Chapter Thirty-Seven: Ryan Williams Defines Captain
The Portsmouth players hugged each other to celebrate the hard-earned penalty. Lawrence's gaze passed through his teammates and saw Hydward, who was giving him a thumbs up on the bench, and he also replied, which meant: "Boss, awesome!" ”
Naturally, the Nottingham Forest players felt that the sentence was too heavy and surrounded the referee, some defending Morgan, others saying that it was just a foul on the edge of the box and a free kick at best. But the referee, with his index and middle fingers in his eyes, signaled that he could see clearly and irrefuted, and then took out a yellow card from his jacket pocket and gave Morgan a warning.
Lawrence asked his striker partner Luke to take the spot, and the Irish is not used to taking penalties of his own making, and he is one of them.
Luke may not have scored this season, but he has a good stance in front of goal. Observing the goalkeeper's position, he ran and pulled the ball out with his right foot with a change of rhythm. The turf at Haydn Park was of poor quality, and the ball was passed with unusual jumps, so Luke gave up on the angle and volleyed hard, and the ball flew into the net with almost no spin.
"Penalty scored! The hard-working Luke rewrote the score to 1-0, and the Forest team didn't seem to notice what was happening, and it was clear that they had been controlling the pace of the game all the time. ”
Margery took advantage of the crowd to convey to everyone on the pitch the idea of everyone shrinking the defence, which had almost become Portsmouth's instinct, and then flinched after taking the lead.
Whether you call it Chen's three-board axe or call it "1:0 doctrine", Hydward uses the existing players to pull out a glimmer of light in despair as much as possible.
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Steve's wrinkled face was horribly gloomy, one always understands what the right path is after a loss, and after conceding a goal, everything is figured out, and Nottingham Forest's passing and possession did not mobilize Portsmouth to fight them in the wide space in midfield, which annoyed him considerably.
A lot of Forest's passes didn't come in areas where the opposition was a threat, and now something had to change!
"Nottingham Forest made a substitution after conceding the goal, right midfielder Paul Anderson was replaced and Austrian striker Siverense was replaced! Steve: It's time to give it a go. Siverense had clearly come up with a mission, and he was constantly communicating with his companions. ”
The Austrian sided with Ryan Williams as soon as he came on the pitch, and Nottingham Forest's formation changed from 4231 to 442, and the style of play changed from the previous short pass control to a direct attack.
On the football field, the pass can be made a simple classification, and the safety rate can be divided into short passes; Direct and long passes. For example, if there is no interference in the pass between players A and B, and the opposing player cannot break the ball, then even if the two players are 50 meters away, it can still be counted as a short pass, regardless of distance and the degree of risk. To be more intuitive, let's take an analogy, short passes (80% safety rate, 80 successful passes out of 100); Direct transmission (50%); Long passing (30%).
Moving from short ball control to through ball attack, Nottingham Forest are now experimenting with more adventurous passes. This kind of risk, risk and benefit coexist, the ball pass is more threatening, the first half of the risk of not daring to pass the ball can now be tried, the price is bound to lose part of the possession to return to the opposite side.
Seventy-four minutes later, the Forest came close to making their first gain. Liszt received the ball near the halfway line and noticed that the defenders on both sides of Portsmouth were pressing a little up, and he moved sideways along the centre circle arc to the wing, not as fast as a normal jog.
According to Liszt's previous habits, he would make a horizontal pass or return pass with his teammates to control the tempo.
Jonathan pressed forward to do a press and press, so that he could not pass the ball normally, just to the Portsmouth back did not expect, Liszt did not stop the ball, directly kicked the passing ball vertically forward, and the ball flew directly from Jonathan's head.
Liszt ...... Incredible! "The rhythm of the game was slowly lifted from just a few minutes, and Glero's enthusiasm as a commentator was also stimulated!
The ball went past everyone and fell behind the Portsmouth defence! All this came too suddenly, and before everyone could react, a yellow lightning bolt came out from the oblique side of a bunch of blue figures!
"Siverens!!"
The Austrian watched the ball fly and unloaded it with his feet, and Margery saw the ball coming in with little thought and gave up on Robert Shawn who had entered his zone. The lesser of two evils, Siverense passed Ryan Williams in just one step, and directly formed a single knife, facing goalkeeper Dave! Ryan had no sense of foul play and wanted to keep up with the Austrians, only to fall heavily to the ground, his arms and face rubbing against the ground, covered in mud and grass clippings.
Portsmouth was caught off guard by the sudden change in pace and passing style of the opponent for the whole game, and the team did not have a metronome that could control the pace of the game, which inexplicably allowed Nottingham Forest to bring the pace of the game up.
Margery swept the position of goalkeeper Dave with the afterglow of his eyes, and the near corner of the goal was sealed to the ground! Dave may have suffered a lot as a goalkeeper in terms of reaction and physical speed, but he is an expert in keeping his hands and selecting a goalkeeper!
What he did was to push Siverens to the baseline, reduce the space to shoot into the far corner as much as possible, and give his teammates time to return to the defensive position.
The Austrian has a bad reputation, but he is definitely Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the Championship, and Margery clearly doesn't know him well enough, which is also a reflection of the lack of detail in Heidward's work. He doesn't have a scout, so he can only rely on his limited energy to steal other teams' scouting reports, so naturally he can't do everything.
Siverens is a typical team striker, like Denmark's two centre-forwards, Bovlsen and Wilford at Euro 1992, who scored just one goal in the final of the tournament, but no one considered them underdogs.
He crossed the ball back into the box in Margery's shocked eyes! Dave was shaken and made a direct save, but he didn't even touch the ball. The real killer, Robert Seun, was waiting there, he was now in an empty position, and who would have told Margery to give up guarding him.
Sean looked at the large open goal in front of him, bent his bow and arrow, and kicked the ball out with all his strength, and a great opportunity in the first half was not grasped and made him regret it until now.
With a loud "bang", Margery looked back at the goal, the ball did not appear in the goal, hit the neutral post? He let out a long sigh.
Portsmouth left-back Danny finally got back into place and cleared the ball off the touchline.
There was no football at the post, and a man fell there, and Ryan Williams didn't know when he got up and blocked the volley with his head, and the whole person fell heavily on the post, and the jersey appeared a blood-red.
Glero in the commentary box looked crazy, "What did I see, audience friends! At this moment, the substitute Ryan Williams is like the soul of Barcelona captain Puyol!! It's a life-saving defense!! ”
Hydward wanted to rush forward with a single lunge, but was stopped by the fourth official, "Mr. Head Coach, please calm down!" ”
His mind went blank and he yelled at the bench, "Team doctor! Doctor! "Where did the team doctor come from Portsmouth, Richards, who has been the logistics minister, didn't think much about it and rushed up with a first-aid kit, this time the fourth official did not stop him, and the team doctor from Nottingham Forest also rushed up, it is the nature and instinct of the doctor to save people.
Ryan Williams was still conscious, but the captain's armband on his arm fell to the ground a little loose, and he picked it up with his left hand and wrapped it tightly again. And patted the teammates who came over to signal that they were fine, what is the captain? By the definition of a young man like Ryan, he is the team's last line of defence.
Williams pointed at himself on the bench, and then at Robert Shawn, who was stunned on the side, and Hydward understood what he meant, "Boss, you see I'm really staring this guy to death!" ”