hulai better than himself, can't see it.

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Training soon began, Lai Zekai stood on the sidelines and stared at Hulai on the court, he wanted to see what this kid was capable of, he had only been in the team for a week, and he was about to start......

After looking at it for a moment, he shook his head.

To be honest, in the absence of defense, just letting everyone run on the field as required, he didn't see anything outstanding about Hulai at all. Because there is no need to dodge the defense, there is no need to think about offside, no one interferes with the passing and receiving of the ball, just pass and receive the ball and run according to the coach's requirements, there is no difficulty, and any qualified player can do it.

Oh yes, he's aggressive up front, he's always trying to find space behind the opposition's defense...... But now there are no defenders on the field, the ghost knows if his active forward insertion has long been offside, and the ghost knows if he is really looking for a vacancy behind him?

So what can be seen from this? I can't see anything.

The three offensive routines were quickly trained, followed by a hands-on practice in an eleven-on-eleven match.

Lai Zekai was not selected for the opponent's team, which was exactly what he wanted. He wanted to stay on the pitch and take a good look at how the kid did in the game.

After assistant coach Chen Mo blew the whistle, the teaching game began.

Although it is a teaching game, it is impossible for both players to play according to the previous training routine, both sides have to make changes and adjustments according to the actual situation, as long as the offensive team's routine roughly follows the principle of developing the offense to the side, how to develop, whether to pass the two feet and then divide the side, or to pass to the side a few more times, the coaches don't care.

For example, in this attack, right fullback Zhang Hao took the ball and tried to dribble forward, but was forced by the opposing striker and full-back, and could only pass the football horizontally to Li Tielin, the central defender diagonally behind.

After Li Tielin received the ball, he passed the football diagonally to Ma Wenyi, the back who retreated to receive him. Marvin then passed the football to George Waters, who had recycled into the middle, while right wing-back Zhang Hao began to cut forward.

Waters did not pass the football directly to Zhang Hao, who was inserted forward, because the opponent's defenders reacted immediately, and someone went up and stared at Zhang Hao.

In such a situation, Hulai, who played as a striker in front, did not blindly stop in front and raise his hand to ask for the ball, waiting for his teammates to pass the football to him, but retreated to answer his teammates.

But he didn't run back directly, he ran forward first, drove the defender Zhang Xiaolei who followed him, and made the latter think that he was going to go straight forward, and then suddenly made a sudden stop and turned around and accelerated back to catch Waters.

This suddenly made Zhang Xiaolei, who was defending him, lose his defensive target.

Someone in the audience let out a voice of admiration: "Run beautifully......"

Obviously, everyone saw the cleverness of Hulai's run this time - not everyone will run forward and then retreat when they retreat, and many people will just look back and run to meet their teammates.

The response is the response, that is, the intention is too obvious, and it is easy for the opposing defenders to see through. Even if you retreat, you are followed by defenders, so how can your teammates pass the football to you?

But Hulay was able to deceive defenders by taking two steps forward and then suddenly accelerating his retreat. Seems simple, doesn't it? But such a simple run is not something that everyone can perform in the race. Even many times, the difference between a good player and an average player is in these seemingly simple details of running and handling the ball.

Although the opponent will definitely press back up, this has bought the retreating player a second or two unmarked opportunity, as long as his teammates come in time, he can calmly receive the ball.

Maybe he catches the ball and gets stuck to the opposing defender, but the player who just got the ball can run freely, such as running to the defender. The team's offense may just be alive like this, instead of the player with the ball facing his retreating teammates and defenders coming with him, unable to pass the ball, causing the team's forward offensive to get stuck in this place......

The head coach Zhao Kangming, who was off the field, saw Hu Lai's running position like this, and smiled slightly. This was not taught by him and Chen Mo, this way of running was like a physical instinct for Hu Lai......

After getting rid of Zhang Xiaolei, Hulai hooked his hand at Waters as he retreated, and Waters also passed the ball in time.

When Hu Lai received the ball, he also glanced back at the situation behind him and found that Zhang Xiaolei had pressed back up, so he didn't stop the ball, and directly knocked the football horizontally to Qin Lin, who was inserted.

After passing the ball, Hulai quickly turned around and ran towards the penalty area.

And Zhang Xiaolei can only turn around and return to defense, after all, he is a central defender, if he does not return to defense in time, there will be loopholes in the penalty area.

After Qin Lin adjusted the ball passed to him by Hu Lai, he saw that there was a huge gap on the right side, and Zhang Hao had already raised his speed and sprinted with all his might. Because football developed to the middle before, the attention of the fullbacks who came up to defend him was also attracted to the middle, and when he came to his senses, Zhang Hao had already appeared behind him!

Qin Lin immediately made a long diagonal pass, and the football flew to the empty space outside the penalty area on the right side.

In fact, as Hulay dropped back to receive the ball, another striker, Murphy, began to run into the box, and he ran diagonally to the forward post.

At the same time, Leng Jinyu on the left side of the midfield also stepped forward and pressed into the penalty area.

Their forward press brought the defender's back line back as a whole.

After passing the ball, Qin Lin also ran forward decisively. In addition, including the defenders behind him, as well as Waters and Marvinyi, all pressed forward en masse, covering the space left by the offensive players after they stepped forward.

The tactical requirement of forward pressure coverage is not only to provide support for the team's attack, but also to be able to immediately counter-attack or delay the opponent's counterattack once the ball is conceded.

Zhang Xiaolei, who was quickly returning to the defense, suddenly noticed that Hu Lai had slowed down, and he even stopped when he was about to run to the free throw arc.

Why don't you just rush into the restricted area? Now the middle of the penalty area is empty!

But Zhang Xiaolei didn't bother to think about it carefully, but glanced at Hu Lai and accelerated into the forbidden area. Since this kid took the initiative to give up, he just filled the gap.

Qin Lin, who was inserting the ball in front of him after passing the ball, also noticed Hu Lai's sudden slowdown, and he also just glanced at Hu Lai, ran into the penalty area, left Hu Lai behind, and then resolutely inserted it into the middle and went towards Zhang Xiaolei.

On the right side, Zhang Hao had already received the ball, and he glanced up at the penalty area.

Murphy ran forward aggressively and he took a centre-back with him. In addition, Zhang Xiaolei, who ran to defend Hu Lai just now, also ran back to the penalty area and was quickly settled.

In addition, at the back point, Leng Jinyu was entangled with the opponent's right wingback.

Brother Lin ran in, rushed to the door in one go, and stood up with Zhang Xiaolei, who had just been in place......

When Zhang Hao saw such a situation, he originally wanted to cross directly, and it was difficult to threaten the opponent's goal if he passed the ball out like this.

So he chose to continue to dribble the ball to the opponent's penalty area, so that the opponent's already standing defense was forced to change.

On the defensive side, the left wing-back was returning to defend, but it was too late, and a midfielder who had returned to defence came up to make up for it.

While bringing the football to the opponent's penalty area, Zhang Hao kept looking up to observe.

He found that Hu Lai, who was supposed to have appeared in the penalty area a long time ago, had just run into the penalty area, and when he saw him dribbling the ball to the penalty area, he put his hands in front of him and spread his lower fingers and made a gesture for Zhang Hao to pass the ball to him.

Seeing this, Zhang Hao immediately realized that this was the only spot in the penalty area that had not been targeted by the defender!

So he no longer hesitated, and with an inverted triangle pass, the football was swept into the middle!

At the same time as Zhang Hao passed the ball, Hu Lai suddenly accelerated and sprinted towards the football, shaking off the defending midfielders who were returning behind him.

Completely unmarked, he picked up his right foot against the ball rolling close to the ground.

The ball is here, the feet are here!

Boom!

The defender's goalkeeper, Tang Xin, waved his arm and did not touch the football......

The football has flown into the goal behind him!

"Beautiful!" Someone shouted and applauded from the sidelines.

Qin Lin turned around and raised his hand to Hu Lai, and went up to high-five him: "Run smart!" ”

Hulai smiled: "That's because Ringo helped me withstand their central defender......"

Qin Lin was a little surprised: "You can see it?" ”

Hulai smiled but said nothing.

So Qin Lin also smiled.

Forward partner Macaulay Murphy also gave Huley a thumbs up and said in simple Chinese: "Good shot! ”

Hulay gave him a thumbs up in return.

Off the field, many players who did not participate in the training also praised and applauded Hulai's goal.

Although it was just a goal in training, everyone was not a layman, and as professional players, they could naturally see what Hulay embodied in this goal. Good running, decisive passing, a change of pace after the forward cut, and finally appeared in an unmarked place and shot calmly......

In the process, he has always remained calm, which is even more valuable for young players.

In Qin Lin's eyes, this is the kind of "sense of disobedience" he cared about before, Hu Lai's understanding of the game shown in training is not like a young man who has never played a first-team game......

But it doesn't matter, Qin Lin doesn't care why Hu Lai behaves like this, how can talent be said accurately?

Lai Zekai looked around left and right, smelling a hint of crisis in the applause and cheers of his teammates around him, his brows furrowed, and his expression became solemn.

It was just one of Hulai's performances in training, but it was also just one of many similar performances he had in today's training......

From these training and teaching games, he found that the young man felt very good in front of goal, and he was confident in both running and shooting.

As a striker who has also scored double-digit goals in a single season, he knows exactly what that means.

His poor performance this season actually has a lot to do with the fact that he has lost confidence now.

When a striker doesn't score in a row, no matter how good he is before, his confidence will be gone. To be honest, he is now full of envy and jealousy for the self-confident Hulai......

He suddenly thought of something and turned his gaze to the head coach Zhao Kangming on the sidelines.

When he saw the smile on Zhao Kangming's face, his heart sank.