Born in 1956, Duff Jones was not a successful professional footballer, and at the peak of his youth, he only played in England's Under-21 youth team, and even played in the Hong Kong league in the following years.

After retiring from the sport in 1987, Duff Jones began his coaching career with no starting point as an assistant coach in the lower leagues, but it went well along the way, and it took him a decade to become a Premier League manager, coaching Southampton, who were relegated at the time.

In the end, Southampton were relegated and he had to find a coaching job in Cardiff City in the second division.

After taking charge of Cardiff City, Duff Jones has been doing a good job, and Cardiff City have been stable in the middle of the Championship, which is quite remarkable, after all, just a few years ago, they were only a League One team.

Jones led Cardiff City to the FA Cup final and his tenure was a success.

Jones is not satisfied with the success of reaching the final, he hopes to beat Newcastle United and lead the team to the FA Cup.

The current situation is not promising.

Jones did a lot of preparation for the game, and after the FA Cup semi-finals, he and his assistant coach began to study Newcastle United, watching more than a dozen games just by watching the game video, and they can say that they know a little about every player in the Newcastle United squad.

These preparations are all about giving Cardiff City a better chance of beating Newcastle United.

Now he finds that his preparation is still insufficient.

Zhen Shaolong!

If you want to beat Newcastle United, you have to face the player, Zhen Shaolong is really good, scoring 60 goals in the Premier League, breaking the record of I don't know how many goals, and in just one season, he has become recognized as a world-class top star.

This speed of rise is enough to prove how difficult it is.

Jones had a certain psychological preparation, but he still didn't expect that the opponent would play so well, it took only ten minutes to break through the gate of Cardiff City twice, relying entirely on personal ability, Newcastle United other players, just passed the ball to him, and there was no subtle cooperation, the football passed to the corner of the penalty area, but there was no difficulty, but the opponent could score directly.

If you go into one, you can say that you can play well temporarily.

What about two?

Two consecutive balls, both in the same position, are enough to prove that the opponent is certain to shoot in this position.

How can such a talented shooter defend?

"No way!"

Jones was quick to conclude.

If the opponent is in that position and finds an opportunity to score the ball, it is impossible for any team to defend it, but he doesn't believe that he will not be able to defend it, so he thinks about it carefully.

While Newcastle United were celebrating, Jones called in a player - Wittingham.

"You don't have to participate in the attack, just work with Phil to limit him (Zhen Shaolong)!"

"Always by his side!"

"Don't let him shoot in any possible threat! Do you understand? You saw those two balls just now? What is impossible for others may be possible for him......"

Jones said a lot, and Wittingham nodded in understanding.

By the time Wittingham was back on the pitch, the game was about to start again.

Jones watched the game with some helplessness.

In order to defend a player against the opponent, sacrificing a midfielder is already a loss, because it is impossible to completely limit the opponent, and sacrificing another midfielder, Cardiff City is equivalent to one less player, even if it is to defend the opponent, it is not worth the loss.

There is no way around the current situation.

Cardiff City are unlikely to win games if they are allowed to play at will, and it is still possible to play with one man less, but with one less man in midfield, it will be even more difficult for them to score.

"What else can be done? I can only hope that the performance in the front court is better! ”

Jones thought helplessly.

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Jones's solution was actually to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, and since one person could not defend the other, then send two people to defend together.

There's no way around it.

Cardiff City's quality is already poor, and it is almost impossible to play an advantage at the expense of a player to defend only.

The same is true of the situation on the field.

After the resumption of the game, Newcastle United found that the midfield scramble easily gained an advantage, because the opposition invested a small number of people, and they played more and less for a long time.

After controlling the midfield, it is easier to get the ball up front.

Newcastle United's two successive attacks have found the Cardiff City penalty area, and on another occasion, Owen almost scored for Newcastle United with a header from the centre of the box.

Meantime.

Zhen Shaolong is very restricted, as long as he approaches the penalty area, there will be two players coming to defend, one is McPhail just now, Zhen Shaolong already knows his name, and the other looks tall and strong, and his physical fitness is definitely very good.

With such a strong defense, Zhen Shaolong's passing routes were all cut off, and it was difficult to receive the ball in the front court.

Under normal circumstances, seeing the opponent defending himself with two players, Zhen Shaolong simply stood in place and let the opponent follow all the time, anyway, the opponent has one less player, they have the advantage of strength, play more and play less, plus a two-goal lead, it is difficult to lose the game.

But the task does not allow it!

If you want to open up a five-goal gap, relying on your teammates alone is too risky.

Zhen Shaolong thinks that it would be good to have a chance of five percent!

It's not that he doesn't trust his teammates, but it's really difficult to score goals in the game, even if the opponent has one less person, they also have a strength advantage, but the opponent is not an amateur team, the difference in strength is not so big, if the opponent has hard work, maybe he can score in turn.

Zhen Shaolong didn't want to put the possibility of completing the task and bet on the performance of his teammates.

So he's always on the move, and no matter what, he has to find opportunities to use up his temporary skills, and as long as he can score five goals, he has a good chance of completing the task.

Soon he found it.

Newcastle United dominated most of the game, attacking more and posing a greater threat to the goal.

In the 17th minute of the game, Enzobia crossed the ball from the left side, allowing Barton in front of the penalty area to find an opportunity.

Newcastle United won a corner.

Zhen Shaolong's favorite is the corner kick, because the corner kick is easy to cooperate with the activation of "Must Kill", and now he likes the corner kick even more, because the name of the temporary skill is "Must Kill (Top)".

Cardiff City had a lot of players crammed into the box and ready to take the corner seriously.

Zhen Shaolong stood at the front point as usual, and the two defenders next to him sandwiched him one in front of the other, although there was no direct physical contact, but because of his height, the possibility of him wanting to fight for the point was too low.

Zhen Shaolong didn't want to fight normally at all, he gestured towards Enzobia.

Enzobia and Zhen Shaolong still have a tacit understanding, he saw Zhen Shaolong's gesture and immediately understood what to do next.

When the referee signaled that the ball was ready, N'Zogbia stepped back normally, then trotted forward, swung his left foot high, and then dropped lightly and pushed the ball forward along the baseline.

The football man's baseline rolls forward quickly.

"Look at this ball!" The match commentator shouted, he thought that N'Zogbia would serve normally, but he didn't expect to see such a scene.

It's hard to understand.

There are almost no teams that take corners and kick the ball along the baseline towards the goal.

Because there is no point.

Even if it is a tactical corner, it should normally be passed to a teammate, and the direction of the teammate is often to stand on the periphery, and the direction of the football roll should also be diagonally backward.

This kind of direct kicking of the ball along the bottom line is probably only seen by Newcastle United.

The narrator reacted immediately!

He hadn't seen a similar approach on the spot before, but it didn't prevent him from seeing Newcastle United's corner kick combination, and their ultimate goal was to pass the ball to Zhen Shaolong.

Really!

After the instantaneous reaction, a figure appeared on the screen, Zhen Shaolong ran quickly along the bottom line, because the two defenders didn't realize it, the reaction was naturally slower, Zhen Shaolong rushed past the defenders in front of him, one accelerated and threw off the other party, and the football just rolled over.

When many people didn't know what would happen, Zhen Shaolong had already completed the turn on the spot, and kicked his right foot behind the ball fiercely.

"Bang!"

A loud sound rang out, and the ball slammed up from the grass and flew quickly towards the goal with an arc.

The football does not fly high.

Mike Field, who was behind Zhen Shaolong, wanted to clear the siege, but he didn't react at all, and the football rushed over.

Then there is goalkeeper Enkelman.

N'Coleman also noticed the ball, and he raised his hands to slap it out, but he didn't touch it by a fraction of a second.

The same goes for others.

To the stunned gaze of many, the ball cut through a series of defences, spinning at breakneck speed, clinging to the right post and diving headlong into the far corner of the goal.

"Hula......"

The stadium burst into flames.

It was a brilliant goal that ignited the enthusiasm of all the fans, and everyone was cheering for the goal, even the Welsh fans, who couldn't help but applaud it, not to support each other, but for the wonderful goal in front of them.

Football knows no borders.

The goal in front of you deserves to be admired by anyone!

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"Ball, again ......"

The game commentator wanted to let out a loud roar, he took a breath to show his excitement, but in the end he didn't say it, because no matter how wonderful the goal was, it was Zhen Shaolong's goal.

In just 18 minutes, Zhen Shaolong completed three goals.

What is there to excite about?

No matter how difficult it is to score a goal, no matter how tricky the angle is, no matter how great the strength is, because the goal belongs to Zhen Shaolong, it seems to be normal.

The commentator began to feel sad for Cardiff City, "Another wonderful goal, Zhen Shaolong has scored three goals, and it is less than 20 minutes to ......"

'Now Cardiff City shouldn't be thinking about how they can beat Newcastle United, they should be thinking about how they can get out of Wembley Stadium. Because a game is hit too hard, maybe it will affect their performance next season......"

on the field.

Cardiff City will be affected next season for the time being, but it is Enzobia who will be the first to show an impact.

N'Zogbia didn't know why Zhen Shaolong wanted the ball, or how he hit the ball into the goal, but after he saw this goal, his first reaction was not how good Zhen Shaolong's performance was, but ......

"You can kick with that much force, you can kick so accurately, wouldn't it be better to shoot straight at the corner flagstick?"

No doubt.

For a shot from a zero angle, it's easier to score from a distance, because the ball doesn't have to throw too big an arc.

This question made Zhen Shaolong a little confused, and he immediately reacted with an unfathomable face, "It's very simple, because ......"

"I want you to get one more assist!"

"If I had scored a corner, the assist would have been Barton's, or no one had assisted......

"Now, of course the assist is yours!"

Enzobia immediately hugged Zhen Shaolong warmly, and his tears were about to come out, feeling that Zhen Shaolong was the best teammate and best friend, but when he calmed down and thought about it carefully, he always felt that something was not quite right.

"Why?" He felt that Zhen Shaolong didn't tell the truth, but he couldn't crack the mystery.