Chapter 181: Offense as Defense

The second half of the oppressed first half was finally over, and the Karlsruhe fans breathed a sigh of relief, they could finally rest their tormented nerves, although the team took the lead in the opening ten minutes, but was attacked by Wolfsburg for nearly 30 minutes, and on several occasions they had to think that the opponent was going to score, thanks to Wu Feng's magical save guess to maintain a 1-0 advantage.

During the break, the atmosphere in the dressing room in Karlsruhe was very oppressive, and almost everyone's faces were gloomy. Even Kapalani, who usually likes to frolic, sits there drinking water with a straight face at this time.

After a moment of silence, it was the head coach Becker who first said: "Good job, we had a temporary lead over Wolfsburg in the first half, but you also saw their madness. This is their home turf and almost no team can get out of it all here. We couldn't do it again like we did in the second half of the first half, we were too passive, they were so crazy that we didn't even have a chance to connect the ball. ”

Acting captain Polcello said helplessly: "It's not that we don't fight, but it's too difficult. Anyway, Wolfsburg's midfield penetration was very good, and they were so fast that we were in position and we couldn't stop it. And we barely attacked, and we couldn't put pressure on them at all. ”

Hearing this, Becker was as if he was petrified, sitting there without saying or moving, he also felt that his tactics were not suitable for such a strong team, and the pressure on the players was too great.

After thinking for a while, Becker had no choice but to say: "Since it is too dangerous to defend to the death, then you have to fight with them in the midfield, can you withstand it?" I don't ask you to delay too long, just 15 minutes, and then we'll recycle the formation. But Capalani and Freis can't go back, you have to wait for your chance in the front and even counterattack at any time! ”

The 15-minute break passed quickly, and Karlsruhe and Wolfsburg did not make any substitutions at the start of the second half, but Becker promoted Bolcello to the midfield position, and the rest of the players were positioned much earlier than before, apparently intending to put the field in the midfield battle, or at least to keep the football away from some of the goals.

"Do you want to fight against each other? Becker is desperate, but how long do you think you midfielders will be able to hold on? Let's destroy the last vestige of your faith, and then only the Chinese goalkeeper will remain! ”

Klaus couldn't help but sneer, Becker was forced to be anxious by himself.

Kevin looked at the opponent who was more than ten centimeters shorter than himself standing beside him, and he really couldn't imagine what Porcello could do in their tall backline, and he probably couldn't even pass the ball.

But soon the nimble Porcello showed him what a short man does.

In the first few minutes of the second half, Hag won the ball, took a few small steps, and then immediately drove towards the Wolfsburg penalty area, with Kevin and Bolcello jumping up at the same time.

Originally, Porcello would definitely not be able to compete with Kevin because of his short size, but the smart Bolcello understood this very well, so he didn't plan to compete with Kevin for the header at all. He jumped up and slammed into Kevin, causing him to stumble in mid-air and fall to the grass.

As soon as Kevin was knocked to the ground by Bolcello, he immediately sat on the ground and angrily shouted fouls. But I don't know if the referee didn't see it very clearly, he just saw two people in the air with their heads up to watch the ball, he thought that the physical confrontation between the two was purely normal physical contact, so he didn't give Bolcello a foul, and asked Kevin to hurry up and continue the game.

Porcello played on the wing, but he was quick and flexible, and after knocking Kevin down, he jumped again immediately after landing and struck the ball with an accurate head.

The ball went straight to the top left corner of the goal, but Wolfsburg's goalkeeper Simon had been thinking about Bolcello's change of position, so he was prepared for this goal. Although Porcello barely played in the first half, Simon did not dare to be careless, after all, Porcello is the current midfield commander of Karlsruhe, such an important player, he can't be negligent for a second, otherwise you can only wait to regret it.

Sure enough, just when everyone thought Kevin was going to push the ball out, Bolcello suddenly knocked Kevin over and got a great header.

Simon, who was in front of the goal, immediately flew to save, his body was fully extended, and when he finally leaped to the limit, he was able to touch the ball with his fingertips and fly out.

After pounced on the ball, Simon broke out in a cold sweat, secretly glad that he was not confused by the illusion in front of him, otherwise the ball would have scored. The ball was so sudden, unexpected, and at a tricky angle.

This is also the carelessness of Wolfsburg's players, they attacked for so long in the first half, but Karlsruhe did not have a few decent counterattacks, but they did not expect this time to be so dangerous, and they almost extended their lead.

Simon, as soon as he saved the ball, yelled at the defenders to concentrate and defend, not to give the opponent any more chances.

After the corner, although the Karlsruhe players worked hard, the height difference was not something that could be reversed by hard work, and they were soon lost in the tall jungle of Wolfsburg, and the football was quickly cleared out of the game.

After clearing the ball, just two minutes later, Wolfsburg sent the ball to the feet of the main striker Mike Hank, who was already cruising at the edge of the Karlsruhe penalty area, through a series of fluid counter-attacks.

"Beautiful! Our chance is again! Don't stop, keep fighting, we don't believe we can't break his goal! "The fans kept shouting from the stands. They cheered and cheered as much as they could, creating a huge momentum and putting a lot of psychological pressure on the players in Karlsruhe.

After Mike received a pass from his teammate, he immediately shot a sudden shot from Eichner without waiting for Eichner to block it, and the football was even badly deformed under his tremendous force.

"I'm rubbing, I'm shooting so soon!" Seeing that the opponent did not hesitate to shoot, Eichner couldn't help but quickly raise his foot to block, hoping that he could block it.

Unfortunately, the speed of the ball was too fast, he moved a step slower, and his left foot just ended up kicking it into the air.

The ball streaked through the air and flew straight to the right side of the goal without a hint of spin.