Chapter 195: The Inner Competition

Because he must always be vigilant about the opponent's passing route, for the goalkeeper, the most terrible is often not a single goal, a single knife is only one person, there is no teammates around, in fact, the angle of the shot is limited, as long as the right direction can block the vast majority of goals.

The most difficult thing to deal with is the current situation, under the all-hands attacking system on the opposite side, any player on Jones's side may complete the final kick in the penalty area, and he has no way to predict in advance.

Without prediction, he will always be passive, Courtois took a deep breath, he watched the opposite side pour the ball back and forth in the midfield, and suddenly, Courtois's pupils shrank, and the opponent passed!

It was Jones who received the ball, and Jones was on a rampage in his own side of the defence as if he were in no man's land, and even the strongest Costa in the team could not stop him, only to watch Jones break through to the goal and knock the ball out before Courtois could strike.

Cesc Fabregas at the back post didn't have a shot either, but it was shot by unmarked defender Andreas Christensen.

It was arguably an unconscionable goal, and Jones created the chance to shoot entirely on his own physicality, which didn't feel like football anymore, but rather a bit of traditional rugby, and there was nothing Cahill could do about it.

They really have no choice, almost all the players on Jones's side have passed the half, who to defend, Jones, who has excellent shooting skills, must defend, Fabregas, who has delicate footwork, must defend, but now the goal is a defender! What else can they say.

At that moment just now, even Courtois's momentum was completely suppressed, and as a goalkeeper, his height of 1.93 meters was no longer low, and it still seemed a little unsightly.

The coach on the sidelines saw it more clearly than the players on the spot, Kodic on the sidelines frowned, he looked at his watch, thirty-one minutes, more than ten minutes before the halftime, but according to this trend, Courtois's side continued to concede goals is inevitable, Kodic this time is the main substitute player disrupted in the game.

He motioned directly to the interim coach to take a timeout and asked for a few substitutions for the pair, and Kodic's eyes swept over the pitch and over again in his mind, before finally reversing Cesc Fabregas and Eden Hazard.

Hazard will certainly be a little less experienced than Fabregas, but Hazard's attacking ability is better than Fabregas, but Fabregas will not suffer too much when defending against the position, and Hazard has been broken a few times in this position today.

Now Kodic is still thinking about how to play this game, this style of play, it seems quite messy, but it is not useless, he beckoned, and Cahill, who was closest to him, said a few words, and Cahill left.

Cahill is relatively calm on the pitch because he is the captain and does not clash with the opposition because of his temper, and the captain has to be more active in his reaction on the field.

After listening to Cahill convey what Kodic meant, Courtois also squinted, and he understood what the coach meant, although his side's formation is full of offense and defense, but in fact, because of the ratio of personnel between the two sides, the defense is bigger than the opposite side, as long as you make good use of this, you can completely collapse your defense, but the coach will use it There are also countermeasures.

Jones made two attempts, both of which ended in a ball cut off halfway through, and although the opponent's mistakes came close to scoring, Courtois withstood the pressure and kept the score until midfield.

Several players who were weak in attack were criticized by name: "What are you doing, don't you play when you train internally!" How do you work with your team? ”

The players who were named all bowed their heads in silence, this is the result of the team's recent good results, if they don't want to save their energy to play, they can be slightly better, and the oldest on the field is only 30 years old Costa.

Criticising the players who were not training aggressively, Kodic continued: "I think you should understand that your performance in the first half is not enough to conquer all the games in the future, but now you are training and winning all the games in the future so that the world will notice you. ”

'A lot of you are also facing the problem of contract extensions, doing well and getting a raise next season, but if you continue to play with that attitude, I don't need to say what will happen when the winter transfer season begins.

Now the results of the Chelsea team, as well as the backstage of the giants, no one will leave Chelsea without winning the championship, everyone is in their hearts, many of their substitutes are playing games, on the one hand, because the ability of the substitutes is really good, but at the same time, because there are so many people in the team, Kodic has no choice at all, but when the transfer period comes, the people on the bench will not be able to sit steadily, and at that time!

"Also, I know some of you are ready to leave."

Kodic's eyes were mainly on Costa in the back row, and the former German international's agent has been in a hot fight with Atletico Madrid's transfer manager for a long time, and it is estimated that this will be Costa's final season at Chelsea.

"Even if you have to leave, you are also for a better competitive atmosphere, the better the team's results, the more clubs will notice you, and you can also improve your net worth!"

Costa bowed his head, he thought about leaving, because Chelsea's results are getting better and better, before Kodic arrived, he had left this season, stayed, and the team with good results did not want to go, but the team already had Jones.

Khodic didn't say anything more and left the locker room to figure it out for themselves.

Assistant coach Osilai followed with a very light foot, picked up Koditchis and said, "Sir, you said Costa is leaving!". ”

Kodic looked at the stadium and said: "Standing here, it is equivalent to carrying the hope of 70,000 people, for these fans, it is the best thing to win, but the players are not, they want better treatment, they want higher salaries, and even want to go to a more comfortable team, but they forget that it is these ordinary fans who support a team to become stronger." ”

Osilai nodded, of course he understood, this is also one of the reasons why Kodic likes Jones, only this simple child really cares about the fans, and at the end of each round, Jones will sign autographs and take photos of the waiting fans one by one.

Things changed at the start of the second half, and the focused Jones was soon given the chance, taking advantage of a tactical foul to snatch the ball from Andreas Christensen and then linking up with Segura to push the line near the centre circle.

But with four defenders waiting here, it is absolutely impossible to rely on individual breakthroughs and Hazard has retreated to the back and is ready to give his team-mates more chances on target.

Jones and Segura glanced at each other, both of them at the same time for a long time to determine each other's thoughts, under the watchful eyes of the opposing players, Jones began to run to the empty space where no one was, Segura made a gesture of passing, his heel knocked along the ball, the football bounced on the turf, and the outside instep kicked out.

The ball is coming in the direction of his own goal, but there are two defenders in front of the goal, and he is also guarding the door, what is the point of a hanging door like Segura.

Courtois's idea is also the idea of the vast majority of people, and they are also scratching their heads, only Cahill, a defender who is far away, guessed something, and while running in the direction of the football, he pointed at Jones who was in front of him and yelled: "Stop him!" ”

Cahill's prediction is very accurate, of course Segura can't shoot directly in the midfield, not to mention whether he has the confidence, this kind of distance is not something that ordinary people can do, and he is not the pervert of Jones.

Unfortunately, the reaction was half a beat slow, and by the time they started, Jones was close to the touchline, about twenty yards from the goal, and there was no one there.

The other two defenders are waiting in front of the goal, there is no way to divide people to defend Jones, they naturally know Jones's strength, but this ball is towards the goal, as long as they can hold the ball, they can't play any attack.

The idea was correct, but they overlooked the fact that Segura's ball seemed to be straight but actually had an arc when kicked with the outside of his instep, which may not be obvious at first, but the final drop point would be a little different from what people expected.

What Segura wanted, it was this error, the football showed signs of falling in front of the small penalty area, and the two defenders went over to catch the ball in unison, and at this time, a figure who didn't know when to appear here blocked them, Hazard raised his eyebrows and smiled, and then jumped up, raised his toes high, and kicked the football out.

Not good! Their defenders looked back and saw that captain Cahill had run back to the goal, and was about to relax, but suddenly found that the ball was not going in the direction of the goal, but towards the right side of the goal! Where Jones is!

The two defenders could only watch in horror as Hazard got up and shot at goal.

Cutic was full of surprise, the midfield attracted the defence, Segura's deceptive pass, Jones' side and the first half didn't look like a team now, and who can tell him exactly when Eden Hazard ran past or barbed the assist.

Jones' strike from a tight angle was equally impressive, completing the shot at an almost parallel angle and scoring to the sidelines' stunned spectators.

But the game was not over yet, neither side was satisfied with a draw, and the attack began to be more violent.

Courtois kicked off and he played the ball to Cahill, who took Jones off guard with a long pass, but it didn't work out, and before Costa could catch up, Hazard had already grabbed the first drop and pushed the ball to Segura.

Segura and Jones made a combination, but there was no good chance, Jones could only choose to knock back, the force of the knockback was a little too much, Hazard didn't have time to catch the ball, Cesc Fabregas had already grabbed the ball and passed it to Perez in front.

Perez's personal ability is naturally nothing to say, but the style of play is relatively unique, after receiving the ball, he does not stop, directly with the ball alone to break through the position of the small penalty area to a long shot, this shot almost threatened the goal of the Jones side, but in the end it was cleared in time by the defender's attentive defense.

After Perez's shot was fruitless, Hazard's cross from the side found Jones directly, Jones took advantage of the opponent's space after receiving the ball, and sent a through ball, at the same time, Hazard and Segura Jones also turned into a triangle position, and Segura with the ball strode up, and then passed with the momentum.

Segura made a feint to shoot past Courtois and crossed to Hazard, who easily pushed the ball into the back of the net.